Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-24
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against 100000 four years ago.
- Returns of the Georgia election prove
that those colored men who are now, or who
aspire to be, property owners and taxpayers,
voted the Liberal Democratic ticket.
"A poor young man has won the hand Of
a wealthy lady because he jumped off a Mis-
sissippi steamboat and saved her poodle from
drowning.
1t is rumored in Washington that a
Cuban expedition Of five hundred men and
ten thousand stand of arms is about to start
from New York.
- Appolnattox, Virginia, is happy, or
ought to be, since one of her citizens, writing
to the Richmond Whig, says: "There is not a
prisoner in the Jail, nor a scalawag in the
county"
"A California man tied one end of a
lariat around his waist and lassoed cow with
the other. He thought he had the COW, but
at the end of the first half mile he began to
suspect the cow had him.
Boston girls are up to everything. One
of them, at twenty years of age, is in the In
dian Territory publishing a paper in the
Chocktaw language. Her younger sister is
thinking of going to China, there to publish a
journal in the Chinese tongue.
:- NJ. Idiot, Frenchman, has invented
machine for stopping runaway horses in.
stantly. Electricity at the control of the
driver is the means employed; the horse is
violently shocked, and so much surprised that
he instantly comes to halt.
- 1t is stated that Laura Fair, the Cali
fornia murderess, will lecture in New York
during the coming winter upon "Obstacles to
Conjugal Fidelity" Mrs. Fair is lady
whose theories derive great authority from
the force of her example.
- The Republican gain on Congressman
in Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina
and Oregon will most likely increase the Re-
publican majority in the popular branch of
Congress about twenty-five, almost enough to
render imperative the two-thirds rule.
- Molly Strong, of Newton, Michigan,
dug we'll forty feet deep last summer, and
received $3.50 from her father therefor She
received numerous offers to marriage from
young farmers, but refused them all, declar-
ing that she would marry no man who wanted
her just because she could work like horse.
II Recently, in front of the court house at
Stanton, Va, F. NJ. Cushing, auctioneer, sold
$4,000 in Confederate notes of denominations
running from SIS to s1OO, for $3.50 lawful
money of the United States. The purchaser
was Professor Therry from France, who
bought them as memento.
"A man died lately in Paris who had
for a long time earned his living by exhibiting
himself as living skeleton. He was once Of
the usual stoutness, but crazy love affair
drove him into killing man, and remorse
and disappointment kept him thin ever after
ward. Rather singular, though, that a man
should use his remorse to get living by.
"A lame girl, who had not for fourteen
years once left the third-story back room in
which she lived, was among those who par
ticipated in a late children's excursion in
Philadelphia. When carried to the Park she
asked what the grass and trees were, and had
to be told the names Of the most common OBJ
jects. She lay on the grass all day drinking
in the air and sunshine, and was seen to weep
softly every little while from pure joy.
"A Greenville, Tenn, correspondent of
the Banner says: "Jonesboro is the oldest
town in the State and is full of relics of the
by-gone times. Here Gen. jackson lived,
studied law, became Judge, and fought his
first duel. Here Daniel Boone equipped him
self before he turned his face towards the
wilds Of Kentucky. Here Andrew johnson
made his maiden speech, and here again he
spoke to-day"
James Gordon Bennett, the late editor
of the New York Herald, left large bequest
to his wife, but only on condition that she re-
manned his widow. This condition will, it is
said, be set aside by the courts. 1t has been
judicially decided over and over again that
all conditions in restraint to marriage are
opposed to public policy, and are simply null
and void. Mrs. Bennett is much younger
than her late husband, and may marry again.
- The Cincinnati Commercial, a Greeley
paper, throws up the sponge in regard to the
Presidential contest by saying: Taking yes
terday's elections altogether, the conclusion
is forced that the luck of General Grant, in
politics as in war, is likely to be confirmed by
his reelection to the Presidency The Libe-
raj and Democratic organization is not so
compact that it can withstand the shock of
repeated defeats.
Among the feathered creation, the ca
gle and raven, the swan and parrot, are each
centenarians. An eagle kept in Vienna died
after confinement of ia years, and on an
ancient oak in Selborne, still known as the
craven tree," the same pair of ravens are be-
lieved to have fixed their residence for Sc
ries of more than ninety years. Swans upon
the river Thames, about whose age there can
be no mistake, since they are annually nicked
by the Winners Company, under whose keep
ing they have been for five centuries, have
been known to survive $50 years and more.
- England allows its paupers two shil-
lings and sixpence (sixty-two cents) week
to live upon, or rather die upon. A short
time since, Miss Fanny Edinborough, who
had been in receipt of this muni6cent sum
from "the parish" was found dead in her
bed. The testimony taken before the coro-
ners jury showed that she had died from
starvation. For months she had not eaten
any meat bread and tea was all she hoped
for, and very little of these. No food was
found in her stomach after death, and the
facts were that she died of slow starvation.
One of the jurymen on the "crowners quest"
SAID 1T was disgrace o England that peo-
pie should be allowed to die of slow starva.
ton on two shillings and sixpence per week. J."
Chicago has celebrated the first ami
versary of her great fire with a procession,
brass bands, newspapers in rebuilt Offices, and
with sixteen-page newspaper supplements.
The event has also been commemorated by
old firms taking possession of new trade pala-
ces, and the board of trade installed in a
building that outshines the one which went
down in the great fire Of 1871: Upon the