Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-10
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line new Orle6uS Iac1yntRe says CnaC IuaP-
pointing Daniel E. Sickles Minister to Spain, Gen:
"A wealthy and eccentric Ohioan has made a
tune to found an ''in6rmary for cats"
"A clergyman of Pitts6eld, Massachusetts,,
being away from home, telegraphed his sermon to
The Brooklyn Sunday Schools had their an
niversary parade on Tuesday There were 10000
children in the procession. '-" ~ hS-, D., -s.S'
- Some of the young girls Of Alexandria, Va,
are saving the gloves they wore at General Lees
reception to hand down to their possible descend
ants. -. 49, .,s, a-<,:., 49, &, s.-.-f .
AN old man of sixty, who recently poisoned
himself in New Haven, left note requesting his
minister to preach in his funeral sermon the same
discourse that had been delivered over his wife:
"A patent has been obtained for the manufac-
ture of water proof paper. IL will be no uncommon
thing, by and by, to carry a quart, Of milk home
in paper bag.
The Richmond ladies decorated the graves
of the Confederate dead, at Hollywood, Thursday
last Fully ten thousand persons were present, and
business in the city was altogether suspended.
The New Orleans Times expresses unbound
ed establishment that Mr.. Henry s. Foote was a
member Of the Memphis Convention, and did not
speak. ''3' '''' -
There are now living, in Chattanooga Couu-
and his wife, ffty-three years Of age, who have had
twenty-four children, twenty sons and four daugh-
tess, ip twenty-four years, all single births.
a drunkard having fallen down stairs at
Bellows Falls, Vermont, he repelled all offers to
pick him up with: "Now, you ies, lemme lone
Wan no slobberin' aroun' me. Iallus come dow
stairs that wayp' =. s-''' -....' .'
In Burlington, Iowa, a practical mechanic
of that city is building houses for three hundred
dollars each Each house contains three good
rooms, .,plastered, glazed, and finished in every
respect Ike the ordinary small cottage. . .,.-
Another improvement has been made with
reference to the New York Central Park, New
style open carriages, holding twelve passengers,
make trip of an hour and quarter through the
grounds, at twenty-five cents head! ''''' -'
&C., The whole number ofremains inferred IN the
National Cemetery at Fredericksburg Is l5Il56:
Of this number 2, 4l6 have been Identified, and
II, 74O are unknown Of those known 2, ,4l4 were
white. and two were eolored. Of those unknown
1878 were white and two were colored.
"A good story is told ofa German shoemaker
in Utica, who having made pair Of boots for
gentleman of whose financial integrity he had con-
siderable doubt, made the following reply to him
when be called for the article s"Der poots ish not
quite done, but der beel ish made out. - ..>.-.
The Boston lost says; During the Peace
Jubilee record is to be kept Of the Smiths who
arrive in Boston The first book contains one thou
sand pages of the usual size Of hotel registers 1t
win be safe to chalk down every third person met
as Smith" ;.-ss.-,. s--.,-a. rs : .'1r-- e..
There is family residing in Waverly Place,
New York City, consisting of three persons, whose
united age is only tyenty-nine years and few
months The physicians certificate describes the
father as school boy aged fifteen, and the moth
er as schoolgirl, aged fourteen. The child is
only twelve days old. : - .. >.... 90. "a
- In August, 1868, Rev. John n Potter left
Boston for South Carolina, taking with him wife
and daughter. His mission was to find chance
to open negro school and better his condition.
When last heard from, he was at o hardware store
buying double barrel shot gun. and just starting
on the trail of heavy -muscled Ethiopian, who the
day before had eloped with his only daughter.
Brethren, let US unite, etc. - 80.
The Winnsboro' Ne,cs states that one of
Comptroller Neagle's colored clerks, while On his
way to New York recently, purchased ticket, end
took his seat in first class passenger car on the
Charlotte Railroad; but, in, short time after
wards, greasy, dirty black man dropped IN, took
his seat beside, and entered into conversation with
theoficial; which so disgusted the wouldbe social
eauahty-ite, that he seized his carpetbag hurried
ly vacated the premises-takiDg a seat 10 the car
where he properly belonged. g. -, -
"A Tennessee exchange says that recently a
white man was found in the woods, on the premises
of John Vance, Esq, four miles from Strawberry
Plains, hanging by a leather strap from cavalry
saddle, to small pine limb which stood up some
four feet from the body Of fallen tree. His teet
were resting on the ground and his hands on the
IL, y H. Loo 10 bo5 ov;doptlv haop 1nad a
day. or more. On his shirt, under the arm-pit
was marked''R G. M Dunivant, No. 2-l860. "
The man was q perfect stranger inthe community.
9 The question Of what constitutesa family
in the eye Of the law, has lately been raised ID
Ordinary of Coweta County for homestead. under
the constitution and laws of Georgia, for Colonel
Joe Calhoun, bachelor, aged sixty years. Colonel
Calhoun creditors filed objection to the passage
Of an order by the Ordinary assigning homestead
In this case on the ground that the applicant was
not the 'shead of family" in legal sense. It'll
was admitted that he had neither wife nor child
rem, but had servants in his employment, and his
counsel contended that this fact constituted him
the ''head of family" The ordinary sustained
the objections, and the applicant appealed to the
Superior Court. '' .i''.
THE Detroit Free Press makes the following
singular statement. SenaUOr CndnQleT leIC uer0,
with his family and servants, on Saturday night,
for New York, where he will remain few days
to sailing to Europe. His wife and
daughter each take with them colored female SER
want, and he takes two black male servants These
servants are to be fitted out while in New York
with very snowy livery the coats of the men SER
wants are to be of lavender color, with white but
tons, upon which is the Michigan coat Of arms, ex-
cept that the stays support the letter @, which is
of red enamel, with gold edge. The female SER
wants wear large belt buckles bearing the same de-
sign as that upon the buttons. The hats Of the |
men are black, with wide purple band and large
silver cockade in the centre of which is one of the
buttons aforesaid.
just before the expiration of Andrew John
sons Presidential term he signed pardons for Jacob
and Moses Depew, of New York, father and son,
who had been convicted of taking seized whiskey
from the custody of internal revenue officers The
father had been sentenced to pay fine of FIVE
hundred dollars and be imprisoned for two years,
and the son to one years imprisonment and the
payment of one dollar. When President Grant was
inaugurated the pardens had not been delivered to
the Depews, and he immediately ordered them to
be revoked. The DepeWs have, therefore, remain.
ed in prison, and are there still, but Clarence A.
Seward, as their counsel, proposes to test the
legality Of President Grants action in revoking
President Johnsons pardons. He has accordingly
taken out writ Of habeas eorp&s, and the case
will be brought before Judge Blatchford, at New
York, in a few days, for argument and decision.
The speed Of travel may besurprising to the
uninformed, and the subjoned statement will give
some idea oft: !D q single second snail travels