Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17
Straps aud fafts.

entire estate about s75, 900, to his three daugh-
ters. He left nothing to the President.
- 1t is rumored that Whitelaw Reid,
managing editor of the New York Tribune, is
to marry Miss Ida Greeley.
- Music by brass band is announced as
one of the attractions of church at the fash
ionable watering place of Newport
The steamer, City of Washington, was
wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia on the
9th. There were 500 passengers, besides the
crew, on board, all of whom were saved.
- The number of the primary schools in
Germany is said to be $4,000, and the number
Of pupils in them 100000, between the ages
Of six and fourteen.
"A murderer at Meridian, Miss, asked
to be hung on the Fourth Of July, and the
judge kindly consented, as it would help along
the proposed celebration.
"A wicked man in Davenport, being on
his death-bed, wished to consult some proper
person regarding his future state, and his
friend sent fire insurance agent to him.
1t is stated on high chemical authority
that the last gill of milk drawn from COW is
sixteen times richer in cream than the first
portion yielded.
- The coroner's jury at New Orleans in
the case of the late Judge Cooley, the victim
of the recent duel, returns verdict Of MUIR
der against the surviving participants in the
fatal affair.
- Father Ryan, the Southern poet, and
editor of the Catholic Messenger at New Or
leans, enters an earnest protest against the ac-
tion of General Beauregard in the formation
Of the new compromise party in that State.
-- Several young girls in Athens, Ca,
made themselves sick swallowing hearts.ease
flowers, under the delusion that whenever they
swallowed one of the flowers whole, and then
wished, the wish would be grati6ed.
- An industrious individual, who has
made the study science, says that boarding
house chicken soup can be made by hanging
up hen in the sun, so that her shadow shall
fall in pot of salt water. On cloudy days,
however, the soup is liable to be weak.
- Hon. Jefferson Davis has been chosen
by the First Mississippi Rifles to serve as their
representative at the convention of the survi-
vors of the Mexican war of 1917, which is to
be held in Washington, January Is, 1874.
Mr.. Davis commanded this regiment in the
Mexican war.
- Patrick Henry once called Gov. Giles,
ofVirginia, "bob-tailed politician" Giles
demanded an explanation. Henry responded:
81 do not recollect having called you bob
tailed politician at any time, but think it
probable have. Not recollecting the time
or occasion, cannot say what did mean;
but if you will tell me what you think l
meant, will say whether you are correct or
not" Giles subsidized.
- The ministers came last week to pray
for Paul Carroll, of jamestown, KY, who is
in the last stage of consumption, and having
lived wicked life sent for them. But when
they opened prayer, Mrs. Carroll remarked,
with fearful eyes, that she couldn't stand it,
this dividing ups family by praying; all the
balance of the CAROLS that had died had
gone to HI. No man ought to be separated
from his kin.
- Preparations to print the new national
bank currency authorized by Congress have
already been commenced. Work upon the
plates will be commenced next week, and FIVE,
ten and twenty dollars notes will be first is
sued. 1t will probably occupy three months to
complete the plates and print and number the
notes, as sufficient quantity of these denom-
nations will be placed in circulation before
commencing work upon any other.
-- AtNashville the Robertson Association,
which has done so much for the relief ofthe sick
has declared that "as the cholera has disappear
ed from Nashville the mission of the association
has been fulfilled" Its members are urged
to resume their avocations in order to create
business and furnish employment for the nee
dy. Six physicians, engaged by the county to
attend cholera patients, have been dismissed,
us no longer required, and the mayor is about
to discharge the city physicians employed for
that purpose.
- In every car on the Connecticut River
Railroad there is box overhead, at one end
of which is contained the name of the next
station, which it is the duty of the brakemen to
change rs they leave the stations. And it
goes further it states where they connect with
other roads. AS the change is made bell
strikes twice, which attracts the attention Of
the passengers so that the box always exhib-
Thus passengers always know the name of the
stopping place, and also if it connects with
any other railroad.
Wheeling, Virginia, has a boy who is
one of the greatest curiosities Of the age. He
is half white and half black, not in the mu-
latto and miscegenation sense, but the lower
half of his body is winter than white folks
usually are, while the upper portion is as
black as midnight. His mother is a coal
black negress. He is but three years old,
and has already made money out of his pecu-
li,ritics There iS q rOund match ahout three
inches in diameter, of perfectly beautiful hair
ON the top of his head, which is surrounded
by little kinky negro wool.
"A telegram to the New York World
states that under the treaty made between
Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon the Great, III
view of outrages then recently practiced upon
Arcadans by New Englanders and the Bri-
tish, it was specifically agreed that the inhab-
itants of Louisiana (whither the Acardians
hedD should never be deprived of freedom of
person, property or religion. This third Sec
tion of the treaty was written by Napoleon
himself, and it is now proposed, in view of
frightful wrongs to which the people of Lou
isiana are subjected, because of the domination
of thieves and savage blacks, to assert rights
defined under this treaty, and invoke the in
tervention of France
- The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that there are
now in the United States, 63,514 miles of rail
way mail service, that being an increase of
5,6O3 miles since the same period last year.
Massachusetts is the only New England State
in which there are 1000 miles of railway SER
vice, that State having nearly 1,7O0 miles.