Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-14
Sfraps aud fafts.
- In Wyoming Territory there is a bar
room to every one hundred and eighty inhab'

annually manufactured for every man, Wo-
man and child in the United States. Forty
years ago two was the allowance.
- Thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, is
proposed in New Jersey for any man who &C.
cepts an office, the duties of which he knows
himself incapable to perform.
- The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany have recently discharged about two
thousand men from their workshops as no
longer needed. The whole number of en-
ployees will then be about ten thousand.
- The carpet-baggers claim that every
immigrants a carpet-bagger. There is about
the same difference between the honest immi'
grant and the carpet bagger, as there is be-
tween the farmer who raises crop and the
rogue who steals it.
Postmaster Jewell has written to the
managers in Alabama, in answer to some ap-
plications for office, that he must have good
men for responsible places, and that he pre-,
fers good democrats to bad republicans. Ala
hama can't quite understand the change.
The old rule used to be steadily to prefer bad
republicans to good Ones
- 1t is creditable to American enterprise
that the second attempt to send peaches to
England has been attended with complete
success. The fruit being in good condition
ON arrival and having readily found purchas-
ers in London, peach-growers are now assured
of a larger market for their fruit, which will
doubtless be produced in greater quantity to
meet the foreign demand.
- A decision has just been rendered by
the United States Court, upon what is some
times known as the civil rights law of 1866.
The object of the law was to impair the eff
cheney and destroy the power of the State
Courts, by permitting the transfer Of causes,
on the fimsest pretexts, to Federal tribunals.
After lapse of nine years, case has finally
gone from Kentuckey before the Supreme
Court, and by that tribunal the law is declar
ed to be unconstitutional.
- The new constitution adopted by the
Alabama convention forbids aid by the state
to internal Improvements it gives negroes
the vote and squelches the right of secession !;
it limits state taxes to three-fourths of one
per cent. it abolishes the board of education
and office Of Acknowledgements makes the
legislative sessions biennial limits them to
fifty days; reduces judicial salaries twenty
FIVE per cent, and separates the time of hold
ing state and federal elections. 1t is to be
submitted to the people for action on the 10th
Of November.
- The term "grass widow" is said to be
corruption of "grace widow" the former
expression being merely barbarism. "Grace
widow" is the term applied to one who be-
comes widow by grace or favor, not of ne.
cessity, as by death; originated in the early
ages of European civilization, when divorces
were granted but seldom and wholly by the
Catholic church. When such degree was
granted to woman, and the papal receipt
stated "Viduca de gratis" which, interpreted,
is "widow of grace" In the law the French
it would read, "Veuve de grace" or "grace
widow, ""veuve" being translated as "widow."
- The cotton factories and dealers in the
staple, of Portsmouth and Norfolk, Va, have
issued circular to planters sending cotton
to those markets, to use only "two widths Of
bagging" in packing bale, dispensing with
side strips so that the cotton can be seen,
and also to make the bales as large as posi-
ble Put up in this way, they say that cotton
will not only fetch larger price, but save in
in the freight and handling, the expense being
the same for a small bale as for large one.
The usual practice with many of covering up
the bale with bagging is Objectionable, and
subjects to deduction for tare.
- The almost unmarked grave of Edgar
Allen Poe, author of "The Raven" was
opened in Baltimore few days ago, to lay
the foundation for the monument about to
be erected by his admirers. At depth of
five feet, the coffin was found in good preser-
vation, after lying there nearly twenty-six
years. The lid was removed and the skele-
ton was seen, almost in perfect condition, and
lying with the long bony hands reposing one
upon the other, as they had been arranged in
death. The skull bore marks of greater de-
cay, the teeth from the upper jaw having be-
come dislodged but those in the lower were
all in place, and some little hair was still
clinging near the forehead. Beyond what
has been described, nothing was to be seen.
- The Cincinnati delegates to the Nation
al Board of Trade, in their report to the
Chamber of Commerce of that city, recon-
mend the Chamber to use whatever influence
it might have with members CT Congress to
the end that the General Government may
purchase existing lines and manage the whole
telegraph business of the country. A resolu-
ton was offered in opposition to this, declar-
ing that the chamber does not commit itself
in favor of the project of the National Pos
tai Telegraph. This question, which has been
the subject of many discussions in the Cham
ber, came up for final disposition on Friday
last, and resolution committing the Chamber
in favor of the postal telegraph was carried
by considerable majority.
- The Washington correspondent of the
New York Bulletin says: "The treasury de-.
partment has discontinued the purchase Of
silver for the present on account of the high
price. 1t is probable that the operation of
the scheme for silver resumption will be de-
ferred until after the meeting of Congress, in
order that it may be modified by further leg
islation. There are grave doubts entertained
here as to the feasibility of the plan, and some
high authorities fear that the retiring Of frac-
tional currency would produce great anuoy-
ance to traders because of the danger Of hoard
ing and melting of the silver given out to sup
ply the place Of the small paper change. The
secretary of the treasury will make some i'm
portant suggestions regarding the scheme in
his annual report"
THE sale of President Grants thorough
breds took place at St. Louis on Thursday,
and the unaccountably low prices which they
realized was the subject Of comment among
the three hundred persons who attended. AS
as sample prices, it may be stated that
the Nellie Grant team, Lady Morgan and
Queene, which costs 81, 100, brought Sl12.5O;
Kate Haynes, thoroughbred brood mare !;
s45; Helen, an elegant sorrel mare, $50 !;
Topsey, the well known mare presented to the
D-e.;jo,. -, 1897 hv tho Rnccian am csa1or