Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-23
Sfraps aud fatts.
The Baltimore Sun of Saturday last says
nat Congress will probably adjourn to-day-Thurs.


tucky, August 9, for the State officers and mem.
bers of Congress-
1t is stated that Mr.. Josephus Woodruff, o
cigar inspector in the Charleston Customhouse, has
resigned that position in order to attend to his
other duies as Clerk of the carpet-bag Senate.
The Chicago Times says General Blair is a
teetotaller, and has been for years. He does not
drink drop of intoxicating liquor. SO much for
an atrocious Radical calumny.
The New York Board of Health report more
than two hundred and fifty cases Of death in that
city from the effects of excessive heat within the
past three or four days.
The Batesville lark Times reports the cat
erpars are so numerous in that region that an in
dpstrious man with shovel could fill wagon with
them in ten minutes.
-Taxation without representation used to be
Thought bad enough but in the Southern Legis-
latures we now have representation without taxa
ton.
Birmingham, England, employs three hun,
dred and eighty men and two thousand women ana
girls in the manufacture Of steel pens. The week
" product is ninety eight thousand gross.
"A railway on a novel plan is building in the
this the drivingwheel of the locomotive rests the
two other wheels rest on the common road.
New York has the promise of female bar
Der shop in the Fifth avenue, the artist" to be
exclusively women, and the customers exclusively
men.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, have
decided upon visiting Paris soon, to submit % 70 a
surgical operation for the purpose OF discovering
the wonderful link that has so long bound them
together. They are now ffty-nine years OF age.
-Of all the Popes since St. Peter, only three
have ruled so lons as Plus TX. If he lives one
wear longer, only Plus vi will have had longer
reign. In two years he will have outdone all but
St. Peter, and in three years St. Peter himself.
United States District Attorney Fitch, of
Georgia, Democratic delegate to New York, is the
candidate of his party for United States senator
It is said that $25, 900 has been raised in New
York to enable him to secure his election.
The war pressure has been so great in Bra
ri that the Emperor and the Empress have con-
tributed quarter of their income to help the pub
lie purse, and the other members OF the Imperial
family one-6fth of theirs.
"A special dispatch received at New Orleans
from Austin, says that the Convention OF Texas
disclaims any authority to divide the State under
the Reconstruction acts and refuses to consider the
matter unless by direct authority from Congress.
Before West Point cadet can get leave of
absence he must take pledge that he will keep
sober for three days Immediately succeeding his de-
barture, and three days Immediately preceding his
return.
The Utica Herald says that the weather re-
cord kept by gentleman Of that city, shows Sat
Aurday, the 4th of July, to have been the warmest
Ily experienced in Utica for twelve years. The
&rmometer stood in the shade at l02 degrees and
4he sun at l40 degrees.
EA process has recently been patented in
England by which the bran Of flour, after being
separated, is ground into an impalpable powder,
and then again mixed with the -four. In this way
all the nutritious ingredients are preserved, while
the 6neness of the -four is not affected.
EkAt one of the :Ressls in S Selma, Ala;, the
TIE chambermaid foEl Gin ii your bed this
morning" "Wanfa ehn,, 81. I.Supd a
long hair in thana ar th5 16n, but it did not
prove there 1e
The trains FSSs sss2ew
running to WadswOfth, one = ssnd
miles east from Sacramento City sasd five hunds9d
miles from Salt Lake. TRs1ppRpany have 9oo9
men at work, and intend to laFtwenty miles OF
track weekly from the Big Bend eastward.
1t was observed of an old citizen that he was
the most regular man in his attendapce at church,
and no man in the country was more punctual in
his prayers. He has very good reason for it,
replied John Wilkes; for as he never gave shil
ling, did kindness, nor conferred a favor on any
man living, no one would pray for him.
Asphaltum, dissolved in benzine or petro-
leum, is recommended as q most excellent sub
stance for marking boxes, casks, etc., as it makes
fine black dries very quickly, and is not affected
by water It may also be used to advantage for
coating iron, leather, etc., for protection against
the weather.
General Meade has issued an order declar-
ing Colonel j. H. Christy, the Democratic candi-
date for Congress from the sixth district of Geor
gia, duly elected. Georgia, so far, has done bet
ter than any of the other reconstructed States
four out of her seven Congressman being Demo-
Gratis.
AT late convention at Burkeville, Va, of
the farmers representing twelve Virginia and sew
eral North Carolina counties, resolution was a.
dopted expressing a willingness to sell lands to
purchasers from any section of the United States,
and also recommending the formation of compa-
MES in each county to sell lands to foreigners.
"A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
saws that the circulation of the London Times is
about co. 600 daily, that of the Telegraph 10000
to 100000, of the Standard not far from 100000,
the Star $4,000, the Post 1000, the Advertiser
SUN, the Etlu IHdu Gazette l2,OUU. line lazy
Neacs began its circulation as penny paperat 50-
600, and is increasing rapidly. The Saturday Re
viep has sale of less than 10000, and the Spec
tator averages 1000.
General H. u. Grant arrived in Cincinnati
last Wednesday afternoon, and was absolutely un-
noticed in that city. There was no enthusiastic
crowd to cheer him no committee called on him !;
he was not serenaded no accidental Wetmore
presented bouquet; he was permitted to ''cross
the river to visit his parents with no one to mo-
lest him or make him afraid, even that he might
be asked to-say something. There is more than
mere lack of enthusiasm - it is an indication
that where Grant is best known he is least honor
ed. For a candidate who is running on his popu-
larity, this new absence of any manifestations in
his favor in his own section of the country is in
deed signi6cant.-N y World.
"A colored man in Richmond, Virginia, John
Dabney, by name, purchased his freedom from
his mistress, which was to be paid by instalments.
During the pendency of the struggle he paid about
one half of it in Confederate currency, which was
at last so deprecated in value that his late mis-
tress requested him to discontinue the payments
until the close of the conflict. When slavery was
abolished the debt was, of course, no longer due
but, notwithstanding he was advised against such
course, John Dabney lately transmitted to his
old mistress, now in INDECENT circumstances, $500
in greenbacks, being the balance of the two thou
I-h-