Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-17

render of the Army of Northern Virginia, at
Appomattox Court House.
- During General Sherman's tour in Eu-
rope he saw some British battle-hags, on which
were inscribed Lexington" and Breeds
HILL" They were relics of the war of 1776.
- 1t is rumored at Augusta, that Presi-
dent Grant has appointed General Lafayette
McLaws United States Marshal for the Dis
trict of Georgia. 1t is said that the appoint
ment grew out of the fact that General Grant
and General McLaws were classmates at West
Point.
- The present fashionable way of ladies
doing up their hair is called "la guillotine,"
because it was the mode with women con-
demned to death during the French Revolu-
ton to arrange their hair in like manner, so
that it might be out of the way Of the fatal
knife
- The greatest activity prevails at the
Government printing office at Washington,
the entire day and night force being at work
constantly. The endeavor is to finish up the
printing Of all the papers and documents Or
dered by Congress before the 30th of June,
the date at which the franking privilege ex-
pires.
- The Governor of Georgia has sent in
vitations to the Governors of all the southern
States and to other prominent persons to meet
in convention, in Atlanta, on the 10th of May,
to consider the subject of the Atlantic and
Great Western Canal. This canal, as is we'll
known, is designed to connect the Tennessee
river with the Atlantic seaboard.
- There are yet some peculiarities in In.
diana divorce cases. A woman lately died
while her application for judicial separation
was pending in court. Thereupon her hus-
band went round with subscription paper,
stating that his wife died and that he was very
poor, and wanted to raise fifty dollars to give
her a respectable burial. He raised the fifty
dollars and bought new suit of clothes with
it.
The Commercial Bulletin sums up the
commercial failures for the last three years as
follows: 1870-number of failures 1851,
amount $88,240,000; 1S71-number, 2915,
amount, s5,252,000; 1S72-number, 1869,
amount, $l21, 1,056,0OO. 1t is stated that the
large increase both in the number of failures
and the amount involved, for 1872, is due to
the gradual extension of credits. This seems
to be confirmed by the fact that the greatest
increase is in the South and West, where
credits have been most expanded. The fail
ures in Alabama increased from S525,000 in
1871, to S1,501 900 in 1872; in Georgia,
from s964,0O0 to s1,293,OOO; in Kentucky,
from 81, 1853, 900 to S2,059, 900; in Louisiana,
from s2,437, 900 to So, 100000; in Missouri,
from 81 ,995,0OO to S2,67O,OOO in Michigan,
from 81 ,521 900 to S2,72O,0OO; in Wisconsin,
from s3S6,000 to $1,127,000. The Bulletin
thinks there is no doubt that this lengthening
of credits is injurious to the business of the
country; it is injurious both to creditor and
to debtor. If the short credit system, which
prevailed just after the war, could be re-
newed and maintained, it would be worth
millions of dollars year to the country.
- That hatcbet story, in which Washing
ton and a cherry tree figured so largely, is
doing no good, and it ought to be suppressed
by all means. A little boy out West, inspired
by the example of virtue rewarded to be found
in that popular anecdote, procured Ratchet
and went about chopping fence rails, garden
gates, pigs backs and horses legs, with per-
severence that showed how deeply the lesson
had sunk into his soul, and with fervor that
had something of love in it. One day, he
chopped the tire off wheel belonging to his
fathers carriage, and when the old gentleman
came home and saw the ruin that had been
made, he grew angry, and demanded who had
accomplished it. Young hopeful, bursting
with desire to tell the truth, told his father
he had done it with his little hatchet where
upon the irate parent, who had probably not
read the story in question, instead of saying:
"Come to my arms I had rather lose twenty
carriage wheels than have a son of mine tell
lie" caught him by the collar and trounced
him soundly. The result was, that as soon as
the boy was released, he made an attack on
his fathers legs with his hatchet, and the lat
ter is in the hospital and the former is in Jail.
Boston Globe.
The month of April is full of days
commemorative of eventful periods during
the late war On the End, Richmond was
evacuated, and occupied on the 3rd by the
Federals, in 1865; on the 9th, the bloody bat
tie of Shiloh, in '62; Island No. 10 surren-
dered on the 7th, in '62; battle Of Pittsburg
Landing on the 9TH, in '62; surrender of Gen.
Lee on the 9th, '65; Fort Sumter first bonn
barded on the 18th, and surrendered on the
18th, 81 ; on the 18th, the war ended, prac-
ticaly, in '65; Sherman occupied Raleigh,
and Lynchburg surrendered on the 18th, in
'65; on the 18th, President Lincoln was as
sassinated and Andrew johnson inaugursted
on the 18th, in IS :; all North Carolina forts
and arsenals were occupied by Confederates
on the 18th, in 80; President Davis was cap
tured on the 18th, in '65 Virginia seeded
on the 18th, in 81; Massachusetts volunteers
mobbed in Baltimore on the 18th, in 81 ;
Gosport Navy Yard evacuated and burned by
the Federals on the goth, in 81; Harper's
Ferry burned on the goth, in 81; Lower
Mississippi opened on the Oath, in '62 Fort
Macon captured on the 25th, in '62; ON the
26th in rs, General Joe johnson surrendered
and j. Wilkes Booth was shot; on the 2Sth,
Admiral Farragut captured New Orleans, in
'62; on the 29th, in '63, occurred the battle
of Grand Gulf; on the 30th was fought the
battle of Sabine Fork, in '62. Thus we see
the greatest events of the unhappy four years
occurred during this month.
- short time ago worthy magistrate
in New Orleans had rather difficult question
to decide, in the solution of which he struck
out in path hitherto unknown in jurispru-
dence. 1t seems that twelve negroes appeared
before him, each one of whom swore positive
ly that himself and the other eleven had done
a certain amount of work on steamboat, and
was entitled thereby to wages. 1t was a
steady streak, each Of the dozen swearing pre-
cisely the same. On the other side appeared
the mate of the boat and eleven deck hands,
who all swore directly and point blank to an
opposite state Of facts to those testified to by
the twelve plaintiffs. Here the evidence