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

Massachusetts, Congressional District have
nominated Gen n. p. Banks for Congress.
- The Memphis -appeal, an anti-Johnson
paper, with the view of injuring the ex-Presl-
dents prospects, publishes his political record
since 1861. 1t fills ten columns Of the paper.
- A citizen of Wilmington, Del, ninety
six years old, who, within the past year or two,
has proposed marriage to over fifty ladies' has
been advised by the Mayor to take rest.
"A full Liberal ticket has been nominated
in Arkansas, consisting of three Republicans
and the balance Democrats. Andrew Hun
ter, Democrat, was nominated for Governor.
of the Labor Reform party in Pennsylvania,
withdrew from the canvass in favor Of Buck
alew, the Democratic candidate.
- The Straight-Out Democratic Conven-
ton of the State of New York met in Albany
on the 3rd instant Twenty-Five delegates
were present. a full electoral ticket was
nominated.
-- The State Executive Committees of the
Liberal Republican and Democratic parties
of Ohio have caused complete registration
to be made of every voter in the State, and
on comparison they say the State will vote
overwhelmingly in favor of the Liberal move
ment.
Although there was an election held for
Congressman in West Virginia on the 22d Of
August last, the same election will be held
again for Congressman on the Oath of this
month. The dual elections are the result of
partisan construction Of the election law of
that State, the same candidates contesting in
both.
"A newly elected Squire in North Caro-
lima having occasion the other day to perform
the marriage ceremony for the first time, got
the affair considerably mixed, and wound up
by saying: "Suffer little children to come unto
themw At which the bride remarked :
"Thank you. John let's 60; that's all we
want"
"A Northern man, Mr.. Salisbury, who
located near Old Fort, N. c., has sown field
of fifty acres in turnips. 1t is expected to
yield at least $4,000, bushels. The gentle
man has made the experiment to convince his
neighbors that other food besides corn and
fodder can be grown for stock, and that tur-
nips, to be profitable, must be sown on large
scale.
- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Nebras-
ka voted last Tuesday. An election was also
held in Dakota Territory for delegate to
Congress State elections will occur on the
9th of November in the following States:
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illi-
nois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey,
New York, Tennessee, Virginia and Wiscon-
sin.
1t is proposed to connect the Tennessee
river with the Atlantic ocean at Savannah by
q canal, and the engineer in charge Of the
survey has made his report. The projectors
desire government aid to the amount of ST.
100000, and the engineers report will be pre-
sented before Congress early next session. 1t
is believed President Grant will, in special
message, recommend favorable action on the
matter.
- Ex-Governor Curtin, the most popular
Republican politician of Pennsylvania, has
Just returned to his home after an absence of
three years. The citizens of his town gave
him public reception, on which occasion he
made speech rather favoring the election Of
Buckalew, the candidate for Governor of the
Democratic and Liberal parties He did not
express his sentiments in regard to the Pres-
Dental canvass-deferring that, as he said, to
q more suitable occasion. Much anxiety ex-
lists among the politicians as to the Governors
position on the Presidential question
"A good many years ago kentuckian
went to Cincinnati and drove cart at low
wages until he had saved up seven hundred
dollars. With this he bought barge load Of
coal which sunk at the landing the night it
was delivered, and he had to sell it for four
hundred dollars. The party who bought it
failed before paying, but finally compromised
by giving two and half acres of land for the
debt. The land is now in the business centre
of Cincinnati, and is worth over one million
FIVE hundred thousand dollars to its owner as
the.price of that load Of coal.
- Robert Dale Owen, in a recent work,
endeavors to straighten out the Scriptures and
correct ideas which have been entertained by
religious men fer the last few centuries.
Among other things he makes the statement
that the ancient years exactly correspond in
length with our present months, so that, when
the Scriptures say that Methuselah was 966
years of age, he was only so many months, or
something more than eighty years old. Mr..
Owen may possibly be correct, but will he
please look along little further and explain
the following verse: ''Shem was hundred
years old and begat Arphaxad" By the
above standard Of Bible dates Arphaxad
would have been little more than eight
years old at the time Major, Abraham's
grandfather, by the same reckoning, became
a father at the tender age of twrnty-nine
months, and died at the age of twelve years,
the father of a numerous family. Will Mr..
Owen look after this at once?
- In the town of Washington, n c., con-
tanning population of 1000, there is family
of ofice-holders-a nest of genuine Nepo-Re,
publicans-who are credit to the National
Government, the President, his brothers-in-
law and ALL The head of the house, Hiram
E. Stilley, is United States Assessor of Inter-
nal Revenue; next is Stephen W. Stilley,
Clerk to the Assessor; then comes Sidney F.
Stilley, who is Postmaster; and fourth, Henry
D. Stilley, Deputy Postmaster William Still
ley, Junior, was, until recently, mail-carrer on
sheep-skin route from Washington to Goose
Creek, but is now out of employment, though
he confidently expects to be provided for be-
fore the Presidential election. A brother-in-
law of all these Stilleys is Assistant Assessor
of Internal Revenue, and was recently elected
one of the Board of County Commissioners.
The people of Washington think Grants dis
ease has come upon them with vengeance,
while some are so uncharitable as to believe
the Stilley family is in some way related to
the Presidential household.
- For several weeks past number of
,r;1J T,J;ope from tho ,,1oins of tho eytrona