Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-12
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have reduced their telegraphic rates one
half to all points on their lines.
Might labor, in time, will destroy the
student; for it is the marrow from his own
bones with which he fills his lamp.
n A State Mass Convention Of the
Pennsylvania soldiers who sustain President
johnson, will be held in Harrisburg on the
1st,of August. 49, ~
The Legislature of Tennessee has
named the section Of country around where
Davy Crockett once lived, Crockett County,
in honor to that settler and hunter.
= -- Il is said that the Attorney General
Of the United States has engaged several
eminent phonographic reporters to report
the proceedings of the trial of ex-President
Davis in October next. .a-s ..-
-- The Lafayette New York Courier
saya; IAN estimable lady of this county, a
witness in court the other day, testified that
shsuassixteen years of age, had been twice
married, and was the mother of two chill
dren. y - ,;rs.., ~.- -'-a>:
The sheriff of Laurens District gives
notice to defendants in execution, that all
executions not marked "Wait orders" he
will be obliged to levy and sell, if settle
ment be not made at once. he is in hur-
~ Sss@ he . "
- President johnson and Secretary
Seward havejust been elected honorary mem.
bsrs of the Sclavonic Brotherhood, new or
gsnization, said to include 100000 voters,
and composed of Poles, Bohemians, Silesians,
Moravians, Servians, etc., now citizens of
the United States. r... --,r
- The charge against General Kilpat-
rick, Minister to Chill, is that by virtue of
his position he imposed an abandoned wo-
man--a notorious Aspasia-upon the best
families Of the city to which he had been
sent, and has made the most open parade Of
his infamous RIGHTEOUSNESS.
They do things in hurry in Cali
fornia, as witness the following programme
Of q sspleasant little affair."" San Juan Ne.
vads stage robbed at five A. NJ; robbers
shot and all the money recovered at two P.
M; coronsrs inquest at three P. NJ; funer-
al of the thieves at six P. NJ.
The result of the Nebraska elections
has been officially announced. The Demo
Gratis have, elected the Chief Justice and
the Associate Justice, and have majority
of eight in the Legislature on joint ballot
The Radicals have elected the Governor
and member of Congress. The new con-
stitution is adopted by exactly one hundred
majority.
Rev. James L. Merrick, who died at
South Amherst last week, bequeathed the
whole of his property to the institutions
of Monson Academy, Amherst College, and
the Theological Seminaries at Princeton,
New Jersy, and Columbia, South Carolina,
in which he received his education. The
bequests will be devoted to founding four
Persian scholarships, in memory of the elev-
en- years mission to that country.
The Avalanche says the taxable
wealth of Memphis, as returned upon the
tax books of 1865, was about SIS, 100000
in round numbers This year, 1866, the
Ayalaacke says the assessments will ap-
proximate S40,O0O,0OO. Quite an upward
tendency. Memphis is now aiding the
construction CT three rail roads leading into
that city. The fact is, plantations adjoin.
ing Memphis are fast being converted into
city lots, and street rail roads are being built
to carry the business population from places
of business to those of abode.
- The radicals are talking of calling
Convention in September next to make an
out and out radical platform and put Gen.
Grant at once in nomination for the Presi-
dency, in the hopes of being able to gain a
popular endorsement of their obnoxious
programme. 1t is feared in Washington by
the friends of the President, that should an
issue arise between the votes east in accord
ance with the Constitution and the vote as
prescribed by Congress, an attempt will be
made to draw the sword by ranging the ar
my ON the side of Congress, against the con-
elected President in 1868.
- One David Quinn, of Chicago, has
just published, in pamphlet form, memo
rial to Congress advising the re-establish-
ment of negro slavery. 1t presents the
subject under new phase, in which it has
probably not heretofore been considered.
1t holds that men are divided into species
and have different natures; that the negro
finds his civil liberty in his slavery and that
the white man undergoes change in
America which makes slavery essential
that the French in Canada and the Spaniard
in Mexico have degenerated, and that the
native people of the Northern United
States are now three inches less around the
chest than the Europeans. The author
brings forward many historical and scien-
tiic facts in support of his argument.
ON the Goth of January, a trial of
endurance, as we'll as Of speed, with regard
to the relative merits of Arab and English
thorough. bred horses in hot climates, took
place in the desert between Cairo and Suez.
A pure Arab, belonging to prince Hahn,
and an English horse, the property of Mr..
Smart, started together from Cairo at 7 hours
IL minutes 80 seconds A. NJ, and at 3
hours s minutes P NJ the Arab horse