Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-14
Straps aud fatts.

the Cincinnati Commercial asserts that the en-
dorsement of Pendleton by the Illinois Convention
secures his nomination at New York.
"A CODY of Eliot s Indian Bible, work which
no living man can read, was sold at auction in New
York, Tuesday, for the extraordinary sum of $ll30
This is believed to be the highest price ever paic
for printed work in this country.
The play bills of Ford's Theatre, in Wash
ington, on the night of the assassination OF Pres
dent Lincoln, now command ten dollars each, ano
are purchased at that price by collectors In Ne"
York City.
Last year reward of about one dollar hun
dred pounds was offered in France tor the carcas'
ses Of June bugs, which have multiplied greatly
and have become very destructive. Over eight
hundred thousand pounds were delivered to the au'
thorities.
The Brazos (Texas) Signal says 365 acres
of Brazos bottom land, belonging to Mr.. Wiley
Jones' sold the other day, ut trust sale, for dol!
lar currency an acre, with fine residence on II
and 200 acres under cultivation. The land would
have sold for $50 specie per acre, before the war
In Algeria, the Arabs arc said to be still dy:
ing by hundreds of starvation in one district tit
teen hundred natives have perished within twenty;
nine days It is shocking to relate but 1T Is stated
on the best authority, that many OF the miserable
creatures, driven mad by hunger, have turned can
nibals.
"A Washington letter says: 'Mr. Stanton
has moved from the War Department to his own
house again, having become satisfied that all dan
ger of his being elected is over. He now leaves
the War Department at the same hour as the 9th.
er clerks, and may be seen most any tne afternoon
summing himself on the steps OF his mansion.
Another element has been recently invoked
to strengthen the chances of conviction OF the Pres
ident, and that is by holding out the promise Of
Cabinet places and missions to certain senator's.
Radical members of the House, who claim to speak
in Wades name are the Intermediates IN this
business.
The plan of exporting the suffering poor,
it appears, has recently been adopted by Great
Britain. The departure Of one hundred and nifty
emigrants from London to Quebec, on April 2Oth,
is announced. They are described as mechanics
who were out of work, and who were sent out as
"objects of public charity by the London East
End Emigration Committee.
"A correspondent of a Western paper says
that one of the wealthiest men of Boston, becom-
ing involved not long since, made over his proper
ty to his eldest son, in order to save it. tie pass
ed through the crisis, however, without failure or
prosecution, but when he came to demand the
property back the son refused to restore it. The
latter now holds the estate and lives IN luxury,
while the father has died Of broken heart.
"A letter from Washington says: An unusu-
aly strong movement is developing itself in favor
offemae suffrage in the District of Columbia, and
petitions in furtherance of that object will soon be
presented to Congress in great numbers. The pc
titoners urge that the district being under the alb
solute control of Congress, furnishes an excellent
experimental ground, and insist. among other
things that the women are as capable Of voting as
the freedmen
- In the Georgia reconstruction election, the
returns received show that the constitution has
been ratified, and that the Republicans have elec-
ted their candidate for governor by 1000 majority,
and have also chosen majority IN both branches
of the legislature. The congressional delegation
stands four Republicans and three Democrats. In
Louisiana, the Republicans have carried the COVER;
nor and State Legislature, and the congressional
delegation is three Republicans and one Democrat.
The sugar planters in Cuba are calling loudly
fs- tho ra oPor;ne. of the slave trade. Owing to
insufficient nourishment which the slaves receive
at all times, the present stock Of negroes on the
island is fast disappearing. The Chinese coolies
are not strong enough to take their places, free
white laborers can not be readily obtained, and,
therefore, Africa is again looked to, to supply the
deficiency.
"A terrible case of human spontaneous COM
bustion, which resulted in death, is reported in
Cleveland, Ohio. The name Of the man was Bre-
mer. We learn that he drank, on wager, six
large drinks of whskey and pint Of stock ale at q
sitting With blazing face and starting eyes he
reeled towards gas jet, in order to hight his pipe,
when the noxious gases, issuing from his mouth,
were instantly ablaze, and the poor wretch was
soon being consumed by an inward fire.
There have been some efforts made recently
to change the time of holding the democratic
National Convention, which is now set down to
meet at New York on July 4th: Mr. August
Belmont, the Chairman Of the National Demo-
cratic Committee, however, writes to the Congress
sional Executive Committee, announcing that 1t
will be impossible to get this committee together In
time to change the day for the Assem- bage of the
convention. The day originally fixed, therefore,
will not be changed. The Republican National
Convention meets at Chicago on May Goth.
Mr.. Evarts, whose speech on the impeach-
ment trial will take its place among the greatest
displays of forensic eloquence in this or any other
age, is reported to have stated, in reply to the
suggestion that it was somewhat curious that so
prominent leader of the Republican party should
become one of the Presidents defenders, that a.
mong other things he desired to save that party
from suicide. He regarded the conviction of MIR.
johnson as the death-blow of the organization to
which he was proud to belong, and he was bound
to save it, if possible, from policy that could sue
ceed only to destroy.
The public money is seldom more uselessly
suuandered than in volume just turned out at the
government printing Office. 1t is a book of nine
hundred and forty pages, about the size OF large
pulpit or family Bible, bound in the highest style
of Turkey morocco, costing thirty-seven dollars a
volume. Its contents are the expressions of con-
dolence, abroad and at home, on the death of MIR.
Lincoln. 1t embraces everything on the subject,
from Queen Victoras letter, to the resolutions OF
a town meeting in Boone County, Missouri. Eve
~ Congressmen has been furnished with copy,
and it is said that the amount expended upon ii
exceeds 100000.
"A curious custom prevails in the Sandwich,
Islands of subjecting husband, who is accused OF
indelty by his wife, to the ordeal of jumping into
the ocean among the sharks. He is required to
do this after nightfall, when the sharks are most
ravenous, and he must, while in the water, shout
the words Pau Rle, pau Mano, which are suppo
sed to inform the man-eating monsters Of his
purpose in exposing himself to their jaws: :!
thereupon they suffer him to pass unharmed he IL
taken to be innocent if they do not, he suffers
for his temerity, if not for his guilt An obser
vance of this custom actually took place few
weeks since at Honolulu, and the man escaping
his wife received him without any further dlstrust
THE funniest picture we have seen for a long
time, says the New York San, out of a protessedly
comic newspaper, is that in the last number OF the
Scientific american, representing the operation ol
a cow-miking machine. The cows stand in row
ottocbad Tn each teat is q tube with q cOSe-fttine