Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-03-07
Sfraps aud fatts.

"A manufacturer In New 1Ork Guy Is 4ihhS
an order for two thousand thimbles, at eighteen
cents per dozen, for the managers OF popular git
enterprise, stNo blanksI Every ticket entities
the holder to PRESENT.
a rebel soldier, while in an Indiana prison,
whittled ont model of cotton press He claims
that with the help of a good gin, he can gln and
pack bale of cotton, weighing five hundred ana
twenty-five pounds, In two hours.
Forty-six members of Congress- Saturday
evening, organized temperance society, with Sen
ator Wilson as President, Senator Wiley as Vice
President, and Mr.. Yates, Pomeroy, Cotax, Per-
ham and Price ON the Executive Committee
Mr.. Youatt, a famous veterinary surgeon,
who has been bitten eight or ten times by rabld
animals, relates that crystals OF nitrate OF SILVER
rubbed into the wound will positively prevent by
.drophobia in the bitten.
"A down-east contemporary advocates the es-
tablishment of seminaries for young ladies', where
spinology, knitology, weaveology, cookology, &C.,
can be taught-the graduates to receive the degree
of F. +. w., or Fit for Wives.
The Memphis Ledger says the reason so
many marriages occur Immediately after great
war, is that bachelors become so accustomed to
strife that they learn to like it, and after the return
of peace they enlist in ma1imony as the next thing
to war.
In Dublin preacher once attempted TO
preach from the text, Remember Lot wife, and
made failure Afterwards remarking to Dr. Bon
that he did not know the reason of his failure, the
venerable Doctor replied that ''he had better here
after let other peoples wives alone.
- The Boston Post, referring to the recent Or
ganization of Congressional Temperance Society
at Washington, hints that it was done In set-de.
fence by the members, to avoid the necessity OF
treating" their visiting constituents at present
Washington prices. The Post shouldn't thus de-
tract from merit -.
- eff you ever marry" said Roman Consul
to his son, s1et it be to woman who has sense E.
nough to superintend the cooking Of meal OF
victuals, taste enough to dress herself, pride e.
nough to wash before breakfast, and sense enough
to hold her tongue when she has nothing to say.
Senator Wilson succeeded in getting the
West Point appropriation bill amended so asto
prohibit drills and parades on Sunday, &ndto make
it the duty of the chaplain to organize class for
Biblical instruction, and give his whole attention
to the religious welfare Of the cadets.
- The Rome (Ga.) Courier says that the un-
precedentedly large crop Of wheat sown in that
section of the country, looks remarkably well As
general thing the crop was well planted, and the
hard freezes and deep SHOWS Of the present winter
ty and productyeness. -
The income tax is fixed at five per cent on
the excess of all incomes over $1,000. In addi-
ton TO the 81 900 exempted, are also to be exemp-
ted all national, State, county and municipal taxes
paid within the year, all losses actually sustained
during the year from fires, shipwreck, or trade, all
bad debts, the amount actually paid for the rent of
house or premises occupied as a residence and the
amount paid for usual or ordinary repairs.
? "A despatch from Jefferson City, Mo-, 25th
ult, says: "The Senate to day passed, by vote
of nineteen yeas against seven nays the bill sub
hitting to the people at the next general election
an amendment to the State Constitution, to strike
out the word white A similar proposition has
been introduced into the House, and has been
made the special order for Thursday.
There are Chinese laborers now on Louisi-
ana plantation. The Natchitoches Times, of the
9Th, says: We are informed by Mr. Arthur Cha
Ter that coolies working on his plantation are good
laborers and sober men, They are industrious, and
perfectly satisfied with their new country, and any
amount of labor Will be performed by them .provi-
ded the contracts passed are carried out to the let
and rations
80 It is rumored that the President will nomi-
nate to the Senate negro for some important Of
L
tition has been presented to the President asking
him to appoint Fred. Douglass Commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau The President has said it
would be good opportunity to test the sincerity
of Radical affection for the negro by submitting his
name to the Senate, but it is hardly probable it
will soon be done.
Prentice, in the Louisville Journal, thus
concludes a notice of the late poet of Idlewild =
tsFarewel, Willis! As the Hebrew girl by her
loved river sits and listens to its melancholy wall,
mourning for gories long since faded, so sit we to-
night by the fresh made grave, and mourn for one
who was the magic musician whose hghtest strain
stirred our rugged nature and softened its stern
chords, until only harmony soft sweet, delicious
harmony Il filed our soul Willis, farewell |"
We heard, the other day, of a man who once
lived within hundred miles of Toledo, who was
possessed of large property, but, like all men, be
their property large or small he had to die, though
dying he did what most men won't do-he left a
viii bequeathing half of his wealth, (being child
less) to his wife, for her use, as long as she re-
manned single; the other half to be given to her
when she marries again. If such acts were more
frequent, charming widows would be more charm
ing, and widowhood much shorter lived.
- The Waco, Texas, Register says last year
young man living near that place let his name be
known-Albert Sears, rented piece of good land,
hired one good old freedman, and with his own
hands, went to work to cultivate the soil He
worked manfully and well And now for the fruits
of bis industry. he has gathered twenty-fo four
bales Of cotton, 1000 bushels Of corn, and made
400 gallons Of molasses from sorghum. He also
has some pork to spare. He has sold 1000 bush
els of corn for 81 200 in gold, obtained $500 for his
molasses and his cotton is good for Sl,S00. He
was at some uihing extra expense during cotton
picking time.
Letters received by the English West Afri-
can mail steamer, at Liverpool, reported the arri-
val at Cape Mount, December 81, and Monrovia,
January 3, of the colonization packet Golconda,
which sailed from Charleston, South Carolina,
November 81, with six hundred emigrants for the
young African republic. She had quick and
pleasant run, and landed her passengers in good
health and spirits, except four who died on the
voyage. Of these, two were infants, one young
woman, and the fourth, Rev. Alfred Alberts,- of
Newberry, South Carolina, a worthy minister OF
the Methodist Church, who died instantly from ap-
opexy the very morning after the ship left Charles
ton.
About 25, 900 oxen are killed each week to sup
ply the city of New York with meat. The bone
known as the 'shin-bone,' and all the leg from
the knee to the hoof falls into the. hands of MIR.
Cooper. He contracts with the butchers and mar
ketmen to supply him, and, in this way, about
100000 shin-bones per week find their way to his
establishment All the muscles are taken from
them, the gluten is extracted, and the clean white
hone is kent tn he worko1 nm into noraSol handles