Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-15
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- The Boston, Daily advertiser, q strong
Grant paper, admits that "New England pol
iticians are acting very curiously."n .l:.
The venerablee President; Fillmore has
declared his intention to support Greeley aud
Brown. q, -" '.s il..:,l ....- e.. .....
- DR.. Lowell Mason, jr., the well.known
musical composer, died last week at the age
of 81 years. ',.' 20, ... -"
Professor Theodore Glanbeskler, of New
York, Says nine out of every ten Germans in
that city will vote for Greeley. .'' "'
- Read an article in to-day's paper, from
the Cincinnati Enquirer, headed care Green
backs Taxable ?" :, 80 .- q. - '',.'.''''
Jesse Olney, famous as the compiler of
"Olney's Georgraphies,"' died at Stratford,
Conn, on the 3lst ultimo. ... .....,
1t is stated that the bristles of hogs
slaughtered in Louisville, last season, were
sold for s4S,75O.
New York City boasts of nearly $500
bar-rooms, and yet there were only three muir
ders last Sunday.
- The Greeley electoral ticket for Califor-
MIA is composed of an equal number of Dem
ocrats and Republicans
- Delegates from thirty.one German clubs
in New York, representing seven thousand
members, have formed central Greeley club,
and will cooperate with Tammany.
Mrs. General John H. Morgan, wife of
the famous raider, is one of the richest widows
at Saratoga, and is much admired for real
worth as well as money. ...;.
--S Susan B. Anthony announces positive,
ly that she does not; ike Horace Greeley.
Horace says he can stand it as long as she
can. ..-.. 3 ..5 !. ;.... ..' ..., g,
- Charles Robinson, the first free State
Governor of Kansas, is out for Mr.. Greeley.
The Republican break in that State has be.
come stampede. " ..2
Whether in consequence of the strikes,
or from other causes, great numbers of work
ingmen are out of employment in New York
just now. .-.,. De-. ...
- Under the new postal regulations, where
transient or irregular postage matter reaches
its destination unpaid, double the prepaid rate
shall be exacted on delivery.
A wealthy man in Pike county, Ind,
recently died, leaving his property to all the
widows within radius of eight miles from his
residence.
- The following notice is posted conspic-
uously in a newspaper Office out West: "Shut
the door, and as soon as you have done talk.
ing businessserve your mouth thesame way"
- The Portland argus says that there
isn't town in Maine without its Greeley
Club, and that the Democrats join hands with
will.
- November 25th is to be celebrated by
the Presbyterians as: the three hundredth
anniversary of the formation of the first pres
bytery in England. ...
- Goodman, Miss, has man who owns
live ant-eater 1t is about the size of a
mouse, and its owner takes contracts for rid
ding premises of these troublesome insects
"A Cincinnati butcher tied up his daugh-
ter by the ;auLs, so that her toes just touched
the ground, and then smeared her feet with
molasses to attract flies. ., :..;., ..
The World of Sunday represents fearful
gloom to have overspread the Grant camp in
New York. They refuse to take bets on any
terms-refuse to be comforted, and have we'll
nigh abandoned their headquarters.
"A correspondent writes from Mont
gomery county, Ohio, late the home of Val
landigham, that not ten Democratic votes out
Of 5000 in that county will be lost to Greeley
and Brown, and that the total loss in the State
will not reach 5000.
- Judge VIM. Hancock, Chairman of the
Grant Republican Executive Committee of
the Fifth Mississippi Congressional Dis
trict, has addressed letter to Judge Alcorn,
Chairman of the Liberal State Committee,
announcing his intention to support Greeley.
- The Adams Express Company has on
the United States have 1896 men. The rail
roads have in their employ 163,3O3 persons,
of which 1902 are named es officers, 1874 as
clerks, and 1854 ,427 in other services.
Falling in with the suggestion of wri-
ter in Appleton's Journal, in regard to femi-
nine equestrianism, three New York young
ladies announce, through the columns of the
World, that they will ride their horses astride
in the Central Park Saturday afternoon, and
they invite other ladies who wish to introduce
the new fashion to meet them on fifth avenue
at three o'clock.
"A country girl went to Fond du Lac
the other day, and for the first time saw the
immense appendage hung to the back of a
new fashion dress. She took square look at
it, and determined to have one So going
into store she asked the clerk to show her
some of his hump CLOTH The clerk was en-
barrassed, but after consulting with the pro-
prietor, the young lady got her hump cloth
and departed happy.
ILL., Noxr Vo,1,o, C&oo4, To;4,,or, ,o,,, oI
the Banks detection "The secession of Gen
Banks from the ranks of Gen. Grant is the
first fruit of the Sumner pronunciamento
We fully expect that the advance which Mr.
Greeley will make in this direction will prove
quite important. The long pending question
as to whether Greeley could or could not sue
ceed in making serious split in the Repub'
lican party must now without any further
proofs be conceded in the affirmative"
Mr. Stanley Matthews, who was tempo
rary chairman of the Cincinnati Convention
has bolted and supports Grant. 1t now leaks
out that, after his voluntary pledge to abide
nominated Greeley, and before he bolted, he
received a fee Of five thousand dollars from
the government to attend government case
in court. Whether there was any connection
between the fee and the bolt nobody knows
and nobody cares.
An exchange says that it knows of 8
boy who accidentally swallowed silver half
dollar. They gave him warm water and
tartar-emetic and antimonial wine, and poked
their. fingers down his throat, until the boy
thought he would throw up his toe-nails. AT
terra while doctor came along who under
stood such cases. He administered small