Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-27


solid.
1t is estimated that a total of 100000
bales of cotton, valued at $400,000000 in
gold, is now consumed every year in Europe
and the United States.
- Two years ago, Texas had 511 miles of
railroad in operation. She now has 1,257,
and it is confidently expected that 500 miles
more will be finished during the present year.
- After twenty-three years of welded life,
Nancy Kyle, of Middletown, Connecticut,
sues her husband for wages as housekeeper,
claiming fifteen dollars month for the full
period.
"A memorial has been presented to the
Legislature of Texas asking the passage of
law making the seller Of liquors responsible
for all damages done by the intoxicated per-
son.
- The Congressional Printer has been
directed to hurry up the printing and the
binding of the "Pub. Docs" ordered by Con.
gress, so that they can be all done and sent
away under franks before the 1st of July.
An exasperated Michigan editor says:
ut is disgusting to see young girls parade the
streets of modest and unassuming little
country village, with Observation-Disclosures
darnphoolativeness, larger than they are
- So great has been the oppression ofthe
negro and carpet-bag governmental Louisiana
and New Orleans, that the debt of that city is
one-fourth of her assessed property. Since
1867, the real estate of the city has declined
more than thirty per cent. in value.
The exodus from Florida is gathering
force. 1t lis said that more than 100 families,
the heads of which are principally well.to-dp
farmers, have enigrated from Sumter and the
surrounding counties. Some of them are SET
tling in Georgia. some in Tennessee, and some
in North Carolina. They are driven forth by
odious laws and oppressive taxation.
One Joe Ware was so deeply in love
with a young lady, whom he often visited,
that at last he offered her his heart and hand.
She replied that in offers like these her moth
er cautioned her to beware. "Your mother
was right" said her lover. "Be ware by all
means; but let it be Mrs. Joe Ware" She
rested her head on his shoulder and the con-
tract was sealed.
This yarn is told of Topeka lady who
wrote to matrimonial agent for husband.
The agent transferred the letter to crusty
old bachelor, who, in replying to it, accident
ally substituted for his own photograph that
of pet ourang outang. The lady answered: /:
"There is certainly not much personal beauty
about you, but you appear to have an honest,
manly face. I accept"
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
remarks: eff you had avoided rum," said a
wealthy though not intelligent grocer to his
neighbor, "your early habits, industry and
intellectual abilities would now have per-
mitted you to ride in your carriage" "And
if you had never sold run, for me to buy" re-
piled the bacchana, "you would have been
driver"
An unsophisticated maiden in Illinois
has invented simple but ingenious device Of
securing by one operation both husband and
u fortune. She offers herself as a prize to be
raffled for-100,000 tickets to be issued, at
81 each, reserving to herself the right to re-
ject the holder of the lucky number on pay
ment of $500.
"A man in Detroit was recently found
in the street quite overcome by whisky, and
had to be carried home on sleigh. A boy,
who supposed the man was dead, ran on and
informed his wife, who met the crowd at the
gate, and, in broken accents enquired of one
of the men, "Do you think I ought to pre-
sent his life insurance policy to the agent this
afternoon" She seemed quite disappointed
when she learned the truth.
- The latest novelty is the invention of
6re-proof paper shutters made Of iron and
paper pulp. Various tests, it is stated, have
been made, all of them highly satisfactory.
The principle involved is based on the fact
that the sheet-iron covering is so thin that it
cannot expand, and heat generates carbolic
acid gas by contact with the pulp, thus pre-
venting combustion. The shutters are light
and simple.
-A A resident of Newburyport, Massachu-
sets. whose house is infested with rats, has
novel method of capturing them. On retir-
ing at night he sets his traps, which consists
Of a number Of lines, to which are attached
tomcod hooks covered with bits of meat
These are suspended few inches above the
floor and connected by cross line, to which
is attached line running to his bedside,
which rings small bell when rat is caught
The rats 20 for the bait, the bell rings and
the watcher enters with club and extermi-
mates them.
The editor of the Lancaster, Pa, Es.
press tells this story, but he never writes under
oath: "a wife Of nearly ten years, having
given her servant holiday, was attending to
culinary matters herself, and hearing her hus.
band coming in the kitchen thought she
would surprise him as soon as he entered the
door by throwing her hands over his eyes and
imparting kiss on his brow as in the days of
the honeymoon. The husband returned the
salute with interest, and said, as he disengaged
her hands, Mary, darling, where is your
mistress? The wife discharged Mary, dar-
ling the next day, and has adopted a new
plan of surprising her husband"
- In the Ukraine (Russia) the women
court more generally than the men. When
young woman falls in love with man she
is not the least ashamed to 60 to his fathers
house and reveal her passion in the most ten.
der and pathetic manner, and to promise the
most submissive obedience if he will accept
her as wife. Should the insensible man pre-
tend any excuse she tells him she is resolved
never to 90 out of the house till he gives his
consent, and accordingly, taking up her lod-
gings, remains there. If he still obstinately
refuses her, his case becomes exceedingly dis
tressing. The church is commonly on her
side. and to turn her out would provoke her
kindred to revenge her honor, so that he has
no method left but to betake himselfto flight
till she is otherwise disposed of.
A correspondent gives to the Hopkins
vile Ne,o Era the following as speech made
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