Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-08

scalp. The legislative committee appointed
the other day, to burn the scalps accumulated
IN the last two years, destroyed about $4,000
worth.
- Here is simple rule to detect counter
felt fifty cent notes: On the counterfeit the
lock of hair in the corner of Dexter's fore.
head touches the hair at each end, while in
the genuine it is &c" shaped lock, and
touches only at the lower end.
"A late official report puts the total num-
Der of oranges in the United States at o. SAT,
the largest number being in the Middle and
Western States. The membership is 1,SOO,-
OOO,and there is an investment of sl7 ,OOO 900
i'll business enterprises of various kinds.
- The fish of Lake Erie, imprisoned by
the ice, have been dying because they had too
much water and not enough air. Now, the
fowls on Lake Huron are starving because
they have too much air, and cannot get at the
fish through the ice. There seems to be a pre-.
dicament for the fish in either case.
- George Smith has found in his Assyri-
an tablets history Of the creation and the
fall of man, essentially the same as that of
Genesis, but longer and fuller. 1t gives es-
pecially more particular account Of Satan
and of his history before the creation of the
world.
- A Swiss boatman recently pulled
would-be suicide out of Lake Geneva An
hour or two after the boatman discovered the
same man hanging by the neck to a tree, but
did not interfere this time. The magistrate
summoned him to answer why he did not
prevent the suicide, and he replied that he
supposed the gentleman had only hung him
self up to dry.
- Pinchback has returned to New Orleans.
On his reception there by his partisans, he
made speech in which he said that be pro-
posed to continue the fight for seat in the
Senate during the next four years, if not
granted his rights before the expiration of
that time. The prospect Of having Mr..
Pinchback's case before the country during
the next four years is exceedingly depressing.
- A traveller says that, while passing
through jackson county, Ga, the other day,
an incident came under his observation which
justly deserves mention. He stopped where
the head of the family was engaged in black
smithing, his "striker" being his better.half.
His older daughter was busy ploughing in a
field, and two younger girls were piling up
the brush. The girls are jewels that would
adorn any household.
Mr. William Walter Phelps, an ex-Re-
publican Congressman from New Jersey, has
been interviewed on the political situation.
He expresses the belief that Grant is in
the field as candidate for denomination, and
that failing in this he will press one of his
favortes, probably Conkling for the position.
Still, he thinks the success of Grants purpose
impossible, and only regards the third term as
a remote contingency.
- There is food for thought in this para
graph from the Boston Herald: "Those people
who think it impossible for President Grant to
get a nomination for third term have not
looked at the figures. There will be 369 votes
in the convention. Of these the 16 Southern
States will have 1873. Grant could get all
these to-day, and 4S more would give him
a majority. He would undoubtedly be the
strongest candidate on the first ballot, were
the convention to be held next week"
- The celebrated contest for the posses
sion of the Hot Springs of Arkansas and land
adjacent, which has been in controversy since
1912, has been decided in the United States
Court of Claims against Rector, Gaines, and
others, claiming the property, in favor of the
Government, it being held that the four Sec
tions in question constitute Government re-
serve, under the act of 1882, and it will re-
quire another act of Congress to restore it to
the public domain. The property is valued
at about s4,00O,OOO
- The question whether, under the four
teenth amendment of the federal constitution,
woman who is citizen of the United States
and of State, is a voter in the State, not
withstanding the constitution and laws of the
State confne the right of suffrage to men
alone, has been disposed of by the United
States Supreme Court at Washington, in the
St. Louis case of Miner versus Hoppersatt.
The court elaborately discusses the question
and arrives unanimously at the conclusion
that the constitution the of United States does
not confer the right of suffrage upon any one,
and that the constitutions Of the several States,
which commit that trust to men alone, are not
necessarily void.
- Beecher, who is characterized as "the
greatest preacher in the world" began his tes-
timony on Wednesday of last week, by taking
the oath with uplifted hand saying that "he
had Conscientious scruples against swearing
on the Bible" What does this mean? Does
it mean that he considers his obligation to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, less binding than if he had
kissed the Good Book, or is the great preach
er in reality sceptic, and, consequently, in
his case hypocrite? From reading his tes
timony in the trial one would infer that he
would kiss anything animate or inanimate, es-
pecially the former. At any rate his refusal
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weight to his testimony.
- Among the incidents of the tornado
which passed through the Southern States
recently, was the destruction in Georgia, ola
house, one inmate Of which was little child
who was blown into cupboard Of all the
furniture in the house, that was the only
piece not broken into kinding wood. A gin
house wheel weighing four hundred pounds
was carried half a mile. In McDuffie county
the face of every person who came in actual
contact with the cloud was blackened. The
house of Mrs. Watson, in that county, was in
the direct centre of the track. The storm ap-
preached within one hundred yards, destroy
ing every tree in its wake. There it jumped
over her house and came again to the earth
twenty-five steps the other side and recon-
menced its work of demolition.
- In London it is proposed that the own
ers of all vehicles which ply in the public
streets shall be compelled to have the wheels
of their vehicles bound with India rubber
tires. At first this has sound of something
wildly impossible. Popular notions Of India
rubber at once suggest that it would use set
of tires day. People can scarcely conceive
of an article familiar for its yielding softness,
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