Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-07
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our race was the Sabbath the next, Mar
riage. So give your first thought to heaven,
the next to your wife.
1t is said that the hair, if rolled up
in the New York Tribune, puts on at once
very crinckly curl, and if one of Stevens
speeches be used, it assumes crisp instau.
ter. .'...
The famous "CromwelP' sword, be-.
lieved to have been used by the great Pro-
tector, was taken from the Masonic Lodge,
at Columbia, S. c., at the time Sherman oc-
cupied the city.
- "Arthur," said a good.natured faith
er to his hopeful, ~ did not know till to-
day that you had been whipped last week. "
"Didn't you, pa" replied hopeful, 81 knew
it at the time"
- The easiest way to get a living, says
a vagabond poet, is to sit on gate and wait
for good luck. In case good luck don't come
along, you are no worse off than you were
before, &c.,. ...
- The Newman (Ga Herald publishes
an application to the county ordinary for
letters of administration by colored man
on the estate of deceased friend. This is
the first instance of the kind under the law
passed by the last Georgia Legislature.
1t is stated to be rule of law in the
far western territories that ga town is a place
where whiskey is sold" By means of this
rule, the courts distinguish real towns from
those which exists only on the paper plans
of the land spectators
- The Pickens Courier says that it
learns from good authority that as soon as
Congress adjourns, his Excellency Governor
Orr, will call the Legislature together, with
view of conforming the laws of the State
to the action of Congress-
- Ex-Secretary Jacob Thompson is in
Paris, and anxious to return to the United
States-expresses himself in favor of the
reconstruction policy of President johnson,
and of the Southern States accepting the
situation and acting with loyalty and in good
faith.
- Mr.. Pullman, the protector of the
sleeping-car improvement in railroad travel
ling, has devised an arrangement of the
trucks which secures such a steadiness of
motion that writing is as easily done as in a
home library, and tables are provided for
this purpose.
- The little tax of one cent upon every
box of matches netted the Government ST.
100000 last year. According to that esti-
mate, 150,000,000 punches or boxes of
matches must have been used in this coun-
try during the year, or FIVE bunches-equal
to FIVE hundred matches-for every man,
woman and child.
1t is calculated that American fami.
lies can travel in Europe for twenty five per
cent. less than it costs them to stay at home.
Beef is only sixpence sterling pound in
Bremen. Heretofore rich people have gone
abroad for pleasure, but unless prices mode
rate, the poor people may eventually have to
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"A correspondent of the Christian Ad
uocate states that from 100000 to s2,.
100000 worth of tobacco is annually con-
sumed by the members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in America. The con-
sumption of tobacco in the entire country
must be very great if single religious body
uses 80 much.
The Charleston Courier remarks that
Edgefeld District, in this State, contains
more than forty saw mills in operation, a
large cotton factory at Vaucluse, one at
Graniteville, porcelain factory at Kaolin,
paper mill at Bath, while another cotton
factory is building which will accommodate q
thousand looms. All of these factories are
worked in an area of twelve square miles
DIR. Andrews, inventor of the o.cal-
led "ayipg.ship," made an ascent with his
balloon and aerial navigation fixtures at New
York on the 25th ultimo. Three gentle
men went up with him. They report that
they could sail their balloon in any direction
except Immediately against the wind. They
will do that "next time" They landed
safely.
"A practical joke, which will last
year, was lately played in Buffalo. The
Republican Mayor being absent, the Demo-
cratic Council elected Mayor pro tens.,
which latter gentleman withdrew all the
Mayors appointments, and made new ones
from the Democratic ranks. The Council
confirmed the new appointments and the
Mayor pro tenn. confirmed the proceedings
of the council.
- The Courier des EtatS UniS declares
itself enabled to inform those of the Ameri-
can newspapers which "persist in an offeu-
siVe and incomprehensible doubt as to the
evacuation of Mexico by the French" that
the Government has signed treaty with
the transatlantic packet company to embark
and carry back to France the whole French
expeditionary force in Mexico within the
time agreed upon.
- The Chicago Times justly remarks
that the drunkenness, personalities, inde-
cency and fanaticism of the present Congress
will make it Infamous. All the vices, black
guardisn, treason, ineficiency and dishou-
esty of the age seem assembled in the Capt.
tol at Washington. 1t is long past the time
this digraceful concern should have adjourn
ed. Let it dissolve and let the neonle nre.