Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-30
Straps aud fatts.

his wife to be one. He has decided they are
both entitled to admission to "shows" on a
ticket which says "admit one.''
- The catch of shad in Albermarle Sound,
N. C., is said to be fifty per cent. greater this
season than for many years before. The
herring catch is also heavy.
- The leading Republican members of the
national House of Representatives are Of the
opinion, it is said, that the session can be finish
ed by the first of June, while the senators in
cline to think it will last to the first of July.
-- A California letter says that this year
there will be produced there 100000 gal
Ions Of wine, 100000 pounds of grapes for
table use, and 250,00O pounds of raisins,
besides the brandy.
"A man living on farm in Alabama
was ordered by the Ku.Klux to leave, but
instead of so doing he remained and shot
three of them. His neighbors expressed their
qualification by electing him County Clerk.
- An interviewer" tried his hand on
General John G. Breckenridge recently, ard
after several vain attemps to draw him out
on political questions, asked, "What 20 you
think about Alexander H. Stephens?" 81
think he is in very bad health" was the
smiling answer, and the interview ceased.
- Alice Mason Sumner, the divorced wife
of the late Senator, has filed petition in a
Boston Court, asking that her name may be
changed to that of Alice Mason, for the rea-
son that "she had been divorced from her late
husband who has since deceased, and desires
to resume her maiden name"
- No more truthful sentence was ever
penned by man than the following, written
by Chancellor Kent: "The parent who sends
his son into the world uneducated defrauds
the community of lawful citizen and be-
queaths to it a nuisance" These words should
be written in letters of gold over the entrance
of every school in the land.
They have judge in Florida who was
arrested and put into the calaboose for drunk
enness. While in confinement, he endeavored
to issue writ of habeas corpus, requiring the
Sheriff of Manatee county to seize his body
and bring it before himself, in order that he
might inquire into the legality of said con-
fnement. 1t was brilliant idea, but it
wouldn't work.
- Texarkana, Texas, claims the distinc-
tion of being the Enchanted Village of the
Lone Star State" 1t is about seventy-fve
days old, and was built in the midst of
dense forest 1t now numbers over two thous-
and inhabitants, and there are two hundred
buildings going up. 1t contains general
ticket Office, two railroads, two express COM
psnies, two telegraph lines, and forty saloons.
- The Rochester Erpress is responsible
for this "a married man, hearing that the
eating of certain kinds of animal food would
aid the same tissues of the human body, as, for
instance calves brains would nourish the
eaters brains, or beef's liver the eaters liver,
Immediately gave strict orders at his family
market that no more tongue of any kind be
sold to his wife or mother-in-law.
-- The professors and authorities of Cor
nell University are composed Of Jews, Episco-
palians, Unitarians, and all the leading forms
of faith known to the creeds. The chief bene-
factors of the institution have been Congrega-
tionaists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Qua
kers, Baptists and one Free Thinker. Strange
to say, among this apparent discord of relig-
Gus belief, there has never existed other than
the most perfect harmony.
- Mr.. John Fishback, proprietor of the
indianapolis Sentinel wagered one hundred
dollars with young lady niece that she
couldn't "hold her tongue" for week. The
young lady very Unexpectedly "took him up,"
and unless she speaks within the next two
hours Git is now o'clock P. NJ Mr.. Fish
back will have the one hundred dollars to pay.
During the week he has escorted her to the
opera, and although he has done his best to
get her to speak, and hired other members of
the family to "trap" her, yet she has resisted
all their efforts. On Thursday last the jour
nalist offered to compromise the matter, and
give her fifty dollars, but the proposition was
scornfully rejected.
- Railroad laws have been passed by ILL.,
inois, Iowa and Wisconsin. 1t remains to be
seen whether they will relieve the farmer. 1t
is said that some Of the principal roads in Wis
consin have determined to disregard the law,
which goes into effect on the 1st Of next month.
This will bring on fight. The way it will
be done is thus given If ticket agent re-
fusing to accept the fare fixed by law is ar
rested and punished, they will close the ticket
office in which he stationed; ; and if freight
agent is prosecuted, they will close the freight
Office. The trains will run by the stations at
which the offense is given without stopping,
and leave the people, who are dissatisfied with
their rates, without any railroad facilities at
all. 1t is probable that similar policy will
be adopted by the other roads in the same
State and it is easy to see that such course
will create more bitter feeling than has yet
shown itself in the war which has already
waged hotly in the West between the grangers
and the railroads.
- The Modocs, who recently played
leading part in our history, have been almost
forgotten by the people, but not by the ubiqui-
tous interviewer" One of the fraternity has
taken the trouble to follow the tribe to their
new home in the Quapaw reservation, Indian
Territory, and he now describes what he saw
during his visit The war seems to have COM
pletely cowed them, and they are apparently
resigned to their lot, such as it is. Scarfaced
Charley and Bogus Charley, the first and Sec
ond chiefs of this tribal remnant, are still in
authority, but they no longer bear their for
mer haughtiness. The males pass their time
in drinking, smoking, shooting with the bow
and arrow, playing ball, etc., evidently resol-
we'd to bestow no thought upon the morrow
Steamboat Frank has become literary in his
tastes, and is actually making some progress in
learning to read. But the squaws ere less re-.
couciled to the change. The eyes of Princess
Mary filled with tears when the name Of Cap
tain Jack was mentioned, while the widow of
the departed chief still blackens her face and
lives in seclusion. The land receives little at
tention from the tribe, though fences have
been put up in several parts Of it.
The New Orleans Times tells us: "The
condition of planters in portions of the over