Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-12-02
Sfraps aud fafts.

SpartanOurG ana AsneVllle hallroad.
- Mr.. William B. Astor, the richest man
in New York, died last week.
-- Twenty-four seats in the next Con-
gress will be contested-ffteen by Demo-
Gratis and nine by Repuplians
- Chief.Jus Waite says he will not
allow his name to be used in connection with
the Presidency under any circumstances"
- In consequence of the inability of the
State Treasurer of Georgia to make salts
factory bond, that Office is now declared by
the Governor to be vacant.
- The Supreme Court of Iowa has deci-
ded that when the loser in game of billiards
settles the score he is guilty of gambling, and
liable to indictment.
- Much excitement is created at the Cir
que d'Hiver, Paris, over gymnast who al
lows himself to be shot from mortar to the
upper end ofhis trapeze rope.
--O On the 22nd ultimo, Columbus Jones, a
white youth some eighteen years of age, killed
Henry Jones, colored, in the town of Hick.
ory, N. c., and then escaped, it is thought, to
East Tennessee
- Judge Hill, of the United States Dis
trict Court for Mississippi, has literally
changed the complexion of the juries in that
court by adopting rule which excludes from
the panel all who cannot read, write and
compute interest.
- Cotton culture, which gave some prom
ise of being success in California, now ap-
pears to be failure. The area planted is
growing less, the quantity has deteriorated,
ho Of ho
Improbable.
- Many very good people are annoyed by
sleepiness in church. The following remedy
is recommended: Lift the foot seven inches
from the floor, and hold it in suspense with
out support for the limb, and repeat the reme-
dy if the attack returns.
-- A circular has been issued by some of
the banks of Baltimore, New York and Phia-
delphia, urging on other banks to secure sig
natures to petition to be presented to Con-
gress, with view to securing the repeal OF
the law requiring the afixing of two cents
stamp on checks.
- A drunkard, who was to have finger
amputated in the presence of Albany Medical
College students, by DR.. Armsby, died under
the influence Of chloroform and the surgeon
says that in nearly every recorded instances
of death from an anasthetic the patient was
addicted to intoxication.
- Bad seed sometimes brings forth good
fruit, as was shown by case before court
in New York on Monday. A man named Van
Wyck sued one Allen for cabbages which he
might have raised had the seed furnished by
the defendant been good. The jury awarded
Van Wyck $4,000 damages.
AT the recent term of the Federal Court
at Asheville, N. c., Polk Altman, u. S. Deputy
Marshal, was indicted for the murder of An
drew Williamson Gunter, on SCOTS Creek,
jackson county, in what is familiarly known
as the Heel String Nation, and was acquitted
after trial lasting five days.
The Raleigh Me,os, speaking of the late
Baptist Convention, says that the amounts
contributed the past year we're: To the State
Missions by the State Board and District As
sociations, $1,000; to Ministerial Education,
$1,000; to Foreign Missions, s2500; to Sun
day Schools, about $500; to Indian Missions,
Sl,430; or total of some S12,050.
- A Boston paper says: We have just
paid six cents postage on postal card sent us
because the sender had, thoughtlessly, written
date on the side designed for the address
alone. FASTING any printed or written mat
ter on either face of the card subjects it to
double letter postage. The directions are ex-
plicit that nothing but the name and address
must be attached to the other, any way.
- 1t is stated as fact which has escaped
the notice of all his biographers that Edgar
Allan Poe was the grandson of Benedict Ar
mold. His mother, who was known before
her marriage as Elizabeth Arnold, an Eng
Iish actress, was the natural daughter of the
traitor. This statement rests on the concur
rent testimony of a number of old actors who
knew Elizabeth Arnold we'll. Poe himself
alluded to the matter occasionally in the com.
pany of those who knew this chapter in his
family history.
- The report of the secretary of the Ma
tional Grange Of Patrons of Husbandry,
which body is now in session at Louisville,
will show that up to September S0th, last, a.
29Ocharters or dispensations had been granted
subordinate oranges About 400 oranges
have been disbanded, and about 5000 are de-
linquent in the payment of dues. This leaves
in operation 20,S9O oranges. The member
ship of oranges varies all the way from % to
250 EACH Giving each grange membership
of 100, would make total membership $685..
OOO 1t is doubtful, however, if the aggre.
gate active membership reaches higher fig
ure than 1,750,000.
--S Says the Charlotte Observer: We are
informed by Judge Schenck that when he left
Linconton on Saturday, surveying party
was camped at that place. They said that
they were surveying route, under the direc.
tion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, from Danville, Va, to Spartan
burg, S. c., by way of Statesville, Lincoln
ton and Shelby; beyond this they refused to
disclose anything The B. & 0. Railroad
Company, several years ago, surveyed route
and secured charter for what was known as
"the Plaster Banks and Coal Fields Rail-
road" from Danville to Statesville. This
new route from Danville to Spartanburg, via
Statesville and Lincolnton, would save 40
miles travel between the North and South.
An examination of the map will show that it
is an exact airline"
- Two incidents, significant of the grow
ing comfy of North and South, have lately
occurred in the Episcopal Church. St. James
Church of Chicago, which was notable in the
Northwest for the intensity of Union senti-
ment among its parishioners, and in whose
vestibule stands monument to the young
men of the parish who fell fighting for the
Union, has just taken as its rector the Rev.
DR.. Harris, from New Orleans, during the war
an officer in the Confederate service, who
afterwards took orders and Trinity Church,
New Orleans, formely Bishop Folks parish,