Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-19
Strips aud fafts.

they are as good as negroes.
- There are 500 paper mills in the United
States, with capital s40,000,OOO, and pro-
ducing annually s7O,000,0O0 worth of paper.
"A saloon keeper in Louisiana has just
been compelled to pay $1,000 damages to a
woman for selling liquor to her husband.
~ New York city is overstocked with
Delaware peaches, the price Of which has
fallen from sl.25 to Is cents per crate.
TO prevent her lover from "going back"
on his promise, Detroit girl always intro
duces him to her friends as "my intended hus-
band"
- Yellow fever made its appearance in
virulent form at Pascagoula, Miss, on Sun
day of last week. Up to Friday thirty cases
were under treatment, and seven deaths had
occurred.
"A local colored candidate for State
Senator down in Mississippi says: "If desc
white men who fess to be 'publicans want our
votes dey must come clean over and be one
ofus-yes, by ganny, dey mus be niggers wild
U.S."
- The people of Ohio had sad expert
ence of the effects of initiation as applied to
the river streams of the State. The currency
overAowing their banks has been more than
sufficient to "move the crops" and vast tracts
of country have gone into liquidation.
- A number of post masters in all Sec
tions of the Union have been recently re-
moved for improper transactions in postage
stamps, whereby their salaries were increas-
sed-among them David johnson, postmas-
ter at Union G. H., South Carolina.
IN two sides of the human face are
precisely alike. 1t is the same with the every
limb: no pair Of limbs are fashioned alike.
One hand is almost always larger than the
other so with the foot, the leg and the arm.
But the greatest of all marvels is this never
we're two human faces alike.
"A convention, composed of colored ed
itors of newspapers and other distinguished
representatives of the colored race, was held
in Cincinnati last week. The prevailing sen.
timent was in favor Of united action on the
part of the coored people for the enforcement
of all the rights secured to them by law.
- A one.legged ex.Confederate soldier
begged theauthorities in Atlanta to send him
to the stationhouse to prevent him from starv-
ing. And yet our memorial shafts pierce the
skies, ard hundreds and thousand of dollars
are thrown away upon the leprous lizard
eaters of the South Sea Islands.
- Some inquiring statistician has figured
out that of the present Congress. composed of
1856 members, 200 are lawyers, 80 merchants,
and the rest editors and farmers. In the
United States there are 10000 lawyers and
100000 farmers; therefore, there is one
LAWYER in Congress for every 200 Of that
profession, and only one farmer for every
100000, as the latter class, in reality, only y
number 1S in our national legislature.
- The Esquimaux have an ingenious
way of killing bears. They sharpen the ends
of piece of whalebone, foot or more long,
then bend it double and wrap it closely in
fat meat, which is exposed to the air till it
freezes. These treacherous pellets are thrown
to the bear, which bolts them whole. They
thaw in his stomach; the bent whalebone
straightens, and the sharp points pierce his
vitals whenever he attempts to move.
- The perpetrators of the SAT 900 rob-
berry in the Treasury Department at Washing
ton, have at length been detected. The pack
age of money was stolen by clerk named Hal
leck, who says he was instigated to the
deed by saloon keeper named Ottman.
They are both in prison. Fourteen thousand
dollars of the stolen money have been recov.
cred, and attachments have been served on
Ottmans property, which it is thought will be
sufficient to secure the remainder of the stolen
sum.
- At Detroit, Mich, are situated the
immense car works of the Pullman Palace
Car Company. They cover an area of sever
al acres, and in them nearly six hundred
workmen are employed. Everything apper-
tanning to the construction of the cars of the
Company, with the exception of the iron
casting, is done in these shops, and from them
the completed cars for use in this country are
turned out, whilst those that are to be used in
Europe are shipped in sections, in charge of
gangs of workmen, to their place of destina-
tion.
1t is thought in Tennessee that the
Governor will appoint Gen. VIM. B. Bates to
the seat of the late Andrew johnson in the
Senate. Gen. Bates was a close competitor
of Mr.. johnson, the latter winning only by
a very small vote. He was Confederate
officer. Among others mentioned for the
vacant seat in the Senate are ex.Governors
Isham G.. Harris and John G. Brown. 1t
is said that Gov. Porter has stongly intimated
that the claims of those who sought the ap-
pointment while the late Senator's body re-
mained unburied, will be entirely ignored by
him.
- Certain avaricious and enterprising
citizens of certain Minnesota county, the
authorities of which had offered a liberal
price per bushel for grasshoppers as means
of exterminating those greedy invaders, were
not content with what they could make in an
honest way, numerous as the hoppers were,
but invented and executed plan for roast
ing and thus doubling the size of the insects
and making two bushels out of one. And
their rapacity for lucre increasing with their
gains, these sharp gentlemen went into the ad-
joining and adjacent counties, where they cap
tured untold bushels of the insects. which
they hauled home and roasted to double their
measuring capacity, and then sold them
to the authorities.
- A wild boy was lately captured near
Austin, Texas. He was first discovered wal
lowing in pond of shallow water, and when
approached he broke like quarter-horse,
running about mile before he could be over
taken by men on ponies. Riding up near, the
boy was lassoed, when a fierce contest ensued,
the strange being striking, kicking and lung
ing about in most fearful manner, and ap-
parently being frightened almost to death.
Finally he was overpowered, tied and taken
to the house of the man who first discovered
him. His body was covered with hair about
four inches long and from size and appear
ance, he is supposed to be about twelve years