Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-19
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in currency.
- The freedmen of Charleston, S. c.,
are making an effort to build Presbyterian
Church In that city
What is the difference between per-
son traps6xed with amazement and leop-
ards tail The one is rooted to the spot,
and the other is spotted to the root.
"A fish was caught IN the Ohio river
near Cincinnati, last week, the stomach of
which, being opened, was found to contain
small morocco wallet, holdiDga two dollar
bill and valuable diamond ring.
- 1t is important to housekeerers and
others to know that lavender will prevent
mould on books, ink, leather, etc. A few
drops will save library, and single drop
will preserve pint of ink.
- The Rev. Leonard Bacon, of Con-
necticut, speaks of the President of the U.
States as an 'upstart tailor from the back
woods of North Carolina" Digui6ed for a
Doctor of Divinity!
Every surviving candidate of the
Whig, American and Republican parties
for President or Vice President, except
Hannibal Hamlin, are supporters of Presi-
dent johnson.
- The advertisement of a schoolmaster
in Vincennese paper informs the public
that at his establishment the pupils are
taught call the languages spoken in the
Austrian empire, viz: Bohemian, Polish,
Russian, Magyar, Croat, Servian, Schlave,
Rouman, Italian and German"--in all ten.
At a bigamy suit recently instituted
againt young woman, it turned out that
one of her husbands was named Little and
the other Long. A waggish young lawyer,
on hearing the case, said be could imagine
the woman addressing her brace of hus-
bands thus: Glove me Little, love me
Long"
MIR. johnson is understood to believe
that his impeachment will be attempted
and he has ordered Barracks for $4,000
troops to be erected at Washington. Per-
haps this indicates the reception he intends
to give his enemies; but, unless he can
have the Governors of New York and Penn
sylvania on his side, his friends will not
advise forcible resistance to the Radical
schemes.
AN Infdel Convention assembled in
Philadelphia on Monday, but for what pur-
pose they met it would be difficult to deier-
mine from the proceedings. The exciting
subject before the meeting was change of
the name from "In6del Convention" to the
"Utiitarian League of the United States"
"for the purpose of destroying religion and
superstition" A general debate occurred
on this question, in which each member
presented his own pet scheme.
- The constitutional amendment was
adopted in the Oregon Legislature by al
lowing two Republicans, whose seats were
contested, to vote. The contested elections
were afterwards decided against the Repub
licans, and they were ousted, and two Dem
ocrats took their seats. This gave the
Democrats the majority, and thereupon
resolutions were passed declaring the adop
tion of the constitutional amendment irreg.
ular and invalid.
"A freedman was recently caught near
Pomaria, Newberry District, while in the
act of stealing clothing, etc, from the house
of another freedman. The party to whom
the property belonged, assisted by some of
his friends of the same complexion, tied up
the thief, and Immediately administered to
him a severe dose of the coil of hickory"
externally applied with great vigor, not
withstanding the recent proclamation of the
military authorities interdicting "corporea!
punishment"
- The Philadelphia Evening Herald
says, that on the I'd inst, the managers of
the Soldiers Home, on Sixteenth and Fill
bert streets, called up about twenty of the
inmates of the Home, who were helplessly |
crippled, or suffering from wounds received
in the service, and asked them for their
political views. They answered that they
were Democrats, whereupon, disabled, des-
titute and homeless as they were, they acere
turned into the street. The editor of the
Herald says that they could be seen at
Penn Square, living witnesses of radical
sympathy for the soldiers.
- The grading of the Charleston city
railway was commenced on Monday last |
The route will be from the Exchange, Cor
old post ofice,) its downtown terminus,
and pass up Broad to Meeting, up Meeting
to Calhoun, up Calhoun to King and through
King to Shepherd street, its uptown termi-
nus. There will be double track along
this entire distance. Besides the main
route, there will be branch road, diverg
ing from the double track at the corner of
Meeting and Wentworth streets, and pro-
ceedipg through Wentworth and Rutledge
streets to Rut!edge avenue and thence to
the corner of Spring street.
THE Louisville Journal says: awe
tell the Northern fanatics - as lover of
our whole country we tell them, that, un-
less madness has seized upon their hearts
and brains, they will not insist upon push
ing the dissensions between the President
and Congress to the fighting point. They
may rest assured, that, if the fight comes, it
will be, to them, such one as they have no
account of in either history or tradition
They will find it an in6oitely different thing
from the war of the rebellion, dreadful as
that WAS thrnuehont all its annals They