Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-02
Straps aud fafts.

thorlty for the story that child was born
near that place few days ago with the head
of a cat and the feet of chicken.
- A special train for fast freight, making
the distance between San Francisco and New
York, in twelve days, is to start shortly from
the former city, with thirty-one car loads of
tea and silk.
- A small wooden mandatory has been
discovered among the ruins of Pompeii. Sew
eral charred fragments of tapestry were found,
besides various machines for carding and
weaving wool.
- Sixteen Chinese women were sold at
auction in California the other day, only
Chinese heing allowed to bid. Eight dollars
was the highest price, and one sold for sixty
five cents, her nose being out of plumb.
- The New York Sun shines down with
rather vicious CLEAN on Grant. Speaking
of Andy johnson, it says: "He never took
presents, and never corrupted Congressman in
order to get his salary doubled. His memo
ry will be honored when the avarice and base
ness of Grant are despised and execrated."
- Near Knoxville, the other night, a
young girl, who was unexpectedly interviewed
by the family as she was about eloping with
the object of her virgin affections, knocked
the old man down, laid out two brothers with
a cistern pole, kicked the hired man in the
stomach, and got away with her lover and
"made the rifle"
- Mr. Jefferson Davis has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address at the Knox
County, ILL.,, agricultural fair next month.
Galesburg, the country seat, is an old anti
slavery stronghold, but the people as yet DO
not seem to coincide with their neighbors of
Winnebago county in their anti-Davis SEN
timents.
- The wheat crop of Minnesota was too
much for the young grasshoppers Of 1875,
and the pests were obliged to leave growing
plants which produced about $4,000, 900 bush
els of grain. The St. Paul Pioneer. Press esti-
mates that of this crop 25,000,000 bushels will
be for sale, and that it will bring to the State
over 100000, or more than twice as much
as was obtained for the crop of 1874.
- A curious conscience case occurred at
Newport, r. l., the other day. A man from
the country, who had supplied town grocer
with eggs for several years which the latter
had not taken the trouble to count, called
upon him and confessed that he had cheated
him out of So by short measure, whereupon the
grocer acknowledged having cheated the seller
by passing counterfeit SO bill upon him.
- Jefferson Davis declines to accept the
gift ofa homestead in Texas. He writes to a
Texas gentleman: "It is enough for me to
know that your people, who have suffered by
our common disaster, instead Of blaming me
for their misfortunes, have been willing to
share the remnant of their fortune with me" !"
The plan was to buy farm by dollar subscrip-
tions.
- The revisers of the New Testament have
been at work five years, and it is said will
probably require FIVE years more The latest
London mail advices report that the four
Gospels had been completely revised, except
two points in dispute yet to be decided. The
Acts and small Epstles had been revised once,
and had to undergo second revision. The
Epstes of Paul would come next, and would
take a long time:
-A A man named Louis Burke, who lived
at Burkesville, in Henderson county, Tenn, a
few days ago indulged in blasphemous Ian
guage, because his crops had been destroyed
by high water. He cursed God for having
his crops destroyed last year by heat and
drought, and fer destroying them this year by
flood, and concluded his blasphemy of the
Creator with the expression, "God damn
himw His tongue Glove to the roof Of his
mouth, and he died the next night, never Ut
tering another word.
- California is the next State to hold an
election. There are three parties in the field,
Republican, Democratic and Independent.
The average California voter is a peculiar
animal. Heis the most independent individ-
ual in the United States. Party ties with him
are weak. If he does not like the candidate
or the platform of his party, he votes against
it. For eight years now, the parties have al
ternated in power. At the last election, the
Independents carried the State, defeating
both Republicans and Democrats. This year
it is thought the Democrats will win.
- The Supreme Court of Virginia has
recently rendered decision which ought to
be respected as a precedent by every court in
the country. A woman who had been severely
burned by "unexplosive" OIL sued the grocer
who sold it. The grocer pleaded in defense
that he really believed the oil unexplosive.
The court held that as the use of the oil for
lighting purposes was not at all times and
under all conditions absolutely free from all
danger of explosion, the defendant was not
exempt from responsibility in selling, and Or
dered him to pay the plaintiff $3.50 and
COSTS Now let the grocer sue the party who
sold the oil as unexplosive.
- The Ohio Legislature, at its last session,
passed laws that were very generous to wo-
men, among them a statute defining the
rights of widows who re-marry. Under. its
provisions widow, after contract to marry,
may, without the knowledge of her intended
husband, convey away her property in trust
for her child, may bring the child with
herself upon her new husband for support,
may make the latter responsible for debts
contracted by her before marriage, for her
wedding outfit, and then, to cap the climax,
may, if she takes a notion to abscond, de-
scend upon his house with constable and
writ of replevin and strip it Of all the furni-
ture.
- Ex-Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, in
his recent address before the Southern Histori-
calSociety, related secret incident ofthe war.
He said that soon after the failure Of the
Hampton Roads conference he was visited by
the late Gov Graham, who stated to him that
many of the Senators and Representatives
in the Confederate, Congress, and other lead
ing men, believed that the end ofthe war was
near, and despairing of obtaining peace
through Mr.. Davis, they desired Mr.. Vance,
as Governor of North Carolina, to enter into
separate terms with President Lincoln. Gov.
Vance said that he declined to take the desired
step.