Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-11
Straps and facts.

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"A poor young man remarks that the
only advice he gets from capitalists is "to live
within his income;" whereas the difficulty he
experiences is to live without an income. &.
- About 500 Tennessee negroes passed
through Nashville the other day, en- route for
Kansas, where they propose to settle; and it
is announced by the Nashville Banner that
hundreds more are to follow.
-"J. Gray-Pack with my box five
dozen quills.' There is nothing remarkable
about this sentence, only that it is nearly as
short as one can be constructed to contain the
whole alphabet.
The President says if he does have to
call an extra session of Congress, he will fix
the date some time in the hot weather, while
he is at Long Branch, and he will come down
to Washington once week to sign bills.
- The Civil Rights Bill touches only, first,
hotels secondly, public conveyances; thirdly,
places of amusement; and, fourthly, juries.
A more stringent law is upon the statute book
of New York, but has never been enforced.
France is the greatest wheat-producng
country in the world. She produced in 1873
the enormous quantity Of 332, ,209, 900 bushels.
The United States rank second in this res.
pect, and Russia third.
-- Gen. N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts,, is
now in Washington. He expressed the opin-
ion that the extreme legislation ofthe Repub-
licans will amount to nothing, and that if
good man of any party is nominated for the
next presidency against Grant, and pledged to
reform the government, he will get nine out
of every ten popular votes.
-- A method has been discovered for max
ing more than the usual quantity of tea from
any given quantity of leaf. The whole secret
consists of steaming the leaf before sleeping.
By this process fourteen pints of good quail
ty may be brewed from one pound of tea.
- Mr. James Parton, and other members
of the New York Liberal Club, have subscri-
bed fund to test the legality of recent de-
cision of a judge excluding witness on the
ground that he was an atheist. The decision
of the higher courts will be looked for with
interest, since the court referred to assumes
that atheists are incapable of telling the truth.
- How long will locomotive last and be
serviceable? An engine on the Reading road
has been on duty since 1S47, and has run in
that time 475,753 miles, or an average of
nearly $1,000 miles per year for twenty-eight
years. Probably there is very little of the
original engine remaining, except the frame
and minor parts. Another engine, made in
London, England, in 1888, is still doing duty.
- Among the propositions which went
by the board in the closing hours of the Con-
gress just ended was that in behalf of express
company interests, to keep four-pound packa-
ges of merchandise out Of the mails. The pro-
position to double the rate, however, on
merchandise in the mails, that is, making it
two instead of one cent per ounce, was adopt
ed.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "The
next National Democratic Convention will
probably be held in St. Louis A majority
of the executive committee is said to favor
that point. The conventions, with one excep-
ton, have been held east of the Alleghanies
since 1856. The East has had enough of
good thing The West will take the conven-
ton and the candidate this time"
"A Washington correspondent says:
The expressions of the colored people here
indicate that they have very exaggerated
ideas of the effect Of the civil rights bill.
Many of them seem to imagine that they can
now order box at the opera, dinner at
Welcker's, a section of Pullman palace car
or demand for their accommodation the bridal
chamber at the Arlington, without rendering
any equivalent.
- During the debate in the Senate on the
civil rights bill, Mr.. Upton moved to strike
out theatres and insert churches. Mr.. Ogles-
by called for the reading of the bill as it
would stand if the amendment we're adopted.
The Clerk read: "That all persons within the
Jurisdiction Of the United States shall be en-
titled to the full enjoyment of the accommo-
dations, advantages, facilities and privileges
Of inns, public conveyances on land or water,
churches and other places of public amuse-
ment." The amendment was rejected.
- The new postal cards will be unlike
those now in use. The color will be violet
blue The border and all direction as to
where and how to write name and address
will be dispensed with A monogram formed
Of the letters ~. S." will be printed on the
card in black ink. This will be on the upper
left hand corner, across which will be the
words Postal Card" The vignette-Liberty,
with her luxuriant tresses hanging down her
back and confined by cap-adorns the up
per left hand corner. The new cards will be
Identical in size with the old ones. They will
be ready for delivery about the middle Of
April.
-- A well-dressed man attracted considera-
BILE attention the other day by sitting upon
the edge of the sidewalk for some time, with
his head beneath his hands, as if in deep
meditation. At last sympathetic stranger
approached him and said: Friend, you seem
to be in trouble; can assist you any way?"
The man sprang to his feet, and, taking off
his hat, parted his hair carefully, and said:
stranger, do you see that cut? My wife
did it this morning with fiat iron, then sent
me down town to buy her new bonnet.
And I have been sitting here for an hour try
ing to decide whether l will buy it or not
and blame me, stranger, if haven't about
decided to getit"
"A New York correspondent relates a
marvellous story of how well known charta
BILE lady of that city recently had her pocket
picked of seven hundred dollars, which she
was CARRYING from fair for the benefit of the
poor. The fact of the robbery is not in itself
50 very remarkable, but the romance of the
story comes in the recital of how a day or two
after the theft, rough looking man rang
the door bell of the ladys house and, being
admitted, returned the seven hundred dollars,
adding: "The Fraternity, Madam, desired
me to say that you are known and admired
by them, and that the annoyance you have
suffered in the loss of this money was
owing to mistake. The person who took it
did not recognize you. Further, that you
never need be worried should you lose money
in th;s o;tu anain if Won do lose anY it will