Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-05
Straps aud fatts.

-Ihe prospects are now good for thu
production OF the largest crop ofsugar tha
has been made in Louisiana since 1861
For robbing man of a pen.knif
valued at fifty cents, two colored citizens o.
New York have each been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for ten years.
- A Wisconsin clergyman has been found
guilty by church council of mot always
teaching the truth with sufficient carefulness
to meet the demands of veracity"
- A little boy was asked about the story
of Joseph, and if be knew what wrong his
brethren lid in disposing of him, when he re-
piled, 81 suppose they sold him too cheap"
- Girls, as you value your lives, don't gel
up and get breakfast in the mornings. A
young lady attempted it one day last week
and was burned to death. Show this to your
mammas.
Il don't reckolekt of ever doing emmy.
thing that I wuz just little ashamed ov, but
what sum one waz sure to remember it, and
every once in while put me in mind ov it.
Billings.
"A rich but parsimonious old gentleman,
on being taken to task for his uncharitable.
ness, said: "True, I don't give much, but if
you only knew how it hurts when I give
any thing, you wouldn't wonder
-- Third Assistant Postmaster General
Barber, who has given the subject much at
tention, expresses belief that the government
is annually defrauded out of million dollars,
or five per cent. of the amount Of stamps sold,
by the use of washed postage stamps.
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lists, have decided in their national conven-
tion that no member of that church should
keep piano or other ungodly instrument of
sound in his house. A bunker family would
be good place for boarders of quiet tastes.
-- There is said to be in this State mer-
chant who has been in business forty-seven
years, and never advertised and doesn't mean
to. He began with capital of $500, and by
strict attention to business and economical
living has increased it to sS05.-Neao York
Mail.
-- About the coolest robbery that Boston
has seen for long time is man who went to
the public library building, and borrowed
tools from some workmen, removed the cop
per lightning rods, laboring at the job several
hours, and having loaded his spoils upon a
wagon, rode of. The workmen supposed he
was acting under orders from the city.
A New York letter says it is observed
coming 1st of January than in past years at
the same period. 1t is thought that there are
too many firms for the business to be done,
and many are looking either toward retire
ment from the commercial world or to a
change of business.
- Foolish spending is the father of pow
erty. Do not be ashamed of work, nor of
hard work. Work for the wages you can
get, but work for half price rather than be
idle. Be your master, and do not let society
or fashion swallow up your individuality
hat, coat and boots. Do not eat up and wear
out all that you earn. Be stingy to your own
appetite, but merciful to others necessities.
- Mr.. David Randolph, an old gentleman
living in Trigg county KY, recently cut his
third set of teeth, and his eye-sight is so far
restored that he can read the finest print with
out the aid of glasses. He is now in the sew
enty-seventh year of his age, has been widow
er twenty-seven years, and speaks hopefully
of his matrimonial prospects. He has full
suit of luxuriant curly hair, slightly tinged
with gray.
Fox hunters must take the modern
world into consideration. Recently the dogs
lost fox near to the station of Ferte Saint
Aubin, in France, and, though they beat up
the neighborhood for two hours, could get no
trace. 1t was thought very strange that an
old dog was missing also. Next day,it was
ascertained that the fox had leaped into a
baggage car Of train just going out, and the
dog had followed and killed him.
"A Washington letter says: General
Shermans friends are moving actively in his
behalfand making arrangements to bring him
forward for the next President. From the
nature of the steps taken, it is. inferred that
the plan of Gen. Shermans friends is to run
him as an independent candidate. At the
same time, it is believed that there is plot
on foot by some of Grants friends to secure
legislation that will make Sherman come back
to Washington, to be snubbed or resign his
commission as general of the army"
Such are the privations of citizens of Ne
braska and other portions Of Western territory
recently invaded by the grass-hoppers, that
the President has determined to assume the
responsibility of ordering the Commissary-
General to furnish rations for the impoverish-
ed inhabitants in the country blighted by the
summer curse The President is confident
that this act, though not authorized by law,
will be sufficiently defended on the ground Of
the demands of humanity, and for this reason
he will assume the responsibility Of issuing
the necessary orders.
- The merchants in Greensboro, Ga
seem disposed to trace up their non-paying
customers, or by some united action protect
each other from the frauds that are perpetra
ted upon them. The Herald, published there
SAYS The merchants of Greensboro are work
ing from two to three nights in the week
establishing the commercial standing of every
citizen in the county, They are determined
that certain class Of men who buy goods
without any idea of paying for them, at the
time of purchase, shall not impose on any OF
them in future. Dead beats will pay cash il
they get goods.
"A young lady in the East End, who
has just returned from completing her educa
ton in Boston, wanted to kiss her old lover
last night, and her mother objected. The
daughter drew up her queenly form to its full
height, and exclaimed: "Mother, terrible
tragical and sublimely retributive will be the
course pursued by me, if you refuse to allow
him to place his alabaster lips to mine, and
enrapture my immortal soul by imprinting
angelic sensations of divine bliss upon the in
dispensable members Of my human physiogno
nv, and then kindly allowing me to take q
withdrawal from his bene6cent presence
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