Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-23
Scraps and fafts.


General Longstreet.
- Some Americans have commenced the
publication of newspaper on Mount Ararat.
1t is called "Whifs of Ararat."
- French soldiers are allowed to work on
farms during harvest time. The price fixed by
the government this year is thirty cents day
and board.
The terms of twenty-five Senators ex-
pire March 4, 1875, and nearly all the Leg
islatures which elect their successors are to
be chosen this year.
- VIM. NJ. Lawton, Esq, of Charleston,
leaves for Liverpool shortly, as agent for
the Georgia Grangers. He is also to look
after direct trade matters between Europe and
Southern ports.
- The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune predicts Senator Thurman's
nomination for President by the Democrats,
and Speaker Blaine's nomination by the Re-
publicans.
- There is a plan on foot to plant the
San Joaquin Valley, California, with the euca-
lyptus, or blue gum tree. For length of two
hundred miles, and a width of from forty to
fifty miles, the valley is almost level and is al
most entirely devoid Of shade.
- The large business men of New York
are quite hopeful over the prospect Of trade.
The head of large commission house, who
has had an experience in the produce busi-
ness that covers period Of forty years, says
he never knew things to look more healthy
and promising than at present.
- A japanese has string of names awful
to contemplate for besides the name he re-
ceives at birth, he takes second on attain
ing his majority, third at his marriage, a
fourth if he be appointed to any public func-
ton, fifth should he rise in rank and dig.
nifty, and so on to the last, the name given
after death, which is inscribed upon his tomb.
1t is frequently quite difficult to deter
mine what particular quality in the charac-
ter Of a distinguished man he has been in-
debted to for his success. 1t is said that Bis
marck, on certain occasion, being asked to
explain his extraordinary luck at whist, he
replied, When get an opportunity 1 inva-
riably look into the hand Of my opponent t."
- Rainey, colored Congressman from
South Carolina, tried to force himself into
the dining-room of Barrat's Hotel, Suffolk,
Va, on Wednesday last. The clerk stopped
him at the door, and told him that negroes
could not eat with white people, and he would
send his breakfast out to him. Rainey be-
came so violent in his expressions that the
clerk took him by the collar and showed him
out.
- Vicksburg, Miss, is thoroughly under
negro domination. The city and county are
represented in the Legislature by five igno-
rant negroes and two white men. The sheriff,
county treasurer, circuit clerk, chancery clerk,
coroner and mayor are all negroes In the
board Of supervisors there are four negroes
and one white man, while the magistrates
and constables are nearly all of shady COM
plexion.
- Any one who can put up for ten days
with the discomforts of the steerage, can get
to Europe just now very cheaply. Owing to
the competition of the various steam lines
at New York, passage can be had as low as
twelve dollars and half, and it is said that
within month the rates will be reduced to
ten dollars. The crowds that are taking ad-
vantage of these rates cannot make the voyage
an agreeable one. The steamship Britannia
left New York OH Saturday with more than
eight hundred cabin and steerage passengers.
Tha Young women in the London Uni
versty are competing for university honors
with the young men, not only in the lighter,
but in the higher branches Of study. At the
recent commencement, the first prize in juris-
prudence was awarded to a young woman,
who, two years ago, won the first prize in
political economy. The second prize in juris-
prudence was won by another young woman,
and others obtained honors in political econo-
my and the fine arts. Notwithstanding these
successes, the women are not admitted to de-
gree examination with the men.
- In California, the Changers have re-
solved to add to their independence of mo-
nopolies by starting bank, with capital
of five million of dollars. One million of this
sum has already been subscribed. When
this bank is started farmers will be enabled
to borrow money on as favorable terms as
merchants, and the grain and other trades
will be placed on better footing as regards
the producers. The Grangers in California
have chartered fifty vessels in the port of San
Francisco on their own account, and expect
soon to send all their grain to market under
their sole control.
- The State Ct Mississippi has liquor
law differing in one important feature from
that of any other State. 1t not only embodies
the principles of local option and personal re-
sponsibility of the liquor seller, but forbids
the issuing or renewal of any license except
on petition therefor, signed by the majority of
the men over twenty-one and of the women,
over eighteen years of age, in the township,
ward or precinct where application is made
This feature of the law was adopted about
three months ago, and it is claimed by its
friends that during that period very few, if
any, licenses have been issued in the State
- An experienced housekeeper writes to
an exchange: ut is the penny saved, more
than the penny earned, that enriches it is
the sheet turned when the first threads break
that wears the longest; it is the hampers
closed when the cooking is done that stops
the dollars from dropping into the coal-bin !;
it is the lamp or gas turned low when not in
use that gives you pin-money for the month !;
it is the care in making the coffee that makes
three spoonfuls 20 as far as teacupful ordi
narily; it is the walking Of one or six blocks,
instead of taking car or omnibus, that adds
strength to your body and money to your
purse"
- Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, has COM
paratively an easy time at Sing Sing. He
wears the prison garb is locked up in his
cell at night, and of course does not go out
side of the prison walls. Besides this he is
scarcely more confined than an ordinary clerk
in New York mercantile house. His hair,
cut short when he entered the prison, is drift
ing away from the penitentiary style, and his
beard is allowed to grow. He was for while
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