Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-10-01
Straps aud fafts.

a glass Of liquor nor was he ever IN bar,room., =
"A letter from sGalena to the New York Her.
aid, states, as by authority, that General Grant
has determined not to resign his position as Gene
raj unlesshe is elected President!
-George Washington shot and killed Frank.
lin Pieree LAST Thursday, IN Columbus,s Georgia
Franklin Pierce was stealing George corn. Pretty
business for the father of his country to be in.
80 People may ten you of your being untitled
for some peculiar occupation in life but heed them
not-whatever employment you follow with perse.
verance and assiduity, will be found fit for you-it
will be your support in youth and comfort in age.
The commissioners of Newton, Md have
passed an ordinance giving authority to the ballf,
to fasten, either BY ropes or handcutt any person
or persons found drunk or riotous within the cor
poration, uow . ::.. .. ..a-.. -..~..s.
"A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark, says:
sAll the post Offices between Little Rock and
Washington, Arkansas, distance of lO miles,
are closed in order to stop the circulation of Con-
servatiye newspapers, ' - So - 70 '
"A death marriage has occurred in Ohio.
The bridegroom had been tnortaly wounded IN q
drunken fight, but this afianced determined not to
give him up, and came to his bedside at midnight,
when the ceremony was performed. ..ga.-| a.
"A fellow, in an oblivious state, took up his
LODGINGS on the sidewalk, He woke next morning
and Strengthened himself up, looking on the gr9pna
on which he made his couch, and sald wen, II
/ had pickaxe, I would make up my bed r. ..
Tie tswickedest man. revival has reached
Washington. The Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciation Of this city, are negotiating with the pro-
prietor of popular concert saloon 10 hold prayer
meetings in his rooms ON Sunday evenings Wash
itoton Star. ..r # ;.g-aH .-a!:s- - .Iu:,'-e 4.
Am upstart threatened TO; post Gov. Scott, q
brave Kentuckian of the earlier days, because ne
refused to accept a challenge from him. Very
WE'LL" said the hero, "you post me as coward,
and then all the men in Kentucky will know what
I now know, that You are Gar. r.'-, :! II ."
when the steamer, w. B. Carter exploded
on the Mississippi, over two years ago, safe, be-
longing to Adams Express Company, was lost, with
$3.50, 600 in national currency. After two years
sounding for the safe, it was recovered, with the
money intact, by the New Orleans Wreeking Com
paDv. . ...--...,. .....,i ...... T..
"A New York tradesman having three eusto-
mers, a father and two sons by the name Of Wheel
er, and fearing confusion of accounts from their
different orders, solved his difficulty by styling the
parent ''Stern Wheeler, !" the eldest son Side
Wheeler" and the youngest, rather a last YOUTH
Propeller" .a ..... ....,,.s.,,r, s.,. .,.;,.s
Some curious statisticaa has aseertained the
fact that the whole expenditures of the govern
ment, from the day George Washington took his
seat down to the time Lincoln was lnaugurated as
President, amounted to less than fourteen hundred
million dollars; while the expenditures since the
Radicals have been in power amount to the enor-
mus sum of nineteen hundred millions f-..
WHY don't the Southern people behave
themselves? asks the RAIDS; they can expect de,
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nate andcontumacious This as Mr.. Lincoln used
to saw reminds us of little story in point: "Moth.
er, mother" said hopeful urchin to his maternal
parent, smake Bill behave himself whenever !
hit him on the head with the hammer, he hollersP'
"A directors train onthe Chicago and North
western railway, on Saturday, made the run from
Fort Howard to Chicago, 242 miles, In six hours
and fifty-two minutes, deducting stops or at the
rate Of thirty-fve miles per hour, which is claimed
to be the best trip ever made in America. From
Woodstock to Chicago, fifty miles, the run was
made in forty-four minutes. '' ~'. ...
AN excellent apparatus for the purpose Of
informing travellers as to the names Of stations, is
-ix-s,aa an thA-aaxs-ofth tha Qgsdanhnzg and -4aka
Champlain Railroad. 1t consists externally of q
box, surmounted bya bell, and havinga glass plate
in front, under which the name of station appears
in letters of about three inches in length on arm,
val at the station named on the indicator, the bell
on the top of the box rings, and at the same mo-
ment the name Of the next station on the line ap-
pears under the glass plate.
- The Triennial General Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States
will meet in New York on the 7th Of October. All
of the States will be represented for the first time
since 1859, and the Convention will comprise q
larger number of bishops and divines than any
former council Much important business will
come before the Convention. 1t is expected that
six or seven new dioceses and missionary jurisdic
tions will be erected, and several bishops elected,
andpossby ycolsecrated. The esubject of freadjusting
the canons, and many other important questions
will be discussed. ''~ ~
"A singular statement appears in the Sayan-
nah Ne,os, to the effect ''that proclamation was
written by President Lincoln when the secession of
the Southern States occurred, and was approved
by his Cabinet, announcing their undoubted right
to do so asserting that the Constitution OF the Uni
ted States prohibited force being used to compel
them to return, and asserting to their peaceable
withdrawal This proclamation was sent to the
printer for announcement but an interposition was
made BY several senators and representatives, and,
after conference, it was recalled and suppressed.
The names of the witnesses to this facial Of them
of undoubted character and respectability be
had" .a i
- The JeoiM Messenger says that at the auc-
tion sale of pews in the new Temple Emanuel, in
New York, the amount received reached about
$3.50, 900. The trustees expected a presumption
of $4,000, but it amounted to 100000. The
highest price paid was 81, 4,6OO, the purchaser Sc
lecting the pew directly in front of the pulpit The
other members paid various sums ranging from
$4,000 to $500. The appraised value Of the pews
was $500, ,0OO there being twenty at IS, 600 each.
Many of the seats were sold at acomparatively low
price, the trustees very properly declining to neg
lect the claims of the poorer members. The low
est priced pews were sold for $500, accommodating
seven occupants each. By this sale, the temple
stands free from debt, and with sinking fund of
100000. =
The editor of the Matre VTaga,ian, in a late
letter from. the White Sulphur Springs writes:
When General Lee first came, he could not enter
the ballroom without being surrounded by groups
of gentlemen and ladies who were anxious to make
his acquaintance. One evening, it so happened
that the group around him was composed exclu-
sively of old men, and this of itself attracted all
eyes toward him. Just then, silver-haired old
gentleman, much more aged than the. rest, drew
near the group, and introducing himself to Gen.
Lee, grasped his hand, and holding it fast in his
own said with a trembling voice: General, par
don an old man for telling you the plain truth. I
love you better than ever loved my own father. y
Overpowered by emotion, General Lee attempted
no reply but his suffused eyes made answer more
eloquent than words. Those who witnessed the
scene say that it was one of the most affecting they
avar babold