Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-31
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would not give over two per cent for his life. y
The largest OK in America has just died il
Manchester, N. 81. He was seven years old, ant
weighed 1000 pounds-two tons and halt
Mrs Ella .Merrick Thomas, of Amherst
Mass .sis the youngest mother in America, being
only thirteen years OF age. s>-a-ass- ...---
BY official returns at the Bureau of Stats
tics SOC, ,025 acres were planted in cotton thu
year, yielding about I,56S 357 bales Of 450 pounds
each. 7s
"A correspondent informs the editor Of the
Charlotte Democrat that kerosene oil is an intail
bic remedy for hog cholera. Rub the hog with it.
especially about the jaws. -
The Treasury holds s37S, 1895, ,O70 as security
for National Bank circulation and public deposits.
The total circulation of these Banks is $685. lO7,'
600. - -
"A Radical paper makes the statement that
ssnepro suffrage is stronger in Ohio to-day than
ever to which the Hartford Times responds
eyes; it smells rank to heaven.
European meteorologists are predicting an
early and hard winter this year, for the reason
that the birds of passage have begun their migra-
ton Southwark at least a month carrier tnan uso'
The Treasury Department will disburse on
millions of dollars in gold, as interest on vetwenty
bonds. This Is the largest amount OF specie that
has ever been paid for any half year interest.
Arrangements are now being made to hold,
In the city of Philadelphia, commencing on the
first Wednesday of November, National Conven-
ton, composed of delegates from the different
branches of the Presbyterian Church In the Uni
ted States '....
49, The New York Commercial Adrertsser says
stthe result did not turn half so much on the ques-
ton whether colored men should vote in Ohio, as
whether we should, by military law, convert the
Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mlsslsslp-
pi, ETC., into St Domingos. " .....-
An aged Democrat Of Concord, N: d, who
died recently, gave strict orders before his death
that none but Democrats should of6clate as pail
bearers at his funeral, and that no minister who
meddled with politics should conduct religious SER
vices over his remains His wishes were strictly
carried out. '.c. 81, -.
The ENGLISH harvest is reported by the agri-
cultural editor of the London Times to have pro-
duced a wheat crop under the average, barley
crop ten per cent over the average, oats fifteen
per cent over, beans an average crop, and OF
peas below the average
-- letter from Syria gives terrible accounts OF
the condition of the Cretans. With the exception
of few cantons and villages it is doubtful wheth-
er there is village standing in the island, or at
least in condition to offer shelter to its people
during the coming winter.
49, In railroad of five hundred miles in length,
the expansion of the rails caused by the heat OF
summer amounts to nearly quarter OF mile
from the point of contraction in winter This ex-
pansiGa is all taken up by the joints between the
rails.
A young Englshman, of wealth and culture,
recently fell in lovewith a young squaw IN Omaha,
Kansas and married her. The next day, she got
drunk, and turned somersaults in the street. The
young EngGshman of wealth and culture, at last
accounts, was seeking for divorce, on the ground
of incompatbiity Of tastes. ... ..
"A new electric light has been tested on the
Battery at New York, which proved to be OF I'M
mense power. A captain said the following morn
ing, that he had read his newspaper by it at dis
tance of six miles. The apparatus is not expen-
sye, the expense being two cents per hour, exclu-
siye of the cost of the power required to drive the
generative machine.
The Northern papers generally copy and ia
yorably speak of the recent letter OF Gov. Orr to
the President, asking him to revoke the jury order
of Gen. Candy. It has produced a telling effect
upon the masses A few more such mastery doc
uments would cause the scales to fall from the eyes
of the Northern people, and exhibit our pitiable
condition as we ourselves see It,
Judge McCandless, of the United States
District Court of Pennsylvania, has decided that IN
bankruptcy cases the Federal courts have not the
power to restrain by injunction any action OF State
courts in such cases The Judge intimates that
the power should be bestowed at the next session
of Congress, in order to make the general bankrupt
law effective.
The Washington Lincoln Monument Asso-
ciation has closed contract for monument, to be
built of white marble and to have height Of thir-
ty-sx feet including statue of Lincoln eight feet
high, of italian marble Over $1,000 has been
collected for this purpose, almost entirely in Wash
ington. The monument will be placed in front Of
the City Hall. At what time, however, Is at pre-
sent unknown.
The Philadelphia Press says the President
has returned General Sickles' application for a
court of inquiry to the War Department, with his
disapproval and his reasons therefor, the principal
of which is that General Sickles has already ap,
pealed for redress to the bar of public opinion,
and if he was to order court Of inquiry, it would
simply be giving him another hearing. If not sat
isfed with the verdict of the public, the President
intimates he may demand court martial.
The Charleston Neus says: 'sWe gave,
some months ago, an account of the monument to
be erected over the United States soldiers buried
in Magnolia The project has not been abandon
ed for we see by our exchanges that fifteen hun
dred dollars were raised at Beecher's Church on
Sunday to defray the expenses of o soldiers mon
ument in Charleston. Three hundred and ten
bodies of Union soldiers are placed in Magnolia
Cemetery"
The distress and destitution among the ne
groes on Edisto Island is so great that they are
leaving the island and crossing to the main land by
hundreds, in search of employment. We learn
that large rice planter, few days ago, employed
thirty abled bodied men at thirty cents per day,
and they find themselves and received one hun
dred additional applications from other able bodied
negroes willing to work on the same terms, but
whom he was unable to employ Charleston Mer.
cuzy.
Gen. Sherman, according to Washington
telegram in the New York Herald, is entirely op
posed to the revolutionary ultras, and in favor o
the constitutional principles upheld by the Presi
dent He was free to express these opinions 8
few days ago when in Washington, and all state
ments to the contrary are pure inventions of the
enemy. Every man in the North knows, too, thai
besides being Conservative, Sherman is far supe
rior to Grant both as a civilian and as soldier.
In opening q course of medical lectures a
New York, Professor Loomis, Of Yale College, re
Gently paid just tribute to medical science; b.
stating that the improvements in medicine hay
increased longevity II per cent in Paris, in slxt
years; that one hundred years ago the death rat
was one in twenty and is now one in forty, ant
that there is greater difference in the averag
longevity between the eighteenth and nineteenth