Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-12
Straps aud fafts.


dollars day for field hands"
Lincoln, Illinois, boasts of a man with feet
l53 inches long, inches in width, and l6 inches
-Goyernor Vance declines the nomination for
Governor, rendered him by the late Conservative
State Convention of North Carolina.
-Woman's sphere of usefulness is extending
In Iowa, the State Senate has passed bill admit
ting women to practice ut the Bar.
The President is thinking of nominating a
new Secretary of War. He has one too many
now-IMen,phis Ledger.
Seven-hundred and eighty-three petitions in
bankruptcy have been filed in Virginia, since the
law went into effect OF this number not more
than ten have been by creditors.
In New jersey, strong effort is being made
to procure the passage by the legislature Of law
to have vegetables in that State bought and sold
hereafter by weight, instead of by measure
Another relic of the classic age has been
found in St. Louis, being dogs collar, supposed
to have belonged to Julius Caesar, from the fact OF
having his name engraved on it.
Julia Dean Hayne, the actress, died sudden
ly in New York last Friday morning, at the resi-
dence of her father-in-law. She was IN the 5itn
year of her age.
Conservative associations have been organi-
zed and officers elected in Greenwood, Abbeyllle
District, in Spartanburg and Anderson villages and
in Summerville.
"A plan is on foot in Edgefeld to arrange a
compromise for all debts due in that district. One
meeting has been held on the subject, and another
has been called to consider the subject.
1t is stated, upon the authority of those who
have heard, that cat, when her tail pinched be-
tween door, utters the vowels a, e, i, o, u, with
great dstinctness. IF the injury is prolonged, she
gives and y also.
The Legislature of Maryland in joint con-
vention, on Friday, elected Hon. George Fickers,
of Kent county, United States Senator, in the
place of Hon~P. F. Thomas, recently refused seat
by the Senate.
In Orangeburg, on sales-day last, three hun
dred and fifty acres of land were sold at hfteen
cents an acre. Several thousand acres were sold,
and the highest price obtained was little over
three dollars per acre.
"A woman with child in her arms was
few days since soliciting charity from door to door
in Bridgeport, Conn. She wanted if possible, to
raise money enough to get her child photograph
taken.
"A bill has been introduced in the Senate to
abolish the Office of Adjutant- General OF the Army.
This is intended to displace Gen. Thomas, lately
nominated by the President as Secretary OF War
ad interim.
A lady, who some time ago carried two
pigeons from their home in Missouri to Illinois,
distance Of two hundred miles, keeping them IN
close box. lately missed them, and has received
letter from Missouri, saying that they had returned
to their old haunts.
1t is now understood that Attomey-G General
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beck, David Dudley Field, Judge BENJAMIN R.
Curtis, William NJ. Evarts, and George I. Curtis,
will appear on behalf of the President before the
High Court of Impeachment.
The Burglars Insurance Company is new
concern, Just started in New York. This concern
does not agree (although such thing would de-
light many timorous people, to prevent burglar
from getting into your house; but it the william
steals the spoons the company pays the bill.
The month of March, 1868, will, it is ex.
pected. exhibit two wonderful evcnts-the trial OF
Jefferson Davis for insisting that the Southern
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drew johnson for insisting that they are in the
Union.
"A local editor has just seen man whom ne
thinks was pretty we'll occupied. lie had his wife
upon one arm, baby on the other, basket and
cane in his hands, cigar in his mouth, and two
- $3.50
coat tail.
In Indiana railway engineer was recently
killed by an accident, and the administrator Of his
estate brought suit for damages against the pa
rents of three boys who had placed obstructlons
upon the track and caused the accident, and yer.
dict was rendered in his favour in the sum Of
$4,000.
DIR. Cumming the we'll known prophet, who
has heretofore been engaged in predicting the end
of the world at stated periods hasrecenty had the
kindness to postpone the destruction of the world
for period of one million years. Those who have
an interest in remaining on this globe for some lit
tie time to come, will certainly be thankful tor
themselves and their posterity.
The New Orleans papers contain the pro,
ceedings of railroad convention which assembled
there on the 26th ultmo, for the purpose OF ar
ranging continuous and fast schedule, between
that city and New York. 1t was agreed to make
the schedule such that the mails between the two
cities will be delivered in three and halt days.
"A New York letter, dated on Saturday Of
Court is rapidly on the increase. To-day no fewer
than one hundred and fifty cases were acted upon;
yesterday, forty. The parties include men who
have been in almost every department OF business;
the great majority of them, however, in compar-
atively small way" ... ..
The New York correspondent of the Phila-
dephia Ledger says that the tenor of private tee-
grams said to be from Democratic members OF Con-
gress is soualy, and leads to the belief that the
President will certainly have to 60. A telegram
in the New York Ti1June says the same opinion Is
almost unanimous in Washington. There is very
little room for doubt, We imagine.
1t is announced that in England, whilst the
DOOR marry, the well-to-do avoid marriage to such
an extent that two women in every five OF the
whole number of English women are unmarried,
and the total of these unmarried amounts to the
great number of ], ,527, 600. Ip London, forty-one
per cent. of the women of marriageabe age are
spinsters, and in five English counties there are
forty-fve per cent
-Thad. Stevens rawlings have become so dan.
gerous to his own party, that it has been found
necessary to smooth over OF their asperltles.
The correspondent of the Boston Journal writes
that Mr. Stevens sometimes makes statements,
while under the influence of stlmulants, which are
not consistent with truth" a mild way of put
ting it" that Thad. is generally in chronic state
Of "sewed up"-"how came you so''-drunk.
There is general movement in the West
for the purpose of getting the national capital re-
moved from Washington to some place IN the
Mississippi Valley. Several Western cities have
offered inducements for having the capital located
within their limits and it is reported that the
Iowa Legislature has passed resolution in favor
of removing the capital to some point IN the West,
and requesting the Iowa delegation in Congress to
vote in accordance.
-On the 3lst of January, at Great Salt Lake