Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-31
Sfraps aud fafts.

bv the announcement that he Will retire from pub
lie lite at the close of his term as Governor.
~ Young man recently wrote to his sweet
heart, saying: There is not globule Of blood in
M heart which does not bear your photograph
josh Billings says: "God save the fools, and
don't let em run out; for fit wernt for them, wise
men couldn't get living.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles
you for trouble rarely troubles people who never
trouble themselves about trouble.
The AboHtionists of Boston are very proud
of their two negro representatives in their Leglsla
ture. They always elect their best men to Office IN
Massachusetts,.
They have lively horse thief in New Jer:
sey. He was put IN jail, married there, feigned
insanity, was sent to the fnatic asylum, escaped,
stole another horse, and is again arrested
"A writer in Winston County, Mississippi,
calculates the expenses on bale of cotton after it
is packed and by the time it is sod at $46,62t, a.
bout as much as was once the price OF bale.
-CoIections for Mrs. jeff Davis are being
made in Mississippi Claiborne County subserbes
1854 Marshall, $500; Rankin, 100: and Kinds
$67.
The members of the Maine Legislature have
voted themselves copy each of Webster una:
brideed, Lppincott' Gazetteer and the Bible, and
$40 worth Of postage stamps for each member
The months to life most fatal are February
and March, August and September; the first two
for throat and lung difficulties; the latter two fol
stomach and bowel complaints May and June
are the healthiests months in the year.
From incontrovertible statistics, it has been
discovered that during the last nine months, l3, ,OOC
cases of Aoggng had occurred in the public schools
at Boston. This statement is made up from the
teachers record, and must be authentic.
The Virginia House of Delegates rejected,
on the 18th, the Senate Bill increasing the legal
rate of interest to ten DER cent This action leaves
the present usury law still in force, the rate being
six per cent.
The New York World expresses the eonvic-
ton that the impeachment of President johnson
will be pushed through in dead earnest and that it
has become necessity of the Radical position to
get the President out of the way.
-Of6cial Florida letters say that the Indians
of the Everglades have determined to keep the
negroes IS slaves They deny the jurisdiction Of
the laws. Trouble is apprehended. Negroes are
eolonizing on St. Johns River. Gen. Ely has ar
rived from South Carolina with 800 emigrants.
Material changes are about being made by
the Post Office Department in the registry Of let
ters, in order to give greater protection to their
transmission, and also to fix upon postmasters and
Others responsibility in case of loss or miscarriage.
Full instructions and blanks will be issued in few
days.
The price of pork ought to recede, for the
Western hog supply Of the present season, down to
January 18th, is announced to be 55l, ,523 hogs
shipped, packed and butchered, as compared with
453,457 for the same period last year-an increase
of nearly 100000.
The receipts of the New York Tribune for
1865 were $Sl6,537 and for 1866 $909,4lS. The
expenses for 1865 were $646, l07. The former
year gave net profit of $l70,4 ,430, and the latter
one Of $26,5l0. Nothing having been charged for
rent the profits of last year have really amounted
to very little.
"A singular fight took place in Lynchburg
one night not long ago The parties who were en-
gagged in it were three ex-soldiers, two OF whom
had each losta leg and the other had but one arm.
One of them was pretty badly bruised by crutch
in the hands of his assailants.
The following is given as the statistics Of the
ding the Southern States: Whole number of par
ishes 1856; number of clergy, $3.50; total mem
bership l6l, ,225 contributions the past year, $3,-
951 ,667.
I'm Philadelphia, man slipped on an orange
standing BY looked on and waited for him to stop.
After cursing himself out of breath, he paused for
more words and wind. The Quaker said, go on,
friend; swear away till thee gets all that bad stuff
out of thee"
"A little chap who had among other Christ
mas presents, mechanical box" in which
two "colored pussons'' were intended to dance, on
being wound up," y" found it would not work, and
appealed to an older brother to ''fx it Jack
looked at it, and Immediately exclaimed, ''why
they can't be fixed so as to work, Bob! They are
free, you know!
"A Monument to the Confederate dead of
Amite county, Miss, is to be erected, as stated in
the Southern Journal, at Liberty, of pure Italian
marble twenty feet high, with appropriate Devices
bearing the names of those killed in the service of
their country, and to be completed by the 22d Of
February next at cost OF $4,000.
"A California wife writes from San Francisco
to her husband in the interior: Dear Sir: 1t
may be proper, and perhaps my duty, to inform
you that about two months ago | succeeded in get
ting my divorce from you and also that l have
married again. You may continue your monthly
remittances, as I may need them for your three
children
- The youth of London light their seegars with
new invention, called poudre de fue. 1t consists
VI pyIOpuOIuo WLSn 10 PiOoSi 'oo LII sIhoi eii
case, with a narrow orifce When small quanti-
ty Of this dark powder is poured out on the end Of
the segar, and breathed on gently, it becomes in
candescent, and lights the pipe or segars.
"A man advertised lately to forward, on re-
ceipt of postage stamps Sound, practical advice,
that would be applicable at any time, and to all
persons and conditions of life" On the receipt of
the stamps he sent his victim the following: "Nev-
er give boy penny to watch your shadow while
you climb q tree to look into the middle Of next
month"
"A cubic yard of gold is worth, in round num-
bers $4,000, 600, and at this estimate all the gold
in the world if melted into ingots, might be con-
tanned in cellar twentyfour feet square and six
teen feet high. All the boasted wealth already
obtained from California and Australia would go
into an iron safe nine feetsquare and nine feet high
"A Louisiana paper says that in that State
horse stealing is managed as follows: The owner
of horse makes bargain with thief to take the
horse to Ibervile or Baton Rouge, and sell him.
The thief brings the owner half the money and tells
the name of the purchaser, when the owner goes
and reclaims the horse as having been stolen from
him.
"A mischievous youngster in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, upon hearing read an account of fire in
which a play-fellow figured as the originator, re-
marked that she be dogged if he wouldn't get his
name in the paper too, and straightway went up
stairs and set fire to his bed, which, but for the
timely arrival of the Fire Department, would have
laid the dwelling in ashes.
Capt. B. j. Smith, one of the most success
full business men of Georgia, says the Selma Mes-
eon<,or hoo iuct rafurpad from n civ .lo,.