Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-22

- The narrow-gauge railways of the Uni
ted States make a total length of 325 miles.
The length of the lines projected or building
is about 5000 miles.
- The hotel at the ustly.celebrated min
eral springs, located in Cleveland county,
North Carolina, is to be opened for the recep-
tion of visitors on the 18th of June. These
waters are beneficial in variety Of complaints.
- The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry have selected Colonel D. Wyatt
Aiken to introduce the order in North Carroll
ma, and he is to address meeting at Char
lotte, on the 18th proximo.
One of Barnum's Fejee cannibals has
gone to work in livery stable, because paint
ing his face, wearing fish bones aboutth neck
and shivering in shawl for twenty-eight dol
lars month and board, didn't pay.
Arkansas is actually and prospectively
in debt S12, 100000 on account of railroads,
yet the railway managers secured from the
last legislature an outright grant of all the
public lands of the State, 1,850,0O0 acres.
- The growing use of the English Ian
guage in Japan is shown in the recent ship.
ment of sixty copies of Webster's unabridged
dictionary from Springfield, Massachusetts, to
Yokohoma.
"A FIVE year old child of Mr.. P. Nath,
of Canada, has never uttered an articulate
sound, and had been given up as hopelessly
mute until the other day, when its parents
were astounded by hearing it give utterance
to several well.rounded and formidable oaths.
AN eminent physician says: "Never
enter sick room in state of perspiration, as
the moment you become cool your pores ab-
sorb. Do not approach contagious diseases
with an empty stomach, nor sit between the
sick and the fire, because the heat attracts the
thin vapors."
Two members ofthe Kansas Legislature
were rather noisily drunk on railroad train
one day. When the conductor remonstra-
ted, one of them pompously asked, "Do you
not know, sir, that / am a member of the
Legislature ?" The conductor quietly replied,
you've got the symptoms"
"A beautiful young girl was married in
San Francisco last week, and at the conclu-
sion of the marriage ceremony she turned to
her husband and said: "George, kiss me, I
am dying" The husband complied with the
request, and at that moment che fell dead on
the floor
- Journalism is indeed looking up in ia
pan. The Tycoon has started daily paper,
and as he announces that he will behead every
able-bodied "Jap" who does not subscribe at
once, he hopes to work up quite list Of SUBJ
scrbers, and make his paper "pay from the
start" Native merchants who do not adver-
tise have their property confscated.
"A California paper announces that Cap.
tain Jack has divided his army of fifty men
into three divisions the first, under the cap
tain, is to capture and hold California; the
second is to sweep northward and subdue Or
egon, while the third forces its way over the
mountains and sage brush and devastates Ne
vada and Utah.
- The incorrigible Don Piatt, contem-
plating the possibility that Captain Jack will
exterminate the American people at the rate
the very one.sided Modoc war is going on,
throws sop to that ferocious chief by saying
that he desires it to be distinctly understood,
before this thing goes any further, that Cap
tain Jack has always been his first choice for
President.
- An impulsive Connecticut young man
sent his girl the piece of sheet music entitled,
II will meet you at the Beautiful Gate" Her
father saw the piece when she opened the
package, and after daubing bucket-ful of
tar over his gate, quietly remarked to his
daughter, HE can wait for you if he wants
to, but you won't either of you swing on that
gate, if tar will keep you off"
- The Supreme Court of Missouri has de-
cided that women have no right to vote under
the fourteenth amendment, and that that
amendment does not abridge the power Of the
States to limit the right Of suffrage to the
male inhabitants. The amendment was in
tended, say the Missouri judges, to compel
the former slave States to give freedmen the
right of suffrage, and make them equal with
other citizens before the law.
AN Iowa clergyman was just unreason-
able enough to want his salary, and when the
church failed utterly to pay him any consid.
erable portion of it, he sued and recovered
judgment. The matter was recently made
the subject of investigation by council of
inquiry, and that tribunal arrived at four
solemn findings, viz: That the church did
wrong in failing to pay the pastor his salary;
that the pastor did wrong in suing the church,
and that the church should apologize to the
pastor, and that the pastor should apologize
to the church.
- We shall have striking instance ofhow
men can adapt themselves to change of
circumstances, if there is truth in the report
that the brilliant, but eccentric Henry A.
Wise, for so many years power in Virginia,
and one Of her most effective stump orators,
will announce himself an independent candi-
date for Governor on the Administration
ticket next summer. There will be con-
servative and carpet-bag candidate on the
track also, and Wise, it is said, is ambitious
of getting the State in favor with the Presi-
dent, and thinks by taking this ground he
can run in between his two opponents.
- Illustrating the necessity of cleanliness
and keeping the pores of the skin open, it is
said that if coat of varnish or other sub.
stance impervious to moisture, be applied to
the exterior of the body, death will ensue in
about six hours. The experiment was once
tried on child in Florence. On the occasion
of Pope Leo the Tenth's accession to the Pa
pal chair, it was desired to have living fig
ure to represent the Golden Age, and so
child was gilded all over with varnish and gold
leaf: The child died in few hours. If the
fur of a rabbit or the skin of a pig be covered
with solution of India rubber in naptha, the
animal ceases to breathe in a few hours.
- Persons who have seen from time to
time the well-known Siamese twins, or the two
young colored girls joined from the shoulders
to the hip, that have been exhibiting in this
country and Europe since our late civil war,