Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-29
NJaysiae Gatheriugs.
"A mean fiddler is always getting into

"A mean fiddler is always getting into
bad scrapes.
Gen. Burnside has been nominated by
the Union Convention of Rhode Island, for
Governor of that State.
- The Chicago Times declares it to be
the solemn duty of the President to arrest
Stevens, Phillips and Sumner, on charge
of treason.
Jared Sparks, the historian and ex-
President of Howard College, died at his
residence in Cambridge, on the 18th inst,
of pneumonia.
The dwelling of Maj. B. D. Townsend,
of BennettsVille, s. c., was consumed by
fire few days since. The furniture and
contents of the house we're saved.
- California has set an example worthy
of imitation by excluding bushels, and sell.
ing and pricing agricultural products by
weights alone
"A negro woman of Weston, Lewis
county, West Virginia, hatched chicken
by keeping the egg warm in her bosom
Who is the mother of the chicken? ?
A lady speaking of the gathering of
lawyers to dedicate new court. house, said
she supposed they had gone "to view the
ground where they must shortly he"
"A negro woman has sued the proprie.
tors of the Indianapolis Gazette for libel,
laying the damages at ten thousand dollars.
More than the worth of negro in other
times. -.
The Acting Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue has decided that the receipt given
to an express company, by party receiving
goods by express, is subject to stamp duty
of two cents, as a receipt for property.
-"Father,. did you ever have another
wife besides mother?" "No, my boy; what
possessed you to ask such question ?'-
"Bccause 1 saw in the old family bible
where you married Ammo Domini, 1885,
and that isn't mother, for her name was
Sally Smith"
"A wag says of a woman: To her vir-
tue we give love; to her beauty We give ad-
miration to her whims we give indulgence ;
to her tongue we give liberty; to her wants
we give our purses to her person We give
ourselves; to her hoops, the whole pave
ment.
- General Cooper, Adjutant General of
the late Confederate States, has recently
been in Richmond, and Senator Wigfall,
some four weeks ago made his escape into
Mexico from Texas We believe the most
prominent persons of the late Confederacy
are now 'all accounted for
- In Richmond, Indiana, man insured
his wife's life for fifty thousand dollars
He then sent her away, and having procured
corpse which resembled her, represented
it to be that of bis wife, had funeral and
claimed the insurance money. The fraud
was for some time undiscovered.
- Connecticut people take care of all
things and let nothing waste. On one oc-
casion shoe makerin that State purchased
a peck of shoe pegs, which on trial were
found too brittle for use. So with an eye
open to his interest, he sharpened the other
end of them and sold them to his neighbor
for oats.
- In the month of January, 1865, re.
markable tree was brought to New York
from Western State, which is considered
by the best judges to be worth S25, ,OOO.-
This was a black walnut tree, 70 feet long,
board or inch measure, 4,500 feet, which,
at 20 cents, would be $4,000 The cost
of cutting, carting and placing in store for
sale, would be about 500.
"A Washington letter says The Sur
geon .iu-Chief of the South Carolina Dis
trict of the Freedmen's Bureau has writ
ten to the chief medical Office of the Freed.
mems Bureau for supply of vaccine virus,
as the small pox is spreading with consid,
erabIe rapidity in some portions of the
State. II.
- A prominent lawyer of Adrian, Mich
igau, received, on Tuesday last, letter
reading as follows Mr.. -; Dear Sir
Il made contract with Mr.. -- to sell
him piece of land, but be now writes me
that he will not take it, | desire you to
say to him, the first opportunity, that con-
slider him id scoundrel inclose one
dollar, which will pay you for your trouble.
"A benevolent lady went to visit fam
lily who were said to be almost starving -
She found them half clad, cold, and not
morsel of food in the house. What do
you most need? What would you like to
have 2 she asked of the mother of the
family The woman thought for moment,
her face frightened, aud she answered
why, l always did want waterfall !;
they're 30 becomin' =
"A late English work on diamonds and
other precious stoues, says that but small
portion of the gems sold and worn are genu
inc. The diamond mines of Golconda have
given out, and those of India are rapidly
failing. The scarcity Of real gems has been
met by the ingenuity of counterfeters, who
manufacture spurious gems that frequently
deceive expert connoisseurs. Large quanti
ties of false gems are made in Birmingham
and Paris, and shipped East, where the
0rientials sell them To credulous Eurupean