Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-04
MERE.MENTION.

Attention is called to the advertisement of the
Yorkyile Female College, in this issue, with RET
erence to day-schelars. '''''.'.Mr John Simpson,
of the town of Chester, has applied for patent
for new cotton press. '''''''It is reported thai
the Mills House, in Charleston, is to be reopened
soon. ........'South Carolina has three National
Banks. with an aggregate capital Of $2,656, $780,
North Carolina has six, with an aggregate capi
tai Of $2,495, 759. '''''''"General Stolbrand has
entered upon his duties as Superintendent ot
the Pententiary. .''''''..Edgefeld County has adop
ted the limits of the old beat companies as the
boundaries of the townships under the new law
'..."".Mr. Richard Tozer who was seriously in
jured by the falling ola wall, during fire ir
Columbia, several weeks ago, has so far recovered
as to be able to walk about. Mules are being
sold at auction, in Charleston, at from $3.50 te
SITS. .."''A negro was recently convicted ir
Greenville County, and sentenced to be hung, fol
stealing seventeen yards Of jeans cloth, valued at
81 per yard Governor Scott has commuted the
punishment to two years and six months hard Ia
Dor in the Penitentiary '''''"C. j. Jaeger, Esq,
of Newberry, has been appointed, by Judge Bryan,
Register in Bankruptcy for the third Congession'
al District of South Carolina, vice Henry Summer,
deceased. .'.'.'."Generals Porter and Babcock, Of
General Grants staff, were in Columbia last week,
on tour of inspection. They had an interview
with Governor Scott, and expressed themselves
highly pleased with the condition of things in this
State 1.-THE Union Times says that the project
of forming new County out Of portions of Spar
tanburg Union and York, has been abandoned as
impracticabe. ''''...Henry Cobia, Esq, has been
elected President of the 'People's National Bank,
of Charleston, vice D. L. Mckay, Esq, deceased.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has petitioned Congress
for pension. 1t seems that she cannot live on
the sale of old clothes. '''''''The Eagle cotton
mills of Columbus, Ga, are now manufacturing
cotton blankets at prices ranging from IS to $3.50
per pair, which are said to answer many OF the
purposes of good wooden blankets. single
engine recently drew train of 372 cars across a
Mississippi river bridge The train was four miles
long. "'.'.'.A lately suspended Western insurance
company has $9,OOO,OOO at risk, slO,5OO unpaid
losses, and 81 100 assets. ''..'In the Massachu,
sets Legislature petitions from "2, ITO mothers
were lately presented, asking tor the re-enactment
of the prohibitory liquor law. '''''.A lady in Ma.
for the education of IS orphans. '.''''Ho Honorable
Charles O Conor, of New York, has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the University
of Virginia at the next celebration. ....''General
Thayer, the first superintendent of West Point, is
still living at the age of g. '''''''Twoicidesr is
the latest name for matrimony. .''."Twelye New
York churches have boy choirs. The New
York police force consists of 2,lOO men. ''''..:A
woman in Lewistown, Pa, last week, gave birth
to five boys at one time. All of the children
died. 1.-THE boots and shoes manufactured in
Massachusetts during 1868 are estimated to be
worth $lOO, 900, ,OOO '7.'.'.A Milwaukiean is anx-
ious to do forty miles an hour On velocipede for
wager of $1,000. ':'""''Gen. Grant is forty-seyen
and Mr.. Colfax forty.six years of age ''''''''The
clergy costs the United States $4,000, 900, annu-
ally; the criminals $40 600 900; the lawyers; s7O-
600 900; rum, $780, oOOO 900. .''' London is grow
ing so rapidly that its population will soon be ,0oo
600. '.''''"0ne million postage stamps are daily
used in the United States '''''..A Boston paper
states that man in that locality is riding a hog
through the streets, as preparatory practice to
managing yelocipede