Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-01-28
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toxicating liquors. ;aa:: @ =. .,. =, =,
-. Under the new ruling Of the court at Tope.
ka, Kansas, lawyer is required TO stand up while
questioning witness, and if too drunk to stand be
cannot practice. ...-~.... r
The Newport (R. I.) Neses says there is Q
family in that city in which the father is seventeen
years of age, the mother sixteen, and the baby
three weeks old. @'' '"1':. - -,
-Toads are sold in Paris at the rate of fifty
cents a dozen. This animal is used for the pro
tection of vineyards and gardens from the rayages
of insects that escape the pursuit of the birds.
-Consressman Bowen, Of South Carolina,
having returned to Washington from q day or two's
hunting excursion, is confined to bis room with an
attack of indigestion, supposed to be.a mess OF
squirrels too much. ST,
"A child was born in Estill county, Kentucky,
recently, which from the waist up was 8 perfect
pig, and in it's lower extremiies was developed
Ike human being. 1tived eight hours, and was
seen by q great many people. s"; -, - 4:..7
Hundreds of planters in this snd adjoining
counties have now on hand from 81, ,000 to 5000,
and feeling sort of good over it, but really not
knowing what to do with their money.
= -. -. al, r.. Rome Ga-) Courier.
"A firm in the city of New York, who have
lost recently some 900 through the dishonesty OF
their book-keeper, have sued party who recon-;
mended to them the book keeper as 8 man OF good
character, for the recovery of the money. -:
"A bill has been introduced into the South
Carolina Legislature to incorporate o company 70
build q railroad from some point on the Whining
ton and Manchester, Railroad, between the Towns
of Sumter and Manchester to Hamburg, or some
point on the Savannah River in the direction Of
Millen, Ga. H.. ..........s........ y -:
"A boy was sent by his mother to saw some
stoye-wood out of railroad-ties Going out doors
shortly after, she found the youth sitting on saw
horse with head down The mother asked her
hopeful son why he didn't keep at his work. The
boy replied thus "My dear mother, l tnd 1T hard,
very hard, to sever old ties. 81 ID.
One effect of the Presidents declaration OF
full amnesty will be TO clear the docket OF the Grim
inal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, Of about thou
sand cases of treason. Indictments are pending
against nearly every rebel who set foot IN East
Tennessee, from JEFF. Davis down to ceioneis OF
regiments who CHANGED to pass through there. -
The erection of factories in the South will
give employment to thousands Of poor young
whites, who now do not earn their salt. 1t will
make producers ont of this large class Of non-pro-
dueers, and thus increase our material wealth.
Farmers, take your money out OF your grand
mothers old stockings, and set the loom and the
spindle in motion. ..
The Georgia correspondent Of the New York
Times says: "The cotton crop IS good; the re!a'
tions between whites and negroes friendly, the
former paying promptly on all their contracts Tor
work, and the latter being satisfied with the results
of their labor In no part Of the world, says the
correspondent, is the corresponding class OF labor
ers as prosperous, in material sense, as these ne
groes.
The Nashville Banner publishes extracts
from letter from Amos A. Lawrence, Of Massa.
chusetts, in which that eminent New England
manufacturer extols the advantages of the South,
particularly Tennessee, for carrying on cotton man
ufacturing. MIR. Lawrence takes practical view
of the subject, and urges the working OF smaller
farms and the employment of the extra capital in
manufacturing and mining
"A correspondent of the Walhalla Courier
says: "In 1866, planted about three three
quarters of an acre of poor new ground in tobacco,
and realized nehundred andforty dollars from the
sales thereof, besides using it two years myself.
The same land would not yield more than ten
bushels Of corn. took pains in the selection OF
my seed and the cultivation Of my CROP Take
note of this.
Intelligence has reached Washington from
an authentic source that the Spanish Government
is favorably inclined to transfer the island Of Caba
to the United States and that the terms suggested
government and such Of our people as approve OF
the purchase or annexation Of Cuba. The condi.
tions upon which Spain would part with the island
have not transpired.
Secretary McCulloch, (says the Washington
correspondent of the New York Worldly wants
$3.50, 900 appropriated to pay the salaries of the
Revenue Officers in the South who have served
without other pay than pickings, owing to their
inability to take the oath. It seems not enough
men able to take the oath could be found suf6-
ciently intelligent and honest to run the revenue,
although no very high grade of integrity and learn
ing has been exacted. .r
The Nork York Sun says that Mr.. Moltz,
after eight years labor, has produced locomotive
which he believes will supercede the use ofeteam
on rail roads, and relieve the public Of the appre-
hension of disastrous explosions. The machine is
set in motion by levers acting on an eccentric which
moves the wheels Of the engine. Balancing
weights and springs seem to supply the motive
power. The model, which is on exhibition in
New York, cost the inventor $4,000. ~..'
The agricultural report shows that last year
there were produced in the United States 900, ,000,
600 bushels of corn, and 23sO 900 bales of cotton
The cotton is distributed as follows: North Caro-
iba, 100000; South Carolina, 10000; Georgia,
2eO,OOO Florida, $4,000; Alabama, 2S5, 900 !;
Mississippi, 400,000 Louisiana, $50, 5000; Tex
as, 260, 900; Arkansas, 265, 900, Tennessee, 2O0,
600; other States, $4,000. The report says that
the estimate is below rather than above the actual
yield, and that it is not made for districts or pors
but for the States separately.
The New York Commercial A7rrtSr is Of
the opinion that cotton bids fair to mount his
throne again. Assuming that the. crop will realize
to the South between $500 600, 900 and $780, 900,
900, it says that this SUM will not have to be ex-
pended for doctors bills, incurred by sick and in
firm negroes; or to maintain a large and floating
population of slaves, in comparative ideness, un-
til the planting season begins again. Huge store
bills will not have to be met in other days, when
planters supported large bodies of slaves. The
whole amount can be. appropriated to the recupe
ration and regeneration Of the region desolated by
the iron heel of war, and in very few years Of
the farthest, the South will be on her feet again.
- Persons who are in doubt as to the proper
age at which to marry, are referred to the follow
ing precedents Adam married at very early
age indeed so early it may be set down at O. Shak
speare was IS, when he perpetrated the poetic
feat; Ben johnson, 81; Franklin, "a; Dante
KEEPER, Fuller, johnson, Burke, Scott, &c; Tyche
Brahe, Byron, Washington and Bonaparte, q
Penn and Sterling, %; Lineus and Nelson, 29
Burns, 80; Chaucer, Hogarth and Peel, 80; DavJ
and Woodwork, 33; Sir William Jones and Wei