Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-06


burg, Russia, which will for some years be his
home.
Five hundred and thirty women in the
United States are doctors, twenty-four are
dentists five lawyers and sixty-eight preach
ers.
" Western papers announce the marriage
of the widow of the late General John H.
Morgan to Judge VIM. H. Williamson, of
Lebanon, Tennessee.
"A member of the Mississippi Legisla-
ture declares that until he has made money
enough to pay for his farm, be will not vote
for adjournment.
- For the past five years an Indiana wo.
man has had three husbands residing within
FIVE miles of each other, and nobody found
her out until last week. People mind their
own business in that State.
- At the present time not single box of
tin is manufactured in the United States, al
though it is claimed that there are large depos-
its of this valuable metal in New Hampshire,
Missouri, and the Lake Superior regions.
&C. E. Perkinson, magician we'll known
in the South by the pseudonym of "St. Maur,"
died in New York recently. His remains
were brought to Petersburg, Va, his native
home, for interment.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was elec-
ted to Congress from the Eighth Georgia Dig
trict, on Wednesday last, vice Gen. A. S.
Wright, deceased. There was no opposition
and the vote was light.
- The sexton of church at Reading,
Pennsylvania, having found and restored to
the Lancaster Bank $4,000 stolen there
from, has received from the officers Of that
institution the muni6cent reward of $40.
"A War Department order, just promul
gated, provides that the payment of rent, or
any allowance fer quarters or fuel of officers
servants, is prohibited until more specific leg.
islation shall sanction it.
- Sheriff Dolson, of Pope county, Arkan-
sas, who was recently assassinated died of his
wound on Saturday. The Governor of the
State has issued g. proclamation Offering re-
ward of $1,000 for each of the assassins Of Dod-
son and Harriet.
- A young man ofslender build, remark
ed one day, in circle of friends, that he had
seen icicles as large as his leg. "Your leg,
the devil" remarked another young man of
squatty mould, "I've seen them as large as a
hoe handle"
- Mrs. Putnam, widow of Putnam killed
by Foster on the street cars in New York city
two years ago, has written to Governor Dix
asking Communication Of Fosters sentence.
Tomorrow is the day appointed for the exc.
cution Of the death sentence on Foster
- Mrs. Mcdaniel, whose husband had in
klo a. &c H. lo~o
amount of cotton which was confscated by
the Federal Government, by the advice of
friends put in her claim, and was few days
since awarded and paid the sum of $95,000,
which she has carried to Atlanta.
- Henry Clay once accused John Ran
dolph of being an aristocrat. In voice
whose shrill, piercing tones penetrated every
ear in the House, Randolph exclaimed: eff
a man is known by the company he keeps the
gentleman who just sat down is more Of an
aristocrat than I claim to be; for he spends
most of his nights in the company of kings
and queens and knaves."
"A Bostonian of magnificent possibili-
ties wishes to organize a company with $12,-
100000 capital to enclose tract of seven
square miles in an immense glass structure,
within which invalids may make their perma.
nent abode, having tropical climate with its
appropriate fruits and foliage, good hotels,
picturesque drives, art galleries, an opera
house, and in short everything that consump-
tives could possibly wish for except ventila-
tion.
"A curious petition for an amendment to
the Constitution was recently presented in the
Senate, to the effect "that hereafter and
throughout all time, all persons, whether of
the State or National Government, who shall
recommend civil war shall register their names
in book to be kept by the Secretary of State
at Washington, and that when the war breaks
out they occupy the front ranks in the line
until the war closes and that, in default of so
doing, they acknowledge themselves ready
and worthy of being taken out and shot at
any instant that the President of the United
States, or any Governor of State shall so
order and direct"
The California Legislature has been tin
kering with the laws that concern the domestic
relations, and the most notable results en-
bodied ina bill, that has just passed, to estab-
lish the equality of husband and wife. This
abolishes the old theory that the two are one,
and goes so far in the opposite direction as to
provide that either can make contract with
the other or sue the other, as if they had
never been married. 1t also provides that
marriage metamorphoses minors into adults,
so far as making contracts is concerned though
it does not appear that the male minor is en-
franchised by matrimony. Altogether the
law must be regarded as long step toward
the social chaos that the disciples of free love
are inviting.
1t is stated that q Connecticut railroad
is about to make trial of the so-called paper
car wheels. These wheels are costly, but run
safely and easily. They have been known
some time to car builders, but their introduce
ton into general use has been prevented by
the expense. Sheets of common straw paper
are forced into compact mass by a pressure
of three hundred and fifty tons. The mass of
paper is turned perfectly round, and by a
pressure of twenty-five tons, hub is forced
into hole in the centre. This paper wheel,
by pressure of two hundred and fifty tons,
is next forced into steel tire with one-fourth
inch bevel upon its inner circumference. Two
circular plates are then bolted on to the tire
to keep the paper filling in place. BY this
ARRANGEMENT the steel tire rests upon the paper
only, and partakes of its elasticity. 1t is
claimed that these wheels wear longer than
those ofany other description, injurethe tracks
less, and run with less noise
The Daily Graphic, an evening paper
to be published early in March, in New York,
will be something entirely new in journalism;
It will be an eight page paper, and one-halt