Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-25

tine, and the population are depending on
outside aid for the means of existence. The
Hebrews of England and Germany have sub
scribed $4,000 for temporary relief.
Gen. James NJ. Leach, Congressman
from the fifth North Carolina District, de-
clines denomination, because, after twenty
FIVE years of public service, he finds himself
comparatively poor, and now desires to make
provision for his family.
Congress adjourned on Monday last.
Only two have exceeded the length of the
session-that of 1869, which adjourned June
"a, and that Of 1870, which closed on the
25th. The session Of 1872 closed May 7, that
of 1873, June Is.
--"Hi where did yez get them trowsers ?"
asked an Irishman of man who happened to
be passing with a pair of remarkably short
trowsers on. 81 got them where they grew"
was the indignant reply. "Then, by my con-
SCIENCE" said Paddy, "you've pulled them a
year too soon"
- The famine in India has attained
gigantic proportions, the British government
undertaking the onerous task of feeding three
and half million of destitute people. Very
gloomy results are anticipated in the face Of
this appalling calamity, as in the stricken
district there can be no crop for six months to
come.
- Lawrence McNulty, of San Francisco,
stood in the window of his boarding house and
addressed crowd on the subject of suicide
lie spoke Of the various means of taking life,
compared their certainty and the pain involv-
ed, and frequently referred to notes. Finally
he took a razor from his pocket and cut his
throat, bleeding to death in few seconds. He
was, of course, insane.
- A lady from the South has enjoyed an
interview with Emerson, and writes to the
Memphis Avalanche that she was delighted
with the "futing and frillng of his involuted
words" The Detroit POST is surprised to hear
this, as only last year the philosopher had his
words "cut biased but with plain border, taste
fully folded back, and secured with blue
ribbon"
- One Samuel Deaton, of Christianburg,
Ohio, who had the rheumatism nineteen years,
says the following is what cured him "One
quart rye whisky, one ounce wild cherry bark
(root), one ounce prickley ash root, one ounce
yellow dock root, one ounce spikenard root,
one ounce gentian root, one ounce gum myrrh.
If one bottle does not cure you, try another.
Take three drinks day.
- The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says on old
man in Gilmer county, who was absent a
week on visit "to his still house hid in the
mountains, was found by his friends dead in
his still house, with two or three rattlesnakes
wrapped around his body. The men being
afraid to enter, set fire to the house and burn
ed all in one heap, making successful Gre
nation of snakes, men, house and whisky"
- The Chinese companies of San Francis
CO, which are supposed to exercise a control
and government Of the heather population of
California more effective than the authority
of duly constituted law, are now collecting ali
the known thieves, cut-throats and vagrants
among their countrymen and shipping them
back to China. Several hundred have al
ready departed under the action of this en-
forced emigration scheme.
- The Chicago Tribune, taking up the
popular cry, says: "The time is coming, we
trust, when the country will look after the in
terests of the white people of the South as
means of advancing those of the negroes
The first thing to bring about regeneration
of the South is to make property secure there
If the negroes favor such legislation as Rainey
proposes, to make property cheap, they are
their own enemies, and deserve to be put un-
der guardianship"
The little son of an ex-chief of police in
Terre Haute, recently suggested to his father
that he might produce desirable change in
their domestic arrangements, by marrying
and even went so far as to suggest the lady be
would like for step-mother. Prompt in all
his movements, the ex-chief sought the lady,
told her of what his son had suggested, and
intimated his desire to crafty his sons wish
in the matter. The lady heard with respect,
then awakened her little daughter, before
whom she laid the whole subject, received the
daughters consent to the arrangement, and
then gave her own. The wedding took place
the next day.
The muzzle ordinance having gone into
effect in New York, there is great excitement
among the dogs. The poundmaster ordered
all dogs to muzzle at once, and directions were
given to gather in all animals which had not
complied with the edict. One officer gathered
in three hundred law.breaking CANNES during
the day, but on his way to the dog-pound a
mischievous boy cut the cords that bound the
dogs in the cart, and in an instant the three
hundred dogs started madly through the street.
There were big Newfoundlands, little pet
poodles, with the gaudy ribbons yet on, the
snappish cur and the whining little brute who
meets the kick Of man with humility. 1t was
extraordinary how they seemed to realize that
IL price had been placed upon their heads.
- DIR. Livingstone is said to have ex-
pressed the utmost contempt for lions. You
talk about the majesty of the lion," said he,
chatting one day at party in London with
Sir Edwin Landseer, "but you do not know
the beast There is is no more majesty about
him in the forest than there is about that
poodle. 1t is all poetry. Lions are arrant
towards -cowardly, sneaking beasts. You
can hardly tell a lion from donkey when you
come upon him in the forest; and if you
come u pom lion suddenly, his first impulse
is to tuck his tail between his legs and bolt.
He will spring upon you if he comes upon
YOU unaware and can have time to crouch; but
if a man has the courage to look lion in the
face, you need not even cock your rifle"
Politicians will note and insert in their
scrap books the following election news tor
this wear: In Kentucky, August 3; North