Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-29
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- Distrust all those who love you ex-
tremely upon very slight acquaintance,
and without any visible reason. Be upon
your guard, too, against those who confess,
as their weakness, the cardinal virtues.
"A negro named Nelson, at Montgom-
cry. Alabama, was tried and convicted re-
Gently for murder committed when he
was a slave, but the Supreme Court of the
State reversed the decision and discharged
him on the ground that there was no law in
force in the State applicable to his case.
-Newbern is a city; Wilmington is q
city; Charlotte is city, and Raleigh, as q
city, has heightened her cords and strength
ened her stakes; and Salisbury, too, we see
in the papers published there, is some times
called city. Surely the towns of the Old
North State are coming out
There is a girl in Proy whose lips
are SO sweet that they stick together every
morning by the honey they distill, and she
cannot open her mouth until she has parted
her lips with silver knife. She will be
treasure to her husband, not only on &C.
count of her sweetness, but because she
can occasionally keep her mouth shut.
An advertisement Aee' V"rF
rsYvr, pEonIslng on the receipt of twenty
FIVE cents, to send receipt to keep water
in wells and cisterns, from freezing, a man
in neighboring city forwarded the cur
rency and received the following answer,
which may prove of value to some of our
readers: "Take in your wells and cistarns
on cold nights and keep them by the ire.T
- Governor Humphreys, of Mississip:
pi is, it is said, promoting movement for
the collection and preservation of the re.
cords ofthe Confederate army, and calls Of
6cially for the preservation Of documents
or "details Of robbsries, conhagrations and
vandalism" "to be transmitted to posterity
in vindication of the truth of the history
and the rectitude of our (the Confederate)
cause"
The city of New York contains 311
churches, of which 81 are Protestant Epis.
copal, 43 Presbyterian, 35 Methodist Epis
copal, 80 Roman Catholic, 29 Baptist, rs
Jewish synagogues, 10 Dutch Reformed,
9 Lutheran, 6 United Presbyterian, S Re-
formed, Presbyterian, 5 Copgregationalists,
4 Universalist, Unitarian, 8 African Meth.
odist, 8 Friends, Methodist Protestant,
and Is which come under the head of ssmis-
cellaneous"
- In speech at Washington, on Sat-
urdsy of last week, Thad Stevens made the
following prediction, which We should call
cold comfort for his radical friends ssTo
you who do not desire these reforms or any
of them, say frankly it is of no impor-
tance by whom, or when, or how recon.
struction is effected. For in three short
years this whole Government will be iu the
hands of the late rebels and their Northern
allies"
- In 1871, child was born at Lubbock,
named Henry Heiuecken, whose precocity
was miraculous. At ten months of age, he
spoke distinctly, at twelve learnt the Pen.
tateuch by rote, and at fourteen months
was perfectly acquainted with the Old and
New Testaments. At two years he was
familiar with ancient history as the most e,
rudite authors of antiquity. Sauson and
Dauvile only could compete with him in
geographical knowledge. In the ancient and
modern languages he was proficient. This
wonderful child was unfortunately carried
off in his fourth years
- Burton N. Harrison, Esq, lately
private Secretary to President, Davis, has
been released aud has returned to his home
in Oxford, Mississippi A Mississippi pa
per is informed that he gives favorable ac-
counts of the present and growing sympathy
of the Northern people for Mr.. Davis. At
times, he says, the quarters of the Presi-
dent (Mr. Davis) are thronged with visi
tors, so great is the crowd that they stand
for hours about the doors, and when they
can't get in themselves, send in their COM
pliments and assurances of regard and sym.
pathy. This is especially the case with the
officers of the army.
- Recent advices confirm the sad intelli-
gence, published by US some weeks since,
that almost the entire crop of wheat in this
State, north of James river has been serious
ly injured by the severe cold weather of the
past winter. In some neighborhoods the
yield will be scarcely equal to the quantity
seeded. Two successive failures of the
wheat crop must fall crushingly upon the
farming interest. We are glad to hear that
there is very general movement on the
part of farmers, in consequence of the fail
ure of the wheat, to plant tobacco extensive
ly.-Richmond Times.
The former collector of customs at
Newbern, N. c., in reply to aninVitation to
return to the government the amount of
money he had on hand when the State Sc.
ceded, replies that the money was deposit
ed by him at the time with the depositary
at Wilmington, and encloses his receipt
for the amount, sl,025. The funds were
afterwards confscated by the Confederate
Government The reply does not satisfy
Commissioner Sargent, who has directed
proceedings to be instituted for the recovery
of the money. Similar proceedings, it is
stated, will at once be commenced against
all public officers in the South who at the
commencement of the rebellion had govern