Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-13
Straps aud faets.

be established by them.
- An ingenious Kentuckian has invented
a wheelbarrow in which man can trundle
himself home at night, if necessary, without
troubling his friends.
Dayton, Ohio, is unhappy because it
spends annually one million dollars for whisky
alone in bar.rooms, and only four hundred
and sixty two thousand dollars for -four.
- The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
states that, on Saturday last, seventeen shares
of Langley stock sold at Sl10 per share, cash.
This is encouraging for Southern manufacto-
ries in the face of the unfavorable accounts
from Northern cotton factories.
- The estimates for the civil establish
ment of the government to be submitted to
Congress this year, exceed those of last year,
between one and half and two millions of
dollars. This increase is caused principally
by raising a number Of salaries at the last
session.
- Four hundred negroes and over one
hundred whites are in arms against each 9TH
er in Colorado county, Texas. The difficulty
arose between COW boys and freedmen. At
last accounts the negroes we're marching on
the village of Eagle Lake, declaring their in
tention to capture and kill all who should
resist.
"A Michigan butcher takes the bones
out of his meat before selling it now. He had
a dream the other night, in which he found
himself at the celestial gate, but confronted by
a mountain of bones, which an attendant spirit
said were what he had sold to customers, and
he must climb over them if he would enter
heaven.
- "Gentleman," said an auctioneer who
was selling piece of land, "this is the most
delightful piece of land. 1t is the easiest land
to cultivate; it is, light, so very light; Mr..
Parker here will coroborate my statement
he owns the next patch, and he will tell you
how easy it is worked: eyes, gentlemen"
said Mr.. Parker" it is very easy to work, but
it is a plaugy sight easier to gather the crops"
- The Choctaws in the Indian Territory
having failed to give to the colored men, for
merly their slaves, forty acres of land each,
the latter are about to visit Washington to
urge the government to compel compliance
with the treaty stipulation. Congress author
lied the payment ofs300,0O0 to the Choctaws
on the surrender and apportionment of the
land to colored men.
"Father, was Greeley elected ?" asked
an unsophisticated twelve-yesr old ofhis Re-
publican SIRE Starting up with astonishment,
the latter answered. mo; why do you ask
such foolish question p Because" said the
boy, "you said last fall if Greeley was elected
there would be panic, and everybody says
there is a panic now ; so | thought Greeley
must be elected"
"A Washington telegram of Friday
says: "Such senators and members as are in
the city converse very freely in regard to the
condition of affairs, and most of them have
propositions to be offered as soon as Congress
meets. Upon one point there seems to be
considerable unanimity of opinion, and that
is that there must be at least some modfica-
tion of the bankrupt law, if not its absolute
repeal.
DR.. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville,
KY, has recovered twenty-five thousand dol
lars damages against the Chicago Post for
publishing that he advocated the propagation
of yellow fever through the North during the
late war by means of infected clothing. The
judgment, however, contained the stipulation
that he remit the entire amount, less six hun
dred and sixty-four dollars, the receipt Of
which in open court was therein also acknowl-
edged.
"A New York letter, of Friday, says:
"To-morrow promises to be all anxious day
with the working people. The reduction of
wages, determined upon by the master bull
ders, goes into effect, and this will probably
be followed up by like reductions in most 9TH
er trades. There are no indications of any
serious resistance on the part of trades unions,
the conviction on their parts being that it is
better to be content with reduced wages than
to compel general suspension of work, which
would leave them without any income what
soever, and that, too, at the beginning of win
ter"
- A scientific writer has recently collated
a group of facts illustrative of the effect of os-
cilation on powerful bodies when not fire.
quently broken by vibration. In crossing
large suspension bridges it is esteemed neces-
sary that professions should break step in or
DIES to insure safety and it is told, in illus
tration, that when the first suspension bridge
was building in England, fiddler offered to
demoish it with his fiddle. Striking one note
after another, he evidently hit the vibrating
note or fundamental tone, and threw the
structure into extraordinary vibrations. On
ly recently bridge went down in France un-
der the tread of regiment of infantry, who
neglected to break step on entering it. Three
hundred persons were drowned.
"A correspondent, writing from Mem
phis, says: "Some of the streets here are pos.
itively deserted, and the echo of my footsteps
seems to make the terrible silence more ap-
parent Every door and window is closed,
and the occupants of the houses have either
fallen victims to the fever, or have fled from
the city. now and then catch momentary
glimpse of Howard hurrying away on
some errand ofmercy, but in some districts
can walk for squares without meeting a
soul. The "Howards" are doing noble service,
and when the danger is passed, there will be
many a tale to tell of heroes and heroines
who have sacrificed their lives in the perfol-
nance of their selfimposed duties, and with
calm fortitude have gone to their death, un-
heralded by fame, their only requiem, "the
tribute of sigh.'"
- Chicago and St. Louis always differ in
opinion. Their latest difference is on the
question of what constitutes barrel of pork.
In St. Louis they say it is one hundred and
ninety-six pounds, but in Chicago it is only
one hundred and ninety pounds The con-
sequence is that when St. Louis buys pork
in Chicago, the barrels are six pounds short
of the St. Louis standard. The St. Louis
newspapers iusinuatc that the Chicago COM
mission men pocket this difference in adj
dition to their regular commissions on pur-
chasers, and the St. Louis Democrat draws a