Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-28
The Millennium.

The Millennium.
In Bangor, Maine, there are said to be many
who expect the second advent of Christ this year.
Congress seems to be expecting something of the
same kind.
English Deiled.
4. II had rather not 60, is ungrammatical, and
too vulgar to be called idiomatic. Had 90 is not
in any tense actual or possible. 1t should be II
soouH rather not CO.
s. "He a'n't' pronounced aint) for ''heis not
is incorrect The proper abbreviation is He
isn'k''
The Rural Southerner.
This projected agricultural, news and literary
newspaper, has fallen through; and the cause Of
the failure is the failure of the people to subscribe
for it. Everything else was ready. The people
themselves have decided the matter; and their
apathy their penuriousness, or their poverty land
poverty is the greatest Of the three, and not the
publishers may be mentioned as the controlling
cause of the abandonment of the project.
The money subscribed, we are authorized to say,
will be returned.
State Money.
An anonymous correspondent Of the Columbia
Phomir says:
ssBils receivable of the State are at heavy dis
count. The remedy is easy, and can be effected IN
very short time, provided the regrets universally
expressed at this unfortunate state OF things are
sincere, (which is doubtul) Call on the tax COL
lectQr, make your returns, and at the same ame
pay your taxes In ten days, the bills receivable
will be at par and in demand. IF the taxes were
only PAYABLE in bills receivable or coin, they would
to-Gau be at par with gold or silver. The amount
of bills receivable now in circulation is not equal
to one-ifth of the taxes to be collected"
And it strikes us that there is great deal OF
sense in what he says.
Washington's Birthday.
Our people did not seem to remember this ami
versary at all this year. A few school-boys begged
for holiday and that is about all that marked the
day from others.
The glorious boon of liberty which Washington
and those Revolutionary fathers fought tor and
left to us, doesn't strike our Southern people as 1t
used to do. Their hearts are too full Of the pres
ent to dwell much upon so remote a past Ameri-
can liberty may be very glorious thing, and no
doubt is but our people don't see it
Personals.
j. NJ is dead
.Jeemes Pipes, of Ptpesrlle, who is Mr.. Stephen
Masset, is in London.
Thomas Carlisle is wintering in Italy.
Samuel Dooning, of New York, the last soldier
of the Revolution, died on the 10Th Of February.
Prof Joseph LIE Conte, who has recently dellv-
cred course of lectures upon Coal and Coal Oils
before the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, has
returned to his labors in the University of South
Carolina. The course of lectures in Baltimore
comprised four lectures Prof LIE Conte is one OF
the best lecturers we have ever heard in this insti
tuition.
Waterfalls.
Fashion has taken another caprice, and the wa
terfaD is made to present new aspect. Ladies
who have Just returned from Northern cities bring
the intelligence land in some instances bring the
example also) of the new style. 1t consists in pa-
cling the waterfall higher up on the head, so that it
stands visible higher than the head. Standing in
front of the wearer one can see the waterfall loom
ing up behind That appendage which has hith-
erto reposed in its expanded gracefulness upon oc
ciput and neck, now mounts higher and rides upon
the organ of Firmness and Self. Esteem, if we may
speak phrenologically upon so knotty subject
Literary.
The Appletons have just issued Berlin ana
Sans Souci or, Frederick the Great and has
Friends, by Clara Mundt T. Muhlbach), which is
said to be very attractive book, dealing as 1t does
in historical personages with and about the great
Frederick. Voltaire is one of the characters, OF
course.
The Harpers publish The Village on the Cliff, by
Miss Thackeray, daughter Of the Thackeray.
Aunt Margarets Troubles is the title of a
story Just out in England, written by Miss Dickens,
daughter of Boz.
Owens and Agar, of New York, have recently
published Sterlings Series of Southern Readers,
which commences with primer and runs up
through spelling book and readers ending with an
Orator; and is the best Southern series that we
have seem We notice these books more at length
under different heading.
Something to Eat.
Provisions here, compared with Yorkville prices,
are high, in consequence Of which we cannot live
as high upon the same money as the eaters oi
Yorkyile can.
We give a few items of retail prices (of Market
articles), in greenbacks, which we cleaned from
the Clerk of the Market himself Pork sells a
about 20 cents pound; beef from II! to Is; veal
the same nutUOn, lTOlu Id W 10, eggs, 20, eiii1h
ems, IS to so; turkeys, sl.50; butter, 40 to so
sweet potatoes, sold mostly from wagons, sl.5C
bushe; turnips, from 81 to $3.50 bushel
Firewood (which, by the way, is not something
to eat, though we mention it under that head fol
convenience is very low this mild spring weather.
We bought a load few days ago at just half Of
what we paid during the cold weather a month
ago. A large four-horse load something over q
cord sells for six dollars When the sellers cal
it cord the price is from four to five dollars; but
such cords are variable in size.
sterling's Southern School Books.
We have had the pleasure of an interview with
the author of Sterling's Series of Southern Read
ers; and have examined his books at our leisure
This series consists of two Primers, a Spelling
Book, and five Readers; which we shall mention
seriatim:
1.-Sterhngs Southern Primer for the children
This has pictures in it, and the usual matter to b
expected in book for beginners
2.-Sterkngs Southern Pictorial Primer. Thl
is an attractive book for little folks being gotten W
in fine style, upon fine white paper, and LIBERAL!
illustrated with clear and suitable pictures, 1t il
equal in style to the best northern books of th'
same kind; and sells at retail for 25 cents.