Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-02
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- Two hundred British officers yet survive
the battle of Waterloo. ,rr 90, = =. -, -
-"All flesh is grass" sighed Spriggles,
after dinner the other day, and the wretch
Immediately added, 'sof all grasses, give
me plump grass widow" .,.....- ,s.a
"A physician who had tried in vain to
cure deaf patient, at last endeavored to
console him with the remark "that there
was nothing going on" H.. -...-z
General Robert E. Lee has been inVi.
ted to spend his summer vacation in Ken
tucky, but says, in declining, that his par.
ole will not allow him to leave Virginia.
- The Prussian soldiers daily ration con.
sists Of half a pound Of meat, sufficient
quantity Of vegetables and bread, coffee, a
little brandy and some cigars. K
- The Savannah Board of Aldermen has
adopted an ordinance prohibiting colored
persons from entering the public park, nm.
less nurses having white children With item.
Policemen at the gates will enforce the or.
der.
"A large crowd was attracted to Jones's
Wood N. j., on the 4th, to witness man
drive six trained geese, haruesSed to q wash
tub, across the river A paddle was used
to steer The tub and also to tap the head
when disposed to leap out of harness.
The Richmond Whtg has 'recently
heard from several sources that Northern
men have approached late holders Of slaves
With the offer of five dollars for each slave
lost by emancipation" and inquiries what it
means.
A pirstical craft arrived 10 Galveston
harbor on the Sd ultimo, wearing the black
flag and carrying six guns on each side
City officers rowed out to her in row boat
but we're fred upon and forced to retife.
The pirates then steamed away. A United
States gunboat followed some time, but
could not overtake her
"A lady once declared that she could not
understand how gentlemen could smoke.
alt absolutely shortens their lives" said
she. 81 don't know that" replied gen.
tlemau. ssThere's my father who smokes
every day, and he is now seventy years old. |"
"Well," was the reply, 'if be had never
smoked, he might have been eighty"
The Springfield Republican says Leuis
Napoleon, while casting about for the most
effective arm for bis army, come to the con
clusion that the Springfield riaed musket is
the most serviceable frearm made and an
agent of the French government lately
bought ofa Philadelphia machinist full sets
Of the machinery needed for the manufac.
ture of the Springfield rife for 100000
francs in gold, and shipped it to France.
The editor of the Griffin Star has been
travelling through several of the counties
adjoining spalding, and has discovered
that the crops are Aourisbing in exact pro-
portion to the distance of the plantations
from the Freedman's Bureau. Those ne.
groes living near the Offices of the Bureau
have to 60 to town 80 often to look after the
affairs of the nation that they don't have
time to keep the grass down.
The New York Commercial advertiser
states that cholera is raging in certain parts
of New York city. It also asserts that the
facts relative to the number of cases on
Hart's Island are deemed 80 appalling that
publicity is denied. Surgeon Calhoun Of
that post has died of the cholera, and a
number of physicians has been sent to Hart's
and Governors's Islands. Several additional
cases of cholera were reported in the city of
New York yesterday.
As an instance .5f the forethought dis.
played in the Prussian preparations for war,
it may be mentioned that not only had the
War Office in Berlin obtained the axact
measurement of the Saxon railway bridges,
but had actually had the timber required
for their reconstruction already prepared
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ons had destroyed them, three hundred car
penters were sent from Berlin with the nec.
essary materials, and had nothing to do
than to put them together.
"A novel wsy of making change was re-
Gently discovered at Hong Kong, in China.
An American having complained to native
Judge of tailor who cheated him, the Off
cial sentenced the cuiprit to fifty blows with
the bestinado-a sentence which was at
once executed-and charged the American
fifty cents costs. The judge not being able
to change the dollar given him by the A
merican, the latter told him to take it out
in the same manner. Accordingly the tail
or was again tied down and received fifty
more blows, thus making pain in his own
person the required change,
"A frightful accident recently happened
at foundry in Scotland. A heavy cast,
ing was being made, when some of the H.
quid escaped, and splashing on the hands
and arms of some of the workmen, caused
them to quit their hold of the ladle, which
Immediately capsized, and the whole of the
contents, some three tons, was thrown on the
workshop floor. All the men rushed for
their lives to the door, but it could not be
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