Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19


until IL, is quite remarkable.
--In Mississippi the negro BARRIERS are in
a quandary. Ifthey shave their negro breth
rem they lose their white customers, and YET
if they refuse to shave them they are brought
before negro justice and fined. So in his
desperation the other day one of them sham
pooed negro with carbolic acid, and in con
sequence his stock in trade fell sacrifice tc
the wrath ofthe indignant negro.
- What promises to be the biggest book
in the world is now in process of manufacture
in Paris, and will contain the names Of all the
inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine who have
formally proclaimed their wish to remain
French subjects. The list is said to comprise
$4,000 names, and 125 compositors have
been employed on the work during the last
three months. It's printing on seven presses
and the volume will include 1888 pages.
-- The introduction of leprosy has been
one of the results of Chinese immigration to
California. Cases are frequently seen upon
the wharves and other public places in San
Francisco, and fears of the disease spreading
are generally entertained. The disease is
known to exist on the Bahamas and other
West India Islands, but this is the first time
it ever madeits appearance on the American
continent
- Most smokers like meerschaum pipes SO
well that they would also like to have them a
little cheaper. Chemistry now undertakes to
supply this desiderstum, and to make meer.
schaums out of potatoes "peeled," soaked for
about thirty.six hours in water, to which eight
per cent of sulphuric acid has been added
dried in hot sand for several days on plates Of
chalk or plaster of Paris, and compressed at
the same time. They can then be carved,
and will be an excellent imitation of the meer-
schaum.
- The Constitutional Convention of Penn
sylvania has adopted provision to prevent
illegal voting. 1t requires that each ballot
cast shall be numbered in the order of its re.
ceptiop, and each voter, if he pleases, may, as
an additional safeguard, write his name on
the back of the ballot. This, we think, will
commend itself to all who are sincere in their
expressed desire to purify the ballot. If the
name of each voter was taken down as he
votes, and numbered on the poll list, and a
corresponding number placed on his ballot,
there are very few suffragans who would take
the chances ofpunishment for illegal voting.
The largest farm in England consists Of
5000 acres, and belongs to man named
Samuel Jones. In its cultivation he follows
the "four course" system, the whole extent of
the farm being divided into four great crops
$50 acres to wheat, 750 to barley and oats,
$50 to seeds, beans, peas, ETC., and $50 to roots
His live stock is valued as follows sheep,
$4,000; horses, $4,000; bullocks, $4,000
pigs, $4,000. The oilcake and corn purchased
annually amount to $4,000, and artificial
fertilizers about $4,000. The entire cost OF
manure, in various forms, used annually, is
about $4,000. Sheep are claimed as the most
profitable stock he keeps, and from them are
realized about $4,000 year.
"A case rivaling Jarndyce Us. Jarndyce
has just been heard in the Chancery Court of
Kentucky. About two years ago gentleman
died and left his estate, worth three thousand
dollars, to his two grandchildren. His debts
amounted to ffty-eight dollars. An admins
traitor, with the will annexed, was appointed
by some means the case was thrown into the
courts, and attorneys being appointed, brought
it finally before the chancellor on the commits
sioner's report, to settle the fees. The attor-
ney charged and was allowed thirteen hun
dred dollars. The administrator, clerks and
sheriff claimed the entire residue, leaving the
children nothing. The chancellor refused to
confirm the report.
- Colonel Bill Fisher, now living near
New Orleans, is the only surviving companion
of Osceola, the Seminole chief. He is ma,
tive of Philadelphia, having run away from
that city when fifteen years old to join the
Seminoles. His story of the origin of the
Seminole war does not agree with the com.
monty published narrative. He says that a
party of stock-tenders were hunting for lost
ming animals. 1t was doubtful whether the
beeves belonged to the Indians or the stock.
raisers, as the latter were in the habit of catch
ing and branding all the wild cattle they
could overtake. The white men did not wait
to inquire, fired into the Indians and killed FIVE
The result was war, which cost S3O,000,0 600
and the lives of many soldiers and citizens.
"A West Point letter to the New York
Sun says: "Cadet Smith, the colored cadet, is
still here, with every prospect of remaining
throughout the entire course. He has not
failed as yet in any branch of study, and
promises to pass very fair examination
His company is not sought after by any Of
his class mates, but he does not seem to mind
that. At the hotel to-day I heard him dis,
cussed by bevy of young ladies. They seem.
ed to be suffering terribly. One Of them had
been informed by one of her cadet friends that
some one had said that they had heard that
Cadet Smith had said that if one of his young
colored lady friends should arrive in season he
intended to attend the cadet hops. "Oh
N.Y." exclaimed one. ooh DEAR" CALCULATED
her friend. "Good gracious, did you ever?
responded third "Well," said the young
lady who gave them the news, 81 declare
shan't dance in that hop room. Positively |
won't" And then a conversation ensued
about the poor cadet, "Othello," which for the
display of intellect, sound sense and choice
language, was something remarkable"
- The Arkansas linguists feel that if the
name of that State is to be often in the mouths
of men, as it is likely to continue to be unless
the inhabitants mend their manners, then the
true and orthodox pronunciation of it should
be definitely settled. The weight of authority
in the State is in favor of the broad "a" in the
last syllable with the final IS" silent-Arkan.
sa,o. To fix the matter definitely and author,
itatively the native linguists have investiga'
ted the derivation of the word. The territory
was called Ock.en-sea. The old French set
tiers spelled it, as their records testify, Aan,
cea-the &c" being soft. This indicates that