Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-11-28
geraps aud fafts.
"A lady in Washington was divorced last
Tuesday morning, and married again at noon.


minute and q quarter. .s... .. -.....s
The drought in Illinois continues The cis-
terms and wells are all dry and in many cases the
water is hauled for miles. ... ~ ....s. lie.
"A monster cheese weighing seven thousand
pounds broke down truck In New York, on Fri
day. That was heavy fall in cheese.
"A young woman tainted in New York thea
tire few nights since, and water being thrown IN
her face, she revived, exclaiming: "Oh, my new
bonnet p'e -
Prentice says the Radicals OF Tennessee tak
Of building mansion for Brownlow. bis father,
the Devil has one already for him-well protected
from the cold. - ..r ~
A Partisan house, which sells goods as low
as any other establishment, executes bond, well
secured. to refund the whole of the purchase mon
ey thirty years after date. ......s.
- The Radicals are all taking the back track on
the cotton tax question, Colfax now comes out IN
favor of its repeal Boutwell, has also brought his
judicial mind to the same point.
--Fitz Green Halleck, the we'll known Ameri-
can poet, died at his residence at Guilford, Con,
nectcut, on Tuesday evening, In the seventy third
year of his age. ..n.. ..a
--From Brazos, Texas, comes report thas at
not more than onethird of the cotton actually made
will be gathered. Neither money, moral suaSon,
nor force, will induce enough negroes to work and
gather it. =
The United States army has cost, during the
first six months Of 1867, no less than soo,V9ogTo' ~
which is not far from double the cost OF the Eli
glish army. r'1 -a e.s2. -. .. - :
. Cen. Corona married Mrs Bowman, San
Franciseo widow, by proxy. The Collector OF Gus
toms at Mazatlan occupied the taHtalizing position
of representative bridegroom.
"Massa, I know a young lady dat wants to
make your acquaintance very %acn ~ ,consnt mIa.
does the young lady want to make my aoquaslne. st.
ance for ?'' "Cause she thinks you make lust
rate playmate for her poodle dog.
It is estimated that there was distilled in the
last year ia, ,OOO, 900 gallons of whiskey, and yet
the Government has only been able to collect the
tax on l4,O0OOO0 gallons. The Government Is
thus defrauded out Of $500, 100000
a negro Register in Charleston, who, in Au-
gust last, violently resisted white citizen, and en-
couraged the negroes to violence has been sentenc-
ed by military commission to imprisonment tor SIX
months at hard labor. ....
a correspondent writes the Charlotte DEM
orut that negro Grand Juror in Union county
was detected in robbing his employers pocket OF
S45, in less than one week after the adjournment
of the court in which he served as juror.
BY direction of the President, Brig; General
r K. Scott Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
mems Bureau for South Carolina, as well as Maj.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles have been honorable mus
tered out of the service of the United States, to
take effect from January l, 1868 ...
AN exchange says: 'Fasten a nail or key
to string, and suspend it to your thumb and tin-
ger, and the nail will oscillate like a pendulum.
Let some one place his open hand under the nail,
and it will change to circular motion. linen let
q third person place his hand upon your shoulder,
and the nail becomes in moment stationary.
The Wilmington IN. c. Star says: 'The
white men are deserving the Union Leagues IN the
western counties as rats desert burning barn.
in that section, and very soon it will be difficult to
find man who will confess that he ever belonged
to one. "::.J. -. .--- - -ar" -a-5
-s'It is suggestive fact, /" says the Washing
ton Chronicle, 'sthat many even of the country
papers throughout the North, are beginning to ad-
Yocate the repeal of the Cotton tax. When the
current of public opinion drifts so strongly that
newspapers representing no great manufacturing
interests feel its influence, it is not difficult to pre-
dict the speedy result.
The Washington correspondent OF the Baltl-
more Sun, under date of the 23d instant, says:
suThe main part of the Presidents Message has
been finished, and much of it was read in Cabinet
meeting to-day. The message will probably be
printed in pamphlet form and mailed to the prln-
cipal newspapers, 80 as to arrive at their destlna-
tons simuhaneo lsy with its reading in Congress
on the first Mono " In December"
The New York World says that Republican
senator's and representatives who have arrived in
Washington, express their determination to stand
by the reconstruction measures, and they maintain
that if majority of the white men Of the South
stand aloof and take no part in the elections, then
they are in favor of placing the. governing power
in the hands of the negroes and the few whites who
act with them.
Advices from Yokohoma, to the 25th ulhmo,
say that including the shipment, per the Great
Republic, the exports of tea to New York this
season are ten millions of pounds in excess of last
year, all Of which has been shipped direct except
100000 pounds passing to San Francisco The
Cdractacas, with 672, 400 pounds tea, and the
Pauline, with ESQ., 200 pounds tea, have sailed tor
New York, leaving four vessels on the berth, to
carry 2, 100000 pounds, of the same marks.
Thaddeus Stevens has under consideration
the advisaby of dividing the State of Texas into
two or more States, and has announced his inten-
ton of introducing Bill for that purpose during
the coming session. Saturday last he was for a
long time engaged in collecting information res,
pecting the population, condition and interests Of
the different sections of the State, and he reques-
ted Texan editor to furnish him with all the in
formation obtainable, bearing upon the question.
The New York Herald has discovered that
negroes are not eligible to Congress. They did not
become citizens, until the issuing of the elnancpa
ton proclamation in September, 1862. No one is
eligible to the United States House of Representa-
tiyes until he has been citizen seven years, or tc
the United States Senate until he has been cltl
zen nine years. The negroes have only been clti
zens FIVE years, and the Herald infers that none
can go to Congress before 1869.
In New England, who should be dubbed the
"mother of Inventions" they are said to be ma
king pious mouse-traps, that only catch mice sil
DAYS in the week. On the seventh day, they only
hang on to them. There are many whose business
matters are managed in the same way as these
mouse traps operate These pious persons don't
exactly do business on the Sabbath-they only
get things ready for Monday morning.
The English trade reports for the first three
quarters of 1867, show that that country does 9
great deal toward replenishing the wardrobes o
the world. During that period, it exported ovel
1000 900 yards Of cotton piece goods; 200 OOO OOt
yards of woolen and worsted manufactures l62,.
O00, yards of linen piece goods $500, 900 hats
10500, 900 pairs of stockings $50 900 pairs o1
shoes; 100000 silk handkerchiefs; scarfs and
shawls, and large quantities of other apparel, val
ued in all at more than $3.50, 100000 in gold.
Twelve hundred tons of steelr have beer
laid, in place of iron Ones on the Boston and Prov
idence Railroad. At Roxbury, near the repair