Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-05-13
Straps aud fatts.

"A Detroit woman has secured divorce De-
cause her husband compelled her to black his
boots.
They still have sleighing at Bethel, Maine,
and have enjoyed it continuously for the last i've
months and twenty days.
A man died suddenly from intemperance,
and Western jury found that deceased came to
his death by drinking between drinks.
-Commissioner Delano decides that the forms
on which telegraphic dispatches are written involve
a contract and require revenue stamp The lei
egraph Company will contest this decision.
Senator Sprague, when he speaks, keeps
his hands in his pockets. Most Of the radical
Senators, when they talk, are trying to get their
hands into the pockets of other people.
"A man in Minnesota has attained the climax
of-impudent infdeity. He not only left his wife
to elope With another, but he stole his wife
clothes for the other to wear.
The National Board of underwriters at New
York enjoyed 81, 800 dinner at Delmonlco's on
Thursday, after they had decided to put up the
tariff rates and curtail commissions to agents
AN Indiana man advertises his wife as hav-
ing deserted him Just at the time Of commencing
summer work, after he had been at the expense OF
wintering her.
One patent medicine manufacturer advertises
in twenty-five hundred papers in this country. 1t
is almost needless to add that his profits are enor-
nous.
Women having certain amount Of property
in Russia have the right to vote, though it must
be exercised by proxy, male relative or trend re-
presenting them at the election. .."
Mr.. James Robinson, an old and welEknown
citizen of this place, was attacked on Friday night
last by pain in the head, and in very short time
expired Chester Reporter.
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Railroad is made of California laurel, mounted
with silver, and it will be accompanied by spike
of solid gold.
The beauties of negro legislation were re-
Gently shown in Raleigh, n. C. The proposition
was to increase the debt of the city by borrowing
$4,000. The property holders, who were whites,
voted against it. The negroes, who pay no taxes,
voted in favor, and carried it.
"A Mississippi editor and justice Of the peace
married couple in 1859, divorced them in 1860,
married the man to another woman in 1861, mar
ried the woman to another man in 1862, and last
week he married the original couple.
IN printing Office at Gosport, Indiana, is
blind compositor His average days work is 1000
ems, and on several occasions he has set from 900
to 5000 His letter is distributed for him. and his
copy is read by his partner, his memory being 80
perfect that he can retain from four to SIX lines.
BY an Act of the General Assembly of Penn
sylvania, approved the 3lst of March, A. d. 1869,
penalty Of twenty-five dollars is imposed for the
killing Of any iusectivorous bird; one-half Of this
are classed under the head of insectivorous birds
are robins, martins, swallows, blue birds, wood
peckers, &C., &c. in fact, all the various small
birds generally seen in that latitude
The losses by fire in the United States dur
ing April, 1869, where the property destroyed was
valued at $4,000 and upwards, are reported to
amount to $3,SSOOOO against So, 1870, ,0O0in April,
1858 The losses during the first three months Of
1869 respectively, are estimated as follows :-Janu
airy, 1929, 900; February, s2,637, 1000; March,
1885,, ,00O The total for the first four months is
81, To-, 600; or $l5S,5SS day.
"A French engineer, by name Cazal, has
made little electric engine for attachment to a
sewing machine. The pile, placed in conven-
lent corner, or concealed in foot stool, supplies
the motive power; touching button applies it,
cents per day, the little engine saves much effort,
strength, and really fatiguing labor. Of course it
may be applied to other things.
-Rumors of Cabinet changes are again rife
It seems that reorganization Of the personnel Of
the government is deemed party necessity. 1t is
said that many of the Radical senators and mem
bers who remain in Washington express the con-
viction privately, that unless the Cabinet is recon-
structed the Republican party will 60 to pieces
and the next House of Representatives will have a
Democratic majority
Two locomotives passed Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, one day last week e,, route to California. They
will be the first ones to 60 over the entire and com
plete length of the Union Pacific Railroad Hud
son River Railroad engineers have placed on them
letters, notes and tokens of remembrance to their
brother engineers who left here for the Union Pa
ci6c last winter. Eight more locomotives will leave
Schenectady for California, over the same route,
on the 10th of May.
The velocipede, as a means of locomotion, it
is asserted, is practically worthless. At recent
trial on the Union Course, near New York, mile
in six minutes was the highest speed attained, and
the rider could not keep up this rate of speed even
for moderate length of time. As this trial was
made under unusually favorable circumstances as
to smoothness of track, it may be concluded that
the velocipede on ordinary roads is an incumbrance
rather than help to the rider.
The wheat crop on the James River, in Vir-
ginia is said to be three feet high at one point,
and in an advanced and fourishng condition gen.
orally. From other parts of the State we hear
cheering accounts, and expanding our survey, We
find that the reports throughout the country,
North, South and West, are all gratifying in their
promise of an abundant harvest In short, unless
some unforeseen and remarkable disaster should
fall upon our farmers we shall have the greatest
yield of wheat for 1869 ever harvested in this
country.-Ale1ander Gazette
Emigration from England to the United
States, it is reported, will hereafter be systemati-
cally organized. Leading members Of the English
trade unions, aided by liberal capitalists and poll
ticans it is stated have turned their attention to
emigration as means of relief for the operatives.
The spinners and miners now on strike will be
aided to emigrate, and committee ofthree or five
Of the leading working men are about coming to the
United States to obtain information, and on their
return to England will establish bureau Of emi-
grafton in London
ALL accounts agree, says the New York COM
mercsal, that, Notwithstanding the great severity
of the winter in the West, the wheat crop never
was known to be in more promising condition.
The great depth OF the snow prevented winter Kill
ling, and its gradual removal by rains and mode
rate thaw saved the wheat from being heaved up
out of the ground. 1t is quite forward, even al
though the season in other respects isat least three
weeks later than usual and the present prospect
that-barring cut worms, weevils, smut and other
mischances which may be in the future gamblers
included-the Western wheat crop Of 1869 will be
very liberal one; and with more extended facil-
ties for marketing, the Western growers and Eas-
tern consumers would equally profit.
-Divorce Brokers will find themselves some
what disturbed in the pursuit of their avocation by
the changes made in the laws of Indiana. Under
the new law it is impossible for parties not living
in the State to obtain Indiana divorces" by mere
ly paying liberal fee some unscrupuous lawyer.
II is now required that persons filling applicatons