Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-06-28
Sfraps au& gaets.

-darVesung Is progresslngln In Aiapana.
The wheat crop is an average; prospects for
corn are good. .-.s..-.. z
- Some sagacious scribe says the news
paper has become the log-book of the age;
it tells at what rate the world is running;
We cannot find our reckoning without it.
- The defence of man in Pennsylva-
mia, sued for $4,000 for breach of prom
iss, is that the young lady weighs 2sS
pounds, and it is coming warm weather.
49, The House Committee on Foreign
Relations will report resolutions mildly GEN.
suring the course of the Government on the
FsniaH movement. asa E- ..H go. -4
-+4--An Irish gentleman hearing of a
friend havinga stone coffin made for himself
exclaimed, 'sBy me soul, an that's good
ideel Shure, an stone coffin 'ud lasta man
his life time. o. 81.
--- At his own request, made before his
death; the remains of General Scott were
wrapped in large American flag made for
him in the spring of 1861 by a young lady
Of Washington.
There were formerly 700 churches
in Moscow, but the Emperor Nicholas con-
sidsredit too many for respectable com.
munity, and 800 we're, by his order, torn
DOWN. 2z-5E
A Bremen letter announces the de.
parture from that German port of 166 pas
sengers, all Of whom intend making Texas
their home. Other vessels will shortly fol-
low. ,5,EI -gg ,..
- Judge Hill, of the United States Dis.
triet Court, has recently decided at Oxford,
Mississippi, that the test oath for attorneys
scos Unconstitutional and ought not to be
exacted from any member of the Bar who
had been admitted to practice in the Court.
New counterfeit fifty-dollar green
backs have appeared at Nashville, Tenn.
The bills are excellently engraved, except
that the signature of Treasurer Spinner is
not as eosrse and heavy as in the original.
The paper on which they are printed is a
little thinner than the genuine.
s--- According to the new postal law, just
approved by the President, prepaid and
free letters are to be forwarded at the re,
quest Of the party addressed from one post.
Office to another, without additional postage
charge, and returned dead letters, returned
to the writers thereof, free Of postage.
"A squaw in Central Michigan had a
papoos on her arm, exceedingly white for a
member Of her race, which fact induced
gentleman to ask if it was not half breed,
whereupon she replied: "No, not drop Of
white blood about it-half Ingin an half
Missionary"
= - Several meteoric stones fell at Nash
Vile on the 18th, near the railroad depot.
They were of blush color, and were quite
hot when first discovered. Biologists say
that nothing similar has been found in any
other part of the world. One specimen has
been forwarded to Washington, and anoth-
sr to New York, for further examination.
- The records of the Fourth Auditors
Office show that during the war the naval
force of the United States captured over ff
teen hundred prizes, some of which were
worth as high as two hundred thousand dol
lars. Besides these, important captures of
corn, rice and cotton were made. It is sta
ted that the navy has netted over twenty
million dollars as its share in these prizes.
"a late Wisconsin paper tells of far
mer who, in the recent freshet, had eighty
rods of line fence, running east and west,
swung round by the water, carried it quar-
ter of mile from its original position, and
left it in an exact line north and south, and
on the identical spot where he proposed
buildinga fence, and all this without dis
placing rail from its original position. A
tough story! --.@s"~. ~.r~.I .....-
- It is rumored at St. Albans that
demand has been made on this Government
by the Canadian authorities for the extra
dition of Generals Sweeney, Speer, O'Neill,
and the other Fenian officers. Two thous-
and volunteers had returned to Montreal up
to Monday night. 1t is rumored there that
the Fenian prisoners vii be hanged. An i'm.
mense open air meeting in favor of repeal
ing the neutrality laws was held at Troy,
New York, on Monday evening.
We learn from our North Carolina
exchanges, that the Convention of that
State, on Saturday last, adopted an amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting the
Legislature from electing its own members
to Office. An amendment was also adopted
making it the duty Of the General Assembly
to provide by law for the exemption from
sale under execution or other process, for
debts contracted after the 1st of January,
1867, Homestead in land in favor of
every head of family who may be the
owner thereof, except for taxes.
The Griffin Star says: "We notice
one of the incest young men in town, busi-
ly engaged from early dawn till 'even shade,'
driviDga dray and electioneering for work.
If this boy will stick, he will make man
of himself. If we were young lady, we
would rather by far, take the chances of
life in company with this young dEayman,
than with one of the numerous exquisite
youths who parade the streets in fine clothes
furnished by impoverished and too indul.
gent fathers, seeking situations as clerks in
stores, where they can dawdle over counters,