Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-03-05
Straps aud fafts.
: Philadelphia is SCI, 100000 in debt.

Is lying dangerously Ill.
- The people of Savannah are luxuria-
ting on fresh tomatoes, grown in the open air.
- New York has over 800 accidental
deaths annually.
For the year ending December 81, 1878,
it cost 81, ,04S,800 to clean the streets of New
York city.
-- The demand for postal cards has now
settled down to between 100000 and 9,0O0,-
900 per month.
six divorces were granted in one day
last week, in one of the courts of Washington
city.
- Ex-President Fillmore is in precarious
condition at his home in Buffalo, N. Y, from
an attack of paralysis.
The National Crop Reporter estimates the
supply Of hogs for summer packing at fifty
per cert. less than the number fattened last
year for summer packing.
-- A religious cotemporary has discovered
the style of the first introduction between our
first parents. He said, MADAM, I'm Adam"
to which she replied, "Adam, I'm madam"
- Beecher says the highest type of Chris
tian character is the highest type ofmanliness,
and this involves personal cleanliness, self:de-
NAL of injurious indulgencies, and scrupu-
lous regard for the comfort of others.
- The business of the Patent Office is now
larger in amount than at any previous period
Of its history. During the past two weeks,
the unprecedented number Of 1882 applica-
tons for patents have been received.
- Recently little twelve-year-old daugh-
ter of Col. w. G. Jeffries, of Burkvile, Va,
attempted to extingush kerosene lamp which
had been burning all night, when it exploded,
killing her instantly.
-"C continental dam" is not profanity.
When the old continental currency was re-
deemed, the counterfeit was stamped "dam,"
(aamnatus) AS the genuine was no better
than the counterfeit, it was said to be "not
worth continental danl."
- The post mortem examination of the Sia-
mese twins seems to have conclusively estab-
lshed the fact that their separation during
life would have resulted fatally. 1t is stated
that the bodies of the twins will be taken
over the country and exhibited for reward.
- An attempt was made, one day last week,
to burn district school-house No. -, in Roch-
ester, N. Y. Three hundred children in the
upper rooms, would have been cut off from
escape, except by windows if the flames had
not been timely discovered and subdued.
--- A white woman residing on Pacific
street, in San Francisco, married to colored
man, gave birth recently to twins, boy and
girl The boy is black as jet, but on the
compensation principle, the girl is white as a
lily.
- woman in Worcester, Mass, whose
buildings were set on fire and damaged by
lightning, has recovered damages from the
lightning rod company, whose agent, when
fixing tie rods on the building, guaranteed
protection.
- The Staunton Nndicator learns that
"the people of West Virginia are so disgusted
with State affairs generally that if an arrange
ment could be made without unduly burden
ing them with debt, they would willingly
rejoin Virginia"
-- Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has
brought suit against the Detroit Free Press
for libel, claiming 100000 damages. The
alleged libel is special dispatch from Wash
iigton of the Goth ultimo, charging the Sena-
tor with intoxcation and disgraceful conduct
in the Senate chamber.
- Chicago divorce lawyers are so busy
now that newly married couples are said to
engage attorneys at their weddings, guaran
teeing to give them employment within one
year. ST. Louis people are said to he rivaling
Chicago, by promising case under six months
from the wedding day.
- The Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia
Age have been figuring up the cost of the Uni
ted States army. From 1861 to 1866 the SOL
diers cost the Government S1,094 900, ,000
exclusive of bounties. The Modoc war cost
s6,OOO,OO0. Each person in the United States
army costs S94S per head, men and officers
The French army costs s1375O per head.
- The Utica (N. W Herald says two old
ladies troubled conductor on the Central
road, one protesting that she should die if the
window was open, and the other protesting
against shutting it, when an experienced trav-
eler advised the conductor to settle the matter
in this way: "Open the window and kill one,
and then close it and kill the other, and then
we shall have peace"
- a convention of locomotive engineers
is in session at Cleveland, Ohio. The pro-
cecdings are kept secret yet it is understood
that strike has been decided upon and the
details are being arranged. 1t is stated there
is considerable opposition to this course, and
that if the non-strikers do not carry theirpoint,
they will split from the Brotherhood, and form
Il separate organization. Those who are in
favor of strike demand an increase of wages.
Speaking of law as at present violated,
Rev. T. K. Beecher says: "It is extremely
difficult to commit the crime of murder in
such an accurate and honest way that it shall
satisfy the specifications of the statute. Un-
less the would-be murderer take legal counsel
beforehand, and follow instructions minutely,
he will fail nine times in ten, however sincere
ly lie may try. Anybody can kill a man, but
he cannot do it in first-degree murder style
without counsel and care"
"A very noticeable exodus of colored
people is in progress from the Eastern Gulf
States across the Mississippi. The blacks
are making for Texas. The New Orleans
Pcayune estimates that since 1870, 100000
negroes have gone to that State, and 3OO,-
900 whites. 1t regards Texas as the safety
valve of the South, and has no fears that the
negro emigration there will exceed the white.
In Alabama the departure of the blacks is
consolidating permanent Democratic power,
In Mississippi and Louisiana, where the blacks
were more numerous than the whites in 1870,
there is steady decline in their numbers, and
the white vote will soon be the largest. Geor-
gia finds it difficult to spare this labor, al
though her white laboring population is on the
increase.
The Washington correspondent Of the