Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-04
Sftaps aud fatts.

- - young m8Q n8ueQ w lAlhm oIOHu hoA
his arm cut off between the wrist and elbow by a
buzz-saw, at Andover, Mass, recently. 1t fell at
his feet and he picked it up, stopped the mill and
went home alone.
The retail sales of intoxicating liquors in the
mach as the total value of all the railroads In the
country, with the equipments, which are estimated
to have cost 81, ,654, ,05O, ,7ss.
-Thad Stevens, for the last twenty years,
has taken half an hours recreation each evening
BY betting $50 at faro. So says eulogst of Ihad.
in the Chicago Journal, which is truly loyal pa
Per.
The New York Tribune sensibly declares
that personal explanations" in Congress have be-
come an unbearable nuisance, and says that here
after it win print no more of them exceptas adver-
tisements, on the usual terms s .........
-Blir, Hancock and Pendeton will be the
three prominent candidates for the New York
Convention. There is talk of General Wright, Of
California, Mr.. Justice Davis, Of Illinois, Judge
Field and Horatio Seymour, Of Ne* York, and
others, including even Judge Chase. .
The Nashville Tenn Press and Times says
that it is now 'tolerably certain that proclama,
ton of universal amnesty is in course Of prepare
ton ut the White House, and will be issued before
the meeting of the National Democratic Conven-
ton"
Every person, before employing servant,
should require certificate of character. This will
improve the class of servants, by convincing them
that q good servant has better chance Of obtain
ing situation than bad one and it will be pro
lection TO employers by protecting them against
idlers and thieves.
The terms of the seven Republican senators
voting ''not guilty on the eleventh article Of i'm.
peachment expire as follows: Fessenden, OF
Maine, 1871; Fowler, of Tennessee, 1871 Grimes,
of Iowa, 1871 Henderson, Of Missouri, 1869 ;
Ross, of Kansas, 1871; Trumbull, Of Illinois,
1873; Van Winkle, of West Virginia, 1862.
-Hounces are now the rage in Paris. As
many as thrty.sx are to be put on muslin dresses,
and moreover, the Hounces are to be Of Valencien-
mes. Valenciennes is also fashionable on Silks to
the great dismay Of husbands and fathers, who
have to foot the bills. Bonnets. however, are
growing smaller, if possible
The New York Citizen says: 1t is matter
within our knowledge that Mr.. Evarts lost more
than thrice the annual income Of any ordinary law
yer by attending the impeachment proceedings !;
In other words, he declined business vastly more
remunerative for the sake of conducting Mr.. John
sons defence; and, moreover, that Mr.. Evarts has
received no fee whatever for conducting it.
The Cincinnati Commercialsays: The seven
refractory partisans are hated in this order by the
Wade Radicals Tumbul most, Ross second,
Fessenden third, Fowler fourth, Grimes fifth, Hen.
derson sixth, Van Winkle seventh. Now take
the combined hatred Of these seven and double it.
Chief Justice Chase.
a Muscatine (Iowa) paper states that, after
q recent tornado near that city, stalks OF ground
cherries were found, with the leaves green, the
pods yellow, and fruit perfectly ripe. This stage
latitude nor has it attained to that stage even in
our most Southern States, 30 that it is supposed
that these berries must have been brought from
some of the West India Islands, where the storm
probably originated.
Specimens of the new fifteen cents currency
notes have been turned out at the Treasury at
Washington, and will be put in circulation in a
short time. They are nearly of the same size as
the twenty-five cent notes now in use. Vlgnettes
of Generals Grant and Sherman are prominent on
the ends, and between them are the words fifteen
cents" in large print, and beneath are the figures
"l5" The back of the note is the same as the
twenty-five cent notes, with the denomination on
each end.
Walking fish, of which so many interesting
accounts have recently been given by naturalists,
are shortly expected to arrive in England from In
dia. The largest species grow to length OF three
feet but the smaller varieties OF about one foot are
more common. Observers state that the walking
fish breathe the air direct from the atmosphere,
as well as air in solution in the water, their usual
secure the eighteen specimens now in course Of
Transmission to the London Geological Gardens
- Even the stomach of Thurlow Weed rebels
against the Chicago platform, which, he says.
sounds strange in government Of the people. !"
This is true enough. A platform which, in the
language of Mr.. Weed, declares that in one part
of the country where colored suffrage is likely to
prove ruinous it may be established and enforced
by superior power, while at another, where such
suffrage would be too inconsiderable to be noticed,
It may be left to the people who have already de-
clared against it, does indeed sound strange in a
government of the people"
The Tribune says "a number of politicians
Of New York met on Saturday evening at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, for the purpose Of concerting
the coming Democratic Convention as their candi-
date for the Presidency. A Oakley Hall presided.
1t was resolved to prepare circular, to be distrib
uted among leading Democratic politicians and
editors, setting forth the claims of Mr. Chase upon
the Democratic party, and the objects to be attain
ed by his nomination. A. Oakley Hall and Messrs.
Symes and Austin were appointed committee to
prepare such circular"
"A Washington letter to the Louisville Jour-
nal says that when the Democratic National Con-
vention meets July 4, resolution will be offered
by some of the Northern delegates to the effect
that the party pledges itself to resist the counting
of any electoral votes determined by the admission
of negro States; that the attempt by the Radicals
to secure power in that manner by defrauding the
people of their inherent liberties in the selection of
3 President will be resisted, if necessary, with
armed force, and that the legally elected President
of the white race shall be inaugurated if trequires
White House.
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore San
says: "A leading politician Of the party said to-
day that if Grant had not quarreled with the Pres
ident, and impeachment had not been resuscitated
after its burial in December last, he would have
had no fears as to the result in November Upon
the whole, it may be said that the nominations
have fallen very fiat, and although by the aid Of
party music and other appliances a spurious en-
thusiasm may be engendered, it will rapidly die
out Thad. Stevens predicted that if impeach-
ment failed the Radical candidates would be ig-
ANONYMOUSLY beaten, and many far-seeing and saga
cious political prophets now express their belief
that this prediction will be verified. It may be
that if the Democrats are discreet, Grant will be- in
November, just where Scott was in November,
1882"
"A Chicago telegram tothe New York Leader
says. The nomination of Colfax was brought a.
bout by necessity for divulging fact previously
kent secret. Grant is to run to give nrestipe IN