Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-01
Straps aud fafts.


"Admittance ten cents; drinks free"
They are complaining of cold at Vir,
ginia City, Nevada. They were obliged to
kndle fires on the 3Oth of June.
- John Robinson has sued the New York
and New Haven Railroad for $4,000 dana,
ages to his circus by the wrecking of several
OF his cars on account of low bridge.
The United States have 5000 telegraph
stations, $4,000 miles of line, over 1000 ope-
rators, and transmit over II 100000 messages
annually.
- Two sisters have eloped from Berlin,
Prussia, with young man whom they are
both in love with, and whom they both intend
to marry when they reach Salt Lake, which is
their destination.
"A New York clergyman, having for.
gotten his notes the other Sunday, apologized
to his congregation by saying that he would
have to depend upon the Lord, that morning,
for what he might say, but in the afternoon he
would come better prepared.
- The demand for opium in the United
States is alarmingly on the increase Last
year the statistics of the exports from Smyrna
show that ofthe entire amount to Europe and
America, 100000 pounds, the United States
took 2SO,OOO
"A New Orleans despatch says that
Lieutenant Governor Pinchback has been
making Greeley speeches in St. James Parish,
La. This is regarded as significant, as Pinch
back has heretofore favored Grant. He is the
leading negro politician of the Southwest.
- Hartranft, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, is said to have
won hurels at the scafold of the unfortunate
Mrs. Surratt. It is estimated that he will be
beaten by about 100000 majority; and this
secures the old Keystone State for Greeley
and Brown next fall.
1t is said to be curious fact that while
foxes, cranes and squirrels are abundant on
the Indiana side of the Ohio River, they are
never seen on the Kentucky side; and, strange
enough, the grey squirrel, to be found any
where on the Kentucky side, is rarely or never
seen on the Indiana shore.
- Since Colonel Pickett's successful spec
ulation Of confederate archives" to the Gov
ernment, many more offers of similar docu-
ments have been made; but having burnt its
fingers in the Pickett transaction, the Govern
ment has concluded to stop archiving for the
present.
Fourteen years ago an Indianian left
his lady-love for the land of gold. During all
these years the faithful pair have each writ
ten and received two letters every week, till a
week or two ago, when the swain returned to
claim his bride. They have a pile of two
thousand nine hundred and twelve love-letters
to begin housekeeping with.
- 1t is said of Merrimon, the Conserva-
tive candidate for Governor of North Carroll
ma, that he never took drink of whisky or
brandy, never used tobacco, never swore or
used an oath, and knows not one card from
another. He is in every respect worthy of
the high office he is seeking, and will reflect
credit on his native State while he is invested
with the honor of her chief magistracy.
-- The New York Herald says: ut is said
Mr.. Greeley, as the Democratic candidate will
be an astonishing nomination. Very we'll !;
Harrison was an astonishing nomination.
So was Polk, so was Taylor, so was Pierce,
and go was Lincoln; but each of these men
was elected. There is evidently strength in
an astonishing nomination. The issues of the
contest are equal. The Democrats, with
Pierce, in 1852, went over and took up the
Wing platform of Henry Clay, and they
swept the country. The moral is obvious"
I'm reply to inquiries made by circular
letters, Mr.. j. w. Rabson, chief Of division,
Pension Bureau, has just heard from one who
is probably the oldest in the pension list of
the widows of Revolutionary soldiers. The
postmaster at New Matamoras, Washington
county, Ohio, writes that Mrs. Louisa Miller, a
widow of Philip, soldier of the Revolution,
was living on the 23d ultimo with Priscilla
Hays at that place that she will be 109 years
old on the 18th of August instant, and that
her sight is somewhat defective but that her
mind is good for one of her age.
Somebody writes to the Cincinnati Conn.,
mercial pretty good story about Horace. 1t
seems that Mr.. Greeley supposed the Tribune
would experience business loss by supporting
the Cincinnati movement, but at late meet
ing Of the Tribune company gain of circula-
ton and advertising was shown. Turning to
Mr.. Greeley, one of the stockholders said :
"Well, Mr.. Greely, you have missed it this
time. You thought, beforehand, that we
would lose money. Now what do you think ?"
SWELL" said the old man, in his droll way,
81 had no idea the Cincinnati Convention
would make such judicious nomination"
- A Minnesota-wood-ch chopper hewed down
tall tree the other day, and upon splitting
up the trunk with an axe and wedge, found
imbedded in the wood at the point where the
trunk diverged into branches leather bride
of antique pattern, with bit and buckles at
tached, and all in remarkable state of pre-
servation. 1t has been fully thirty feet from
the ground, and its presence there can only be
accounted for by the supposition that some pass
ing horseman had used the crotch of the sap
pling as rest for his bride, and, led from the
place in pursuit of his straying horse, had
been unable to find it again, and abandoned
the bridleto be carried up and entombed by the
slow growth of the tree. 1t is believed that
the tree must have been fifty years in hiding
its treasure.
"A California engineer predicts that in
ten years the whole country will be grid-ironed
with narrow gauge railroads. The cost of
these roads he estimates at $4,000 per mile.
Passengers can be transported on them at one
cent mile, and freight at proportionately
low rates. His plan is for farmers to build
them by subscription, for the purpose of con-
veying their products to market. He also
claims that they will pay, that wherever they
have been constructed they have made hand
some dividends, which is not generally the
case, at least with majority of the broad
gauge roads. In Sweden and Norway these
roads are coming into general use; the con-
struction Of themis causing demand for iron
from England. Colorado has one of them
some eight miles long. Charters have been
granted for them in several States, and few