Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
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contribution plates are carried round by young Ia
dies, to the great benefit Of the treasury.
"A resolution has been introduced into the
tofore granted by the President null and void.
Artists have adopted different emblems of
charity. We wonder none Of them ever thought
any other substance.
"A man was asked what induced him to make
a law student of his son. "Oh, he was always a
lying little cuss, and thought would humor DIS
leading propensity.
Some sensible chap says truly, that person
who tries to raise himself by scandallzlng others,
might Just as well sit down on wheelbarrow, and
undertake to wheel himself.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work
is healthy; you cannot put more on man than ne
can bear: 1t is not the revolution that destroys
the machinery, but the friction.
"A New Orleans paper suggests, as part T OF
the plan of reconstruction "a Department for the
Elevation of the African Intellect to the Caucasian
Standard"
-Ourexchanges throughth Middle and West
ern States give very favorable reports OF the wheat
crop. The prospect at this season OF the year was
never better
The members of Congress in Washington
have been holding TEMPERANCE Meeting, lem
perance is characteristic OF the present congress
it is as temperate as WhlriWlnd
"A white man Of the age of fifty was married
to q negro woman of Courtlandt, Ala, few days
ago. he was ducked in pond and sent OF by
railroad by some person or persons unknown.
"A Montgomery correspondent has had a
long talk with the spirits Of Lincoln and Booth,
through medium practicingin in the capital OF Ala
bama. He ascertained that the ex-Presldent ana
the ex-actor are on the best terms.
"A man died recently in Shrewsbury, Mass,
who had become so advanced in his second child
hood, that, for some time he had persisted In car
wing to bed with him each night rag doll which
belonged to one of his grandchildren.
The Spring elections in the the States begin
with New Hampshire, on the second TUESDAY IN
March. Connecticut follows on the first Monday
in April, and Rhode Island on the next Wednes-
day In the same month.
"A suit was lately brought in the Superior
Court of Georgia for the repayment ofa debt which
had already been cancelled in Confederate scrip.
The jury dismissed the case, directing each party
to pay an equal proportion OF the costs.
-Twenty-fve years ago woolen rags were
worth $40 ton, and were used for manure: They
now sell in England for 5000 per ton, to be made
again into cloth. The shoddy consumption, OF
England was estimated in 1862 at sixty-hve million
pounds annually.
1t is not great wealth or high station which
makes man happy. Many Of the most wretch
ed beings on earth have both but it is radiant
sunny spirit, which knows how to bear little trials
and enjoy little comforts, and which thus extracts
happiness from every incident OF life
"A Turin Journal states there is family in
that city, consisting of five persons, who tor the
last year have lived upon cats flesh: The eldest
boy, twelve years old, does the hunting and pro-
yides for the household. The feline race is gradu-
ally disappearing from the neighborhood
. Mr.. Bright, in one of his late speeches,
said that one-half of Scotland is owned by twelve
persons, and one half of England by one hundred
and fifty. Thus the people are nobody, and few
individuals everybody. No wonder the aristocracy
fight so desperately against any popular movement
His Honor Mr. Justice IngIis has declined
to accept the Professorship rendered him by the
Board of Trustees of the University OF South
Carolina. Upon an examination Of the question,
he has concluded that there is constitutional OBJ
stacle in the way of holding Professorship and
Judgeship.
"A most singular lawsuit is now on trial at
ALBANY, N. Y. Two young men, each married but
a few weeks, got sick of their wives, and proposed
to ''swap," and very singularly, the women con-
sented. But the husband of the homeliest promls-
ed to pay $50 Ito boot" and, as he has neglected
to hand over, the suit is brought to recover the
money.
- A plan has been brought forward in the New
York Legislature, which combines originality and
a apractical bearing Hitherto universal custom has
been to license the seller and regulate the sale of
spirituous liquors; the new plan proposes to go to
the root of the matter and to license the drnker him.
SELF requiring FIVE free-holders to sign the appica
ton for license to buy, and imposes heavy line
upon anybody who sells to an unlicensed person.
Il the Kentucky Legislature the House has
passed by vote of Sc against % joint resolution
that the people of Kentucky are unutteraby op-
posed to the movement in Congress to place the
people of the Southern States under military rule,
the tendency whereof is to military despotism-
contrary to the spirit of union, and subversve Of
the principles whereon the Government was foun-
ded; and they utter their solemn protest against
all such congressional action.
The bill to enfranchise the colored men of
Tennessee has passed both Houses and become a
law. They are still excluded from holding Office
and serving on juries. The way in which disfran-
chsement Of ex-rebels works in Tennessee is illus.
trated in one case at Nashville. One of the largest
business firms in the State, paying thousands of
dollars in taxes, employs six white men and one
negro porter. The negro alone can vote, and he
fought on the Southern side and helped In the
bloody work at Fort Pillow.
A London paper notices curious misprint
in one of the editions of the New Testament print
cd at Oxford, where the word glad was converted
into clad The person who detected the error re.
ceived the reward of one guinea which the Oxford
press offers for such discovery. 1t is an extraordi-
nary fact that, with this standing offer of reward,
and all the vigilance of readers, Sunday, school
teachers and scholars, this error of single letter
of sixty different editions
The largest room in the world under SIN
gle roof unbroken by pillars Or other distinctions,
Is at St Petersburg, Russia. 1t is $50 feet IN
length and $50 in breadth. By daylight it is used
for military displays, and battalion can easily
vancouver in it. In the evening it is often con-
verted into vast ballroom, when it is warmed by
sixteen prodigous stoves, and 900 wax tapers are
required to light it properly. The roof OF this
great structure is single arch Of iron, the bars
alone on which it rests weighing $780, 900 pounds
On trial for an assault, at the assizes some
wears since, medical witness, in giving his evi.
dence, informed the court that on examining the
prosecutor. he found him suffering from severe
Confusion of the integuments under the left orbit
with preat extravasation of blood and ecchymos
in the surrounding cellular tissue, which was IN
tumefed state. There was also considerable abra
sion of the cuticle. Judge-You ou mean, suppose
that the man had black eye? Mltness-fes es
Judge-Then why not say so at once!
The origin of the portrait for the Goddess