Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-21

jewelry and of gay, fashy dress.
-Southerners are being swindled by let.
tiers professed to be issued by the Mercantile
Prize Association of New York, informing
them of their success in drawing valuable
prizes, which will be forwarded on receipt Of
the amount specified in the letter.
"A machine for forging horse shoe nails
has been lately invented and is now in opera
ton at the Bristol Iron Works at Oswego, N.
Y. 1t will make from twelve to fifteen nails
per minute, requires no attendance except to
put in coil of nail rod every ten hours.
Anarchy and crime are reported as on
the increase in certain sections of Kansas,
and many of the best men are reported to
have declared that the only safety of the
State lies in strong central territorial form
of Government under the protection of the
United States.
--"Why do they call the people that live
in some of the South Sea Islands cannibals p
asked an old man of sailor. Because they
live on other people," answered the sailor.
"Then," said the old man, pensively, "my
sons-in-law must be cannibals, for they live on
me-"
- The genuine tea plant is growing pro-
fusely over all the suburbs of the city of
Jacksonville, in Florida, and presents quite a
thriving appearance every where it is found.
Many of the inhabitants of that city use no
other tea in their families. They pluck and
dry what they require for their own use, and
say it is equal to any black tea offered for
sale at the grocery stores.
- Gen. Alferd Iverson, late of the Con-
federate States army, the captor of Stoneman,
has obtained letters patent for machine
for the manufacture of ice which is intended
for introduction into every household. 1t is
about the size of an ice cream freezer, and is
so constructed that it will freeze water into
solid blocks of ice in ten or fifteen minutes.
One Of these machines will cost $50 or S25,
after the obtaining Of which the round expense
of making all the ice family would use in
year would not, perhaps, sum up 81 gross.
"A San Francisco milliner recently hit
upon novel expedent to advertise her store.
She had among her assistants one remarkably
handsome young woman, and having attired
this damsel in the choisest garments of the
establishment, placed her in the window of
the store The girl stood in a reclining atti.
tude perfectly still, and very soon an immense
crowd Of people had assembled to see the
beautiful milliner's sign. The crowd soon
grew to perfect mob, quite blockading the
street until the curtains were lowered and the
living model relieved from her position.
"A recent visitor among the Indians in
Florida gives an account Of marriage cere-
mony which he witnessed: "The company was
composed of the whole tribe, all of whom
were dressed in their best 6nery. A circle
was formed, the bride moved to the centre,
holding in her hand an ear of corn. Then
the bride groom advanced alongside of her,
with deer's leg in his hand. The mutual
exchange comprises the whole ceremony.
After the ceremony the whole company ad-
vanced and feasted on bear meat and honey
for two days and nights"
- A colored man of Wilmington, N c.,
by the name of Sandy johnson, has tame
coon which follows him about the streets like
dog. The Journal says that he is not only
civilized, but an educated coon, as he under
stands an order, and does whatever his master
tells him. They sit down and eat their meals
together, the coon initiating his master, not
only in taking up piece of bread in his paw
and biting it, but in lifting cup of water to
his mouth and drinking as naturally as any
body. The animal is christened Bill John
son, and his MASTER Sandy johnson, calls him
Brother Bill"
- The last reports on the subject of i'm
migration, show that the number of immi-
grants who have arrived in the United States,
from the time of the establishment of the Gov
ernment to the close ofthe year 1872, to have
been as follows: Previous to 1920, estimated,
10000; from 1921 to 1880, 152,S2O; from
1881 to 1910, 599, 1926; from 1841 to 1850,
1,713,251; from 1851 to 1860, 2,597,21 ;
from 1861 to 1870, 2,491 ,209; during the
year 1871, 367,7S9; during the year 1872,
43S,040; making grand total of 8,62O,452
The indications thus far are that the arrivals
during the current year will fully equal
those oflast year, the foreign born population
of the country being thereby increased by
nearly 100000, souls.
- The past week has been prolific of sui.
cides, homicides and casualties. We note a
few. Thomas Woodson, a son of Governor
Woodson, of Missouri, shot and killed vii:
liam Barlow, in cornfeld near Percival
Station, Iowa. r. T. Dunn, U. S. Deputy
Marshal at Corinth, Mississippi, was shot
through window while in bed and killed
John Curtin shot man named johnson in
San Francisco. Henry A. Player shot and
killed George Smith in Costa county, Cali
fornia. The murdered bodies of John Weutz
and his wife were discovered in a cellar ir
New York. Oscar Mills, an assistant engi
neer in the United States Navy, was acci
dentally shot and killed in Pennsylvania, by
Sidney Major, who fired at a hawk. Lair
dunn Tintelerate, German cigar dealer, com
mitted suicide in Jersey City. Mrs. Wer.
temberg, of Detroit, Michigan, was poisoned
by son-inlaw, who wanted her property.
Melvin Duff, who had married the daughter
of Mr.. Miller in Saint Louis, againt the
wish of Miller, quarreled with his father-in
law and ended the dispute by killing him
John Bowen, while carrying child down a
flight of stairs in New York, fell, and both
were killed. In Brooklyn Peter Gray bea
his father and left him lying on the sidewalk
insensible. William Clark, merchant a
Cowles Station, Ga, was shot and killed by
a man who had an old grudge against him
An Indian shield is rare curiosity
The red warrior prefers, like the modern sol