Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-30
Scraps aud fatts.

Sfraps aud fafts.
- Prentice wants somebody to keep tally of
the reconstruction laws.
The latest Partisan caprice, for male exquls-
ties, is walking stick with sword inside at one
end, and matches and candlestick at the other
-Artemus Ward said that the man who wrote
"Tm saddest when sing was q fooi 70 sing
much
Iowa has one hundred and forty three news
papers, but not one specially devoted to reilglous
matters.
Upwards of two hundred wild turkeys have
been killed this season in the immediate vicinity
of Manassas Station
The Grand Division of the Sons Of Temper
ance of New York, in session at Albany, has pass
ed resolution excluding negro representatives
The Postmaster of New York, has return
ed more than three thousand letters addressed to
the proprietor of single gift fraud in that CITY,
The State of Iowa has the gratifying honor
of being entirely out of debt, record and glory
which no other State can show.
AT large meeting at Jersey City, resolu-
tons were adopted denouncing the Supreme Court
and Reconstruction bill.
According to the New York Times. Gen.
Butler admits that "the Radicals in Virginia can
not carry their constitution unless they have the
State government given to them"
An Iowa editor suggests that every man be
allowed to marry as many wives as are required TO
wash, cook, and keep house for him. de has been
unfortunate in procuring servants.
=. An eloping clergyman who had deeoyed a
way a young girl, asks for suspension OF public
opinion. Public opinion would be very glad to see
him suspended.
Under its present constitution, Michigan
pays no salary higher than one thousand dollars to
any officer, except judicial, and they are prohibited
from receiving any fees or perquisites whatever.
Tho aggregate valuation Of real estate tor
taxation purposes in New York, is 1861, 737, 500,
an increase of $75, 737 1893 over last years vaua-
tion.
"A Washington telegram says Mr.. johnson
is sewed up; Butler is still bottled up; Grant Is
POLITICALLY used up; Stanton is stuffed up; and the
country, constitutionaIy speaking, gone up.
The first of the Southern elections will take
place on the fourth of February in Alabama, when
the new constitution is to be voted on and Con-
gressmen and State officers elected.
At Aroostook in Maine, it is reported that
horses are 80 plenty and business requiring them
so dull in that region, that good horses cannot
be let, even for their keeping.
1.-THE McArdle case" intended to test the
Constitutionality of the Reconstruction Acts, Is
set down for hearing in the Supreme Court OF
the United States, on the first Monday in March.
At a recent execution sale in Lincoln coun-
ty Tennessee, sixteen bales Of good cotton sold at
= ND xfx, Of
pens, brought only sixteen cents per bushe
"A Mississippi negro was recently found dead
in the woods by the body of stolen hog On the
negro the following inscription was pinned-'The
nigger killed the hog, and the hog killed the mig
ger. Selah."
At Montgomery, Alabama, last Saturday,
able-bodied field hands were hiring themselves at
from $50 down to $25 for the year, and boys, who
last year got S. month, were hiring for their
food and clothing.
"A meeting of negroes in Mississippi recently
responded to General Gilem's order requiring the
blacks to 20 to work to make an honest support and
requested him to modify his order so as to embrace
whites as well blacks in its provisions.
One of the pleasantries of the gas company
in Jackson Mississippi, was cutting off the supply
of light from the reconstruction convention. be-
cause It would not furnish security for the payment
Of the gas bill.
-Herrings are plenty in Scotland. The fisher
men o. Gzaanaol are talking 80 ..snny herrngs,
they are sold at ,three-penc the basket and the
basket holds $50 or more. 1t was thought that
they would soon sell for penny hundred.
This is the age of paper. Almost every,
thing is made of paper, from money to hats and
shirt collars, and even water pipes. The latest
adaption of the article has been discovered in
Maine, where local paper advertises, for the
benefit Of the ladies, the productions Of the PA
per Pantalette Company
The Underwriters Insurance Company, Of
New York, is said to be extremely lucky in esca-
ping heavy drafts for losses by fire. A New York
paper says that its secretary attributes its good
luck to the fact that it always tries to conne its
risks to ''pig iron in the basement.
The State Comptroller of Georgia. was re-
moved at his own request He stated to the Mill
tary Governor that he would not sign any warrant
issued by the new Governor and requested that
some military man, and not toadying renegade,
might be appointed to fill his place.
"A newspaper at jackson, Mississippi, says
that the planters in that section have fully deter
mined to plant largely Of provision crops, The ex
pertinent Of two years has convinced them that
prosperity can never be restored by the extensive
culture of cotton.
The total number of emigrants that sailed
from Liverpool to all parts of the United States
British North America, the Australian colonies
South America, &C., for the year just closed
amounted to ll5,6Sl and for the previous yea
la, 1888, showing decrease as compared will
1866, of 1902.
- The Herald says that that General j. B
Magruder, late of the Confederate army, volmta
rily presented himself in the clerks Office of tht
United States Court, of New York, recently, ano
proposed to take the oath of allegiance to the gov
ernment of the United States. The oath was theI
administered by Commissioner White in the usua
manner, Gen. Magruder promptly subscribing tt
the same.
by fifty thousand majority, the people O
Ohio decided at the late election, that no negrt
shall have the right of suffrage in that State
Steps are being taken in the legislature to carr
out this determination of the people. MIR. Pen
nister of Pike county, has introduced bill maxim
it penal offence for any judge Of the election t
receive a vote from any person who has "a yislbl
admixture of African blood"
- Cotton is raised in many parts of Italy, an
the value of the product of late years has equale
$4,000, 900 annually. This crop is all used a
home, but in addition, large quantities are import
ed chiefly from America, Genoa being the pnnc
pal market There are POO cotton factories i
Italy, employing 10000 workmen: Lombardy an
p;odnoont oro the rrnvinrnS in which the SDlnnln