Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-12-12
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The Western States increase rapidly in pop
ulation The census report of Iowa, just compile
ted gives the population of the State at 9O2 040-
a gain of 147, ,04l in two years.
A Puritan Priest asked Primitive Baptist:
sHow does it happen that you have no doctors OF
divinity in your connecticut" The reply was
Because our divinity is never sick"
-Clergymen, in England, are not required to
pay toll on the turnpikes One is now going through
the Courts to prove his right to take his wife with
him.
a boy at school, in reply to the inquiry why
ship is called SHE, astonished his teacher by say.
ing, because the riggings costm than the hull
knowledge is great
Honduras is said to be in the market for q
loan of novel character Ithas been SO sicky there
lately that the young people have died of, and
they want to borrow three thousand infants.
in Mississippi planter announces his inten-
ton of trying the experiment of working an I'M
mense farm, of thousand acres or more, by means
of European labor.
A lady advertisesfor sale, one baboon, three
-4slS,r sAks,-a.aa farrot-Sha states that. helng
married, she has no further use tor them, because
their amiable qualities are all combined In her hus
band.
The Temperance movement, it Is announced,
has, during the past twenty-five years. enrolled
l,50O, 900 members, and its societies now have
100000 active members in North America.
The latest news from Abyssinia shows that
Emperor Theodore is still very bloody One OF his
latest amusements was to put 1900 peasants to-
pether in five large houses, and burn them alive.
Hearing that 1000 of his troops wished to desert,
he had their throats cut like cattle.
a ,dilapidated old darkey in Montgomery,
while watching the monkeysin menagerie in that
city on Friday, spoke thusy.: Dem chiden, got
too much sense to come outen dat cagei white
folks cut dar tails off and set 'em to votln' and
maxim considerations
The amount of gold coined at Philadelphia
during the past fiscal year was $40 ,O72 o60 Sc at
San Francisco $1S, ,225, 900; Of silver, ut Phladel-
phia $257, AGO. 3S; at San Francisco $3.50, ,O4S 81;
of bronze and nickel and copper, ut Philadelphia,
$1,S79,45O Total number ofpieces struck "a, llO,-
ss4.
There is convict in the Philadelphia Jail
who has been under sentence OF death sixteen years.
and has been reprieved each successive year
There are several cases somewhat similar IN Name
where murderers have been confined for nearly or
quite twenty years, and whom any governor may
hang lat pleasure"
Hon. B. B. French, Commissioner Of Pub
lie Buildings, in Washington has written, for pub
iicstion. a letter denying the stories of President
Johnson's drinking habits. Mr. French says he
has seen the President officially almost daily, and
he is satisfied he lis as temperate man In all his
habits as any in the United States. y
What a beautiful example for all of us is
the resolution of the old lady, who from Grabbed
and anxious body became quite. the opposite.
When asked what had induced the change, she
replied: ''To tell you the truth, l have been all
nv life striving for a contented mind, and have
finally concluded to sit down contented without 1t.
The cleanest village in the world is Brock,
in Holland, which no horse or carriage has ever
been permitted to enter, and where everything Is
kept with the most scrupulous neatness Before
entering many of the houses you are required to
remove your shoes. 1t is said that even the En-
peror of Russia was compelled to comply with this
custom.
We learn that under orders of General How
ard Gilbert Pillsbury, white and T. Z. Detarge,
tColored, of Charleston; S. A Swails, lwhite,) }
of Kingstree; j: j: Wright, (co!ored, OF Beau
fort, have been discharged from further service In
the Freedmen's Bureau, on account Of having
been elected to the Convention.
-Leonidas Moses, mail carrier in Arkansas,
was assassinated recently, by some unknown per-
son, while riding along a lonely road. His body
was not found until eight days after the murder,
and all this time his mule stood guard over the
corpse. The faithful animal had to 60 mile and
q half for water, but invariably returned and re-
sumed its singular vigil.
Should South Carolina refuse to hold Con-
yeHtion, she will not be alone in her decision: We
see by our exchanges that in Arkansas and MissiS-
sippi like result is more than probable. In Ar
kansas, the returns indicate that not more than
onefourth of the registered votes have been poed,
whilst in Mississippi the number is somewhat lar
ger.
In the Louisiana Convention member has
introduced resolution to fix the compensation OF
the members and employees, which provides that
compensations shall begin from the date of the
election or appointment. In discussing this reso-
luton a negro member said, they had been slaves
long enough h, and now wanted to enjoy some OF the
luxuries of freedom. He wanted all the money
that could be got.
Since Jamaica was given up to negro rule,
its march has been rapid from bad to worse until
India group lies but wreck in negro hands All
this has taken place in thirty-four years, notwth-
standing the efforts of the English Government to
prevent it. And how of Liberia? Large sums Of
money, Christian and missionary effort unlimited,
have all been used to little advantage Liberia is
but a mammoth negro poor house.
The Army Register for 1867 has just been is
sued 1t contains 1906 names, being all officers
now in commission in the regular army, Of which
go are in the Quartermaster' Department, 90 in
the Subsistence Department, l72 in the Medical
Department, Ga in the Pay Department, "a in the
Ordnance Corps, 90 post chaplains, l07 in the
corps of engineers; the remaining number being
made up of general officers, field and staff and Off
GERS of regiments.
Lieutenant Warren, an officer of the Royal
Engineers has, for long time past, been engaged
at the expense of an English society, in making
extensive explorations on the site of the Temple
of Solomon, in Jerusalem, and has already made
some startling discoveries He has, it is stated,
established by actual demonstration that the South
wall of the sacred enclosure which contained the
temple is buried for more than half its depth be-
meath an accumulation of rubbish probably the
ruins of the successive buildings which once crown
ed it-and that if barred to it's foundation, the wall
would present an unbroken face of solid masonry
of nearly 200 feet long, and for large portion Of
that distance more than $50 feet in height
"A most intelligent and observant gentleman
who recently traversed nearly all of the Western
States with his eyes wide open and his perceptive
faculties in full play, assures the Richmond hqu-
rer that nothing surprised him half so much in
that great and wonderful region as the intense and
remorseless hatred of the negro, which the late at
tempts of the Radicals to make him our civil and
political equal have developed among all classes OF
white men, He visited the States in question,
impressed with the belief that he was about to en-
ter the stronghold of the advocates of negro supre
macy, and he has returned with the conviction that
Of M distant dov the nepro will he sNyent from the