Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01
Wapside Gatherings.

cres of public lands in the South.
In New York and Brooklyn there are
10000 rum shops.
The losses of the New York Fire lnsu-
rance Companies by fire, during 1865, were
s43, ,1s9, 900.
There are two hundred and seventy
three Baptist churches, with 49, ,675 mem
bers in Maine.
"A railroad track has been laid across
the Mississippi River on the ice at Atchi
son, and trains cross regularly.
The Adjutaut General of Mississippi
has revoked the order for the disarming of
the blacks.
AS the quickest way to make fortune
contemporary suggest marrying fashiona.
BILE young lady and selling her clothes.
a-The express charges for transporting
uustauped national bank notes and bonds
between Washington and New York during
the past year amounted to 100000.
The remains of "fossil man" have
been discovered in Nevada Territory, and
doctors estimate the height of the biped at
from ten and half to twelve feet.
-Tbe ladies of Richmond and vicinity,
to the number of seven thousand, have for
warded to President johnson, an address,
praying for the release of Mr.. Davis.
Nearly all the Methodist Episcopal
churches in Washington have been favored
with revivals. Over three hundred converts
lately connected themselves with the diff
ferent churches in that city.
The Louisville correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette has just seen a Kentuc-
XIV farmer in the cars, who had not heard of
Mr.. Lincoln's death or of the emancipation
Of slaves.
General Howard has received letters
showing that there is great improvement
in the relations existing between the freed.
men and their former masters in Georgia
and Alabama.
Two gamblers in San Francisco, con-
demned to pay fine, rendered the amount
in greenbacks, but the Court is consider
ing the question whether coin shall not be
required from them. Long legal arguments
have taken place.
- The House of Delegates of Maryland
has passed resolutions endorsing General
Grants recent letter opposing the withdraw
al of Federal troops from late iusurrection-
ary districts, and opposing the armiug of
militia in those States.
Women are indispensable to the do.
mestic sphere of life, particularly in sick
ness What would have become of Adam
if be had been taken sick before Eve came
Who would have made his Cruel and beef
tea, or bound his head up 10 wet towel :?
- Bishop j. Soule, of the Methodist E.
piscopal Church, was in Memphis on the
4th to celebrate the 9th year of his "nin.
isterial" life being, perhaps, the only liv-
ing minister in the United States who was
in the work at the time he entered it. He is
feeble but able to be up most of the time.
"A new England grocer, in moving an
old counter recently, found two mice nests
made entirely of bank bills and fractional
currency. On pulling them to pieces, six.
ty or seventy long missing dollars turned up.
All the bills were more or less mutilated,
but some fifteen or twenty dollars worth
were saved.
An almost incredible story is told of
telegraph operator in Washington, to the
effect that he lately received two long dis.
patches by two different instruments stimuli
taneously, interpreted them both by sound,
and wrote them out simultaneously as re-
ceived, one with his right and one with his
left hand.
The Secretary of War, in compliance
with a resolution of the Senate, has trans
mitted to Congress report showing the
number of officers and enlisted men in the
regular army. The report gives the number
of officers and men in the cavalry at a, ,7O7 !;
artillery 4,1S7 ; infantry 16, OPS; total, a.
919.
- The famous Artic explorer, DR.. Hays,
has returned to the Kane Lodge of New
York, the Masonic flag which the lodge had
entrusted to him FIVE years before to carry
to the north pole if possible. The doctor
stated that the flag had been carried farther
north than any other, except the flag of our
country, and that it had hoated within FIVE
hundred miles of the pole
The direction taken by the foreigners
who arrived in New York during the months
of November and December is matter of
some curiosity While 1926 went to Mas
sachusetts, 1887 to Pennsylvania, 234S to
Ohio and 3036 to Illinois, only l2O started
for Virginia, 29O for Kentucky, 81 for Ten
nessee, 352 for Maryland, 8 for North Ca
rolina, 88 for South Carolina, s for Geor,
gia, Is for Alabama, 3 for Mississippi aud
35 for Louisiana.
Col. Brown, of the Freedmen's Bureau
in Virginia, in his report to Gen. Howard,
represents the state of the black population,
of half a million, as anything but encour.
aging to those who are charged "to provide
for their protection, elevation and govern
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