Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-26
Straps and fafts.

only seven weeks, and has had to buy wig,
offers bet that his wife can whip panther.
- Mrs. Green, Kansas widow, wants to
marry again, and as a recommendation she says
she used one broom for fourteen years.
--Stokely, Republican, was reelected May
or of Philadelphia over Mcclure, of the Re-
form party, by a majority of 10,S60.
- There are ninetyone women in the
Michigan University. Seven are studying
law, thirty.six medicine, and forty.eight are
developing their genius.
- The Taxpayers League of Vicksburg
is prosecuting professional bondsmen for per-
jury, who 60 on official bonds beyond the
amount of their property.
- Rhode Island, in spite Of its small size,
does good divorce business. Seventeen ap-
plications were recently made in one court in
single day.
The epizootc has again made its appear
ance in several cities of the North and West.
Thirty fatal cases occurred in one stable in
New York, last week.
- The Governor of Virginia has pardoned
McCarty, who killed his antagonist in duel
and was'sentenced to six months in the pen-
tentiary.
- The daily exports of Lexington, Scott
county, Ind, are said to be FIVE car loads of
milk. The daily imports are ten barrels of
whiskey.
The Democratic Senators have agreed to
unite in asking the Senate to recognize the
McEnery government in Louisiana. If the
Senate refuses, they will support Carpenters
resolution for new election.
The autopsy of the Siamese twins has been
successfully brought to termination. Plas-
ter casts and Photographic views were made
at various stages of the examination. The
report of the physicians is to be published in
one of the medical journals.
- The House Committee on the Judiciary
have reported bill repeating the joint reso-
luton of March 2, 1867, which prohibits the
payment of debts due by the United States
before the war, unless loyalty is proved, and
also repeating the oath at present required of
applicants for pensions.
- A gentleman who has penetrated the
eastern end of Wetzel county, West Virginia,
described section of about thirty square miles
where newspaper, secular or religious never
finds its way. The mud and log shanties con-
tain from eight to ten children each, and there
was one family of fifteen persons. Indian
meal he says, is the chief article offood.
A Connecticut company has shipped
curious clock to San Francisco, to be placed
in the tower Of the gratest hotel on the CONT
nent, where it will furnish the time for FIVE
hundred dials, which are to be operated by
compressed air carried in pipes all over tho
building The building has five hundred
rooms, and there is to be dial in every room.
- The liquor-dealers and saloon-keepers
of New York city have organized protective
union to protect their rights as citizens and
taxpayers and to guard their interests in gen.
eral. They denounce the women's crusade as
conducted in the West and extending east
wardly, as fanatical and riotous, and hope to
be permitted to conduct their licensed business
without such interference.
-California proposes to charge for special
legislaton-for an act incorporating, extend
ing or renewing the charter Of bank, one
dollar per thousand dollars of capital, and two
hundred dollars each for acts incorporating oil,
coal, manufacturing, warehouse or oil compa-
nies, or conferring privileges on existing cor
porations. A similar tax has been paid in
South Carolina ever since 1861 but the money
dosen't 60 to the State.
Alexander of Russia has issued ukase
declaring every male liable to conscription in
the army, and repeating the ancient privilege
of providing a substitute. The whole male
population of Russia and Poland, on attain
ing the twentieth year ofage, will be required
to draw lots, the result of the drawing settling
once for all who is to be enlisted for active
service and who is not. Those drafted into
the army will be liable to fifteen years service,
but may be allowed to 60 home on furlough
after six years, to be called out again when
needed Young men who have attended
school will be allowed reduction of their
term of active service proportionate to what
they have learned. This is the most levelling
military law in the world. Russia is evident
ly good place for soldiers.
A correspondentina Boston paper shows
how person can get good breakfast for two
cents. He says that, my experience and OBJ
servation has been that meat is large item
in the cost of living. By using less meat and
more oat meal, beans, peas &C., the same
amount of nourishment may be obtained. Get
good article of Scotch or Canada oat meal,
and to one quart of boiling water slowly stir
in one teacupful of oat meal, to which add a
little salt; let it cook slowly for half an hour,
when it may be served with milk, or cream
and sugar. Three cents worth of oat meal,
three cents worth of milk and six cents worth
of sugar, will make good meal for family
Of six persons. Some of the most healthy
people have ever seen had oat meal morning
and night, and had fresh meat with vegeta-
bles at noon. BY this method of living We
make the morning and evening meal 80 mex
pensive that the cost of our food will be re-
duced at least one.half Beans, peas and
many other articles are also cheap and nutri'
tious."
"A Washington letter says: "It is now
generally conceded here that the grand plan
of the centennial exposition at Philadelphia
is destined to come to grief unless Congress
steps forward with timely and liberal ap
preparation. That the situation is thoroughly
appreciated by the Philadelphians themselves
is plainly evidenced by the almost frantic ap-
peals which are being addressed personally
and by letter to the Executive and to inhuen-
tial members of the Senate and the House.
When the idea of this exposition was first
broached the Pennsylvanians who came here
asking for the formal sanction of Congress
were proflse in their assurance that not cent
of money would be asked from the General
Government The citizens of Pennsylvania,
it was said, would easily raise ten millions if
that amount should be necessary. Now it is
admitted that contributions come in very
slowly, and of the money which has been CIV
en-, very little is left, and there is very little
to show for what has been expended. 1t is
enid nnu, thot 70 nnt the nroient fairly ON ito