Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-23
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"A man died in Detroit lately whose liv.


The business men of Houston, Texas,
have resumed specie payments All trans
actions are based on specie estimates.
Demas, Barnes, the proprietor of the
quack medicine known as Plantation Bit
ters, returns an income Of $52,164 He
advertises g.. s~..E ..r p
of all European nations France shows
the slowest rate of increase in population.
The $4,000, 900 of 1901 had only increased
by 9 ,000, 900 in 1861.
A Tennessee paper says: "From pres.
ent prospects, their never has been, within
the memory of the oldest inhsbitant, such
corn crops in this section as will be gather
ed this fall"
The New York World states that q
combination of capitalists in New York have
bought S6,000,000 in gold, and intended
to buy more, in order to run up the price
when there is favorable opportunity.
General Grant is reported to have said
that Butler stole enough silver ware, while
in New Orleans, to enclose bis new residence
with a silver railing. This remark could
have hardly been provoked by jealousy.
The Evansville Journal says General
Grant "whipped Lee" When? We reool-
lect that he once smothered him to death
with quarter of million of Irish and
Dutch; but We never heard of Gen. Lee
being whipped by anybody .-'
Among the recent s'inventions" in
France which have been brought to light
by the recent discussion on the needle gun,
is one which fires twenty balls minute,
and has musical box in the butt, thus do.
ing away with the necessity Of regimentsl
bands.
BrowDlow has done one thing that new
or was done BY mortal man before. We
frankly give him the credit of the miracle.
He has united the New York press. all
these journals agree therein that be is-what
the Times and the rest join in calling him
-ssthe foulest mouthed man of the oentu-
ry."
The New York Herald warns the revo.
lutionists that stshould the President be
impeaohed by Congress, and removed from
his Office upon partisan grounds, to be sue.
oeeded by Charles Sumner or Ben Wade
as President pro tempore, until a popular
election be held, the country will not quiet.
ly submit to such an outrage"
The Lyuchburg Nevs tells Of new ma.
chine for saving wood and pumping water
on railroads. 1t does away entirely with
the necessity of water tanks, the water for
boilers being pumped directly from the
wells by the steam from the (traveling) en-
CINE by means of gutta percha piping, thus
avoiding the delays and difficulties that Of
ten arise from the freezing of the water in
the tanks.
The Petersburg Erpress says: 1t is re-
ported that the freedmen of Amelia CO.,
Va, held meeting in that county day
or two since and resolved to work no more
for the whites; also that they would couute-
nance no negro who did. We do not know
the cause of this action. Ifthe intelligence
is true, we witness but another widening of
the breach between the two races What
if the whites refuse TO rent their lands to
the freedmeu-they will be compelled to
emigrate or starve.
AS there are at present great many
counterfeit and altered national bank notes
now in circulation throughout. the country,
we publish the following list of designs on
the back of the genuine notes $1,000 notes,
Washington resigning his com mission $500
notes, Surrender of General Burgoyne;
800 notes, Declaration of Independence;
$50 notes, Baptism of Pocahontas; $40
notes. De Soto discovering the Mississippi;
SIS notes, Landing of Columbus in 1892;
$2 notes, Sir Walter Raleigh; 81 notes,
Landing of the Pilgrims. All national bank
notes, the backs of which do not correspond
with the above, are bogus
A curious case of love and persecution
has come to light in New York A man
named Romero fell in love with his sons
intended wife, and in order to marry her,
sent Romero, jr., to Cuba. The latter was
soon after reported to be dead and the wed
ding took place. Subsequently the young
man returned home, when his father caused
him to be arrested and put into the lunatic
asylum. The wife has discovered the facts
in the case, and secured the release of her
first, and perhaps only love, and al interes-
ting and spicy lawsuit is now said to be very
probable, growing cut of this exceedingly
romantic affair.
That portion of the musical fraternity
in the United States which uses the piano,
will no doubt be astonished to learn that
there are in this country but 2776 of these
Instruments. That is, the honest and up.
right tax payers of the country only return.
ed that many for tax to the Internal Reve-
ue Collector in 1865. We are more puz
zled by this return, because We saw an an
nouncement the other day that one of the
many piano manufacturers in America had
just completed bis 36,0O0th instrument;
and either the destruction of pianos in the
United States must be enormous, or else
our export trade in that article must have
become a princip pal branch of American
commerce.
- The Portland Press says that one of