Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-10
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a woman laugh so much as new set of teeth.
- Meetings in Tennessee are passing reso-
lutions condemning the outrages that have
been perpetrated there.
The Israelites of America contemplate
the erection of a monument at Washington du-
ring the centennial, as tribute to the country
of their birth and adoption.
- Judah P. Benjamin, the last Secretary
of State of the Southern Confederacy, is said to
be making forty thousand dollars year at
the London bar.
- A horse disease similar in character to
that Of two years since, has broken out at ST..
Johns, New Brunswick, with great violence.
\ large proportion of the working horses Of
the city are sick and have died.
-A A new game called granger seven-up'
is announced. Three persons play for can of
oysters: the first man out gets the oysters, the
last man out gets the oyster can, and the
middle man" don't get anything.
- The scene of the recent disturbances in
Louisiana is given in Lippncott's Gazetteer
as "Conshatte Chute" and Colton's Atlas
gives it "Coushatte Chute 1t is in Match
itoches parish,on Red river, about thirty miles
from the Texas border.
- 4 correspondent Of the Scientific Inner
ican says: The best simple remedy have
sions Of the the skin, &c. is charcoal, from
the stove; pulverize it, apply it to the wound
and cover the whole with a rag The char
coal absorbs the fluids scretcd by the wound
and lays the scab ; it also prevents the rag
from irritating the flesh, and it is antiseptic.
- A letter from ex-Sccretary McCulloch,
on the subject of currency and taxation, is
published in the Cincinnati papers, which he
sends in lieu of going there and delivering
all address. He is represented as favoring in
this letter the withdrawal Of legal tenders and
granting of free banking privileges. He ar
CUES that coin basis caunot be reached while
legal tenders are aAoat. He favors a low
tariff for revenue onl y, and says coal and iron
of Pennsylvania, and woolen manufacturers Of
the East, need protection no longer.
- The editor Of the Burlington (Ia.) Ha,rk-
eye has discovered a woman who will get
up at o'clock, kinde the fire. get breakfast,
roust the family, wash the dishes and six chill
dren, sew button on the neck Of her hus.
bands shirt, hunt his hat, 60 to mission
Suuday-school and teach class, attend
church, rush home! have the things cleared in
time for afternoon Sunday-school, read the
Sunday school papers to the children, go to
church at night, and talk on her way home
about Sunday as "day of rest
- Some of the political agitators of the
North are calling for an extra session of Con-
gress to take action on "the condition Of affairs
in the South, and to put an end to the conflict
of races" The suggestion originated with
Fred Douglass, who published an article advo-
eating it, and public meeting looking to
this end has already been held by negroes in
Boston. 1t is said that Attorney General Will
lams has cast in his fortune with the eXtre-
msts and would be glad to start Congress on
the war-path, and to revive the rancors Of a
few years since.
- A gentleman at Lake George, after
waving his handkerchief for half an hour or
more at an unknown lady, whom he discover
ed at distant point on the shore, was en-
couraged by warm response to his signal to
approach his charmer. Imagine his feelings
when, on drawing near, he saw that it was his
own dear wife, whom he had left at the no.
tel but short time before. "Why, how re-
markable we should have recognized each
other at so great distance" exclaimed both
in the same breath, and then they changed the
subject.
--- The Baltimore Gazette says: An Iowa
exchange complains that the development of
the "cheap transportation movement" in that
State has been followed by some consequences
for which the Changers die not bargain.
Whilst they have been successfully waging
war on high transportation charges, some enter
prising Californians have taken advantage of
the reduced rates to introduce their own pro-
duce into Iowa, and thus undersell the farm
ers of that State. The Grangers can draw the
moral that victory is never so complete as
IL warrant inattention to the rear This cheap
freight agitation may yet prove two'edged
blade, cutting both ways.
The following decision, recently made by
the commissioner of finternal revenue, is Of i'm
portance to all business men: The penalty
of accepting an unstamped check is precisely
the same as for issuing it, viz, fifty dollars.
The law declares that any person who shall
make, sign or issue or accept, negotiate, or pay
an un.tamped check shall be liable. If a
person has sent to him an unstamped check,
he must return it, or stamp it before he accepts
it, otherwise he violates the law. 1t is thus
seen that the receiver Of an unstamped check
is just as liable for the penalty, and just as
much bound to see that it is stamped, as the
issuer of the check.
The army loses one of its most gallant
and valuable officers in the death Of Majo Gen
eral- Foster, which occurred at his New Hamp-
shire home during the late hours of Tuesday
night of last week. A particular interest at
tached to this veteran soldier because he was
one Of the two remaining alive of that little
band Of officers who gathered around Major
Anderson on that dark Christmas night of
1860 when the flag was transferred from Fort
Moultrie to Fort Sumter, and who, behind
its walls, withstood hundred days later the
fire of the Confederate batteries that opened the
long and terrible struggle Afterwards Gen
eral Foster served with honor and distinction
throughout the war, and won meritcd promo
ton to high rank.
The Hamilton Spectator, (South Aus
tralia, publishes details of the "Greathead"
cure for diptheria. The disease is declared by
Mr.. Grcathead to be Of hydated growth, and
that the germs Of it floating about in certain
impure atmospheres were inhaled by human
beings. For grown person, four drops Of
sulphuric acid diluted in three.quarters of a
tumbler of water; with a smaller dose for
children. The effect of this treatment was
said to be instantaneous; the acid at once
destroying the parasites and the patient cough
ing up the obstruction. The papers have
teemed with accounts Of sufferers who had re-
covered in 8 few minutes by adopting the
s'Greathead" treatment. Children, almost