Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-03-14
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-AThere are IL, ,537 sehool-houses in New Yori
State, Of which lsl are built oflogs
The elections in New Hampshire came of
on Tuesday last.
President johnson has issued proclamation
recognising Nebraska as State in the Union.
Pouring cold water on the face and he4
destroys the effect of narcotic poison. .n
Within eleven years, $500, 900, 900 worth O
gold has been taken from the mines In California
"A man was last yeek sent to jail for ten day.
IN Rhode Island for sleeping in church. Nothing
was done to the clergyman. "..
.a--A A man in jackson, Mississippi, gave his In
tended, money to buy her bridal outfit, and the
following morning she married his brother.
- Why is married man like candle? Be.
cause he sometimes goes out at night when ne
ought not to. 80 ... --. ...r.... ......
l--Ea man is to be judged by the venom oi
his tongue as areptie is by the venom ofits tooth
Thad. Stevens Is human rattlesnake.
"A man advertises in Cleveland paper fol
.a boy to take charge Of pair Of horses OF rehg
ious turn Of mind.
The Atlanta Era computes the number o1
dssitutein Georgia, who have not the actual means
Of subsistence, to be at least fifty thousand.
The Ohio German Radicals are getting into
considerable of muss on account Of the negro ques
ton as they are bitterly opposed to negro suffrage
Canadian eggs under the new tariff, Will have
to pay duty Of one cent per DOZEN Our nation
al debt will soon be paid. ..,.. ..
Shingles are used as q substitute for money
at Presque Isle, and are considered legal tender
Itreminds one of the old ''Pine Tree Shilhngs."
The Tennessee House has rejected a propo-
Gtion to allow negroes to hold Office under the new
Franchise law. "..
- A church in Baltimore has the motto upon
ed" One morning these words were found paint
ed under it: "Not here, though.
- A man in Cleveland adyertises a half inte-
rest in well regulated laying hen tor sale assign
ing as reason bis utter inability to spend all the
profits. ,, sa .., IT, -.
The Wisconsin Legislature is about to dis
franchise 20, 1000 citizens for desertion during the
war. The average was about the same In other
States 4 -a-..
-B Brownlow is Ill again, and as Agricultural
Newton told the Congressional Committee about
the expenses of his bureau, the severity OF the at
tack exceeds the most sanguine expectations"
) -t tsPray excuse bit of sarcasm" said Smith
drel" ssPray pardon a touch Of irony" replied
Jones, as he knocked him down with poker.
-Ayoung lady in Cleveland having been af
ficted by a friehtful odor for several days. which
repulsed her friends at last discovered In her wa
terfal dead mouse. It had been placed there
by amischievious brother.
Some ex-Frederiek darkies voted at the
election in Georgetown. One old fellow, however,
declined, saying, They jist put the names down,
and the next thing Is tax on every niger that Vo-
ted"
> "A Pixies Peaker, writing to Minnesota
journal, says the miners are very much discouraged
IN that region-they have to dig through solid
vein of silver four feet thick, before they reach the
gold. o.-~. .. ....-...-. ....
The Lynchburg Republican says: 1T strikes
Us that the Southern people ought to be vigorous
" doing nothing in political way at present, and
everything in manufacturing and agricultural
way"
1t is reported in Washington that Sumner
has expressed his determination to retire wholly
from public life at the expiration of his present
Senatorial term. Lord for those days we wait,
&C.
The latest conscience money" case is that
of a Newark man, who paid farmer tor-apples he
stole in childhood's sunny hours That fellow Is
honest to the remotest core.
An Engfshman' has patented watch with
out hands that shows on its face no figures but
those which tell the hour and minute looked for
The figures are displayed as they are wanted, and
no others appear on the watch face.
"A man in Ohio walked on ice twelve miles,
obtained marriage license, went back "by the
same conveyance, the same day, and was married
in the evening. Such persistent bridegroom as
that chap deserves to be 'hugged up warm"
The Aberdeen Miss Eramsiaer says that
there are more freedmen at work on the farms Of
Monroe County than at any period since the war,
and there are more acres under the plow than
have been cultivated in the last three years.
In China, the physician is responsible for
his patients; and they or their friends pay prose-
cute him if he fails to effect cure II, through
any neglect or lack of knowledge, he causes death,
he is compelled by law to provide for the support
Of the family of the deceased.
Mississippi papers announce that by new
law in that State, the pol-tax upon persons not
having visible means Of support or not in the en-
ploy of responsible person, is to be collected at
the time Of assessment and it cannot be collected,
the defaulter is to be reported as vagrant
1t is acurious factin medical history, that du-
ring the prevalence of the cholera in Moscow, diff
frent plans of treatment were tried in the various
large hospitals but in one hospital it was agreed to
employ no treatment whatever. The per eentage
of mortality was exactly the same in all the hos
pitals, including that in which no medicine was
given. ,.
Rev. Dr. Cummings has just published a
new work entitled, The Last Warning, in which
it is confidently asserted that the world will certain
ly come to an end before the first of January next
In connection with this prediction, we call to-
mind that the Doctor, few months since, leased
dwelling house for ten years. Faith without
works Is dead.
-On Thursday, 2sth ult. IAN inquest was held
on the body of Jane Harvey, white woman,
found dead near her residence, in this village
R. W. Shand, Esq. acted as coroner. After a
thorough investigation Of the case, the jury render
ed verdict that the deceased came to her death
by strangulation at the hands of Daniel Howard.
Said Howard was committed to jail.
U'aaonuze Joannal
The Old Southern Drug House of Coop
Rich W1NEMAN & Co., No. l53 Meeting Street,
charleston, 5. u, Is again opened with most de-
slrable Stock Of Genuine and Imported Drugs and
Chemicals. Since the close of the war our physi-
clans have been much bothered where to buy ar
tcles that they could rely on, and have had to get
supplies from inexperienced houses. This they
need not do any longer. Let them send their or
ders to GOODRICH, WNEMAN & Co., and they can
depend on getting pure articles.
The Atlanta (Ga., Era, says they now have
three parties in that city. The first is headed by
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, who favors the