Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-12
Scraps aud fafts.

contain the consequences. s-.E s.ssE
81 A Hartford author is engaged on history
Of woman's progress from thee earliest ages, to be
entitled 'From the Fig Leaf to the Crinohne."
What crop is that which is none the worse
for being backward? The pork-E1op. fyou dom
believe It, try it backward. ~ .s. ='..-'
Sheridan's magnificent turnout at New
Orleans has been much discussed But his most
magnificent turnout" is the fne just furnished
him by the President
Plymouth Rock is becoming very uncear
and unseemly, from the habit of pilgrims splitting
tobacco juice and throwing tobacco cuds and tine
remnants of luncheon upon it. Deon't!
The Orangeburg Times says that the dwell
Eng house of Rev. A. F. Dickson was burned down
on Saturday of last week. Besides the house, 8
large amount of personal effects was lost.
Peruvian ladies are noted for their exquisite
Kstnal feet, and get them by having the little toe
amputated ninfancy. A Peruvian surgeon, skilled
in the business, is going to San Francisco to oper
an Office. g9 a.: -is3,:,s.. ,,..s...f ..1......
The Bennettsyille Journal states that Nat
Williams, negro lecturer, charged with preaching
incendiary doctrines to the freedmen Of Marlboro
has been arrested and taken to Darlington, where
he win be tried by military commission
The scaffold had goodly harvest last Fri
day. No less than fifteen persons suffered tht
extreme penalty of the law within the limits
the United States. Two Of the number were wo
men. ...} a.; sErt IS, Dt# #-.'.....'- II. -
The contractor for watering the streets in 6
New Hampshire city was busy at his duty recently
during a heavy shower. "Why don't you stoI
sprinkhngP' asked citizen, don't you see tha
It rains?' 81 do," was the reply, sbut am al
ways willing to work when the Lord helps me-
- There is well, about 30 feet deep. nea1
Sudbury, Vermont, in which the ice formed in the
winter remains throughout the summer. Othel
wells which have been dug in close proximity II
this one exhibit no such phenomenon, and the sa
wants are unable to explain the mystery. .--.
The First National Bank of Washington
advertised in the City papers, last week, for Con
federate per cent. bonds, it having received an
order from England for small amount. The
price offered was two dollars and fifty cents fol
each one thousand dollars.
-- "A Brooklynite tells q queer story about the
lovely wife and daughter of a milkman, who took
daily baths In the lacteal fluid to improve then
complexion The milk was then watered and sold
at fifteen cents quart 1t didn need any doctor
ing to give it body" after that
a few days ago, twenty seven women, oi
Red6eld, Iowa, decided to abate the whiskey shops
tried and acquitted Subsequently they were re-
arrested and taken before another Justice Of the
Peace, twenty-five miles distant, where they were
again acquitted after three days trial
Iss;----T The Richmond Christian Observer, of the
5th instant says: A few weeks ago at . festival
: for the benefit of the Presbyterian Church at
Wytheville, handsome Tea Set was purchased
by many of the citizens of the place-who by a vote
awarded it to the Rev. Joseph Fl. Martin. 1t was
wen deserved tribute of respect on the part OF
q the community.
The negro walters "tried on" a strike last
week at the "Chattahoochee White Sulphur
Springs" Their demands were refused and all
left. The guests set to work and waited on them
selves till new ones could be hired. The gentle
men washed the Dishes and at meals the ladies ate
first, the gentlemen waiting on them. When they
were done, the gentlemen sat down and the ladies
served them.
- The Griffin (Ga.) Star says that at the re-
cent session of Henry County Court the jury, COM
posed of six white men and six negroes, tried a
negro for petty larceny. The proof was indisputa-
bic; and was backed by confession of guilt from
negroes positively refused to find verdict and a
mis-trial was ordered.
The names of about FIVE hundred applicants
on the books of the American Colonization Society.
These are residents, mostly, Of the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, and are nearly all of the class populary
known as freedmen" The Society has made an
earnest appeal for funds to enable them to send
these applicants to Liberia.
The Weldon IN. c. Ne,os, got look at
Gen Candy as he passed through that place, on
his way to Charleston. The editor draws the fol-
lowing pen-portrait: HE is fine looking man,
possessing but little the appearance of q soldier,
reminding one more of sturdy old farmer than Of
military commander. He was dressed in citi-
zen's clothing, and had no appearance of ostenta-
tion-withal pleasant looking individual"
AN Engishman has devised plan for sup
plying the residents of crowded cities with fresh
country air, imported at so much per cubic foot.
A network of underground tubes, radiating from
some place beyond the reach of the foul exhala-
tons Of the town, is to run through the pestlfer-
Gus alleys and sitting back streets of the great
cities, and the emaciated occupants of tenement
houses and cellars need only turn faucet and the
breath of the daisies and the odour of new-mowr
hay will rush in to revive and strengthen them.
-"If confscation is ever begun in the South,
it will end in the North At the Chicago Labor
Congress proposition to call upon Congress for
the ground that workers who have produced all
the wealth in the country are certainly entitled to
share of their own money" This reasoning,
says the World, is the backbone of Thaddeus Ste
vens' 8 scheme of mild confscation. The same sort
of reasoning would distribute all the railway shares
in the North among the navvies whose labor built
the roads.
Since the trial of Surratt, his quarters in the
jail have been moved, and he now has one of the
rooms of the second story fronting South, which
he occupies in common with Henry johnson, who
Is charged with the killing of Thomas Smoot, for
seducing his (Johnsons 81 wife. Surratt has of late
much improved in health They are well fixed in
this room, each having cot on which they sleep.
They have some books and papers, and when not
reading, conversation is engaged in. Surratt al
ludes but seldom to the charge against him, but
speaks of general topics. He seems to think much
Of his Zouave uniform, and wears it nearly all the
time Correspondent Ne,o York World
"A miserable picture, even in the old times
Of slavery, was awhite man who had to work him.
self, but was ashamed of it. To see an individual
now, cleaning his boots, and if he hears anybody
coming, hiding the brush, or to see farmer work
ing in the field but laying down his hoe at the ap
proach of his neighbor, is bad enough but not 81
hopeless as one who prefers to suffer rather thar
work evenin secret. The man who is not ashamed
to say, II am poor, and have to work with my
own hands," and the woman who is not ashamed
to acknowledge that her husband is not rich, anc
that she has to cook-these are the people who art