Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-19
Soaps aud fafts.

! Sftaps aud Jafts. :
the report that Miguel Lopez, the betrsyer
of Macmillan, has been killed, turns out to be an
William Richings, of Ohio, has had SIX
wives, and is one hundred and four. years Old
Marrying seems to agree with him.
-Cholera has been successfully treated in MIS-
sissippi, if we may believe correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Comnerciah by injecting sulphuric acid
int the veins.
The Columbus tGs.) rope factory is now
turning out fourteen hundred pounds per day OF an
excellent article of rope, which is now furnished at
"a low rates as the Northern article. .t
---T The United States Patent Office recently re.
fasedto grant patent to sprltuallst OF New
York, who applied for patent tor "an arrange
ment to make ghosts visible. o.,
s-T There is gentleman going through bank
ruptcy in Milwaukee, whose liabilities are 81 OOO,,
600 most of which are in judgments, while his as
sets are reported at $500 in personal clothing.
All the suits commenced against General
Sterling Price for military acts done during the
war, have been dismissed by consent, each side
paying It's own costs
The English Parliament House clock is Of
such magnitude that the time required to wind It
up is two hours The dials are twenty-five feet IN
diameter, and the hour bell weighs fifteen tons.
60 Excellence in anything is always the result
of work. Mere luck is myth. People who be.
Heye in the latter may be put on the long list Of
fools. It is hard work that does the business.
-----H Is related that Jerseyman gathering
mushrooms was told that they were poisonous.
tUTI ~ -, L. ~oplsoI ttT polnp IN eat
them myself II sell them at the hotel. "
As an illustration of how men will differ, the
New York correspondent OF the Louisville CoMrse'
says he saw Ben Wood and John Morrissey y diner
one night as to where 'nine" would tall, and
that the little difference cost John $30,000
a couple of Americans created much amuse,
ment in Paris, recently, by inqniring the way to
the Rastile. When informed of its destruction,
they said, with characteristic readiness, that they
supposed it had been rebuilt
"A widow lady in Ixonia, Jefferson county,
Wisconsin, hung herself the other day, because her
wheat crop turned out only twenty bushels to fne
acre. instead of twenty-five, as she predicted 1t
would. - e. - ''
---A A canard has been started by some loyal
senationalist in Washington, that the newly organ
lied militia in Maryland intend to prevent the
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communication with Washington.
The first newspaper tolerated in Virginia
was In $780, The subscription price was fifty dol.
hrs per annum for one. copy. Advertisements 3 Of
moderate length were inserted for ten dollars the
first week, and seven dollars for each week succeed,
ing
jay Cook made over twelve million dollars
profits out of Government securities during the
war. He pays no taxes on this amount, but draws
as interest in gold each year, eight hundred and
forty thousand dollars! Quite little contribution
from the taz payers of America.
The "stone feet sunk in Charleston harbor
during the war, does not appear to have done any
eighteen and half feet, has entered the port,
loaded with railway iron. The deepest laden YES
sci that had previously entered drew but seven
teen feet ..... -.,..
The President has received letter from
New York, signed by large number of eolored
persons, besides members of colored church, ask.
ing the appointment of Fred Douglas or either Of
several other negroes named, to succeed General
Howard, in case the latter shall be removed from
the Freedmen's Bureau.
- There Is man in St Paul who is smgularly
afflicted. One side of his face never sweats The
perspiration rolls off of the left side of his face in
drops while the right side is entirely free from
moisture. he attributes the phenomenon to dis
ease which he says has stopped up the pores of
face on that side.
A, Portland correspondent of the Boston
Ianscs1pt states that he was personally acquainted
with sxty-nine members of the last Legislature OF
Maine, and Of these, sixty-one kept spirituous L.
quors in their rooms during the session, and most
Of them favored prohibition. This has bad look
for the State that originated the prohibitory
scheme.
The Circulation of the New York daily pa,
pers is stated thus: Herald, 81 900; Times, 35,-
600; Tribune, $4,000; World, 10000 Of the
Herald, the editor in chief is John T. ID. Putnam
Of the Times, in the absence of MIR. Raymond, S.
s. Conant, who writes ''minor topics, Of the
Tribune, Dr.. George Ripley; of the World, D. G.
Croy.
The st. Louis Times has paragraph sta.
ting that two celebrated German doctors, of that
city were about to fight duel The reporter ad-
vised the beigerents that if they wished to settle
be to take each others medicine The Teutonic
Esculapians were so tickled at the reporters ad:
vice that they buried the hatchet at once and had
hearty laugh over bottle of wine.
- According to the Act of Incorporation of the
Town, the annual term of our Intendant and War
dens expired last Monday, and in compliance with
the order of Gen. Sickles, information of this fact
was previously communicated to him. In response
to this information, we understand that the same
members of Council are instructed to continue In
Office until further orders. - GreenuiUe Moan
tanner. .
At the present time Brazil furnishes large
proportion of the diamonds of commerce, the cele-
hratod mines of HolcOnda henp so nearly exhaus
ted as to rent for few dollars year. Other 10
calties in India are, however, rather more prolific
In the United States they have been obtained in
Rutherford county, North Carolina, and in Hal
county, Georgia, and very recently quite number
have been found in California, principally in RI
Dorado and Amador counties.
"A Buddhist praying machine is one of the
curiosities of the Paris Exposition 1t consists oi
little square box, with handle at the right side
When you wish to say prayer, a turn OF the han
die will do it as easily as if it were tune on bar
rel organ. The Buddhist machine has this advan
tage over Barbary organ that it is noiseless. IT.
inventors guarantee it to say hundred and twenty
prayers day, and it will never get out of order
The prayers are written on rollers in the box.
The Boston Post, referring to the wealth anG
power of Vanderbilt, says: 'His ships are in the
navy and on all the seas He draws check al
sight for million, and yet this man can have nc
higher amusement than whist Oh, incapacity o.
cash to cover trails of ten thousand continuous
miles with lines Of ships, and yet exclam: There
nothing richer than whist y To count four ace
nobler than a railway! To say: MY God! m!
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