Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-08
Wapsiae Gatheriuas.


The subscription price of the London
Times is $45 per annum.
1t is stated that orders will be issued
in few days for the muster.out of all vol.
unteer organizations.
There was once man so intensely po-
lite that, as be passed hen on her nest,
he said: "Don't rise, madam"
- Some of-tbe women of Kansas have
memorialized the legislature Of that State
for the right of suffrage.
General Sheridan has been instructed
to punish any United States soldiers that
were implicated in the attack ou Bagdad.,
Government agents have been appoint
ed to inspect attle.6eids, military prisons,
etc., and establish national cemeteries in
the South,
The French Minister at Washington
has asked the State Department for official
information of the recent affair on the Rio
Graude.
- Burton N. Harrison, late private Secre
tary of Jefferson Davis, who has for some
time past been confined in Fort Delaware,
has been released by the President.
What is the difference between bad
boy and postage stamp? Give it up?
One you lick with stick, and the other
you stick with ltck
What is the difference between "a
sehoolmaster and railroad conductor Z
One trains the mind, and the other minds
the train.
Tho Navy Department has ordered the
fitting out of the ex.rebel steamer Florida
for twelve months cruise. The ram
Stouewall is being overhauled for expert.
ments.
The prompt action of the Government
in bringing to punishment the parties en-
gagged in the Bagdad affair is most satisfac-
tory to the French Minister, who had de-
manded an explanation.
"A gentleman at whist party, when he
proposed going home was urged to stay a
little longer. swell, he replied, "perhaps
I may as we'll my wife, probably, is al
ready as mad as she can be-"
"A petition numerously signed by men,
bers of the bar throughout the country,
asking the pardon of John A. Campbell,
ex Judge of the Supreme Court, aud assis-
taut Confederate Secretary of War, was
presented to the President on Monday.
The New Orleans Delta thinks it omin.
Gus that pontoon trains have been ordered
to the Rio Grande. They we're ordered
from New Orleans by direction Of General
Sheridan, whose chief of staff is now at
Brownsville.
The last English census develops the
curious fact that there are more Scotch de.
scesdants in London than in Ediubure
more Irish than in Dublin; more Roman
Catholics than in Rome, and more Jews
than in Palestine.
"Have tbe jury agreed ?" asked the
bailiff of locked up set of twelve, whom
be had left under the care of his man,
Denny Garry, and whom he met upon the
stairs with pail in his hand. "Oh, yis,"
replied Denny, "they have agrade to sind
out for another half gallon"
"A youngster, while perusing chapter
in Genesis, turning to bis mother, inquired
if the people of those. days used to do sums
on the ground? 1t was discovered that be
had been reading the passage, ".And the
sous of men multiplied on the face of the
earth
When our little Clara was about five
years old, she was taken up stairs to see a
little sister, who was dead when only a few
hours DID, She had many questions to ask
bow it came to die, &c., but received DO
satisfactory answer; at length, she said,
Il have made up my mind what allied that
baby-it died of younguess y
One of the largest shareholders in
Southern Kentucky has gone mad on &C.
count of the liberation of his slaves, and is
now an inmate of the lunatic asylum at
Hopkinsville, Ky. he owned over two
hundred negroes, and bad accumulated by
their labor large fortune. He was prob
ably worth one hundred thousand dollars,
independent of his slaves.
- A cave, five feet wide and from six to
eight feet high, which is evidently artificial,
has been discovered in the side of Lookout
Mountain, Ga au'i explored for the dis
tance of one hundred and seventy five feet.
Stones, pestles, small pieces of iron, hatch
ct handles, and nameless Indian relics are
found scattered all the way, and it is
thought to have been refuge for the In
dians in ancient times
Major General Terry, commanding the
mond general order forbidding civil off
GERS to attempt to execute the provisions of
the Vagraut act lately passed by the Vir-
giuia Legislature. He says that the result
of this law, if enforced, would be to reduce
the freedmen to a condition of slavery