Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-04-01
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of the Grand Union at Saratoga.
ALL the attorneys on the Tilton side of
the great scandal case are Democrats on the
Beecher side, Republicans.
- The way the Chicago saloon-keepers
evade the civil rights act and keep out Sambo
is to put up sign, Drinks So, subject to
discount" The discount for white men is
s4.S5 per drink.
- Old John Bender has confessed. He
says his son and daughter committed all
the murders. This is even more notable
sacrifice than Artemus Ward was willing to
make He only offered up his wife's relations
- The will of BENJAMIN F. Beekman,
of New York city, which has just been proba-
ted, gives the widow the interest on $4,000
while she is his widow, and the entire $4,000
if she marries again.
- The secretary of the treasury has de-
cided to return to the old method of redeem.
ing mutilated United States currency, under
which deduction was made proportioned
to the portion of notes missing. The change
will take place on the 1st proximo.
- All is not lovely among brethren of
the Grange. The Patrons Of Husbandry in
Iowa are spintering up into independent frag-
ments. The reported grievance is that the
Grange has lost all confidence in the nation
al officers, and that the finances have been
mismanaged. 1t is stated that thelate exhib-
ition of the financial management of the Ma
tional Grange will lead to a general with
drawal and abandonment of the concern.
Prof Donaldson contemplates a bal
loon voyage from New York to London next
autumn, the expenses to be paid by VIM. K,
Belknap, Of Cincinnati, George L. Bruce, of
New York city, Nathaniel Grey Hadaway,
of London, and Narcisse Pelletier, of Paris.
These gentlemen are to provide $4,000 for
the expenses, and give the Professor $4,000
if he makes the trip from New York to Lon
don within forty-eig ght hours, or $4,000 if he
takes seventy-two hours.
-- There is likely to be good deal of
birthstone in the air in Ohio during the next
campaign. Governor Allen. according to the
Republican journals, indulges in profanity to
that extent that it passes out under the door
of his room in blue fog whenever he becomes
excited. The Hon. B. F. Wade has always
had the reputation of being an expert in the
same way, and Mr.. John Robinson, the circus
man, whom the Republicans have nominated
for Mayor of Cincinnati, is said to use expires.
sions which would knock the bark off of a
hickory tree.
-- Vast quantities of property are being
destroyed by the war in Cuba In Trinidad
twelve estates, producing over eight hundred
thousand hogsheads Of sugar, have been burn
ed, and in Villa Clara and Cienfuegos more
than forty thousand hogsheads of the same
commodity have been lost by inrcads of the
patriots. To this destruction of property
must be added that in Sauga la Grande, con-
sisting of twenty-seven large sugar estates,
and also the sugar ware houses at Sierra
Morena and Carahutas, numbering over sixty
vast structures, we'll filled with sugar, waiting
for transmission to Havana and other ports
- A man named Merritt, from Troy, N
Y, has been prowling around the island of
Dominica, in the West Indies, and has dis
covered something which very nearly resem-
bles the Bible description of hell. 1t is bot
tomless lake of red-hot water boiling savagely,
half a mile wide and two miles in circumfer-
ence In the centre, the seething mass shoots
far into the air, and the arid, desolate shore
is laved by steam. The water is heavily
charged with sulphur. Merritt is the only
American who has visited the horrible place.
An English company is going to try to man
ufacture sulphur at the burning lake.
- The high water at the recent food
washed about four feet of earth from ten to
fifteen acres of land lying along the Tennessee
river, near Louisville, Blount county, Tenn.
When the water subsided a strange spectacle
was presented. The whole of the denuded
area was covered with skeletons. Some were
straight, some reclining, some doubled up, and
some in sitting posture. There were the
osseous forms of infants, of children, and of
full-grown persons, over one thousand forms
having been counted. Persons who have
lived in the vicinity of this mysterious ceme-
terry for more than half century never heard
of any human bones being discovered there
before, and the skeletons are not found in q
mound nor in what appears to be an artificial
formation of earth.
- Pinchback, although avowing in Wash
ington that he was delighted with the Senate's
action in his case, wrote to his friends in New
Orleans in an entirely different strain. One
colored statesman received a letter fairly
bursting with wrath at Gov. Kellogg, and full
Of threats against that patriots life. In it
Mr.. Pinchback requested that his return, du-
ring the latter part of this week, be made the
occasion of a triumpbal ovation that "spon-
taneous" public reception be arranged, and
that he be met at the depot with procession,
torchlights and brass bands, and escorted like
a conqueror to his home. All of the expense
he would pay himself. With this demonstra,
tion as send off, he proposed to begin, at
once, the formation Of new party, whose
chief purpose would be the destruction Of
Kellogg, Packard, Casey & Co.
The New York World publishes a list
of empty buildings and Offices on Broadway
between Bowling Green and Fourteenth
street, which it says is "really startling
Along this central thoroughfare, out of 800
numbers, 2S0 display the renting card occa'
sionally for single Office, and in not few
cases for the whole building. Besides these,
the notifications Of deskroom to let are very
frequent, indeed, showing general desire in
many quarters to Tighten the rent. The side
streets from Broadway, and which, for many
styles of business, are fully as good as the
main street ITSELF also show a good many
offers "to let." Canal, Crosby, Green, Grand
Spring, Mercer, Warren and Walker streets,
have many fine stores and lofts waiting for
occupants. While thedwellinghouse property
is holding up we'll, the stores and Offices are
falling right and left. The World says the
dulness does not seem to be confined to any
special section of the city, or any particular
business. 1t is general business stagna-
tion, a sort of after-wave of the panic Of '73
There are about one-third more buildings now
open to rent than there were a year or year