Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-03
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- lucEo arc dt,ti1 Pooiio o'AAN 'No-o
in Paris.
The cholera approaches from the North
east this year, as it did in lS48.
All lawyers may be. said to belong to
the Fee. nian brotherhood
People are apt to say thata shower comes
up. Showers generally come down.
"A freedmen's saving bank at Beaufort,
s. c., has deposits exceeding $3.50, 600;
49, France has at present 5000 Masonic
lodges with 1,S00, coo members.
The Mobile Register hints that Gen.
Lee may yet be President of the United
States
- The report of the death of Ole Bull is
coptradicted. BE has not been in Canada
for years.
"A negro man in Indianapolis, seventy
FIVE years old, has received license to marry
a negro girl, fifteen years old.
"A Convention is to meet at Knoxville,
to-day, to adopt measures for the formation
of new State for East Tennessee.
1t is rumored that an order will soon be
issued by the War Department, defining the
late peace proclamation of the President.
If you would be known and not know,
vegetate in a village if you would know
and hot be known, live in city.
MIR. Ferdinand Gregorie, who has been
in Jail since the difficulty at Mount Pleas
ant, was paroled on Saturday Of last week,
and is now at liberty.
In the same street in London, within
few doors of each other, are five tradesmen
named respectively Pope, Swift, Addison,
johnson and Boswell
AT ball'iu Paris, the other evening,
the Princess of St. Ella appeared as the
Press, in robe covered with the pages and
titles of several journals printed on satin.
- The Legislature of Georgia has appro.
priated twenty thousand dollars for the pur.
pose of supplying with artificial limbs those
who lost them In the late war.
- Judge Busteed, of the United States
District Court at Mobile, has decided that
the masters of steamboats, are liable for the
acts of gamblers on their vessels.
- 1t is the opinion of various p.or,ine Mt
Congressman that the present session will
be closed early in June. Apart from the
subject of reconstruction, all other business
can be closed in several weeks.
- The United States Senate has passed
bill granting indemnity to officers of the
army for acts committed in suppressing the
rebellion, and exempting them from liabil.
tiles to civil courts for such acts.
- Sir Isaac Newtor's nephew was a cler-
gyman. When he had performed the mar
riage ceremony he always refused the fee,
s:ying: "Go your ways poor wretehes, l
have done you mischief enough already"
Concerning the cholera in New Orleans,
the Memphis Post, of the 11tb ultimo, says:
"The papers are silent, bat private letters
and gentlemen coming from New Orleans
report few cases of the cholera at that
CITY,"
- Texas is Wild just now on the subject
of railroads. Railroad projects are on foot
in every part of that extensive State, and
in very direction. We are pleased to sec
this interest manifested, and hope the
projects may bo all carried into successful
execution.
The Mobile papers report the arrival of
great curiosity at that city, vessel made
entirely of cork, which is lying at one of
the wharves. That she will never sink is
true enough, but the other claim of the
Mobilians, that she will last forever is q
little venturesome
On the 4th of July, next general
convention Of all the railroad presidents,
chief engineers and general superintend-
ents iu the United States, is to be held in
Philadelphia for an interchange of views in
regard to railroad construction, manage
ment and'opera;;on.
The Civil Rights law is to be tested in
the Memphis courts. The statutes of Ten.
nessee prohibits negroes from keeping
drinking and billiard saloons; and several
cases are now pending maintaining that
under the new law all men are on an equal
footing as to business pursuits.
- The Manayunk Wood Paper Pulp
Works, in Philadelphia, are one of the great
novelties of the day. The works are very
extensive, costing about S500,O00, and
situated in The Scbuylkill River. A pop
lar tree was taken from the hillside, and
converted into clear, white, soft paper, in
the space Of five hours.
- 1t is calculated from dates deemed reli.
able, that in Georgia, Alabama, and Missis-
sippi, the number of negroes at work is
about one third, what it was in 1860, while
there are not as many whites lsboring as
then. In three districts where white labor
has heretofore been used, ther will he toler.
ably full crops of everything
"A correspondent Of the Petersburg En-
press, writing from Richmond, under date
Of the Goth ultimo, says that by the arrival
of gentleman in that city, from Abemarle
county, Va, he learns that the wheat crop
along the line of the Central Railroad will
be much better than the farmers had reason
to believe during the past winter.