Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-15

nliusIrel, uleu III New Ork on Saturday night
last.
- A fire occurred on Worth and Leonard
streets, New York, on Monday, among the
wholesale dry goods houses, destroying stock
to the amount Of S760,000.
At funeral at Madison, Me-, lately,
the man who was buried was placed beside
two of his dead wives, while two living ones
attended the funeral
- When person feels disposed to over
estimate his Importance, let him remember
that mankind got along very we'll before his
birth, and that in all probability they will
get along very we'll after his death.
= There are fears expressed that the great
Salt Lake Of Utah will soon grow too large
for its confines. Since 1861 there has been a
steady rise, and it is eating under the land
on both sides at a tremendous rate.
- The Gibson county (rennessee) ku-klux
were acquitted in the United States Circuit
Court on Saturday, Judge Ballard recon-
mending their discharge, as evidence failed to
establish their guilt
- The President will attend the centen-
nial celebration at Lexington next Monday,
but he declines the invitation to attend
similar and no less important celebration at
Charlotte, n. c., on the 10th of May.
- Although cotton is not planted in all
the Southern States, the department of agri-
culture at Washington is sending out circulars
in order to obtain the earliest information of
the crop. The acreage will not be obtained
until about the middle of June.
-T The Commissioner Of Agriculture at
Washington declines to distribute seeds among
the oranges, on the ground that the rules Of
the Department forbid the employment of
any secret society for the purposes Of distribu-
tion.
-- Machinery has reached great state
of perfection. An exchange remarks: ave
recently saw some burnt peas put into the
hopper Of a coffee mill, and in less than two
minutes they were occupying place in a
grocery window labelled Fine old Mocha" "
- school in Vermont is presided over
by cross-eyed teacher. A few days ago, he
called out THAT boy that am looking at
will step out on the floor" Immediately
twenty.seven lads walked out in front Of the
astonished pedagogue.
- Now is the time bed bugs make their
appearance. They are said to be most readi-
ly destroyed by nux vomica in the form of
tincture, combined with liquid ammonia,
which mixture is to be freely applied to the
Joints and cracks of the bedstead
"A police man met negro at night
carrying trunk along the street. and col.
Jared him. The negro exclaimed: "De family
what was boarding me has been axing for
money, and as dey was gone out to night,
thought would get into some family whar
dey respected de panic"
- Herbert" said perpexed mother,
'why is it that you're not better boy?"
SWELL" said the little fellow soberly, looking
up into her face with his honest blue eyes, 81
suppose the real reason is that don't want
to be-" We think the child gave the real
reason why all of US, big as we'll as little, are
not better than we are.
- When Beecher declined kissing the
Bible on being sworn to testify, there was
sensation in the assembled crowd. 1t was
sensation of amazement People looked at
Elizabeth and then at the old greasy book,
and wondered with much wonder if he
could kiss the first, why not the last. But
Mr. Beecher is an eccentric man of &C.
MUS.
- The Cincinnati Commercial has fac
simile of the signature of Mr.. j. c. New, of
the First National Bank of indianapolis, the
appointed successor Of General Spinner as
treasurer of the United States. From this it
would appear that the country is only to
have change from one remarkable signature
to another. 1t looks like handful of fish
hooks.
of fho 1ocf re ~ thn
Legislature was the passage of new railroad
law forbidding undue preferences, and prohib-
iting common carriers from charging for
transportation, over the same distance and
the same character of trains, higher rate
for freight consigned to or from any point in
that State than is charged for like freight to
or from any point beyond the limits of the
State, or more for local than through freight
and passengers.
- An act of Congress, approved on the
Sd ultimo, provides that all prisoners con-
fined for offenses against the laws of the
United States shall be entitled to deduction
from their terms of sentence Of FIVE days for
each month during which no charge of mis-
conduct has been made against them The law
also provides that upon their discharge each
prisoner shall be provided, at the expense OF
the United States, with one suit of clothes and
five dollars in money.
- Mr. John Robinson, the circus mana
ger, who ran for Mayor in Cincinnati, does
not seem to be pleased with his first and only
experience in politics. On the night of his
defeat an audacious reporter had the temerlty
to call upon him and ask what he thought
about it, When they brought the reporter
to, and had cleared the birthstone from his
eyes and mouth, he said he did not recollect
exactly what Mr. Robinson said, but he judged
by the energetic manner Of his speech, and the
size and frequency Of the oaths, that he did
not care to run for Office any more.
- On the wall over the bed of a dying
woman in Cohoes, n. Y, cross appeared.
1t began with mere outline, deepened in
color until the woman died, and then faded.
She saw it, and superstitiously regarded it as
premoniton of death. The neighborhood
was intensely excited, and hundreds went to
see the cross. At length, a matter of:fact
newspaper reporter investigated, and learned
that leak in the roof had let water into the
plastering, the discoloration taking the sig
nficant shape by chance, and that when the
rain.storm was over, the cross faded. 1t is
probable that fright aggravated THE woman's
disease and killed her.
- About one year from now the commit
tee of the Republican and Democratic parties
will meet in Washington to decide upon the
time and place for holding the Residential
conventions of 1876. The last were held in
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and it is prob
able that next year both will 60 West. st.
Innis Was desirnus In 1872 of having the