Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-13
Straps aud fatts.


is proposed.
- Out of the 1000 negroes assessed in a
Kentucky town only twenty paid their taxes.
- The prohibitory liquor law has had the
effect of closing all but 2,76S bars in Boston.
"A Hartford lady gave birth to child
on the 18th and another on the 18th Of the
same month.
- An Iowa man boasts that he has stolen
six hundred and seventy-two chickens since
November.
MIR. Thomas Scruggs, of Fairfield, fired
into flock of black birds, recently, killing
sixty-two, at one shot.
- Kentucky distileries consume 6,3O6
bushels of grain daily, and turn out 25,9S4
gallons of spirits.
- The Washington bellies are filled with
envy since an Iowa girl, with hair sixty-two
inches long, has gone to live there
- The Galveston Ne,us rejoices greatly
ever the immense tide of immigration now
pouring into Texas from othersouthern States.
- The mysterious name of monkey
wrench" was taken from its inventor, Mr..
Monkey, who still lives in New Jersey.
- Hon. James L. Orr, the new minister
to Russia, sailed from New York on Wednes.
day of last week.
The estimate is made that since, and
including the Chicago fire, the United States
has lost over s300,0O0,00O by great fires in
the various cities.
"A careful old gentleman at Nashville,
Tennessee, stops his clock when the sun shines,
to save wear and tear, and determines the
time of day by the obliquity of the shadows.
"A man in Kentucky has been married
four times, each time having been married by
the same minister, in the same house, to four
sisters of the same family.
-On the 9th instant, in New York city,
boy ten years old shot dead another boy
aged thirteen years, in quarrel about the
merits of their respective dogs.
- Judge Boardman denies new trial or
stay of proceedings in the case of Stokes, con-
victed of the murder of Fisk. Stokes coun-
sci will apply to Judge Davis, of the Supreme
Court, for stay of proceedings.
Among the saddest episodes in the late
storm in Minnesota, according to Western
paper, was the freezing of the hands, nose,
forehead, everything except the cheek-of a
life assurance agent.
- The verdict of Michigan jury in a
case in which the defendant was charged with
having disturbed religious meetings, was,
"Not guilty, but the court is recommended to
advise the prisoner not to 90 there any more.
At North Bridgewater, Massachusetts,
last week, man who was clearing the snow
off 6ve.story warehouse, slipped and fell,
feet foremost, into a snow bank below, esca.
ping with severe shake and few bruises.
- An adjourned meeting of the survivors
of the Mexican war was held in Pittsburg on
the 9Th instant, and memorial to Congress
was prepared asking pension commensurate
with the results springing from their services
and achievements in that war.
"A Kentucky man, who had an arm shot
off during the late war, has since then had bis
leg broken by fall from horse, bis remain
ing hand "chawed up" by threshing machine
one of his eyes put out by running against a
fence rail, and half his ribs caved in by the
kick of a mule.
- At Bridgeport, Connecticut, recently, a
policeman was instructed to look after the
boys who violated the city ordinance against
coasting in the streets. He presently saw two
boys preparing for "a 60" one of whom got
away, the policeman giving chase. "Here,'
said the other boy to the policeman, 'take
my sled it will 60 faster than his'n, and you
will catch him." In an instant the ambitious
peeler threw himself on the sled, and soon
came up with and arrested the offender The
justice heard the testimony, and was about to
inAict the fine, when the other lad professed q
willingness to testify against the officer for a
similar infraction of the law-and so they
both got off, with solemn injunction to do SC
no more.
- A murderer was detected in very re-
markable manner, in Missouri, recently. Al
Coldwater, in that State, a man named Cald'
well murdered his employer, johnson, robbed
him Of $1,000, and escaped, leaving no trace
behind. A few days ago DR.. Ritchie, living
at Phyatala, several miles from Coldwater,
had been drinking freely, and was in a jocu'
lar manner accusing every one of having COM
mitted the murder. Finally he met a stran'
ger, and being just tipsy enough not to care
what he said, addressed the stranger in the
same manner: "Yes-you-you are the man
who murdered johnson at Coldwater." A
look of guilt overspread the mans face, and
simultaneously he ran his hand in his bosom
as if to draw weapon. DR.. Ritchie collared
him with his left hand, and with his right
drew dirk from his pocket, and told him il
he attempted to draw weapon he would
plunge that knife to his heart in second. He
then commanded the man to withdraw his
hand, which was speedily obeyed, when, in
stead of a weapon, he drew out the sum Of
s1l00, which he dropped on the ground al
his feet. Meanwhile crowd had gathered
around the doctor and his prisoner, and the
evidence Of the mans guilt was by this time
so palpable that he was placed under arrest
The man thus arrested has since proved to be
Caldwell, and he has confessed both the mur
der and the robbery.
- Perhaps the most austere santin the Ro
mish calendar has been the means of ofperpetua
ting the name Of a Christian bishop and martyr
mainly through his connection with the ami
versary of love and merriment. St. Francois
de Sales felt that much of the material senti
ment of earthly love would linger among the
crowd, so long as the sensuous creations of pa
gan mythology were allowed to retain their
hold of festive seasons or days. At all times
and under every system Of religion, whether
false or true, there has been, and probably will
be, tendency on the part of boys and girl tc
fall in love with one another; but certainly this
inclination was assisted not little by the
genial deities in whom the Romans pretended
to believe. 1t was not sufficient that each
god or goddess should have his or her distinct
feast when the somewhat active contempla.