Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-23

- 1ne LOtal amount palu lutO Lue OHlteu
States treasury for cotton tax, while that tax
Was in existence, was s6S,072,3SS.
- Vanderbilt has commenced chewing to-
bacco, and laments that fifty years of his life
were wasted without knowing the goodness of
the weed.
- A new paper in Texas starts out with
the announcement that Gin religion we are
conservative, and we intend to adhere to the
cash system"
"A man at GAINESVILLE, Minnesota, was
recently beaten by his wife. The woman was
arrested and fined fifty dollars for the assault,
which the husband was obliged to pay.
- The hide ofthe deceased elephant Romeo
has been tanned. 1t contains two hundred
and twelve square feet of leather, about three
quarters of an inch thick.
A man at St. Louis has brought suit
for $4,000 damages against the father Of the
lady he wanted to marry, for interfering and
persuading his daughter not to have him.
"A young Connecticut lady was lately
taken aback when her swain got upon his
knees before her and read declaration Of
love which he had nicely written of.
An energetic divorce lawyer of Chicago
has completed an arrangement with the coun-
ty clerk to have his professional card printed
on the backs Of marriage licenses.
The annual sale by auction of the pews
in Rev. Henry Ward Beechers church, Brook
lyn, took place recently. The total amount
of rent and premium was $780, ,230, an increase
of $3.50 from last year.
"A lady informed her husband that she
had not enough chairs for the company, to
which the frugal husband replied: "We
have plenty of chairs, my dear, but too much
company"
An eccentric old gentleman died few
days since at Conway, Massachusetts,, who
years ago had his grave dug and bricked,
saying that he would probably die in winter,
when it would be hard to dig it.
- Tallahassee, Florida, has model May
or. When he was elected he astonished eve
rybody by announcing that he would not
charge the city anything for his services.
Now, some extra fees have accrued to him,
amounting to s370; he has also given these
to the city.
-One Bartholomew Clifford Calvin, pla-
ces high estimate upon his financial ability,
he having recently commenced suit against
Secretary Boutwell, to recover the sum of two
millions, being the alleged value of certain
plans which he furnished defendant to enable
him to equalize the price of gold and curren-
cy and prevent gold gambling, &c.
"A new process for extracting gold from
sulphuret ores has been discovered, which
bids fair to prove successful. Experiments
have been tried with sulphuret ores from va
rious gold mines, among them the Kings
Mountain Mine, in North Carolina, with the
most satisfactory results. From eighty to
ninety per cent of the deposits of gold can be
saved, at cost of SO per ton of ore.
The freedom of the press seems to meet
with no favor in Turkey, that Government
having recently brought suit against the Lon
don Times for alleged libel regarding the
Grand Turks finances. 1t is fortunate for
the Grand Turk, and perhaps the newspapers,
too, that he has never been subject Of dis
cussion among American editors.
An editor announces the marriage of a
friend thusly: "He has read himself out of
the jolly brotherhood of bachelors, sold his
single.breasted lounge, packed his baggage
and checked it for glory, walked the gang
plank of courtship to the vessel of matrimony,
and is now steaming down the stream Of bliss
by the light of the honeymoon"
Some one has written for the New York
Herald lengthy account of ex-Confederate
Generals, protesting to tell where they are and
what they are doing. The account almost
contains one mistake for each statement made.
Gen. D. H. Hill is located at Hillsboro, N.
G., as editor of a monthly magazine, and Gen.
E. NJ. Law, is designated as President of a
military institute in Yorkville, where, the
writer adds, he is snugly fixed. We presume
similar errors apply to nearly every person
mentioned.
"A vegetable possessing singular quail
ties has recently been discovered in Arabia.
1t is called the laughing plant from the effect
produced by the seeds. When they are pull
verized and eaten in small quantities, the per-
son eating them will soon begin to laugh
loudly, then to sing, dance, and do all manner
of absurd things. This lasts for an hour, af.
ter which he goes to sleep, and having slept
another hour, wakes up utterly unconscious Of
what has occurred.
- Under the head, ga Remarkable Fam
ily," the Athens correspondent of the Atlanta
Herald writes as follows: "One of the finest
families in this or any other State are the
Hodgsons. We sometimes weep when We
think there are so few of them. There are
only thirteen boys. The father, an English
man, came to this country with his wife and
brother, many years ago, and settled down at
Athens, building carriage factory, in which
they went to work. In thirteen years, 13 sons
were born unto them, AS soon as each one
ameold enough to handle mallet, he was
put into the shop, and made to learn the
trade. Having made his physical education
perfect, and having taught with an occasional
leather strap the dignity of labor, he was
then put through school and college. This
sensible course of training has made every
one of them the very finest specimen of a we'll
balanced, well-built manhood, and if they
were put on exhibition tomorrow as the
"best pen of boys" would take the prize at the
worlds fair"
The Herald, of Circleville, Ohio, gives
the following account of a strange phenome-
non, near Bainbridge, Boss county, in that
State "Three miles from Bainbridge is loca-
ted hill of considerable altitude, known as
Copperas Mountain. Out of the top of this
mountain issues constant stream of smoke,
while on its summit and general surface the
vegetation has withered and died, until the
whole hill presents barren, sterile and Desc
late aspect, blasted as if by whirlwind Of
fire. It is believed that the entire interior of
the hill is mass of ignited combustible mat
ter, and that the fire is, and has been spread
ing with considerable rapidity. The theory