Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-02
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fact that in that city the demand for children for
adoption is in advance Of the supply.
The bill making habitual drunkenness a
ground for divorce in cases where the habit IS con-
tracted subsequent to marriage, has passed the
Tennessee Legislature, and is now law.
"A few nights ago, Chicago had seven large
warehouses, all in row, entered by burglars, and
robbed, feat which the Chicago papers think un-
equaed as yet by the burglars Of any rival city on
the globe.
lin California the farms average nearly 700
acres each, whilst in Massachusetts, the average IS
but "a acres. New York has the largest number
Of farms-l96, ,OOO-whilst Rhode Island has the
smallest, her total being less than 5OOO
The twenty-seven States represented in Con,
press Will cast total electoral vote vote Of 246 II
the ten States not represented in Congress should
cast their electoral vote-a total of 70-the whole
number will be BIG, of which l59 will be bare
majority.
-ssEchoes from the Clubs relate that when
q young and enthusiastic clergyman expressed
wish in the presence of the Bishop of Exeter, that
there were preachers in the Church of England as
eloquent as Spurgeon, the preate dryly remarked
'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor s ass
I'm India, it is announced, as an evidence OF
human ability to produce fine work, that native
mas woven piece U! Iace IeH yatuS ionS auu oh@
yard wide, which weighs but trihe more than two
ounces, and can easily be passed through small
lingering
Edward Mcpherson, the clerk Of the House
of Representatives, writes, under date Of Wednes-
day last, that ''the impression about Washington is
deepening that the Presidents conviction and re-
moval are inevitable. This is the candid judg-
ment Of both friends and foes. :"
There is a man living not far from Danvile,
Va, who, when the war closed, finding himself
without horse, mule or even an old steer, hitch
ed up his mich cow and made good crop. He
fed the cow high, and she not only ploughed his
land, but gave him milk for his table.
The Members of the English Parliament re-
cieve no pay, and the acceptance OF such post IS,
therefore, almost impossible for poor man. TO
remedy this defect, the Trades Council at Birming-
ham, who have resolved on having working
man. as their third representative in Parliament,
propose to pay him $500 year and his election
expenses.
In New Orleans they have gas as good or
better than that furnished by the gas company,
at depth of forty feet below the surface of the
ground, and propose to use it. 1t is caught in
tank They propose to form joint stock company
to enable planters and all others in that alluvial
region to avail themselves of the discovery The
gas will be found anywhere in the swamp region.
The further postponement of the trial Of
Jefferson Davis will be officially announced within
a day or two, from April 18th to May 4th. This
change it is stated is rendered necessary by the
fact that the new term of the court commences on
May 4th, and the twenty days intervening between
April 18th and May 4th is not considered sufficient
time in which to try this case; hence the govern
ment has made further postponement of the trial.
Mrs. Frances Lord Bond is the name of a
woman who aspires to represent the United States
Government at the Court of St. James. She has
been trying to persuade the President to appoint
her for months past, and not withstanding she is
recommended for the place by numerous members
of Congress without distinction of party, she has
failed to get the appointment. She has recently
obtained from e-President Wade letter strong
urging her claims for the coveted position.
Liberia is agitated by the suffrage question.
At present, only those possessing a very visible
admxture of African blood are admitted to citizen
ship; but party has lately arrived which propo.
ses as measure OF justice, to enlarge the area OF
freedom by enfanchising the down-trodden white
trash The conservatives strongly oppose so ia
grant departure from the ancient landmarks OF
the constitution, and contend that there is no safe
ty, socially and politically, except in maintaining
the republic as it was made by its tounders-strlct-
ly colored mans government.
"A Washington dispatch, dated the 2sth ulti-
mo- says: Impeachment rumors are rife. 1t is
generally reported on the streets that the Presl-
dent counsel will tomorrow move to dismiss the
matter on the ground that neither the charges nor
replication contain any foundation for impeach-
ment, and that Chief Justice Chase will sustain
the motion. This is all hooted at by high Radical
authority. It is confidently stated that Chase will
take no extreme ground, though he may claim the
power of deciding judicial points as attaching to
his position but will put the question to the Sen
ate and submit to its decision.
The division of Texas into three States is a
measure said to be determined upon in Congress.
This, the New York Times says, will be done in
pie Of that State and cannot but be regarded as
among the most oppressive and revolutionary
measures of which the presentradical caucus, called
Congress, has yet been guilty Although covering
vast era, Texas does not possess the proportion
ate population to justify such division. More
over its interests and the interests of its people
will suffer direct and severe injury by measure,
the sole object of which is to add to the represen
tation of the radical party in Congress-
According to recent statistics the total mum.
ber of Jews in the world is seven Million one-halt
of whom live in Europe. In Russia the Jewish
population is one million two hundred and twenty
thousand; in Austria eight hundred and fifty
three thousand; in Prussia two hundred and eigh.
ty-four thousand; and in Germany one hundred
and ninety-two thousand. At Frankfort -on-the-
Main, every sixteenth inhabitant is Jew, and
in the whole of Prussia every seventy third There
are fewer Jews in Saxony than in any other part
Of Germany In Sweden and Norway the proper
tion of Jews to the rest of theinhabtans is about
one to six thousand. In France, England and
Belgium, where the Jews are under no disabili
ties they are less numerous than in countries
where they have not yet been placed on an equality
with the believers in other creeds.
Mr. Van der Weyde, an insurace agent in
New York, writes to the american Artisan thai
in France the party in whose house fire occurs
never receives pay for the loss. His neighbors
who lose by bis carelessness, all get their insurance
money, but the man upon whose premises the fire
occurs receives nothing, whether the fire is the re-
suit of carelessness or Of crime, of misfortune.
Mr.. Wander Weyde says that this regulation is en-.
forced by order of the Emperor, to whom, indeed
he seems to give the credit of originating it, and
that the rates of insurance are lower in France
than in this country. We do not know what is
done in case the burned premises are occupied by
one person and owned by another. If the regula
ton is wise one-and upon this point we express
no opinion-it will doubtless soon be brought into
use in this country.
General Meade writes to General Grant that
under the law which requires the assent of one
half of the registered voters, the new Constitution
of Alabama is not ratified. He says he cannot but
look the result of the recent election as an eX
preston of the opinion of the registered voters
that they do not desire the State to be restored to
the Union under the Constitution as submitted