Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-11

sold property TO the amount OF $ll,S5Z. Iros
ley G. Foster of Union County, was drowned in
Browns Greek, in that County, on Monday Of last
week. ....""Mules are being sold in Union County,
at from $500 to $3.50 So says the Times. Jas
NJ. Askew, of Union County, killed negro near
Mount Tabor, in that County, few days ago.
.......-The Lancaster Ledger says that Dan Moore,
q coored teamster, was severely beat and his wag-
on robbed by a party of thieves, four miles below
Rock Hill, one day. last week. ".'."'Iwo negro
children were recently burned to death near George
town, 8. c., while their parents were absent at
church.
The Chancery Court of Claiborne county, Mis-
sissippi, has just decided suit that has been be-
fore it for twenty six years ''''In jackson coun-
ty, Florida, the court had to adjourn five different
times, on account of the black jury going sound
asleep and snoring almost as loud as thunder
storm. .......".Seventeen towns in Mississippi are
preparing to build cotton factories ''. 1t IS now
evident that Menard, the colored member elect
from New Orleans, will not get seat In the pres
ent Congress. ......'',A man in St. Louis recently
rot married on Tuesday got the chills on Wed
nesday, wrote his will on Thursday, went mad on
Friday, and died on Saturday ''''''''Ehe Hartford
clergy have been discussing female suffrage, and
by 3S to decided it unscriptural. "''''''fhe Au-
pusta (Ga. y Chronicle and Sentinel says that the
cotton crop of that State will yield from thirty to
forty million dollars in gold. ''''''resident John
son, it is said, will be the Conservative candidate
for Governor Of Tennessee this year. '''.''"The
Louisville Courier thinks there will probably be
more cotton planted in Southwestern Georgia this
year than has ever been before. ''''t3en. Forrest
says be has given up politics, and intends to devote
himself to railroading. ''''''''A St Louis paper
declares that the only honest officer in the govern
ent of that city is the police clerk, who ''has no
chance to steal. .'...'..'The political campaign Of
1859 will open with the following State elections:
New Hampshire, March 9; Connecticut April !;
Rhode Island, April 7. A Governor is to be cho-
sen in each. '.''.'"At Egn, ILL.,, the city authori-
ties have closed the colored schools and forbidden
the colored children from going to the white
schools. ...Seven millions of persons visited the
New York Central Park last year: ''''''"Bodies
are nightly stolen from the negro cemetery in
Richmond, Virginia, and are shipped to Northern
medical colleges. ...'..The New York Times says
"Messrs. Mason and SHdeIl will shortly return to
this country, in company with JEFF Davis. '''""A An
idea of the amount of travelling to and from New
York and the surrounding cities, may be formed
from the fact that so, 32l, ,274 passengers crossed
on the East and North River ferries during the
past year .'.'''''The Bank of England prints 49,
600 bank notes every day. '''''''Russia has can
non that fires 200 shots minute. Brownlow
pardoned three hundred convicts last year, and is
still at it. Chicago proposes 'Glass 1nsu.
rance Company" to take risks on windows and
beer glasses '.''"At Cincinnati there has been an
infant camel born-the first event Of the kind in
the country. ....".."An agricultural locomotive
has been built in California that runs 80 plows at
one time ......'.A Kentuckian being asked how
much corn he raised, answered: "About ten bar
rels of whiskey, besides what We waste for
bread. "'...'.'We notice by our exchanges that a
great deal of land in Virginia is being sold to Nor
thern men who intend to settle in that State. They
are the sort of fhen the South needs.