Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-21
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The largest county in Texas-Presldio-
equal in area to four such States as Massachusetts,
"A game of chess for $1,000 is to be played
over the Atlantic cable by English and American
players.
"A dinner yas given near Paris the other day,
of which the principal dishes were shark, horse
dog, and rat.
in Holland no creditor or tax-gatherer calls at
house where there has been birth until SIX
weeks after the event
Gen. Grant has issued circular saying that
hereafter boys under the age Of twenty Will
not be enlisted in the regular army.
"A Lexington (Kentucky) paper says that
town has a population of $1,000 persons with
l,100 souls.
1t ia asserted that crinoine manufacturer
in Saxony, during the last ten years, has made
1863, ,7S4,OO0 hoop-skirt springs-enough to 60 a.
round the world l33 times
"A little girl In one of the Gloucester public
schools, being asked in the course Of her geogra-
phy lesson, what waterfall was, replied that 1t
was chair wrapped around her dad old stocking
The dials of the English Parliament clocks
are twenty-five feet in diameter, the largest IN the
world. Every half minute the point OF the MIN
ute hand moves nearly seven inches
"A young lady in Boston school, on being
asked why, in Latin, winds came to be called mas
cuEne, quickly replied, II do not know, unless it
is because they are so tckle!'
- An exchange says: Never let people work
for you gratis. Two years ago man earned
bundle for us, and we have been lending him twen-
ty-fye cents a week ever since.
The Lancaster Ledger reports that small
pox is prevailing to a limited extent in the lower
norton of that District and that one case orgna-
ting there had developed itself in the village
IN Maine the Senate has passed bill author
izing marriage between whites and blacks, but the
lower House refuses concurrence-o the great scan
dal of universal equality.
The Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad pays an
annual premium of 800 to that engineer who runs
locomotive the greatest number OF miles with the
least expense.
"A meeting was held at Orangeburg G. r.,
on the 9th inst for the purpose Of considering the
practicability of establishing a cotton factory IN
Orangeburg District A committee was appointed
to report to an adjourned meeting.
1t is said that new method Of punishment
has been introduced into one of the public schools
of Holyoke, Mass. A disobedent scholar is or.
dered up, its mouth forced open, and dose OF
cayenne pepper administered.
The New Orleans Times says as regards the
measures for raising sugar and cotton the coming
wear, the prospects are far from encouraging
Money and means, otherwise called capital and
advances, are wanting.
In New Albany, Ind, woman recently sued
man for entering her house against her wishes
He proved that he was pursued by two women,
three boys and four dogs when he rushed into the
house, and the jury acquitted MIN.
A Kentucky Judge has decided that all per-
SONS who have invested money in gift enterprises
can sue and recover it in those States where laws
exists against gaming, and all gamesof chance come
within the statute.
p "A distinguished writer says of the Yankee,
that as soon as he enters the world the idea OF ne
him the natural limits of hipower. Hence he be-
comes slow to act but perseverng, and attalns pro-
fciency in making cunning do the work OF force.
"A letter in the Baltimore Gazette says that
the President is yet cheerful and hopeful Of ultimate
triumph, and SO far from evineing disposition OF
acquiescing in the insane legislation Of Congress- IS
more determined than ever. since Their atrOcious
designs have become developed OF firmly adherng
to his constitutional position.
When the Hindoo priest is about to baptize
an infant he utters the following beautiful sentl-
ment: ''Little baby, thou entered the world weep
ing while all around thee smile contrive so to live
that you may depart in smiles while all around you
weep"
-Wiggins was one day with friend, when he
observed a poor dog that had been killed lying in
the gutter. Wiggins paused, gazed at the dead
animal, and at last said, Here is another ship
wreck" "Shipreck! Where?' "Why, there S
bark that's lost forever" His companion growl-
ed and passed.
"A man has been arrested in Hungary, for
killing four children and eating their hearts raw.
He acted on the belief that he would have the
power to become invisible when he had eaten sew
en-, but was not permitted to carry his experiment
to conclusion. He ought to have been made in
visible on eating the first one.
The Alabama House of Representatives
have passed bill to establish system OF public
schools for whites and blacks alike, except that
schools for each shall be seperate in each school
district 1t is understood that the Legislature will
not reconsider the action on the Constitutional
Amendment.
The following is the conclusion of an epitaph
on q tombstone in East Tennessee: ''She lived a
life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus caused
by eating green fruit, in the full hope of blessed
Immortality, at the early age of twenty-four years,
seven months ana sixteen days. Reader, 60 thou
and do likewise"
Gov. Brownlow's organ, at Nashville, gives
the recently enfranchised freedmen notice. that in
the event they should vote for conservatives which
means vote for anybody but pure unadulterated
radicals-sad organ will at once proceedt to advocate
their disfanchisement.
"A very large congregation attended the high
mass requiem given in the Church Of St. Joseph,
in New York, on Saturday, for the repose Of the
soul of Mrs. Sickles. The body was in handsome
rosewood casket, the plate of which bore the in:
scription Theresa B. Sickles, aged 81 years, died
Feb. 5th, 1867. Gen. Sickles and the parents Of
the deceased were present. The pail bearers were
ten in number.
- The Journal of Commerce says the risk and
expense of storing cotton in New York is divertng
the trade from that CITY, The rate of insurance at
New York is three per cent; at Boston it is less
than one per cent. Fraud issuspected in many in
stances of the destruction Of cotton by fire in New
York. That large amounts Of cotton are stolen
from the bales there, is fact too well known to be
contradicted.
The New York Times states that single
firm in New York has produced, for this year 8
trade in valentines, an aggregate Of over two and
half million valentines ranging in price from three
cents to one hundred dollars, and the total value of
which, as sold at retail is more than three hundred
thousand dollars. This is the production of sin
gle firm.
Not many moons since, some Indians who
saw several women baptised by immersion, in the
river at St. Joseph, Missouri, hole being cut in
the ice for that purpose, imagined that the cere-
mony, which they could not understand, was to
make them good, afterwards brought their squaws,
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