Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-24
Sfraps aud faGts.

Two ladies were having some words together
on the roadside, when the daughter Of one ofthem
popped her head out of the door and cried "Be
quick mother, and call her thief before she calls
you one" B. ..-
The Crispin organization Of shoemakers in
the United States, is said to be one OF the most
formidable trades associations in the world. They
recently offered $1,000 to four men to quit working
for boss who would not recognize their de-
mands.
AT Terra Haute. Indiana, there is preacher
who is liquor gauger in the internal revenue ser
vice, and a Tere Haute paper, in reply to some
objections, as to the ineongruity Of the arrange
ment, thinks he must be rather poor preacher
who could Mt be trusted to guage whiskey.
1t is claimed by Florentine professor that
copper wire, slender and flexible, around the leg Of
the patient, leaving an end long enough to touch
the ground. The theory is that the wire conducts
away the electricity of the body
There is man living in Northampton, Mas
sachusetts within three miles Of the railroad thlr
ty-eipht years of age, who has been in but four
different towns in his fe has never been inside OF
a rail road car, and has never slept in any house
except the one in which he was born, has never
been oourting and never kissed girl
a ten-inch columbiad gun has been placed
on the spot where Generals Grant and Pemberton
arranged the terms for the surrender OF Vicksburg,
an inscription denoting the fact being engraved up
on it. The marble monument which was originally
erected there had been hacked and marred Dy
vandal relic-seekers.
"A divine in Georgetown, D. c., IN one of
his.sermons during the base ball season, used as
quotation the scriptural query, Where are the
nine?'' On repetition Of the question demure
looking young gentleman, who had been noddlng
Suddenly reused up, and in an audible tone inno-
Gently responded, 'They are playing Washing
tonclub."
A girl keeper of tollgate in England was
asked BY swell velocipedst, who thought to chatt
her, how much he had to pay. ''That, sir, re-
phedshe, depends upon whether you ride through
the gate, or whether you get OFT your dandy horse
and drag it through because in that case every
two-wheeled vehicle drawn by horse or an ass
pays three-pence.
The order of the President approving the
sentence Of the Military Commission in Texas just
promulgated, is the first approval by the President
ofthe action Of military courts under the reconsruc
ton acts. President johnson took no action upon
such proceedings, but when presented tor his ap,,
proyal held them under advisement or returned
the aapers to the War Department without COM
ment -
- Professions exercise great influence on
longevity. In one thousand individuals who ar
rive at the age of seventy, forty-two are priests
orators or public speakers; forty are agricultural
lists, thrty-three are workmen, thirty-two are SOL
diers or military employees, twenty-one are advo-
Gates or engineers forty professors and twen-
ty.four doctors Those who devote their lives to
the prolongation of others die the soonest.
-Oeer three hundred colored persons have
recently left Southwestern Virginia for the more
Southern States From almost every other SEQ
ton Of Virginia, it is stated that they are taking
nm the line of march Southwark. An exchange,
in view of these facts, asks, how long will it be be-
fore the eolored people cease to be political pow
er in Virginia. ~
Some gentlemen who lately bought lot of
unclaimed express parcels at sale of such articles
BY the Adams Express Company, have held a
meeting and determined to begin legal proceedings
to recover the amounts paid for the packages al
lodging that they were never sent by express, but
were packed up for swinding purposes: One gen.
tleman paid $3.50 for packages which proved to
contain the merest rubbish.
The sugar crop of the world is reported to
amount to 2,S00,000 tons per annum. Vt this
amount the United States consumes $50, 600 tons,
and Great Britain 6S0,O03. The consumption Of
been raised to the extent of 81 900 in 1868 over
1861 Ofthe total production, Cuba has heretofore
yielded one-third and the Southern States pro-
duced 100, 900 tons in 1868
The Knoxville Press and Herald of last
Saturday says Mr.. James E. Renshaw, OF this
city, has very full list of the Confederate dead
buried in and about Knoxville. The list comprises
about three thousand names. Persons desiring in
formation concerning lost friends, may possibly OBJ
tain important intelligence by applying to Mr..
Renshaw. His list indicates places OF residence as
well as names.
The Western lands, it is stated, are rapidly
becoming exhausted from the production of one
class of crops and from the neglect to apply pro-
per manures The journals of that region assert
that the grain growing districts of Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri and Minnesota, are yielding smaller crops
to the acre every year, and the same facts have
been observed in the wheat districts of California
The West, as well as the South, must adopt the
plan of rotation Of crops,
1t is said that after the Grand Army of the
Republic had left Arlington Cemetery on deco:
ration day, there came on great storm OF wind
and rain The next day all was bright and fair,
but wondrous change had been wrought The
wind, more charitable than man, and more practical
of the Federal soldiers, and heaped them upon the
neglected and insulted graves ofthe thirty unknown
Confederates.
The English papers record tolerably smart
mot that is attributed to Earl Clarendon, the pres
ent Foreign Minister for Great Britain Mr.. Sum-
ner, after living into advanced age a bachelor,
married. three years since, young widow OF great
personal attractions. Recently, the man and wife
have, on the ground of incompatibiity Of temper,
separated Lord Clarendon being asked what i'm
preston Mr.. Summers late speech had made upon
him, answered, II have read it, sir, with much
interest, and have formed very high opinion Of
Mrs. Sumner"
The St. Paul (Minnesota) Dispatch says
'We learn from gentleman who came down from
the Chippewa agency that delegation Of some
twenty or thirty of those Indians are on their way
down to St. Paul to have grand dog feast. They
have learned that some twenty or thirty fine, tat
dogs are killed every day by the police, and the
bodies buried They think this a shocking and
awful waste of food. Dog meat is great delicscy
with them. They propose to encamp in the park
near the City Hall, and live on dog meat until the
harvest of CANNES ceases, and then return home
fat and happy"
The Pail Mall Gazette mentions the recur-
renee of an extraordinary phenomenon recorded
by Herodotus, as having been observed in remote
times by the tribes inhabiting the shores Of the
Caspian Sea- That huge salt lake is dotted with
islands from which enormous quantities Of napEtha
are yearly taken. Early last month, owing to sub
terranesn disturbances, the naphtha wells on these
islands oyeraowed, and the inAamable substance
spread over the entire surface Of the lake. 1t ac-
cidentally took fire, and for fortyeight hours
burned furiously over surface of many thousands
of square miles, presenting a magnificent and ter
rfyng spectacle to the inhabitants Of the surround
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