Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27


900 to Bishop McTyeire, of the Southern
Methodist Church, to establish university in
Tennessee.
- The story that the Natural Bridge in
Virginia was on fire and rapidly consuming,
proves to be hoax. The story was started
by the Collesian, published by the students
at Rockbridge, and is specimen of academic
wit
1t is suggested that, as the revolver
seems to be the natural play thing of Ameri-
can youth, and as many accidents occur
through an imperfect knowledge of its pecu:
liarities, it might be we'll to introduce in all
public schools series of lessons on the con-
struction and properties of the instrument
"A Washington dispatch says: "The
government is still pardoning prisoners at Al
bany convicted of ku-klux crimes, and unless
there is positively reasonable opposition from
residents in the localities where the prisoners
lived, all will undoubtedly be pardoned before
very long. Such seems to be the disposition Of
the government
An exceptional Michigander recently
settled bis accounts with all his creditors,
and incontinently thereafter killed himself.
Whether he paid his, debts because he was
going to commit suicide, or committed suicide
because he had paid his debts, local opinions
differ; but all are agreed that the two circum-
stances, taken together, afford unmistakable
evidence of insanity.
- The time of the extra session Of the
United States Senate, when not devoted to
Executive business has been almost constant
ly employed, since the session commenced, in
discussing the eligibility of Caldwell, Senator
from Kansas. Caldwell rendered his resigna-
tion on Monday and the question was dropped.
The case of Senator Clayton, of Arkansas,
was then taken up.
- Jean Paul Richter says: ''To insure
modesty, I would advise the education Of the
sexes together; for two boys will preserve
twelve girls, or two girls twelve boys, innocent,
amid winks, jokes and improprieties, merely
by that instructive sense which is the forerun-
ner of matured modesty. But will guaran-
tee nothing in school where girls are alone
together, and still less where boys are"
- In the Senate, on the 21st, Mr.. Fenhow
offered resolution that the Committee on FL
nance be directed to inquire what measures
can be adopted by the Government which
shall give to the country currency converti-
BILE into gold at the option ofthe holder thus
securing greater stability in the exchanges of
trade, in the work of production and invest
ment, and in the compensation Of labor, and
to report by bill or otherwise, at the next ses-
sion. The resolution was ordered to be prin-
ted and laid over.
- Congressman are now availing them
selves of the last days Of the franking privi-
lege. A Washington letter says hundreds Of
men and boys are engaged at the Capitol
sending out daily through the mails tons of
books and documents for members, who are
anxious to have them reach their respective
homes before the expiration of the franking
privilege. The basement passages are filled
with boxes in which to pack such parts Of the
immense masses of accumulated printed mat
ter as have not already passed by sale into
the hands of merchants and paper-makers.
The primitive mode of counting and
weighing nails has left some reminders Of it.
self in our modern nomenclature. We say
four.penny, six-penny, ten.penny nails, and
so on. Nails used to be counted by the 1000 J.;
and when they we're of such size that 1000
of them weighed four pounds, they were called
four pound nails, and similarly six pound and
ten pound nails, and in rapid speaking the
"pound" became corrupted to "peEny," which
is more easily uttered by the organs, as any
one will see who will try it for himself. Thus
the current designation Of sizes depended
originally upon weights.
- At the close of the last session of Con-
gress bill was passed securing authority for
the payment of the census-takers of 1860 in
the Southern States, regardless of their claims
to loyalty to the United States Government
during the war. A circular will soon be sent
from the Census Office to all persons interest.
ed, setting forth that Congress, by an act
approved March 3, 1873, has authorized the
payment, without proof of loyalty, of claims
for compensation on account of services at
the census of $780," and giving instructions
concerning the preparation of claims by the
claimants or their heirs.
- A remarkable series of accidents is re-
lated to have occurred one night last week, at
Elizabeth, New Jersey. A Mr.. Wells had
retired for the night, when, shortly afterward,
Mrs. Wells complained of feeling of numb
ness in her limbs and requested her husband
to help her across the floor. About half way
across the room he expressed some fears, when
she told him not to be afraid, and Immediate
ly dropped dead at his feet. He gave an
alarm, and neighbor, an old lady, in eros
sing the street to his assistance, fell. breaking
her left arm in two places and her right collar
bone. Her son, young man, heard her
scream, and rushing out of the house to aid
her. fell against the halfopen door, breaking
his nose and rebounding senseless to the floor.
DR.. Kendall, Fastening to the help of the suf-
ferers, also fell, broke two of his ribs and had
to be carried home.
"A narrow escape from frightful Ca
lamity was recently experienced by an audi
ence in Louisville, Kentucky, assembled to
witness circus performance. When the en-.
tertainment began the weather was calm, and
there were no indications that danger was
soon to threaten. In a short time, however,
heavy gale began blowing, and after gradu-
ally increasing in violence it caused the main
pole of the tent to snap at about one-third of
the distance from the top. The immense au-
dience were terror stricken by the mishap,
and a general stampede began. An indiscrim.
mate rush over benches and PROSTATE men and
women was made by the more powerful of
those present, and the canvas was slashed
with knives in every part of the tent, in Or
der to afford means Of egress from the scene
of tumult and confusion. Before any con.
s:Jorohla number of the peOple had escaped