Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-18
Scraps and fafts.

Sfraps attd tafts.
Georgia girls use none but religious pa
pers for Sunday bustles.
The first bale of new cotton was receiv-
ed at Galveston, Texas, on Monday last
p. T. Barnum bets $4,000 that Greeley
will be elected.
At dinner given recently in London,
England, sixty dollars dozen were paid for
peaches.
- There are six German papers published
in Michigan, and but one of them opposes
Greeley and Brown.
- The little colored boy that rode Long
fellow in the great race received over 5000
from the hackers of the favorite.
"A Georgia editor refuses to support
Greeley on the ground that it is as much as
he can do to support himself.
The postal cards authorized by late act
of Congress will not be ready for use until
about the middle of August.
The Postmaster General reports that
during the past year there has been one hun
dred and twenty-eight public robberies of the
mails.
- The British Society for the advance
ment of art offers $4,000 reward for a pigment
or covering that will perfectly protect iron
from rust and fouling.
-- Senator Bayard, of Delaware, who op-
posed the nomination of Greeley and Brown
by the Baltimore Convention, has decided to
accept the situation and support the ticket.
"A clergyman at Waterloo, Ind, has
four boys, the youngest of which is named
"Doxology," because he is the last of the
hims.
- The Chicago woman who married a
man in Jail brags that she is "the only girl in
town who knows where her fellow stays of
nights
At Long Branch, on Tuesday, George
Wilkes bet ex-Collector Thomas Murphy ten
thousand dollars that Greeley would beat
Grant. Mr.. Murphy admitted that it was not
his own money.
Judge Linton Stephens, brother of
Alexander H., for many years prominent in
the politics of Georgia and man of great
ability in the legal profession, died Of conges-
tion of the brain, at Sparta, on Sunday last.
-- Recent rains have caused the overflow
of the Alabama river and its tributaries, tear
ing up railroad tracks and destroying the
corn and cotton crops to the amount of one
million dollars.
"A Missouri legislator clinched an argu-
ment against dogs the other day. by swearing
that the money expended in supporting 81 ,000,-
600 dogs in the United States would buy l.
344,0O0,000 whisky cocktails every year.
- Reports from Iowa state that the pres
ent promises to be the most abundant season
for grain ever known in that State The
grain of all kinds is rapidly ripening and the
crops never were better.
- Within the last ten days the cotton
caterpillar has made its appearance in Ala
bama, Mississippi, Georgia, and the lower
part of South Carolina. These destructive
pests have put in an appearance from one to
two weeks earlier than they did in 1868.
In the United States District Court in
bankruptcy on Friday last, an order was
made by his Honor Judge Bryan setting aside
the sale of the Laurens Railroad on the ground
Of the bid not having reached the amount re-
quired by the order of sale.
"A Florida correspondent of the Savan-
nah Republican says that the Indians in the
everglades refuse to free their slaves, and
swear that Sheridan will have to "ride the
tail off every horse in the army before they
give up single niger"
"A Georgia farmer had sow which
recently gave birth to four pigs. One was
like horse, one like an opossum, the third
like child, and the fourth pig. The own
er of the SOW believed this to be withcraft, and
had all of them burned to death.
1t is mentioned as curious fact by old
woodsmen that the beech and sycamore trees
are never struck by lightning, though found
in close proximity to oak, hickory and trees of
other species that have been scanned or torn
to pieces by the subtle fluid
- An old writer has quantity said: "God
looks not at the oratory of our prayers, how
eloquent they are nor at their geometry, how
long they are; nor at their arithmetic, how
many they are; nor at their logic how method
ical they are but He looks at their sincerity,
how spiritual they are"
D. N. Brown, wealthy fruit-grower
near St. Joseph, Michigan, offered his wife,
with whom he has lived over forty years,
$4,000 to sign bill of separation, so that he
could marry the hired girl, blushing damsel
of sixteen years. Mrs. Brown thought the
$4,000 Of more account than the husband
and accepted the offer.
- In New Y York, on Thursday last, an ad-
journed meeting of South Carolina bondhold-
ers was attended by the representation of four
millions, and committee was appointed with
power to solicit the cooperation of all holders
of bonds in attempts to collect past due cou-
pons, and also to obtain subscriptions for ex-
penses, and to employ counsel.
- The postmasters in the North and West
are said to be practicing the same dodge now
that was resorted to by Van Buren's officials
when he was running the second time for the
Presidency-that of forbidding the transmits
sion of franked electioneering documents,
where such documents are in the interest of
opponents of the administration.
The town of Claybrook, in Madison
county, Tennessee, according to local paper,
has an economical government. The offices
of Mayor, Alderman, Chief of Fire Depart
ment, City Marshal, Chief of Police, and
City Attorney are all administered by one
man, who keeps the corner store and the post
office.
1t is stated in New York that after the
adjournment of the Convention, a movement
was set on foot at Baltimore for a reiinion of
soldiers, North and South, in New York, du-
ring September. The call is to have the
names of Gems. T. L. Clingman, j. B. Cor
don, Fitzhugh Lee, Bradley T. johnson and
j. D. Imboden.
The State of Texas would contain the
entire population of the United States, with
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