Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-04
Straps aud fafts.

SlSueu Dlll IuakluS DecoTatlou LAY leSai
holiday.
Over four thousand immigrants-th
larger number of whom are Irish and Ger
mans-arrived at New York on Monday of
last week.
Ex.Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, of Georgia,
the carpet-bagger, that absconded after de-
pleting the treasury, has turned up again in
New York.
- The insurance commissioner Of Connec.
ticut reports that the amount of property de-
stroyed by fire in the United States between
January and August 2, 1873, was $57 ,OOO,.
900, and since January l., 1871, $40O, 100000.
-- DR.. B. M. Palmer, the celebrated Pres.
byterian divine, has resigned his charge at
New Orleans, and accepted the chancellor
ship of the University of the Southwest at
Clarksville, Tenn.
- Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, has is
sued a pastoral letter, urging that all the
churches in his diocese take up collections
for the relief of the sufferers by the Southern
foundations.
- The Central Railroad of Georgia, be-
sides dismissing number of men at Colum-
bus, has discharged at Augusta fifty of its con.
ductors, engineers, baggage.masters, wood
passers aud train hands, and it is expected
more will be turned off in the next few weeks.
- Brigham Young, Jr., according to the
Salt Lake Tribune, has an original way of
complying with the scriptural injunction. At
a conference meeting last Sunday morning, he
thus instructed the brethren: 81 pray for
your enemies, brethren, but l always pray
that they may 60 to hellp'
- The Army and Navy Journalthinks it is
not too much to expect that the time will come
when the Army Of the Potomac and the Army
of Northern Virginia will meet together, each
to celebrate the others valor, and to exchange
the tokens of respect which the brave endur-
ance of each won from the other.
- The British Medical Journal publishes
an article by distinguished physician, in
which the writer states that he has observed
that peculiar and rather common deformity
of the chest is caused by the habit of sucking
the thumb in infancy and in early childhood.
He says that the weight of the arm on the
thorax of the child, during sleep, produces de-
preston of the ribs in the line occupied by
the arm when the thumb is placed in the
mouth.
The Chicago Times has advices from all
sections of the Northwest, showing the condi-
ton of the crops. With but few exceptions
the indications point to an abundant yield of
all the cereals. The acreage of wheat is fully
up to that of last year, and there will probably
be quite as large an area of corn put in when
it is all planted. Other crops are looking
we'll, and if no untoward event occurs the gra-
naries of the Northwest will laugh with an
abundant harvest.
- The 2Srd ultimo was observed as a
memorial day in Portsmouth, Va, the city
turning out almost en- masse to decorate the
graves of the Confederate dead. The most
pleasant incident of the affair was the pre-
sentation of beautiful cross and wreath at
the hands of committee Of ex.soldiers and
sailors of the Federal service, as tribute to
the memory of the gallant departed, whose
valor they had felt and appreciated. We are
glad to see these pleasant indications that the
asperities of the war are being forgotten.
The Macon Telegraph reports the fol-
lowing conversation, overheard between two
darkies of that city, on the subject Of civil
rights: "Say, Bill, when dis civil rights done
passed fore Congress, do you know what Use
gwine to do?" "No, Sam what yer gwine
to do 2" "I'se gwine to 60 down to de Brown
House and take dinner-settn at de same
table wild dem white folks. And den I'll set
out in front and smoke my segar jes as big as
any of 'em." "G'way, nigger. If you 'tempts
to eat dinner at de Brown House, bets you
eats supper in H."
- There is gentleman on the South.wes-
tern Railroad, near Columbus, Ga, who has
thirteen daughters. He buys clothing for
them by the wholesale. Thus when last in
Columbus he bought $40 yards of calico, 100
of lawn, 13 corsetes, 26 pairs of shoes, and
other goods in proportion. Unlike many
fathers who have only one daughter, he paid
cash for all his purchases. Though an old
man, he has never bought bushel Of corn
or pound of meat, but raises them himself
He has never sworn an oath. and does not
owe dollar. Last week he sold the remnant
of his cotton crop, forty bales, and, in addition,
$3.50 in gold.
- The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
Just decided against the validity of a tax on
lawyers imposed by the Legislature Of that
State. The grounds of the decision are First,
that no power resides in one department Of the
Government to destroy another, or impair the
free exercise of its functions second, that
lawyers constitute part of the judiciary,
and are essential to the exercise of its func-
tion, as well as for the protection of its citizen
in all his rights as to the aid and instruction
of the Court in the administration Of the law !;
third that to allow the right of specific taxa
ton as to lawyers is to allow it as to the
Courts. There is no limit to this power of
taxation, once admitted. In the exercise of
it the Legislature could destroy, by taxing
out of existence, the judiciary, and thus ami
hilate cardinal branch of the Government.
- The ninth census shows that there are
only three States in the Union wherein the
colored people have ajority, and only two
where, on square division of the races at the
polls, the negro majority is large enough to be
fairly counted upon. The States in which
there are colored majorities are Louisiana,
where their preponderance is 2145; South
Carolina, where it is 1926, ,147; and Mississippi,
where it is 61,3O5. In all the other former
saveholding States the whites have a majori'
ty. If the passage of the civil rights bill con-
solidate the colored voters in favor of the re-
publican party, it will also consolidate the
white voters more strongly than ever against
the republican party. Beyond retaining
.. South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi,
which might be done without the civil rights
bill, it is difficult to see what that measure will
accomplish for the republican party.
- At Dexter Park, Chicago, last week,
there was large auction sale Of short-horn
cattle, the property of VIM. S. King. of Min,