Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-02-04
Scraps aud faets.

Mrs. General Grant is said to have the small
lest foot of any lady in Washington.
"A woman divorced from her fourth husband
at Chicago, last week, entered matrimony for the
fifth time the day after.
"A Cairo paper mentions lot of 300, 600
bushels of wheat as having passed through that
place on the way from Chicago to Liverpool
The Richmond Whig, in view Of recent ao-
counts from both places, thinks it is hard to say
which land is blessed with the best government
Hayti or Arkansas.
The testimony of Chinaman was recently
rejected in California court, on the ground that
he was not "person" within the meaning OF the
Fourteenth amendment.
AN Australian horse recently ran ten miles
in twenty-three minutes and thirty-hve seconds
said to be the fastest time on record tor that dis
tance.
-Mexico remains in state of disturbance
She continues to indulge in daily revolution
Instructions there have become so common that
they are no longer classed among the luxurles.
-Judpe Drummond, of the United States
District Court, sitting in Chicago, has decided
that in making income returns man may deduct
promissory notes and bad debts.
Owing to the mild weather and the heavy
soaked snow which has covered the ice IN the
neighborhood of New York, the ice-dealers OF that
city are greatly fearing short crop
General Grants fayorite steed for horse back
riding is said to be beautiful black pony, which
was taken from Dick Taylor's plantation during the
war
The general opinion of Congressmen is that
the first session of the next Congress, commencing
on the fourth of March, will not last over tour or
five weeks.
Florida planters are preparing for planting
cotton largely this year. They think the unusual
" cold weather there has destroyed the caterpil-
lars.
"A minister in Boston startled his staid par
ishioners the other Sunday, by inserting petition
in his prayer that the Lord would also 'bess those
middle-aged females in the congregation whose
youthful hopes had been disappointed.
1t is estimated that there are at present at
least one thousand disteries in operation through
out the country, and reports received at the Treas
ury Department show that the number will soon
be largely increased. ..-
There died at Winnsboro, 8. G., the other
day, negro man aged ITO years. During the last
year of his life he made two bales Of cotton and
twenty bushels Of corn. BE did his own hoeing
and picking. We know of many sta1wart youths
not half 50 plucky.
"A lady correspondent of the Washington
Chronicle states that, although Senators Pomeroy,
Wade and Wilson attended the Womens Rights
ed to the movement This is nothing extraordi'
nary.
AN Iowa editor takes pains to tell his read.
ers that he has had an introduction to young
lady from Ohio, whom he mentions by name and
says she us all sorts Of lovely girl, as sharp as
frosty morning, full of tricks as deer, and happy
as whole hocks Of snowbirds.
Men ought to be faithful husbands in Cali,
fornia. if pecuniary interests have any influence
upon their moral movements. In that State, II q
man commits adultery, and his wife gets divorce
in consequence, all his real estate becomes her prop
erty.
The New York Board of Health has adopt
. ed an ordinance forbidding the sale of kerosene
oils and other burning Auids unless they shall take
fire at one hundred and ten degrees Farenheit and
not evolve explosive material at temperature OF
one hundred degrees.
The japanese are inimitable in their inven-
tive genius. The Mikado has recently invented
extinguisher that is likely to work well. 1t con-
sists of an edict that any person IN whose house
conhagration shall originate, shall Immediately
lose his head, without appeal.
There is grocer out West who is also a
Justice of the peace and who offers to marry gratis
all couples who will patronize his store. Ii ne
would give groceries free to all who get married at
his Office, it would be more Of an inducement to
matrimony.
The smallpox is reported to be very severe
in the Western cities It is asserted that the
number of deaths from this disease has been un-
precedently great in Cincinnati. 1t is declared to
be an epidemic in St. Louis, and is scourging Chi
cago.
"A lady attempted to kill rat that had In
yaded her parlor, when the rat sought refuge by
running up her garment upon her back, This so
alarmed the woman that she fed shrieking from
the room, and tumbled down stairs, turning a
complete summersault, landing on her back. The
rat was killed.
"A newspaper, called the Richmond Head
Light," is published on board the steamer Rich
mond, one of the huge passenger palaces which
ply between Louisville and New Orleans. It has
two compositors and one editor, and is published
six times during each trip, or about three times
week.
The warlike preparations in Prussia, inter-
rupted since the commencement OF October, have
been actively taken in hand. Correspondence from
Warsaw mentions that all the soldiers on furlough
have been recalled, and two hundred roubles
bounty are given to all the discharged men who
re-enist
"A curious question is coming up for decision
in the Massachusetts, Supreme Court. The con-
test is between the mother and the afhanced bride
of gentleman who had insured his life and assign
ed the policy first to the young lady, and then,
without her knowledge or consent reassigned it to
his mother. The mother asserts that an engage
ment of marriage does not constitute an insurable
interest.
General Grant authorizes the statement that
he has not in any way, in conversation or other
wise, made known his preferences for the persons
to fill his Cabinet. He has uniformly indicated
that he would take no action on the subject until
after he shall receive official notification Of his elec
tion which notification cannot reach him for about
q month from this date There is the same au-
thority for saying that General Grant has not init
mated an opinion as to what course should be taken
by the Senate, relative to nominations made by Mr.
johnson, nor what Offices should be left in abey-
ance until after the fourth of March.
-Forney, the editor of the Washington Chron-
acle and the Philadelphia Press, has opened land
agency in connection with my two papers, both
daily" one result of which is the formation of a
company of capitalists, who propose to purchase a
tract of three hundred thousand acres of ftimbered
land in North Carolina, grind up the bark of the
trees and extract the principle of tannin and saw
up the timber and then 90 to farming on the
cleared up land on a most extensive scale. The
Southern correspondent, who publishes an account
Of this gigantic enterprise, states that Forney has
lattery become exceedingly liberal in his political