Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-12
Straps aud fatts.

-In numbers, the sexes are very nearly
equal in the United States males l9, ,439 ,565
females 19,O64,SO6.
General Grants organ, the Washington
Republican, comes out in favor of paying Mrs.
General Lee for Arlington.
- The Louisville Journal is early in the
field with Presidential ticket. This is it:
Captain Jack for President, and Shack Nasty
Jim for Vice-President.
"A Wisconsin Congressman is perplexed
about his back pay. He is afraid if he takes
it he will be called thief, and if he refuses
he will be called a fool. AS he is still unde-
ciied, his friends have agreed to end his
trouble by calling him both.
- Since McNIahon's election to the Office
of President of the French republic, repre-
sentatives of all the old dynasties are flocking
to Paris like buzzards to putrid carcass.
From present indications, it will not be thou
sand years until France will be enjoying the
luxury Of another revolution.
- Congress passed an act in 1868 to the
effect that in the case of the death or inability
of the chiefjustice to discharge his duties, the
associate Justice holding the commission of the
next date shall perform all the duties Of the
chiefjustice until another is appointed. Under
this act Associate Justice Clifford will act as
chiefjustice until the successor of the late
Chief Justice Chase is appointed.
- 1t will be pleasant for those women who
carry much on their heads in the way of ca
pilary decorations, to know that nearly all
the false hair worn in this country comes from
lunatic asylums, prisons and public hospitals.
There is much in association, and we mention
this fact not as anything new, but as gentle
reminder to the fair sex of how much they
owe to the charitable institutions of the coun-
try.
IS Some of Mr.. Beecher's friends are not
little uneasy over sermon preached in Ply
moth Church, on Sunday, substantially affirm
ing the Universalist doctrine of universal sal
walton, and some of the more orthodox are
discussing the propriety of formally calling
upon him to state definitely what he does be-
lieve and what he does not believe. They say
they believe in him, and want to follow him,
but they are anxious to know just where he is
going to lead them.
- The Rev. Stephen H. Tying, in recent
sermon to children, expressed himself in this
emphatic way as to the comparative hopeless
ness of religious effort for adult believers: :
"What can 1 do with old men and women
who have lived so long in sin that their skins
are as hard as a turtles shell? You can't
make them feel. You might strike them with
a pitchfork, and it wouldn't 60 through them"
Yet there are pastors who actually preach to
this class of iron-clad sinners, in preference
to children, ffty-two Sundays in year. Is
it not strange?
- The Secretary Of the Navy has received
a telegram from Annapolis, announcing that
midshipmen Young, Of Mississippi; Butter
field, Of Kansas Lockett, Of Georgia Rowan,
of West Virginia Mum, O'Keete and Grid
ley, of New York, have all been concerned in
an assault on the colored midShipman, Con-
yers, by attacking him with stones. The riot
Gus midshipmen had all failed in their exam
nations, and will be dismissed from the Acad-
envy, regardless of this ohense. They are all
in close confinement. Conyers is not serious
lyhurt.
- On the 2Sth of March last, German
confectioner, named Charles Baswildebad, dis
appeared from Macon, Ga. For three or four
weeks, vain search was made for him, and his
friends finally concluded that he had lost his
life in the swamp. The mystery of his disap-
pearance was fully explained on the 30th ult.,
when his body was found hanging on pine
tree, near the top some fifty or sixty feet from
the ground. The unfortunate man seems to
have climbed the tree, made a moose of his
suspenders, and hanged himself to the limb,
where for two months his remains have been
hanging
- Three hundred and seventy-one appli-
cations for pardon have been filed in the De-
partment of Justice during the past twelve
months, and about one half of these have been
granted. One case was that of man in
Kentucky, who said in his petition that he
distilled whisky during the late political cam
paign, and used it to help elect the Republi-
can candidate to Congress. The Democrats
had bought up all the whisky in the county,
so that the Republicans could not get drop.
Under these circumstances, he thought it no
crime to borrow small still and make fifteen
gallons, all of which he used to help the party.
- The organization known as the "Patrons
ofHusbandry," is becoming serious perplex-
ity to party leaders in the West. The num-
DER of oranges is multiplying rapidly, and the
disposition to mingle in political contests bids
fair to completely change the relations Of the
old parties. An official statement of the
oranges organized previous to May 10th gives
the following interesting facts: Arkansas Is,
California 8, Georgia 16, Illinois 431, Indiana
142, Iowa 1907, Kansas 1928, Michigan a.
Minnesota 2l9, Mississippi 112, Missouri 245,
Nebraska 1870, Ohio Al, South Carolina 1l8,
Tennessee 13, Vermont %, Wisconsin 140-
making all organization in the United States
of 3,377 oranges, with an aggregate member
ship of 100000.
- The New York Tribune says: Those
fercely loyal persons who oppose as unpatri-
otic all attempts to wipe out the bitter memo
ries of the rebellion, and bring about good
feeling between the North and the South, will
find food for meditation in some remarks of
Mr.. Peter H. Clark, a colored orator in Gin
cinnati In recent address to mass-meet-
ing of men Of his race he gave utterance to
these generous sentiments: 81 am not vindict-
i've in my feelings toward the men of the re-
bellion. was an early advocate of amnesty.
agree with the magnanimous Sumner, and
would not ask Southerner to enlist under
flag which bears on its folds the names of bat
ties in which he met with humiliation and de-
feat. 1 would build the monuments which
mark our battle-felds with the South of wood,
that, when they have fallen into decay, the
memory of the strife may decay with them"
- America has lately extracted the joke
out of the old saw about carrying Goals to
Newcastle" by shipping sundry cargoes to
England, to some purpose 1t is now given