Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-29
Scraps aud fatts.

- lhe spelling mania has reached Wales,
and the people are urged to come out to the
Observation-Disclosures.
-Ex-Confederate officers of distinction
are to be invited to the reunion of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which takes place at
Chicago on the 18th of May.
- Somebody who has heard of a PROPOSE
tion to have separate street cars for women,
says that be sees no necessity for it, as he
never had any objections to riding in the
same car with woman.
"A Chicago man closed his testimony in
his action for divorce from his wife as follows:
81 don't want to say anything against the
woman, Judge; but wish you could live with
her little while"
"A Memphis fortune teller told man
that fortune of $4,000 was coming to him
the next week, and he shelled out $50 to his
wife to buy a new suit. When too late he
learned that his wife had fixed the thing with
the old woman.
- Mexico is making efforts to raise coffee,
and the State of Collin has exempted from
taxes for the next ten years all young planta.
tlons, besides offering premium of five hun
dred dollars to the planter who first harvests
five hundred quintals Of the aromatic berry
- A Madison county, Illinois, girl has Of
tered herself as prize to the one of her four
suitors who outspells the others. The trial is
to take place in the district school-house, and
twenty-five cents admission is to be charged,
the money to 60 toward furnishing house for
the young couple.
- Such has been the increase of business
by the change of gauge on the Richmond and
Atlanta Airline Railroad, that it has been
found necessary to add 100 freight cars to the
rolling stock. The Tredegar Works at Rich
mond, Va, is now filling an order for forty
of these cars.
- The post.ofice department at Washing
ton has recently issued three cent postage
stamps made on a new princi pie, to prevent
the dishonest custom of washing them in or
der to sell them again after having been used
The paper of which they are made is porous,
and they. absorb the ink from the marking
stamps, thus making it indellible.
"A very practical sermonizer made these
remarks on the soul-saving question: my
brethren, man cannot afford to lose his soul
He's got but one, and he can't get another.
If man lose his horse, he can get another !;
if a man lose his wife, he can get another; if
man lose his child, he can get another. But
if he lose his soul, goodbye, john"
- The work of counting the funds in the
treasurer's Office at Washington, before turn
ing them over to the new treasurer, will occu-
py about two weeks. The counting will not
be commenced probably before some time in
June. Including the funds deposited by the
national banks and the reserve, the amount of
funds in the custody of the treasurer is in the
neighborhood of thousand million dollars.
The silverware for the great Palace
Hotel at San Francisco cost 100000, and
among its features is quite a novelty in the
shape of silver tea caddies, with four COM
partments for as many different kinds of tea,
which will be set before the guests at the
table, with scalding water at hand, that
they may help themselves to the leaf and
make their tea after the Chinese fashion.
- The grasshoppers have driven more
than seven hundred Methodist Church mem.
bers out of South Kansas the present year.
Two churches and three parsonages have been
lost to the church, to say nothing of Sunday
school teachers and scholars. One grasshop-
pered preacher, who has spent thirty years in
the ministry, has received for his work this
year. from the conference 1924.
1t is said that at least forty members of
Congress intend to begin the campaign next
session by protesting, with view to its total
excision, of the postal clause, which, in the
last hour of the Forty third Congress, doubled
the rate upon the transmission of newspapers,
pamphlets, books, samples, and other miscel-
laneous "third-class" matter sent through the
post.ofice.
- The Georgia Railroad Company has
reduced its fares to three cents mile, which
circles. A leading director in the Georgia
Company is of the opinion that the reduction
will stimulate travel to such an extent as to
materially increase the receipts of the line,
and this will be accomplished without adding
to the usual expenses
- While we are mourning over the kill
ing Of early vegetation by the untimely
April frosts, it is at least slightly consoling
to be told that what seems to be universal
calamity has its mitigating features. 1t will
be found, so western papers say, that this
cold weather so late in the spring is a provi-
Dental interposition to kill off the grass
hoppers and the potato bugs, and to rid US
of other vermin. This cheerful view of the
matter may reconcile people to the loss of
strawberries and green peas.
- The following problem is given for the
delectation Of oolboys, or even older per-
sons who delight in the intricacy and veraci-
ty of figures: Twelve persons stopped at a
hotel over night. On asking for their bill the
next morning they found it to be S12. The
old men paid 81 each, the old women paid 81
each, the young men paid so cents each, and
the young women paid 25 cents each. How
many old men, how many young men, how
many old women, how many young women,
were there travelling in this crowd?
The Lyon Republican reports that there
is farmer in Phelps, Ontario county, New
York, who has on hand the wheat product of
his farm for the past four years, refusing to
sell from time to time, because he believed
wheat was "going higher" His granaries and
every available place in his barn and out
buildings are occupied, and there are piles of
wheat in his garret and elsewhere in his house.
He has "set his stake" he says, and will hold
on to his wheat until it brings the price he
has named to himself, if lit isn't for forty
years"
- The citizens of Brownsville, Texas,
througha special committee of the most prom
inent citizens, have issued report declaring
untrue the alleged statements made by Senor
Mariscal, Mexican minister at Washington,
to the effect that the border raids are as much
the work of Americans as Mexicans, and that
many of them are by ex-Confederates in the
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