Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-30
Straps aud fatts.

says that the troubled waters around the White
House must be very shallow, as the radicals ex-
pect to get johnson out and Wade in.
"A flock of pigeons, covering space oftwelye
and half miles in length and Fifty feet in breadth,
passed over Welsville, Toga county, Pa, one
day last week
An Arkansas coroner recently charged jury
that they were to ascertain whether the deceased
came to his death by accidence, by incidence, or by
incendiary. The jury found: Death by accidence
in the shape Of Bowieknife.
Hon. John Forsyth, in recent letter from
Washington, says If the Democrats, In the July
convention, make wise and prudent selection OF
their candidate for the Presidency, there is every
reason to hope they viii sweep the country.
The Brownsville (Texas) Ranchero announ-
ces that Miguel Lopez, Maximiians betrayer, has
been arrested and imprisoned for not complying
with an order from the government to leave Mexl-
can territory.
Some of the leading New York hotels rent
for enormous sums. The Astor House, it ls said,
when re-opened, is to rent for 900 year the
St Nicholas pays $7S,OOO; the MeGopoiitan $fo'-
900, and the Fifth Avenue nearly $4,000.
AN intelligent lad of six summers, the son
of Down East senator, recently visited the IN
sane asylum at Augusta, Me-, and told his lnqur-
Ing 1atlof on MS tudt lucy WSA0 hAeAAhS
speeches just like the Legislature ..
AN old lady, of Randolph County, Missouri,
has been exhibiting patchwork cotton guilt,
composed Of seven thousand i've hundred differ
ent pieces, all very neatly stitched and all done by
hand. -...;
The New Haven Register says the "burying
Of the hatchet'' by General Grant and Butler is
denied. The report arose merely from casual
L L. A. 1okko khofh ho
hatchet in the head of the former, which Is very
different thing ''when you come to look at 1t.
1.-Two men, in an open boat, have been picked
up, says an Havana despatch, and 1t ls thought
they are deserters from some of the prisons in
Florida. It viii be remembered, in this connec-
ton, that St. Leger Grenfel recently escaped with
some soldiers from the Dry Tortugas.
The Pacific Railroad has climbed to the
decent on the Pacific slope. A dispatch from the
Chief Engineer of the work announces the laying
of the rails upon the summit, with benefttng GER
emonies on the 10th of April.
-Several negroes have declared themselves
candidates for Congress in Virginia. DR.. Bayne,
in the Norfolk district Jones, in the Richmond
district and Norton, In the Williamsburg district,
are already candidates ; and, as the negroes pre-
ponderate in those districts over the whites it is
not impossible for such men to be elected
"A Jersey City paper states that two men in
that city made wager on the result of the recent
election, one betting the sum of five dollars against
the wife of the other. The man who put up the
money won, and demanded the wife. The hus-
band was inclined to pay his bet, but the lady de-
INJURED, and drove the claimant from the house
with great vigor.
France is thought to have reached the height
Of perfection as a military power. One million
three hundred and fifty thousand men, or nearly
the whole of the able-bodied male population Of
the country, may now be said to be under arms;
This force according to the report just presented
BY Marshal Mel to the Emperor, is made up of
eight hundred thousand regulars and five hundred
and fifty thousand of the National Guard.
The oyster statistics of the Chesapeake are
given by Baltimore paper. 1t appears that the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries now yield elev
en- million bushels of these delicious bivalves an
nualy Over two-thirds of the trade goes to Bal
timore. Seventy houses are engaged In the busl-
ness which gives employment to fifteen thousand
persons-men, women and children There are
seventeen hundred boats, averaging fifty tons each,
and about three thousand canoes, engaged in
dredging and longing for oysters.
The New York Sun says: ''The feat bas
been practically accomplished of sending two tee-
graphic dispatches at the same time from opposite
directions over the same wire, on long distances.
new lines, making only single wire necessary, and
saving the sixty or seventy dollars mile which
would be required for second wire. 1t will also
increase greatly the actual working power of exist
ing companies.
The most Infamous frauds were perpetrated
in many counties at the Arkansas election. At
Clarksvie, for instance, ninety votes were re-
turned against the constitution then the at
fdavits Of one hundred and eighty have been ia
ken of those who voted against it. One Of the
registers is known to have voted twice, and was
seen to tear up Conservative tickets from the mill
tary ballot-box. Negroes were permitted to vote
twoor three times, and even negro women appeared
dressed in mems clothes and deposited votes. .n
-Forney, who has clamored so savagely for
the impeachment of the President, is now under
impeachment himself A senatorial committee is
to investigate the mysterious disappearance Of
$40, 900 public money in the custody of this Chez
alier d iedastis. Forney says the money was sto-
len by his uncle, old Mr.. Wagner The old man
denies it. 1t is evident, from what occurred in the
who knows both men, andis good Judge Of rogues,
believes that Forney is the thief
The Mississippi River, near Vicksburg, is
said to be threatening to change its channel The
point on the Louisiana shore of the river opposite
that city is being gradually worn away, whilst q
sandbar is being formed near the Vicksburg shore,
and it is feared the river will ultimately break
new channel and close up Vicksburg harbor alto
gether. Thepress of that city in serious alarm,
and advise that piles be driven and boat-loads Of
stone sunk so as to prevent any further crevasse,
and force the river back to its old channel.
There is some talk in New York about race
across the Atlantic between the City of Paris In
mani and the Cuba (Cunard). The latter is con-
sidered the crack boat of the English line, while
the City of Paris claims to have made the quickest
western passage ever accomplished (eight days
twenty-five and half hours Mr. Cunard is said
to have made wager that the Cuba will arrive
out first. Both vessels saiied on Saturday, Within
a few minutes of each other amidst much excite
ment on the part Of their respective partisans on
the wharves.
I'm Paris, the "Hotel des Invalides' contains
Napoeon's veterans and at present there are in it
about nine hundred and forty inmates who served
under Napoleon l. Of that number more than a
hundred and fifty have lost limbs, and few are
blind. One has lost both fore arms and uses with
surprising dexterity couple of hooks fastened to
his stumps About sixty wear the military medal,
and nearly two hundred are decorated with the
Cross of the Legion of Honor. There are thirty
inmates whose services date from the first repub-
ic One of them-a survivor of the crew of the
Scipion, blown up in l793-has been in the hotel
since 1906. He lost both hisl legs on that OCCASION
and has contrived to live without them seventy
FIVE years. He is now ninety-two, and still hale
and hearty.