Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-13
Straps aud fafts.
"A Western circus has a wax-work group
Of the principals in the Beecher trial

ine Oakland Manufacturing Co., at
Bath, Maine, are at work on an order for 90
900 base ball bats.
-- Kate Field puts the amount annually
expended on theatre patronage in New York
city at s2,0O0,OOO.
= A man called on dilatory debtor, and
politely said. "If you'll pay me the amount
Of your bill Immediately, you will oblige me ;
if not, l shall have to oblige you."
-- The Singer Sewing Machine Company
has subscribed ten thousand dollars to the
Philadelphia Centennial stock, the Wheeler
d Wilson five thousand, and the Howe Com.
pany three thousand.
- Confederate General Ri plev, who du.
ring the war was in command of the defenses
OF Charleston, has been engaged by the Chi
nese to construct works on an extensive scale
for the defense Of the coast and principal riv-
ers of that empire. Since the war, General
Ripley has resided in London.
- A rustic youngster, being asked out to
take tea with friend, was admonished to
praise the eatables Presently the butter was
passed to him, when he remarked: Every nice
butter-what there is of it," and observing a
smile, he added, "and plenty of it-such as it
is"
- Chaviz, the lieutenant of the California
bandit chief, Vasquez, is carrying out the
threat he made to avenge the latter's death.
With band of mounted followers, he is
ravagng certain southern counties whose in
habitants clamor for legislative appropria.
tion as a reward for his capture.
- The oldest practicing lawyer in the
world is the Hon. Elbert Herring, of New
York, who is now SO years old He was
admitted to the bar in 1898, and was Judge
of Marine Court when Napoleon Bonaparte
was made Emperor. Charles O'Connor stud
led law with him.
- The total number of accidents reported
on all railroads in the country during March
last, was 12z, whereby II persons were killed
and 73 injured. Twelve accidents caused the
death of one or more persons, 56 others injury,
but not death, and 81 or SO per cent. Of the
whole, are recorded as causing no serious in
jury to any person. The number of acci-
dents falls far behind the record of February,
and exceeds that of January.
- The civil rights law receives another
judicial stab-this time from Texas United
States Judge Moreilles states his views in
way of his own, laying down the principle
that all persons enjoy legal right to have
board and lodging at inns, transportation
on steamers and railroads, and entrance into
theatres, "while they do not thereby acquire
any social "rights" This idea is so ilustra-
ted by the Judge that we can hardly expect
any indictments under the civil rg ghts law
as the result of his charge to the grand jury.
- The centennial celebration, to take
place in Westmoreland, Penn, next Saturday,
assumes rather droll air in view of the fact
that the resolutions whose adoption is COM
memorated, declared the unshaken loyalty
of the people of Pennsylvania ito His Majesty
King George the Third, our lawful and
rightful King"-and this after the massacre
of Americans at Lexington. To call such
document a Declaration of Independence
is to twist it into shape in which the orig
inal would never be recognized. The res
olutions were, no doubt, patriotic in intent
and spirit, but they we're very far from being
a declaration like that of Mecklenburg, in
North Carolina.
king Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Is
lands, will send his feather cloak to the Centen-
NAL Exposition at Philadelphia. This ar.
ticle will represent more labor than any other
that will be on exhibition. Its manufac-
ture was commenced over hundred years ago,
under the auspices of some of the ancestors of
Kamehameha, the first King of the islands,
and, upward of fifty years of time was requir-
ed for its completion. 1t is made of the feath-
ers of peculiar species of bird-each bird
furnishing only two feathers-one from under
~ o,1o l. ., stf1a
a square yard, and its color is golden yel-
low. 1t used to be worn by the King on
state occasions, but of late years it serves only
to adorn the reception room of the palace.
- The medical profession is watching
with interest the effects produced upon Gen.
Frank P. Blair, who is Frustrated by paraly.
sis and is being treated by the transfusing of
healthy blood into his veins. He has now
received three operations. The first time an
ounce and half was transfused; the second
time little less than four ounces, and the
last time five ounces. The first two times he
Law almost insensible and apparently unccn-
scious The last time he watched the operation
with great interest and articulated a few words,
which he had not done for some time. He
also moved his paralytic arm, and few min
utes afterward fell asleep. His wife and fam
, lily are represented to be greatly encouraged.
Similar operations have been performed re-
Gently on two patients in St. Louis hospital,
and in each instance the result is said to have
been satisfactory.
- The Shelbyville (Tenn.) Gazette says:
There is weed growing in one or two gar
dens of this place which is possessed of Won
derful and valuable curative properties as re-
CARDS that terrible disease, gravel in the blad-
der. 1t is claimed by those who have given
it a thorough test, and know whereof they
speak, that it will cure the worst case of gray.
ell in twelve or twenty-four hours; that it will
give almost instant relief and will dissolve
the worst gravel in twelve hours; that it has
been tried in hundreds of cases and was never
known to fail in efecting speedy and per-
manent cure. In one case in this county,
where it was administered, and under the OBJ
servation Of an old and regular practicing
physician, it passed from the bladder of a pa
tient, within twelve hours after it was given,
three tablespoons full of gravel and sand. 1t
is good alike for man and beast, and is a
splendid duretic. There is goodly quanti-
ty growing in the garden of Mr. L. w. Bar
rett in this place. 1t is known here by no
other name than gravel weed and was
brought to this country in the summer of
1884, from Morgan county, Alabama, by Mr..
Thomas Knott, an old citizen of this county,
who now resides near this place"
Alta period of dullness, the Beecher
trial developed new phase of interest last
week. Henry c. Bowen was placed on the
stand as a witness for the plaintiff, and on
-. :rorto,+ no;nte he contra diets the state