Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20
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definitely postponed in consequence of the
stringency of the times,
- The weather in the mountain regions of
Virginia is reported to have been very cold,
snow lying on the ground to the depth of six
teen inches.
Superstition worked disaster in the case
of Mrs Peru, of Delta, Ia, who postponed her
daughters wedding four times in order to get
a sunshiny day. When she got such day the
bridegroom concluded not to marry.
Upon the "outer wall" of a female col
lege at Akron, Ohio, the other morning, was
discovered, conspiciously displayed, the sign
domestic Sewing Machines" Some of those
specimens of total depravity known as college
students did it.
- Ink is one of the things in which mod
ern science seems to have made very little
improvement. A recent analysis of the ink
found on manuscript of the year $40, showed
that its composition was similar to that of the
ink now in general use.
- At q wedding in rural New York, last
week, the groom was in his eighty eighth year,
and the bride nearly seventy-seven. This is
the husbands third wife, while he is the fifth
husband of the lady to whomhe is now united,
she being the mother of two children, seven
grandchildren and FIVE great grandchildren.
- In New York there seems to be a gen.
eral movement towards reduction of prices
in every department of trades and industry.
The hotel proprietors have begun to reduce
their rates, rents have fallen between twenty
and thirty per cent, and there has been a
IL, al JooIipo in 1ry ryooda
- A Justice of Guthrie County, Iowa, de-
cided in the case of citizen who brought
suit against his daughters lover for ejecting
him from his own parlor one Sunday night,
that courtiug is necessity and must not be
interrupted; therefore, the laws of Iowa will
hold that parent has no legal right in room
where courting is afoot; and so the defendant
was discharged and the plaintiff had to pay
the costs.
- The thirty or forty Cinnamon who
work on Mr.. Cragin's plantation, in Terre-
bonnie Parish, Louisiana, short time since
tried one of their number who had stolen sew
eral hundred dollars from another ofthe colo
ny. They found him guilty, suspended him
by the hands to the joists of the house, and
whipped him, after which they cut off both
his hands and feet and buried him alive.
The colored people on the place were afraid
to interfere The parish authorities have the
matter in hand.
- The Chicago Tribune, referring to the
election, says: "Those who think that these
simultaneous Republican defeats are the symp.
toms of an off.year and not tokens Of q revo'
luton, had better study the returns by local
tiles, and they will find that the heaviest in
roads have been made in precisely those
places where the Republican party has hither'
erto been strongest-in such Counties as
Kane, Kendall and Bureau, in illinois,; such
as Scott and Henry, in Iowa; such as Doug
las, Kansas and Racine, Wisconsin, to say
nothing of the State of Massachusetts,, which
is strewn with local wrecks everywhere"
"A curious circumstance is mentioned in
Canada paper ofa boy named Kingston, who
recently lest his arm by threshing machine
at Adelaide After the limb had been ampu-
tated and buried, the boy complained that the
hand was cramped, causing him extreme
pain, and that if it was not disinterred
he could not recover. The limb was accor-
dinghy disinterred, and the hand found to be
firmly shut together. During the operation
of opening the hand. the patient evinced
great agony, and afterward declared that he
felt relieved from the sensation of cramp.
The case is a strange one, but we believe it is
not without precedent in medical annals.
THE Liberal nepupllcans are not all
dead yet Gen. n. P. Banks is again ascen-
ding the political ladder from which, with
Others he fell last fall. This time he has
been elected State Senator from the Middle,
sex District, in Massachusetts, over Cope.
land, the regular Grant candidate, by an
overwhelming majority. Banks has carried
every town in the district. Waltham, which
is his home, gives him 760 majority, and he
carries Copelands town by small majority
Additional interest is given to the result
from the fact that Banks was badly beaten
for Congress in the same towns last year
and that Copeland was then his chief antag
onist.
"A Washington letter says: "Advices
from Texas indicate that the Conservatives
will carry the State in the election on the I'd
of December by an increased majority over
that given for Greeley last year. 1t is antici
pated that there may be some trouble in the
State, and perhaps a recourse to Federal III
reference, as in the case of Louisiana. In
accordance with law passed last winter,
new elections are to be held for the State
Senate in number of districts where the par
ties now filling the positions claim to have
several years yet to serve. These parties, all
of whom are Republicans, declare they will
hold on to their offices, in which event there
will be two bodies claiming to be the State
Senate. In this event, Mr.. AttorneyGen
Williams will doubtless be applied to for an
opinion as to which is the lawful body"
- The currency famine, which has prov
ed so disastrous to the interests of the work
ing people throughout the country, is not with
the principal is the shrinkage in the prices Of
commodities generally. Those business men
who promptly recognize the changed condi
ton Of affairs and come down before they are
forced down, and let the people know what
they are about, will gain an advantage they
will not soon loose again. The great house
of Clafin & Co., in New York, advertise to
sell their stock of dry goods nearly six
million dollars worth-at greatly reduced pri
ces. and their example will be followed by
those smaller dealers who wish to retain their
customers. This offering of bargains unlocks
boarded money and puts it again in circula.
ton, and thus everybody is more or less bene,
fitted.
- From various quarters it is admitted
that somewhat better prospect prevails in
financial, business and industrial circles.
While there has been a natural. collapse OF
some extended concerns in connection with
railroads building far in advance of time,
commencing with JaY Cookies Northern