Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-30


money we're sold in Lake City, Fla, last
week, at $3.50 per thousand.
josh Billings says that if he can have
plenty of mackerel for breakfast he can gen.
orally manage to make the other two meals
out of water.
- An Iowa man, who had heard COM
plants of the scarcity of small change, went
into the manufacture of nckels. His efforts
were appreciated, and he is now in Jail.
1t is reported of Cincinnati clergy
man that he refused to commune with his
congregation, because his salary was reduced
to two thousand dollars year.
Eighteen cadets of the youngest class
at West Point, having failed to pass the pre-
lminary examination, are to be discharged.
This number of failures is larger than usual.
"A Chinaman, who had become snow
blind while working on the Central Pacific
Railway, applied at San Francisco Police
station on the Sd instant for official permis-
sion to have himself shot.
"A Milwaukee lady had several hun
dred dollars worth of point lace clipped off
her clothing by an adroit thief while she was
at church singing "Strip me of the robe of
pride; clothe me in humility"
"A gentleman at Lancaster, Pa, has
horse that takes his children to school in the
morning. returning home driverless, and at
night returns for them in the same way, rub
bing his nose against the window pane to in
dictate his presence.
"A lady went out with her little girl and
boy, and purchased the latter rubber balloon,
which escaped him and went up in the air.
The girl, seeing tears in his eyes, said "Never
mind, Neddy; when you die and go to heaven,
you'll dit it,
- The Montgomery Advertiser learns
from gentlemen just returned from Texas,
that there are in that State not less than
10000 men who would be willing to work as
day laborers on the farms of Alabama, if by
so doing they could be assured of their return
to that State.
The military escort at the Inauguration
of President Grant is to be brilliant display:
There will be present in Washington several
of the smartest volunteer regiments from the
Eastern cities, four companies of regulars,
battalion of marines and the whole of the
Cadets from West Point.
The colored people are to have an ex-
cursion to Washington to witness the inaugu-
ration of Grant. on the 4th Of next March.
Charleston, Columbia, Wilmington and Colds
boro, are to be the starting points, and the I'd
of March the time specified for taking the
cars
"A charitable lady Of St. Louis sent one
of her last years dresses to destitute woman
recently. She was somewhat surprised to
have it returned with the statement that it
was too full behind for the present style, and
hoped she would take out Il breadth and change
the trimming.
The tempest of SHOW which recently
swept over Minnesota and Iowa, is described
by letters written from the scene, as having
been unparalleled in that section. How many
people perished is not positively known, but
the estimates range from 250 to 1888, and hun
dreds of cattle have also been frozen to death
or buried alive in the snow.
"A writer in the Kansas Magazine has
measured the type used in copy Of the New
York Herald, and also that used in popular
volume oftravels. The former was found to
contain about 100000 ems, while the latter, a
book of 591 pages, measured only $4,000
ems. In other words, the single copy of the
newspaper, which sold at four cents, was
equivalent to book of $50 pages, or SO more
pages than were contained in volume that
sold for $3.50.
The New Army Register, just issued,
reports that during last year there were thir-
ty-six designations, ten commissions vacated
by new appointments, three commissions can
celled, thirty-two deaths, two officers retired,
rsn
honorably discharged. No officer above the
grade Of captain either resigned or was dis
missed, cashiered, retired, or discharged
Four of the officers who died were killed in
fighting the Indians Two Major-Generals
died during the year-Meade and Halleck.
- The Petersburg Lnder believes that
Virginia is not so badly off after all. 1t says:
"Money is more plentiful and at easier rates
year by year. New industries have been es-
tablished and are prospering, while those al
ready established have advanced far beyond
their former measure of profit. Not town
in our limits but is fairly prosperous, and not
a county where fences have not been replaced,
houses built, stock increased, farming utensils
renewed fertilizers applied and increased pro-
auotion tho darE yoars of'67, '6S and
$50 realized.
- Reading, Penn, possesses, among its
citizens, one Professor Donaldson, who has
successfully made, since last August, twenty
four ascents in his balloon in various parts of
the South and West. He has been up as high
as three miles, as indicated by his barometer,
and, although many accidents have befallen
him, he has survived them all. Having per-
formed many daring exploits above the clouds
he now proposes, as he told the reporter of a
Reading paper, to cross the Atlantic Ocean
the ensuing summer, availing himself of the
blows from West to East, at distance of say
two miles and half above the earth. He
expects to complete the trip of 1000 miles in
something over two days. Three balloons
Joined together, with boat, ballast, provisions,
and all the necessary requirements, and with
a basket attached to the balloon, will consti
tute his aerial ship. Previous to this grand
venture, he will first make voyage from St.
Louis to Boston.
- The New York Commercial advertiser
is responsible for the following Some months
ago. an Episcopalian clergyman who intended
to pass the Sabbath in one of the out-of-the-
wav districts of South Carolina, gave notice
that he would hold divine service in dilapi-
dated hall that had been unused since the
breaking out of the civil war The inhabit-
ants of this unfrequented place were mostly
negroes, and at the appointed hour they filled
the hall to overfowing. On the entrance OF
the clergyman, clothed in the sacred vestments
Of the Church, an old darkey, sitting beside
-, 1.. o,,;od him and mistakinp his call