Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-15

Boston has received Othclal notice or Its rec0g-
milton by the Grand Lodge of Germany.
- 1t is reported that prominent English
merchants have chartered the steamer Great
Eastern to run between Liverpool and Phil
adel phia during the Centennial.
- Nearly two hundred persons were dis
charged from the various bureaus of the trea-
sury department, in Washington, on Thurs
day of last week.
-- The Legislature of Tennessee proposes
to tax every bachelor over thirty years of age
in the State, the sum of ten dollars, for the
privilege" of remaining unmarried.
-- The latest "corner' is in canary seed.
The price has been run up from So to sig per
bushel, and next years crop is said to be al
ready sold.
- Shameful, if true The American Gro
Ger declares "that there is scarcely single
class of goods put up and sold in this country
which is not short of the weight or measure
claimed for it,
THE New York Tribune states that it
had Gen. Preston's address at the University
of Virginia in type several days before it was
delivered, but did not print it when it was de.
livered, because the faculty and trustees ap-
pealed by telegraph to have it suppressed.
- The Iowa Leader tells story of a we'll
known life insurance agent, who approached
Hammond, the revivalist, on the subject of
insuring his life Hammond said that he
could not afford to turn his attention to such
a temporary and worldly subject, but if the
agent could insure his soul it might be worth
while talking. The agent slowly shook his
head and said it was impossible; his COM
pany did not carry any fire risks.
"A young lady tried to sit down in
street car, but was pinned back so tight she
couldn't. An old lady peeped over her specs
and asked her, "How long have you been
afflicted that way?" The young lady blushed
and made "a break" sitting down sideways,
and holding her knees together so tight that
she looked as if she had on one-legged pair
of breeches. The old lady noticed her sitting
in this sidewise, cramped position, and whis-
pered, "Bile, 1 spose; I've had 'em thar
myself"
-- A curious feature of the Beecher trial
and its concomitants is the one which embraces
the allegation that Mr.. Beecher would have
been acquitted but for an imprudent remark
by the foreman of the jury. The three Til
ton Jurors had been wearied into an agree
ment to yield to the persistency OF the nine
Beecher jurors, and had consented to agree
to verdict of acquittal, when the foreman
aforesaid, Mr.. Chester Carpenter, imprudent-
" remarked that "his son.in-law had made
a bet on the result of the jury's deliberations"
whereupon the three Tiltouians relapsed to
their normal obstinacy and rufused to be
Beecherites.
20 opening bale of cotton at the mill
of one of the largest Liverpool spinners, the
other day, much surprise was manifested at
the discovery within of box of lucifer match
es bearing the following label: Superior tel
egraphic matches, manufactured by Capples
& Marston, St. Louis, every box warranted"
The matches were of the ordinary kind, and
on one or two of them being tried they were
found to ignite with the greatest readiness.
The cotton came to Liverpool from Mobile,
and the most serious consequences might have
resulted had the least amount of friction been
applied to the lucifers during the voyage, or
even after the cotton had reached its destina-
tion.
- Rowelrs Newspaper Directory shows
the failure of one thousand newspapers in
this country during the last year, the loss
to publishers, subscribers and advertisers
amounting to over eight million dollars, the
Republic, of New York. alone losing half
million. Among those who went into the
newspaper business and lost heavily thereby,
were 275 merchants and adventures, 3l5
school teachers, 81 lawyers, 4 blacksmiths,
33 pIasterers, 10 farmers, 200 fanatics OF
vaious classes afflicted with literary leanings,
100 ambitious, but visionary young men, who
drew upon their fathers, and thus suddenly
exhausted large margins of the paternal cap
ital, and 6 lottery men.
- The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore San writes "It is very gratifying
to record that for the first time in the long
period of the ten years which have elapsed
since the close of the war, those who sit in
high places exhibit no disposition to stir up po-
litical feelings against the South. This is the
first summer since 1865 that this city has
not been made the head quarters for the dis
semination all over the country of the most
malgn ISLANDERS upon the Southern people.
1t seems safe to say that this unhappy busi-
ness is at last atan end. The Southern people
must have some feeling of this kind, tor all
the intelligence which comes here from that
section represents the aspect of business affairs
as most hopeful"
- The Detroit Free Press describes some
of the startling incidents attending the des-
tructive tornado which swept over that city
last week as reported by telegraph Its track
was perhaps one hundred and fifty feet wide
and within that limit nothing could resist its
tremendous force. Houses were taken up
high in air, shaken into fragments, and in
many instances scattering over territory mile
in length. Indeed, flying pieces of timber were
seen whrling aloft fully two miles from the
place where the work of demolition began.
Where one moment stood row of substantial
houses, the next witnessed scene OF devasta-
tion impossible to realize, with scarcely YES
tige of the buildings in sight, so utterly were
they swept off the face of the EARTH Every
where we're heard cries of the wounded, whose
bleeding and multiated bodies were pitiful to
look upon. A boy was caught up and car
ried into the topmost branches ola tall elm,
and he fell dead to the ground, distance of
fifty feet A little babe, seven months old,
was found dead in the street A widow had
gone up town to visit her father, and, when
she returned, her house was nowhere to be
found. 1t had been carried bodily at least
two hundred feet, torn to atoms, and scatter
ed far and wide. Two horses were carried
over barn and flung to the earth dead, and
numerous smaller domestic animals were made
to perform some most astonishing gyrations.
Incident upon incident illustrating the pccu-
liar action of the storm-cloud are related,
and over fifty persons are reported seriously,
if not fatally, injured.