Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-27
Straps aud fatts.

Wednesday.
"A timely rain, on Monday, quenched
the forest fires in the section Of Scranton,
Pennsy ylvania, saving half dozen towns.
-- Three negro murderers have been SEN
fenced to be hung at Atlanta, Ca, on the
4th Of June.
- The Baltimore Sun states that Mrs.
Senator Sumner is to marry Mr.. Henry Jones,
a clerk in the New York customhouse.
- Whales are said to have grown more
numerous since the utilization of coal oil for
Illuminating purposes.
- The Secretary of War has given formal
permission to the Southern Memorial Asso-
citation to decorate the graves of the Confed-
crate dead at Arlington on the 1st of June.
"A party of emigrants, consisting of ITO
men with wagons and teams, en- route to the
Black Hills, were captured and turned back
by detachment of soldiers on the 18th.
-- A small boy in New Haven made a
sensation for a short time by transferring
card. bearing the words 'take one," from
a lot of fhandbills in front of store to a basket
Of oranges.
--" "On which side of the platform is my
train?" asked railroad traveller the other
day. "Well, my friend" replied gentleman
passing, "if you'll take the left, you'll be
right, if you take the right, you'll be left"
- Among the conspicuous names for the
centennial observances on the Fourth of July,
'76. at Philadelphia, are Congressman Lamar,
of Mississippi, who will be one of the orators,
and Gen. JOS E. Johnston, who will be mas
ter of ceremonies.
-- u pom tho death Of her husband, the
lady married his brother, and when a friend
saw the portrait of the first husband in the
house he said, "is this member of your
family?" "It is my poor brother-in-law," she
said.
- After Mecklenburg, there remain fifty:
three Revolutionary events to commemorate.
They extend over period of six years, ending
with the surrender of CORVALLIS at York;
town in 1881. Bunker Hill, on the 18th Of
June, will be the next feature of the centen.
nial programme.
- There was prompt case OF justice IN
Richmond the other day. A man named
Smith visited the penitentiary in the morning
to see friend; in the evening he stole fifty
dollars; next day he was tried, convicted,
and sentenced, and the same night he slept
with his friend in the institution as regu-
larly initiated member.
"A bill Just introduced in the Connecti-
cut legislature provides that the state comp
troler shall contract for communication tickets
on railways for every member of the legisla.
ture to and from the capital and his home
station, at the lowest regular rates of the sew
eral companies, the whole eexpense to be borne
by the State.
- In the first Masonic Lodge of Jerusa-
lem, it it is said, the master is an American,
the past master is an Englishman, the senior
warden German, the junior warden native,
the treasurer Turk, the secretary French
man, the senior deacon a Persian, and the
Junior deacon Turk. There are Christians,
Mohammedans and Jews in the lodge.
- The Irish language is fast disappear
ing from the speech of the people in Ireland,
and there are not many of the native youth
who can even understand it. The Archeolo-
gicaI Association of Ireland has asked the
Commissioners of Education to "preserve the
Irish tongue from being lost," and have it
regularly taught in the schools.
"A very funny story is told of an llli-
nois adventist, who on the night set down
for the end of the world, few weeks ago,
mounted one of his stacks of hay. Presently
he fell asleep. Peacefully he dozed, until
Just before the rain, when some heathenish
boys set fire to the haystack, and as the flames
circled around him he awoke. He supposed
it was all over, and philosophically remark
ed: "Iu hi, just as expected"
- One of those "prominent Southern Re-
publicans" has been writing to the Chicago
Tribune that the Southern people are prepar-
ing for another war, and that the negroes
will help them establish another Confederacy.
He concludes by remarking that "the only
means to prevent this is the maintenance Of
the Republican party South" The absurdity
of this scheme isso apparent that the Tribune
itself says: ave publish these views merely
as curiosities, and disavow any sympathy or
respect for them"
- The sale of pews in the Rev. DR..
Halls Presbyterian Church, just completed
in New York city, is said to have realized
the largest prices ever paid in the United
States for such accommodations. The pews
were valued at certain prices, ranging from
$500 to $4,000, at which the trustees agreed
to give absolute deed of the pews to the pur-
chasers, their heirs and assigns forever, sub
ject only to an annual assessment, fixed for
the present at six per cent of the valuation.
The total valuation of the 352 pews is $780,
900, sum almost sufficient to pay the entire
cost of the church edi6ce and of the ground on
which it stands. The annual assessment, in
case all the pews are sold, will give an income
of 1000 to the society.
"A Washington dispatch says it is un-
lerstood that the new Attorney General has
already had his attention directed to the lax-
ty of the federal judicial machinery in the
States Of the South. In conversation he al
luded to the enormous expenditures made
by some of the marshals, which as will be
remembered, have been the subject Of congress
sional inquiry, although as heretofore without
remedy. 1t may be expected that before
long an investigation will be instituted into
this matter by the Department OF Justice,
which it is hoped will result in discontin.
uance of the corrupt use by the marshals of
the government funds, either for private or
political purposes.
Spring whippings commenced at New
Castle, DEL, on Saturday last, and thirteen
convicts were placed in the pillory, one OF
whom received forty lashes, eleven of them
twenty and one ten. Several lads received
their first punishment at the post. In addi.
tion to the whipping, several of the convicts
were compelled to stand in the pillory an
hour. One man, Charles A. Riley, convicted
of burning an ice house in Wilmington, last
September, and who was sentenced to pay a
fine of $500, and to pay the sum of $4,000
restitution money to the owners OF the burnt
nronerty, was pilloried one hour, received 20