Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-03-18
Straps aud faets.

literally over-run with Cuban refugees and every
vessel, steamer, yacht or smack arriving from
Havana is generally crowded with them.
"A young lady living near Atlanta, Georgia,
it is sad has four suitors, aged respectively thir-
teen, eighteen, thrty-fve and sixty. She is twen-
ty-four.
Congress and the Legislature of Massachu-
setts are said to be the only legislative bodies that
adhere to the old custom Of engrossing bills on
parchment
Fifteen hundred women in Centre county,
Pa, have appended their signs manual to petit
ton praying the courts to grant no more liquor
licenses.
1t is noteworthy that Of the men selected for
ton of q place in Appleton's New American Cy-
elop@dia, or in the latest edition OF Men OF the
Time"
AN exchange is opposed to the education of
women as surgeons 1t says that, suppose one
were put under the influence Of fchloroform by such
doctor, what is to prevent the woman from
kissing you"
-- Granite, notwithstanding its exceeding hard
ness, splits as straight and clean as a chestnut
stick At one of the granite quarries of Maine re-
Gently, a block was split out which measured one
hundred feet long. eight and half feet wide, and
five feet thick. It weighed over three hundred
tons.
The gin house, screws, &c., together with a
large quantity of cotton seed, $500 pounds OF gu
ano, and number of farming utensils, all belong
Ing to Mrs Joe Coleman, were destroyed by tire
on the night of the Sd instant. We understand
that freedman has been arrested, against whom
very strong suspicion exists. Chester Reporter;
Envelopes are now made in England with
the mucilage on the lower part of the envelope in
&c Nm d0o nj O
flap, as usual, and pressing it down upon the
gummed surface below, very thorough adhesion
takes place, without the objection Of getting the
taste of the gum in the mouth, or removing part
Of it by the tongue.
The treasury plate printing Office has nearly
ready for printing, new emission of the fifty dol
lar greenback notes, to take the place of the pre-
sent issues, which have been largely counterfeited.
The hundred dollar notes will bear likeness Of
Mr. Lincoln, with vignette symbolical of recon-
struction and the fifty dollar notes will bear like
ness Of General Grant, with vignette symbolical
of the restoration Of peace.
The question of admitting negroes to full
fellowship in the Sunday School Union is now be-
ing agitated in Washington. The matter was
broached at meeting of the Union Monday night,
and after somewhat bitter discussion it was post
poned until future meeting. 1t is feared that
the result will be the breaking up of one of the
best Sunday school organizations in the country.
One Sunday school has already withdrawn from
the Union, and others threaten 10 follow.
1t is asserted that there is not another city
in the United States where the same amount and
variety of good food can be obtained for so little
money as in San Francisco. In one restaurant Of
that city over 1000 persons take their meals daily
at an expense Of ten cents each, and with wine
and desert for twenty-five cents. Green turtle
steak, bread and butter, and celery are mentioned
as prominent articles in the bill of fare, which is
served up in good style, with clean napkins and
tabecloths.
"A spring wagon has been invented by gen.
tleman in MayslicE, KY, which he proposes to run
without any kind Of animal or steam power He
has already perfected small model, which runs
up or down hill very rapidly. The power is re-
ceived from an immense coiled steel spring, which
will run for half an hour without being wound up.
In gong up hill the spring exhausts itself, but in
claims that he can carry very heavy loads over any
ordinary road.
The New York World hints at the existence
of huge political disability ring, ramfying with
in and out of Congress- of which the purpose is to
secure the passage through Congress of acts reliev
ing any ex-rebel of inelgibility always providing
that sum, said to be twenty-five dollars, is paid
cash down for each name. The men employed in
it are said to be quite prominent carpet-baggers and
purple women with gloss of gentity and the
manners of thorough lobbyists about them. These
latter are the most efficient, and are alleged to re-
ceive the moiety of the money.
"A negro, in Cheraw, S. Carolina, last week,
deliberately cut off the ears of his wife, until they
hung by slender particle of flesh, beat the ends
of her fingers with stick, then swung her up in
Al - Il
of brutality never witnessed here until the grand
army of the Union" introduced it-and fayed her
Her cries attracted the attention of
q white man who flew to the rescue, but as be
entered the door, the murderer escaped at another
and has not since been seen The woman, it is
thought will certainly die-Adrertiser.
The Washington correspondent of the Sa-
vannah Republican writes: 1T was the intention
of General Grant to have included General Sickes
in his assignment of new commanders to the mill
tary districts of the South and return that old Of
fcer to his old quarters at Charleston. But the
South Carolina members of Congress, assisted by
several members from North Carolina, entered
such an earnest protest against it that Grant has
postponed the matter for further consideration.
But if Sickles is at all desirous of assisting Grant
in his measures of revenge on Andrew johnson
policy, | have no doubt but that he will be sent
back to Charleston, Notwithstanding the protest
above referred to.
"A Washington telegram Of the 9TH instant
SAYS: President Grants father and brother, Or
vile Grant, merchant in Chicago, are here. In
with the old gentleman, asked him
it Mrs. Grant the Generals mother, would be
here for the Inauguration? NO. he said, I'll
tried to coax her and bribe her to come, but she
wou!dn't-l did not Scold her about it, for never
did Sc0ld her and | am too old to begin now. She
said, Pap, DO you think would go to Washing
ton and be stared at by fifty thousand people, and
have every stitch on me printed in fifty newspa-
pers? No. indeed She need not stay away on
that account" said the Old gentleman, 'sfor she
would have looked as smart as any body here but
she and Ulysses are good deal alike, and once
her mind was made up, there was no use talking
to her any more about it..
- The New York Herald says Parson Brown
ow presents the most extraordinary picture of
physical debility that was ever before witnessed in
any legislative assembly. Thad. Stevens might |
have been considered, when brought into the Sem
ate Chamber on men shoulders to take his place |
among the managers in the memorable days of the |
trial. the best illustration up to that
time presented, of the triumph of intellectual will
over shattered and prostrate bodily organism |
but Brownlow'S appearance shows even greater
indications of physical wreck and ruin, and yet the
latter lacks nothing of the same unconquerablel |
mental fire and energy that marked, to bis latest
the character of the Great Commoner. |
When taking the oath Brownlow lay back in bis |
chair. his head bent down, his face shriveed, |
ghastly and of unearthly hue his hands clasped in
bony, vice-like grasp, and his whole appearance
indicative Of great physical depression. As Mr.. !
Colfax read the oath the poor aAss sParson raised