Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-20

elephant with thimbleful of soap suds, as to
attempt to do business and ignore advertising"
- The Utica Herald has discovered that
beg Chew The United States internal
revenue law allows no person or persons to
sell or dispose of tobacco in any form, no
matter how small or great in bulk, without
paying first license of S."
- The case of the Rev. L. D. Huston,
charged with gross immortality and licentious-
ness, which has excited such deep interest in
the entire Methodist Episcopal Church South
for the past year or more, was concluded last
week at Baltimore, by his unanimous expul-
sion from the church.
- Tom Scott, President of the Pennsylva-
MIA Central Railroad, amuses himself, when
not occupied by family and social cares, with
the control of sixty-three railroads, having a
total length of $4,000 miles, and value of
s67O,OOO,OOO, together with 250 miles of ca
nal and a line of steam ships.
- Mr.. John Keane, of Waterford, Ireland,
some time back, buried the body of woman
that had been sent to him from hospital as
that of his wife. A St. Patrick's Burial So
ciety paid the bill. A few days ago the real
Mrs. Keane turned up at the domicile. keane
was mad, Mrs Keane was mad, and the agent
of the burial society was mad
A western newspaper thus explains q
familiar saying: "a lady writes to ask the
origin of the phrase the army swore terribly
at Flanders and what occasioned the pro-
family? Mr.. Flanders was sutler, and his
prices and general disregard for all the rules
of trade so incensed the army that it cursed
him with all its strength"
- Many persons besides school boys and
college students use the phrase. "He is
brick, without the least idea that it is sup
posed to be of classic origin. 1t is said that
King Agesilaus, being asked by an ambassa-
dor from Epirus, why they had no walls for
Sparta, replied, eve have Pointing to his
marshaled army, he said: "There are the
walls of Sparta; every man you see is abrick. y
"A Texas meat company has been formed
for the purpose of manufacturing preserved
meats and meat extracts. Thousands of bull
locks are utilized annually for an export
trade without affecting the price of stock in
Of Sft cattle a N the State The natural increase
in the present herds supplies more animals
than can be utilized proitably by any process
heretofore in use for preserving and trans
porting meat.
- The Charlotte Democrat says the day
is not far distant when ten different railroads
will run into that city. The sixth road will
soon be commenced from Weldon, N. c., to
Charlotte-the late Legislature having grant
ed a charter for it. The present Airline
Road would be used as a connecting link with
New Orleans The next road will be the one
from Pittsburg, Penn, direct to Charlotte,
and thence to Charleston, S. G.. The Demo-
crot thinks this road will be built by the iron
interests of Pennsylvania.
The Danbury Me,us is responsible for
the following: Thirty years ago, young
man entered the city ofNew York in an almost
pennless condition, and without single ac-
quaintance in the great wilderness of houses
To-day, his name is known wherever humanity
breathes 1t is spoken in every city, and is
as familiar to the workers in the mines as to
their brothers in the mills, and wherever Ian
guage is known and ideas expressed, the name
Of this penniless, unknown and uncouth lad
of thirty years ago is uttered. 1t was John
Smith"
The Legislature of Mississippihas passed
law which went into effect on the 9TH in
stant, which provides that all hotels, steam
boats, restaurants, railroad cars, etc., shall be
thrown open alike to white and black, and
any hotel keeper, steamboat captain or res
taurant proprietor, who shall make any diff.
ference or distinction of race, of any sort what
ever, directly or indirectly, shall be fined
three hundred dollars for each offence and i'm
prisoned one year. The passage of the law
was celebrated by grand supper and drink
ing party at the Governors mansion, where
whites and blacks danced vis-a-vis, and hand
in hand.
- The records of travel tell US that an
adventurous Englishman in the interior of
Africa suddenly found himself confronted by
the chief of the region which he was travers-
ing King Quashee, in all his exuberance of
grease and scantiness of drapery, walked up
to the stranger and-spit full in his face. The
Briton's first impulse was to hit out straight
from the shoulder, but prudential considera-
tions restrained him, and by happy inspira-
ton which he could never quite explain him
self, he returned the salute in kind. Imme-
diately he was received with open arms as
the chiefs friend and equal, supplied with
whatever he wanted, and forwarded safely on
his journey.
- A Dubuque horse doctor, ever alive to
the interests of horses and science, saved the
life of a valuable horse in that city last week,
by ejecting the blood from calf's veins into
those of the former. A butcher-knife and
tin squirt-gun were the delicate instruments
used, and about pint Of blood was sent boun-
ding into the circulation of the weakened
equine, who straightway began to improve.
At last accounts the horse was doing finely,
though, instead of kicking, it tried to butt
with its head, and when drinking water its
tail waved to and fro in ridiculous manner.
The surgeon says time will tone these eccen-
tricities down to great extent.
- The New Hampshire election for Gov
ernor, members of the State Legislature and
Representatives in Congress resulted in Re-
publican Legislature and the election of Straw,
Republican, for Governor, by majority Of
three hundred. The first Congressional dis
trict gives Small, Republican, between 200
and 800 majority. The other two Congress
sional districts have gone Democratic. The
Republican majority at the Presidential cleo.
ton, last fall, was ffty-seven hundred and
forty-four. There has been, therefore, heavy
decline in the Republican vote, but, as the
Democrats lose one Congressman, it is reason
able to suppose that the falling offs as heavy
amongst the Democrats as among their oppo'
nents.
"A project is on foot among numerous
New York ladies for forming an insurance
oo,,nor,, Ior;nr only women for officers,