Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-12-03
MERE.MENTION.

The Charleston Neos is informed that all work
has been suspended on the Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, at Granitevilie, in consequence OF the
writ of ofiniunction granted by Justice Willard few
days ago. at the instance of the South Carolina
Rail Road Company. .'Bills Receivable" are
selling in Columbia at eightyGve cents on the dol
lar, and the impression is that they will go still
higher. ''.'...Professor John G. IeConte, Of the
South Carolina University, has been appointed
Professor of Physics in the State University OF
California, at salary Of $4,000 year in gold 1t
is understood that he has accepted the appoint
ment. 1.-THE Columbia Phenin announces the
death of Henry Davis, Esq, for many years resi-,
dent of that city. TX Governor +. W. Pick
ems is lying dangerously III, at his home in Edge
field District He is suffering from inflammation Of
the lungs, and is in very precarious condition.
Brooklyn has school for instructing young Ia
dies how to operate on sewing machines.
tumor, weighing l2O pounds, has lately had lady
ofTroy, N. Y, removed from it. The forth
coming report of the Auditor Of Kentucky will
show decrease in the number Of hogs for 1868,
compared with 1861, of $4,000, '''''''There are
224 cadets at West Point Eight fsh-hooks
of a French pattern were recently taken from the
stomach of a Goldfish at Boston. This season
a million tons of hay, the same number Of bushels
of corn, and two hundred thousand bushels Of
wheat have been raised in Maine. ''''.''.A a man
has been hanged at Chesterfield, Va, for horse
stealing, which is still capital offence in the Old
Dominion. .'.'''".A newly invented rat extermina.
tor is warranted by one sniff to make the. vermin
sneeze of their heads: Brigham Young has lost
q wife, and is one seventy-ffth of widower. '.'A
society for the prevention of cruelty to human be-
ings" is proposed. '''''''The New York Mai
nomnates Anna Z. Dickinson for President iu
1872. '.'''".'The census of 1870, it is said, will
show the population of the United States to be
A., 600, 900. .'.'...Robert Bonner says his New
York Ledger is to be the official organ" of Pres
ident Grants administration. Horse-organ, we
suppose. ...''...''.'One million sacks Of wheat are
stored in the warehouses of San francisco '.'''Ir
Richmond, recently, Chief Justice Chase decided
that a corporation must pay in gold to stockhold
ers the value of stock sequestrated BY the Confed
crate Government. "...'.'The admission fee to the
New York Gold Room has been increased to $i0,'
900, with view, it is said, of excluding irrespon
sible parties, who come in there simply to gamble
In the canton of Oberwald, Switzerland, there
is a law prohibiting persons under lS from smo
king. ut is proposed to issue German week
ly newspaper in Goldsboro', N, c., 50 rapidly i.
that part of the country filling up with hardy Ger
man settlers. california has produced an apple
seventeen inches in circumference. Many per
sons are in advance of their age, but an old mait
generally manages to be about ten years behins
hers. ...:..The Bible Society Record says that il
more than two hundred different languages ths
people of the earth are permitted to read the wore
of God ''in their own tongue, in which they wert
born. 1.-THE barber of the Metropolitan Hotel
who cut Gen. Grants hair, a day or so ago, swep
up the clippings, which he is selling at handsome
price. ....:"Sequatchie Valley, East Tennessee. j
blessed with an enormous corn crop, and every Tar
mer is building new barns: One million postag,
stamps are dai ily used in the United States ''".:
bill is before the Vermont Legislature iunposin!
penalties upon all parents and guardiansn nsneglectinl
to send their children to school. ''''''"The Com