Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-10
Wapsiae Gatheriu9s.


of segars in one day.
- The new Constitution of Texas bases
representation on the white population.
- He who seeks to embitter innocent
pleasure has cancer in bis heart.
- Speaker Colfsx has given it as his opin.
ion that Congress could not take its recess
before the LIST of July.
- The rains have injured the cotton badly
in Texas, and replanting is generally in pro
gress.
"A Northern exchange talks of "mori-
bund" Fenianism-the New York Herald
prouounces it big swindle.
- Foruey's paper, the Chronicle, advises
the appointment of negroes to the Southern
post tofices.
An exchange says, Gas bull is infu.
rated by the sight of red, so Sumner is
enraged at the appearance of white"
"A negro, once undergoing an examin-
alton as a witness, when asked if his old
master was a Christian, replied: No he
was member of Congress-
- Daniel Webster used to say that the
word "would" in Rufus Choate's hand
writing, resembled small gridiron struck
by lightning.
- Bragg's battery, which gave them a
little more grape at Buena Vista, was part
of recent parade at Jefferson Barracks,
near St. Louis.
"A cotemporary suggests that lady, on
putting on her corsets, is like man who
drinks to drown his grief, because in sofa
cling herself she is getting tight!
- A. Remington, of Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, has obtained patent for paper
shirt, to be got for the triAing SUM Of rs
cents, and to be perspiration proof.
- The ladies of Columbia, MurfreesDoro'
and Pulaski, Tennessee, are getting up en-
tertainments in their respective towns for
the benefit of the manned Confederate sol.
diers.
"A monster snake was killed near Nash.
vile, Tenuesse, the other day. When alive
and stretched out it measured more than
twelve feet in length, and could easily swal-
low Shanghai chicken.
The message of Mayor Brown esti-
mates the present value of taxable property
in Nashville at eighteen millions Of dollars,
or nearly four millions more than FIVE
years ago, at the commencement of the re.
belliou.
- The fashions are having great run iu
soue of the principal towus. The Toledo
(Ohio) Blade asserts that there are, by &C
tual count, one hundred and seventy-fve
different styles Of hats worn by the ladies of
that city, and visible any foe day on the
street.
"A negro makes the singular PROPOSE.
ton, 10 a Pennsylvania paper, that he will
raise fifty thousand dollars among colored
men for the Fenian cause provided tne Fen.
ians will do all in their power to dispel the
Irish prejudice which now exists against the
blacks, and 60 in for negro suffrage.
"A convalescent soldier in hospital in
Paris, while stretching himself exclaim,
ed, Oh Godk A young and very pretty Sis.
ter of Charity ran up and inquired, What
would you God should do to you q? am
His daughter. The convalescent replied,
Accept me for His son-in-law.
"A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger writes :-"It is understood that At
torney General Speed las given the opinion
that no further legislation is necessary to
provide for the trial of Jefferson Davis,
either upon the charge of treason or compile.
ity in the assassination conspiracy"
- The bier on which Washington's re-
mains were carried to the tomb, with many
other relics which used to grace the muse.
em at Alexandra, Va, but which disap.
peared at the beginning of the war, have
been restored, having been kept secreted
from Government detectives and other camp
followers.
- The latest sensation in England is
"musbroom ketchup." Il seems that no
mushrooms are used in the preparation of
this delightful compound, but that the base
of it is decayed beef liver, called Smith
field mushroom Enormous quantities of
these livers are collected in England and
imported in close bags from the continent
- Lord Salisbury recently stated in a
public meeting in London, that, from per-
sonal observation, he has ascertained that,
of adult male criminals of that city, nearly
all had fallen in course of crime between
the ages Of eight and sixteen years; and
that if young man lived an honest life up
to twenty years of age, there were forty
pine chances in favor and one against him
as to an honorable life hereafter
- Wasbiuetou, Madison, Monroe, Harri.
500, Tyler and Taylor, were Episcopalians !;
Jefferson, John Adams and John Quincy
Adams, we're Upitarians; Jackson, Polk
and Lincoln, we're Presbyteriaus Van Blu,
rem was of the Dutch Reformed Church.
The surviving Presidents are Fillmore, a
Unitarian; Pierce, Trinitarian Congrega.
,ioualist, till recently he has joined the
Episcopal Church; Buchanan, an Episco.
paIiau during his term of Office, but is said
to have joined the Presbyterians this year;
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