Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-26

weather prevails soon, great damage will be
done.
- The postmaster general has determined
to issue an order directing that all postal
cards which cannot be delivered to the person
addressed, shall be Immediately returned to
the writer, without charge.
- A father, in consoling his daughter who
had lost her husband, said: 81 don't wonder
you grieve for him, my child; you will never
find his equal" 81 don't know as I can" re-
sponded the sobbing widow, "but III do my
best" The father went home comforted.
- The St. Louis Republican chronicles the
fact of the arrival in St. Louis of the first
through car from Port Royal, S. c., via the
Port Royal Railway, completed to Augusta,
Ga, and the Greene Line and St. Louis and
Iron Mountain Railway. The car was freight
ed with barreled turpentine, and has returned
to Port Royal loaded with corn.
- Fresh ripe fruit is generally commend
ed by physicians as healthy, but we would ad-
wise every one to be exceedingly cautious
about the quality and quantity they indulge
in at the present time. The physicians of
both Nashville and Memphis attribute over
nine-tenths of the cases of cholera reported as
the immediate result of injudiciously indulg-
ing in green and stale vegetables.
- The "India rubber hustle" is again
heard from. This time it was Brooklyn
young lady, who was thrown from her carriage
coming down the hill from Prospect Park.
She made ninety.seven and half bounces in
all, and was finally rescued by hook and
ladder company from the top Of telegraph
pole, where she had stuck in attempting to
complete the ninety bounce.
- The London correspondent of the New
York Graphic says that there is something in
the rumor that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett is
about to start daily journal in London, to
be the Herald of that old fogy city. The
story is that Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, "the
most powerful journalistic writer in England"
is to be the editor, with salary of $4,000
year, and that the expenditure for news and
kilograms is to be on scale to astonish John
Bull.
"A prominent Tennessee Republican
politician reports ex-President johnson as
sloshing around with an eye on the United
States Senatorship, and having poor prospects
for that, unless he can make all alliance with
the Republicans, which the same gentleman
says the President is now trying to arrange.
A special friend of Mr. johnson says the plan
is to make him Governor first and next Sena-
tor, both Of which he regards as quite easy to
I've fixed.
"A London letter says: "It should graf
ify many of his old friends in America to
know thatthe Hon. j. P. Benjamin, erst of the
Lost Cause" is rapidly building up a fame
and fortune here His practice at the bar
now amounts to more than $4,000 year, and
his reputation as barrister is second to but
a very few of the great lights of the profession.
In society he is much sought after, and there
is good reason to believe that should he still
have any ambition to re-enter political life,
the path is quite open to him.
- The New York Sun thinks that the do
ings of the Southern Claims Commission will
hear investigation: A number Of Georgia ne
groes are said to have put in claims for cabins,
calling them residences, worth $4,000 apiece.
Notwithstanding the fact that under the laws
of Georgia, before the war, negro could not
hold property, these claimants are now asking
Uncle Sam to reimburse them for their cabins,
sets Of marble-tob furniture, mules, cattle, &C.,
one county alone presenting claims Of this
character amounting to $1,500,000.
The Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator re-
cords the following incident as having re-
Gently occurred in that place: "a lot of little
Christians caught little Jew boy at the corn
er of Watt and Champion streets, a few even
ings since, tied him to post and piled around
him a lot of tinder wood, and were about to
ignite it, when they were discovered by some
men and the little Jew rescued. The only
reason assigned for their action and intention
by the Christian urchins was that the Jews
had cruci6ed Christ"
An idea of the strength of the Patrons
of Husbandry may be gathered from the re-
port of the National Grange, which gives the
number of Oranges in each State as follows:
Arkansas, Is; California, 8; Georgia, 16;
Illinois, 43l Indiana, 142; Iowa, 1907;
Kansas, 1928; Michigan, "a Minnesota, 219;
Mississippi, 112; Missouri 245; Nebraska,
100; Ohio, At; South Carolina, 11S; Tennes-
see, 19; Vermont, %; Wisconsin, 140-ma-
king an organization in the United States of
1877 Oranges, with an aggregate membership
of over 100000.
- The State Department has prornulga.
ted for the information of all concerned, the
Act of Congress to prevent cruelty to animals
while transported by railroads or other means
of transportation in the United States The
Act does not take effect till October l, after
which all railroad companies are prohibited
from keeping animals in continuous con6ne-
ment for more than twenty-eight hours with
out unloading for five hours and properly feed
ing and watering. If they are supplied on
the cars with food and water this provision
does not apply. The United States courts
have Jurisdiction in case of violation If the
law, and fines not to exceed $500 are provided
for each case.
AN honest old Pennsylvania farmer had
a tree on his premises he wanted cut down,
but being weak in the back, and having a
dull axe, he hit upon the following plan.
knowing the passion among his neighbors for
coon-hunting, he made coon's foot out Of a
potato, and proceeded to imprint numerous
tracks to and up the tree. When all ready,
he informed his neighbors that the tree must
be filled with coons, pointingto the external
evidence made with his potato foot. The
bait took, and in short time half dozen
fellows, with sharp axes, were chopping at the
base of the tree, each taking their regular
turn. The party also brought dogs and shot
guns, and were in ecstacies over the anticipa-
ted haul of fat coons. The tree finally fell,
but nary coon was seen to "drap."
- Henry Ward Beecher has added anoth.
er mountain to his already superabundant no.
toriety by recent sermon, in which he
preached Universalism substantially, and took
the ground that the Scriptures do not afford