Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-18
Straps aud fatts.

- The New Orleans Picayune says there
is frequently no quorum in the legislature
of Louisiana, because some of its sable men,
bers have to look after their barber shops.
- The new usury law of Georgia allows
IL per cent. to be taken by special contract,
the legal rate being otherwise per cent.
The penalty Of taking an excess is the forfeit
ure of the interest.
- About 400 Scandinavians are making
arrangements to move to Macon County,
N. c., or the Blue Ridge region of South
Carolina. They are fleeing from the grass
hopper plague of the West.
- The Baltimore hotel proprietors have
had a conference, and resolved to obey the
civil rights law, exercising such discrimination
in regard to the treatment of their guests as
they have been hitherto accustomed to use.
- The Texas legislature has passed law
repeating all laws requiring hotels and eating
houses to procure license and pay tax, and
vacating licenses now in force. This is di-
rect stab at civil rights.
- Senator Andrew johnson is charged
with using $4,000 to secure his election by
the Tennessee Legislature, and is to be inves-
tigated. Mr. johnson says the accusation is
false, and he is not afraid of passing under
examination.
- The prospects now are that, instead of
an agreement between the Pennsylvania Gen.
tral and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, there
will be general railroad war in the course
of few weeks, in which rates will be cut to
very low figures.
-- Rome, Georgia, was almost entirely
under water last week. The citizens were
compelled to use boats in going from place
to place. Depositors in the Rome Bank pad.
died up to the door and handed their money
through to the teller.
-- The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
speaks of Gov. Chamberlain as man who
covers more brains with his hat than all the
other Republican politicians of his section put
together, and who is doing the best work that
has yet been done by anybody in the way Of
genuine reconstruction
The Sultan of Turkey has an income
ofsl0,000,0OO a year, and he spends it with
amazing rapidity on the peculiar oriental lux,
uries, while thousands of his subjects are &C,
tually dying of fstarvation. A subscription is
now being taken up in England to relieve the
poor devils, while the Sultan is luxuriating
in his harem.
The original copy of the Declaration
of Independence, which has been in the patent
Office at Washington for years, has faded SC
that the signatures are scarcely visible, and q
skilled penman is to 60 over the document
with the aid ola strong microscope and retrace
all the signatures so as to make them distinct
and legible.
- The girls attending seminary in ILL
nois, set two chickens fighting in their room
last Sunday. Bets on the result ran high
and at the conclusion of the contest, the win.
ming maiden was "better'' by gold watch, a
pair of silk stockings, French corset, two
rolls offalse hair, a patent hustle, and beau.
tiful book mark with "Christ Our Guide
worked on it in colored silk.
- The snow storm of last week was some
thing wonderful in its ferceness and volume
along the line of the Hudson and Delaware
rivers. Letters and dispatches from that
region tell of roads blocked up, trains delayed
drifts of ten and twenty feet, and the whole
face of the country buried under from one tc
three feet of snow. The apprehension is gen
eral that there will shortly happen the most
disastrous freshets and inundations known fol
years.
- The Wheeling (Virginia) Register gives
an account of the fatal poisoning of one child
and the serious and possibly fatal illness Of
two others in the same family, near Bridge
port, from eating painted sugar apples. The
occasion was the birthday festivities of one
of the children of German family named
Bourst. The children ate freely of the paint
ed candy with the results named Analysis
proved that the confection had been colored
red and green in the semblapce of real fruit
by the use of arsenic and analine.
- They have had revival of religion in
Poland; that is some Poles have been con-
verted to Greek Church orthodoxy, and the
way it is done is somewhat peculiar. The
Emperor, yearning to see the unregenerate
Poles brought into the light and afhuence oi
the truth, ordered regiment Of Cossacks to
arm themselves with bayonets and whips
These formidable evangelists then proceeded
to the district indicated, and went to work
and scourged $4,000 wretches into subscrip.
tion to the Greek creed. 1t is said that all
the converts will "stick."
In the Delaware legislature last week,
mission to bring in bill entitled an act in
relation to certain class of persons exerci-
sing public employment. The bill provides
that keepers of hotels, taverns, &C., shall not
be obliged by law to furnish refreshments or
entertainment to persons whose reception OF
refreshment would be offensive to the major
part of the customers, or injure their business
There are similar provisions for places Of
amusement and carriers Of passengers.
--A A very curious question has risen about
a recent appointment to Office in New York
Gov. Tilden sent to the Senate an appoint
ment of civil justice "in place of Stemmler
deceased" After the appointment it was
discovered that Justice Stemmler was not
dead. Then arose question whether any
one had right to 60 behind the appointment
The Governor had certified that Stemmler was
dead sealed instrument cannot be altered
by parole evidence; any statement that the
man is alive cannot disprove the document
and, therefore, as matter of law, Justice
Stemmler is dead. Of the force of this rea
soning we leave our readers to Judge.
- There are indications of some revival
of business among cotton manufacturers in
New England and iron manufacturers in
Pennsylvania and elsewhere, with anticipa
tions ofimprovipg prospects as the season ad'
vances. There are many works, however
still idle, owing mainly to strikes to prevent
increase of operations and decrease of wages.
One drawback in some quarters, too, is ow-
ing to want of coal used, by coal miners
strikes, while the freshets and ice in some sec.
tions are preventing resumption Of work.
The woollen mills in the North are not very
active. There is much encouragement, new