Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-31

ment, to aim irearm at any person, whether
the weapon be loaded or not. "
"A hog, weighing over 12O0pounds and
measuring nine feet in length, was on exhibi-
ton at the Fair in Augusta last week. The
monster was raised in Abbeville county, S. G.
"A philanthropic Yankee has invented
lifeboat which, if thrown into the water
wrong side up, will Immediately right itself,
and, if filled with water, will bail itself out
"A long-suffering San Francisco crimi-
nal has been convicted, after four indictments,
FIVE trials, one acauittal and three hung juries.
His name wasn't Mrs. Fair.
The cane with which Preston Brooks
assaulted Charles Sumner-a heavy ebony
weapon, with a long steel dagger-was recent
ly exhibited before the State Historical So
ciety at Boston.
Two hundred families from Alsace and
Lorraine are preparing to settle in the neigh
borhood of Alexandra, Virginia. Since the
first of January between six and seven thou
sand Alsatians have landed in New York.
----: Attorney General Williams has recon-
mended to the President the pardon of VIM.
Teel, one of the ku-klux prisoners confined in
the Albany penitentiary, on account ofcontin-
ued ill-health. This pardon is one of the num-
Der asked for by Gerrit Smith.
- Three Chinese have taken out a patent
in Paris for the invention of new automatic
and autographic continuous telegraphic instru-
ment, by the aid of which apparatus the de-
spatch. is transmitted to the receiver as an ex-
act fac-simile of the transmitter's autograph.
- Lately an English plow was introduced
into one of the provinces of India, and the ma
tives were taught its superiority over their
own clumsy machinery. At first astonished
and delighted at its effects, as soon as the
agents back was turned, they painted it red
and set it up on one end and worshipped it.
The population of Kansas is over 4O0,-
000-of this 100000 went there since 1865.
This population is scattered over sixty-fve
counties, containing 44,10O square miles, or
3S,224,O90 acres. This is only about half the
territory of the State. Sixty thousand people
have settle in the State each year during the
past few years.
"A strong-minded woman in Detroit
made the following gentle reply to apolitician
who had called at her house to get her hus-
band to go to the polls and vote: "No, sir, he
can't 60! He's washing now, and he's got to
iron to. morrow, and if he wasn't doing any
thing he couldn't 20. I run this 'ere house,
do, and if any one votes, it'll be this same
Mary Jane"
- A correspondent of the Savannah Neaus
writing from Monticello, Florida, states that
growing disposition is expressed in that Sec
ton of the State to annex West Florida to
Alabama, tack Middle Florida on to Georgia,
and to allow East Florida to constitute the
State. This indicates the restiveness and dis
satisfaction of the people in a strong and for
chile light.
- tits said that an extensive confagration
was prevented recently, in city, by singu-
lar circumstance. A stove in a room over a
wholesale liquor house set fire to the floor, af
ter the inmates had retired for the night, and
burning hole fell through on some barrels of
whisky, bursting one of them. The fluid run
ming out Immediately extinguished the fire
from the stove, and the steam generated there
by put out the burning overhead.
SAN Francisco papers are boasting of a
little widow in that city who keeps fruit
store, teaches private school, runs sewing
machine, does knitting, pinking and embroid-
cry, and goes out nursing all at once, and
doesn't think this life such burden as many
do This busy little widow must be too smart
to be matched with any man in San Francis
co, or she would not be allowed to remain a
widow. Probably having tried one man, she
is not to be caught again.
"A Washington telegram of Sunday
says: "It is declared in Republican quarters
that the colored voters in Georgia will be ad-
vised to stay away from the polls in Novem-
ber, so that the plea may be made that the
electoral vote of the State should not be coun-
ted for President on the ground that there was
intimidation created by the disturbances of
the October election. The Conservatives,
aware of this movement, are getting evidence
ready, and, in fact, have sent some oft for
ward, showing that this charge is utterly
groundless. The vote throughout Georgia,
where even no intimidation is alleged to have
existed, shows uniform Conservative gains,
while the evidence regarding troubles in Sa-
vannah and other quarters is quite conclusive
that it was brought on in partisan interest
by the Republicans. The Conservatives sac
ri6ced everything for peace knowing too we'll
that they had everything to lose and nothing
to gain by riot"
- Coming from any other source than the
sober, statistical Scientific american, we should
utterly refuse credence to the story it relates,
and after admitting its authenticity we are
prepared to believe anything. That veracious
journal describes strange fertilizer. At
Stratford, Connecticut, where mosquitoes are
as thick as fog, lives an ingenious Yankee,
so they say, who puts these insects to profta-
BILE uses He has invented large revolving
scoop-net, covered with lace, which is put in
motion by a windmill, water-power or steam.
The lower half of the scoops placed in water.
The upper halfmoves through the atmosphere.
and at each rotation draws an immense num-
ber of "squitoese" down in the water, where
they drown and sink to the bottom. Every
revolution of the net draws in an ounce Of
mosquitoes, or ton for thirty-two thousand
turns of the machine. The mosquitoes thus
collected make a splendid manure for the
land, worth forty-6ve dollars ton.
The experiment of growing cotton in
California, according to the San Francisco
Bulletin, is a success. The land selected was
at Snellings, Mexico county, an old and pros
porous settlement on the rich bottom lands Of
the Mercer River, about eighteen miles from
the plains of the San Joaquin Valley, anc
within one hundred and forty miles from Sar
Francisco. At Snellings and its vicinity
about 500 acres of cotton was planted by diff
ferent individuals In every plantation it is
asserted that no plan; ever grew more luxu
riously, while the amount of growth made ii
single year is remarkable. The Bulletin
savs: Many of the stalks are over an inch ir