Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-12-09
Straps and fafts.

"A large number of professional and
business men at Louisville, KY, have or
ganzed society for wearing old clothes.
- Five thousand bricklayers of New
York, in written communication, demand
work from the municipal authorities.
-- 1t is estimated that by the 18th instant
10000 laborers in the Pennsylvania coal
mining region will be thrown out of employ
ment.
old Santa Claus has sent word in ad-
vance to the little girls that on his next an
nual round he will have nothing to do with
striped stockings.
- Taking photographs at night; who ever
heard Of such thing! 1t is done, neverthe'
less, and by burning bisulphate of carbon with
peroxide of nitrogen, a light is produced which
has the same artistic effect as sunlight.
The maddest man in Wisconsin is John
Leigh, of Oconto. He was candidate for
member of the assembly, and, being con-
scentious man, voted for his opponent, who
was elected by just one majority.
- The New York Chamber Of Commerce
have appointed a committee of FIVE to con-
slider the effect of longer continuance of the
Cuban struggle on commerce, and whether
the chamber should memorialize Congress on
the subject.
"A tyrannical Kentucky judge has de-
cided that no matter how anxious farmer
may be to push his work forward, he has no
right to harness his wife to plough They
had better Justice than that hundred years
ago!
Since October, 1874, the secret service of
the Treasury Department made two hundred
and fourteen arrests for counterfeiting, and
captured thirty counterfeit plates. Eighty OF
those arrested were convicted and sent to the
pententiary.
- The official vote for and against the
new constitution of Alabama, was counted at
Montgomery on the 1st instant. The major
ity for ratification is ffty-six thousand four
hundred and forty-fve. The total vote cast
was one hundred and fourteen thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine.
"A certain colored deacon, on occasions
of missionary collections, was wont to shut his
eyes and sing, ely abroad, thou mig ghty Cos
pel," with such earnestness and JUNCTION that
he would quite forget to see the plate as it
came around. "Oh yes," said the plate
bearer, "but just you give something to make
it fly"
- An enterprising Louisiana rice planter,
Capt. Sypher, of St. Mary's Parish, has boldly
struck away all established rules, and planted
rice upon the highlands, where, instead of the
uncertain sluice supply, he has assured an
abundance of water from powerful steam
pumps, and where the flooding of his fields is
absolutely under his control. Capt. sypher
went still further-putting in his crop with
grain drill and taking it off with reaping
machine, and actually threshing it by steam
power. The Louisiana papers admit that the
result of these innovations was eight hundred
barrels of the cleanest and best grade of white
rice ever received in New Orleans.
Old-fashioned marriages, binding 'un-
til death do US part" are likely to grow
into disfavor. Already some strong minded
females have insisted on the elimination of the
word "obey" from the marriage service, and
it has been done in many instances. We now
hear of marriage in Michigan, where the
couple ignored the injunction, "What God
has joined together let no man put asunder,"
and put in their marriage contract the saving
clause: IF the union and harmony that now
exists between US should continue through
our natural lives, then this contract is to re-
main in force; otherwise to be null and void"
Probably we shall next hear of marriages
good for year, six months, or for week,
which is about equivalent to "good for nix"
"A new phase is given to the third-term
discussion by the Chicago Tribune. While
declaring that the President must retire at
the end of his present term, it makes this sug-
gestiou: "There is just this much of truth
in the third. term talk which has arisen in view
of this retirement: After Gen. Grant has
been four years in private life, providing his
successor, during the next four years, should
not prove satisfactory, it is not impossible that
the people in 1880 may give him another CALL
1t would not be violation Of anything in the
written or unwritten Constitution. There is,
therefore, as we conceive, chance for third
term for President Grant in 1880, or even as
late as 1884, At that time he will still be in
the prime of life, in vigorous health, and
young as compared with others who have
sought and occupied the position
~ A correspondent writing from Mexico
describes the condition of affairs as vastly i'm
proved under the presidency of Lerdo. Ten
years ago all was anarchy and confusion.
DAYS of Montezuma Mexico has not enjoyed
such general quiet and prosperity. Railroads
have been constructed, highways repaired,
marshes and lakes drained, canals dug, and
manufactures encouraged. A railroad is
opening rapid transit between the city of
Mexico and some Of the most populous towns
and districts of the valley. 1t is purely
Mexican affair, and built with the proceeds of
a lottery, combined with the contributions of
stockholders The street car lines of the city
of Mexico are also in prosperous condition,
and the visitor can ride on a tramway to the
famed tree of the "Noche Triste," where Cor
tes, three hundred years ago, wept as the rem
nants of his defeated forces filed sorrowfully
before him.
- The Washington Star says: Among
the minor offices connected with the House of
Representatives, for which there is considera.
BILE struggle, is that of caterer or keeper of the
House restaurant. This place has been held
for several years by George T. Downing, a
well-known colored politician, and, as he
claims citizen of the State of New York.
Downing is a candidate for reelection or re-
appointment by the new House, upon the
grounds first, that he is celebrated caterer;
and second, that if the Democracy wish to
show their love for the colored race, they have
signal opportunity to do SO in his case, as
one of their representative men. Downing
says he was always kind to the Democrats in
the House, and made no discrimination
against them in the distribution of his pies and