Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-22
Sfraps and fatts.

- This is the latest form of wedding in
vitations: "Come around and see me capture
mother-in-law, at eight o'clock, sharp"
- Maj. Lewis Merrill, who was formerly
in command of the U. S. troops at Yorkville,
is now in command at Shreveport, La.
- An Ohio man has been converted to
temperance ninety-eight times, and he says he
will 60 up to hundred or die.
ID want to be an angel" is the plaintive
cry of a 250-pound damsel whose thoughts
are not at present of earth. Wing makers are
requested to take notice.
- man having bill against distant
merchant, sent a letter of inquiry to banker
in that locality. The reply was, "He is dead !;
but he pays now as we'll as he ever did"
- A total eclipse of the moon will occur
on October "a and %. 1t will commence at
II: 45 o'clock, on the night of the Oath, and
end at l :4S on the morning of the 25th.
- The President has accepted the resig-
nation of the notorious Dick Busteed, Judge
of the United States District Court for Ala
bama.
- The opinion is becoming strengthened
every day that the man who first made shirt
to button behind, did more for the world
than one who has discovered FIVE comets.
ID would not be woman, for then
could not love her." says Montaigne. Lady
NJ. w. Montague says: "The only objection
1 have to be man is that 1 should then have
to marry a woman"
- The New Orleans Republican records
the presence there of three or four thousand
regular United States troops, with eight ships
of war; and says that two battallons Of cavalry
are on their way thither.
- Harper's Weekly says of Gen. Grants
denomination for third term, that "no emer-
gency requires it," and that it "would seem to
be precisely the way to secure Republican de-
feat"
- Not few congressman will wish that
Postmaster General Jewell had stayed in
Russia. He is making appointments on the
basis of the fitness of the applicants for office,
without regarding the interests of local poll
tics.
- DIR. Deems hopes that no person will be
employed to sing in church choir "whose
moral character is below that of clergy
man." Here's richness As for morality,
uedI UiStillcu VI Lue ClOlL, GLele tIS pleuLJ VI
singers who can beat Beecher on that.
- A resident of Erie, Pa, refused to mar
ry his affianced, who had come from Germany
for the purpose, because she had not brought
feather bed with her. She has now brought
suit for breach of promise against him, and
claims $1,000 damages.
- The latest epistolatory joke was that of
the jovial chap who mailed letters to score Of
business men, telling them to look out for a
man who would visit their homes that even
ing to see their wives, and twenty business
men surprised their wives by coming home
two hours ahead Of time.
-- The grand jury at Salt Lake have begun
the work against polygamy, two indictments
having been found for lsscivious cohabita-
tion-it is supposed against Brigham Young
and Delegate Cannon. This movement is
under the recent act Of Congress, and if pros
ecuted may be the means of seriously injuring,
if not of entirely changing, the present system
of life in Mormondom.
- A reporter of the New York Tribune,
who was sent to Alabama to investigate the
outrages in that State, in letter from Liv-
ingston, Sumter county, dated the 9th, says:
81 must not close this letter without calling
attention once more to the fact that the great
majority of reports received by the attorney
general from this State, and given to CORES
pondents at Washington, are either wholly
without foundation or monstrously exaggera-
ted."
- The young editor Of the New York
Herald seems to be true chip Of the old
block, and is bent on living up to the tradi-
tions and policy of his father. He says: "Of
flee to journalist is suicide. Bryant saw
this and declined a frst-class mission. The
founder Of the Herald saw it and rejected the
French mission when it came from Abraham
Lincoln. Neither Greeley nor Raymond
would seeit, and to them the end was very
sad For ourselves, we cherish the tradition
of the Herald. we shall support no party,
be the organ ofno faction or coterie, and care
nothing for any election or any candidate,
from President down to constable"
"A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala,
dated the 18th instant, says: Col. Thos. B.
Wetmore, Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic and Conservative
party of Sumter county, and distinguished
lawyer and prominent citizen of Alabama, was
arrested at Livingston, to-day, on charge of
conspiracy to injure Detective Hester A
Democratic meeting had been advertised, and,
as it was about to assemble, this arrest was
made This was the first Democratic meeting
that the citizens of Sumter County had at
tempted to hold since Detective Hester took
control of that county, about three weeks ago.
There are two United States Commissioners,
both Republicans, in Livingston, but Wetmore
is to be carried $50 miles to Mobile, to be
tried before Commissioner Gillett. Detective
Hester has had the Sheriff's posse, Of about
negro fifty men, arrested for quelling a
riot in Sumter, and arrests are still being made.
There is no possible way of finding out
whether man gets drunks to do murder or
not; and fhe does murder when he is drunk,
the protection of human life from violence
and blood.shed, which is of paramount and
prime Importance to the well-being Of a peo-
ple, ought to place the criminal before the
law Just as if he had not been drunk at all,
keeping in view the fact that we cannot tell
whether his premeditation took this form of
expression or that other of doing murder with
"malice aforethought" when he is sober. We
must take the shedding of blood for blood,
drunk or sober, and do away with all these
nice shades of distinction in the degrees of
murder in the death of man at the hands of
his fellow. When murderers, of whom there
are many at heart, come to learn that nothing
short of the absolute and plain necessity Of
saving their own lives will justify the killing
of another, under the law, then, and not till
then, will the crime of murder abate. This,
and this alone, will guarantee security Of life
in so far as law can do it.-Lerington (ky)
Dispatch
- General Randall Gibson, a well-known