Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-28
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- Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts,, has
been elected to Congress for the ninth time.
- The tax rate for 1873, in Philadelp phia,
has been fixed at s2.15 ON 500, for city tax.
- It is said to look funny to see young
lady with both hands in soft dough and a
mosquito on the end of her nose.
- Mrs. O'Leary wonders "if thin Bosting
spalpeens will be after schwearing that it was
her poor baste Of COW that burned their
city"
Warrants have been issued by United
States Commissioner for the arrest of Susan
B. Anthony and fourteen other females who
voted at Rochester, N. Y, at the late election
The New York letter of the Philadel-
phia Ledger says: "Secretary Boutwell,, while
in that city the other day, made no secret of
the fact to personal friends of his determina-
ton to retire from the Cabinet after the 4th
of March,"
- The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa-
vannah Ne,cs writes that the Atlanta and
Richmond Airline Railroad will be COM
pleted and in running order to the Savannah
River by the 25th of December, and to Char
lotte, N. c., by March.
- The "oldest inhabitant" in Eastern
Texas has never seen such dry season as
this. Small streams that were never known
to cease running before are now nearly dried
up, and Trinity is so low that it can be forded
in many places by horsemen and crossed by
footmen on logs AID rocks.
1t is said that the Indictment against
William NJ. Tweed, of New York, one Of the
"Tammany thieves" makes large volume.
It contains 1,040 pages, and is the longest in
dictment ever found in the world. If man
can draw an Indictment of over 1000 pages
that will stand, he must be pretty good
criminal lawyer.
- Brownlow, of Tennessee, in recent
letter on the subject of Gen. Grants reelection,
says: IF the popularity of the President
shall continue, as doubt not it will, it is more
than probable he will be reelected for third
term. Indeed, rather than put in power this
corrupt old Democratic party, would favor
the election of Grant for life"
- On Saturday of last week vessel sailed
from Savannah, Georgia, having on board sew
eral freedmen families, numbering about one
hundred and seventy-fve persons, en- route for
Liberia. They were collected from Florida,
South Carolina and Georgia, and 60 out under
the auspices of the American Colonization
Society.
- The cotton mills of the South consumed
last year 100000 bales of cotton. In 1870
their consumption amounted to 81 900 and in
1869 to $4,000 bales. These figures show
unmistakably that the cotton manufacturing
interests of the South are rapidly recovering
from the evil effects of the war, notwthstand-
ing the blighting influence of Federal inter.
ference with their local affairs.
- The Titusville Press generously notices
a catching case of Western progress: "a St.
Louis man has invented peculiar sort of a
trap for catching tape-worms. 1t is a wind
lass with steel trap attached, and if you think
you have got 'em,' you set the trap in your
mouth when you retire for the night. you
feel the trap spring, seize the crank and wind
up your worm"
"A Washington letter to the New York
Sun says six companies of regular artillery
have passed South for garrison duty in South
Carolina and Georgia. Some of the troops
now there are to be transferred elsewhere, on
the ground that some of the officers have be-
cal complications of the former State. These
troops were brought at great expense from
San Francisco.
"A man by the name of Becker, who
resides near Quarryville, N. Y, owned
couple of horses that had the distemper. In
cleaning out the hangers, the other day, the
virus came in contact with flesh wound on
his hand. In short time his hand became so
terribly infamed and swollen, that it had
to be amputated. Soon after the amputation
he died. Persons owning horses cannot exer-
else too much prudence in this respect, as the
matter from this distemper is rank poison to
the human system.
- The Little Rock (Ark) Gazette pub
fishes the returns, official and unofficial, from
every county in the State. They give Baxter
(Rep.) majority of over 700 for Governor.
The same paper expresses the opinion that
D. j. Smith, reform candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, j. R. Berry, reform candidate for
Auditor, W. j. Hines, reform candidate for
Congressman at large, are also elected. 1t
thinks Cause (Dem.) is elected to Congress in
the first District, and Gunter (Dem.) in the
third. 1t will require the official count to
settle the matter as to Smith, Berry, Hines
and Cause.
"A correspondent of the New York Sun
suggests the following device to avert large
conhagrations If blanket had been steep
ed in water and hung up in front of the hot
test fire in Boston or Chicago, and kept thor
oughly drenched by the engines, it would
have remained unscorched to the last. If
any one will take piece of paper, and sha-
ping like cup, filling it with water, the pa
per per- thus filed may be held close over gas
light and an egg boiled in the water, and the
water itself pass off in steam, yet the paper
will remain unscorched so long as the water
shall be supplied to it. Had wooden veil,
anywhere, been interposed between the fire
and threatened buildings Gin Boston and
Chicago,) and this woolen veil kept perfectly
saturated with water, is it not clear that no
fire could have passed that watered woolen
barrier?
The Carolinian says that number Of
microscopic examinations have been made in
Columbia of the nasal discharge from horses af:
fected with the prevalent disease. In eight
cases out of eleven animalcul@ were discover
ed. They are little cigar shaped concerns,
and about the color of a strong Havana cigar.
From the observations so far, it appears that
the organized bodies are found in the first sta
ges of the disease when the discharge is thin !;
afterwards when the discharge is thick, no
animalcule can be found. One physician
suggests that the animalcul@ penetrated the
membrane of the horse, and thus it is after
several days that none are to be discovered.
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