Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-11-26

'- Californiians expect to make the journey from
San Francisco to New York by rail next fourth o.
July, and the wonderful progress Of the Pacific
Road encourages us to hope that their expectations
may be realized. i.,5 i' -, .g,-r ;.sa ~, ,gfa
- Late fashion plates from Paris show that
the toes Of gentlemen's boots and shoes are being
made quite broad and quite square again. -Ihls
style vii look little odd when first introduced,
but in respect to comfort it is far superior to that
ofthe sharp-pointed toes now IN vogue.
- Experiments recently made at Chenoa, Hi
nois In drying corn by hot air. and thereby getting
Il TO an early Market and obtaining the first prices
Of the season are, il is said, repaid by perfect
success Twodry-h houses aze already in operation
and another VIII be added. .~
Richmond, Va, is blessed with . supera:
bundance.of courts at present. as may be judged
by the following list of those now ia session: U. s.
Circuit Cont, 8. g. District Court, Court Of Ap
peals, Hustings Court and Circuit Court OF Rich
mond. 7"s - g. =.I
1t is said that one Of the most important
trafies carried on in Washington is the trade In
public documents. The regular booksellers do
good deal in it while here and there you may tind
a government clerk clandestinely engaged In the
business. Books are purchased directly from
Congressman for mere trlf1e, and then sold te
distant purchasers for large prices
The question ''Shall we ever learn to fyP
according to the statement Of Russian Journalist
is about to be solved In letter addressed to the
Lemberg. Slauo, be mentions the invention OF
machine for navigating the air. The motive pow
er is steam, and the inventor estimates the attain
able speeds at eighty miles per hour. Patents have
been granted him by several European Govern
"A singular case has just come before the
French tribunals. A young girl, eleven years o.
age, attempted successively the Life of her mother
and sister, for the sole purpose of drinking their
blood. The child has been examined BY compe
tent physicians, and proved to be attacked by the
strange mania of anthropophagy. Her extreme
youth leads the physicians to hope that her CURE
may be accomplished i 81 -. .... .
AT the Hardin County kentucky Fair, re-
Gently, question arose regarding the proper Status
of widows. The society offered prize for the
best unmarried lady rider, and also one for the bes
married lady rider. 4 young widow was excluded
from the first ring because the girls all deciaree
she was married woman. She then made apph
cation to become contestant for the prize In tint
second ring, but was ruled out because she was
single woman. II
The Germans in the United States, accord
ing to the census Of 1860, number l,30l, l36, di
vided among the principal States as follows; New
York, 256, ,252; Ohio, l6s,2l0; Pennsylvania
Missouri, 8S, ,4S7 Indiana, 66, ,7O5. The German!
in the principal cities are distributed as follows
New York, ll9, ,977; st. Louis, 50,5l0; CincinSa
ii, 1881; Philadelphia, 1859; Baltimore, 81
COS; Chicago, 22,227; New Orleans, 1929
Boston, 3202.
We find the following paragraph going tht
rounds of the Northern papers: "Of the nine
teen million acres of land in the State Of Soutt
Carolina, only one-fourth is under cultivation
The remainder, some fourteen million five hun
dred thousand, is mainly In primeval forest Ful
" half of the 4,6O0, 900 now under quasi cultiya
ton is for SALE some Of it even as low as one doila
per acre, and ranging from that up to twenty dol
lars Good farms have, within the year, sold n
low as three dollars per acre, and In certain cases
even below thai" ...s 70. ,s,a. :.
Hancock, scalawag Judge in Mississippi
had been endeayoring to convert Q conservative
negro, and failing, swore that any niger who vo
ted against his own color and race ought to be hung
Sambo hung his head for moment, IS if in deeE
meditation, and then looking the judge straight il
his own race ought to be hung?" "Yes, SAID
the judge, he ought to be hung" well judge,
said Sambo, ''what do you think ought to be done
wild de white man who vote agin his race and col
or?'' The judge bid his sable friend good night
and has never invited him to his house again.
-General F. e. Spinner, Treasurer Of thu
United States, has issued circular TO the natona
banks and designated depositaries, directing then
to select from the legal tender notes on hand anC
which they may thereafter receive, all notes unh
for circulation on account of mutlation; also al
notes of the denomination of $50, as they have
been successfully counterfeited, and are to be with
drawn from circulation and to retain all notes is
sued under acts of February 25th, 1862, and July
llth, 1862 known as the convertible issue Of lega
tenders, the time has long passed for their con
version into bonds, and new notes will be issued
for them.
1t is said that economy is wealth, and if so
we think the parties to whom we refer should be
come immensely wealthy, and that very soon. 4
married couple residing in the sixth ward, having
the misfortune to lose an infant child by death
concluded not to inter the body here, but to carry
it to their former home Baltimore, Md. for in
terment, and the mode selected to get the body t.
that city without paying therefor was novel but dis
gusting. The mother attired the dead body in the
usual infants dress, and taking the same in hel
arms, started off for the depot, purchased ticket
and in due time was landed in Baltimore with hel
apparently living child. On the journey the fact
Of the infant was kept partially covered, and nj
was alive and sleeping quietly Washington Star
"A remarkable account is given in lat
English paper of the escape Of convict from
prison. The cell in which he was confined had a,
iron door, with lock entirely on the outside
The only implements the prisoner had were
wooden spoon, some bits Of wire and needle ant
thread. Out of the spoon he made key; b.
means of the needle he passed thread over an!
under the door; bits Of wire were pushed through
the inspection hole and fastened to his long threat
extending outside from top to bottom. The ke.
was also pushed through, and, being fastened t
the thread, was brought opposite the keyhole b.
dexterous manipulation of the slender line worket
gently in, then turned by means of the wire, ant
the door was opened. This is certainly one of tn
greatest exhibitions Of skill and patience on re
cord.
a tin box, deposited in 1865 in the Unite'
States Treasury by Secretary Stanton, has recently
been the object Of 8 complicated series OF lnyestl
cations The question Of opening this locked ant
sealed box has been referred backward and forwart
between the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secre
tary Of War, General Grant, and the President
Several Cabinet meetings were held on the sub
ject, but no conclusion was arrived at. Finally i
was decided that the authority to break open thi
box Of contention was vested in the Secretary O.
War, who few days ago detailed General Hardet
to superintend the proceedings Witnesses wers
sent for from the Treasury and the Attorney Gen
erals Department, and on opening the battered
dusty box, instead of finding, as it was confidently
expected, $50, in gold, there were exposed t
view scarf and WATER nroof cloak Labelled svTa