Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-16
Strips aud fafts.

Six of the signers OF MIR. Jefferson
Davis bail bond are dead. .
- A leading gambler at Fort Scott, Kan
sas, has subscribed $4,000 towards new
church.
- The Pacific Railway owes the govern
ment S57 ,226,37 and the chances are that
it will always be owing.
"A woman in LeSuer county, Minnesota,
has applied for divorce from her sixth hus-
band.
Massachusetts made aclear profit above
all expenses of over $4,000 out of its State
prison at Charlestown lastly
"A Madison county, Ga, farmer picked
75S pounds of lint cotton from one acre of
land.
H. r. Revels, (colored,) has been ap-
pointed Secretary of State of Mississippi in
the place of James Lynch, deceased.
- Mr.. Alexander H. Stephens can walk
only with the aid of crutches and servant,
and does not leave home except on pleasant
days.
The proprietor of the barn which was
set on fire in capturing Wilkes Booth has pc
titioned Congress to pay him the value of the
destroyed property.
- An applicant for pair of boots at one
of our shoe stores, was asked what number
he wore, and replied, as soon as he could re-
cover from his surprise: "Why, two, of
coursep
"A Native Republican" Of Salisbury,
N. c., publishes communication in the
Washington Chronicle protesting against the
pardoning of persons convicted of ku-kluxing.
- The editor of an Iowa paper states that
while on a trip to northern Iowa he sat by
corn fires, which were hotter, brighter and
clearer than fire made with coal.
- The English language is spoken by
ninety millions Of persons; German by fifty
FIVE millions Spanish by ffty-6ve millions,
and French by forty-ive millions.
- Columbus, Ga., has boy who would
not 90 to the circus when his father wished
him to do so. He preferred to remain in
school and read in his little book. That boy
is not healthy.
THE aggregate internal revenue receipts
for the last quarter of the year 1872, is $685.
330,025.20, decrease from the receipts for
the quarter ending December 81, 1871, of $3,-
032,532.57.
- The Georgia Legislature assembled at
Atlanta on the 9th instant. The contest for
the United States s,enatorship is between Hon.
A. H. Stephens, Gen. John B. Gordon and
Hon. B. H. Hill. Gen. Gordon has developed
the most strength so far.
The Memphis Appeal tells Of an Irish
man who got laughed at for making faces over
some persimmons, and who retorted thus /:
aye may grin, ye mutton-headed idiots but
l can lather the sowl out of the man that split
vinegar on thin plums."
- They use mules for pulling the Cleve-
land street cars, and the drivers are not al
lowed to swear while on duty. They are
given full day each week, however, to 60 to
the woods and let out the confined essence Of
ungarmented purgatory.
The wife of railroad employe in At
lanta thrashed bar.keeper for selling him
whiskey, treated the master of the machine
shops to similar dose for giving him money,
and took the inebriated individual home by
one of his ears. What she did with him has
not been reported.
- The "Red House." the oldest building
in Charlotte, N. c., was recently torn down.
1t was standing when CORVALLIS marched
through that place. The timbers were found
to be almost as sound as when the house was
bult-nearly one hundred years ago.
"A man died in Indianapolis recently,
from the effects of the excessive use of ice
water, having swallowed three gallons in one
day, besides a quantity of half:frozen milk.
He acquired the morbid craving for it through
the sudden breaking off Of the habit of chew
ing tobacco.
- Eight members have been elected to
the 43rd Congress who will have served, at the
end of that term, ten consecutive years, viz :
Blaine of Maine; Dawes and Hooper, of
Massachusetts; Kelly, Randall and Sco6eld,
of Pennsylvania Garfield, of Ohio, and Ed
ridge, of Wisconsin.
"A party of boys have been arrested
near Alabany, N. Y, living in hut, where
they "played Robinson Crusoe," and supper
ted themselves by killing the hens and chick
ems of the neighborhood, under the spprehen-
sion that they were wild animals. The sava.
ges in the guse of policemen appeared on the
scene and overthrow the encampment
- Anew York paper complains that free
love and the divorce courts have terribly un-
dermined the institution of marriage; and
that now the last step toward emancipation
has been taken by man who has invented
shirt buttons that can be put on with screw
driver. With this device, the last necessity
for wife has gone.
- John Quincy Adams held position
under the government during every admins
tration from that of Washington to that of
Polk-during which he died. He had been
minister to England, member of both Houses
Of Congress, Secretary of State and President
OF the United States. He died while mem
Der of the House of Representatives.
- A new locomotive, named the Anthra-
cite which has been placed on the Albany
and Susquehanna Railroad, has six driving
wheels and carries its water above the boiler.
A tender is thus dispensed with. The firing
apparatus is stated to be so arranged that the
fires last all day without replenishing, and
the furnaces only require dampening once a
week.
"A divorce was recently granted couple
in England on very curious grounds. The
parties were attached to each other, but the
husband 'sunconscious mesmeric power became
so great that the wife dropped insensible when
he came into her presence. Disguise himself
as he would, she was always affected thus by
his approach, until living together became
impossible.
- There were shipped from Winchester,
Va, last week, II 900 rabbits. On Saturday,
one wagon arrived there with 2700 partridges,
pheasants and wild turkeys. This game is
shipped to Washington and Baltimore. The