Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-28
Wagsiae Gatherinas.

white volunteers IN tnat department..
A new word has been invented as an at
tache to Judge Underwood's charge, viz
jurisimprudence. .,.
The first flour from new wheat was re-
ceived at Augusta, Georgia, last week,
being eleven days later than last year
A foolish young lady is like careful
housewife-her "waist is as little as posi-
ble =.
Cyrus W. Field has crossed the Allan
tic thirty. three times on the Atlantic cable
business.
The Augusta Constitutionalist learnt
from q relative of Governor Piekens, thai
the report of bis illness is unfounded.
- The editor of the Savannah Advertise'
saw water MELONS on the streets of that city
on Monday last, which were selling at So,
each. Of course he only sao them.
"A young lady of California recently
broke her neck, while resisting the attempt
of young man to kiss her. This furnishes
fearful warning to young ladies'.
Information has been received in Wash
ington, that the Court Martial for the trial
of Captain Gee, at Raleigh, have agreed up
on his acq Initial.
- Montgomery Moses, Collector, and j.
A Norwood, Assessor, for Internal Reve-
neu in the First District of this State, have
resigued-not being able to take the oath.
-"Revolver," the four year old horse
which recently made his mile at Cincinnati
in 1.444, is said to be the greatest horse in
the world.
"A Pittsburger, who has in his possession
the cork leg captured from Santa Anna in
the Mexican war, is said to have decided
to return it to the old soldier.
Western papers assert that what were
vast treeless prairies in Illinois twelve years
ago are now covered with a dense growth
Of thrifty young forest trees, comprising va
rious species of oak, hickory, cottonwood,
ash, 60.
We have all heard of asking for bread
and receiving stone, but young gentle
man may be considered as still worse treat
ed when he asks for young lady's hand
and receives her fathers foot.
"A lady asked noted doctor if be did
not think the small bonnets the ladies wore
had a tendency to produce a congestion Of
the brain. "Oh, no." replied he; "ladies
who have brains don't wear them"
"A proposition is pending in Congress
to put sixty thousand dollars in the hands
of General B. F. Butler, to be held in trust
for the purchase of site for a National
Asylum. Butler is to hold the money-who
will hold him?
The lovers of remarkable coinciden-
ces" will not fail to note the fact that the
Feniau invasion of Canada occurred in the
same region where General Scott won bis
first laurels and 90 the day where his re.
mains were consigned to the grave.
Milton was asked: CHOW is it that 10
some countries King is allowed to take his
place Oh the throne at fourteen years of age
but may not marry until be is eighteen p
"Because," said the poet, cit is easier to
govern a kingdom than a woman"
The Charlotte IN. CO. Times says !:
"The wheat harvest in this section has COM
menced, and We are glad to learn from re-
liable sources, that while the stand on the
ground is not so thick as desirable, the
quality is excellent, and that very fair av-
erage crop will be made.
- We are reliably informed that the
whole issue of bills receivable by the State
Treasurer, up to the present time, is only
$l33, 900, and his impression is that large
proportion of this sum has already been re-
deemed in payment Of taxes and is now in
the hands of the Tax Collectors. South
Carolinian. .....
Cotton in Georgia has commenced to
blossom The recent rains have over
whelmed the crop in many places with
grass. Wheat throughout the State is har-
vested, and although the crop turns out bet
ter than was feared some time ago, it is by
no means excellent.
- The case of George W. Gale, who
proposed to raise 81, 900, 900 to pay for the
assassination of Lincoln and Seward, and
published card to that effect in the Selma
Dispatch, came up at Montgomery, Ala,
4th instant He pleaded not guilty and was
allowed to give bail in $4,000.
- The North Carolina Convention passed
an ordinance on Saturday, changing the
time for the election of Governor and mem
bers of the General Assembly until the third
Thursday in October, and fixing the ratif-
cation of the amended Constitution on the
first Thursday in August.
"A little, keen, bright.eyed girl of four
years, on visit one evening, was being
helped to the knee of a gentleman friend,
and on being toll by her mother that she
was too large baby to hold, retorted al
most Immediately, accompanying her words
with an emphatic gesture, "Why, girls nine
teen years old sit on laps, and you wouldn't
call them babies, would you ?"