Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-28
Straps aud fatts.


in New York city is 144,934.
- President Grant has taken to the use
of spectacles.
- The second day of November will see
elections in II States.
- The Fall River operatives by taking
their two months vacation" lost 100000
in wages.
- Butterick & Co., the fashion plate
dealers, of New York, have failed with liza
bilities amounting to 100000.
- Ex-senator Chandler has been appoint.
ed Secretary of the Interior, vics Delano, re-
signed.
- The New York Tribune publishes a
letter from Pittsburg reviewing the Pennsyl-
vania campaign, giving a gloomy showing Of
Democratic prospects.
- 1t is thought the sickness prevailing
throughout the Mississippi valley will prevent
a considerable portion of the cotton crop from
being saved.
- For Federal soldiers killed in the
civil war, eighty-6ve thousand headstones
have already been completed in West Rut-
land, Vermont
- Only fourth part of the farming ter
ritory comprised within the United States is
under cultivation, and that not up to its full
productiveness by one-half of its capacity.
Gov. Tilden has sent instructions to
every district-attorney in the State of New
York, to prosecute all improper and illegal
uses of money in the forthcoming election.
- The town of Vermillion, Ohio, is Who'll
ly burned Eleven business blocks are in
ashes Loss, $4,000. Two suspected incen.
diaries have been arrested.
The revivalsts, Moody and Sankey,
have commenced series of meetings in New
York. Fully 10000 people were present at
the first meeting on Sunday morning.
The Warren Avenue Baptist Church,
of Boston, has stricken out that portion of its
declaration of faith which makes immersion
a prerequisite to communion. This church
is one hundred and twenty-five years old.
- Mr.. Walker, Cincinnati scientist, has
allowed himself to be stung once day for
three weeks by bees to ascertain the effect. He
SAYS that after about the tenth time the pain
and swelling were slight, the body seeming to
become inoculated with the poison.
- Carruth, the Vineland IN. j. editor,
who was shot in March last by Mr.. Lands on
account ofan offensive article he had publish
ed in his paper, died on Sunday morning last.
Lands bondsmen have surrendered him to
the authorities.
- The Democrats in Mississippi are hold
ing immense mass meetings though ghout the
State, and notable feature of these gather
ings is the attendance of large number Ct ne
groes. The signs of defeat of the Ames- Re-
publican party multiply daily.
- Germany, with population about equal
to that of the United States, graduated about
six hundred and sixty physicians last year,
while our own glorious country turned some
three thousand new doctors loose in the same
period Of time.
- Gov. Allen is philosophical at least.
His last words to an interviewer are: 81
don't care baubee for the Office. You can
say that am fully satisfied with the verdict
of the people, and congratulate the Republi-
can party on its luck in electing so good a
man as Gen. Hayes"
- A Westerly, R. l., clergyman married
a couple the other night, received his fees and
sent them away. apparently satisfied but a
day or two after the bridegroom returned
and said that tie had come to pay more, as
the woman had turned out much better than
he expected.
"A special agent of the Department of JUS
tice, sent to Texas and Arkansas to investigate
the affairs of those States reports to Attor-
ney-General Pierrepont that the only eff
cient means to reform existing abuses is to re-
move nearly all the present incumbents of Of:
fees.
Grants oraton at Denver has been
published. 1t is not quite such "masterly
effort" as was his Des Moines speech. Here
it is in full : My Friends-I have got a bad
cold and sore throat I don't think this
cool air will do me any good. l am going in
anyhow. l will be here again in few days, and
you can see me then.
"A candidate for vacant vicarage in
England announces an invention of his own
which may prove to be useful. 1t is pecu-
liar arrangement Of the pulpit, with a clock
to give warning When at the end of the
half hour the clock sounds an alarm, if the
preacher does not conclude within three min
utes, down comes the pulpit, with the parson
and the rest of the appendages.
Recently, at the Old Swan Borax Man
ufactory, Liverpool, man was literally
ground to pieces in mortar. While engag-
ed about the machinery he was caught up and
thrown into a powerful mortar used for
crushing the substances used in the manufac-
ture of borax. He was not seen for some
time, and the first intimation Of an accident
was received by boy who saw his legs hang
ing out of the mortar. The engine was stop
ped, and with some difficulty the body was
taken out, completely crushed out of shape.
ALL the colored orders and societies of
Richmond, Va, have accepted invitations
to participate in the ceremonies of Inaugural
ting the statue of Stonewall Jackson. For
several years previous to the war, Gen. Jack
son was the Superintendent of colored Sun
day school at Lexington, Va, and took an ac-
tive interest in the welfare of that race. The
participation of the colored people in the
honors which are to be paid to the great SOL
diers memory, is creditable recognition of
his friendship for them, and an illustration of
the good feeling prevailing between the two
races in Virginia.
- The following story is told as remarka-
BILE instance of the appreciation ofhumor A
German soldier was ordered fifty lashes for
some alleged act of INSTRUMENTATION. Fritz,
disci plined to silence, was fixed to trianges
in the presence of his company. When the
first lashes fell upon his naked shoulders the
worthy fellow, instead of displaying evidences
of distress, burst into fit of uncomfortable
laughter. The executioner, regarding this
manifestation as by no means complimentary
to his skill, laid on with redoubled ardor. But
the more he laid on the more Fritz laughed.