Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-03

Democrat, in Louisville, with the picture of a
rooster asa 6gurehead, and the legend, "Neish-
er Grant nor Greeley can scare this chicken"
- 1t is said to have taken a train of TWEEN.
two cars, drawn by two locomotives, to carry
the first installment of the French indemnity
from Paris to Berlin.
David Camden DeLeon, acting surgeon
general of the Southern Confederacy, in its
earlier days-an elder brother of the Hon.
Edwin DeLeon-died at Santa Fe, New Mex
leo, on the Sd ultimo.
The irrepressible agitator, Santa Anna,
who was prominent actor in Mexican polit-
ical affairs when our old men were boys, has
come to the front again as candidate for
the Presidency of Mexico.
- A little island in the Connecticut, near
Wells River, is a geograp phical curiosity. One
can sit down at certain point on the
island and be in two States, three counties
and four towns at the same time.
- Last week it was discovered that one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
silks had been stolen from the New York Gus
tom house. 1t is asserted that some of the
officials assisted the thieves.
- The meteorological records of the Penn
sylvania Hospital at Philadelphia, which 90
back to 1890, show that the summer which
has just closed with the month of August, has
been the hottest ever known in the history of
the city.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church
near Bloomington, Indiana, is said to have
adopted the plan of paying for religious pur-
poses tenth of the income of each member
The money is thrown into the baskets on Sun
day morning No account is kept of the
amounts given by each, as all are supposed to
be entirely honest in the matter, and it is un-
desirable to make any distinctions.
- A delegation from Texas, representing
both political parties, is in Washington await
ing the return Of the President to appeal to
him to remove the troops from that State be-
fore the Presidential election. They want no
interference in the issue presented in that
State of the election of Legislature for the
impeachment of Governor Davis. Represen-
tatives of both parties seem to have no doubt
of the impeachment of Davis if fair election
is held.
- The New York Tribune announces an
impending exposure Of the way immigrants
are treated on shipboard at Castle Garden
and en- route to the far West. To make the
thing as realistic as possible, reporter of that
paper has taken steerage passage from an
English port, and, if he survives the entire
trip, will relate his experience The Tribune,
it will be recollected, recently stirred up the
insane asylumy by similar process.
"A man in Pennsylvania has invented
rat trap that is made to operate upon the sell
fish passions of the poor rat and lure him into
trouble. The Mechanic and Farmer, in de-
scription of the trap, says that mirror is set
in the back part of the device, beyond the
bait, and as his ratship is out on foraging
expedition, he espies the bait, and at the same
time believes his own image in the mirror to
be another rat making for it on the opposite
side. This is too much for rat nature to stand
and be cool over, so he rushes for the bait and
is caught.
- The grain crop of the Pacific slope is
reported as being unprecedented in the annals
Of that land Of plentiful harvests. The wheat
crop Of Livermore and San Joaquin Valleys,
California, is estimated at from twelve to ff:
teen million bushels, which have all been gath
cred and bagged, and are now lying in heaps
along the Central Pacific Railroad, awaiting
transportation. One field in Livermore Val
ley covers sixty-eight thousand acres, or over
one hundred and six square miles, and has
yielded forty bushels of irst-class wheat to the
acre. Within seven days the wheat yield of
that large farm was standing stacked within
sight Of the railway, in the hempen sacks
commonly used for sending grain to market,
and the cost of the sacks for that farm alone
was 100000.
- The New York Neaus, says: "a CLAN
dered horse owned by Roswell G. Miner, of
Steuben, N. Y, in blowing his nostrils, threw
a drop of the poisonous matter into one of Mr.
Miners eyes. He Immediately wiped it out,
as he supposed, but in short time (within
twenty-four hours his eye began to swell and
pain him. Medical aid was procured and his
case pronounced by able physicians hopeless
one that the glanderous matter had so per-
meated his system that he could not recover
His flesh turned purple and was pronounced
poisonous. He fingered in agony about twen-
ty days before expiring. His friends were
compelled to bury him early the next morn
ing, and with him the entire bed and bedding
on which he had lain.
An Annapolis letter says: "The colored
cadet appointed to the Navy Academy by
Congressman Elliott, colored, of the third dis
trict ofSouth Carolina, arrived in this city on
Saturday, and reported to Commodore Wor-
den, superintendent of the academy. The
name of the cadet is James Henry Conyers
He was born in South Carolina, October 4,
1855, is of good form, has complexion about
Drowned coffee color, with the usual curly
hair of his race, and stands about five feet
three inches. He was received very kindly
by Commodore Worden, who told him, if ad-
mitted, he must treat all with politeness, and
the same would be shown to him. The cadet
was accompanied by his friend, Mr.. A. c.
O'Hear, a light mulatto, graduate of How
ard University, who proposes to commence
soon the study of law. The physical exami-
nation is the first the candidate is subjected
to. This Conyers passed most successfully
He was turned over to the academic board to
try his mental calibre. He has not finished
his examination yet. His reception by the
cadets has been kind and courteous. The
colored candidate has been subject of con-
versation since his arrival.
An extraordinary case of monomania is
related in French exchange. A well-dress-
ed, educated gentleman recently appeared be-
fore magistrate and gave the following ac-
count Of himself: "My name is l.. I am
teacher in college of the Department of
Gers, and have come to pass the vacation in
my native town. I come to ask you to be
good enough to put me in some asylum until
I can overcomea dangerous monomania which