Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-07
Straps and fafts.

- y Boston dalryTna mas Deen flned SZOU
for not putting enough milk in his water.
Whispered advice to young ladies, who
would conquer during this hot weather-kcep
your powder dry.
- The eleven Territories exceed by nearly
two hundred thousand square miles, the ag-
sregatc territory Of all the States of the Union.
- Professor De Alma is to sail in Il bal
loon from Philadel phia for Europe on the
same day that Professor Wise sets out from
Boston.
- The girls in Springfield, Mass, factory
are supplied by the proprietors with chewing
gum, in order that they may not waste time
in talking.
AT an Oregon baby show, disappoint-
ed mother snapped revolver under the nose
of one of the judges, and her husband is after
the other two.
- When Philadelphia husband comes
home late his wife makes him say "Claxton,
Remsen & Hafel6nger," which is the name
of a firm in that city. If he pronounces it
correctly, she is satisfied, and he escapes a
lecture.
"A Georgia editor describing wedding
Y,
died in the golden glimmer Of some evening
lake. foam tleck, snowy, yet sun flushed,
crowning the rpplings of some soft Southern
sea-"
- An Atlanta doctor advises persons
afraid of cholera to stand on their heads for
one minute three times a day. He argues
that this arrests abdominal depression, and
would be Il healthful gymnastic exercise any
time.
- One of the conditions of peace between
Russia and Khiva is the abolition of capital
punishment in the latter country. This will
be novel for the khivans, among whom exc
cutions have been almost as frequent as in
England fifty years ago. The result of the
change in the morals of that barbarous nation
will be watched with interest.
- Mrs. General Gaines, of the famous
lawsuit of forty one years duration, is sojourn-
ing in Memphis, Tenn, the home of her hus-
band, General +. P. Gaines. BY DEGREES Of
the Supreme Court of the United States she
is entitled to the possession of property once
worth S2OO0OOO0 but Durel rel gns in New
Orleans, and Mrs. Gaines is penniless.
- The New York Neus says an applica-
ton has been made to Governor Dix and a
petition signed by some of the most eminent
men in the State of New York, to grant young
Walworth pardon. The proceedings have
been kept quiet, and Governor Dix has written
to Judge Noah Davis asking him to transmit
to him copies of all the testimony, letters and
records in the case.
- Brigham Young's Arizona colony has
proved disastrous failure. The colonists are
on their way home, having suffered extreme
hardships in that desert region. A party is
now surveying from the head of the Gulf of
California inland toward Utah, with view
to fiji large basin that will form lake
nearly six hundred miles long, and change the
climate Of all that desert country. The land
is from 100 to 800 feet below tide level on the
Gulf The command of water is thought to
be not expensive.
- There is a railroad in operation in
North Carolina that is not down on any Of
our maps; no mention has ever been made of
it in any newspaper, and even the citizens of
the town on one end of the line did not know
the building was going on until they saw the
workmen entering the town laying down
the track. This new railroad is a tram road
and runs from Edwards Ferry, on the Roam
oke to the enterprisng little town of Scotland
Neck, in Halifax county, 1t was built entire
ly by w. H. Smith, Esq.
1t is now known that the losses by the
Baltimore fire will not much exceed half
million dollars. The burnt district was COW
cred with inferior buildings, small stores,
workshops, &c., chiefly wooden, and it is
better for Baltimore perhaps that the fire took
place, as from all accounts the locality was
simply tinder-box, which from its central
position, might at any time spread flame and
destruction through the whole city, and under
favorable circumstances cause greater dis
aSter than that of Boston or Chicago. The
lesson is costly, but it will pay in the end.
The manner of restraining the playful
impetuosty of Texas gentlemen while at
church is very graceful and picturesque. Not
with calm and tepid words does Texas
preacher rebuke an unduly gamesome flock.
No. the worthy man to whom specially we
refer, stopped his sermon, the other day, raised
a convenient rifle, and observed warmly in a
spirit of love, "William Dello, sit down, or
I'll make it painful for you" The slightly
obstreperous William Immediately took this
mild hint and sat him down to the quiet en-
joyment of his Christian privileges.
"A most extraordinary statement has
made its appearance in that highly respecta-
bic paper, the Saturday Review, to the effect
that English society is getting so overcrowded
with unmarried women that serious thoughts
are entertained of introducing polygamy
as a remedy for the enormous evils which
this condition of things entails. The paper
further asserts the enthusiasm with which the
Shah Of Persia, a polygamist, has been receiv-
ell by the women, is nothing less than dis
tinct expression in favor of the Persian social
system.
- Hon. +. B. Washburne, minister of the
United States to the French capital, thus ex-
plains himself upon the back pay ques-
ton: II was in Congress when the salary
was but three thousand dollars, and I always
found it more than sufficient to meet my neces-
sary personal expenses. When it was raised
to five thousand dollars thought it too much,
and think so still but raising it to seven
thousand five hundred dollars is nothing more
or less than straight stealing. Every year
that was in Congress 1 laid by portion Of
my salary, and none Of my constituents ever
complained that didn't live decently."
-A An election riot in Mexico is something
serious Itis revolution. Such disturb
ance is pending in Nuevo Leon, where there
are three candidates for Governor. The citi-
zcns of Monterey who have portable property
are already preparing to decamp, for the first
act of revolutionary junta is to levy a
forced loan. Last year Trevino and Quiroga
headed the revolution in NueYo Leon, and