Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-22
Sfraps aud faets.

bscco, ip any manner, thereby becomesa manuac-
trrer, and must take out a manufacturers license.
Atlantis hasa two-headed woman on exhibl
ton, who converses with two persons at once on
different subjects. ,Two-faced people are not so
much curiosity now 'eas- they used to was
--uAmaried deouplain Kentucky, both Of whom
are deaf mutes, have an infant child that can
hear; and which, It is thought, will be able to atS
ticulate perfectly IN due tims + Ia ~ s. 4
An old lady in New Jersey, having read an
account of the bursting Off grindstone in manu-
featuring estabhs -aent, became terribly alarmed,
lest grindstone which was standing in her cellar
should burst and blow the house up. ...L
"A notorious cyprian recently purchased 81
fine house on Fifth Avenue, y. Y, for $50, ,O0O,
and filled it with women of i'll fame She was
finally induced to sell out and leave for bonus Of
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"a j. Walt, once one of the wealthiest mer-
chants of Memphis, became insane the other day,
split friend head open with hatchet, chopped
the arm of another almost off, and finally exclaim
ing, ''vain world, goodbye p threw himself from
the window on the pavement, breaking his neck.
"A London paper prints ia its announcements
of births, the following -'FoRBEs. At 334. city
Road, Islington, on March 10th, the wife OF Mr..
Archibald Forbes, daughter. Mr.. Forbes re-
guests the prayers Of his friends and acquaintance
in this sore afhlction.'
- The sheriff of Laurens District, on Monday
last, sold for United States Marshal, three locomo-
tives two coaches, five box cars etc, the rolling
stock of, the Laurens Railroad Company, for S.
500, at the suit of A. NJ, Brodie and Jno W. S.
Arnold. Gov. R. K. Scott was the purchaser.
a patient at the Lunatic Hospital, near Pa
been stripped, dipped, rubbed, scratched and
- hnt or N M TurpOsa Hp keans his
mouth firmly closed, and nutriment is administered
him occasionally by small tube through his nose.
He has fattened little: -. ,:...- ~ :.
The bill. amending the judicial system Of the
government having been passed by Congress and
Become law, the additional Judge of the Supreme
Bench, it is said, will be taken from the South.
Among the names mentioned for the position are
Judges Underwood, of Virginia Speed. Of Ken.
tueky; Durell, of Louisiana; Thomas Durant, Of
New Orleans; Marvin, Of Texas and Joshua Hill
and Joseph E. Brown, Of Georgia.
"A cotemporary warns its readers of fact
not generally known, viz: that according to re-
cent change in the Postofice Department, no let
ter addressed to initials will be delivered to any
residence or in any postofice box The man who
addresses his communication to A B G, box lO,-
600, may rest assured that his epistle will never be
deposited in the box in question; but that, on the
other hand, it will be Immediately and efectually
destroyed .,..... -..,. .,.......... 81.
Harper's Bazaar says that hoop skirts are
being worn smaller, but they are not likely to dis
appear; on the contrary, the indications are that
thev will increase in size as the season advances.
In Paris they are already worn larger. They are
so comfortable and withal so heathfu, that ladies'
will not readily abandon them for the multfarious
skirts of old and they will probably. be perma-
nent part of the wardrobe for all time to come,
-or,,nr 40 or ci1o hut nnyor antIrpIv ahan-
doned.
In its issue of the Sd of April, the New York
Commercial and Financial Chronicle has an ar
tice reviewing the business of the month Of March,
in which it saws: "The South has been larger
purchaser in our markets than at any period with
in the last ten years, and it might have been rea-
sonably supposed that a good amount of the cur
rency sent there in payment for cotton would now
begin to find its way back. The naturalization Of
this expectation, however, warrants the supposi-
tion that the South is now buying upon credit to
much larger extent than during late years-an as
sumption which is countenanced by the improved
confidence felt in Southern merchants.
- In response to speech from serenadng
good and many hard things. Among the latter
this: Your House of Representatives, your Ex-
ecutive, the Judiciary, are to-day Influenced, and,
in effect, controlled by the Senate--and the Senate
itself is under the control of one idca-pouer-
every agency to advance that idea. Thus 1t is that
the machinery of the Government is SO contracted,
so narrow that the interests and aspirations of the
people find no proper vent, but are sti1ed, corrup-
ted and destroyed. The great trouble is, the
would-be leaders Of the people are dwarfed into
mere partisan adventurers.
ALL the people Of Tennessee, Democrats and
Radicals, appear to agree that since Brownlow
evacuated the Governorship and went to Washing
ton the condition of the State is entirely different
the Radicals it is true, do not generally ascrbe,
in so many words the great change to Brownow's
departure but some of them do, and all admit
that the change is an actual substantial, and most
happy one Strife and turmoil have almost Who'll
ly ceased, and peace and harmony have taken their
place No acts of violence, or, at any rate, as few
as in any State, South or North, are recorded.
The clouds Of trouble have passed away, and the
sun, moon and stars, shine in the blue sky. The
militia, that created so much disturbance, keeping
alive and exasperating the feeling of violence, have
been disbaDded, and are returning to their homes,
and contented people are left behind them.
THE Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Gazette, writing on Monday, says: "While
the political carnival is in progress in Washington,
and executive favors are being scattered broadcast
among free American citizens courier arrives
from the tar-of regions of Texas with official re-
ports for the War Department At the little
town of Jefferson, on the head of Lake Caddo, are
now fifteen hundred United States soldiers, occu-
pied in guarding thirty Of the most respectable
citizens of the town, who were arrested more than
four months since and who have never been al
lowed trial or hearing Of any kind. No one of
them has ever been informed Of the cause of his
arrest. The courier announces to the War Depart
ment that the soldiery have constructed stockade
surrounded with ditch fifteen feet wide and twelve
feet deep, and within the stockade erected frame
shed in which the prisoners are kept. A guard is
constantly on duty within the stockade and another
outside Of the stockade. No one not even counsel,
is allowed to speak to one Of these prisoners, cx-
cept in the hearing Of file ofsoldiers. Even their
wives and daughters are forbidden any intercourse
whatever, except in particular cases, where lady
is brought out under guard of eight men to the
entrance of the stockade but all such interviews
are limited to fifteen minutes. These persons have
made appeal after appeal for trial, but all in vain
The War Department receives and enters upon its
files these reports of Free American Citizens i'm
prisoned but says-'General Reynolds must at
tend to their trial or release it is no business of
the War Department.
The following account ofa sckening tragedy
which recently occurred in Minnesota, we find in
one of our exchanges: "At Oakdale township,
Mimi, on the morning of the 7th instant Mr. JAS
B. Gray was discovered sitting on the steps of his
granary, with rope in his hand alternately
screaming and whistling. An alarm was given
and Mr.. Gray's father hastened to the house and
pushed open the door. His four little prattling
grandchildren lay upon the floor side by side, Gov
cred with quilt, with their throats cut from ear