Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-08

lied against New England, which section opposes
the bill, as she now holds the lions share of this
kind of financial aid from tile government, and is
indisposed to give it up. ...! .... .-,,...s ..s,:
The debate was long and hot. Mr.. Sprague, Of
Rhode Island, expressed the opinion that be had
never in his life heard so much ignorance displayed
upon any subject as he had in this discussion. y
This, together with his previous unAattering des-
criptions Of Senatorial ideas Of financial legislation,
drew on him the concentrated fire of New England
eloquence. He was charged with ignorance pre-
sumption and desire to publish his own vast bu-
siness. But Mr.. s. stood fire very calmly and
had the satisfaction of seeing the bill passed by
the Senate. .....'.... a..
A Substitute for the Iron. Clad Oath. E., ..
- Mr.. Sawyer, of South Carolina, recently in-
troduced bill in the Senate, which was referred
to the judiciary Committee, prescribing an oath
to be taken by persons who participated in the re-
beion, but are not disqualified from holding Office
by the fourteenth amendment It enacts that in.
stead of the oath prescribed by Act of June 2,
1862, they shall take that of Act July II, 1858
The latter oath is as follows:
II, do solemnly swear (or affirm that
I will support and defend the Constitution Of the
United States against all enemies, foreign and do
mestic that will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same; that take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose Of eva
the duties of the Office on which am about to en-
ter. So help me God"
President johnson as Tailor.
-Ex- President johnson has returned to his
home in the vicinity of Greenville, Tennessee. A
correspondent writing from that place, in speaking
of the president, says:
I had long and interesting conversation yester-
day with an old gentleman, tailor by trade, who
formerly worked in johnson shop. He says that
Andy was the best tailor he ever saw, and that
coats made by him never ripped. His work was
not only substantial but neat and tidy. All the
young bloods about Greenville who parted their
hair behind and stalked about with gold headed
canes used to patronize Andy as it was the cur.
rent report that a young fellow who wore full
suit of Johnson cut and make could marry quick
er, and stood higher with the ladies than Others
When johnson was elected Alderman there was as
much honor in the position as there would be in
owning hen and chickens, and it is said that the
young fellows about town elected him tor joke
Two years afterwards he was chosen Mayor. In
1885, when he was first elected to the legislature
he quit the tailoring business for the time being;
but the next session, whep he was defeated, ne
again resumed his old place on the workman
bench.
An Improved Butter Churn. ..,
We find the subjoined notice of an improved
churn in the Columbia PhGns1. We have seen
the model, and doubt not, from the reports which
have reached US, that it embodies many scientific
principles, and can be furnished, with all the i'm
proyements, at as low price as any other five
minutes butter making churn. Arrangements have
been made to supply this, and adjoining Counties
as soon as the patent papers are issued, which are
daily expected. The inventor, with whom We are
pers> lilly acquainted, occupies our poets corner
of this weeks issue: ...
A USEFUL ARTICLE IN EVERY FAM1LY.-Mr.
". W. Brgg, an English inventor, at present re.
siding at Greenville Tennessee, has submitted for
our inspection an improved churn, manufactured
on scientific principles, and which is highly com.
mcnded by numbers of individuals who are au fat
in the manufacture Of butter He has applied for
patent for his machine, and is daily in expecta-
tion of receiving his official papers. As soon as
arrangements are completed, which are now being
considered, the churns will be manufactured and
sold in Columbia Maj r. N. Lowrance of this
city, speaks as follows of the machine:
II have no hesitation in saying that the churn
exhibited by Mr.. Brigg is perfect machine, and
superior to any churn l have ever seen.
Gen. Grant and Real Estate.
The Washington correspondent Of the Balti-
more Gazette writes:
General Sherman will have some trouble with
the house his enthusiastic admirers gave him.
The house, supposed to have been purchased, is
the one formerly occupied by General Grant, and
the history of the sale is this About the first of
February General Grant put the property in the
hands of we'll known real estate firm for the pur.
pose of sale. On the sixth of February it was sold
to Sayles J. Bowen and memorandum Of agree
ment made in which it was stipulated that forty
thousand dollars was the price to be paid tor the
property, one thousand dollars down on the signing
of the agreement, nine thousand dollars cash upon
the delivery of the deed and possession of the pre-
misses, and thirty thousand dollars in ten years
thereafter with interest at six per cent, payable
semi annually. Tho thirty thousand dollars were
to be covered by q promissory note, secured BY 2
deed of trust on the property 1t was also agreed
that Bowen should insure to the amount Of fifteen
thousand dollars, and that he should have posses
sion on or before the lOth OF March. Inns memo
randum of agreement has attached to it receipt
for one thousand dollars which receipt is signed by
Kibourn & Latta, General Grants agents, and
also note written and signed by General Grant
himself in relation to the furnaces, gas fixtures,
&C. 1t is understood that the General had the
deed prepared and everything arranged for the
transfer, when he met very unexpected and IN
surmountable obstacle in the refusal of Mrs Grant
to give her consent to the transfer She probably
thought the terms unsatisfactory, and positively
refused to sign the deed. Meantime, the Sherman
enthusiasts came along and made overtures for tbe
purchase of the property for Sherman, and Presi-
dent Grant, ignoring the agreement with Bowen,
sells the house for nearly double the price of the
original contract Bowen is furious and demands
to know Why he has been treated 50, and holds the
written agreement above mentioned as rod over
President Grants head, in very threatening way.