Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-08
Sfraps aud fafts.

The Hillsboro IN. c. Recorder records two
rapes in that section, committed by negroes upon
white girls, each only fourteen years old - ~-.-
"A Connecticut rogue stole q horse and car:
rage, and then borrowed money Of the Lttleheld
county Sheriff to pay the expense Of pursuing the
thief
Some mice got into drawer in Mobile, con-
tanning matches and pistol cartridges. The mice
ignited the matches, the matches fired the car
trdges, and the official report mentions the killing
and wounding of several Of the gnawers.
DIR. G. W. Graves, formerly Of Perry. coun-
ty, Ala, now in California, writes long letter to
the Selma Times He thinks people in Alabama
and the other Southern States had better remain
where they are.
THE New York SIN has astonshed its read
ers by an editorial intimation in favor of such con-
s,i.utional changes willlprscticslly abolish the
gress supreme.
The Laurensvile Herald says Through the
Newberry Immigration Society," several OF our far
mers have received able-bodied, young and fine.
looking Germans, who have gone to the cotton and
corn fields In every instance, We hear favorable
reports. - :.
Forney writes to q Southern man that his
"whole object is to see the South not only to re.
turn to its past prosperity but to see it embarked
upon career of renown that will place it in sue
cessful competition with the North" Forney has
land to sell.
"A negro woman f0rty-two years OF age, hv-
ing seventeen miles from Athens, Alabama, gave
birth to twins on the 9th ult-one a white infant
and the other black as tar. A similar occurrence
as to the infants happened near Somerville, Ala,
about ten years ago. The mother was white
woman.
THE daily evening train out of Washington
is now generally known as the swearing train,
from the number of homeward- bound oface- seek,
ers who not being friends Of the Grant family, and
having neglected to contribute to the gut enter
prise endeavor to relieve their disappointment and
the tedium of the forlorn journey by profound in
terchanges of profanity.
"A dispatch from Richmond announces the
appointment of General Alexander Webb to sue
ceed General Stoneman in the command OF the
FIRST military district Virginia Italso announces
that Governor Wells, who was suspended by Gen:
Stoneman, has been reinstated as the provisional
governor of the State, and Stoneman ordered to
60 with his regiment to California.
Brick Pomeroy 6tly says: "Corn is scarce at
the South, the demand being for thousands OF bu-
shells from the North West How long will the peo-
ple of that section be content to raise cotton tor
the benefit of New England manufacturers, rather
than provisions for their own consumptlonI 1t
strikes us as poor policy to starve ones self to
death for the purpose Of enriching enemies.
The Washington correspondents say that the
Georgia, Governor Bullock deliberately procured
the Senate of his State to reject the Fifteenth
amendment, in order that he might use that rejec-
ton as an argument for the expulsion Of the State
from the Union and be is now canting the result
of his own work as reason why bis State should
be handed over again to the boys in blue and the
negroes
The Chicago Tribune says cleveland is
proud of citizen woman who has had seven hus-
bands within eight years. One was killed in the
army and another 10 a street fight. The other five
survive, she having been divorced from four of
them. Her daughter bids fair to rival her moth
er's connubial exploits having been already twice
married and divorced. and is now ready to snap up
a third man, though but in her seventeenth year.
Some interesting developments were made
in the New York courts Tuesday. 1t was shown
that the Union Pacific road is not completed to
Ogden, as stated, and that temporary tracks were
laid down in some places on grade exceeding two
hundred feet to the mile, upon which the COM
pany had received the full quota Of bonds, although
the road is not built on the approved line Of sur
vey and two tunnels are still unfinished.
An elephant belonging to menagerie in
Forest, Mississippi, became enraged, broke his
chain, aud upset things generally. n passingrai-
road train still further exciting his ire, be pitched
into it, knocked the locomotive off the track, but
was himself knocked into smthereens. The steam
from the demolished locomotive bursted the cage
in which. a lion was confined, and the beast made
his escape and at last accounts was killing men
and horses.
The following are a few facts about the cele-
brated Siamese twins Chang and Eng married
two sisters, the daughters of North Carolina
clergyman. Each brother has nine children. The
family of Eng consists of six sons and three daugh-
ters D.; the family Of Chang lists Of three sons
and six daughters. The first children were born
in three or four days of each other the others at
regular intervals. Chang's ninth child was born
three months ago.
The religion Of the members OF the new Cab;
met is stated to be as follows: Attorney-General
Koar is q Unitarian Secretary of the Interior Cox
is Swedenborgian; Secretary of the Navy Borie
is a Catholic; ex-Secretary Of State Washburne is
q Unversalist: Secretary of State Fish is Dutch
ReIormer and Postmaster. General Creswel es-
chewS churches altogether. The religious faith Of
Boutwell, and Rawlns is not yet known to fame.
Grants family are Methodists, and that is the
church which he usually attends.
- The Baltimore San of Tuesday says that a
large number Of foreign emigrants have left New
York within the last few days, to try their fortunes
in the Southern States. A majority Of them were
young and healthy men and women from Germa-
ny, and the remainder were Irish, English and
French. South Carolina was the destination of
most of them. and in most cases the cmgrants had
come to this country under the auspices of some of
the Southern emf grant companies, who are trying
to attract labor and capital from Europe, to aid in
the development of the Southern country.
I'm the redistribution of Congressman after
the census, next year, the East will lose and the
West will gain great number of representatives
After 1870 the West, if united, will control the
legislation of the country, and control the national
conventions for nominating Presidential candidates
The West is eouitably entitled to this superior
weight now but it cannot receive the benefit OF
its wonderful growth since 1860 until after the ten
years are fully up, when, by sudden stride or
leap, it will make great advance in political in
huence.
- Mayor Hall, of New York, has published a
letter addressed ITO the Press of the United
States in which he says: II beg to caution
strangers against New York circulars and prospec'
fuses of tickets, shares and chances in cooperative
unions or gift enterprises or dollar stores, or in any
other possible scheme whereby property or the
value promised is greater than the price asked to
lie paid. Every such advertisement scheme Is
necessarily swndle and false pretence There
do not and cannot possibly exist any such schemes
in this city. Country newspapers which aid them
simply aid the Swindle.
1t is said that Mrs. Charles Summer, for.
merly the widow Hooper, and now grazing some.
,bn 90 tbo