Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-09-19

ton and Waco.
- 1t is lucky to marry in September, if
you get good wife and she gets good hus-
band.
- In 1857, man was prosecuted in Lon
don for selling coffee, just then introduced, as
"a nuisanceand prejudice to the neighborhood.'
- Governor Vance has gone to Kentucky
for the purpose of making speeches in that
State in the interest of Greeley and Brown.
R. S. Tharin, of Charleston, is in New
York, trying to arrange with Horace Greeley
for stumping tour of this State.
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio vote
for State officers in October. Some of the
Democratic papers think these elections will
virtually decide the presidential contest.
-G Gen. A. R. Wright, one of the editors
of the Augusta Chronicle, has been nominated
as the Democratic candidate for Congress from
the eighth Georgia District.
- The elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, etc., come off in October, instead Of
on Monday last, as was inadvertently stated
last week.
- Joint conventions of the Liberals and
Democrats have been held in Connecticut,
New Jersey and New Hampshire and presi-
Dental electoral tickets selected.
The Massachusetts Liberal and Demo-
cratic State Conventions met at Worcester on
Wednesday of last week, and jointly nomina-
ted Charles Sumner for Governor. They also
nominated joint presidential electoral ticket.
The Kansas Democratic and Liberal
Republican State Conventions met in Topeka
on the 18th and effected an agreement as to
the division of State officers. An electoral
ticket was also selected.
"A discharged California convict has
set about carrying out the laudable ambition
of killing all hejurors who rendered the YER
dict against him. He has got away with one
or two, and more are to hear from.
An officer of the French consulate at
Jerusalem has found a magnifcently engraved
monolith shaft belonging to Herod's Temple.
The inscription is in Greek and forbids the
entrance Of the Gentiles into the inner courts.
- This is the last month that internal rev.
enue stamps will have to be fixed to legal doc
uments, as the new law abolishing all stamp
duties imposed by Schedule B, except the tax
of two cents upon bank checks, drafts or Or
ders, takes effect on the 1st of October.
"A determined effort is to be made at
the approaching session of Congress to secure
the passage of postal telegraph bill. To
this end the postmaster-general is busily en-
gagged in the collection Of statistics bearing on
the question.
"A servant girl in Minneapolis, Minneso-
ia, was recently badly burned by kerosene,
and her employer charged her for the oil she
spilled and the -four, &c., used to ease her
suferings. He then turned her adrift and
she died.
- The most extraordinary instance on re-
cord of patience is that of judge who listen
ed for two days to the blather of a couple of
lawyers on the construction of a statute, and
then informed them that the law was repealed.
He said that he wanted to see how big fools
they could make Of themselves.
- Political intelligence from Wisconsin is
very favorable to the Liberal cause. There
is believed to be fair prospect of carrying
the State and electing three Conservative
members of Congress. The German Repub-
lican element in that State has gone over in
quite large numbers to the Liberal side, while
the entire Democratic vote is united for Gree
ley and Brown.
Political advices from California indi-
cate very clearly the success of the Liberal
ticket in that State. The nomination of Re-
publican candidates openly known to be in the
Pacific Railroad interest has caused a wide
detection in that party, and several leading
Republican journals and men have announced
their intention to support the Liberal nomi-
nees.
- The Washington correspondent Of the
Richmond Dispatch, under the date of the
18th instant, says: Senator Sawyer inter-
viewed the President to-day with reference to
political matters in South Carolina but if his
intention is to induce the administration to
support the boilers his suggestions will not
have much weight, as it is far more likely
that the Presidents favor will go to the reg
ular Radicals and ignore the bolters."
Sergeant Bates, who, it will be remem-
bered, made wager several years ago to
carry the American flag through the late
Confederate States without insult or injury
has now been challenged to carry the Stars
and Stripes from the Scottish border to the
Mansion House in London under the same
provisions. The bet is made between Ser
geant Bates and one Thomas J. Warren, who
wagers $1,000 to 500 that he cannot do it.
The total number of troops now sta
toned in the Southern States is 1879, of which
number 3743 are in Texas on Indian and
frontier service, 334 at Fortress Monroe, and
541 in Florida, mostly doing garrison duty at
Fort Pickens, Key West and the Dry Tortu-
gas. Of the balance small number are do
ing duty at coast fortifcations, so that $500
are in the interior. The largest number in
any one State is 1856 in South Carolina, while
the smallest number is in Arkansas, 63 being
stationed there.
STANLEY, who was commissioned to hunt
up the African explorer, Livingstone, who
has been in the wilds of Africa for several
years past, has reported that he found Liv-
ingstone in Ujiji. The whole affair is regard
ed by many as gigantic hoax, and, as if to
ridicule the affair, the Jewish Messenger sug-
gests that Stanley should now be detailed to
hunt up the lost tribes of Israel, "who disap-
peared about twenty-five hundred years ago,
and who have since kept studious silence
concerning their whereabouts"
"A man in johnson county, Ca, while
riding in an unfrequented section, was thrown
from his horse, paralyzing his arms and one
leg. Although perfectly conscious he could
not move, and remained in that situation
thirty.six hours. When he was discovered
he was found to be in most pitiable condi-
ton. His face was blistered by the rays of
the sun, his hands lacerated and swollen
from the biting of insects, while his ears were
filled with bugs from which he could not pro-
tect himself He says cattle beloved and