Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-07


neighborhood.
"A Boston woman, who has been read
ing in the papers that Sunday marriages are
illegal, writes to the papers to know how it is
with baby born on Sunday. If so, which
should be punish shable-the father, the mother
or the baby?
"A wedding is to come offin Philadelphia
in December with twelve bridesmaids, all at
tired BY Worth, of Paris. The brides dress
will be of Belgian lace, and cost $4,000 in
gold.
"A Judge in Charleston, West Virginia,
has granted an Injunction to prevent the build
ding of colored Baptist church there on the
petition of citizens representing that the wor-
ship of the colored people is "boisterous, loud
and extravagant, and would consequently be
nuisance to the neighborhood."
The Memphis Savings Bank suspended
on Monday of last week, its liabilities amount
ing to 100000. The losses were incurred by
speculating outside the legitimate business
of the bank. The President of the bank has
placed his fortune at the disposal of the cred.
itors, which will pay 70 per cent. of the total
Indebtedness.
- Illinois elects her next Legislature un-
der the cumulative system, through which the
elector can distribute his votes among the
several candidates in nomination, or concen-
trate them all upon one. This will secure
what is so desirable in Republican form of
governments minority representation. The
new system has already been tried in several
localities, in elections of minor importance; ;
but this is the first instance in which it has
been applied to a Legislature.
"A Washington telegram says: "There
is the best Republican authority for saying
that the Republicans in Congress will look
very sharply after the Liberals. Banks, it is
stated, will be removed from the Craftsmanship
ofthe foreign relations committee, and Cover
nor Blair from the claims committee. In the
Senate it is proposed to entirely reconstruct
committees. This will take Trumbull from
the judiciary, and dispose of Senators Schurz,
Upton, Sumner, Rice and Fenton, as they
were Democrats"
"A writer in the London Times relates
that in the mummy, pit at sackara, Egypt, he
saw many persons busily engaged in search,
ing out, sitting and sorting femora, tiol@, and
other bony bits of the human form, which al
most crusted the ground thereabout. Nine
camels were employed to bear these in nets to
the riverside, where vessels waited to carry
them to Alexandria, whence they we're ship
ped to English manufacturers of manure.
The trade is brisk, and is said to have been
going on for years and may 90 on for many
more.
TO convey some idea of the immense
number ofpostage stamps used: In the space
of three months, the National Bank Note
Company have made over 143,000,000 of all
denominations, valued at over $4,000,0OO.
During the present year 520,00O,OOO have been
completed, those made in January numbering
65,000,00O. Thirty-eight and half millions
have been completed in week, and 13,O0O,-
900 in single day. Three times as many
three-cent stamps are used as of all other de-
nominations combined after them come the
one cent, and then the two and six cent. The
last weekly return of the company showed a
manufacture of over 100000 Of finished
stamps.
The extraordinary powers of resistance
of the steel, compressed by hydraulic pressure,
of which the new Whitworth gun is composed,
has been proven by one of the experiments
made at the recent trial of the weapon. A
cylinder representing the chamber of nine
FOUNDER gun was loaded with one and half
pounds Of powder, and being screwed up at
the shotted end, was fred through touch
hole only one-tenth of an inch in diameter.
The cylinder did not burst, but the whole
charge hissed through the touch-hole, leaving
the chamber uninjured This hydraulically
compressed steel furnishes metal of the
greatest value, since, by using it, guns can be
constructed which will combine lightness
and power hitherto unattainable.
New York is jubilant over the marked
revival of her Southern trade, consequent up
on the recovery of the South from the long
season of depression which followed the war
and reconstruction. The Evening MaI tells
US: "For almost every class of merchandise,
the orders have been larger and the quality Of
goods better than for many years past, and
there seems to be an unwonted ability and
readiness to pay cash or to ask only very
short credit. Actual investigation shows that
the increase in business with the different
southern States varies from twenty-five to fifty
per cent. of the whole amount for the past sea-
sons. Not only does the demand for more
and better merchandise evince growing pros
perity, but the call for agricultural imple-
ments and machinery shows that the people
are earnestly at work establishing their indus
tries upon solid basis
- The telegraph announces the death of
the wife of the Hon. Horace Greeley, in New
York city, on the Both ultimo, Of consump-
ton. Mrs. Greeley was native of New
York, where she became acquainted with Mr..
Greeley while he was the editor Of the Nesu
Yorker, and boarding at. the Graham House
in that city, at which place she first met him.
She shortly afterwards removed to Warren
ton, North Carolina, to teach school. Her
maiden name was Mary Y. Cheney. Horace
Greeley and Miss Cheney were married in
Emanuel Church, Warrenton, N. c., on the
9th of July, 1886, according to the Episcopal
form. For some months Mrs. Greeley's
health has been gradually declining, and for
a week past her death has been hourly expect
ed She has been in Madeira and Europe
for year past, attempting to restore her
health, and returned within the last three
months Mrs. Greeley was woman OF in
tellectual culture, and devoted her time large
ly to the acquisition Of knowledge.
- The London Standard thinks that the
peace of Europe rests upon very question
able footing. There is not corner Of the
continent which is not armed to the teeth.
M Thiers openly boasts that he has an in.
comparable army, and all the elements Of
France-Radicals, Orleanists, Legitimists and
Imperialsts-are united upon the necessity of
obtaining revenge from Germany as soon as