Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-17
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clude the poor white trash.
"A weak solution of tar water is recon-
mended for use by bald-headed men, to bring
back the capillary glory.
-- A rumor comes from Washington that
a canvass of the senators already there shows
that the appointment of Mr. Jewell as post
master general will be rejected.
- Committees have been formed in Ger
many to decorate the graves of French SOL
diers who died in that country while prisoners
of war.
The number of immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York, from January 1,
to December Of TIE present year, is 145,362
showing heavy decrease.
- Gen. B. F. Butler is reported as hope
less ofsuccess ofthe Republican party in 1876.
Consequently he expects to start one Of his
own, with platform of protection to Ameri-
can industries and unlimited greenbacks.
- The military expenditure of Germany
will amount this year to S135,000,000,
nearly half of the whole annual expenditure
of the United Safes, including the interest on
our debt.
- After the death of Boerhaave, the most
celebrated physician of the eighteenth century,
there was found among his books a volume
sumptuously bound, in which were written
down, he used to say, the secrets Of physic.
All the pages were white except the frontis-
piece, where was to be read this sentence:
keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the
bowels open"
- The rival advocates of the different
systems of medicine are having a bitter war
in Iowa as to whether allopathy or homeopa-
thy shall be taught in the medical department
of the State University. 1t is very gravely
suggested that the discussion is worse than
folly, for what difference can it possibly make
to man whether he is slain by bombshell
or buckshot. The size of the pill is of no
consequence.
-- An Alabama colored politician is re-
ported to have recently made speech de-
manding that the United States Government
shall pay a reasonable compensation for all
compensation therefor, one-half of the money
to be paid to the. master or owner, and one
half to the negro. The idea is expected to
take among the colored Republicans Of the
South, and the question arises, what willtheir
Northern allies do about it2
- 1t is officially announced that twenty
two foreign governments have formally accept.
ed invitations to participate in the American
centennial, including Germany, Spain, France
and Sweden England not being among the
number Sweden and Norway have together
appropriated s133, 900 for the purpose ola good
display; Mexico has raised $4,000, Colon
bia S25, 900, the Argentine Confederation $780,
900, and Ecuador $4,000. Brazil wants
$4,000 feet of exhibition space. There is
also unofficial but trustworthy information
that extensive preparations for the display of
their industries are being made in Austria,
Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Tas.
mania and others of the Australian Islands,
and in Canada.
- The St. Louis Republican has prepared
table from official statements for 1873 and
1874, which gives the rate of taxation for
State purposes, in the several States. The
rates vary all the way from ten cents on the 81
in Connecticut to the enormous sum Of S2.l5
on the 500 in Louisiana. The rate of so
cents in Alabama, Arkansas, California,
Maine, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia; 40
cents in Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and Tennes-
see 70 cents in Florida 10 cents in Connec-
tcut "a cents in Illinois; Is cents in Indiana !;
II cents in Maryland; % cents in Michigan ;
81 II! in Nevada; 72l cents in New York /;
Is cents in Oregon 20 cents in Rhode Island
and 70 cents in South Carolina.
- The Central Park menagerie hoax came
near being turned into grim reality at Bar
NUNS Hippodrome in New York few days
ago. Among the wild animals on exhibition
are male and female rhnoceros, the first
weighing four thousand five hundred pounds,
and the second three thousand FIVE hundred
The beasts had just been put into the same
cage, when the male, "Pete," attacked his
female companion, "Mary Jane" in a most
ferocious manner. The hard, horny noses of
the two animals clashed, and soon the male
struck the female with his horn on the left
side, cutting deep cash, lifting her about
six feet from the ground, and nearly threw
her over the wall Of the pen. An attempt was
made to separate them, but the male made
one furious dash, carried the barricade away,
and again the poor female was raised upon
his horny nose and thrown into the air. The
bellowings of the combatants were echoed by
the roar of the lions, and the fearful laugh Of
the hyenas. The wild beasts scented blood,
and every cage in the great menagerie was
scene of wild excitement. The lions and the
tigers, the leopards and the bears, jumped
and howled and roared, and above all arose
the dismal vail of the frightened elephants.
The iron pen was splintered to mere wreck
during the fight, which lasted an hour and a
half. Before the infuriated male could be
separated from his helpless mate, the latter
was horribly gored and utterly Frustrated,
living on her abdomen on the floor of the cage
quite unresisting.
- The colored people of Memphis, Ten
nessee, like many of their brethren in Mary
land and other parts Of the South, have ar.
rived at the salutary conclusion that they will
no longer be the mere tools Of political mas
ters. They have taken bold step toward re-
establishing an amicable understanding with
white citizens, from which they now realize
that they have been bamboozled by the prom
ises, intimidations and false pretenses of ad'
venturers. The presidents of the various col
ored socities of that city have inaugnrated the
movement by forming an association, the OBJ
lects of which are to discard old political ties,
and cultivate and maintain permanent peace
with the white people of the South. In an
address which they have issued they set forth
that they have seen and felt and still suffer
under the consequences of the vicious antago.
nism into which the "mere fctions of political
incendaries" have led them. They bring
strong indictments against their despoilers.
They have shorn us" they say, "of our pc
cuniary accumulations, the result of weary
years of toll, even pennies accumulated by
our youth and Aedgelings. All this we could
bear, but they have left us despsed by our