Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-03
Straps aud faets.

cent each, and $50 empty Hour barrels
-A An Illinois farmer set fire to the grass on his
prairie land the other day and burned up his two
children who were out at play.
An agent of ST. Louis immigrant import
ing house is at Selma, Ala, making contracts with
planters for Chinese laborers.
MIR. Treasurer Spinner sleeps with his bed
jammed up against the door of the principal vault
in the Treasury building. .-
I'm Indianapolis, marriage license was re-
Gently issued to young couple who have already
once been married and divorced, and who are stlll
under age. ~:.il -..a
Mr.. s. Wolf, Register of Deeds at Washing
ton, D. c., thinks the negro is to become the
headstone of our social and political culture. -
This is evidently Wolf in sheep clothing.
The Hon. James NJ. Mason, the envoy Of
the Confederate Government to England, has re-
turned to the United States after his long exile,
and reached his home in Winchester last week.
A paper ''down east" makes this correction:
sIn our paragraph yesterday concerning thirteen
ministers who had been spanked in infancy, tor
spanked read sprnkled."
sThe Oldest man in the world" has just died
in Poland. He had just entered his l39th year.
LIE Steele says that at eighty his hair was quite
white and afterwards became Of brown shade.
"A 100000 diamond has been found at the
Cape Of Good Hope The native who picked, 1t
up sold it for FIVE hundred sheep ten oxen and a
horse.
Western papers declare that the Pacific
Railroad has brought the Pacific coast nearer to
Omaha than to Washington, and upon this very
evident proposition want the national capital moved
West, 49,, g.. -....,-. -,
a negro doctor iu Georgia prescribed for
rheumatic old woman that she should bury all her
L. IL cf0 n Garden.
She did so, and though the rheumatism didn't
vanish, the money did. H..
Paper, thoroughly impregnated with carbolic
acid, has been made by an Italian chemist and its
preservatire power is so strong that meat wrapped
in is kept perfectly fresh without salt or any cur
ing process
"A man in Cairo, Illinois, has invented a
spring, to be attached to the feet, by means OF
which person is relieved of the labor Of walking,
to great extent. He claims his invention will
enable man to walk ten miles per- hour with ease.
-"I say, ma,' exclaimed little mink fthir-
teen. sdo YOU know what the pyrotechnical remedy
is for crying infant p Gracious goodness, me,
no never heard of such thing" Well, ma it's
rockes?' ..%s..
The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, Of
Saturday, says: Harvesting wheat commenced
on the outskirts of this city on Thursday: The
wheat is in fine condition, we'll matured, and there
seems to be fine prospect for large yield.
Eighteen new cases of smallpox are re-
ported in New York, most of them being, OF a
viralent character. The patients are usually re-
moved by force if necessary to the smallpox hos
pitsls. .;.
THE height of impudence has been attained
by Connecticut attorney, who lost all bis money
at a faro-bank in Hartford, complained OF the
place to the police, got his money back, and took
the same money to the same place the same night
to play again.
"A gentleman Of Rochester, New Hampshire,
saw an advertisement that receipt tor the cure
of dyspepsia might be had by sending postage
stamp to the advertiser. He was victim, and
sent bis stamp. The answer was Dig in your
garden and let whiskey alone
The Princess Metternich's wardrobe is said
to consist of 120 silk dresses 1874 morning gowns,
60 walking dresses, 60 cloaks, so shawls l52 petit
coats, 2s0 chimises and other under garments, 365
pairs of stockings 1856 pairs Of gloves, 50 pairs OF
boots and Shoes 10 belts and sashes, GA brooches,
p pairs of earrings 81 fans and "a parasols.
At the meeting of The Peace Society, held
in New York the other day, and over which
party named Alfred 81. Love, very appropriately,
presided the reputation of taxes for war purposes
was openly discussed and advocated; and yet not
sing gle New York journal speaks of these lambs
as 'rebels.
Miss Mary A. Gray, one of Georgia noblest
daughters, has, by her own superhuman efforts,
raised the money, collected aud re-interred the bo
dies of 500 of our Boys in Grey" in the ceme-
terry at Franklin, Tenn, who were killed In the
terrible battles around that place. Long may she
live to be loved and honored by every true South
ron.
General Grant has had his monogram en-
blazoned on the White House china, and has re,
Gently appointed physician to the Household"
Merchants are commencing to advertise their wares
as ''the best in Grants dominions," and Foretop:
man Borie is running the naval department and
the Imperialist 'jintly," as Captain Cutie would
say What's in the wind? Straws straws, straws.
A New York correspondent says The dry
goods market continues depressed. The distribu-
tive demand and the general complaint is that the
mills are either working without profit or at posi-
tive loss Stocks meanwhile are accumulating, and
the talk is that there will soon be material curtai
ment of production. Many staple goods are selling
below cost. Leading prints remain at l2 to l24
cents.
"A Southern Historical Society has been
formed at New Orleans, whose object is to collect
reliable data of the workings of the late Coufeder
ate government, and the battles seges and expoits
of the war; Rev. DR.. Palmer, of New Orleans, is
president of the society, and General Braxton
Bragg yice:president for Louisiana, General Breck
inridge for Kentucky, and Alexander 81. Stephens
for Georgia.
1t is stated that the cauterization by hot tai
low is an immediate cure for ingrowing nails
Put a small piece of tallow in spoon and heat it
over lamp until it becomes very hot, and drop
two or three drops between the nail and granula-
ton. The effect is almost magical. Pain and ten
derness are at once relieved and in few days the
granulation will all 60, leaving the diseased parts
dry, so as to admit of being pared away without
any inconvenience. The operation causes little it
any pain, if the tallow is properly heated.
AT Lawrence, Mass, about six weeks ago, a
resident, who had been sick for some time, told his
friends dream that he had the night before. 1t
was that he was very soon to leave this world
and take with him his grandson, then healthy
boy at school. About two weeks after, the lad
was taken sick, and the grandfather was so firmly
convinced that his dream would be fulfilled, that
he warned those about him that medicine would
do the boy no good. The lad died day or two
ago, Notwithstanding all efforts to save him, and
his relative remarked that he should follow him in
few hours. He died the next day.
"A prominent official, who is a strong pro-
tectionist, recently called upon President Grant for
the purpose of ascertaining his views upon the
tariff question. In reply to question, the Presi-
dent said he was decidedly opposed to any legsla-
tisn which had for its object an increase in the
taxation of articles or merchandise imported into
the United States. 1t was useless to say that the
revenues of the country demanded it, for such was
not the case and it was far better that many of the
high duties already imposed be stricken off, and not
burden the country with still higher ones. He