Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-03-18
MERE.MENTION.

to visit Aiken, South Carolina, tor the Denent OF
his health. ''''''''Gen. Sherman has assumed COM
mand of the armies Of the United States ''''''''A A
farmer in Washington Territory brags of having
eaten bread from -four made of wheat sown only
four months before ''''''''The Sioux Indians call
Gen. Sherman General Walk.a heap. "'''''''In
Otsego, New York, an estate of $1,000 has just
been settled The heirs get So apiece. The bal
lance went to ''costs' and the lawyers. ''''''The
North Carolina Land Company lately sold 1000
acres land for $50, 900 to German colony. ''"Im-
mense quantities of wheat are still held by Mime
sofa farmers. They decline selling at the present
prices. .''''''"Georgia papers urge the raising Of
an extra quantity of sorghum, in view of the Cuban
troubles '''''"Louisiana proposes to license gam
bling houses at S. 900 each. '''''The revolution
lists in Cuba have now some 10000 men under
arms with reserve Of 10000 more. '''''''''Texas
has agreed to pay 800, and to give forty acres of
land to company for every immigrant it brings
into the State '''''"General Breckenridge has re-
turned to his home in Lexington, Kentucky, and
resumed the practice of the law. ''''''"Tbe wheat
crops Of Tanadega and the adjoining counties in
Alabama are good, The quantity Of land planted
in wheat is as large as usual. '''''''Thc Shenan-
doah Valley, Virginia, wheat crop is said to be
very promising and the farmers there are jubi-
lant 1.-TWO thousand citizens of Indianapolis
signed the pledge at great temperance meeting
on New Years Day. Eleven still keep it. 1.-The
State of Alabama gives FIVE thousand dollars 10
the widow of each person assassinated in that State
Husbands are getting anxious. '''''The annual
earnings of the washerwomen Of the United States
are said to amount to $40,O00,0O '''''.'The re-
tirement of Mr. Wade from public life leaves Mr.
Sumner the "Father of the Senate. ""''''''The
winter of 1869 is said to have been at sea, the
most tempestuous on record ''''''''' Strawberries
cucumbers and tomatoes are in the New Orleans
market
A man at Staunton, Virginia, has an invaluable
relic, consisting of brass button cut from swa-
low tailedcoat worn by Thos. Jefferson. '''''' The
lady whose dress is too dirty to wear but not dirty
enough to be washed, has an important question
to decide. ".'.".'The Charlottesville (Va.) Chron-
icle says there is not the slightest foundation for
the story that an attempt was made to assassinate
Brownlow at that place. An English Judge,
Baron Anderson, on being asked to give his opin'
ion as to the proper length Of sermon, replied:
''Twenty minutes, with leaning to the side Of
mercy "''''''''A young man who got married re-
Gently, says he did not find it so hard to get mar
ried as to get the furniture ''The estimated
number of farms in Virginia. exclusive of unim-
proved and wild lands, is 90 5000. ''''''The recent
cold weather has seriously injured the peach pros
poets in Georgia ''''''Ten years ago the St. Louis
papers contained card announcing Boggs and
Grant as real estate agents. Grant is now Presi-
dent of the U. States. Where's Boggs ?'''''''"No
frst-class hotels in New York will receive color
ed guest. '''''''The liquor dealers of Washington
expressed regret that old Ben. Wade
is to leave the city. .'''''The Virginia Reconstruct
ton committee have nominated H. H. Wells as
the Republican candidate for Governor, and J. D.
Harris, negro, for Lieutenant Governor. '''''Corn
is knee high in Florida. ''''''''The Pennsylvania
Senate has passed the Fifteenth Amendment by
party vote ''''''The Georgia Legislature has rat
flied the Fifteenth amendment ''''''''Theodore
Munro, ESQ.,, Of Union c. H., has been appointed
a Magistrate, by Governor Scott. '''''"Mr. John
A. G. Walker, of Chester county, died on Monday,
the sth inst, Of pneumonia. '''''The heirs Of
Noah Webster receive $4,000 annually, from the
sale of his dictionary. ''''''''Thc "Prohibitonme-
ter" is all instrument invented in Boston, by which
a moderate drinker" can tell when he ceases to
to be sober and is getting drunk.