Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-24
Straps aud fafts.


An Iowa man locked his manageable
daughter in her room, but her lover got her
out by writ of hebeas corpus and married
her.
- Within the last forty-fve days there
have occurred forty-two railroad accidents,
killing twenty-five persons and injuring nine
ty-seven.
- 1t is stated that owing to the abolition
ofthe. franking privilege, the Agricultural
Reports will not be printed. Members of
Congress don't want to pay postage.
- There is now q movement among the
railroad engineers throughout the country to
have Sunday freight traffic on the railroads
abolished.
,- An Indiana Sunday School man writes
to Bible firm in New York: "Send me on
some Sunday School papers and books. Let
the books be about pirates and Indians, as far
as possible"
The proprietor of haunted house in
Atlanta, Ga, offers it rent free for one month
to any one who wishes to try it, having hith-
erto failed to find a tenant who would stay in
it any longer than five days.
"A post Office has recently been estab-
,hshed at Jamestown, Va, for the first time,
although jamestown was the first place per-
manently settled on this continent, and the
United States Government has since then es-
tablished more than $4,000 post Offices.
The Iron Age says: "Sleeping should
always be so arranged, if possible, as to allow
the head of the sleeper to be toward the north.
Frequently, in cases Of sickness, person will
find it impossible to obtain rest if his head is
in any other direction, and often cure is
retarded for long time"
"A Connecticut mother learned of her
daughters contemplated elopement, and on
the night appointed for the flight, she put some
laudanuu in the girls tea. The latter fell
asleep and did not wake up until next morn
ing, and in the meantime Romeo got tired of
waiting and went home disgusted. He goes
with another girl now.
. - Recorder Hackett is doing the commu-
nifty in New York good service by the sum-
mary manner in which he disposes of crimi-
mails convicted in his court. Recently man
was robbed in one of the third avenue cars as
he was returning home late at night. The
.assailant was caught, tried, and on Monday
last, convicted of highway robbery and sent
to the penitentisry, to hard labor, for twenty
years.
.i-- The court of enquiry in the Atlantic dis.
.aster gave judgment at Halifax on Friday
last. The conduct of the officers after the
ship struck is commended, but the manage.
ment of the vessel from the time she bore off
for Halifax on the 31st, and especially the
captains conduct in leaving the deck at mid
night, is condemned. His certificate of cap
taincy might be cancelled, but in consideration
of his efforts to save life it is revoked for two
years. The fourth officer is suspended for
three months.
The legal status of cotton cultures" has
got into the courts The question was raised
last week before the United States District
Judge Busted, in Montgomery, Alabama, on
petition to force party into bankruptcy.
The party pleaded that it was an illegal consid-
Grafton, the contract being for cotton and found
ed on what is called futures" The judge in
structed the jury that if they believed from
the evidence there was to be no actual delivery
of the cotton, defendant had committed no act
of bankruptcy. The jury brought in YER
dict for defendant. The plaintiffs will appeal
to higher courts. This involves the whole
question for losses on futures.
Vital statistics recently published in
Europe 20 to confirm the received opinion
that the duration of human life is longer than
in past centuries. In the city of Geneva,
Switzerland, registers have been kept of the
yearly average of human life since 1890. In
that year it was twenty-five years six months.
At present it is over forty years. The tables
compiled by life assurance companies in
England, and adopted in this country, show a
similar result. In the fourteenth century the
average annual mortality in the city of Paris
was l in 16. It is now about I in 81. In all
England in 1890 the rate Of mortality was
in 53 Now it is about in AZ.
Should the president (male) of female
college kiss the students? The Rev. DR.. Mum
sell, president of the Illinois Wesleyan Uni
versity, has been brought before the trustees
upon charge Of "paternally kissing the
young ladies'" The trustees report that they
''regard the course of DR.. Munsell in kissing
different young ladies as unwise and improp-
er," from which We infer that the salutes
would have been perfectly wise and proper if
the doctor had confined himself to one young
lady. But the trustees say that the kissing
was always "in the presence of third parties,
so that there could have been no improper
intent" This is mild; but the doctor is hufy
about the matter, and has resigned the presi.
dents chair.
"A married woman, while riding home
from neighbours in Union County, Ark,
recently, was dragged from her horse by ne
groes carried into the woods, ravished and
kept tied to a tree for three days, during
which time she gave birth to child. She
was found there dead by her husband and
some friends, having been murdered by her
torturers. The ring-leader of the negroes was
captured and burned to death by slow fire,
in the woods, at intervals being subject to
horrible tortures, such as cutting off his toes
and strips from his body. There were three
other negroes concerned. They were subse-
quently caught and shot.
The recent severe snow storm west of
the Mississippi, the severest of the season,
which has buried railroads and highways with
impossible drifts, has tendency to turn the
minds of capitalists to SUMMER cline, less
severe and rigorous. The unusual number of
visitors perambulating the Southern States
shows that this tendency to avoid the discom-
forts of extreme climate is constantly increas-
ing; wise and friendly course will induce
many of them to invest their money South,
and throw into it that energy and enterprise
which builds thriving villages and erects mills
and factories along every available stream.
An increase of population, by means Of immi'
grafton, will naturally follow, and the indebt-
edness will be so distributed as to relieve the
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