Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-16
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- Mr.. William Lange, near FREDERICK,
Va, raised over three hundred bushels
wheat from fifteen acres of ground.
Dresses embroidered with needle guns
and pictures of dying Austrians are fash
lonable in Paris. .....-.
"A planter of the Parish of st. Martin,
Louisiana, is said to have twenty bales Of
new cotton ready for shipment to New Or
leans
Nearly eight millions of rations have
been issued to destitute whites and blacks
in the South during the last ten mopths.
"A law, enacted in 1857, provides that
this Government is to pay the Atlantic Ca
Bile Company subsidy of $4,000 a year.
"A. T. Stewards dry goods house in sa-
vaunah will have AZ feet front, will be 318
feet long, 80 feet high, and have six stories.
One hundred and fifty negroes were
wounded and twenty. FIVE killed in the late
New Orleans riot.
- Prentice says the man who considers
the payment of the national debt as even
debstable matter is half rogue.
The Imperial Government of Mexico
has by decree ordered the sequestration of
the domains of Don Antonio Lopez de Santa
Anna and appointed a receiver. A
- The Prussian foundry at Essen at the
present moment is preparing grand can.
non for the French exhibition of 1867.
1t will carry shot of about 1850 pounds.
William Van Wyck, appointed Asses.
sor of Internal Revenue for the Sd Collec.
ton District of South Carolina, in which
York is situated, resides at Pendleton, 8. G.
A Buffalo City Rail Road Company pc
titioned the other day for authority to in
crease its fares, on the ground that the Con-
duotors stole the profits.
- The wheat harvest is over in Virginia
and Maryland, and the quantity in both
States is greater than was expected, and
the quality in general very superior
Harvest advices from various parts of
the West are quite favorable. Wheat is
being rapidly gathered and is generally in
good condition.
-An advertisement tappearsin the Charles
ton Neaos giving notice that application will
be made at the next session of the Legisls
ture for the charter of an airline railroad
between Charleston and Augusta,
The Washington Star, evidently speak
ing on authority, says no one will be exclu-
ded from the fniiaaass!! rrhia Convention, no
matter what their autecedents, who in good
faith endorse the call.
- The Secretary of the Treasury has
authority by the recent law to suspend the
collection of direct tax imposed by the
law of 1861, in any of the Southern
States.
Jefferson Davis is said to be gradually
going down to the grave iu deep decline.
A writer in a Memphis Journal observes:
"Mark my prediction! The only trial that
Mr. Davis will ever have will be at the bar
of Eternal Justice"
One of the monster farms of modern
times is that of Gen. Urquiza, of Buenos-
Ayers. 1t is composed of an unbroken body
of 900 square miles, over which countless
thousands of horses, cattle and sheep are
grazing.
A peculiar religious movement is ma
king in Maine, looking to emigration to
Jerusalem. A bark is now fitting out at
Jonesport to carry the pilgrims to their new
home in the Holy Land. She is expected
to be ready to sail about the middle Of the
coming month. Land has been purchased
near the ancient Joppa, where it is proposed
to make permanent settlement.
The epidemic of cholera iu New York
is steadily increasing as the season advances,
though it does not as yet prevail as pesti
lence Thus far it has obeyed The laws of
epidemic contagious closely. From the
foul dens of the tenant house and cellar
population it has gone by natural law to
the alms.houses and prisons, and to the de
pots for troops on the islands lear N. York.
England, Ireland and Scotland are the
starting points of nineteen of the whole
number Of submarine telegraph lines. 1t.
ally has three; Norway has laid three across
the Fiords since 1857. France has two
Spain has one, anu India two. The Malta
and Alexandria line, next in length q ,535
miles) to the Atlantic Cable, is laid in three
sections, and the part in deep water has
never caused any expense for repairs.
The Auburn, California, Stars and
Stripes has request from "Captain Tom,"
of the Placer tribe of Indians, to make the
paper tell every man and woman that his
beloved wife Mand d is cheap dead"
"She was lit .e sick two week, heap sick
one week, and made dead after Dime. on
Monday" The sorrowing widower says she
was theap good woman"
- The Lebanon, Teun., Herald, # Sa.
turday, has the following: "Duriug re-
cent visit to the lower end of the county,
we made particular inquiry as to the state
of the growing crops, and found it to be
the universal opinion that corn, cotton, and
fruit promised better yield than we have