Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-02-07
Straps aud fatts.

1t has been said that it must be an easy thing
to break into an old mans house, since his gait Is
broken, and his locks are few.
- Witnesses against Suratt are already being
summoned to testify against him. de Is expected
to arrive next week.
Mr.. Schofeld, Of the House of Representa-
tiyes. in lste speech took occasion to express hls
ispust at Paine, for not making better JOB ofit,
when he undertook to kill Mr.. Seward.
Brick Pomeroy is on his way to, New Or
leans, it is supposed to collect material and evl-
dence to sustain his legal warfare with his ancient
foe, Ben. Butler
"A bill has been introduced into the Wiscon-
sin legislature disuuafyng Gquor-seefs from hold
inc the Office of Justice Of the peace and forbidding
the holding of courts where liquor is sold
- Five citizens of Rome, Geo., were recently
arrested by the Federal authorities and taken to
Atlanta, for having participated in q tableaux IN
which Confederate flag was exhibited.
1t is asserted that furnace for destroying
illegiiimate children has been discovered In the
basement of the residence of Madame Restell, the
celebrated abortionist of Fifth Avenue, New York
The New Orleans Times places the Sugar
crop of Louisiana this year at $4,000 hogsheads,
and estimates that it will reach 100 900 hogsheads
next year. The Sugar crop Of last year was only
5000 hogsheads.
The Chamber of Commerce at Cincinnati,
havo peosoa resolutions adopting the GENITAL system
in regard to the weight of grain, and changing the
weight of barrel of -four from 1876 to 200 pounds,
to take effect from the 10th Of September next
At the Virginia State Library may be seen
q curiosity in the shape of a piece OF white pine
plank, in the heart Of which IS perfect represen-
tation ola human leg and foot complete in its pro-
portions, as well as color
The Washington correspondent ofthe Spring
field mass, } Republican, reputed as accurate IN
bis observations and statements, estimates, the
chances of impeachment as being one IN hundred
and of conviction as one in thousand.
A resolution has been offered in the Virgin
la Legislature authorizing the purchase OF copy
Of Websters dictionary, an English grammar ana
a spelling book for each member. They would De
useful articles in other Legislatures we wot OF.
The DAYS seem short enough here at this
season of the wear, in all conscience, but just think
of the DAYS in Russia At Archangel, town OF
Is 1000 inhabitants the day lasts only from twenty
four minutes past 10 to twenty-four minutes before
two.
The New York Herald applauds even the
most violent of the attacks on the Constitution OF
which Congress is the scene, declaring that the
revolution must run its course. so the SWINE on
the sea-shore ran theirs, when Satan had entered
them.
The debt of the United States may be set
down, in round numbers as, $500 100000. This,
if all in silver dollars, weighing one ounce each,
would amount to l25, 900 tons, and would require
train of wagons, loaded with ton each, $50 miles
in length to draw it
We understand that, on last Saturday morn
ing, an old negro woman was found frozen to DEATH
in car Immediately in front Of the United States
Headquarters in this town. In the car with her
was another woman, with child three days old
Where is the Freedman sBureau?-Chester STAN
dard.
"A bill has been introduced in the New York
Senate excluding from the exercise Of suffrage all
who may have sympathized with the South in the
recent struggle. It is designed as blow at those
from the late Confederate States who are now resi-
dents in New York and part of its population,
and also ct those of the Democratic party who op-
posed the late war.
We are pleased to learn from the Kngstree
Star, of the 3Oth ultimo, that Messrs j. 5. Beck
and j. P. Barrineau, who were arrested BY order
of the military on account OF the death OF the ne
groes in the burning of the Kingstree Jail, have
been released from Castle Pinckney, upon the re-
QUESTION of IT. B. Logan, District Judge, for the
transfer Of tho prisoners to theoiVil authorities.
Our young friends-and old ones too-who
are anxious to learn how many weddings married
couple may lawfully have, will be pleased to know
that one year after marriage comes the paper we'd
ding; five years, the wooden wedding; ten years,
the tin wedding twenty five years, the silver wed
ding; fifty years, the golden wedding; seventy-hvc
years, the diamond wedding.
"A story is told of soldier who, about one
hundred and fifty years ago, was frozen in Siberia
The last expression he made was 1T is ex
He then froze as stiff as marble. In the summer
of 1860 some French physicians found him, after
having lain frozen for one hundred and fifty years
They gradually thawed him, and upon animation
being restored, he concluded his sentence with
''ceedingly cold"
The Winchester (Va.,) Times states that
from all quarters the most favorable accounts are
brought respecting the fine prospects for the COM
ing crops A very large area of ground-perhaps
more than had been titled for ten years-was last
fall sown in wheat, and the seed being of a very
superior quality, the result is the promise OF an a
bundance, which will 60 far towards restoring to
prosperity our agricultural interests.
"A notice of race in the Baton Rouge Ad-
vocate has the following regulations appended: :
'The judges will settle no squabbles between pri-
vate parties. The fastest horse will win the race
COlOreu people Will Dt IeulONeu iIoiu lie liaSh IL
they do not behave like white people. No fighting
allowed until after the race, and then not within
SIX hundred yards of the track. No liquor to be
brought on the ground outside Of the person carry
ing it."
"A Memphis paper says: "Colored aristocra-
cy seems to be coming to grief Last week George
Washington was convicted in Richmond for steal
ing a lot of old iron, and James K. Polk for a
similar freedom with other peoples property
Horace Greeley was found guilty of murder, in
Charleston on Monday, and will soon expiate a
life of rascality on the gallows. In New Orleans
Andrew Jackson was in limbo for robbing hen
roost.
"A difficulty occurred at Fernando, Florida,
on the 26th ultmo, the citizens resisting the seiz
ure by the sheriff of some property that had been
sold for taxes. The sheriff was driven off, and ap-
pealed to the Governor for military force, and the
Governor having no men, asked the interference
of United States troops. Col. Sprague, who has
charge Of the latter, declined, and the Governor
has applied to the President. All was quiet, and
the authorities were awaiting instructions from
Washington.
-The exact number of persons assembled in
the convent at Arcadsum, when it was blown up
BY the Cretans, was 325 men, $50 of whom were
fit to carry arms, and Gal women and children,
966 persons in all, of whom thirty-three men and
sixty-one women and children alone survived the
explosion The women threw themselves into the
flames with their children, so that they might not
fall into the hands of the Turks. The bodies OF
the Christians remain unburied.
The Rev. Mr.. Finney, Of Oberlin, Ohio, in
q vacant nrovor made at sDecial invocation In be-