Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-13
Straps and fafts.
Monday next is St. Patrick's day,

jury system mixed court consisting of three
judges and four laymen.
Brigham Young recently issued invita-
tions to the one hundred and seventeenth
christening in his family.
All the professions are now represented
in the Georgia Penitentiary except Congress
men.
"A meteor fell northeast of Pickens
few days ago, making noise like the report
Of a cannon.
Lake Michigan is completely frozen
across at Milwaukee, where it is eighty-hve
miles wide.
AN inmate of the Pennsylvania peni-
tentiary has occupieda solitary cell for thirty
four years without seeing the sun.
"A young gentleman of twentysix re-
Gently married lady of forty-two in Mime
sofa, and now sues for divorce because she
"chastises him."
-. The Houston (Texas) Union says that
more cattle have perished in that State this
winter by cold and starvation than in any
former equal duration of cold weather.
= Kansas girls, in great numbers, are
signing pledge not to marry man who
drinks. There is a great temperance revival
going on in nearly all of the Western States.
- Vermont-where, as is we'll known, no
liquor is sold-has 10000 drunkards, 1000
habitual "hard drinkers" and 10000 young
men just beginning to drink.
The man who returned his neighbor's
borrowed umbrella was seen, day or two
ago, walking in company with the young lady
who passed a looking glass without taking a
peep. 1t is believed they are engaged.
- Ia view of the large number of negroes
who are emigrating, Virginia planters want
the Legislature to make it a punishable ofense
for foreign agents toinduce the laboring class
es to leave the State.
Rev. A. j. Witherspoon, formerly a
resident of Yorkville, is now located in New
Orleans, in charge of the mission schools es-
tablished by the brotherhood of DR.. Palmer's
church.
- The Washington Star states that the
chair used at the inauguration of General
Grant, on Tuesday, was the same in which
George Washington was inaugurated as first
President of the United States.
Carefully prepared calculations show
that the whole coffee production available in
Brazil for the next nineteen months, is 12,-
100000 bags, which is very far below the
needs of the world, the United States alone
consuming 100000 bags a month.
-Barnum is going to make his animals
6re-proof now. The elephant will wear q
corrugated iron overcoat, the baboons will
have Babcock extinguishers strapped to their
looL kbo nd o{bo oIo
will be coated heavily with 6re-proof paint.
"A bricklayer in New York died recent
ly and left fortune variously estimated at
from $46 to $50 to his wife, Two brothers of
the deceased, who were left out in the cold,
now propose to contest the will, and have in
stituted proceedings in New York court to
that end.
Texas letter writers state that Dennison,
Texas, was wilderness FIVE months ago.
Now it has population of forty.6ve hun
dred; houses are going up in all directions; -;
its streets are one hundred feet wide; hotel
containing one hundred rooms is nearly COM
pleted, and there are three banks, an opera
house, and an immense freight depot.
- 1t is said that little railroad at Bayou
Sara, La, runs to Woodville on a very un-
certain schedule. A stranger CAME IN the
other day and enquired how often the steam
car made trips to the country. The party in
terrogated said "tri-weekly." "What do you
mean by tri-weekly~ The answer was, "It
goes up one week and tries to come down the
next"
- The United States Postoffice Depart
ment has decided that after letter leaves the
mailing Office it passes from the control ofthe
writer and must be delivered to its address
If the person to whom the letter is addressed
cannot be found, then the sender of the letter
becomes the principal party again, and the
letter must be returned to the sender either
through the dead letter Office, or in accord
ance with the Request" if there be one on
the envelope.
- The New Orleans Picayune says: "We
learn that the prospects are favorable for a
large increase in the area devoted to rice in
the State this coming season. The past year
has been so disastrous to sugar planters that,
it is said, many who have previously cultiva-
ted cane exclusively will turn their attention
to rice. 1t is probable, therefore, that with a
favorable season Louisiana will produce this
year 100000, or perhaps 125,OO0 barrels of
this cereal."
- The Bank of England covers FIVE acres
of ground and employs nine hundred clerks.
Light is admitted through open courts, and
no mob could take the bank, therefore, with
out cannon to batter the immense walls. The
clock in the centre of the bank has fifty dials
attached to it. Large cisterns are sunk in the
court, and engines, in perfect order, are al
ways in readiness in case of fire. The bank
was incorporated in 1894. Capital S90,000,-
900.
- The Petersburg, (Va.) Inder, of the
2Sth ultimo, says: "Mr. j. B. Marshall has a
sample of corn at his store, known as the
extra early field corn, raised in Botetourt
county, which has most wonderful reputa.
ton. 1t is claimed that 1872 bushels of this
corn has been grown on an acre. As to this
we have only to say that it was good deal
of corn and very little ground; but it may
be true, and is, doubtless, a good variety. 1t
sells for the modest little sum of one dollar
per quart"
- The Springfield (Illinois) Journal states
that about the year 1882, while Gen. Zacha-
ry Taylor, afterward President of the United
States, was in command of the fort at Dixon's
Ferry near where Dixon, Illinois, now stands,
Jefferson Davis, who was Lieutenant in the
United States service at that time, and serving
under General Taylor, administered the oath
to Abraham Lincoln, then Captain in the
volunteer militia of that State. 1t is also
stated, upon the same authority that General
Robert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame, was
Lieutenant, and present at the time
IL OF all the drearv nlaces SAYS Colonel