Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-06

- The New York Herald of Saturday an
nounced that in that city there had been 'no
murder for three days."
-No5ie county, Ohio, boasts of not con-
tanning single saloon. They are called
drug stores"
- Paul Morphy, who some years ago as
tonished the world with his chess-playing, is
practicing law in New Orleans.
AN amendment is proposed to the Con-
stitution of Pennsylvania, making voting
compulsory.
"A spring from which EPSON Salts are
obtained, has been discovered in Grant coun-
ty, Minnesota.
- Wives in Iowa supply themselves with
pin money by selling permits to the saloon
keepers to sell liquor to their husbands.
= A Peoria lady, on returning home one
day, found her COW in the parlor chewing its
cud and gazing contentedly in mirror.
- Of seven hundred and forty.four con-
victs in the Tennessee Penitentiary last year,
six hundred and 6fty-six were of no trade or
profession.
- 1t is believed that when full reports can
be obtained, it will be found that nearly FIVE
hundred persons lost their lives in Minnesota
during the recent snow storm.
- At Solomon City, Kansas, since the late
heavy snow, the wolves have dug into the
graves in the cemetery and feasted on the
bodies of the dead.
- Mr.. Robert T. Lincoln writes denial
of the current statement that his mother has
given away the Bible which the colored people
Of the South presented to President Lincoln.
- General W. S. Harvey, one of the old
est oficersin the United States service, resides
at Sullivan, Mississippi. Although eighty
years old he is erect in person and in the en-.
joyment of excellent health.
- Commodore NJ. F. Maury died at Lex
ington, Virginia, on Saturday last. During
the late war he was an officer in the Confeder-
ate Navy, and at his death the Professor Of
Physics at the Virginia Military Institute.
Some Of the stories told of the terribly
fatal effects of the late storm in Minnesota
are almost incredible. One paper reports
that sleighing party of six young couples
with their driver, were all found frozen to
death, buried almost out of sight in the snow.
- Organized efforts are in progress in
Germany to promote emigration to America.
1t is now stated that among those who pro-
pose leaving the Fatherand this year for the
United States, are 10000 tobacco growers and
10000 wine growers.
"A proposition was seriously made in
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention,
on Friday, that the punishment of fraud at
elections be changing by the neck until dead,
without the benefit of clergymen, of execu-
tive clemency, or any other benefit whatever"
"A Memphis detective recently arrested
a runaway wife, and wrote to that effect to her
husband at Quincy, Illinois, at the same time
claiming the reward which had been offered.
The husband, however, thought that virtue
should be considered its own reward, and re.
piled that the detective might keep her, as she
was of no further use to him.
"A panic-stricken Irishman made haste
to pull his deposit out of "busted" bank,
and with equal haste he ran across the street
to place it in sound institution. As he
passed his pile of bills over to the treasurer,
an agent from the bank across the way, as the
story goes, dropped in with cash check, and
the astonished depostor saw his own money
counted in to pay it. "By the holy Moses !'
he exclaimed, in hopeless astonishment, 81
might jest as we'll have left me money there
meself"
&C. A. Barry, of Spartanburg county,
made last year, with one mule, twenty-three
bags of cotton, averaging 493 pounds, one
hundred and thirty-fve bushels of corn, thir-
ty bushels Of peas, and forty gallons of
sorghum syrup Counting the cotton at IS
cents per pound, corn at 80 cents per bushel,
peas at 80 cents per bushel, and sorghum
syrup at 80 cents per gallon, the proceeds of
this crop, cultivated with one mule, amount
to the nice little sum of S2,195.02, without
including the cotton seed or fodder.
"A peaceful contest is on the eve of tax.
ing place between section of English work
men and section of French workmen, the
result of which will be looked for by artisans
with some degree of interest. The boot and
shoemakers of London have challenged the
boot and shoemakers of Paris as to which
can turn out the best quality of work in the
shortest possible time. The challenge is for
9100, and the decision will rest with COM
mittee composed of Englishmen and French
men for that purpose. The challenge was
Si'eu oy Lne leauluS WoIhuleu VI Cue UooI-
makers of England through St. Crispia, their
organ, and was accepted by the Moniteur de
Ia Coedenneie, the mouthpiece of the French
workmen.
"A Washington correspondent says there
is better feeling in Congress in respect to the
bankrupt law. The House on Monday passed
bill drawn by Critcher, of Virginia, so con-
strueing the present bankrupt statutes that
the exemption allowed the bankrupt shall be
the amount allowed by the constitution and
laws of each State respectively in the year
1871, and that such exemptions shall be valid
against debts contracted before the adoption
and passage of such constitution and laws as
we'll as those contracted after the same, and
against liens by judgment or decree of any
State Court any decision of any such Court
rendered since the adoption and passage of
such, the constitution and laws to the contra
ry Notwithstanding. 1t is likely this bill will
pass the Senate.
- Under the head "a Colored Congress
man on the Rampage" the Washington cor
respondent Of the New York Journal of Conn.,
merce says: "On Wednesday evening mum.
ber of Southern members of the Senate and
House met in the marble room of the Senate
for the purpose Of joiningi in the demand for
Southern representation in the cabinet. They
finally agreed upon Senator Pool, of North
Carolina, and appointed committee of three,
Messrs. Alcorn, of Mississippi, Maynard, of
Tennessee, and Elliott, of South Carolina, to
prepare an address embodying the views Of
those assembled, and submit it to the Presi-
dent. When the chair (Senator Sawyer, Of