Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-24
Wagside Gatherings.

| MIA IS el4,OuU IN SOlo.
"A new vehicle in Paris is christened
the "Egotist," because its holds only one.
"A writer in the N. Y. Post says three
millions of tons of rain fell on New York
Island during the month of April.
Admiral Raphael Semmes was elected
Judge of the Mobile Probate Court without
opposition, few days since.
Judge Abel, of the First District
Court of New Orleans, has decided the
Civil Rights Act to be unconstitutional and
not binding.
"A negro was fined fifty dollars the 9TH
er day, in Montgomery, Alabama, for break
ing his contract with his employer, and sent
to Jail in default of payment.
There is man in Cincinnati taxed on
an income of $50, 900, who eleven years ago,
exhibited monkey in the streets for llV'
ing.
- More than thousand steam voyages
across the Atlantic will be made during the
present year by the vessels of different lines
This is more than in any previous year.
"A man has been sentenced ih Scotland
to ten days Imprisonment for trying to gain
admittance to Masonic lodge, not being a
member of the Order.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Neaos says that the State De-
partment has received information that the
Mexican Empire has been recognized by
Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, St. Sal
vador, and Costa Rica.
When Mr.. Eldridge, Democrat, of
Wisconsin, respectable member of the U.
States House of Representatives, rose to a
point of order the other day at Washington,
he aoas greeted By a storm Of hisses from the
negroes IN the gallery.
There are only two States in the Union
where tue negro is allowed to vote without
property qualification They are Vermont
and New Hampshire, the former of which
has eighty negro voters and the latter one
hundred and ninety.
"A Major Knox, Of the Freedmen's Blu.
reau, at Meridian, looked up citizen the
other day for some offence. When he was
locked up all his valuables we're taken from
him, including his watch. When he was
released the wrong watch was returned him.
"A School of Cookery has been iu success.
full operation in London, for five years, un-
der the management of a lady Dinners
are served daily, free, to visitors, 80 that
any one can test the productions of the
school.
An ungalant old physician having been
called to attend lady who had stuck thorn
in her foot, and was frightened at what
SIZE supposed to be symptoms of lockjaw,
put quietus upon her CALCULATIONS, if not
upon her fears, by roughly exclaiming,
"Madam, have never seen aoomsan die
with the iockyaac"
"A large cotton factory, called the "Ma-
nassss" mauufactory, has been built at Car
rolltou, Miss. 1t contains one hundred and
eighty thousand spiudles, thirteen hundred
looms, and will 60 into operation July lst.
The company owns seventeen hundred
acres of land contiguous to the factory, all
well wooded.
- Thad. Stevens and Wendell Phillips
have declared their preference for General
Grant for the next Presidency. They only
want to make use, for the present, of the
popularity Of the General with the people.
After they have squeezed that dry, they
will drop him for somebody else But the
people may take him up. When they do,
he will be elected.
killing comes natural in ireland, for
half the places begiD with kill. There is
Killboy (for all Irishmen are called boys j
and what is still more ungallant, there is
Killbride; Killbaron, after the landlords !;
Killbarrack, after the English soldiers /;
Killcrew, for the navy; Killbritaip, for the
English proprietors; Killcool, for deliber-
ate murder; Killmore, if that's not enough !;
and last, though not least, Kirkpatrick.
- Looking cursorily over the returns, it
appears that the fifteen slaveholding States
in 1860 contained 5000 inhabitants,
Of whom s,O39, 600 were whites, PSI 900 free
colored persons, and $3.50, 900 we're slaves
The actual gain of the whole population in
the States from 1850 to 1860, was 2,627,,
600, equal to 27.33 per cent. The white
population of the free States for the same
period, numbered 1S,936,579, and 237,,
2lS colored -MiAedgeuiNe Recorder
Secretary Mccullough, few days since
had an interview with ex. President Jeffer-
son Davis, a, Fortress Monroe. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Ne,cs, says: s.It is understood that the in,
terview between Secretary McCulloch and
Jefferson Davis had reference to the early
release of the latter on parole, which will
take place very soon. The statement that
be is to be tried for treason cannot be traced
to any authentic source"
A curious apparatus for propelling bal
looms through the air has been devised by
Mr. Butler, one of the members of the