Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-19
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| Plckens District last week.
- The devil has work enough for all his
friends but he pays their wages in fuel.
Cincinnati has subscribed nearly mil
lion dollars to the new Southern Railroad,
thence to Knoxville and Charleston.
There are said to be nine hundred JUS
tices of the peace in the little State OF
Rhode Island.
| "A turkey has been hatched in Angus
ia, Ca, with three wings, two tails and four
legs.
The wheat crop of North Carolina is
said to be an average one. Corn and pota.
toes promise large yield.
Mr.. G.. S. Bower, one of the Oldest citi.
zens and merchants of Columbia, died in
that city on Saturday of last week.
1t is better to be laughed at for not be-
ing married, than to be unable to laugh
because you are.
Mr.. John G. Blair, formerly of York,
is announced in the Standard as Candi-
date for Sheriff of Chester District.
- The Charleston Neaos notes the contin.
ued illness of Chancellor Inglis. His con.
dition is said to be critical.
The Baptists number, in this country,
l3,434 churches, S,379 ministers, and ], )
116,70S members. This includes North
and South
The Democrats are claiming Generals
Grant and Sherman as both warmly in fa.
vor of the Philadelphia Convention, and
will use their influence to insure its success.
A negro of Gilmer county, "West"
Virginia, is sueing the clerk of the County
Court for refusing to issue license for his
marriage with white woman.
Generals Steedman and Fullerton, now
in New Orleans, report affairs in Mississippi
less hopeful than in all other States they
have visited combined.
There has been exported from SaVau.
nah to foreign ports during the year ending
June 80, 1865, eighty.nine thousand and
eighteen bales of cotton.
-"Pa, I know why that old.fashioned
pistol of yourn that grandpa fit with in the
revolution is called horse pistol" "Why,
my son 7" Because it kicks so!'
-Quilp says if the Bankrupt Law had
been for the benefit of citizens of African
descent it would have passed Congress long
ago.
- Every inhabitant of the United States
pays three cents day for internal tax alone
to the United States Government, or the
amount paid is at that rate.
When a gentleman stares at young
lady, and she stares at him, they are apt to
mount to the region of love by pair of
stares.
-"Were you ever cross examined E"-
eyes, when questioned by my wife, after
spending the evening abroad-cross enough,
in all conscience
Even the severess censure may be sof.
tened. The editor of the Norfolk Virgin
ian says that Forney is an unmitigated
scoundrel, but-good enough to 90 to Con.
gress.-[N p World
"A Western paper strikes the names of
two subscribers from its list because they
were recently hung. The publisher says
he was compelled to be severe, because he
did not know their present address.
- The Pickens Courier oflast week says !:
awe have it from good authority, that the
District Courts will soon be put in opera.
ton The Legislature of South Carolina
will be convened in extra session, by Gov.
Orr, in perhaps few weeks"
- There is said to be in Wall.street, New
York, a pair of antlers taken from deer
that was killed in Wall.street The deer
was chased by hounds into the town from
the upper part of the island few years
previous to the Revolution, when Wall.
street was in the outskirts of the city.
The Southwestern (England) Railway
Company possesses monster engine, named
the Colossus. It has been built to draw a
train of eighty loaded wagons eighty miles
in three hours, each wagon weighing about
ten tons. 1t can drag nearly one thousand
tons from London to Southampton with al.
most tue speed of a bird flying.
The wife of returned Ohio soldier was
alarmed lest her husband should loose his
arm, which had been badly wounded by a
musket ball but by her careful nursing it
was saved. Eight months after, she gave
birth to child, one of whose arms was per-
feet, but the other was stump similar to the
one with which the wife's mind was i'm.
pressed at the time the surgeons were talk,
ing about taking off her husbands. The
scar of the bullet hole, SO visible on the
fathers arm, was also visible on the child's,
at the base of the stump.
"A correspondent Of the National In.
telHga.cer, writing from Augusta, Ga says
Mr.. Alexander Fl. Stephens has said, with.
in a few days, that the onl7 hope for the
South consists in the result of the fall cleo.
tions at the North, which means that unless
the people who are represented oust the
present Radical majority and elect men who
will reconstruct the Union on the old basis
of equal justice and equal rights, guaran.