Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-11
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the fne at so cents per day. ....,.....-s
The "Wickedest Man in New York" won't
have any more prayer meetings held in his den;
and he says the'reason is that ''the .mssionaries
behaved improperly towards his wife!'
1t was wittily, but somewhat ungallantfy
said, that woman is the very reverse of her mir
ror-the one reflects without talking, and the 9th
er talks without rejecting .. ... s .t.,..f.. ...
"A minister in Minnesota has been presented
with wstchguard composed of hair, every lady
in the congregation having plucked out one hair as
a contribution
The population of Memphis, Tennessee, was
estimated at sixty thousand three years ago. A
late census returns but thirty-nine thousand. The
decrease is attributable to the terrible condition OF
Tennessee under Browlow and the negro rule.
"A Berkshire girl, says the Boston Post,
walked fourteen miles through the snow the other
day, to marry young man who couldn't come to
her house for fear of sx-shooter which the stern
parent carried.
The ordinary mode of churning butter in
Chill is to put the milk in skin usually q dogs
skin-tie It on donkey, mount a boy on him, with
rowels to his spurs about the length of the animal
ears, and then run him four-mile heats.
- The Prussisn Military Gazette says that the
German military organization is now complete, and
that 'smilion of soldiers can, at any moment be
placed under arms by single telegram from Ber-
"A negro girl, aged eleven years, eight mouths
and eighteen days, living near Pulaski, Tennessee,
q short time since, gave birth to female child.
The mother and child are both living and in per-
feet health. "'1 'a
"A lady having the misfortune to have her
husband hang himself on an apple tree, the wife
of neighbor Immediately came to beg branch OF
that tree, to have it grated into one in her Or
chard, 'for who Knows says she, but it may
bear the same kind Of fruit" ...
General Robert E. Lee has beea elected
President Of the Bible Society Of Rockbrdge coun-
ty, Virginia, and has issued short address to the
citizens of that county in behalf of the object OF
the society-which is to supply every familyin the
county with acopy Of the Bible. ,...r 3. ->...
john M. Langston, "a negro,) Of Ohio. VIII
be an applicant for the ministership to Hayti un-
der Grant. This is the same position offered him
by President johnson, but declined for the reason
that be would not dim his political prospects by
accepting an Office under the present admlnlstra-
ton.
They have number of velocipedes in the
gymnasium of the 22d regiment, the requirement
Of the art of riding those machines being consider
ed 'smilitary necessity" The New York Herald
unkindly saws, swhat pity that velocipedes were
not used in the late war! They would have been
of priceless value at Bull Run especially on the
evening Of that eventful day.
General Grant" said distinguished lady
to the General the other day. rather con6dentially
81 am Just dying to know who the Cabinet are to
be-" care you, though" said the General Il
am, indeed" said the lady; lust dying of curos-
ity:" Then the General, in Low voice, replied !:
"Well, Madam, that is just what Mrs. Grant
says"
"A young man at Connersvile, Giles county,
Tennessee, on Thursday evening, while standing
on the Hoor in the act Of being married, was shot
down by the brother of his bride He fell in the
arms Of the devoted girl, who, assisted by friends
conveyed him to bed, when, at her request, the
marriage ceremony was finished, she exclaiming
that she would rather mourn dead husband than
dead lover. In few minutes, the newly-made
husband expired. The murderer escaped.
The Darlington Southener, of the 5th in
stant SAYS: We have been reliably informed that
a gentleman of capital, late Bureau officer in a
neighboring county, has purchased two hundred
acres of land near Florence for the purpose Of
planting vineyard, growing vegetables, raising
poultry and stock of all kinds for market. A con-
tract has been let oct for the erection ofsome thir
ty buildings on the place, and as soon as compile.
ed will will be occupied by as many families Of
Germans
A suit has just been tried in New Orleans,
involving the question whether party was bound
now by notes given for slaves before the war. The
plaintiff sold his plantation with about 600 slaves
some time before the war, and notes were given as
part of the price. The jury stood eleven for plain
tiff and one for defendant the trial resulting with
out verdict The same point also came up be-
rosto Sfofa in md
submitted to jury of negroes, who were emanci-
pated by the war. This jury found that theirown
sale before the war was valid
"A man who has been travelling in Texas,
says "It is the hottest and the coldest the wet
test and the dryest, the richest and the poorest.
the best and the meanest, has the best women aud
the meanest men, and more pretty ladies, with
prettier little feet, and no calves to suit more sick
ness and less health, more streams and less navi-
gable waters, more corn bread and less corn, more
-four and less biscuit, more cows and less milk and
butter, more chickens and less eggs more gold and
silver and less money, more deer and less venison,
more negroes and less labor, more Bureaus and
less furniture, than any country in the United
States-and where house flies always live and mus
quitoes never die y
The New York Sun says: eve learn that
the T;Sune Association has insured the life Of Mr..
UIeeley IOr Tue uauuSOue SUM VI S1OU,OOO. 1uuS
even the death of the great pubhcist, like his me
Will be to his associates source fpecuniary bene-
fit, for it can scarcely be supposed that the prop
erty of the Tribune can be injured to that amount
by his ceasng to direct it and write for it Indeed
if the loss Of his services were equivalent to $780,
600, we could hardly expect that his associates
would consent to his accepting the dignity of Am
bassador to London 1t is reported that the pre-
miums on this liberal insurance, amounting to
$1,000 year, are to be paid in advertising This
shows what keen eye to business the people Of
New York possess.
Mr.. John w. Forney is travelling in the
South, and is writing letters over his own initials
to his paper. In late letter from Lenoir, North
Carolina, he is delighted to find the people of the
State so temperate and orderly he "has met a
great number of the Confederate officers, and in
ever instance found them courteous, intelligent
and full of nquiries;" the election of Grant lis re-
garded by this whole population as the best thing
that could have happened to them," and on every
side, when he is not surprised he is overjoyed al
the goodness loyalty and prosperity of the people
Whether this apparent change of view has any.
thing to do with land speculations in which Mr.
Forney is said to be concerned, or results from al
honest conviction on q closer inspection of the
Southern people, we do not undertake to say. We
have no doubt ourselves, however, that the virtues
ofthe North Caroinians are all that he represents
them to be. ...
As an express train on the Michigan Centra
Railroad was nearing Albion, Tuesday afternoon
the passengers waiting for the train were startled
by the frequent whistling Of the engine 1t was
found that man was driving at furious pace, te
S,o4 b;o horoor ond aoross tho froctr hefnre