Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25
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Gen. Butler carries on war as little
children sleep to keep themselves warm
spoon.fashion.
- The people of Clarksville, Tennessee,
with a praiseworthy iberality, have pur-
chased farm and are providing buildings
for destitute orphans in Tennessee. The
war has left many multitudes destitute.
- The Valley Virginian understands
that some of the United States soldiers,
while gathering up the remains of their
dead in the Valley, have been detected in
robbing the teeth of the bodies of the gold
filings Business is business"
The Norfolk Sentinel estimates that
the crop of dried apples, blackberries, and
other fruit, which will he shipped from N.
Carolina the present season, will amount to
more than 100000 pounds, worth at the
North over 100000.
"A statistical table, exhibiting the
rates of increase of the population of the
United States since 1860, the date Of the
last census, is being prepared. In 1860 the
population of the United States was 3D.
443, ,32l, and it is calculated that at the
present time it is fully 35, 100000.
The Circuit Judges in Florida are
directing the attention of the Grand Juries
to the cases of persons guilty of perjury by
taking the test oath, when they were incom-
petent to do so, by reason of having held or
sought Office from the Confederate Govern
ment.
"A great religious revival has been in
progress for weeks past at Athens, Ga. The
people 60 en- m'asse to the services OF the
various churches on every day, all places OF
business being closed meanwhile, and eve
rybody seeming to be deeply Interested
As many as two hundred persons have pre-
sented themselves at one time for prayer.
- Great destruction is said to prevail
in the counties around Tuscaloosa, Ala
Many good planters were compelled to mort
gage their lands to raise the means of cul.
tivating them the present year, and having
made nothing this year, they will be sold
out. Sales of this description are already
being made the first Monday in every month,
at one-fourth their value.
- The abstract of the forthcoming re-
port of Secretary McCulloch is published,
which shows an increase of 500, 900, 900
of Internal Revenue in the past year, and
of 800, ,000,0 in customs, with surplus
of receipts over expenses of s37, 100000
Facts such as these indicate with what GER
tainty the country can, under able manage
ment, avoid financial embarrassment, and
return to specie payments.
"A mechanic named Emory, at AL
bany, New York, has invented new cot
ton gin, whose merits are that it is portable.
1t is provided with condenser, and can be
worked as we'll in open air as in house.
A larger per cent. of wool is obtained from
the seed and the length Of the fabric won
derfully preserved. The value of the staple
to the manufacturer is enhanced from three
to FIVE cents per pound.
The Lyncbburg Neos says there
have been 800 applicants for admission to
Washington College, Lexington, Virgin
ia. None are rejected On account of not
being able to pay the college fees. Gen,
Lee is willing to accept their notes, be-
lieying that young men who receive their
education under such circumstances will
not fail to respond to their obligations when
ever they are able.
- The Philadelphia Ledger, of the
18th inst, says that the four Anderson
(South Carolina) prisoners, the Messrs.
Keyes, Senior and Junior, Byrem and f.
j Showers, convicted at Charleston, South
Carolina, of the murder of Union SOL
diers, passed through Philadelphia on
Thursday, nth instant, on their way from
the Tortugas to Fort Delaware. They we're
in charge of Capt. Crabb, 9th United States
Artillery.
"A newspaper editor inadvertently
wrote about woman who had been buried
without proper observance, the following
sentence: "She was buried like dog
with her clothes on" Next week he saw
his mistake and corrected it thus: "She
was buried with her clothes on like dog.
The third,'ssweek, exasperated with the pre-
vious blunders, be had it thus: "Like
dog with her clothes on she was buried"
He gave it up.
"A good story is told Of an ambitious
young man from the country who, on re-
cent visit to Boston, was anxious to send
dispatch over the Atlantic Cable-just for
the sake of the thing. Gathering up all
his loose change, he entered the Office and
expressed his wish. Having written his
message and handed it in, he laid his "pile"
on the counter, exclaiming, CHOW far will
this money pay?' The operator replied,
"About an inch" The would.be sender
departed sadder and wiser man.
A forthcoming exhibition of wet uur.
ses is announced in the Paris papers. The
points to be considered will be the amount
and quality of the milk, the age and tenn
permanent of the nurse, the kinds of food
used by them, &c. Experiments will be
made to demonstrate to what degree malt
liquors or spirituous liquors partaken of by
the nurseimpregnate the milk also, wheth-
er a passionate or fretful temper of the nurse
is conveyed to the nursing child. The ex-