Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-11
Straps and fatts.

- Fresh butter is said to be cure for cry
sipelas, applied to the part afflicted, without
salt.
"A plaster made of fresh slack lime and
fresh tar, is said to be- sure cure tor cancer,
which, with all is roots, will come out.
- The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has given an order to the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works for one hundred and seventy-ive
frst-class locomotive engines.
--"What," said teacher to pupil,
"makes you feel uncomfortable after you have
done wrong" "My papa's big leather strap"
fcelingly replied the boy.
--On retiring from business wise old
man said to his son and successor: "Now,
my old boy, remember that common sense is
the best thing you can bring to bear on every
affair of life except love making"
- Mr.. Turner, a citizen of Columbia
County, Fla, has discovered that two table
spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine in an ordina-
ry painted bucket of water, about three gal"
Ions, sprinkled upon cotton where the cater
pillar is eating, is all efectual remedy.
- Edward Mcpherson, Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, is
represented as having expressed the opinion
that the back salary grab will revolutlonize
tho personaoz Of tho naxt Congress: that the
feeling against it in every direction is In
tense and unrelenting.
During August ten thousand and thir-
ty-6ve immigrants arrived at Castle Garden,
a decrease Of over four thousand as compared
with the same month last year. From Janu-
ary 1st to 3lst August, two hundred and one
1 -. ,ol n ~.
rived, decrease of four thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-four as compared with the
same period last year.
"A new toy has just been introduced,
and will surely become very popular. 1t is a
wax doll in a crib, the doll being dressed in
night clothes and dainty lace cap. By some
mechanism, the doll baby, at certain intervals,
after being wound up in the crib, puts out
its arms and distinctly calls, mamma" The
inventor thinks "no family should be without
one."
II They have human monstroslty IN
jacksonville which is called the alligator boy.
1t is thus described: "a boy thirteen years old,
with hands and feetshaped like an alligator's,
his backbone all on one side of his body, his
heart on the right side where the liver should
be, fifteen ribs on one side and four on the
other, the countenance of bright, intelligent
boy and the movements those of an alligator"
1t is an interesting fact that the i'm
ports of dry goods at New York during the
month of August just ended have been
million and a half less in value than in 1872,
and four millions and quarter less than in
1871. Our total imports since the beginning
of the year are nineteen millions less than last
year, and eleven millions less than the year
before last. We are not running IN debt
abroad as fast as we were.
The Missouri farmers take to the gran
ges with vim, that indicates they like the
movement passing we'll The head officer of
the patrons" in that State says that there are
500 oranges in his organization, averaging
seventy-6ve members each; which makes
total membership of more than 81 900. Judg-
ing from the present progress which the pa
rons are making, he thinks that there will be
100000 members enrolled before next spring.
In Arkansas the order is making fast headway.
AT Gloucester, Va, the other Sunday,
at colored church, just as the preacher had
gotten under way the gallery cracked and
All old wv,u1u vr;ed out "RlsSs God. jndg.
mcnt day done come" Then ensued scene
at which human nature shudders. Strong
men and weak women leaped from the gal
lery upon the dense crowd in the middle of the
lower floor. Children tainted from the terri
BILE pressure Those in the galleries leaped
from the windows so fast that they fell upon
one another, breaking legs and arms indis-
criminately.
- The New York Graphic announces that
its great trans. atlantic balloon, if the wealth
cr proves favorable, would ascend from. the
Capitoline Grounds, of Brooklyn, New York,
on Wednesday afternoon, September 10.
Messrs. Wise and Donaldson, the aeronauts,
will be accompanied by a reporter of tbe
Graphic and an experienced seaman, who will
manage the life boat attached to the balloon in
case the party have to exchange air for water.
The balloon is described as 116 feet high, 335
feet circumference, and will contain 100000
cubic feet of gas, with power of $500 pounds.
The aeronauts are confident that from eighty
to one hundred hours travel will land them
in Europe.
- The Louisville Courier Journal, in its
efforts to rid Kentucky of the presence of the
marauding bands of Ku Klux which disgrace
several remote and rugged Counties in that
State, says those desperadoes are not infuen-
ced by political or party considerations, but
that they are practical Communists and
agrarians, confederated together for the pur-
pose of ofdispossessing property owners. "Gen-
orally speaking" says the Journal, "the klan
is composed ofthe most poverty-stricken, flea
bitten set of sans-culottes to be found in the
country. Too lazy to work, too stout for ap-
peals to charity, too poor for regular income
other than their labor produces, they think
by making labor scarce and sales of real and
personal estate frequent they can finally
come into good property without adequate
compensation. The terrorism they have excl
ted hath this extent, no more; save where,
here and there, some one is whipped or MUIR
dered through motives of vengeance. Muir
rel's gang were absolute gentlemen by the
side of those outlaws"
Something of romance is connected
with the recent return to Mrs. Buckner, the
wife of General S. B. Buckner, the ex- -Confed-
crate general of Kentucky, of certain large
property which, when the war broke out, she
had conveyed to her brother. When Gen
eral Buckner entered the Confederate service,
and before Mrs. Buckner joined him there,
she conveyed the property to her brother un-
der deed of trust. The young man after
wards married, became father and entered
the Union service The question now was
what would be done with the property. Ifhe
should die or be killed without making will
reconveyng to his sister the property she had
decided to him, his child would inherit the
fortune. On the eve of the battle of Sharps-
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