Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-16
Scraps aud fafts.

curreu Oh 1uesuay laSC
- The keeper of the Confederate cemetery
at Raleigh, N. c., is disabled Union soldier.
The Charlotte market house has been
locked up by the city marshal because the
lessee failed to pay the rent
"A legislature is place where members
have good deal to say and get good price
for saying it.
There are about 5000 Chinese boys in
California, natives thereof, who, when of age,
will be voters.
Somebody nominates Babcock for Presi-
dent, as he's the only Republican that's been
acquitted by jury.
-Ex.Gov Letcher, of Virginia, who was
stricken with paralysis few days ago in Rich
mond, and whose recovery was despaired OF, is
slowly improving.
When you see anything in newspaper
that you think not worth publishing, remem-
Der that it takes good many readers to sup
port a newspaper. ..
An orange tree in Columbus county,
Florida, presents the unique spectacle Of last
years fruit, this years crop halfripe, and
buds for another crop on its branches.
- There are 5000 white men in Florida who
have not voted since the downfall of the Con-
federacy-enough to ensure a Democratic
triumph at every election.
NO important changes in postal rates are
likely to be made this session, and the tariff
on newspapers will not be disturbed at all.
That is the impressionin Washington.
The Tweed suit is at an end, and verdict
for the people has been rendered for $685.
117.3S. Sheriff Connor, who, it is alleged,
permitted Tweed's escape, has been arrested
on charge of contempt Of court.
Tennessee has law which prohibits
man from marrying the daughter of his de-
ceased wife, but farmer living near Mem
phis did it. He was indicted, tried, convicted
and sentenced to the penitentiary, but Gov.
Porter has pardoned him out
The Wilmington Post has been informed
that the Carolina Central Railroad Company
has offered to furnish iron and stock to the
Hickory and Lincolnton Railroad, if the citi-
zens will grade and furnish the cross-ties for it,
which it is said they will do.
An Iowa postmaster spent week in a
vain effort to balance his accounts, and then
his wife; discovering what he was about, in
formed him that She was in the habit Of
drawing her "pin money" front Office
funds.
Major Lewis Merrill, Seventh Cavalry,
has been detailed for duty in connection with
the international exposition of 1876, under
the direction of the President Of the United
States Centennial Commission, to whom he
will report at Philadelphia for instructions.
-Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, has been appoint.
ed to succeed Gen. Belknap as Secretary Of
War. Mr.. Taft has never held any public
position except that of Judge of the Supreme
Court of Cincinnati, though he is regarded as
lawyer Of eminent ability.
-AhKi, Chinaman, has fallen aptly into
interpreter in Virginia City, Nevada, and
when the demand for his services is so light
that he fears the abolition of his Office, he
goes at night into the Chinese part Of the
town, incites fights among his countrymen,
and thus creates cases in which his interpret
ing is necessary. Besides that, he makes
the testimony to suit the highest bidder.
A celebrated wholesale merchant of Lon
don, some time ago, presented the proprietors
ofthe Telegraph with printing press that cost
S25,000, as slight token of his apprecN ion.
In doing so, he accompanied the gift
letter, in which he said: "In your &per,
by judicious advertising, I first built the foun-
dation of a fortune, and in your paper, by ju-
dcious advertising, have amassed the for
tune which enables me to offer you this testi-
mony of regard and good will"
Successful experiments have been recent
ly made in France with view of determining
whether lines could be sent ashore from a
stranded vessel by the aid Of pigeons. The
pigeon from the wrecked vessel, when set free,
and naturally flying to land, is able to convey
thread four hundred feet long and two-thou-
sandths of an inch in diameter. People on
the shore, by pulling the string, obtain cord,
and at length strong rope, by which commu-
nication is had with the ship.
Henry G. Bowen has given the finishing
touch to the Beecher scandal. In his lengthy
statement to the advisory coucil of the church,
he cites instances of Beecher's acts of adultery
with females of his congregation, Withholding
names for obvious reasons, but offers to furnish
names to committee of the council if the said
committee shall be pledged to secrecy. In
addition to other cases, he says from facts in
his possession he has no doubt of the crimi-
nality of Beecher and Mrs. Tilton.
The Charlotte Observer says: The wife of
Mr.. D. Austin, the we'll known shoemaker,
has received a telegram that her brother, B.
L. Marshall, merchant living at Camden,
Arkansas, has just died, leaving her all of his
property. The real estate amounts to $4,000
in value, and Mrs. Austin received letter
from her brother, short time ago, informing
her that, in addition to property of this kind,
he was worth from $4,000 to S25,000, ma
king the value of the real estate in the neigh
borhood of $4,000.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala, da-
ted the 18th instant says: "The United States
marshals have, in the last four days, arrested
number of citizens of Jefferson and Blount
counties, on the charge of acts committed six
years ago. The men arrested have not been
away from their homes during the past six
years. The officials refused to take bond and
hurried them off to Huntsville. It is sup
posed this is the renewal Of the plan pursued
in 1874, when there was state election. The
election this year comes off August.
The New York Times publishes an inter-
esting report on the condition of the labor
market in that city, both for skilled and un-
skilled labor, showing that the mechanical in
dustries have not yet recovered from the
depression caused by the financial panic of
1873. The number of hands employed seems
to be gradually decreasing, and the wages
show corresponding reduction. The trades
unions now number only about one-third Of
their total strength three years ago. This