Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-01

TALLY supported by public money. AS the
population of the State of New York is be-
tween 100000 and 100000, there is at
least one pauper to every twenty-three work
erS
- Shingle roofs, and indeed all wood work
may be rendered less liable to take fire from
falling cinders, &C., by coating with wash
composed of lime, salt, and wood ashes. This
compound also preserves the wood, and should
be applied in the same manner as ordinary
whitewash.
- The entire number of Indians having
relations with the United States, exclusive of
10000 in Alaska, number about 100000, of
which 10000 are selfsupporting; $4,000
are supported in part by the Government; |;
$1,000 by the Government entirely; the re-
mainder, $4,000, living by marauding and
hunting. In the Indian report, $1,000 are set
down as civilized, and $4,000 as wholly savage.
"A new horse disease has made its ap-
pearance at Buffalo, New York. The veteri-
nary surgeons pronounce it the result Of the
epizootic of last fall. 1t attacks the animals
hoofs, and causes the flesh to swell and burst
leaving large holes and running sores. In
extreme cases the animal loses its hoofs entire
ly, and has to be killed. A number of street
railway and express company's horses are suf-
fering from the new malady.
- The recent decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the Homestead cases is one
of considerable Importance. The gist of the
decision is, that the homestead law, or rather
that portion of the State constitution which
guarantees homestead to the head of fam
lily, is of no avail as against debts contracted
prior to 1868. A person who contracted
debts prior to the adoption of the present
State constitution, cannot plead the home
stead clause as protection against creditors
- Can a man bind himself by written OBJ
legation not to take the benefit of the bank
rupt act? This is question likely to arise in
Virginia. Notes, so conditioned, have been
given in that State. In reply to correspon-
dent, the Richmond Dispatch gives the opinion
that such a note would not be good as against
the bankrupt law. IF man could bind him
self not to take the benefit of the act, the act
would soon be dead-letter, for every man
giving note would be required so to bind
himself
"A most singular banquet has just taken
place in Paris. A. M. Decroire invited sew
eral of his friends and small company Of
scientific men to dine upon the flesh of horses
that had died from the CHAMBERS, of COWS the
victims of the rinderpest, and of an ass just
killed for hydrophobia. 1t was "test ban.
quet"-one that proved the devotion of each
man there to science, that he was willing to
risk his life to demonstrate in the most prac-
tical manner that the flesh of animals is not
affected as human food by even the worst dis
eases. The fire purifes it and purges away
all infection. The director Of the Paris
Geological Gardens is said to corroborate this
theory from personal experiments on the con-
demned meat sent to feed the animals
-- 1t may be of interest to know that the
President never draws his salary himself, but
receives it through the First National Bank,
to which he has given power of attorney,
and the money is always drawn from the
Treasury by the Cashier of that bank, and
placed to the credit of the President by the
bank. The warrants for the salaries Of the
President and Vice President are made out
at the Treasury every month, the former un-
der the new law receiving 81, 1866 per month,
and the latter S833.33. Members of the Cab
met are paid from the rolls of their respective
departments, and receipt therefor the same as
all other employees. The President and Vice
President do not sign any payroll.
- Henry Ward Beecher, in a character
istic sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
New York, few Sundays ago, said: "He
did not know on earth more pitiable sight
than South Carolina. 1t was at one time the
richest and proudest of the States. 1t inau-
gurated those ideas which led to the disaster
of the war and the cleansing Of the continent
The people of South Carolina had risked and
sacrificed everything for their principles they
had seen their children laid in the grave and
their households reduced to beggary, and yet,
in the plenitude of their sorrow, they would
take back no particle of their faith in the
cause Though in bad cause, they had
shown heroism it would be we'll to pattern
and admire"
The correspondent of the Western Rural
says: I discovered many years ago, that wood
could be made to last longer than iron in the
ground, but thought the process so simple and
inexpensive that it was not worth while max
ing any stir about I would as soon have
poplar, Eastwood or quaking ash, as any other
kind of timber for fence posts. Ihave taken
out Eastwood posts, after having been set
seven years, that were as sound when taken
up as when they were first put in the ground.
Time and weather seemed to have no effect on
them. The posts can be prepared for less
than two cents. apiece. For the benefit of
others, I will give the recipe: Take boiled
linseed oil and stir in it pulverized charcoal,
to the consistency of paint. Put coat of
this on the timber, and there is not a man
who will live to see it rot.
a few days ago some cruel impostor-
we cannot characterize him as wag-vic-
timized the localizer of the Augusta Chronicle,
by telling him that the wives of two worthy
citizens of Columbia county, Georgia, had
recently given birth to seven children, one to
three and the other to four, all of whom were
"doing we'll" With enthusiastic pride and
commendable enterprise the localizer fastened
to spread the astonishing intelligence before
the world, only to excite the Indignation Of
the supposed prolific parents, who fatty deny
the correctness of the story. The 'joke," if
such it can be termed, consists, we suppose, in
the fact that neither of the parties is blessed
with the indispensable home comforts Of noisy
bows and hoidenish girls !; and the Chronicle,
in correcting the statement, innocently, If not
naively, says there is not even particle OF
foundation for the report.
The Baltimore Sun, in reporting the
proceedings of the Medical and Chlrurglcal