Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29

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- The crops in eastern Alabama are ex-
ceedingly poor, some of them having been re-
planted three times.
Lincoln used to say that if he had
son who would part his hair behind, he would
maui him to death with squash.
"A queer Delawarean, by his will, divi-
ded his property among his children, and left
his bones to his enemies "to make whistles Of"
"A Mississippi quack is making for
tune by selling to thenegroes nostrum which
he warrants to turn their wool into long,
straight hair.
- There seems to be little doubt that the
cholera has made its appearance in New Or.
leans, and one case, with fatal termination,
has been reported in Cincinnati.
- AS astonishing as it may seem, yet it is
fact, that man recently committed suicide
in New York on account of the death Of his
mother-in.law.
- Numerous Western editors are trying
to induce Sergeant Bates to march through
the lava beds, bearing the American flag, and
although they offer him the odds, on bets, Of
$1,000 to 81, he hangs back and refuses to un-
dertake the enterprise.
"A case has been decided in the United
States Circuit Court at Des Moines, Iowa, to
the effect that letters of administration having
been taken out was sufficient proof of death to
entitle the policy-holders to recover against
the insurance company.
- Reports of the condition of the cotton
crop throughout Tennessee, Arkansas and
Mississippi are very discouraging, owing to the
very backward spring. The cool and hard
rains of the past week have beaten down the
plants. Caterpillars have also made their ap.
pearance in immense numbers, destroying both
cotton and corn.
- The latest ku-klux case comes from Geor
gia. A martyr reports to the Bureau of JUS
tice at Washington that he recently eloped
with his wife's sister, and afterward, upon de-
string to return home, was prevented by his
wife's father and brother, who, he says. threat
ened to ku-klux him, and consequently he
asks protection from the government
- Candidates for the ChiefJ Justiceship are
multiplying rapidly. The most recent are
Caleb Gushing, Judge Black, William S.
Groesbeck, and Lyman Trumbull. The Gin
cinnati Commercial withdraws Gen. Butler
from the field by recommending that he be
given the command of an expedition to the
North Pole
- The weeping-willow has romantic
history. The first scion was sent from Smyr
ma, in box of figs to Alexander Pope
General Clinton brought shoot from Pope's
tree, to America, in the time of the Rev
olution, which, passing into the hands of John
Parke Gusts, was planted on his estate
in Virginia, thus becoming the progenitor of
the weeping willow of this country.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has recently
decided that taxation can only be authorized
for public purpose, and that the donation Of
money to build railway is not for public
purpose and that therefore, all laws which
provide to raise such money by taxation or to
devote it to such purpose, are unconstitutional
Thisis, as we understand it, an overruling by
the court of a previous decision, in which
statute that authorized the city of Cincinnati
to raise money by taxation to build railway
in Kentucky, was pronounced constitutional.
"A letter from New York says: "The
spring is wearing away without bringing with
it any material increase in city trade. Very
few of the merchants in any department are
making money, while the majority of them
think themselves doing we'll if they can only
work along and meet current expenses. This
remark applies more particularly to the dry
goods business, but it is also miserably true of
other branches. The retail trade is doing bet
ter, as result of the numerous orders which
the summer trade is always sure to bring"
"A Washington correspondent says a
gentleman recently applied for patent for
boring the earth for artesian wells for purposes
of irrigation. He gravely set forth that he
made the discovery that quicksilver was hea-
vier than the common earth. He therefore
proposed to start hole and to empty into it
little mercury. By the laws of nature that
mercury would be sure to work its way down.
ward until it struck water, and the water
would then be sure to work its way upward
till it struck air.
- The New York Tribune says: ut is
thought to be very extraordinary thing that
Messrs. Cain and Ranser, colored members
of Congress from South Carolina, should have
nominated white boys who excelled in the
competitive examination for West Point Ca
detships. It's to be hoped that the time will
come when such circumstance will excite no
attention. These Congressman show good
sense, if sense of justice be good and if all
their kind will be equally fair, half the. trou-
bles, if not all of them, in South Carolina, will
disappear. There must always be two parties
to O conciliation."
- The Peoria Review has its own old man,
who reads that paper and no other, and thus
describes him: "Chewed tobacco sixty years
and got fat on it. Then he took to hard drink
and followed it for twenty-five years, and grew
younger every day. Now he reads his paper
by moonlight alone, through an inverted mi
croscope, to make thetype appear small enough
for his eyesight. Walks four miles every
morning for his drinks before breakfast.
Chops a cord of wood between each meal.
Tried to die of old age thirteen times and
failed every whack. Attends to the wants of
his old and feeble grandson, and superintends
the funerals of his posterity with decency
becoming his years"
- The colored militia are being quietly
but rapidly enlisted and organized in this as
we'll as in other parts of the State. What
does the mean? If it is proposed to organize
the militia in pursuance of the laws of the
State, why not issue general order from the
adjutant-generals office requiring all citizens
within the prescribed ages to come forward
and enroll themselves? Why enlist and or
ganize the negroes exclusively? Is it pro-
posed to repeat the history of the past? We
remember very we'll to have seen company
of negroes marching through the streets of
this town in the fall of 1870, brandishing their
Winchester rifles in the faces of the white
people, and shouting: "Here's Your Regula-
toran II may as we'll he understood at once