Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-05-28
5Straps aud fatts.

It is the fashion at weddings in Nevada, that
all the gentlemen present kiss the bride, all the Ia
dies kiss the bridegroom, after which all the ladies
and gentleman kiss each other.
A lady in New York recently sent request
to friend to accompany her to Grace Church.
The reply came back: "Sorry, but I'm dressed tor
St Pauls."
At every State election, since the spring OF
1867, the Radicals have lost ground. A compan-
SON of the returns of the elections IN 1867 with
those held in 1866, shows that the Radicals have
lost in seventeen States, 235,534 votes.
Artificial babies are advertised in France, tor
travellers use, warranted to scream with such et-
feet as to deter any individual from entering the
compartment of the railway carriage where one
may be. ........
According to Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald, National Convention
is about to be called to meet in Baltimore to nom
mate an independent ticket for President and Vice
President.
"A Pennsylvania paper says that at the close
of one of the recent fierce debates in Congress,
Judge Woodward approached Judge Scho6eld and
said 81 expect to live to see this Government tall
to pieces" ...
We will do Mr.. Stanton the justice to say
that his letter of resignation is believed to be in the
hands of one of his friends, who is instructed to
present it as soon as there shall be final action OF
acouittal of the President under the impeachment
charges.-National InteRgenoer, 10th.
"A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer
and rIraminer, says John c. Underwood and the
late United States Marshal Duncan are soon to be
prosecuted in the Supreme Court of the United
States, before Judge Chase, for swinding the gov
ernment out of the proceeds Of confscated lands.
A novel engine, driven by electricity, was ex-
hbited before large audience at the college OF the
city of New York on Thursday afternoon. If the
'electromagnetic" engine can be brought to do all
its inventor claims for it, the days OF steam, as
motive power, are numbered.
The tour of the world can be made in two
months and half When the Pacific Railroad IS
finished, from New York to San Francisco will take
seven days; from San Francisco to Hong Kong, by
way of Yokohama, twenty days; from Hong kong,
by steamer, to Suez, thirty-two days; from Suez
to Paris, six days from Paris to New York, ten
days in all seventy-fve days.
Fest freight cars have recently been trans
ported from New Orleans to New York, distance
the shortest time on record but with the Increased
facilities of transportation, and the improvements
of the Rad, the freight will soon be moved over the
route in much shorter period.
-Spaaking of Hancock for the Presidency, the
New Orjs,ns Roamsne SAYS 'sIf man who was
either e,uivocally or plainly on the war side is to
be chosen, we would much prefer one who fought
for his principles, and who, if kept out Of his seat
by Radical usurpation, will fight tor it until ne
gets in
"A curious method of killing rats is recon-
mended in German journal as very efficient. A
niece Of new or unused sponge is cut into small
pieces, which are smeared with butter, and placed
within reach of the rats, next to dish OF water.
The rats eat the sponge, and becoming thirsty,
drink the water, which swells the sponge, and in
short time kills the animals which are found dead
all around
-Tse cost of the impeachment trial Of the
President of the United States is estimated at four
hundred thousand dollars. The probability is it
will exceed FIVE hundred thousand Some witnes,,
ses cost i've thousand dollars each 1t is reported
that the bill for printing the tickets of admission
amounts to six thousand dollars. Thus much are
the PEOPLE taxed, in this case, to crafty the ma
lice Of Thaddeus Stevens 4 Go.
Two singular, and not very young maiden
ladies of New York city, are now fattenlng against
each other for wager. One takes sherry and
eggs in the early morning, and the other trains on
chocolate. Tripe is the pabulum selected by the
former for dinner, while the latter devotes her mas
ticatory powers to fish, and especially shad roes,
which are said to be very promotlve Of adiposity:
One hundred and fifty pounds is the weight aimed
at.
Said Mr. Calhoun, in speech delivered in
the United States Senate more than twenty-five
wears ago: "Be assured that emancipation itself
would not satisfy these fanactics that gained, the
next step will be raise the negroes to social and
political equality with the whites; and that being
effected we should soon find the condition of the
two races reversed. They and their Northern al
lies would be the masters, and we the slaves. -
but in those days Mr. Calhoun was called ia
natic," "cassandra," " and other still less compG-
mentary names.
In New York there is no love for anything
that looks like miscegenation. The eternal ne
gro'' is now kicked and abused on all Sides and
what is allowed by the Reconstruction Constitution
Court at Buffalo A colored girl, it seems, entered
one Of the white schools in that city, and was per-
mittad by the teacher to remain. Complaint was
maGe to the superintendent, who decided that the
girl must leave the school. This brought the mat
ter before the Supreme Court, which ruled against
the risat of coTored children to attend any school
except those designed for them exclusively.
- That religion is carried out in business-ike
manner in England, is proverbial. Lately bust
ness book has been published entitled THE Lord
Cash Book for 1868, whereby religious book-keep-
ing is greatly facilitated Towards the end of the
book, besides much good advice, ma1ims, &C., is
regular ruled account, where the good Christian
credits himself with all good acts, such as Sub
scription towards decenty clothing the newly con-
verted female Hottentots," &C., and debts Provi-
6ence with the equivalent, so that he can at any
time check the account and surmise what his prob
able chance may be for the future.
South Carolina raises less corn and wheat to
the acre thar any other State in North America.
In 1867 New York had an average of thirty bush
els of corn ard fourteen bushels of wheat, Pennsy
vania thirty two bushels of corn and twelve bush
els of wheat, New jersey thirty-three bushels Of
corn aud fourteen bushels of wheat, and South
Carolina nine bushels of wheat and six bushels of
corn. There is no good reason for this Our
State has lands as rich and fertile as any in the
world. Small FARMS deep ploughing, thorough
draining and free use of manure, will raise Car
olina to level with the New England States. An
average of twenty bushels of corn and ten bushels
of wheat can readily be made and this can be i'm
proved. viii not our farmers at least make the
attempt?
The Congressional Globe of the Thirty-sev-
enth Congress contains two speeches, one made in
March, the ether in April, by different gentlemen,
which are duplicates, the Bohemian who under
took to supply them having sold the same speech
to both purchasers. This is but repetition, how
ever, of wha: happened in 1898, when a ready wri-
ter furnished one of the letters to constituents"
in which Congressmen then aired their eoquence,
to Hon. John Clopton, of Henrico county, Va,
and then sold q verbatim CODY of the same epistle