Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-24
Straps aud fatts.


Sunday, how much would you take for that
lumber?" eff wasn't Sunday, I'd tell you,' >
was the very proper reply.
- In New York they are betting two to
one that the trial of Beecher will result in a
disagreement of the jury, while the wagers
are even as to the relative chances of YER
dict of guilty or acquittal.
- The case of Tilton Us. Beecher is near
~ at an end. 1t has paid the Western Union
Telegraph Company S750,000 in additional
newspaper tolls. 1t has consumed more space
in the public prints than an entire Presiden-
tial campaign.
- Fourteen hundred steerage passengers
leaving New York in one day, to return to Eu-
rope is, says the New York Herald, an event
Of no small significance. The significance
of the event finds emphasis in the estimate
that the immigration arrivals this year in New
York will be $4,000 less than they were in
1874.
- The latest speculation as to the mystic
rlous robbery Of the United States treasury
throws the strange transaction further into
the past. 1t is now asserted that as no settle
ment was had for three years it became necessa-
ry, in view of the one approaching, to account
for some fifty thousand dollars short. A
mysterious robbery balances the account.
California is now actually suffering
from the too sudden influx of population, and
her papers are discussing the question, what
is to become of the people who are inconsider-
ately rushing into her borders Indeed, the
wave Of emigration toward California just
now, is spoken of as one of the most singular
in the history of the movement of population,
because there is no apparent reason for it.
How to make glass that is not brittle,
recently discovered for the second time, was
discovered for the first time when Tiberius
was Roman Emperor, as recorded by Pliny.;
but Tiberius feared the invention would de-
prive gold and silver of their value, and, hav-
ing learned that the inventor was the sole de-
pository of the secret, he caused him to be de-
capitated.
- Within the past five years there have
been built and put into operation number of
narrow-gauge roads in this country of thirty
six inches. A striking and conclusive fact
about these roads, according to the Chicago
Railuay Review, is that not one of those in full
operation at the date of the panic has gone
into bankruptcy, and that every one has
promptly paid its interest obligations from net
earnings, and had left some surplus to the
credit of income account.
-- A Washington dispatch says: ''The
clerks of the interior department have been
assessed one per cent. on their salaries for a
fund which is now being raised here to be used
in the Ohio campaign. AS the name of the
higher officials of the department appear on
the list as subscribers, the clerks who have
been called upon lack the courage to refuse.
All this is in direct violation of the order
of the President prohibiting political assess
ments upon the department employees.
"A dispatch of Prof. Jenney from the
Black Hills, reporting that no gold had been
discovered thus far, confirms the belief of a
large portion of sober-thinking folks, to whom
the stories sounded rather romantic The
whole region is of a recent geological structure
from the known gold fields of the world. 1t
is barely possible that Prof. Jenney may dis
cover traces of gold farther west, but it is
doubtful enough to deter any reasonable being
from seeking wealth where the chances Of
scalping are much surer than those of wealth.
- On Monday and Tuesday nights of last
week, very heavy frosts fell in many sections
of the North. In the lower portions of New
Jersey the frost was so heavy that it could be
scooped up in the hand, and fruit and vegeta-
bles have been materially injured. In New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine
and New Hampshire the growing crops have
been damaged, but to what extent has not
been ascertained. Heavy, cold rains are re-
ported from California, entailing great damage
to cut and standing grain, but pleasant wealth
er now prevails.
- At one ofMoody's recent revival meet
ings in London, he called on all those who wish
ed to 60 to heaven to rise A jolly Jack Tar
present did not respond to the invitation, but
remained in his seat. Thereupon Moody
asked if it could be possible he did not wish
to 60 to heaven also. eyes, your honor" re-
sponded Jack, II wish to 60 to heaven" "
"Then why don't you rise with the rest ?"
Because" replied Jack, very slowly, and
surveying the whole company with scrutin-
izing glance, "because I amt going to ship
with such looking crew as this!"
- A fearful suicide occurred in Paris the
other day. Gerard Anthoine called his little
boy, aged six, to him, and said Little one,
you have often wished to play with this pis-
tol," showing the child an old pistol" 90.
yes, papa" Well, we will play with it now"
and loading the weapon, the father handed
it to the boy. "Now, look" he said, 81 will
get down on my knees before, you; you will
point at me right between the eyes and pull
the trigger; you'll see how funny it isl" and
he knelt down. "Aim well in the head, be-
tween the eyes," he said again. "but first
embrace me-" The poor child embraced his
flther, then pointed the pistol as told, and
fred. Gerard fell back dead, and the boy
seeing the terrible result, ran out of the room
sobbing.
"A negro revivalist named Andrew Coon
is said to be as effective with his own race,
in Mississippi, as Moody and sankey are with
white people. He is powerful fellow, ply,
scally and vocally, and the scenes that attend
his fervid exhortations are described as being
the acme of religious excitement. A cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial attend
ed one of his meetings. After narrowing
sermon, that wrought the impressible hearers
to intense feeling, he made the following ad'
montion and appeal "Now, bredren and
sisters, we want mounahs heab, tonight.
Nofoolin' Eff you can't moulin for your sins,
dom come foo1in' round dis altah. l knows ye.
You's tryin' mighty ha'hd to be convarted
'thout ben' hurt. The Lord 'spises mockery.
Sometimes you sinnahs comes foh'rd an
holds your head too high a-comin. You
come foah you's ready. You starts too soon.
You don't repent; you's no mounah. You's
foolen wild de Lord. You come struttln' up
to the allah vnn hnns down ON YOUR knees