Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-17

constantly subject to the grossest outrages.
The Montgomery papers state that no diti,
Guilty is experienced by planters In contracting t0l
labor for the next year, the negroes evincing will
ingness to enter into equitable agreements.
-Parson Brownlow and Brigham Young each
received one vote for chaplain of the Idaho Legis-
lature on the 5th of December last The votes were
complimentary.
One factory in Augusta, Ga, has turned out
during the year 6,4lO, 900 yards of CLOTH and paid
dividend or clear profit Of $6ll 900 to the stock
holders
"A successor to Vice President Foster having
been selected by the Legislature Of Connecticut,
the Senate will probably, at an early day, proceed
to the election of President pro ten1, when 1t Is
thought the choice will fall upon Mr. Wade.
The Peoples National Bank. Of Charleston,
declared dividend on the 7th instant. This divi-
dend is at the rate of eight per cent. per annum,
being the third one for the last year, making IN all
twenty four per cent.
On the Calico Islands in Lake Ontario there
is population Of eighty persons, who haveno doc
tor, lawyer, minister magistrate, pauper or drunk
ard, nor any hotel, grogshop, church or jail But
good school-hsuse is well sustained.
"A paper asks very innocendy if it is any
harm to sit in the lapse of ages. Another replies
that it all depends on the kind of ages selected
Those from eighteen to twenty-five, 1t puts down
as extra hazardous.
AN Eastern caGph, being sorely afflicted with
ennui, was advised that an exchange of shirts with
man who was perfectly happy would cure him.
After long search he discovered such man, but
was informed that the happy fellow had no shirt
We commend to those strong minded fe-
males who, with Miss before their names, per-
sist in talking of babies, Miss Lesie's famous re
&c.-Ioledo Blade
CHARLES V. Chamberlain, Esq, an old and
honored citizen of Charleston, and for many years
senior partner of the well known house of Cham
berain, Miller & Co., died in Brooklyn, New York,
recently.
"A certain writer says: mo fragment Of an
army ever survived so many battles as the Bible;
no citadel ever withstood so many seiges no work
was ever battered by so many hurricanes and swept
by storms And yet it stands.
George Gamble, citizen of Williamsburg
District, was found by the roadside, on the Sd in
slant, frozen to death. He got intoxicated, and,
on his way home, in the night, fell from buggy,
and could not proceed any farther; hence his un-
fortunate end
The Sultan of Turkey is building hot-house
at an expense of 100000. He already has a
house which cost more than that, and which, as it
contains fifty or sixty women or more, we would
have supposed to be hot enough for all practical
purposes.
Every particle of rust on iron may be re-
moved by first softeniRg it with petroleum and then
rubbing it well with coarse sand-paper. To paint
iron, take lamp black sufficient for two coats, and
mix with equal quantities Of Japan varnish and
boiled inseed oil.
"A Jew named Simon Barry, keeper Of Sc
gars, was tried and acquitted in the Supreme Court
of Boston on the 3rd inst. on the charge Of viola
ting the Sunday law by keeping his shop open
The court held that he was not amenable for doing
business on the Christian Sabbath when he had al
ready kept the Jewish Sabbath.
The European Governments are still arming
France expects to have 100000 needle guns ready
by May next, and Russia has ordered 100 cast
steel cannon from the celebrated works of the
Messrs Krupp, at Essen. They are to be paid
$l4, 900 for each. Bavaria, too, is arming having
ordered 96 rifed cannon from Bohemian foun-
dry.
"A Republican editor says: 'Thad. Stevens
ought to be toasted by the whole American people
for his fidelity to Republican principles. Yes,
that is true, he ought to be toasted on fork over
hot fire. But better leave the business to Satan,
rather than impose such task upon the whole
American people.
1t is singular coincidence that Maior-Gen-
eral Grant, Scotch officer in the British army, in
ITS, defeated General Lee, in command Of the
American forces in New Jersey, and was afterward
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, and
subsequently to that of General in the British ar
my. He died Every ole" at his seat at Ballandal-
lock- near Elgin, Scotland, in 1906.
In the latest edition of Carpenter Phys
;o1oo,D &c ,oan+;opad fbot of tbrao b,,ndroJ
and fifty-nine idiots in England, the condition of
whose progenitors are mentioned, ninety were
children of absolute drunkards, and large proper
ton of the parents of the remainder were more or
Iessintemperate Ofthe three hundred and fifty nine
idiots seventeen were the children of parents nearly
related in blood.
SENATOR Summers notorious proposition to
blot ten States out OF political existence i'll case
their people do not consent to vote the Radical tick
et incGnes the Detroit Free Press to believe that
the Senator's great idea is to destroy the Union in
order to build it up. His ogieis that Of the qusek
doctor, who sought to throw his patient into fits,
'because, said he, 81 am death on fits.
"A few days since, a mulatto woman and her
babe were shipped from Troy, Ohio, by an express
company, as ordinary freight. She was taken to
the Office of the company, her weight averaged, a
bill of ladng made out and the usual label for pack
ages tied around her neck with string. When
the train started she was placed in charge of the
messenger, and arrived at her place Of destination
in safety,
BY the disobedience of lad in 1909, gar
den gate in Rhode Island was left open, a pig got
in and destroyed few plants, quarrel between
the owners of the pig and the garden grew out of
it, which spread among their friends, defeated the
Federal candidate for the Legislature and gave the
State Democratic Senator, by whose vote the war
of 1872 with Great Britain was declared.
The cotton estimates are now complete, show
ing total product of l,750, 900 bales, Of 400 lbs
each. AS the actual bales are now nearly 500
pounds each, this is equivalent to l,5OO 900 such
bales. The estimates are made up as follows
North Carolina, $1,000 bales; South Carolina
10000; Georgia, 205 900; Florida, $4,000; Ala
bama, 10000; Mississippi, 10000; Louisiana
lO9, 900; Texas, 100000; Arkansas, $4,000 ;
Tennessee, $4,000; other States, $1,000.
The Wytheville (Va.) Dispatch, relates the
following: IA couple came in town last Wednes;
day, rode up to Parson Sullin's, house, and said
they desired to be Joined in the holy state OF wed
lock- The parson kindly invited them to dismount
and come in, but they declined, saying time was
precious, and urged the parsoE to p1sh on lmme-
dately with the ceremony, which he did, In the