Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17
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composed of two hundred and fifty human
ears, and that necklace is his great pride.
- 1t takes 373,939 cars and 1889 loco.
motive engines to run the railroads in the
United States and Canada.
- 1t is estimated that eight million peo-
pie in India are dependent upon charity for
their daily bread.
- Nelson, the man who killed General
James H. Clanton, is Radical candidate
for Congress in Tennessee.
- Brick Pomeroy is now an enthusiastic
Granger, and processes to be much ashamed
ofhis old illiberal prejudice against all non
Democrats.
- Mrs. Austin, of Alexandria, Va, has
lived in one neighborhood thirty-eight years,
and never borrowed her neighbours fiat irons
or cup of sugar.
"A delicate lady who went to the White
Sulphur Springs on mattress, was so res
tored to health that she married man worth
two hundred thousand dollars.
- The New Orleans Bulletin says the diff
ference between a carpet-bagger and a church
bell is that one peals from the steeple and the
other steals from the people.
- The will of the Cuban General Ryan,
killed among the Virginia's captives, by the
Spanards, leaves an estate of s150,000 to his
kinsmen in Arkansas.
-- 1t takes five pages and supplement
Of the New Orleans Republican to contain the
names OF the citizens of New Orleans delin-
quent in the payment of their city taxes.
- Compulsory education is now being en-
forced in New York. At the last session of
the Legislature, a law was enacted which
compels parents to send their children, over
eight years Of age to school.
Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it will come out
Good luck is man of pluck, with his sleeves
rolled up, and working to make it come right.
- 1t is now ascertained that only four ne
groes were killed at Trenton, Tennessee. At
first, the Northern people were called upon to
mourn over sixteen victims. 1t was bad
business but there is considerable margin be-
tween four and sixteen.
- Out of the 6fty-four young men ap-
pointed cadets at West Point and examined
during the past week only twenty-five passed
the examination and were admitted. The
percentage of rejection-about sixty-is lar
ger than in any batch of appointments for
some years past
A Milwaukee man is coming money by
the bushel by killing off grasshoppers, by con-
tract in Iowa. He travels in an old.fashioned
carry.all, with two of his daughters, drives
into the middle of an infested field, and plays
the "Arkansas Traveller" while the girls
dance round the circle. At the end of ten
minutes ever grasshopper is crushed to death.
While most branches of manufacture
are sadly depressed, the production of des-
tructive weapons appears to be unusually
brisk. One American firm is filling con-
tract that calls for 10000 Remington rifles
for the Madrid Government, while Hartford
firm is working day and night to arm the
men who follow the fortunes of Don Carlos
By means of the low freights enforced
upon the Iowa railroad companies by the
Changers in that State California producers
have obtained control of the turnip market in
Des Moines, and now the Iowa turnip grow
ers are finding out that "its poor rule that
won't work both ways" and are clamoring
for return to the old tariff as far as turnips
are concerned.
- 1t is proposed in Tennessee to remove
the remains of Andrew Jackson, together with
those of his wife, from their present resting
place at the "Hermitage," to the Northern
terrace of the State capital at Nashville, where
mausoleum could be erected over them.
Legislative sanction and an appropriation
will be necessary, and movement is on foot
to request both.
Six cases of muskets on the steamship city
of Dallas, from New York, were seized by
the police of New Orleans last Friday. Two
hundred and eighty-eight stands of arms,
mostly of foreign make, have been seized up
to date, on the plea of being intended to arm
White League clubs. Some arms seized, it
is stated were entered on the steamers mani
fest as boots and shoes, others as hardware.
- The post office department has lately
issued an order which is of interest to persons
in the rural districts. The order requires
country postmasters to keep the offices open
every day during the usual business hours,
and to attend at all other times that may be
required to receive and dispatch the mails !;
and also requires them to open their office
one hour Sunday morning, if mail arrives
at the Office on that day.
- The boys tell good joke on the Rome,
Ga, Railroad, which is just sixteen miles
long, to this effect That a man left horse to
be shipped to Kingston, for which they
charged ten dollars. When they tried to get
the horse in the car he wouldn't 60 in. So
the agent gave a negro dollar to ride him
over and then made him pay the dollar to
ride on the cars back to Rome. They also
collected the ten dollars from the owner of the
horse. But isn't the joke on him, after all
- The Conservatives of Virginia have
been fortunate in their nominations for Con-
gress. Among the candidates are j. Ran
dolph Tucker, John Goode, Ex-Governor Gil
bert G. Walker, Beverly Douglass George
B. Cabell, and John T. Harris, all of whom
are men of marked ability. The probabill-
ties favor the election of all of these except
perhaps Mr.. Goode, who has great odds
against him in large Republican majority
and the patronage of the Norfolk Navy Yard.
Gen. Clusters final official report of the
operations of the Black Hills expedition has
been published. He recapitulates bis former
statements, and takes strong ground IN favor
of the Immediate opening up OF the Black
Hills for military reasons. He endorses the
report of gold discoveries and suggests fur
ther explorations next season. Nevertheless,
Professors Winchel and Donaldson assert
that Gen. Custer does not know, of his own
knowledge, that any color of gold was found
in the Black Hills.
The work of railroad construction in
this country shows marked decline for the
past year, as compared within the two years
Immediately preceding In 1872, $3.50