Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-12-11
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with reduction or wages.
- The official returns show that during
the year ending June 80, 1878, the number Of
immi igrants who arrived in the United States
was 459,803, compared with 404,806 for the
previous year. An increase of 54,997.
- According to the accounting officers Of
the Treasury, the salaries of Government of:
ficials in Washington amount to about ST.,
100000 per month, exclusive of day salaries.
- The distress at Patterson, New Jersey,
has become so great among the poor that the
mayor asks authority to call upon the Newark
militia in case of riot.
- The movement to increase the tax on
whiskey and tobacco meets but little sympathy
among the more advanced statesmen in Con-
gress.
"A dispatch from Boston to the N. Y.
Times gives an encouraging report of the
New England factories, many of which are
stated to be resuming Operations, and a
general Improvement of trade is indicated.
- The Cunard steamship Abyssinia, which
arrived in New York on Thursday last,
brought S12,OOO,O0O of United States six per
cent. called bonds from Europe, on the way
to the treasury department, at Washington,
for cancellation.
- At a wedding ceremony which recently
took place in New York, the vestibule OF the
church was furnished for the occasion with
mirrors, tables, chairs, brushes, powder and
hair-pins. 1t is now proposed to provide
similar room for the groom and his suppor-
ters, with tonsorial artist and a punch-mas-
ter in attendance.
- The following conversation is reported
between two bell boys at the Fifth avenue Ho-
tel, New York: Pat asks Mike, whats this
suspension of the banks?" "Hist ye" Mike
replies, "I'll tell ye Suppose ye have five
cents" "Yis." "Leave it wild me-" "Yis. y
"Next day ye want it, and ye ak me for it."
"Yis." Il tell ye no, sir; I've used it meself."
-S Some of the Mississippi Grangers in or
der to induce white men to settle in that State,
have promised to furnish every white family
coming into their respective counties with forty
acres Of land, rent free for FIVE years. The
Nicksburg Herald advocates selling instead
of renting, the purchase money to be made
PAYABLE in five annual installments, and is
confident that the adoption Of this plan by
landholders would increase the population of
Mississippi sixty thousand in six months
Others who own large tracts, propose to do
nate to actual white settlers, every alternate
forty acres, which is an excellent and judi
cious plan for encouraging permanent col
onists.
- The annual report of the Commissioner
of internal revenue, discloses the fact that the
receipts from the distilation and sale of spirit
nous liquors, amount to more than one.half of
the whole sum realized from the internal rev.
enue Hence it is a mistaken idea to suppose
that the largest property owner pays the most
money for the support of the Government.
The man who drinks the most liquor pays
the heaviest taxes, and when you see poor
fellow lying in the gutter do not upbraid him.
He is one Of the pillars of the Government,
and but for him and others who drink, the
national revenue would fall off more than one
half The navy yards would be closed up,
and there would not be enough left to pay the
increased salaries at Washington.
"A curious theory has been given ofthe in
dications of character as shown by the fingers.
Those who have fingers with pointed tips are
possessed of rapid insight into things; are
extra sensitive and impulsive. To this class
belong the poets and artists. To the square
tips" belong scientific people; sensible, self
contained characters, professional men. The
spade-shaped tips-thck tips, with little pads
of flesh on each side of the nails-are mater-
aists, commercial, practical, with high ap.
probation of all that tends to bodily ease and
comfort. Each finger, no matter what the
kind of hand, has also one joint-that which
is nearest the palm-representing the body
another-the middle-the mind; and the top,
the soul. Each of these divisions corresponds
with one of the types above given.
- The darkest side of hard times was dis
closed in Philadelphia courtroom last week,
when man was arraigned on charge Of
theft He pleaded the necessities of his family
and his want of employment. Two officers
who went to his house found his wife and FIVE
children in the most abject destitution. There
was not morsel of food in the house, and the
wife and her little ones were weak from abso-
lutte starvation. The wife states that her hus-
band was a good mechanic, man of orderly
habits, and that if he had committed a crime,
it was to save his family. They had been
married seven years, and during that time her
husband had been uniformly kind, and had
never done anything to throw shade of sus-
picion upon his integrity. He was held to
bail.
- The following explanation is given of
the origin of the word "6llibuster." The riv-
er Wy, in Holland, is said to have furnished
the name fyboat. in English-in Spanish, fiji
5ote, or by softening the first syllable, flibote-
to sort of small fast sailing vessel of about
one hundred tons burden, which in the sew
enteenth century were held in hi gh estimation,
on account of their fast sailing qualities. The
buccaneers of the West Indies, who began
their depredations on Spanish commerce in
mere row.boats, as they acquired the means of
a more formidable outfit selected these craft as
suited to their purpose. Hence they became
known in all French as flibustiers, and in
Spanish fliJusters, an appellation gradually
extended in those languages to any kind Of
pirates. BY still more extended meaning,
in the United States this term has come
to be applied to designate any military en-
terprse set on foot and prosecuted against
the government ofany State or country where
no war exists, by mere adventures seeking to
overthrow such government and destroy the
domestic institutions of its people for the ell
richment of the adventures themselves.
- The Kansas City Journal has private
letter from Crockett, Texas, stating that
party of Texas desperadoes attempted to break
up the performance of Robinson's Circus, at
jacksonville, on the 23d ult., but were pre-
vented and order was restored. About 5
o'clock in the evening, however, as the circus
men were loading their animals, wagons, &C.,
on car, preparatory to leaving the town, a
large number of roughs attacked the men
with knives and pistols, and a general and
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