Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-17
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"A New Orleans paper tells story Of
a man in Louisiana about to be sentenced
to Jail for assault and battery, who pleaded
in arrest of judgment that he was ferry
man on an important road, with no one to
help him, and to imprison him would be
obstructipg the public highways.
-The battlefield of Franklin, Tennes.
see, where Hoods men fell by the hundred
and were buried, has been rented by the
proprietor to freedmen, and is about to be
given to the plow. Every Southern State
has its representatives on this field, and their
friends are endeavoring to secure means to
remove the bodies before the traces of the
graves are trampled out.
- An agent is travelling about the
rural districts selling copies of the we'll
known engraving, "The Departure of the
Pilgrim Fathers from Leydon." He ex-
patiates very fully upon the notable points
of the picture, but bewilders his customers
by assuring them that the large figure in
the centre is that of "the celebrated Chris
topher Columbus"
The Pittsburg Gazette says that a
coal company has now piled, near Homes
dale in that State, $4,000 tons of coal,
said to be the largest body of coal ever COL
lected in one heap on the face of the earth.
1t would require train over 26O miles in
length to remove the stock, or 700, 900 carts
would be needed, reaching in one continu-
ous line more than 1000 miles
Orfla, the celebrated French chem
ist, being examined as "ezpert" on a capi
tai trial, was asked by the President wheth-
er he could tell what quantity of arsenic
was requisite to kill a fly. The doctor re-
Piled, atCertainly, NJ lie President; but 1
must know beforehand the age of the fly,
its sex, its temperament, its condition and
habits of body, whether married or single,
widow or maiden, widower or bachelor
When satisfied on the points, l can answer
your question"
"A year or two ago some enterprising
person succeeded in rolling iron in thinner
sheets than had ever before been seen. He
sent some specimens to England, and the
British workmen have since tried their best
to out. roll their rivals, and have succeeded.
We believe they have produced two thinner
specimens The last of these weigh only
36.100 of grain to the square inch !! 1t
would require two hundred sheets of this
thickness to make up the thickness of
sheet of note paper!
- From the Richmond Republic we
learn that the National Cemetery at Cold
Harbor, Va, was completed on the 1st of
May. This cemetery is situated on the
Cold Harbor road, on the farm of Mrs.
Slaughter, and about half mile from the
old Cold Harbor house 1t is 234 feet in
length by 220 feet in width, and contains
one and one. sixth acres. The total num-
ber of bodies inferred is 1930-50 com.
missioned officers, l chaplain, SO non com.
missioned officers, and 545 privatss, besides
l245 remains rot yet identified.
The Episcopal Methodist Conference
at New Orleans adjourned oD the Sd. Itex.
tended the pastoral term to four years, and
S27, 900 were voted as the support of the
bishops The probation system was stricken
out of the discipline Class-meetings were
made privilege, but no test of membership
any longer Monthly church meetings were
ordained and love feasts to be held with
closed doors. The salaries of ministers are
to be regulated by their congregations. The
bishops salary is 70 be raised within the e.
piscopal district in which be labors.
- According to the Central PresIyte-
riian, the enumeration of the Presbyterian
Church South is as follows: Synods 10,
Presbyteries 46, churches lll2, ministers
GAG, licentiates IS, candidates IS, commu.
nicants 1858. To these it adds the
United Synod commandments, whose aggre.
gate (before the war; was IL ,44S, Synods3,
Presbyteries II, churches 165, ministers
ITO, licentiates 6, candidates 20. Thus
the aggregate of ministers in the United
Church is 8ll, of licentiates 81, of caudi.
dates IS, apd of communicants S4,S2l.
Of these 12,473 are colored people.
- The Columbus (Georgia) San, of
April 10Th, says: GA proposition has been
made, by MIR. A. D. Breed, of Cincin
natl, to lease, for term of years, the Ala.
bams and Tennessee Railroad, extending
from Selma to Jacksonville. He is to
build the continuous road from Jacksonville
to Dalton, on certain conditions, and run
both in connection. There appears to be
division in the disposition of the stockhold-
ers on the proposition The matter was to
come up for decision at the meeting of
the stockholders at Selma, on the 9th
of May, inst"
- The Salisbury North State learns
that riot took place at Morgantou few
days ago, which resulted in the United
States Regular Troops stationed there driV'
ing some returned negro soldiers from the
town. The negroes, who went off with Gen
eral Stoneman at the time of his raid into
Western North Carolina, and joined the
Federal army, it seems, have been mustered
out of service recently and have just return
ed to their old homes with lofty notions of
their rights. They showed some inSolence,
it is said, at other places, but at Morganton
it was resented by the soldiers, who drove
the negroes off
1.-The Convention called to consider