Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-10-03
Strips aud fafts.
-H Horace Greeley says the man who pays more
for his shop rent than bis advertising don't know

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for his shop rent than his advertising don't know
his business. - - F<- -
e-A-A Washington dispatch says that Judge
Underwood and Attorney Chandler are consulting
relative to the trial of Mr.. Davis, whose friends
and bondsmen represent him anxious for trial.
Preparations are already being made at the
capitol for the meeting of Congress in November,
and the probability is that it will be one OF the
most exciting sessions held for many years.
The Rockingham (Vrginial Register states,
as an evidence Of returning prosperity In the Val
ley, that since the war there have been sold there
over one hundred and fifty pianos by one house.
'-EI Kimberly, Of Guilford, Conn, was kick
ed by rooster on Saturday last, and so badly hurt
that he is in danger of lock jaw. The frisky bird
hit him with spur in the knee.
Edpefeld District is without sheriff. VIM.
Spires, ESD, the incumbent OF three years past,
resigned some months ago, but as yet the military
authorities have appointed no one in his place.
England uses about go, 600, 900, pounds Of
paper annually. France yearly consumes 1875, ,OOO,-
600, while the United States demands more paper
than both these countries combined, 44O, 100000
pounds. ,. .,.., Sell
A respectable white lady in Mobile was drag
ped through the street, and her clothes torn by
two black policemen, for calling negro drayman
who was about to run over her child, black ras-
cal The Military Mayor fined her $40. -
;--General Chestnut, formerly United States
Senator from South Carolina, Hon. Porcher Miles,
and Colonel Shackelford, Of South Carolina with
their families, have been spending sometime IN
Stannton. and contemplate purchasing lands and
locating in the Valley Of Virginia.
The Atlanta hateNigencer says it is a matter
Of undeniabe history, that Washington pardoned
the Pennsylvania whiskey rebels by general am
nesty, without any Congressional authorization,
and previous to any trial or sentence: Was Wash
ington usurper Of power which did not belong to
him2 r,tf f,a rt:+4.@E. ~ a
-Efteen hundred thousand persons are said
to have died in the Orssa District, and other parts
of India, by the famine last year. The most hor-
rible scenes Of suffering are reported, hungry moth
ers having been found eating the bodies OF their
dead children. r5ss '2 49, $50
,----- negro, who announces himself as candi-
date for Congress in Georgia, declares that, II cleo
ted sI will do all can to ameliorate the condition
of The whites" 'sNo doubt" says the Day Book,
che is much better negro than any white negro
which would be elected instead Of him.
- Gen Candy has ordered that the Town Coun-
eli of Spartanburg, whose term OF Office recently
expired shall be continued in Office, under the
charter, which authorizes them to hold over,
where, from any cause, their successors are not
elected. .e ,-.. .''-..'
Gen. Mower, in command of the 5th Militia
~ District, has issued an order modifying Griffin S
Jury order in Texas. The order requires jurors
to Be drawn from those registered and none others
and no other oath is required than that Of regstra.
tom Under Griffin order, Jurors were required
to take the test oath. q. .' -. ,..''
The Charlotte Ne,os says that a Company Of
Northern men, who some time ago purchased the
Kings Mountain gold mine, in Castor County,
have ordered their mill from San Francisco, Cali
fornia. The gold interests Of Cariltornia have
drawn thither the best mechanical talent IN the
world, and it is said that the mills made there are
superior to any other
- The Montgomery Mail states that Judge
Rice, of that city, few days ago, went before the
Board Of Registration, subscribed to registration
oath, and claimed the right to register as voter
under the late amnesty proclamation or President
johnson, and was refused The Judge will at once
test the eonstitutonalty of the law and the proca
nation before the United States Court.
During the Mexican war, negro body ser
want, belonging to Gen. Bragg, then Captain
Brasg,) deserted, and entering the Mexican ser
vice, gave wfut aid and comfort ocufd
enemy Now the traitor and deserter is returned,
and appointed one of the Board of Registration for
Mobile county, while General Bragg is "disfran-
chised rebel!'
ALI the Danish possessions in the West In
dies consisting Of the Islands OF st. Thomas, st.
Croix and St. John, are to be transferred to the
United States for the sum Of $S,O00,00O in gold.
This is the best real estate operation that MIR.
Seward has been engaged in since he took charge
of the land purchasing department Of the govern
ment. ......
AN Illinois editor publishes the following as
the effort of its new reporter: ''We are informed
that the gentleman who stood on his head under
spiledriver for the purpos Nv hayin tite pair Nv
bdtes druv on shortly afterwards found himself in
Chiny, perfectly nakid without cent in his pock-
ct He rites that it is his intenshun Nv returning
home by the way Nv the Paris Exposition"
The Washington correspondent of the Char
lesion Mercury says it is given out there that Sec
retary McCulloch, of the Treasury Department, is
preparing to put at least ten millions in gold on
the market, and that an order to that effect will be
issued in a few days The government will pay
out on the 1st of November about twenty millions
in gold for interest falling due on fvetwenty bonds
about that time
The number of people thrown out Of en-
ployment in New Orleans by the yellow fever this
since the occupation of the city under Butler or
the commercial embarrassments of 1887. What
the number is may be judged from the fact that
there are said to be 5000 applications for places
upon the police and for similar appointments,
without counting the large number who have been
recently elected by military changes.
The municipal authorities of New Orleans
seem about to be Africanized. Of four recorders
elected the other day, three were negroes and the
fourth, says the Times, was of so unquestionable
hue, that all the rains that have fallen since the
deluge, could not wash him so as to make him ac-
ceptabe to the white tax payers Both the City
Physicians elected were negroes, but one refused
to serve, and a white man was then elected. The
keeper of the City Park and porter Of the City
Hall are both negroes, who had their white oppo-
nents. The Times intimates that it will soon be
unlawful in that city for q white man to be can
didate for Office.
The Paris Mbate tells the following story of
Lopez, who betrayed Maximilian: The colonel
was one day surprised at the head ola squadron
by considerable ambush of the enemy As hero
ism is not positively his forte, he commanded re-
treat, and turned his horses head. In his flight,
the animal received ball and fell. A soldier, in
his extreme peril took the colonel up behind him ;
but the horse, having double weight, Stacked his
pace, and the enemy approached rapidly. Lopez
understood that if nothing was done they were
both lost; and so he drew a pistol from his belt,
shot the soldier in the back, threw down the corpse
and then escaped alone.
"A novel suit was tried in Thibodaux, La,
last week. Some months ago resident OF the
place was very sick, and his disease being consid-
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