Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-08-06
Scraps aud fatts,

Three dry goods clerks in New York, EN-
ployed by one firm, are paid SIC, 900 year each.
. famine in 1875, and is going to Washington to
prevail upon Congress to legislate it away.
Only one member of Lineoln's original Cab
met is now acting with the radicals and that one is
the notorious oonuptionist, Simon Cameron.
The arabic land of the United States amounts
to ffy-two million farms of one hundred and sixty
acres each.
john Lowell, q resident of Lowell, Mass,
and aged 10 years Of age has recently had born to
him his thirty-second child.
The negro members of the Georgia Legisla,
ture, when q vote is taken, look at the man ahead
of them. IF he rises they rise also; if he votes
aye, they do likewise, and rsce veTsa.
Two serpents in Paris menagerie attempt
ed to swallow the same cat Their jaws met half
yay when one quietly solved the difficulty by
swallowing both cat and snake.
The inventor and patentee of gutta percha
consciences has failed in business. The natural
ones have been found sufficiently easticfor all pur-
poses
-Gossips say that Prince Abert's brother is
in England and desirious Of becoming Queen Vic.
toria's 8 second husband. But the law Of England
and the widows inclination are both in the way.
"A paper in Indianapolis, Ind, proposes that
heresfer instead of saying ''let us sing the Doxo
oey." the minister shall say, 'let US put on our
oTercoats adjust our furs slip on our gloves, grab
our hats, look 10 the Lord and be dismissed"
-Ahrge proportion Of thelucfer matches used
in this country are imported from abroad. The
matchmaking company of bookkeeping, in Swe-
den, furnishes large quantity. In 1866, they
made Al, ,69s, ,21 boxes, Of which sc, ,0OO,OO were
sent to this country. ...
The Anderson hatelSgencer says: "Col A.
g. Bufrd, President of the Air Line Railroad, was
in town few days ago. We bad the pleasure OF
an interview with him, and were gratitled to learn
that measures are being instituted to advance the
prospects Of this road and secure its early compile
ton" e'a4 I-.I 20 ... ..s' z.
"A Philadelphia Democrat, whose address is
the Mercury Office, in that city, offers the follow,
$4,000 on each State, that Seymour will carry
them $2O, 900 that Seymour, if he lives, will be
the next President; $4,000 that no Radical will
dare accept the proposition, and put up the mon
ey."
Baron Cuvier states that if the progeny Of
q pair of herrings went on increasing and multiply
ing without molestation or destruction Of the ova,
Ia twenty years it would require all the seas in the
world to contain the herrings that would result 1t
only half the spawn came to life, and half the
young fish lived, a boat could not move in the sea.
There is Yankee in Springfield who rides
q great deal in the omnibus, and always sits near
the forward end, 80 as to pass up the fare OF his
fellow passengers Each one give him, naturally,
ten cent piece; but he gives the driver instead,
ticket, which, as be buys them IN quantities,
costs him but nine cents. Hence profit, and IN
the future, it is to be presumed, enormous wealth.
The Jackson Miss Clarion says: .We
learn from the Oktbbeha Ne,o Era, that at West
Point, few days ago, on the occasion of Demo
cratic Jubilee, where addresses were delivered BY
Col. Reynolds and Capt Houston, one hundred
and ninety.fve freedmen, who voted the Radical
TOR, professed strong faith in the Democracy, and
were admitted into full membership into our Dem
ocraie Club, took badges and received certificates
of their membership"
- Private letters from very reliable source in
Paris, received by the steamer Of Monday, speak
of an approaching war between France and Ger
many as inevitable, to commence probably before
the year is out Some event of great importance,
precipitatng the result, it is hinted will occur as
soon as Count Bismarck returns to Berlin. These
views, it is said, are very widely entertained in
commercial and financial circles, and merchants
and bankers alike are shaping things accordingly
An insolent negro snatched cup from Miss
Turney as she was in the act Of drinking at rail
road celebration in Tennessee, few days ago.
Her brother, Col. Pete Turney, hearing her Scream
pulled out his pistol and shot the negro three
times before he fell. A white man, at the third
shot, remarked that it was carrying the thing too
far, and pulled out his pistol to fire, when young
Turney turned upon him and let him have the re.
manning load Of his pistol. Both the negro and
white man were killed.
The Charleston Neacs is informed that many
of the negroes in Kershaw District have already
withdrawn from the League, and many more in-
tend doing 80, General H2mpton,s advice to dis
card all members of the Union League is being
acted on there. 1t is hoped that every reasonable
encouragement viii be given to the colored people
in their laudable efforts. Radicalism will give
them votes, but it will not give them bread, and
it is both our duty and interest to assist them when
they determine to forsake the party which is lead
ing them to ruin.
Mr. Jefferson Davis and family sailed from
Quebec, on Saturday last, for Europe. 1t has been
stated in Washington paper that in his coming
trial at Richmond he will appear by counsel. This
may or may not be so but we have reason to be-
Geve that the circumstances under which Mr. Da-
Wis sahs for Europe are such as would make it de-
sirable to remain there with a view of providing
for his family. Unlike many of the leading public
men Of this country in civil life, Mr.. Davis is not
Q lawyer His original profession was that Of arms
He therefore, cannot resort to practice at the BAR
as so many others have done whose fortunes were
wrecked during the war. Hence other employ
ment is necessary, and the expected opportunity of
a commercial connection with house in England,
for American business, probably now takes him
abroad.
For something more than year past expe-
rments have been in progress, under the auspices
of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, looking
to the production Of sef-moving car for passen-
ger travel on the city railways, and as the result Of
these efforts new dummy has been brought out
which is worked by steam engine, the furnace of
which is supplied by kerosene or petroleum instead
of coal. The fire is started by small bed Of an
thracite COAL which lasts all day without repenish
ing, as it Is used merely to act as sort of wick for
the kerosene OIL which is the real fuel. There is
q tank Of kerosene at the point Of the platform
furthest from the fire, and small quantity Of ker
osene is squirted in occasionally. No cinders or
smoke generated, but sufficient heat is evolved,
the patentees claim, to keep up steam constantly
In the engine with very trihing expenditure of
oil Limited trials of this dummy have been sue
cessful
The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript says:
1.-THE Governor of South Carolina, under the Re-
construction act, is one Robert K. Scott, who is,
of course, carpet-bagger haiing from the North,
and located in the South merely for the purpose of
plundering the people. But the name has IA
miliar sound and peculiar significance to the peo-
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