Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-15
Straps aud fatts.

- The Selma Times says that "the prettiest
girl there is a newspaper carrier; but then
she carries them out of sight,
- The Pennsylvania railroad claims the
largest locomotive in the country. 1t has
twelve driving wheels and weighs seventy-6ve
tons.
- Gassaway B. Lamar, who died recently
in New York, bequeathed 100000 for the
erection at Savannah of home for aged and
in6rm negroes.
woman is delusion, madam !" ex-
claimed crusty old bachelor to witty young
lady. "And man is always hugging some delu-
sion or other" was the quick retort.
- The Augusta Cotton Exchange has re-
ceived answers from twenty-three counties,
in Georgia that the yield will be about three
fourths of last years crop.
- From returns received of the Georgia
elections, the indications are that the entire
delegation in Congress from that State will
be Democratic.
The Spirit of the Age says that Mr.. Fos-
ter, inventor of a type-setting machine, will
soon commence the manufacture of the ma
chimes in Raleigh. The machine can be fur
nished for about SIS and will do the work of
four compositors.
- The gallant secretary of life insu-
rance company, being in command Of a pla-
toon during the late unpleasantness at New Or
leans, struck up the gun of one Of his men
about to fire on staff officer, with the excla-
nation: "D-n it, don't shoot at him we've
got policy on him."
- An approaching revolution in bonnets
is announced by the Paris correspondent of a
trade journal, who states that there are to be
real bonnets once more-bonnets with brims,
crowns, strings and perhaps curtains. These
bonnets are, however, not to shade the face at
all, but to be perched upon the head.
II Rhode Island papers are always
saying mean things about the warrior-states-
men of Massachusetts. Thus the Providence
Press says: eff General Banks should fail of
a nomination in Massachusetts, he must try
Virginia. He formerly ran we'll in that
State"
- The conservative papers of Tennessee
all declare that Senator Brownlow has the
inside track for Congress in the I'd district of
that State. There are two other Republican
candidates and Democratic candidate, but
the district is largely Republican, and Brown.
lows opposition to the civil rights bill makes
him very popular.
- The New York Commercial learns
through private correspondence from Liver
pool that it is confidently believed that the
stock of cotton there is much larger than the
running account, and that the excess will
turn out on the 31st December to be larger
than last years, which was about 10000
bales.
- Give q man the necessaries of life and
he wants the conveniences. Give him the con-
venices, and he Graves for the luxuries. Grant
him the luxuries, and he sighs for the elegan-
cies. Let him have the elegancies, and he
vearns for the follies Give him all together,
and be complains that he has been cheated
both in price and quality of the articles
- Something funny happened at con-
gressional convention in Chicago the other day.
Mr.. Heding was nominated by acclamation,
but declined. He was nominated again, but
again declined. He was nominated yet again,
but yet again declined. Think of a man be-
ing nominated for congress three times, and
three times declining!
The latest Southern convert to the third
term movement is Mr.. James Lyons, of Vir-
ginia, Democrat so vehement in his faith
that he repudiated the nominee of his party in
1872, spat upon the platform, and could only
be comforted by OConor. He has found
that Alexander Hamilton was in favor of 8
third term, and announces that Mr.. James
Lyons is.
"A conservative politician in Mississippi
has addressed letter to the President in
which he argues that the only true way to
restore peace and prosperity to the South, is
for Congress to pass an act to pay for quar-
termaster and commissary stores taken by
the Union army in the South during the war
and to refund the cotton tax. 1t has been
referred to the Attorney General by the Presi-
dent.
- A letter from Pensacola, Fla, presents
most deplorable picture of the suferings of
the people. 1t says: "Those who escape the
fever stand good chance Of starving to
death. There have been more
cases and deaths than at Shreveport in proper
ton to the size of the places. Twenty-Five
little children have been orphaned by this ter
rible epidemic. The most of them are left
without any one or thing to support them
"A New York insurance clerk, while
waiting in crowd at one of the Brooklyn
ferries, playfully picked handkerchief from
the pocket of companion, when he was in
stantly tapped on the shoulder by genuine
pick-pocket, who had just relieved him of his
pocket-book but who returned it with the
apology that he never knowingly operated on
brother professional, and was sorry he had
made such mistake.
- There are twin sisters in South Bethle-
hem, Pa. They were married on the same
day. Their names are Mrs. Carroll and Mrs.
Ford. They are peopleing their sections of
the keystone State we'll with CAROLS and
Fords, each having given their country three
pairs of twins The first pair of cousins were
born the same month, the second the same
week, and the third, whose advent has just
taken place, the same hour. The sisters
look alike and are becoming more and more
alike in their habits. Their children all look
alike, and when they are turned loose together
there's some difficulty in distinguishing the
members of each flock; only the mothers can
separate them and pick out her own with GER
tainty. Carroll and Ford are overwhelmed
with astonishment at their effect upon the cen
sus, and the families are objects of admiring Gu
riosity to the people of Bethlehem, in Pennsyl-
yania.
- The New Orleans Times gives the fol-
lowing sensible advice 1.-The foolish prejudice
which has hitherto existed in the South against
mechanical and common manual labor has
proved a sad drawback on our general pros
perity. 1t is high time that a new depart:
ure was taken in this matter. The old and
peculiar institution, which did so much injury
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