Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-26
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"A number or remains captured o
British flag near Eastport, Maine, on Sat-
urdsy night of last week, from gun. boat.
- Letters to the Methodist Conference
now in session in New Orleans, reports that
Bishop Soule is in dying condition.
The Texas State Convention has
closed its session and sent FIVE members to
convey the results of their deliberations to
Washington.
when James Gordon Bennett, the
Editor and Proprietor of the N Y. Herald
was young man, he wandered abous Boston
seeking employmeatfor two days, penniless
and without food, and was then relieved
only BY finding, q shilling on the Commons.
- The list of awards for tho capture of
Mr. Davis, and the arrest Of the sssassias
of Mr.. Lincoln, has at last been sent to
Congress. The largest award is to Colonel
Pritchard who receives ten thousand dol.
lsrsass the captor Of Mr.. Davis
----A machiue for making ice has been
invented in Loudou, which will produce
eleven pounds of ice an. hour, at q cost Of
not more than half a cent per pound. This
is.cheapsr than the natural article is fur
nished in most places.
The Connecticut Arms Company, of
Norfolk, Connecticut, are manufacturing
sheep shearing machine which is said to be
o marvel of mechanical triumph. Il is
about as large as an old.fashioued little
spinning wheel, and will shear sheep in
ttno time"
-Gen. Sheridan has issned orders that
all persons smbarking from Now Orleans
farNera Cruz, Fampico or Massmoras, Mex
loo, must have passports from the provost
marshal The order causes much remark
and the papers say it is aimed against south.
An able and elaborate review of
Cholera, its causes, and the proper precau-
tions to be taken for its prevention in the
N. 7. Meas, takes the position that lager
beer, more than any other beverage, propa-
gates the dreadful disease. The same wri.
ter advises an avoidance of all fermsnted
liquors.
There is mountain of fine rock salt
on the Colorado river in Arizona, lying in
cubes of all sizes, and 30 pure, you would
never dream of it being salt if you did not
put it to your tongue; it more resembles
broken chunks Of the finest plate glass.
There is not particle of foreign matter IN
it, and there is enough of the article to sup
ply the population for centuries.
We have fallen on pestilsntial days.
Cholera in the Orient, Italy and South
France, Trichina in Germany, Rinderpsst
in Russia, Holland and England, whereuuto
the Sheep Plague is added. These are not
all. Even the birds in Italy are dying by
thousands, of miasma, and marine cpl.
dsmio on the coast has made shrimps of the
French oysters.
- The New Orleans Picayune, allu-
ding to the statement that G. W. Howard
and Judge Shaffer, of California, have the
largest dairy farm in the world, covering
seventy-one thousand acres, says that the
RsDcbero Csrisitas, of the Csvagos family,
between Brownsville and Corpus Christi, in
Texas, covers over eighty leagues or more
than four hundred thousand acres.
The ladies of Raleigh, N. c., recent
ly proposed to organize an association, of
which the oldest member should be the pre-
sident and the youngest the secretary. But
the dear creatures soon met with an unex.
pected and insurmountable difficulty, and
the project has been abandoned, it having
been found impossible to obtain president,
and every one of the members claiming the
right to be secretary.
Ar interesting and important decis-
ion, touching the responsibility of common
carriers, has just been decided at Mil.
YANKEE, in which the American Express
Company are made to pay two hundred dol
lars for damages done to Cremona fiddle
while in transportation, Notwithstanding the
attempted waiver Of responsibility exceed
ing fifty dollars, expressed on the company's
blank receipts.
- The Supreme Court of the United
States having decided the Indiana military
commission, for the trial of civilians, to be
illegal, and the persons convicted by it haV
ing, in consequence, been discharged, there
is no doubt that steps will soon be taken to
procure the release of DR.. Mudd, Arnold,
O'Laughlin and Spangler, convicted of a
conspiracy against the life of President Lin.
coin. The friends of the parties claim the
benefit of the decision, and will take action
accordingly.
- Two colored soldiers lately visited the
place of Mr.. Gregorie, in Christ Church
Parish, near Charleston, and, after insult
ing him, fired two shots with pistol, upon
which Mr.. Gregorie gave them the con-
tents of gun, which resulted in the killing
of one of the negroes. Mr. Gregorie was
arrested by Col. E. A. Mozlay, at Mount
Pleasant, and at night his house was attack
ed by crowd of negro soldiers, the house
plundere6, his family ill treated, and his
daughter slightly injured.
- In New York city there are $4,000
dram.sbops and 100000 drinkers, each
drinking vogills liquor per day 100000
barrels yesr. This quantity would make
areservoir 900 feet long, so feet wide, and
63 feet deep, and could float four large
ships in full sail; at $50 per barrel, it a.
r,onts m S1S ono O0O Ont of cases tried