Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-08
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The Methodist Church South has removed
the penalty Of expulsion for negleciing to attend
ss-meetings.
-As$5, 900 mopupent is being cast ct Munich
for the graves of Confederate soldiers inferred in
cemetery near Baltimores
An ambitious San Franciscan is making
l0O0 cigars of the finest Havana tobacco, each one
to be tipped with gold, and intends giving them te
General Grant y
josh Billings says: "Give the devil his due
reads well enoughin a proverb; but, mi frlend,
What will beoum Nv meand yu if this arrangement
is carried out? - =. =. -.
"A thrillingly dramatic duel, was fought the
other day, between two negroes, IN tennessee.
They threw down their guns, and bqtted each other
with their heads
II Florida, it is asserted, contains over seven
million acres Of land lying along the coast from In
dian River to Cape Sable, admirably adapted to
the. cultivation of coffee.
There are now two thousand, two hundred
and seventeen assistant assessors IN the internal
revenue service, or nearly one thousand less than
in November of last year.
The latest fashion for the ladies at Newport
is to carry neat little velvet memorandum books
for noting down all engagements to ride, dance, OF
for excursions and picnic parties "
1t is said that if coal dust is freely sprinkled
over eabbages early in the morning before the dew
worm which usuaIyinfests them during the months
Of July and August.
1t is stated that the chief of the Cherokee
nation, Silas Wright, is Presbyterian preacher
the chief of the Choctaw nation, Lewis Downing,
is Baptist preacher, and the chief Of the Creek
nation, Samuel Chihote, is Methodist preacher.
~ Men who enter their names on Hotel Regis
ters with the a6fr ''and Lady," mean, sometimes,
that the woman is wife, and sometimes, not.
Better say John Jones and wife, than D. Feole
and Lady b. -~sr
The New York Commercid says: 1T is as
plain as anose on a man face, that the Democratic
party will boldly enter upon the next national
campaign with reputation enblazoned on their
banners"
a man now temporarily in Nova Scotia does
not know to what country he belongs. His father
was Irish and his mother German. He was born
in Canada, was naturalzed in the United States,
became Confederate by rebellion; and is by resi-
deuce and attachment Mexican, ,
Tie Columbia Phanir says that many citi-
zens of South Carolina refuse to pay their State
tax, On the ground that it is an Illegal imposition,
even according to the present Constitution and
laws of South Carolina The question will be car
ried into, the courts. s'..
Miss: Salhe R. Banks, of Americus, Geor-
gia, has received the appointment of Deputy Col
lector of Internal Revenue for that collection dis
trict Miss Salie is Yankee school-marm whose
talents heretofore have been devoted to African
juveniles.
A California lawyer recently, after stating a
proposition, said: ''AIay it please your Honor
Tibet hundred dollars, and stake the money,
that what say is good law. y, The attorney on
the other side declined to bet, and the argument
was admitted by the Court to be unanswerable.
The latest returns from the vote on lay dele
cation in the Methodist Episcopal Church, develop
more serious opposition TO the movement than
hasbeen heretofore exhibited: The returns now
show twenty thousand tor lay delegation to
ten thousand against it. s....
Governor Scott has advertised for proposals
from contractors to complete the Blue Ridge Rail-
road from Anderson, South Carolina, to. Knoxville
Tennessee, distance Of one hundred and ffty-two
miles Payment for the work is to be made in the
seven per cent. first mortgage bonds of the road
principal and interest payable in coin, and guaran-
teed by the State.
"A Troy expressman explained to the recipi-
ent of package the signfcation of the letters &C.
o. D." "them means pay" but the other refusing
to be convinced that them spells pay" the bril-
liant expressman further argued the matter by
telling bis customer that the mysterious letters
were the initials of the words Come Ommediate
ly Down. and carried his point.
"A correspondent at Dallas, Castor County,
sends us an account of the sudden death of man
in that village from drinking too much whiskey.
His name is given as G. N. Fl. Myers, a German,
formerly in the employ of Com. Wilkes. He COM
menced drinking on Thursday, the 17th of June,
and died on Saturday the l9th-the Doctor de-
claring that bis death was caused by the poison
which was in the rwhiskey he drank.-Charlotte
Democrat.
The experiment of tea culture is to be made
in California, by those acquainted with the busi-
ness, on a scale to fully test its practicability.
Agents of japanese colony have purchased land
in the foot hills of Ell Dorado County, which the
japanese think is well adapted for silk and tea
culture. IF they are not mistaken, there are many
thousands of acres of land in that State which
may yet come when California will be as noted for
its teas and silks as it has been for its gold
The ice factory at New Orleans, situated in
one of the elevators, great success 1t consists
of six retorts of "a chemical freezing mixture From
these six reterts six pipes descend to six huge
chests, which chests in turn radiate severally off
into four compartments. In each compartment
are long, thin tin cases, seven on one side and
eight on the other This making by all the rules
of arithmetic total of fty-six cases in box, and
there being four boxes to achest and six chests to
factory, it follows that at full blast this Southern
factory can turn out 1874 cakes of ice, eighteen
inches long, twelve broad, and two thick, at the
completion Of each process: The ice is much cold
er than that frozen naturally, and lasts much long
er The factory is joint stock enterprise, and the
property is exceedingly lucrative.
At Echo, on the Union Pacific Railroad, the
other evening, three freight trains stood upon the
main track, when word came flashing over the tel
egraph from the superintendent, "a locomotive
and tender, with steam up, and nobody on board,
have broken from freight train and started down
the grade" All! then and there was hurrying to
and fro In few seconds came second message:
'She has just passed Castle Rock Station" New
er were three trains got off upon siding with less
delay. Then the workmen piled sleepers high up
on the track lest even that should not stop "her"
and she should do murder further down the road,
they tore up the rails below. Just as this was ac-
complished she came in sight. She shot through
the sleepers like bullet through pine board,
sending them flying in all directions, and darkening
the air with spnters, but at the broken track she
jumped up and down with vexation, and finally
plunged angrily, head foremost, into hillside
She had run twenty-six miles in twenty mine min
utes-the best time yet made upon the road.
The statistics of immigration at New York
are still astounding to all who examine them, in
comparison with the figures for previous years.
Up to June l6, there had been landed at Castle
Garden l24 0SS foreipners dnrinp the present vear