Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-07-01
MERE.MENTION.

Last week, the name of Miss Matte Lynn, o
Union County, was inadvertently omitted from th'
published list of graduates of the Yorkvle Female
College. '''''"''Professor John LeConte has beer
elected President pro tenn. Of the University o
California '''.'''''A paragraph in the Baltimore
Sun says that General E. NJ Law, has been ap
pointed Superintendent of the Charlotte and Au
gusta Railroad, at salary Of $4,000. '''''''The
Charleston Mining and Manufacturing Company
last week, shipped one thousand tons of the Ash
ley phosphates to New Castle, England. '''''''T Two
hundred and twenty-five bales of Cotton. were
shipped over the Columbia and Augusta Railroad
en- route for Philadelphia, on Tuesday oflast week
/ The largest owner of personal property in the
United States is Commodore Vanderbilt, who ii
said to hold twenty millions. '''''"General Kirby
Smith, late of the C. s. Army, is principal of s
military academy in New Castle, Ky. Mis-
souri, expects to produce 100000 bushels o.
wheat this year. This would be three times the
yield of any previous year. '''''''''The number o.
persons who emigrated to the United States be-
tween January lst 1866, and December 81, 1868
was 1865, GA. '..''.'A desperado has been arres
ted in Missouri, who is charged with the murder
of seventy-eight persons '''''''A Paris newspaper
predicts that Gen. John c. Breckenridge will ye
be President of the United States ''''''The val
ley of Virginia will yield $4,000 bushels of wheat
this season. '''''''''Receptly, in New York, first
class velocpedes have been sold at auctonfor from
l$l5 to $50 ''''''Beef sells for six cents pound
iu the New Orleans market. '''''Sure way to turr
peoples heads-go late to Church. ''''''''Lock
wood, naturalist asserts that eels bear theil
Young, like snakes, alive. "''''''An Illinois horti
culturist grows roses on apple trees ''''''''The
North Carolina University has ten trustees and
seven students '''''"''The velocipede mania is sub
siding Charleston, as it should everywhere. ''A
meeting of the officers of Southern Railways will
be held in Columbia, S. c., on the 18th Of July,
to arrange schedules
The Atlanta Constitution reports few water
melons in that market on Thursday last at the de.
Icious price of four dollars each '''''''The white
employees of Savannah (Ga.,) custom house are
being removed, and negroes substituted '''''''A
Georgia hen is setting competition at defiance, by
regularly laying two eggs at once. Crop re-
ports from Arkansas north Mississippi and north
Alabama are favorable, despite the unpropitious
weather for some weeks past. They have al'
|ligators for sale in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Buyers are said to be scarce ''''''''A few days
ago, in Washington, four hundred clerks were dis
charged from the War Department. ''''''A dis.
patch from Washington announces that President
Grant has made speech three-quarters Of an inch
long, in ordinary type The speech is also ordi.
nary. 1.-THE United Presbyterian Assembly
pronounced at its late meeting, in favor Of allow
ing marriage with deceased wife's sister.
Che7alier, the aronaut, announces that he will
leave New York Oh the 18th of July, on balloon
voyage to Europe. ''''''''Mr Jefferson Davis in
tends returning to his home in Mississippi in q
short time. His health is announced as precari
GUS. ''''''''William Townsley, of Shelburne Falls
Massachusetts,, has "swapped hosses" GOO times
during - life of two score years.
THE BEAUTIES OF THE New JURY LAw.-Away
up in Marion District they have the new jury law
in full operation, and like the good people of the
entire State they experience its benefits. Some
few days ago two men, the brothers Wiggins, were
indicted for assault with intent to kill.
The proof against the prisoners was entirely cir
cumstantial After the struggle was over pistol
hat and pair OF shoes were found, which had beer
dropped by the assaiants. These articles were
identified, or supposed to be identified, as the
property of these brothers.
The finding of the jury took the community
somewhat by surprise James Virgins was &C
quilted and Edward Wiggins convicted, and SEN
fenced to serve thirty years in the State Peniten
tiary.
James Virgins was said to be the owner Of the
n;stnl and famous hat which identified the marty
and the principal testimony against Ned Wiggins
was that was with Jim that night, that the shoes
left fitted him. and that he was seen the next day
with muddy sock on, showing that he had walked
| in mud lately without his shoes.
1t has been suggested that part OF the: jury
were for acquitting both-a part for convicting
both, and that they agreed as compromise to clear
one and convict the other. This having been de-
termined upon, they threw up heads and tails as
to whom they should clear, and James Virgins
got it. Jim must certainly be very lucky fellow