Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-03-04
Straps aud fatts.

- Tilton says that Mrs. Tilton's soul is
white, and that Beecher is the guilty wretch !;
but Mrs. Titon says that Beechers soul is
white and that she herself is alone guilty
Beecher, however, agrees with Tilton about it.
Somebody is evidently mistaken.
- very flexible temperance pledge is
this, which is circulated among Boston fash
ionable ladies: II promise that no intoxica-
ting liquor shall be used in this house for
cooking purposes, and in sickness that it
shall be given conscientiously."
- At Knoxville, Tenn, on the 25th, the
water was but five feet below the great food of
1867. Many houses and bridges have been
destroyed, and the weather is still threatening.
The gas works have been inundated, and
mills in all directions have been swept away.
- A man who had served twelve years
sentence in the State prison at Auburn, New
York, absolutely refused to depart, and the
jailer, to get rid of him, sent him to sweep the
sde-w walk, and then locked the doors on him.
He made many attempts to break in, but fna-
ly gave itup and went away.
"A novelty in the mode ofhanging crimi-
mails was recently introduced at Newgate,
England. Instead of erecting the usual scat
fold above ground, a pit was dug in the soil
and trap.door made level with the ground
opening into the pit. The convict was pinion.
ed by the executioner on top of the trap, and
at given signal the drop fell, and the un-
fortunate ceas ed to live
- When we consider the prevalence of
the custom to dub everybody who went to
the war with the title of Captain, Colonel,
General, &C., there is peculiar appropriate
ness in the following resolution, which was
introduced at meeting of Confederate sold
iers at Atlanta, Ga, the other day: RESOLVED,
That the President appoint committee Of
one to inquire into the matter of whether
there were any surviving privates Of the late
war.
- A colored citizen of Indiana writes a
letter, in which he states that under the deci-
sion of the Supreme Court, excluding colored
children from the public schools, the whites
will not permit his children to attend, not
withstanding that he pays as much tax as
half the district combined. AS his family is
the only colored one in the township, the au-
thorities will not provide him separate
school. He is not particular about his chill
dren going to the school, but he would like to
be relieved from the un njust taxation.
- Sartoris president Grants English
son-in-law) created quite sensation at the
Washington gymnasium a few days ago,
by getting the best Of set-to with the "pro-
fessor" of sparring at that institution, a burly
ex.pugilist known as "Charley Collins" the
"Cast.iron Man." The chagrined professor
appointed another meeting, at which he Jared
no better, and the athletic Englishman is in
disputably the lion of the day among the
muscular young gentlemen of the various
foreign legations who frequent the gymnasium.
- Mr.. Rosenthal, the celebrated French
chessplayer, recently played, at the Palais
Royal, twenty-seven games of chess at once
with that number of the best French and
foreign players. 1t was stipulated that Mr..
Rosenthal should have on y one minute for
each move, passing along the twenty-seven
tables in order. Of course, each of his antag
onists had time to study the game, while Mr.
Rosenthal was busy at the other twenty-six
tables The contest lasted from o'clock at
night until 2 o'clock III the morning. The
result was marvellous. Mr.. Rosenthal won
twenty. three games Three were drawn, and
garian player named Rakowiski.
- The tax bill as passed by the House of
Representatives will raise S34,000,000, in
round numbers, as follows: From whisky,
sl2,OOO,OOO; from sugar, sS,000,000; renew
al of horizontal tax, sS,000,000; tobacco,
s4,0OO,0OO; cigars, 100000. The original
bill raised s16,OOO,OO0 on whisky, or s6 ,000,-
600 more than the present bill, but did not
tax cigars, and repealed the tax on matches,
which this bill does not do. The net results
of the two measures are almost the same in
amount, the decrease on whisky under the
substitute being nearly covered by the increas-
ed tax on cigars and the continuation of the
match tax.
- The eucalyptus tree, Of which so much
was said last year when it was recommended
for use in marshy countries, because Of its rap
id growth, has been made the subject Of q
speculation in California. The Los Angeles
Herald reports that company has been
formed in that city for the purpose of raising
eucalyptus trees for fuel and manufacturing
purposes. Trees have been raised from seed
in the vicinity Of that city which are now
four and half years old, and which measure
sixteen inches in diameter and are forty feet
high. 1t is estimated that each tree is worth
one dollar for fuel, and more for manufactur-
ing purposes. The company proposes to buy
land at about thirty dollars an acre, and plant
each acre with six hundred trees. The profits,
if the trees are cut at the end Of four years,
can be readily calculated, and the Los Ange-
les Company think they can be realized as
we'll.
- The new United States Senate, which
goes into office March and meets in special
session at the capitol March 5, consists Of
seventy-three members, there being one va
cancy that in Louisiana. The new Senate
contains forty.one regular republicans and
three independent republicans ns-Booth of Cal
ifornia, Christiancy of Michigan, and Angus
Cameron of Observation-Disclosures demo-
Gratis and one independent democrat-Andrew
johnson of Tennessee-and one liberal repub-
lican-Hamilton of Texas Compared with
the present Senate, there are eight less repub-
licans and seven more democrats. The regu.
lar republicans in the present Senate have
twenty five majority over all others combined,
whilst in the new Senate they will have nine
majority. The republicans and Independent
republicans combined will have fifteen ma jor-
ity over all others in the new Senate.
- A letter from New York in regard
to the hard times in that city says: "First,
building is stopped, and men by the hundreds
are thrown out of work. Rents are down,
and landlords have to wait where rents re-
main, or take the stores and warehouses on
their hands. Every third store on Broadway
seems to be to let, with chambers and lofts
innumerable. Men who had fair employ
ment last May, and took tenement to live in,