Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-20
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- The Standard announces that Con-
vention of the ssloyal Union men of North
Carolina" will be held in Raleigh, to-day,
to consult together on the present condi'
ton of the country.
Lord Dundreary has expressed him
self favorable to marriage with deceased
wife's sister, on the ground: "It is eco
nomical because when a man marries his
deceased wife's sister he has only one moth
er-in.law."
"A considerable sensation has been
created in mechanical circles By the recent
discovery of Mr.. Robert Henaage, of Buffa-
10, that sheet-iron will serve for betting in
place of India rubber or leather.
-" "Mother Goose" when she wrote
her "melodies," foretold with the certainty
of one inspired with prophesy, the conduct
of a certain New England general when she
penned the line:
"And the Butler away with the spoons.''
In the Congressional elections to
come off this fall, there are about fifty dis
tricts in which the Radicals now represen-
ting them were elected by very small major
tiles. 1t is in these that the conservatives
will put forth their chief efforts.
We saw venerable le-looking COW yes.
terday, says the Cincinnati Herald, eating
pine sawdust, under the impression that it
was bran. She didn't lind out her mistake
until night, when it was found that she
gave turpentiue instead Of milk.
"A guerrilla leader, Dick Hampstead,
was recently captured by the Regulators,
near Little Rock, Ark, who, after trying
him and finding him guilty of eleven MUIR
ders, all of which he confessed, burned him
to death by slow fire, which totally con-
sumed his body.
"a French woman frightened By a
negro has given birth to girl half black
and the other white. Even the face of the
child has one side black and the other white,
so that the profile is that of a negress on
one side and of white on the other. In
spite of this, the child is very pretty and
enjoys perfect health.
"A list of the accidents aud deaths on
the rail roads of France, for the last year,
shows that there were 100000 of pas
sengers. Out of these, four were killed,
and one in every 100000 wounded. This
is a wonderfully, small proportion. Our
American railroads would doubtless pre-
sent much more formidable list
There was tournament at Hunts
vile, Ala, lately, at which one of the con-
testants appeared as the "Knight of the
Gray Jacket" Passing down one of the
streets attired for the touruay, he was
halted by a detachment of United States
soldiers, and the buttons were cut from has
jacket of gray
In the Texas Legislature, August
ID Mr. Jackson offered a resolution in.
structing the Gommistsa on PahliAIanda- ia
inquire into the expediency of donating
three hundred and twenty acres to each
Confederate soldier, who, by reason of
wounds received in the late war, is incapac,
itated for labor, and to report by bill or
otherwise 1t was adopted.
A correspondent of an English pa
per, speaking of the Atlantic cable, says
that from daylight till 2 o'clock the cable
generally works with great difficulty, after
which time the working grows easier and
more rapid until dark, and all through the
night it works easily and we'll. The editor
of the Telegrapher has often noticed this
fact on the lan,l lines.
- Maine has gone for the Radicals.
The elections for Governor, members of
Congress and members of the Legislature
came off on Monday last. We have 20 de-
tailed accounts as yet, but sufficient from
the dispatches in the New York papers
to show that the Radicals have swept every.
thing before them. So went Vermont, so
goes Maine, and so, we doubt not, will go
the whole of Down. East.Down.
We see almost every day some silly
paragraph going the rounds that Mr.. A. T.
Stewart, the wealthy merchant of New
York, is about erecting magnificent bull
ding in Savannah, for the purpose of open
ing wholesale dry goods store there. We
are enabled to state, on the best authority,
that there is not one word of truth in the
statement Mr.. Stewart, we learn, has no
idea ofembarking in business in the South
and all of these silly stories about his build.
ing "marble palaces in Savannah, Mobile
and New Orleans, are utterly false.
Charleston Ne,cs.
- There is an organization of freedmen
in this place, whose object is to ferret out
and punish crime among themselves. Up
Oh learning that negro horse thief had
passed through the place yesterday, mem
Der of the organization put out in pur,
suit, and soon had the thief in limbo, and
delivered him up to the pursuer. The ne
gro had horse and buggy, which has been
left here subject to the demand of the own
er. The same organization took up shop
litter the other day, and as the proof was
positive, they promptly applied to him a
dose of Moses law Far better this than
provost court. Very few darkies will risk
a second appearance before this body.
Meraw Gazette.
AS the present crop of cotton is to
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