Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-15
Setaps ank fatts.

Ten per cent has been established
IS the legal rate of interest in Georgia.
-Punoh describes marriage as partner
ship without limited liability.
- Somebody AYERS that there are $780,
900 grains in a bushel of wheat. He's
sschafing." ....~.
"A friend complaining of the sinter.
nal revenue SYSTEM" says he can't put bis
boots on without stamp.
For finding and returning S25, 1000
in gold in the street in New York, young
man was rewarded with two dollars! !!
An editor heads his list of births,
marriages and deaths thus &: "Hatched,
matched and despatched"
- In Louisiana the new militia system
is in complete operation, entirely superce-
ding the United States troops.
The biggest thing on ice is the berg
mentioned by Dr. Hayes, which contained
27,OOO,OOO,O 100000, OOO,OOO,0OO, tons
more or less. o..
The confectioners of Paris have a.
greed with missionary society to insert
extracts. from religious works in their bon.
bons instead of sentimental notices.
FIX. Governor Graham, United States
Senator elect from North Carolina, is out in
letter in favor of negro evidence as just
and right.
Three hundred pretty girls dance al
most nude in one of the theatres in Paris.
Thepublic is said to be ssshocked," and ask
where are the police.
"A monetary convention has been
signed between France, Belgium, Italy, and
Switzerland, the result of which will be
that the money of each country will, in fu-
ture, pass current in all the rest.
AT one of the Paris theatres the spec
tator is shown the mode of dressing from the
Creation to the present day, and living
models walk out of huge book of fashions
to illustrate the different periods.
"A friend who has travelled lately, ex-
tensively, through the upper counties and a
portion of South Carolina, informs us that
the wheat crop is looking uncommonly
promising. Charlotte Times.
- The New York Observer asserts that
"the piety of the South was opposed to se-
cession, but the clergy were generally in
favor of it ?" Is not that rather hard on
the clergy? .... ...
When Sir, Walter Scott was urged
not to prop the falling credit of an acquaint-
ance, he replied. "The man was my friend
when my friends were few; and will be
his, new that bis enemies are many"
BY laying piece of charcoal upon
burn, the pain subsidies Immediately. By
leaving the charcoal on one hour, the wound
is healed, as has been demonstrated on sew.
eral occasions. The remedy is cheap and
simple, and certainly deserves trial.
- The value of the taxable property
belonging to the colored residents of Wash
ington is 81, $4,000. Of the $4,000 col.
ored residents of that city, the Freedmen's
Bureau estimate that 7,409 can read and
that about 5000 subscribe for newspapers;
"A Chicago divine was recently dH-
cussing the subject of baptism, and, 4fter
summing up all the arguments in its favor,
he said to his opponent, 81 am not surpris-
ed that you object to dimensions, sir, for
that was the way Satan lost all his pork"
- The Charleston Courier learns that
the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania has au-
thorized NJ. W. Grand Master Orr to draw
upon their treasurer for the sum of 81, ,000s
in aid of the Grand Lodge of South Carroll
No.
- The youngest son of the great Pat
rick Henry died in Floyd county, Virginia,
in 1854, in circumstances of extreme desti-
tuition. The Legislature of that State was
appropriating thousands on marble statue
of the father, at the the very time the son
was begging his bread!
-One of our Indiana exchanges says
that the farmers of that section are grieviDg
at the ruin of the wheat crop. The ground
has been 80 bare during the winter that the
wheat is frozen out The snow that has fal-
len came too late to be Of much benefit, and
a short harvest will be the consequence.
- MIR. Batemau, the engineer of the
Glasgow watef-works, has published pam.
phlet proposing scheme for supplying
London with water, by means of an aque.
duct from North Wales; the length will be
152 miles, the capacity 22O, 900 900 gallons
daily, and the cost upwards of $40, 000,-
900.
- The Macon, Ca, Telegraph says
that the negroes in that vicinity are dying
off with the most frightful rapidity. During
the preceding week about five hundred
had died in that city alone, out of black
population of only eight thousand. Previ-
ous to the war the weekly mortality in the
same number had only been about twenty.
"A Madrid letter, in the Temps,
state that NJ. Monturiol, Spaniard, has
solved the problem of submarine steam nav
igation by the invention of vessel which
can remain for hours at considerable
depth, can discharge cannons from below,
and even act as ram for piercing the hulls
of iron-csd ships.
The Greepville, s. c., Mountaineer>
of Tuesday last says "Ex. Gov. B. F. Perry
took his departure this morning for Wash
ington City, and, we presume, will be alb
sent short time only, unless the Congress
of the United States shall happen to come
to their senses unexpectedly and admit