Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-22
Straps aud fafts.

VI oouIu Soio-
lina.writes. to the New York Herald that the
statement that he has declared for Greeley is
false.
-- The total annual circulation of newspa
pers printed in the State of New York is 492,-
77OS68, being twice the number printed in
any other State.
- At a funeral of a little child in Hudson,
N. Y, the other day, the corpse was drawn to
the grave in the baby-cart in which it had
ridden when alive:
Since Greeley fans have made their ap-
pearance in Norfolk, Va, the girls now say,
instead Of "Chawles, fan thine own" "Augus-
tus dear, please Greeley me-"
- Il box ofeggs at Chattanooga, Tennes.
see, was hatched into multitudinous brood
of chickens the other day, by the heat Of the
sun.
According to the census returns of 1870,
there we're 42S,S59 more men and boys in the
United States, than there were women and
girls. The totals foot up 19,493, ,665 men and
boys, and 19,064,S06 women and girls.
- Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky, the lea
der Of the Bourbon Democracy, has sued the
Chicago Tribune for libel, putting his damages
down at the handsome sum of one hundred
thousand dollars
Capital is reported as drug in New
York-oyer $150,0O0,000 lying idle in Wall
street alone. Money can readily be borrowed
on call at two per cent. per annum, and real
estate is inordinately high.
"A lady in Lewiston, Me-, has dress
which she has worn every summer for twenty
five years. hedry goods men look upon her
with perfect scorn, while she is beloved by
every married man in town.
- The ladies at the United States Hotel,
Long Branch, have established society for
the suppression of POKER" All married
gentlemen not in their rooms by II o'clock
are hunted up by the society in a body.
Sir Charles Lyell declares that the en-
tire continent of North America will be
washed away into the ocean in four and half
millions of years. And yet the people take
an interest in real estate.
I'm trembling accents young lover Of
Mobile, Alabama, put to his sweetheart the
important question of his life, but she replied
with the utmost calmness and sweet sigh of
resignation, !"Anything to beat Grant, dear"
"A few Democrats met at the Girard
House, Philadelphia, on Monday night to
make arrangements for attending the Louis
vile Convention. The Press says that one
hundred Democrats will 20 from Pennsylva-
MIA. "..:a
.- The famous race horse Lexington died
August 9, at the Woodburn and Stud Farm,
KY, the seat of his owner, A. j. Alexander.
Although only twenty-five years old he had
been blind for some years past, but his physi-
cal powers continued unimpaired until within
short time Of his death.
"A witty son ofSt. Patrick was in charge
Of a ferryboat. A lady passenger, being
frightened by the waves, asked him: care
people ever lost by this boat?" He gave her
the encouraging reply, "Not often, ma am
we generally find them afterwards by drag
ging the river"
- The postal code provides that on news
papers and other periodicals sent from the
office of publication to regular subscribers,
postage can be paid for one quarter or one
year. commencing at any date, in advance.
Formerly only the regular quarters of the Of
fetal year could be paid for separately in ad-
vance.
Rev. DR.. Pritchard, of Raleigh, one of
the committee appointed at the late Southern
Baptist Convention to change the location
of the Southern Baptist Theological Institute
now at Greenville, S. c. informs the Raleigh
Ne,ps that the committee, after visiting vari-
Gus Southern cities, decided upon recommend
ing Louisville, KY, as the most advantageous
location for the College.
- The corresponding editor of the Geor-
gia Cultivator, writing from the Choctaw ma
ton, has the following "This hell-distilled
poison, the s6re-water' of the Indian, the curse
of the white man, is not allowed to be sold or
drank in the nation. It is penitentiary
crime even to carry bottle of spirits across
their lines. Hence, no drunken Indians In
this they sre better off than even Maine, with
her liquor laws"
THE freaks of lightning grow more and
more remarkable every year. In Alabama it
struck and killed lady, leaving uninjured a
child in her arms. In the same State two
buzzards high up in the air we're struck, and
their fight peremptorily arrested. But the
greatest achievement in this line yet reported
occurred in Tennessee, where man was struck
by lightning and driven into the ground up
to his neck, without being materially injured.
Perhaps the electric fluid will open an air line
to China yet in this way.
An unprecedented drouth prevails in
many portions of Virginia. No rain of con-
sequence has fallen near Richmond since the
10Th of March, and since that date there has
been absolutely no rain in large belt OF
country, including, Hanover, Goochland and
Louisa counties. In these. counties large
fields of the finest lands will not produce
bushel of corn to the acre, while grass and
small grain crops have been completely lost.
A similar drought prevails in other sections
of the State, though in the southwestern por-
tion crops were never more promising.
According to the New York World, it
costs twenty-seven per cent. Of the whole re-
ceipts to have the Internal revenue collected
in Arkansas by General Grants friends, the
earpetbaggers, while in Illinois it only costs
two per cent. In Texas the cost is over
twenty-four per cent, and in Massachusetts,
less than three. In Mississippi it costs twenty
three per cent, and in New York less than
three. These carpetbaggers are very expen-
sive, not only to the Southern people, but to
thenation. It cost more to collect S238,000
in Mississippi than it did to collect s627 900
in West Virginia. Of course these revenue
collectors think they have the best civil SER
vice system in the world, and are all for Gen.
Grant, in order that it may be continued.
"A gentleman on from the North re-
ports to us that as Mr. Hester, the well-known
United States detective, was returning from
Canada, having in charge DR.. Bratton, of
whom 50 much has been written and said, a
little episode occurred which has not been
mentioned heretofore 1t seems, from the re-