Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-09-06
Sttaps ana fatts,

rights, and the other writes articles to set.
- A man in Albany is troubled with
strange mania. He thinks he is cancer.
Very recently, he nearly ate the side Of q
poor fellows face of, and was then locked.
up.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
gives notice that he is now prepared to
distribute to agrioulturists specimens Of su.
perior Mediterranean white wheat, which
will be put up in quart packages, and de.
livered free upon receipt of application.
An old man was arrested ct Mem
phis recently, charged with being a vagrant.
On searching him 81, 900 in gold was found
on his person, and gold frame locket con-
tanning picture of J. Wilkes Booth, set
with diamonds, and valued at $4,000.
The famous province of Venetis,
lately ceded by Austria to France, is very
we'll known to the world, but the space
which it occupies on the map of Europe is
not so we'll known. ,Venetia contains g.
s70,5O0 acres of ground, and 2,493,s6s
The cholera statistics of New York
show gradual decline in the disease
The greatest number Of deaths in one week
took place in that ending on the llth ult.,
when $50 were recorded from this cause.
During the week previous to that date, the
number was 239. During las. week, 145.
The editor of the Rome (Ga.) Conn.,
nsercial has letter from Cassville, which
states that nearly every person in Cassville,
in that State, is sick. Thirty three cases of
fever are in town. The writer thinks if
they do not all die with sickness, they will
ssarve to death, as the crops around that
place are literally burned up.
- A disgusted "reb" in the Valley, Of
Virginia, has had Commission sent him as
Captain of q militia company, recently form
ed in his county. He returned it with the
following endorsement: "Head Quarters
in the Field, August 2. Respectfully re-
turned disapproved: D-n Governor Pier.
pont, and his Virginia militia"
The Paris Morning. Post says, that
the Empress Of Mexico so far succeeded in
her mission as to induce Napoleon to extend
the time of payment of monies due France.
He refused to loan Maximilian ten millions
of francs for equipment of troops in Mexi-
co, but consented to furnish material from
French Arsenals. Napoleon also agreed
not to withdraw the French troops before
January. ..... ..... ..........
Major Gee, whose long trial before
= military commission in Raleigh, N. G.,
recently ended in bis scquittal, has return
cd to his home in Quincy, Fla, and has re-
sumed the practice of mediciue-his old
profession. His trial cost the Government
nearly quarter Of "a million of dollars. He
formerly commanded the Rebel prison at
Salisbury, N. G.
The trade in powder and arms in
this country is now entirely free. The
Secretary of the Treasury has forwarded in
structions to the Collector of New York, and,
it is understood, likewise to customs and
revenue officers elsewhere, that permits
that have hitherto been necessary for ship
ments of guns, powder, percussion caps,
etc., to che Southern States, are no longer
required.
- Somebody In letter to the Treasury
Department, burlesques the small sums
which have been sent in as conscience mon
ey, when so many hundreds of millions have
been stolen. He sends Ga dilapidated ten
cent note" that he is not justly entitled to.
He says the Secretary "will oblige him very
much by investing it in the great National
Soldiers Gift Concert, and draw a brick
house, (if he can, and give it to the Fen
isns."
a man newly married, being about
to leave home, said to his wife; "Now,
Julia, you may doanYthing You please while
am away, except ride Jowler, the house
dog" "Ride Jowler what do you mean?"
"Never mind, only I warn you not to ride
JoWlsr." When the husband came home,
Julia had black eye, and an arm in sling
"Why, Julia, what's the matter ?" "Well,
you told me not to ride Jowler, and I
thought it must be very nice or you would
not have told me not to do it, so got on
his back and he threw me down stairs"
- The New York Times, of late date,
very wisely says that the best thing that
could happen to the negro race, now that
they are possessed of their freedom and all
their civil rights, would be, 50 far as nation.
al politics are concerned, to cease altogeth.
er being an exciting element, and, so far
as they themselves are concerned, to assidu.
ously give their attention to education, the
acquisition of property, and moral and 80.
cial improvement. In these directions they
will find abundant and profitable ground Of
activity for some time to come.
"A correspondent of the New York
Record says that brother of Governor An.
drew, of Massachusetts,, who is running a
cotton plantation in Louisiana, was very
seriously beaten by ''man and brother"
in the shape of freedman, for interfering
with the amusement of the latter in whip.
ping bis wife. Andrew retreated, terribly
demorslized sbou: the face and eyes, and
disgusted with Southern plantations and all.
He told some of the members that he had
expended thirty thousand dollars in startin
the cotton.plautiDg adventure, but would
give it mp. He said that be had "fought
four years to make the nigger free, and now