Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-12-05
Seraps aud fafts.

while Gen. Butler was in Norfolk, few
days ago, white hackman, named Adams, re-
fused to let him ride in his hack. A subscription
has been started among the citizens to purchase
the hackman a new carriage.
-"Si," said pompous parsonage who once
undertook to bully the editor, ''do you know that
I take your paper?" I've no doubt you do take
it." replied the man of the quill; for several Of
my honest subscribers have been complaining late
" about their papers being missing in the morn
ing"
Some one who exhumed from the recesses of
the Surrogates Office, in New York, day or two
from it, that the author of Common Sense, and
the cage of Reason" firmly and devoutly believed
in the existence and omnipotence OF God.
Charles Leland is the man who said that "a
New Englander's idea of hell was place where
everybody had to mind his own business !" which
Is MANAaalAy'o eeyi"s t,at tho poritct,e
hated bear batting not because it gave pain to the
bear, but because it gave pleasure to the specta-
tors
"A terrible tragedy has occurred in Austrian
Tyrol. A farmer after efecting heavy insurance
on his house and barns, set fire to the latter, but
was discovered in the act by one of his shepherds
He therefore killed the shepherd and murdered
his wife and infant son, finishing by cutting his
own throat.
The New Orleans Rcayane is opposed to
procuring white labor" 1t says: I'VE want
white men here to go to work themselves and not
procure labor. The system of mercantile farming
which has so long cursed the South, and bred
debt and idleness, must cease, or our decay will
become ruin.
"A woman in France, in good circumstances,
knowing that the man she loved was in love with
k1o-1 nd f0n m
herself and left her property to the man. that ne
might make her rival his wife. She is certainly
the most magnanimous woman the world has yet
produced, and her name was Elise de Bareie.
"A few weeks since man approached the
rope to which is attached the balloon in which
everybody in Paris is making ascensions. He drew
a knife, when the attendant asked him his inten-
ton. my wife, he replied, lis up in the bal
loon, and I'd give hundred francs for the priv
lege of cutting the rope" The offer Of the mon
ster was refused.
"A decision was given in the United States
Court in New York recently, that person who is
aggrieved by the action of Collector Of Internal
Revenue, may have his suit against the Collector
to recover back the money illegally collected, al
though paid to the Collector, and by him paid over
to the Government provided the party aggrleved
made proper protest in time.
The New York Tribune thinks that when
the present rage for pedestranism subsidies, good
muscular trial could be had by two men laying a
wager to decide which can saw the most wood tor
poor famiies-the timber to be contributed by
those enthusiastic admirers of muscle who are now
venturing their spare stamps upon the endurance
of pedestrians.
"A 'lovely girl" in Wisconsin, recently re-
covered fourteen hundred dollars damages, in q
breach of promise suit against perfdous lover,
Her lawyer congratulated her on the amount, when
she exclaimed with ferocious glance at the mulct
ed defendant, and nervously clutching her fingers,
I'D give every penny Of it just to have one good
pull at his hair!"
-Immense deposits of valuable phosphates,
said to be superior to Peruvian guano, and OF In
caculabe value have been discovered on planta-
tons hitherto considered of little value, stretching
along the banks of Ashley River, few miles above
Charleston. a company has been formed, backed
by Northern capital, to utilize these deposits;
which consist Of animal remains, forming thick
substratum for several miles.
One daily paper in Paris has circulation Of
Az, 900 copies. 1t is printed on four presses OF
French invention, which turn off Ia, ,oOo copies
an hour. Each press can print 600 copies every
minute England has nothing approaching this
quantity or rapidity. And this paper, LIE Petit
Journal, selling for one sou a fraction less than
one cent, employs, as we'll it may, some of the
cleverest pens III France.
AT meeting of the Stockholders Of the
Port Royal Railroad-designed to connect Angus
ia with Port Royal Harbor-held in Charleston on
the 9th ultimo, Stephen G. Millet, of Beaufort,
was elected President, and R. E. Robbins, of Bos-
ton, with eleven others, directors More than
half the grading has already been completed, and
1900 hands will be put on the work immmediate-
".
The Wilmington Star says q school boy in
that town few days ago was asked to define the
word Admission, when he replied ffy ee1tS- cents;
sort of definition do you call that?" II don't
know" sulkiy replied the boy, "but I'm sure it
says so in the circus bill down town." ''Yes,"
sung out little fellow in perfect fever of excite
ment, and children half price"
Hon. RobertJ. Walker is writing letter re-
commencing the immediate resumption of specie
payments. This is to be effected, he Thinks by a
foreign loan, which he believes can be obtained at
par in gold, at six per cent. He also recommends
the abolishment of the internal revenue system,
and all internal taxes, except those on liquor and
tobacco which, if properly collected, would yield
1921 900, 900 annually. The national banking sys-
tenn should be sustained.
The report of General Grant mentions the
remarkable fact that during the past year no fewer
than $4,000 men have deserted from the army.
The greater part of these desertions, We presume,
occurred on the plains, where it is we'll known that
men often enlist in Westward bound regiments for
the express purpose of getting cheap and safe
conveyance to the mining regions. The number
of recruits during the year was $4,000 so that the
desertions reach the enormous ratio of nearly forty
per cent of the enrolments.
The New Orleans Crescent gives notice of q
"Workingmen's Convention" to meet in New
Orleans on the 18th of next month, and to contain
delegates from Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas, and Arkansas The Crescent says: ''The
members of this association are all respectable col
ored men, raised in the South, and of no mean
claims to intelligence and information 1t is their
earnest desire to withdraw the attention of their
brethren from the mad pursuit of Office and poll
tics to the more reasonable useful, and profitable
occupation of agricultural labor"
The Charleston Courier in an article on the
"Freedmen's Bureau" says: General Howard,
during the past year has made liberal advances to
planters without distinction Of political creed, in
every Southern State, thus enabling many to re-
sumo planting operations by the purchase of agrl.
cultural implements, provisions, &c. These ad,
vances, General Howard reports, have been faith
fully returned by the recipients, affording conclu-
sVe answer to the alleged punic faith of thu South
ern people. The Bureau has expended during the
past year $215 900 in the Southern States, in aid of
educational institutions, under the auspices of all
denominations Of christians"
The Nears reports the long-eypected arrival