Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-19
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sold for 81, 900 per hundred pounds.
When an Egyptian wants to marry, be
is not allowed to see the face of his wife
her beauty is vouched for by friend.
There are $4,000 white citizens of
Tennessee who cannot vote under the pres.
ent State laws.
- Mrs. Jenkins complained the other
evening that the turkey she had eaten did
not set we'll. Probably said jenkins, it
was not hen turkey
Scotland annually consumes 1854, 900
gallons of whiskey, and Ireland $780,.
900. Ireland has double the population of
Scotland.
- The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that the rebellion being over, South
ern people have the same rights as all others
under the patent laws.
1t is estimated that there were, during
the late war, one thousand and twelve
churches burned in the Southern States,
involving a loss of about s5,000,0O0.
The grasshopper pest has reached St.
Joseph, Missouri. So thick are they that
in some parts of the city the people have to
close their doors aud windows to keep them
out of their houses.
Jack Bannister, praising the hospitali-
ty of the Irish, after his return from one of
his trips to the sister island, was asked if be
had been in Cork. "No," replied the wit,
but saw great many "drawipgs" of it.
-"Did the minister put a stamp on you
when you were married, Mary" A
stamp, Charles What for pray7" "Wby,
matches amt legal without stamp, you
know"
"A lot of fine coaI-cured leaf tobacco,
made by j. j. Adcock, of Granville, North
Carolina, sold 10 Petersburg, Thursday, for
the extraordinary price of $500 per cwt.,
the highest price ever paid in Virginia.
"A Liverpool gentleman who has search.
ed the Scriptures diligently has discovered
in Ezekiel prophecy to the effect that
England is TO be invaded by the Emperor
Napoleon during the present year.
Gen. Grants pay is slS,67S per year,
and Lieut. Gen. Shermau's SIS, 3,5lS. Each
is allowed fifty horses. A Major-Geuersl
gets $500 per year, and is allowed five
horses The pay of Brgadier is $780,
so.
- A woman 10 years of age died in the
Portland alms house last week. She was
crossed in love in her youth and made
vow, which she religiously kept, never to
speak again From that time until death,
a period of 35 years, she has not uttered
an Ineligible word
- Hon. Jacob Thompson, of the Confed-
crate Cabinet, is in Dublin, Ireland. Since
the war he has visited Palestine, aud half
the regions of the earth. He writes let
ter to friend in Mississippi, in which he
tells him there is no country half 80 good
as the United States.
Considerable feelingis exhibited through
out Georgia just now on the subject of re-
pudiation. 1t is thought that an effort will
be made at the meeting of the Legislature,
in November, to relieve the people from
payment Of certain debts contracted during
and prior to the late war. The pleas urged
for reputation are the loss of slaves and
the failure of the crops. The amount of
property returned in the State for 1866 is
s200,000,0O0; in 1860, $500, ,322,777;
loss to State over s465, 100000.
- John Dabury, the keeper of restau-
rant in Richmond, was slave before the
war, but had bought his freedom, and when
the war broke out he owed balance of
5000 Some advised him not to pay, say.
ing, "you are free by the law" Johns
reply was, "No, my master acted like a
gentleman to me; he let me buy myself
and my wife cheap, I owe him the money
honestly, aud intend to pay it." And be
kept bis word, and few days ago discharged
the obligation ID full.
The New York Herald, of Tuesday,
has an article slightly "sarcastical" upon
the Rev Theodore Tilton, editor of the New
York Independent, who is now acting as
leading torch, bearer of the radicals. The
article, which is singulary epithetical, meu-
tious Tilton as the 'Rev. Twadding Til,
ton," the "Rev. Toddling Titon," the
"Rev Tattling Tilton," the "Rev. Twid
ding Tilton," the "Rev. Throtting Til
tou," the "Rcv Tro,ting Titon," the
"Rev Thinking Tilton," the "Rev. Tonso-
rial TiIton," the REV. Tumblng Tilton,"
and the,"Rev. Turr entine Tiltou"
There was large amount of marrying
done among the freedmen at Arlington
Heights, Va, last week, by order of Gen.
Howard All the negroes living together
as man and wife, to the number of 247 cou,
pies, we're legally married by chaplains de-.
tailed for that purpose The candidates
stood up in circles, twenty couples at time,
aud were married iu the lump There was
quite display of flowers and fnery upon
some of the dusky brides, "blacktut come
Iy," as Solomon saG but great many,
especially of the older folks objected, and
thought they we're already we'll enough mar
ried There was no escape, however; they
were under military rule and had to SUBJ
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