Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-14
Sfraps aud fafts.


West Point Military Academy.
"A female doctor in New York reports,
among her patients, four ladies suffering from
horse disease.
- Eight hundred men are employed on
the Air Line Railroad between Atlanta and
Charlotte.
The wealth Of Iowa, equally divided,
would give s6O1.O3 to every person in the
State.
- If this is borrowed paper your are
reading, "drop it." Your neighbor don't pay
his money to lend you.
- Young candidates for the pulpit in New
England are questioned as to their belief in the
Darwinian theory.
- A segar factory has just been started
in Key West, Fla, which will employ 500
hands.
- There were four feet of snow on the
summit of Mount Washington on the first in
slant.
-One thousand dollars fine or imprison-
ment for one year is the penalty for betting on
elections in Illinois.
- In counting the votes for President at
Savannah, Georgia, one vote was found bear
ing the names of Jefferson Davis for President
and B. H. Hill for Vice-President.
- Four hundred miles of narrow gauge
railways are to be built in California, and
company with seven millions of capital has
been organized to do it.
- The department of State at Washing
ton has received from Berlin denial of the
statement made in July last that the German
Government had adopted measures to prevent
emigration to the United States.
- At one ofthe New York uptown church
es slate, containing list of the weddings to
be celebrated during the week, is hung in the
vestibule every Sunday for the benefit of the
young ladies Of the congregation.
At one of the schools in Cornwall, Eng
land, the inspector asked the children if they
could quote any text of Scripture which for
bade man having two wives. One of the
children sagely quoted in reply the text, "No
man can serve two masters"
Governor Smith, of Georgia, will short
ly issue invitations to the Governors Of the
Western and Southern States, to meet at At
lanta on the 10Th of November, for the pur-
pose Of deliberating upon the subject of a
canal to connect the Tennessee River with the
Atlantic Ocean at or near Savannah.
The United States Government has in
stituted proceedings for the recovery of the
railroad between Greensboro and Danville,
Va. The road was built by the Confederate
Government as a military necessity; but at
the close of the war was taken as private
property by the Richmond and Danville
Railroad.
- Roswell Miner, of Canisteo n Y, died
recently from CHAMBERS, contracted from a
horse The suferings of the deceased were
most excruciating-he literally rotted away,
perfectly conscious all the time, and it was
said he was the worst looking sight ever be-
held, and was buried wrapped in the bed
clothes upon which he died.
- Somebody has recently invented very
valuable trunk. It is made with an outside
covering of cast-iron, lined with nitroglyce-
rine, and when it is thrown from a railroad
car or baggage wagon this outside covering
is torn to pieces, and the baggage-smasher is
blown into very small fragments.
"A commercial traveller in Western
city, handed merchant upon whom he had
called, a portrait of his betrothed, instead of
his business card, saying that he represented
it carefully, remarked that it was fine estab-
lishment, and returned it to the astonished
and blushing traveller, with hope that he
would soon be admitted into partnership.
- People in America and Europe have
heard of all sorts Of strikes; but that an EN-
peror should strike for higher wages is surely
news to them; and yet that is the very thing
the Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria has
done. Hitherto the poor man received beg
carly civil list of FIVE million forins. He has
now informed the Parliaments of Austria and
Hungary that, unless they allow him an ad-
ditional two millions, he will..have b 60 to the
poor house.
- William Tells tale is ended. The His
torical Society of the old Swiss Cantons, after
careful investigation, come to the conclusion
that the well-known story is not true, and
they sorrowfully say that Tell never refused
to lift his hat; never fired at an apple on his
sons head, though the very crossbcw with
which the deed was done is exhibited at Zu-
rich; never spoke his speech at Kussnacht,
and finally, that there never was a Landvogt
Gessler.
- During the Franco-P Prussian war it was
estimated that, averaging both armies, FIVE
Germans outweighed six Frenchmen: Not
only are the Germans huge compared with
the Frenchmen, but huge as compared with
their own ancestors. The Prussian soldier
who fought at Sedan averaged three inches
larger round the chest and two inches taller
than the Prussian soldier who fought at Water
loo. This astonishing development is ascribed
to fifty years of stringent military training,
enforced upon the whole male population.
- The latest thing in suicides comes to
us from Cleveland, Ohio, where an individual,
rashly importunate, went to his death after
the following unique preparations: He first
procured revolver and connected it with a
species of clock-work, so that it should be
fred off at certain time. He then got into
bed and took dose of chloroform, after hav-
ing placed the pistol behind hisear. He then,
under the influence Of the narcotic, went to
sleep. At the given time the clock-work
pressed the trigger of the pistol, firing it off
and launching the idiot into eternity.
- Chatham, Va, bears off the palm. 1t
claims month-old infant with two eyes in
their proper places, and five more on its knees
1t is otherwise perfectly formed, except in
such triAing details as having its legs twisted
backward, and turned spirally like rams
horn its tongue split in two at the point like
a snakes, and its thumbs on the wrong side Of
its hands. This beats the fve-legged calf and
two-headed sheep all hollow. 1t is colored
child, and is in excellent health. When it
grows to mans estate it will appreciate the
luxury of having seven eyes. What pleas