Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-02
Straps and fafts.

sesseu 1--WE per ceut. w uShI Ihe arlheTS
ticket
There is negro woman in Monroe,
Ga. who is the mother Of thirty-three living
children.
1t is estimated that the total population
ofShreveport, La, at present is 5000, inclu-
ding one thousand sick and convalescing.
- Missouri has been under Democratic
rule for two years, and during that time the
State debt has been reduced from $50, ,000,0 900
to sIS,OOO,OO0.
-- Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is out in
letter supporting the Republican ticket in
Virginia. He states that he considers the
material interests of Virginia are identified
with the success of the Republican party.
- Rev. Mr.. Carleton thinks the reason
his son, the Cashier of The Union Trust Com
pany, stole S50O,0O0, was because he had been
crazy since the death of his wife. Probably
his wife drove him crazy before she died.
AT the election in San Francisco a
few weeks ago, 26,300 votes were cast, and
the city is now called upon to foot bill of
S21 1,3O350 election expenses, equivalent to
about 81 cents per vote.
- The Staunton (Va.) Spectator says:
"Ex- -Goveuor Bonham, of South Carolina,
was in the city this week, for the purpose of
buying farm near Staunton, where ne pro-
poses hereafter to reside"
~ On Wednesday of last week, e13S,OOO
of GOLD was Withdrawn from the Bank of En-
gland for shipment to the United States, and
100000 was to follow on Thursday. The
opinion is expressed by leading fnanciers
that there will be flow ofgold to the United
States from England for some time to come.
-- The American Colonization Society
proposes to send another expedition to Libe-
ria on the 1st Of November of this year.
The colonists will find themselves about as
much at home in Africa as the descendants of
the Pilgrims would if they should 60 back to
Yorkshire.
The conflict between carpet-baggers
and the native colored people of the South is
becoming general. At recent meeting in
Wilmington, N. c., George L. MADISON, a
favorite colored leader, announces himself
"in deadly opposition to adventures who
have settled amoung US"
- On the 18th of last month, Col. D w.
Aiken, of South Carolina, addressed $1,000
persons in GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the subject of
agriculture and the oranges. He is one of
the three members of the Executive Commit
tee of the National Grange in the United
States.
- The Democrats of Mississippi have wise
ly decided not to nominate any State ticket,
with the understanding that the Conservatives
will unite with the Liberal Republicans in
the support of Alcorn for Governor. This was
Judged to be the best policy under the cir
cumstances, the only policy which could re-
suit in the defeat of Ames.
- The Secretary of the Navy has direc-
ted that certain lieutenant, who lately re-
turned from three years cruise on the steam
corvette Benica, in the Asiatic squadron, be
sent back to the squadron, with orders to re-
port to the admiral commanding, who is to
keep him there until his debts, amounting
to several thousand dollars, are all paid.
This unusual proceeding has been rendered
necessary by the numerous financial delin-
quencies recently reported to the department
from that quarter, and is a serious warning to
other reckless debt contractors.
- There is droll story of how man
lost wager in Pueblo, Colorado. Stepping
into liquor shop he offered to bet ten to one
that he could, blindfolded, tell the name of
any liquor or wine in the house, or any mix
ture of liquors, by the taste and smell. All
went we'll with him at first. He named
all the celebrated brands correctly. Then
they handed him glass of water. He tasted,
he smelt, he tasted and smelt again, and at
last, completely nonplussed, he gave it up so.
"Well, boys" he said, "you have got me. 1t
seems to me as if, years ago, struck some
thing of that kind in the States, but it was so
long l have entirely forgotten it."
"A dispatch from Chicago says that
very large meeting of the farmers Of 1rro-
quois, Ill.,, was held in Gilman few days
ago. Resolutions were adopted by the meet
ing renouncing all former political afhliation,
rebuking class legislation, favoring revenue
tariff, calling for the abolition of the nation
al banking system, and for the assessment of
railroad property for taxation at its cash
value. They pledged themselves never to
vote for any man who voted for the back sal
AIRY or accepted any back pay, and stigma
tiZed the action of the President by signing
bill that put S1OO,00Oin his own pocket
as an exhibition Of morbid avarice unparal-
leled in American history.
We have not mentioned, we believe,
the spiteful and plucky old lady who died
the other day in Oswego. She was widow,
and left particular orders that she should not
be buried within ten miles of the sepulchre
of the "old man." She also desired that her
dog might be killed, lest he should visit an
obnoxious neighbor. Finally, she requested
that she might be buried in the finest coffin
which could be had for money, and that her
pale form should be wrapped in a robe of
white alpaca. Her wishes have been shame
fully disregarded. The ten miles were redu-
ced to five; the dog still lives and barks !;
and the coffin was medium cost one. There
will be some tall rapping in that vicinity.
y Mr.. P. T. Barnum announces that if
balloon does not cross the Atlantic this fall
he will spend fifty thousand dollars, if neces-
sary in having that experiment tried as early
as possible next year, provided one or more
aGronauts can be found in America or Eu-
rope who will heartily make the attempt. He
evidently does not intend to make the expe-
riment with cheap balloon, for he says:
GAS at present advised, shall have the
silk manufactured in China, put together and
prepared under direction of scientific men in
London, an experimental ascension made
from the Sydenham Chrystal Palace grounds,
then bring the balloon to America, and make
the transatlantic trip from New York. |
trust the public will believe that if put my
hand to the plough shall not look back"
- A few years ago, at the Eglinton tour
nament in England, it appeared that ia
nous knights of three and four centuries ago
,,,rst hove hean sn,oller oven than Fnplish-