Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-22
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society.
- Every plain girl has one consolation
though not pretty young lady, she will, II
she lives, be pretty old one.
THE best way to treat an insult is with
silent contempt. The best way to treat
good joke is with smale
a girl of fifteen is on trial at Boston
for bigamy. Her first husband, married
at the mature age of fourteen, is in the
States Prison.
An usurer who took per cent. when
tbs legal rate was six, fattered himself that
the 9 would look like when viewed from
above.
The Montgomery Daily Aduertsser
employs FIVE young lady compositors, in ad-
dition to the six compositors engaged upon
that paper.
- The Tribune says that many of the
Southern people were made rebels, not be-
cause of love for secession, but because OF
their hate towards the doctrine of coercion.
The latest intelligence from England
informs Us that Senator Chandler's motion
to withdraw our Minister at the Court of st.
James, recently made in the United States
Senate, had been laid before the English
public but had no effect.
"A man out West say rs that he moved
so often during one year that whenever
covered wagon stopped at his gate his chick
ems would fall on their backs and hold up
their feet, in order to be tied and thrown in.
The Northern papers complain that
female clerk has just received an appoint
mept in the Internal Revenue Bureau who
was in the Treasury Department of the
Confederate States until the fall of Rich
mord.
General Stephen Elliott, the heroic
defender of Fort Sumter, has been tender
ed and accepts the appointment Of Assis.
tant Agent of Transportation on the Angus
ta branch of the South Carolina railroad,
and will, in few days, enter upon his new
field Of labor.
"A countryman in Savannah, Ga, OBJ
served that gang of darkies were working
on the streets, each wearing ball and chain.
he asked one of them why that ball was
chained to his !eg. ITO keep people from
stealing it," said the darky; sheep of thieves
about here, Massa."
"A poor achite man, named, MoMahon,
recently caught two negroes driving off his
cow near Augusta, Georgia. He caught
and tied them, and took them before the
Freedmen's Court He was fined fifty dol
lars, and thrown into Jail till it was paid.
It is unnecessary to add that the negroes
were set at liberty.
-Tbe Lancaster (South Carolina) Led.
ger reports that in some portions of that dis
trict there is actual suffering among the poor
for the want ofprovisions. They having no
means of buying corn. and if they had, the
article counot now be procured, owing eth
er to its scarcity, or to the unwillingness of
those who have it to sell.
- A number of loyal Alabamians have
arrived at Washington, for the purpose of
representing to the President the condition
of affairs in Alabama. They say that the
State officers, from Patton down, use the in.
auence of their position to oppress and per-
secute the Union men of the State, whose
condition is much worse than at any time
during the rebellion.
- Previous to the war slave could not
be sent to the Virginia ,Peuitentiary; but
now since slavery has been abolished, the
, Penitentiary is filled with negroes to over
flowing. The Virginia State Legislature is
in a qusndary as to what to do with these
evil doors, as they are totally untitled for
work in the factories, and only fitted to
out door drudgery.
- Gen. Butler has just closed negotia.
tions fora valuable mill property on the
James river, near Richmond, intending to
erect extensive cotton factories. The Cox
farm, containing 2, 800 acres, through which
runs Dutch Gap Canal, has been offered to
the General, and he has in contemplation
its purchase. New England families and
mill operators will be settled upon it.
"Tp" Prentiss, SOD of Major Gen.
ersl B. M. Prentiss, left Quincy, Illinois,
recently on skates, with dispatch for La.
grange, IA miles above, and made the run
up in fifty minutes. He remained there
thirty minutes, and then started on his re-
turn, and ran down in fifty. FIVE minutes,
having made the round trip of twenty, eight
miles in an hour and forty five minutes,
running time, and being out only two hours
and half.
- The Messrs. Williams, who were
stated to be under arrest last week, have
been released. We understand their release
was obtained by the payment of sum of
money by these gentlemen rather than be
committed for trial The release was obtain.
ed without any investigation on their part
and, of course, without admitting the JUS
tice or propriety of the proceedings in the
premises By the military authorities or their
informants. Courier
- 1t is stated that regular organized
band of thieves has been formed between
Tupelo, Miss, and Fort Pillow, on the plan
of John A. .Murrell's gang, which existed
all through the Southern country several
years ago They have relay posts every
twelve miles, and when horse is stolen at
either terminus of the line, he is ridden ra.
pidly to the first post by one rider, who pro.
cures another horse and returns, and is
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