Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-23
Scraps aud fatts.


1t is proposed to have a reunion of the
famous Stonewall Brigade at Richmond, Va,
during the State fair in October next. This
command was made up principally from men
of the Valley and Southwest Virginia.
- One of the Methodist Episcopal church
es in Troy, N. Y, will hereafter use grape
jelly, dissolved in water, for communion pur-
poses. A committee of three ladies of the
church has been appointed to make the jelly.
- Commodore Perry's flagship, the Law
renee, sunk in Erie harbor sixty-two years
ago, was raised last Monday, and the bottom
found to be in a good state Of preservation.
She is to be exhibited at the Centennial.
- Gen. Thomas Ewing writes to a friend
in Washington that in his opinion Allen will
be reelected governor of Ohio by majority of
not less than 10000, and that the figures would
have been increased to $4,000 had the school
question not been brought into the campaign
- The mode of furnishing criminal in
Thibet is rigorous, slightly. They bury him to
the neck in the earth, 50 that all movement
is impossible, keep his mouth forced open with
a spike, and then drive all kinds of horrible
insects to take refuge in the mouth, ears
and eyes.
- Further elections occur this year in the
following order: Iowa and Ohio, October 12;
Virginia, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, November 2 ;
Texas, December 2. Some of these States
elect Governors and other State officers, and
all of them elect members of the Legislature.
Mississippi also elects Congressman.
- A conductor on the Chicago and North
western Railroad recently kissed one of his
lady passengers, Miss McCracken. She re-
seuted his action, and instituted suit against
the railroad for damages, on the ground that
she was kissed by the whole company through
the conductor, as agent An Illinois jury
awarded her $1,000, which is SS3.33 from
each director, or ten cents from each stock
holder.
- The First Masonic Lodge of Jerusalem
is beautiful illustration of the cosmopolitan
nature of the principles of brotherly love in
practical operation. The master is an Ameri-
can, the past master an Englishman, the SEN
ior warden German, the junior warden ma
tive, the treasurer a Turk, the secretary q
Frenchman, the senior deacon a Persian, and
the Junior deacon Turk There are Chris
tiaus, Mahomedans and Jews in the lodge.
Female baseball players have appeared
at Springfield ILL.,, where the Blondes defeated
the Brunettes by AZ to 3S. The uniform of
the former consists of jaunty white hat,
blue pants trimmed with white, reaching
little below the knee, blue jackets similarly
trimmed, confined at the waist with black
belt, and white hose striped with blue. The
uniform of the Brunettes consists of white
hat, white suits trimmed with blue and red,
and white hose. The players, or majority
of them, have figured in St. Louis variety
shows. They are at present travelling through
the State
IS Some forty years ago Thomas Emerson,
president of the Windsor (Vt) Bank, was sus'
pected Of robbing it of about $50 5000, the loss
of which caused the institution to fail. He
was tried, found guilty and confined in Wind
sor Jail for many years. On Thursday, Sep
tember 2, as COL Harlow was removing an
old brick oven in his house, which was for
merly occupied by the cashier, Kittridge, he
discovered somewhere between $4,000 and
$4,000 of the missing money in brick vault
under the oven. The people of Windsor now
believe the cashier took the money instead OF
Emerson. Both Emerson and Kittridge died
several years ago.
- The three greatest grain producing
countries in the world are Russia, the United
States and France, in the order named. The
statistics of 1870 show that Russia produced
46O,000,000 bushels of wheat; the United
States 2S6,00O,000, and France about the
same Russia exported one-eighth other grain
the United States one e-fourth, and France none.
The United States, however, grows an enor-
nous amount of corn, which the others do
not. 1t is likely, also, that Australia will
soon rival the two last named countries, or at
least when her land is more generally taken
up and cultivated. South Australia alone
announces this year that she has 100000 tons
of surplus wheat, IA 900 tons Of which have
already been exported, while the remainder
is ready for shipment.
-- Not long ago a merchant of Barnes
VILE Georgia, left for New York to purchase
goods. During his absence his wife, to whom
he had been married about two years, gave evil
dence of alteration of mind. One night she
screamed out and grew worse. The next day
friends we're in the room discussing whether to
telegraph her condition to her husband or not
She turned to them and remarked, "You need
not telegraph him. The good Lord has ena-
bled me to apprise him of my condition.
But they telegraphed to the husband, and IN
a very short time he was at home. The hus'
band says that the night during which she
screamed out he dreamed that she was III the
condition he found her in, and when the tele'
gram came he was fully aware Of her condl
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precarious condition. Can any one account
for this circumstance Was the premonition
conveyed by spiritual means, by odic force OF
what?
"A recent report emanating from the
postofhce department, gives some interesting
statistics in regard to the ''dead letter" sub
ect which will interest those persons who
are forever contributing, through careessness
to this branch of the public service. 1t i:
shown that in 1874 the dead letter office a
Washington handled 4,601,773 of the 800,
100000 letters carried in the mails. Of these
1,392,224 were delivered, 1922, ,9l6 destroyed
and the balance were filed or still remained
not acted on. The actual or nominal value
Of the entire number was s4,637, ,492.0S
Photographs were enclosed in 3S767, sums
less than 81 in 1884, sums of 81 and up
wards in 1894. Large sums of money arr
frequently found in these letters. Severa
months ago a check for $4,000, drawn tt
bearer, came to light when an unstamped en-
velope was opened, but the owner was easily
found. A cabinet of curiosities, taken from
dead letters, is kept on exhibition. There ar
several handsome gold watches, diamond
ring priced by an expert at $500, and othe
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