Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-15
Sfraps aud fatts.

no one worth less than S250,000 is admitted.
There are "bogus conductors" out West
who, anticipating the real Individuals 60 through
the trains in advance of them and collect the fares
The Knights of St. Crispin, secret society
Of Shoemakers, is said to number enc hundred
thousand members in the United States.
From almost all parts of Indiana reports
are received showing that wheat is in unusaiy fine
condition, and promises large crop
--Rev. A. G. Stacy, formerly President Of a
Female College at Charlotte, N. e., occupies
similar position in Missouri.
Iowa has 80 extended her wheat acreage
that she will raise 10000, 600 bushels more this
year than last.
BY a new law in Arkansas the County in
which murder is committed is liable to be tined
and fined 81 900 for committing the crime.
Youngstown, Penn, the estimated pop9la-
lO5 retail liquor dealers.
In the Texas bond case, the Supreme Court
has decided the constitutonaty of the reoonstruc-
tiop Acts. Judge Grier dissented, but only as to
the merits of the case.
The steamer Gettysburg has been ordered
to take line of soundings on the coast OF Cuba
and the neighboring islands. This Is rather agni-
fcant.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the ap-
neal in the McCardle case for want of jurisdiction.
This case involved the question ofthe constitution
atty of the reconstruction acts.
In Washington, on Monday night last, the
worLinpmen of the District serenaded Senator
Sprague as manifestation of their approval OF his
recent political course.
Industrious people of Richmond earn fiv.
ing by gathering bullets, shells, &C. from the bat,
tle-felds around that city, and selling them for old
metal.
The slave trade, it seems, is not yet totally
suppressed. A British fngate recently caught two
slayers off Madagascar with one hundred and nj
teen negroes on board.
-Winn, Maine, boasts the largest tannery in
the United States. 1t turns out yearly 60 O00 sides
of sole leather, using 1000 cords OF hemiock bark
to tan it.
The New York Tribune says "We fear
that the tendency to corruption about Congress is
on the increase, and that improper influences at
feet votes more often than is generally under
stood
"A colored couple were recently married IN
Richmond Va, each of whom some years ago were
compelled to have their legs amputated at the
knees, owing to their having been severely frost
bitten. What next?
"A Learenworth paper thinks it ''an evi.
dence of the Westward March Of Civilization" that
the Kansas Legislature appropriated 400 tor to-
bacco for the peItentary prisoners, and only S3OO
for preaching the gospel to then
A dispatch to the New York Tribune says:
''It is rumored BY General Longstreets friends
that he will hold the place of Surveyor OF the port
of New Orleans for only short time, and should
General Sickles decline the Mexican misslon'
Longstreet will be nominated tor that place.
General Robert Anderson, the nero of Fort
@ 1 L.. in o1
worn out horse, to die on the commons. we read
that he has been compelled by his necessities to
sell his library and 60 and live in Europe. 1t evl
IDENTITY don't pay to Dc the hero OF mere fort.
The boyish test of good steel or good tenn.
pered steel blades, made by breathing on the
polished surface, and noting the time OF the evap-
Grafton, has lately been claimed by prominent
English mechanic to be founded on correct prln-
cipfes.
"A novel tournament is to come off in Chica-
80 scne time in May. The Chicago Butchers
Society offer solid silver belt, with buckle of
solid gold, to the butcher who can kill and dress
an OK in the shortest time: The belt IS very
handsome one, and costs five hundred dollars.
"A newly married man, who was naturally
confused by the event, handed the railroad conduc-
tor his marriage certificate instead of the ticket
1t was declined. What exclaimed the aston.
iSbed bridegroom. isn't that good for ride ?"
"No, SIR said the official, blandy mot on this
road
1t is said that shipwrecked Yankee was
lately rescued from one Of the Marquesas Islands,
whose first question on being discovered was
"How did the Mexican war finally turn out?' He
was a soldier who left Gen. Scots army before
the campaign closed, and furnishes very good
parallel to the Man without Country
"A dispatch from Providence, r. l., announ-
ces the death from apoplexy, on Thursday last, Of
General Burton Colonel Of the Fifth Artillery.
General Burton is we'll known for his kind treat
ment of ex President Davis when prisoner. He
was afterwards commander of the post at Colum-
bia, S. G.
son of Ned Wright, converted burglar. His Ian
guase is so striking and effective that Mr. Spur
geon stands no chance against him with the female
portion of the audience He has lately been preach
ing at the midnight mission houses in London. and
with such force that many women fell lnsenslble,
and had to be removed on stretchers.
"A writer in the Ohio Farmer says that after
the horse is nine years old wrinkle comes on the
eyelid, and every year thereafter he has an addi-
tional well defined wrinkle on the same spot If,
for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is
twelve, if four he is thirteen. Add the number Of
wrinkles to nine and you will always get the age.
As good many people have horses over nine, 1t
is easily tried.
The rapid immigration from the North and
West is already changing the entire population in
some sections of SpottSyl ylvana and Caroline in Vir-
gnia In the neighborhood of Spottsyvania c.
H., dozen Northern men have come in and are
now actively at work In the vicinity of Quincy S
station, on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad, twelve miles from Fredericks-
burg, large sales have been recently made.
"A short time ago the House of Representa-
tives called upon the President, ifnot incompatible
with the public interests, to furnish list Of ves-
sells captured or destroyed during the late war by
Confederate cruisers. This information was laid
before the House on Saturday. The number Owes
sells given with their names and value is nearly
three hundred, and the aggregate value more than
$l3000,0l0.
Some mischievous boys in Natchez, Miss, a
few NIGHTS since introduced 4 new feature into the
festivities Of colorcd fair being held in that city.
These odious wretches placed cayenne pepper up
on the hot stove and set all the du>ky damselS to
sneezng to that extent that all the hooks and eyes
were bursted off their dresses They then, for the
benefit of the dusky lords, introduced in the egg
nog croton oil as lubrcator, and possibly to equal
ize or neuralZe the effects of the fnsel oil already
in the admixture. The fair did not prove very
eminent success
- New York thieves have in training num-
ber of dogs for summer operations. They are
taught by repeated endeavors to rush into room
and seize from counter parcel and quickly
bring il to their master Their counter is made so
as to resemble those in banks, and the parcel is
covered with yellow paner, and made to look like
%ho ok of hanl nOfec that avnhon pp1