Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-21
Strips aud fatts.

FeOple IN central Illinois are selling
their cattle on account of the scarcity Of wa
ter.
- Detroit has two citizens down with the
horse disease, which is producing no little ex-
citement in that city.
during October eighty-six new newspa-
pers were established in the United States,
and forty-one suspensions were announced.
- Mr. j. Henley Smith has sold his in
terest in the Atlanta Sun to Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, who thus becomes sole proprietor Of
the Sun.
A Carter county, Kentucky, man who
avowed his intention to find silver, or 60 to
hell for it, has already gone 100 feet in that
direction and sent for more rope and powder.
"A fire occurred in Phladel phia on Fri
day last from the explosion of an oil can,
which destroyed s156,000 worth of property
ment.
Gen. Gordon, Hon. B. H. Hill, DR.. H.
V.M. Miller, Judge Underwood, Gen. A. H.
Benning, Gen. L. ]. Gartrell and Gen. A. H.
Colquitt, are candidates for the United States
Senate in Georgia.
- The Mayor ofAugusta, Georgia, refuses
to allow Robinson's circus to visit that city for
fear Of the horse disease being communicated
by the circus horses, some of which it is said
are affected.
"A meeting of colored persons was re.
Gently held in Washington, at the Fifteenth
Presbyterian Church, for the purpose of rails
ing funds for the relief of Osborne P. Ander-
son, the only survivor Of the John Brown raid
1t is stated that Louis Napoleon has
requested permission of the German Govern
ment to reside in Germany, and has been re-
fused, on the ground that his presence there
would be unwelcome.
- Benevolently disposed persons will be
likely to sympathize with neighboring gro
Ger, who having sold poor fellow dimes
worth Of spice, attempted to make exact
weight by biting grain in two, and found
out By the operation that the rats had been
fooling with his stock.
The Presbytery of Kentucky have rem
dered a verdict guilty against Rev. DR.. Gill
bert H. Robinson, on charges of drunkenness,
lasciviousness and falsehood, and sentenced
him to be deposed from the ministry, and sus-
pended from the privileges of the church un-
less he show repentance fitting him for men,
bership.
An ingenious improvement in the con-
struction of cotton gins consists in the appli-
ances ofan air exhaust, which facilitates the
feeding of the cotton to the rollers, and an air
draught for removing the cotton from the
rollers, which it does most effectively, thus
dispensing with the use of brushes or other
devices for that purpose.
-- Certain Liberal Republicans of Gin
cinnati have resolved to organize afresh on
the basis of the good old platform, excluding
the tariff plank and substituting one affirming
the expediency of tariffs for revenue only.
The tariffquestion will probably be thorough
ly canvassed in 1876.
"A machine at New Haven performs the
whole process of making needles without the
manual labor Of any person and turns out
10000 to 10000 of them daily. Another
machine picks them up and arranges them
heads and points together, and the third piece
of mechanism puts them into paper. It is
needless to remark that this is bringing the
thing down to very fine point.
An ingenious man in Philadelphia has
found a new use for an artificial leg. He
worked in pipe factory, and was in the habit
of filling his porcelain limb each day with a
choice assortment of meerschaums, which he
disposed of on his own account. When dis
covered he had made about $500 by this lille
gitimate traffic In this way he was walking
off with a goodly share of the profits of the
establishment.
- The latest and lowest estimate of insur-
ance losses by the Boston fire, gives the total
amount as s48 752.3OO, distributed as follows
Massachusetts, companies, S29,710,000; Con-
necticut, S2,952, 800; New York, $6,S50, 900 !;
Maine, 100000; Rhode Island, $92O,OOO {;
California, $4,000; Illinois, 100000; Mis-
souri,, S25,O0O; Minnesota, s5O,O0O; New
Jersey, 1900; Ohio 500, 1000; Pennsylva-
mia, $2,776,500; Wisconsin, s50,000; For
eign, s4,410,000.
- Urder date of Friday last, the Wash
mgton correspondent of the New York Herald
telegrarhs that "the President, in his next
message to Congress, will review the opera
ton and effect of the ku-klux legislation, and
ask for repeal Of such parts as are notably
oppressive. There seems no room to doubt
that generous and conciliatory policy will
be pursued by the administration toward the
South during the Presidential term, and it is
highly probable that representative of that
section will be placed in the new Cabinet"
- In the event of the reconstruction of
President Grants Cabinet, an earnest effort
the country represented. An article appeared
few days ago in the Chronicle which is
thought to be the entering wedge in that di-
rection. Professor John NJ. Langston has
been fixed upon as the representative of the
colored race, and his appointment as Attor-
ney-General will be urged by Fred Douglas
and other prominent colored as well as white
men throughout the country. The colored
Republicans of the South are unanimous in
this movement.
- 1t may not be generally known that
Washington Irving was the author of the
phrase, "the almighty dollar" He used it in a
sketch entitled "The Creole Village" publish
ed in 1S47, and it quickly passed into univer-
sal usage. He himself says of it: "This
phrase, used for the first time in this sketch,
,"The Creole Village" has since passed into
current circulation, and by some has been
questioned as savoring of irreverence. The
author, therefore, owes it to his orthodoxy to
declare that no irreverence was intended, even
to the dollar ITSELF which he is aware is daily
becoming more and more an object Of wor-
ship"
- The advance in the price of copper has
called out many hidden stores of the metal,
and steamships from foreign ports bring large
quantities of to New York for SALE Forty
seven huge bronze cannons recently arrived
at New York from Mexico and were placed