Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-17
Sfraps aud fafts.

they look like thei. mother and act like their
father"
- mo, sir" said weary-looking man on
the street car, to an individual by his side, II
wouldn't marry the best woman alive I've
been dry goods clerk too long for that"
- The legislature of California has passed
a law forbidding any discrimination against
the female teachers in the matter of pay. In
future itmust be equal salary for equal grade.
- There is mail route in Montana over
which the sum total of seventeen letters pas
sed last year. The route costs the Govern
ment S5OO,OOO per annum, or $4,000 per
letter.
-- 1t is said that in Memphis the demand
for morphine has become so large that the
local druggists are considering the propriety
of not selling the article unless on the order
of a physician or to well-known citizen.
-- The Washington Republican is in very
bad humor with the hotel-keepers of that city,
because they allowed Spotted Tail and his Sc
lect company of savages to sit at the table with
white people.
- The price of canary seed is reported as
being FIVE times higher this year than last,
owing to the failure of the product in the Ca
nary Islands and some parts of England and
Switzerland.
-- The desertions from the United States
army for the ten months of the present fiscal
year, ending April 80, were 1871, against
4,506 for the year ending June 80, 1874, and
the re-enlistments 1,779, against 500 for the
year ending June 80, 1874.
- A resolution to the effect that neither
State or the federal Government has the
constitutional right to dissolve the Union, was
rejected in the Missouri constitutional conven-
tion last week by vote of 4s to ga decided
vote affirming the right of State 10 secede.
- A committee has been formed in Elmi-
ra, New York, of which ex.Congressman H.
Boardman Smith is the head, to make ar
rangements for the erection of monument
to the Confederate dead, nearly 5000 of
whom are buried in the Woodlake Cemetery
there.
- At meeting of the board of Directors
of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College, held at Bryan, on the I'd instant,
the salary of the president of the institution
was fixed at $4,000 and a committee was ap-
pointed to confer with Jefferson Davis and
tender him the position.
- General Sherman has recently pub
lished his autobiography. General Grant is
said to have replied, in answer to an inquiry
of the secratary of war, that he had read
Sherman's book, but was disappointed in it, as
it seemed to involve the conclusion that he
(Grant) was not in the war at all.
-- The New York Herald thus notices
the carnival of G. P. Lesliein New York: "Mr.
C. P. Leslie member of the South Carolina
legislature, is at Barnum's hotel. Mr.. Leslie
is the person who was reported in Wednesdays
dispatches as having left South Carolina be-
cause of legal complications arising out of
his career while land commissioner during
Gov. SCOTS administration"
-A A few days ago boy in New York
city was convicted of theft. He had stolen
twenty-five cents. The righteous judge sent
him to state prison for two years. On Thurs
day the keeper who killed lunatic on Wards
island, by blow from stick, was found
guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment. From this it would
appear that the theft of a quarter and the kill
ing of lunatic are crimes of equal gravity in
the great metropolis.
- The procession in connection with the
Centennial celebration of the battle of Bunker
Hill, at Boston, to-day, promises to be of i'm
posing dimensions. All the Massachusetts,
militia, about $500 men, will be in column,
and half as many more expected from
other States. Civic organizations numbering
10000 men have already reported their inten-
tion of being present, besides the various
trades, who will send wagons with men work
ing at their respective vocatons.
-- AS an illustration of the service rem
dered to commerce by the introduction of i'm
proved mechanical apparatus, the following
statement regarding the famous Butte Docks
at Cardiff is of interest: At those docks the
machinery for lifting out ballast and putting
in coal is said to be so efficient that steam
collier of fifteen hundred tons can enter
the basin at high water on one day, discharge
her ballast, take in full cargo of coal, aud
leave at high water the following day, thus
unloading and loading up in less than twenty
four hours.
- All the crop accounts from the South
are decidedly encouraging, and the present
outlook is very favorable for abundant yields
of all the great staples in this section. Con-
sideraby more grain has been grown than in
past years, and it is doing gwell. The superior
condition of labor this year is also noticed in
nearly all the reports from the South. In
some localities it is declared to be fifty per
cent more efficient than last year, in spite of
the fact that wages rule considerably lower.
The year promises to be one of great prosper
ity to the South, even if prices rule somewhat
lower than heretofore.
y Mr.. Charles Leland, of Philadelphia,
has Just published book, in which he pro-
duces massive argument to prove that Chris
topher Columbus did not first discover Amer
lea, nor did any of the adventures to whom
the school books ascribe the feat. He declares
emphatically that Chinese Buddhist priest
named Hoe-Shin, in the year 400, returned to
China from voyage, and stated to the won
dering Celestials that he had discovered
great country across the sea, which he had
named Tusang. He described the natives in
such way as to identify them with the Amer
lean Indians, Peruvians and other races. If
Mr.. Leland can maintain his theory, as he
appears to be able to do, our school geogra-
phies will have to change the answer to the
question, "Who discovered America?' from
columbus" to "Hoei-Shin."
-- William H Talcott, buyer of the silk
department of H. B. ClaAin & Co., was placed
under arrest in New York last week, on
warrant based on affdavits from the United
States District Attorney, charging him with
knowingly receiving and selling goods which
had been smugged through the Customhouse.
The accused was held to answer in the sum OF