Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-10
MERE.MENTION.

The Vaucluse Factory, owned by VIM. Gregg
ESQ.,, and located near Augusta, was destroyed by
fire on Friday last ''''''''A despatch dated Erich
mond, January 8, says that returns from twenty
three Conferences of the Southern Methodist
Church, show, that the proposition to change the
name has been defeated. The measure for the in
PRODUCTION of lay delegation will probably share the
same fate. 'Emgrants are pouring into Texas
from all quarters. The tide is nearly as strong
from the Northwestern as from the Southern
States ''..'"'Tea raised in Georgia is pronounced
equal to the best Japan. '''''''The oldest of the
John Smiths, claiming III years, is said to live al
Pleasant Mills, N. j. .''''''''The last new gun in
vented in Paris sends out 5000 balls per minute
'........A Boston minister has been preaching a
gainst tiltlng hoops. He says he can't shut his
eyes to the abomination any longer. ''''""Chicago
has been seven days without divorce case '''''''
The Maine penitentiary was managed last yeal
with a profit of 500. ."'''".Broad-st in Phila
dephia is ten miles long, with width Of lib feet
and straight as an arrow. ''..'It is thought that
the Government has been cheated out Of one hun
dred millions of dollars by the evasion Of the
whiskey tax.
1t is no misfortune for niece young lady tc
lose her good name, if nice young gentleman gives
better. ''.'''The coldset day on record in North
America, was the Sth day of January, 1866. '''''
The South Carolina railroads have deposited e20,
900 in London to meet the interest on their foreign
bonds, due January lst '''''''''A New York engi
neer is about to build a steel steamer, which vii
make speed of thirty miles an hour. ''''.''A Mr.
Butts, of New York. can lift 2727 lbs. He would
be good man to make raise in these hard times
'''"'"General Price and Governor Harris are ma
king money in Mexico, and Magruder is as gorge
GUS as ever. .'''''."William B. Astor, John Jacob
Astor and w. W. Astor, and great many more
rich men, are in Washington. They are said to be
frightened at the extremes into which the Radical!
threaten to plunge the country. So are New Eng
land shippers and capitalists. "A Jewish house
built two centuries before Christ, has been excava
ted entire in Syria ''''''The total debt of NORTH
Carolina up to the lst of October, incudnginterest
amounts to thirteen millions. ''''A workman ii
a sausage shop in Chicago, whistled, which wa'
against the rules, and had his head split open by
large cleaver in the hands of the boss 'Puncl
says that when women first resorted to tight lacing
it was to prove to the men how well they could bea
tight squeezing.
When alone, we have our thoughts to watch
in our families our tempers, and in society ou
tongues '.'''''.IThe President has vetoed the Bill
confering the right of suffrage on the negroes ii
the District of Columbia '''''''Itis said that ther
are $4,000 skilled workmen in New York in wan
of labor why does lady always behave her
self best when she has milliner in her employ ?
Because she has man to make her. (mantua-ma
ker) 1.-The Charlotte Railroad charges $3per ball
on cotton from Charlotte to Columbia, ITO miles
The Greenvile Railroad gets $3.50 from Green
vile to Columbia 15G miles. Jackson Miss.
brags of d two year old hog weighing 9S3 pounds
''.'"'General Sterling Price and three daughter
have arrived at New Orleans from Cordova Mexi
co. Minnesota has l23 Baptist Churches, EN-
bracing membership of 3,6OO About $50 have
Joined the Churches the past year. 1.-The Charles
ton Mercury announces the discontinuance of thu
publication of the Charleston Weekly Record '''''
The people of Savannah are luxuriating on fresl
shad
A sister of a late Governor of Kentucky died (
few days ago in station-house in Cincinnati, o
congestion of the brain. She was miserable
drunkard '''''.The petition Of six darkeys of Ala
bama was presented to Congress the other day, ask
ing the impeachment of President johnson. '''''''
The prophecy, MANY shall run to fro, and knowl