Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-09
Straps aud fafts.

- 1t u SalQ Cn1C Tue I TeSIueut uaS ue'StAo
to create o new military department to be carved
out of the Southern States, over which General
Rousseau will be placed in command, with head
quarters at New Orleans.
a machine has recently been invented which
from ordinary ash or other soft and flexible wood,
turns cut two hundred strawberry boxes per min
ute. The immense number which can be manu-
factured in a short time materially reduces the
price, and these boxes, which are Of unique de-
sign, can be purchashed at six cents per dozen.
The celebrated long-winded gelding John
Stewart, at Riverside Park, Boston, trotted ten
miles in twenty-eight minutes two and halt Sc
conds, on Tuesday-the best previous time being
twenty.eight anda half seconds. The money pend
ing was $500 against $1,000 on time; the horse
having to beat the best ten-miles time ever made
The property of the late ex-President Buch-
snan has been appraised at $3.50, ,5S2, including
$50 600 in real estate and So, 307 on deposit with
the Barings in London. The principal portion Of
his estate consists of State and railroad bonds 1t
is stated that Mr. B., within the last few years,
gave away to his relations from $50, 1000 to S9O,
600.
1t has been computed by some political a,
rithmetician that if every man and woman would
work for four hours each day on something useful,
labor would produce sufficient to procure all the
necesaries and comforts of life, want and misery
would be bauished ont of the world, and the rest
of the twentyfour hours might be leisure and pleas
ure.
THE rich Jap who is coming to Parisin search
of pretty and virtuous wife, is expected shortly
At Marseiles in steam ship that he has had built
expressly for the trip. He intends to settle IN
Paris, and wants to buy the whole right bank OF
the Seine for q palace His income is $50, OOOOOO
a wear. What blessing if we could only get him
here-and tax him. -as. s.... ....
The Informers' Bureau, which was started
in New York some time since, is said to be still In
operation Circulars are sent out by it to the Peo-
pe through the city, offering to report where their
wives are to be found during their absence at bu-
sir,ess, or to ''work up" any or every thing that
may be intrusted to the management OF the "bu-
reau."
lin India they have way of stopping DON
keys braying, which consists in tying heavy
stone TO the animals tail. He can't bray, they
say unless be can bring his tail to horizontal po-
sition, and this being impracticable when the
pressed. The patent comes from China, and its
efficacy is now being tried on mule in Madison.
The Austrian Emperor, desirous Of remune-
rating the barristers who undertook the perllous
duty of defending his brother Maximan, offered
which they steadily refused. The Emperor has,
therefore sent to each magnificent service OF
plate of the value of fifty thousand FORMS and to
the priest who accompanied the captive to the
place of execution, jewelled cross of equal value
Smoking is considered by many physicians,
as one of the causes Of excess in the use of ntox
eating liquors In proof of this statement is given
the following list of patients in insane asylums un-
der treatment for confirmed inebriation resulting
in insanity" who preceded the use Of whiskey by
tobacco smoking; Bloomingdale, 81 out Of 100 {;
Elatbush, 49 out of 81; Trenton, 4S out of Sc !;
Columbus, Ohio, 62 out of "A.
Old Mig, horse that had been pulling one
of the New Orleans fire engines tor twenty years,
died at the engine house on Thursday, June 25,
from the exhaustion of age. He was bought by
the company on the 18th of August, lS4S, and un-
til the last two years was always in active service.
He came originally from Ripley, Ohio. The COM
pany testified their affection for their faithful SER
Want and friend by draping his stable and harness
in deepest mourning. He was buried with fitting
honors
-The New Orleans Rcayune says, We have,
indeed, now one additional feature in our school
system in which we vastly exceed any and all other
ganized schools for colored children which are e.
qually as good in quality of instruction. and in the
selection of text books and studies, and with the
same supervision over them, which the white
schools possess and in which largely more colored
children are now educated than in any other city
on this continent.
- Nine-tenths of the diseases which happen to
the hoofs and ankles Of the horse are occasioned
by standing on the dry plank floors of the stable.
Many persons seem to think, from the way they
keep their horses, that the foot of horse was
never made for moisture and that, if possible, it
would be bene6cisl if they had cowhide boots to
put on every time they went out. Nature design
ed the foot for moist ground, the earth Of the
woods and the valleys, at the same time that a
covering was given protect them from stones and
stumps.
Reed, Governor-elect of Florida, has receiv-
ed the surrender Of the government Of the State
from Gov. Walker, in compliance with the order
from Gen. Meade According to general orders,
military rule has ceased in this State, and the
from interference with civil law upon any pretext
whatever The old State and county officers will
hold over until appointments are made by Gov.
Reed, and confirmed by the Legislature, which
meets on the 18th.
The bill for the discontinuance' of the Freed
mans Bureau, which has been reported back ia
vorably to the Senate, provides that the Bureau
shall he withdrawn on the lst of next January,
from all the Southern States represented in Con-
gress; the educational department, however, to be
continued until otherwise ordered. The bill also
provides for the continuance in Office for life of the
present Commissioner, General o. 0. Howard, his
place to be filed, in the event of his death or res
ignation, by appointment of the President, with
the consent Of the Senate.
The Washington correspondent of the Bal.
timore Gazette says: '1t is stated, on authority,
that Mr.. Seward has given in his adhesion to
Grant and Colfax. No one doubted his wherea-
bouts except the President. Mr.. johnson has
been egregiously duped by his Secretary of State
indeed, by all his Cabinet, if old Mr. Welles be
excepted. One would have supposed that the
tergiversation of Weed and Raymond was sufficient
to convince waytaring man of the position of
Mr.: Seward; But, Quantum suticit. His course
is 6nished!"
The refusal of his seat to Hon. John D.
Young, member of Congress elect from the Ninth
District of Kentucky, was as fragrant an outrage on
popular rights as can well be conceived but the
substitution of his defeated opponent was ever
lower than that in legislative baseness. The cpl
thets We have selected are no way unsuited to the
recent extraordinary action of the House of Repre-
sentatives. Mr. Young, the sitting member, was
elected over Mckee by a majority of l479 votes
A third candidate received S62 votes, which let1
Young clear majority of GIT. No partisan leg
erdemain can get over this, or get around it. Yet
Mr.. Young has just been deprived of his seat, and
MIR. Mckee has been put into it.
"A colored man in Richmond Va, John
Dabney by name purchased his freedom from his