Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-29
Straps aud fafts.

-There is a'lady in Sutton, New York, wl1t
was married at twelve years Of age, who is tho
mother of sixteen children, weighs two hundred
and ten pounds, and is 'fair, fat and forty
The official returns received at Genera
Canby's headquarters from every county. IN Vlr
gnia, show Colonel Walkers majority to be 19,
POP The State Journal says the vote falls tal
short of that registered.
"A gentleman who has travelled over nearly
all the Southern States says that people generally
have not only recovered from the effects OF the wal
and the general depression of year ago, but that
they are now on fair road to riches.
- \ project is on foot in Bourbon County, Ky,
to raise fund for the purchase of home tor Mr.
Jefferson Davis. One gentleman agrees to donate
aste for residence, with ten acres attached within
four miles of Louisville.
-Thc darkies of Cookevilc, Tennessee, are
to have a tournament. Among the sports OF the
day a Quitting match" is announced, at the bot
tom of a halfbushel measure, the contestants to
be bindfolded.
An auctioneer, while engaged in his voca-
ton, thus exalted the merits Of a carpet: ''Gen-
temcn and ladies, some folks sell carpets for Brus.
sells. but can most positively assure you that this
elegant article was made by Mr.. Brussels himself
-Thomas Barrett member ofthe jury which
convicted DIR. Webster, of the murder of DR.: Park
man in Boston twenty years ago, has written a
letter to the New Orleans TiD,cS contesslng that
he himself was the murderer and that Webster
was entirely innocent.
"A large and handsome building has recently
been erected OF Seventh street, Richmond, adJoln-
ing the new Richmond theatre for hotel purposes,
intended more especially for the accommodation and
entertainment Of eolored people, ''but whites will
not be excluded"
The London newspapers contain correspond
cnce from Canton, stating that preparations are
making there for wholesale emigration to the Uni
ted States on the part of the masses, who are but
too eager to embrace any opportunity to get away
from their mandarins and the bastinado.
The Augusta Chronicle mentions report
that the contractors for the Blue Ridge Railroad
had determined to employ Chinese instead Of negro
labor-on the road, and that large force OF these
people will be procured from the West and brought
out at once to South Carolina.
"A family in Boston, wheHthe neighbors are
going into the country, secure the same result by
cheaper means. The parlors are closed, carpets
taken up, gas turned off, cheap crockery used, and
by the use of plain food, frequent baths, candle
light and other discomforts, persuade themselves
that they are enjoying season in the country.
Lindley Murray, whose grammar is 50 curl
ously incorrect, is said to have resided for the
space of two and-twenty years in one frontParlor
without once going out, attended upon BY kind
" old maid, enamored of his principles and his
preterpluperfccts, living chiefly on boiled mutton
and turnips, and solacing himself in the intervals
of conjugating verbs by grinding barrclorgan
- In answer to 4 correspondent the Philadcl-
phia Letlqey states that according to the English
system of notation, "billion" is one million mil
lions, that is, as many millions as there are units
in million. According to the French system, a
billion is one thousand millions. Hence, as We in
the United States may be considered as reckoning
by the English system, it may be safely asserted
that our national debt has not reached billions.
"A weI-known citizen of Philadelphia, who
had been using weak solution of carbolic acid as
wash to correct the offensive odor arising from
canccrous affection, discoveredthat the application
also entirely removed the cancer. One,tourth OF
an ounce Of carbolc acid is diluted with quart
thrty-two fluid ounces) Of water, and the lotion is
applied three times a day. A weaker solution,
containing one eighth of an ounce of carbolc acid
to the quart of water, would probably be safer
application
"A Northern exchange says: '"Ihere are
rumors of serious break in the Republican party.
1t is reported that Senators Sprague, Ross, Fow-
Ter, Henderson, and perhaps one or two others,
will hereafter refuse to act with the Republican
majority in the Senate, while Chief Justice Chase
is now said to be in full sympathy with the Demo,
Gratis The only member Of Lineoln's original
Cabinet who now acts with the Republicans IS
Simon Cameron, who was turned out OF 1t tor
corruption.
Niagara Falls is still slowly wearing away.
Considerable excitement was recently produced BY
the announcement that the Horse Shoe Fall had
cavcd in. About thirty-fve feet ofrock has gken
away on the old Horse Shoe Fall, which gives the
shoe triangular shape on the side nearest Goat
Island. 1t is computed that some seventy to one
hundred tons of rock must have fallen in, from the
gorge it has made The fall of these rocks does
not we learn, in the least spoil the beauty Of the
Horse Shoe FALL if anything it adds to its attrac-
tiveHess.
- The new ten cent currency has appeared.
In artistic execution it is said to be decided i'm
provement on the stamps now in vogue. On the
left is bust Of America, with scarf studded with
stars, the words ''ten' in each corner, in small
capital letters-with corresponding numeral, in
large figures on the right hand corner at the top.
The back as usual is green-with the same In
Seription as on the Others. The execution of the
latter is not so fine as it might be. The other de-
nominations are not yet finished.
Massachusetts, has been considering the egg
question A report eleven pages long was recent
" made to the Legislature, upon bill to regulate
the sale OF eggs by weight. In this report the
minority. who favor the bi discuss the egg ques-
tion ancient and modern, from every point OF
view; contrast the size Of eggs and bonnctS, and
declare that the female managers of the poultry
yard have studied political economy profoundly, in
order to reduce the size and increase the number
Of their eggs They treat of the egg trade between
France and England, Of poultry houses and dis
eases, and Of the treatment Of setting hens The
majority report is one page long, and objects IN HAT
terms to the bill.
"A large force of Chinese laborers has been
employed by the contractors to finish the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad. For some time past
a large number of convicts from the Georgia peni
Tertiary nave been employed on that railway; but
the recent lease Of the penitentiary and its inmates
to Grant, Alexander 4 Co., has caused them all to
be turned over to these gentlemen, by whom they
are now employed on the Macon and Augusta Road.
Deprived Of the labor of this force the contractors
on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Road have de-
tcrminel to supply its place with Chinese, and
have accordingly made arrangements out West by
which many Of the Chinese who were employed on
the Central Pacific Railroad until its completion,
will soonbc at work on the former railroad.
- Mrs. Catharne Beecher and Miss Harriet
Beccher Stowe are preparing book the title OF
which is THE American Womans Home. In
this forthcoming book the authoreSScs promise
Ito show how house can be made convenient,
warm and pure how woman may successfully
be dressmaker, cook, house keeper and physician
Of the family, and conduct all the family matters
health and economy. A book that "can show
so many things will he valuable, if some body will
write another book which will induce the male
hnrs IF tho family IN Droyide for their house.