Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-12-19
Straps aud fatts.


food, if some lady will hand him baby.
Milwaukee has officially decided the value Of
o mans beard In fight ruf6an pulled out q
mans beard, and the court awarded him fifteen
dollars damages.
appends to his advertisement: ministers of the
Gospel supplied with goods at cost, if they agree
to mention the fact to their congregations"
The Gadsden (Ala-) Times says that for the
past two months an average of fifty wagons per
week have passed through that town, filed with
dissatisfied Georgians and Alabamians seeking
homes in the Western States.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed q
law making it criminal offence to defraud hotel
or boardiDg-house keepers out of their bills. 1t
will not be safe for 'Bailey's Varieties to visit
the. land of wooden nutmegs."
The colored race, it appears are coming for
ward as inventors, and the Patent Office report
shows that during the past year several have ap-
piled to the Patent Office for patents on their own
inventions.
in Paris the people are buried by company
who take charge of all funerals This company
includes eight hundred persons, and it employs
several hundred horses. All these horses are eth
er white or black.
M. Prussak Russian physician and natu-
ralist, has apparently proved BY injection OF salt
into the blood vessels of animals, that the popular
notion that scurvy is caused by undue proportion
of salt in the blood, is entirely correct.
Lady Margaret Herbert asked somebody for
a pretty pattern for q nightcap. "Wel," said
capf' 20, child" said she, "you know in case
of fre2" T
In Cuba, there is curious custom in regard
TO vaccination. Instead OF calling In physician
notices are printed in the newspapers that at q
certain time the operation will be performed at
one of the churches, which will be specified in the
notice.
The low state of the Missouri river has been
turned to good account The people turn out and
dig the bottom of the river for valuables lost by
the wreck of steamboats,. In one locality large
amounts of canned meats, fruits and oysters, as
well as bottles of wine, have been found
The estimates for the next fiscal year, as
sent in by the various departments at Washington,
are: War, $4,000, 900; navy, $47 900 600; civil
list $5l, ,OOO 600; pensions, 500, ,0O0 0OO bounty,
s25, 600 600; Indian and miscellaneous, S2O,OOO,-
600. Total, 1925, 100000.
1t may interest lovers of oysters to know that
the oyster is very tenacious of life, and IS said to
keep up its organization in the human stomach tor
q long time. An oysters heart it is said, beats
perceptby half an hour after it is swallowed, all
of which it is very pleasant to know.
It is noted in the Virginia Convention that
Hanover County, the birthplace of Clay end Hen
~; Orange, the birthplace of Madison and Zack.
TAYLOR; Albemarle, the birthplace of Jefferson i;
Charles City, the birthplace Of Harrison and Iy-
ler, are all represented by negroes.
The Phenir says that the track-layers, on
the Columbia and Augusta Railroad, have reached
q point little more than four miles from Coqm-
bia, on the Lexington side of the Congaree. 1t IS
expected that the road will be completed to Lex
ington-ffteen miles-within two months.
AT Athens, Georgia, on Tuesday night Of
last week, mob of about fifty armed negroes
threatened, to attack the students of the Georgia
University. The students armed in turn, and
difficulty was imminent, but troops were ordered
out and they dispersed the negroes.
Nat. Frazier, one of the Pickens murderers
was hung in that District, on Friday Of last week
he confessed to having killed young Hunnicutt by
mistake. The terms Of FIVE Of his convicted ac-
complies have been changed from five years In the
penitentiary to two years. ,-.,.s ........
The single State of North Carolina now pays
annually more taxes to the General Government
than the entire amount Great Britain proposed to
levy on the Colonies, which attempt produced the
war which made the then American Colonies free
and independent States.
Navigation is announced from all quarters
as closing. The New York canals are frozen the
Weland canal stopped The rivers Of Maine, the
Connecticut River, the upper Mississippi and the
upper part of the Hudson are also frozen over,
whilst several harbors to the eastward are already
closed by ice
At a meeting of the London Medical Socie-
ty DR.. Blake, distinguished practitioner, said
that he was able to cure the most desperate case
of tooth-ache, unless the disease is connected with
rheumatism, by the application of the following
remedy: "Alum, reduced to an impalpable pow
der, two drachms; nitrous spirits Of ether, seven
drachms; mix and apply to the tooth"
-Itis said that one of the quickest ways of
making fortune is to marry fashionable young
lady and sell her clothes The principal objection
to this proceeding is that the seller might also be
sold in the transaction. We think, however, that
there is little question that the quickest way OF
spending fortune would be to marry tashlona-
bic young lady, and buy her clothes. The expert
ment has been tried frequently, with the same re-
suit.
"A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga, dated the
18th, says: In apparent defiance. OF the relief
ordinance adopted Thursday last by the Conven.
closed it. Gen. Pope was appealed to, and re-
piled that he could not intervene ordinance
merely saying levies shall be suspended, but not
preventing their being made. This construction is
sustained by the bar, and under it the ordinance
defeats its own end.
There is company of Arabian jugglers per
forming in London, whose fcats excel anything
achieved by any of the many Oriental wonder
workers who have visited this country. These
performers appear to take their eyes out, balance
themselves upright on naked sword, eat stones,
nails, glass; &C., cactus leaves and fire, run sharp
instruments like iron skewers through the tongue,
charm and devour serpents, and perform like re-
voting but most surprising and inexplicabe feats.
The Huntsville (Aa.,) Independent says
that large portion of the cotton now in the fields
will not be gathered because Of the inability of the
planters to get laborers. There are hundreds OF
able bodied negro men in the county and about
town, who utterly refuse to do any regular work,
contentcd to cultivate little truck patch and to
do trfng jobs about the streets, simply to supply
their necessary wants Of food. And the few that
pretend to work do not do half the work they did
in former times.
Tea has the power to subdue irritability, re-
fresh the spirits, and renew the energies, such a;
is possessed By no other agent. When the system
of man is exhausted by labor or study, a cup o
tea reinvigorates and restores as no other form o
food or beverage can. 1t is a promotive of longevl
ty, saves food by lessening the waste OF the body
soothes the vascular system, and affords stimulus
to the BRAIN The young do not need it; and 1t Is
worthy of note that they do not crave or like 1t.
Children will frequently ask for coffee, but seldom
for tea. To aged people, whose powers Of diges-
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