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

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- The statement is made that the farmers
of Michigan owe the merchants of that State
s5,OOO,0OO.
- An Indiana Court has decided that
girl may, if she wishes, simultaneously sue 6f-
ty young men for breach of promise.
- The subject of Brigham Young's i'm
prisonment has been under discussion in cab
met meeting, and the case was referred to the
attorney general for investigation.
Il There were $4,000 bales Of cotton &C.
cumuated in New York on Wednesday Of
last week the same as the amount on hand
last year on that day.
The centenary of Cristafori, the inventor
of the piano, which occurs next May, will be
celebrated by an international concert at
Florence.
"A wife and mother, aged 16, has been
granted divorce in Sioux City. The Judge
told her to be careful, for he would not grant
her another divorce until she was IL.
"A lazy mans churn has been invented in
Vermont 1t is adjusted to wagon, and
all man has to do is to drive down for the
mail, and when he gets back the butter has
come.
An adjourned meeting of pork packers
was held at Keokuk, Iowa, last week, with
large attendance from different points. Re-
ports were made indicating that the crop is
equal to last year.
"A mammoth steer from Oregon is al
ready en- route to the Centennial. 1t stands
nineteen hands, or six feet four inches, meas.
ures twenty feet from tip to tip, and weighs
500 pounds.
- DIR. David Greed, probably the only
surviving member of the jury which tried
Aaron Burr for treason, is at present resi-
dent of Chillicothe, Ohio, and enjoys excellent
health, though over ninety years old.
Six criminals, two white and four colored,
are under sentence of death in Louisiana, and
the Governor has signed the death warrants.
Two of them are to be hanged on the 18th
instant, and four on the 26th.
- Arrangements are in progress for fast
mail from Washington to New Orleans, by
way of Danville, Charlotte and Atlanta,
which will save, perhaps, nine hours between
the terminal points.
- The Oxford University Press has just
published the smallest Bible in the world. 1t
measures 4!x24x4 inches, and weighs, when
bound in limp morocco, less than three and
one.haf ounces. The type of this dainty little
volume, though necessarily very minute, IS
clear and legible.
"A gang of burglars effected an entrance
into an office in New York, one day last
week, and cut hole through the side of the
safe. They then discovered that the safe con-
tanned papers of no value, and further, that
the safe was not locked. In their disgust,
the thieves hauled the papers out of the safe
and scattered them about the office.
"A Connecticut Yankee, whose father,
doubtless, sold Eastwood hams and maple nut
megs, took the first premium on barley at his
county fair the other day. The grains were
so large and plump that every other exhibi-
tor was compelled to hide his diminished head:
1t afterwards leaked out that the unusual
size of the grains was owing to their having
been judiciously soaked in water before being
exhibited.
- The New York Daily Bulletin infers
from the price of cotton, which is now frac-
tion lower than before the war, from the wa
ges of the principal classes of factory employees,
which are as low as they were in 1860, and from
the deCruaseu price on wUor; -wnr1n +, pc,ow
the price of 1860, that what it calls the "bot-
TOM has been got at, and that the prices of
material and labor have reached normal
state, to be followed by the "process of recov'
cry"
- A rich and eccentric Belgian, residing
at Vermond (Aisne) lately wrote to his rel
atives to come and see coat he had ordered.
They, imagining the invitation meant break
fast. went, and were astonished to see series
of cofins, which the original was trying, one
after the other. He had caused them to be
made by number of different joiners. At
last he found one which suited him, laid
down in it, took some poison, and expired
suddenly.
- The manufacture of a barrel of petrole-
um into fixed gas, says the anthracite Re-
cord, can be accomplished at a less cost than
into refined OIL Numerous works for this
purpose are now in operation, and more are
being erected, while the cheapness with which
they can be built and operated puts gas works,
and the advantage Of cheap and good gas
light, within the reach Of the smallest commu.
mites, instead of con6ning it to the cities, as
is and must be the case with coal gas.
- John King, of Tennessee, is very busy
asking questions about what has taken place
during the last thirteen years. He had a
farm in Tennessee in 1862, and the soldiers Of
both armies made themselves cordially at home
on his premises. So he removed, with all
his produce, to a cave in the Cumberland
Mountains. A storm threw down rock
which closed the mouth of the cave. There
in he lived for thirteen years in the dark,
eating from his produce and drinking from
a spring. The other day railroad company,
blasting for tunnel, blasted him out.
- Gen. Beauregard, in letter to the
New Orleans Picayune relates how the name
"Stonewall'' came to be applied to Gen. T. j.
jackson: During the battle of Manassas,
about II o'clock a. m, when that gallant
and meritorious officer, Brigadier General
Barnard E. Bee, was endeavoring to ral-
ly his troops in the small valley in rear of
the Robinson house, he noticed Jackson's bri-
gade, which had just arrived and taken posi-
ton little in rear of him, in copse of small
pines bordering the edge ofthe plateau, where
was about to be fought the first great battle
OF the war. bee, nndlng tnat MS appear WAS
unheeded by his brave but disorganized
troops, then said to them, Rally, men rally
See Jackson's brigade standing there like a
stone WALL Those words gave the appella-
tion to that brigade, and thence to its heroic
commander"
- The Associate Reformed Synod Of the
South, held its annual meeting at Due West,
S. c., on September %. The most impor-
tant action taken at this meeting was deliv-
oranoa ON the snhiect of communion with