Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-03-25
Straps aud fatts.

The manner in which they weigh hog in
New Jersey, it is said, is to put the hog in one
scale and some stones in the other, and then guess
at the weight Of the stones.'
1t is said that Chicago publisher has got
out family Bible in which there are the usual
columns for marriages, births and deaths al
so one for divorces
-Seventy Tennessee negroes are now trying
to make the courts give them $50, 600, which was
left them by the will of their former owner in case
they went to Liberia
1t is said that all the gold in the world en-
gle cubical block, would be twenty.sz feet square,
and weigh l0,500 tons. Its commercial value
would be six billion dollars.
THE Wilmington Star, says: "MesGs
David Landreth &; Son, the well-known seedsmen
of Philadelphia, some time since rented farm,
near Goldsboro' and are now buslly engaged 10
preparations for heavy crop Of early vegetables.
Harper's Weekly, the blackest of mongrel
sheets, saws: Zone wonders that the South does
not rebel anew, when one considers the miserable
vermin who have been sent down there as Govern
ment officials"
Women are said. to have stronger attach
ments than men, It is not So A man is often
attached to an old hat; but did you ever know Of
women having an attachment to an old bonnet!
Echo answers "Never'
The following is taken from an advertise
ment of DR.. ks liver-encouraging, silent per-
ambulator family pills: This pill is as mild as a
pet lamb, and it don't 90 fooling about 1t attends
strictly to business and is as certain as an alarm
clock"
The citizens of Greenville, East Tennessee,
the home of Andrew johnson, met in mass meet
ing recently, and passed resolutions highly euogis
tic of the ex-President, and appointing commit
tee to make arrangements for his public reception
when he returns to Tennessee.
In the recent local elections in the State Of
New York, the Democracy have made nearly q
clean sweep They have beaten their opponents
handsomely in the towns of Utica, Poughkeepsie,
Oswego, Newburgh and Elmira, and in the Coun-
ties of Columbia, Saratoga, Erie, Cayuga and
Ulster.
-Turnipseed is the name of highly cultiva-
ted and darky colored legislator in Georgia, who
has actually introduced bill into that body TO
prevent manageable females from flirting"
Turnipseed must have the faith Of mustard seed,
to believe that such result can be wrought by
legislation.
THE cotton trade in England is very dull,
and the foreign papers report that very few Of the
days in week The majority of the establish
ments have been open only four and five days in
the week. and now the time is generally to be re-
duced to three days.
ALL the conductors on the New Hampshire
Railroad have been removed for stealing. 1t is
discovered that they have robbed the company of
about $3.50 900 annually for eight years, and have
all made themselves so rich that they have COM
bined and bought up enough of the stock to turn
out the directors who turned them out
The female principal of young ladies' semi
nary in London cures the innumerable cases Of
''falling in love" that occur among her pupils, by
close confinement and doses of senna tea. She says
the tea never fails. Sometimes the girl gives in
after few doses, but usually it takes two or three
days. and in one case she was a whole week ef-
fecting cure. For schoolgirls ''caF love, she
declares there is nothing like senna tea
Particular attention is invited to the ad
vantages which the South Carolina Loan and Trust
Company affords to parties who desire to invest
their funds temporarily. The ability to use such
funds at short notice, and at the same time to
derive interest thereon, is thus amply secured.
Executors, administrators or trustees, also ladies
unaccustomed to the general management of in
vestments, will find this Company q convenient
and safe depository for money. The Directors are
well KNOWN CltZeuS VI CIlaTleStOu.
THE Bishop of New Jersey, it is said, has
given notice that he will refuse, at confirmation, to
lay his hands upon the piles of false hairand CHG
mons which distigure the heads of 80 many young
ladies seeking admission to the church and COM
munion The laying on of sacred hands at the
altar upon so much rubbish gathered from the
four corners of the earth, instead of the genuine
natural hair or head, is deemed an offence to the
law and gospel of the church.
1t will be recollected that President Grant,
Immediately upon taking his Office directed that
certain pardons issued by President johnson,
should be revoked, and withheld from the persons
intended to be pardoned, in certain cases in New
York, Massachusetts,, and elsewhere Attorney
General Hoar has had this subject under consider
alton, and it is understood he decides that the re-
vocation of the President will not stand in law
that the act of the Executive was complete when
the warrant of the pardon was placed in the hands
of a United States marshal or other officer; and
that if the persons intended to be pardoned shall
not be released that upon habeas corpus the courts
would release them
"A most outrageous attempt at swindlng
came to our knowledge on Saturday, and we pub
lsh the facts to let rascals know that their tricks
will be discovered and they will meet with loss in
stead Of profit in their attempts We went to
Messrs. Stenhouse, McCauley & Co.'S warehouse
to see two bales opened, which had been plated.
Mr.. Donald McCauley noticed something suspi-
cious about the fellow, and suggested that the
bales be more fully examined. His suspicious were
right, for upon opening them large bag of dirt
and six bricks were found in the centre of each,
the estimated weight of which is about three hun
dred and fifty pounds. Fortunately the fraud was
discovered in time to prevent the payment of the
check The scoundrel gave his name as Frank
Carson. and hailed from Lancaster District, S. C.
He ought to be in the Penitentiary. Charlotte
ca. c. Times, 18th instant.
- The order drafted by General Scho6eld for
the consolidation of the regiments now in service,
in accordance with the provisions of the new law
for the reduction of the army, has been issued.
The cavalry and artillery regiments remain un-
changed. The torty.6 regiments of infantry are
10 be consolidated into twenty-five. This will
throw twelve cooneS, twenty lieutenant colonels,
twenty majors two hundred captains, and about
four hundred first and second lieutenants, into the
list of those awaiting orders. Whenever officers
are on detached duty, or are absent with leave or
otherwise their places will be filled from the next
in rank, and they left on the list of those in retire
ment The twenty-five regiments will thus con-
stantly have full complement Of officers. The
four coorcd regiments will be formed into two, to
be known as the Twenty y-fourth and Twenty-fif
The four regiments of veteran reserves will be con-
>ulilaled with the active regiments, and the men
unfit for duty will be at once mustered out il they
so desire. The staff corps are not consolidated.
How we'll Grant kept the secret of the Cab-
net is shown by story concerning MIR. Borie, the
Secretary of the Navy. Mr.. Borie went on to
Washinuton to see the inaup,1ration of the new