Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-23
Straps aud fatts.
-One hundred million postal cards have
been issued since the 1st of last Nav.


plies, is over six million dollars.
- Washington advices say that the Pres,
ident has been extensively interviewed for the
purpose of ascertaining his intention in re.
gard to the finance bill, but to no purpose.
The matter is to be discussed in Cabinet meet
ing.
- Reports from all sections of Virginia
convey the intelligence that the recent frosts
have played sad havoc with the fruit crop and
early vegetables. In the neighborhood Of
Norfolk alone, some half million dollars were
lost by the damage to the trucking farms.
- The inspiring sunshine of the season
has touched the heart of an indianapolis girl,
who concludes a love-letter thus: "The ring
is round, the dish is square, and we'll be mar
ried the next State fair. The bell shall ring,
the drum shall play, and we'll 60 dancing all
the way. Answer soon. Mary"
- Many colored men all over the State
of Virginia, are very anxious to try the ex-
pertinent of serving on juries, and in Prince
William they have held a meeting and ap-
pointed a committee to memorialize Judge
Nicol, of the county court, to grant them
that privilege.
- The House committee on appropria-
tions had post office officials before them again
on Friday in relation to the post Office appro-
priation bill. The committee have decided
to hear arguments in relation to the postal
telegraph, and have notified the Postmaster
General and the president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company to be present
An exchange notes the rumor that Do
natl, the great astronomer, died from excite
ment consequent upon discovering that the
earth is approaching the sun so rapidly that
in ten years it will be drawn into the sun and
shriveled up. The paragraphist then adds
that decidedly American comment: "This
will be discouraging news to the Insurance
companies"
The Black Hills of Dakota, in the
Sioux reservation, are covered with magni6-
cent pine timber, upon which covetous eyes
have been already SET 1t will be surprising,
therefore, if we do not ere long hear of Indian
wolves muddying the streams in that quarter.
The government has refused a St. Louis ex-
ploring and numbering expedition leave to 60
upon the territory.
"A woman in Halifax, N. S., had a
very vivid dream about six months ago that
she had suddenly died. Since that time she
has remained firmly convinced that she is
dead, Notwithstanding the efforts of her friends
to convince her to the contrary. She passes
her time in bed, and during brief intervals of
reason eats sparingly, when she relapses into a
motionless and seemingly lifeless condition.
"How much better it would have been
to have shaken hands and allow it was all
mistake" said a Detroit judge. ''Then the
lion and the lamb would have lain down to-
gether and white.robed peace would have
famed you with her wings and elevated you
with her smiles of appreciation. But, no
you went to clawing and biting and rolling in
the mud, and here you are. It's $5 apiece.
- In 1905 there was but one man in this
country who could make drawings for cotton
machinery. His name was Ogden, and he
was abducted from Liverpool to Providence,
r. l., in those days a great offense. When
it was discovered in Manchester his wife and
children were turned out of employment, and
came on the parish, but were soon sent to
America
The internal revenue receipts are COM
ing up to their usual standard. Seventy-six
million dollars have been collected thus far
this year, and S3,2O1.11S are the receipts for
the present month. The indications are that
the present months revenue will greatly ex-
ceed those ola corresponding period last year,
and demonstrates the fact that the temper.
ance crusade has not had the effect desired by
its advocates.
of late the internal revenue officers
have shown great energy in bringing to grief
parties engaged in the evasion of the internal
revenue laws, and many seizures of distilleries
and tobacco manufactures have been made
in various sections of the country. On Tues
day the Commissioner was notified of the sci.
zure of tobacco factory and two lots Of tobac,
co in Tennessee, two distilleries in Utah, and
three of the largest distilleries in New Orleans.
The new horse disease which was prev
alent in New York stables, has attacked the
horses of the Brooklyn car lines, and of the
animals as many as two hundred are laid up
with the disorder. The disease is known as
pnke and farcy, and occasions swelling Of
the legs Of the animal, a running of the eyes
and stiffness of the joints. There is no spe-
cific cause of the disease ascribed. 1t is not
generally considered fatal. 1t does not last,
as general thing, more than three or four
days, and although apparently painful to the
animal, is not dangerous.
The crusading women of Philadel phia
report that during the past six months they
have held 127 meetings; 1916 drunkards
signed the pledge seventy-one saloon keepers
have pledged themselves to quit the business
eighty-three bar tenders have signed the
pledge not to drink again ninety proprietors
have been visited and prayed with 242 per-
SONS have professed to be converted and have
Joined church, twenty-five members of church
who own places where liquors are sold have
pledged themselves not to renew their leases.
- St. Louis has new reason for gratif.
cation 1t ranks eleventh in population
among the great cities of the civilized world
while in point of health it is fourth. Zurich
Geneva, and San Francisco are the only large
cities that can show lower average annual
rate of mortality. In Zurich Is per annum
in every 1000 inhabitants is the rate; in &c.
neva, Is in every 1000; in San Francisco, 19
in every 900 in St. Louis, 20 in every l,00O
Chicago, says the Democrat, with her lake
winds, sour meat, hot corn, doctored barley,
and defective sewer system, kills off her people
at the rate o; 80 per annum in every 1000
Genera. Johnstons book is being exten'
sively commented upon by the Southern press
The opinion most generally expressed is that
the book will be valuable guide to the stu
dent in tracing and determining the causes
which led to the complete loss of the Mississip.
pi to the Confederacy by the fall of Vicks'
burg. The light thrown on the operations in
Northern Georgia, the struggle before Allan
ia and Shermans march to the coast, excites
liuolu intarest and brings to the surface