Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-06
Straps aud fafts.

twenty-five newspapers during the week end.
ing March 25.
- Major Lewis Merrill has been relieved
from duty at the Centennial. No reason is
assigned for the removal
- Said an Irishman: "It's mighty fine
thing to be alone; especially when you,
swateheart is wild ye."
- The identical chairs and desks of Cass
Calhoun, Webster, Clay, Douglas and Ben.
ton, still remain in the senate chamber, and
are in daily use.
- The Woodwork paper mill in Norwich
Conn.,, received, few days ago, among its
rags and old paper to be ground up, $50, 0,0O0,'
900 in cancelled United States bonds.
The seniors of Wesleyan Female College,
at Macon, Georgia, in view Of the hard times,
have resolved to graduate in calico, and so
save their parents the cost Of three white
dresses usually required for such occasions.
- The Supreme court of Georgia have
unanimously decided that the head of family
can waive, both for himself and his family, the
right to homestead, thus enabling people to
create valid lien on the full value of their
property.
1t is reported that President Grant is anx-
ious to sell the Long Branch mansion before
the expiration of his term, and that he is look
ing for purchaser. It is also said that the
President will spend the summer at Newport
instead of the Branch, this year.
- The following sentence from George
William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly,
has pungent flavor: "Fine professions of
reform with candidates who are themselves
constituent parts of the thing to be reformed,
will not carry the country"
At town meeting in New England, re-
Gently, an old farmer spoke strongly against
making large appropriation for the schools,
saying that education does not make a person
honest, but rather tended to dishonesty, citing
Winslow, Babcock, Belknap, Orvil Grant and
Gen. Schenck as Illustrations of the evil eft:
fects of liberal education.
- That was an unique speech made by a
man who was recently hanged at Hamilton,
Canada, for the brutal murder Of his land
lord. Instead Of expressing contrition, and
admonishing others not to follow his exam
pie, he referred to the fate of the murdered
man, and hoped it might be a warning to
other landlords who persist in dunning impe-
cunious tenants. There is an originality
about this speech seldom found in the remarks
of those who are about to leap into eternity
throug the instrumentality of moose.
Mr.. O'Flaherty undertook to tell how
many were at the party "The two Crogans
was one, myself was two, Mike Finn was three,
and-and-who was four? Let me see''
Counting on his 6nger:) "The two Crogans
was one, Mike Finn was two, myself was three,
and-bedad! there was four of US, but I
couldn't tell the name Of the other. Now, it's
meself that has it. Mike Finn was one, the
two Crogans was two, and myself was three
and-by my soul, think there was but three
of US after ALL
-Ifthe Centennial Exposition costs 81 $780,
900, the amount claimed to complete it, the
Philadelphia Ledger computes that in order
simply to realize this sum, it will be necessary
for 100000 people to visit it once, at the
price of admission, fifty cents and as the time
is confined to 15S days, from May 10th to No.
vember 10th, deducting Sundays, on which it
will be closed, it will require the daily atten-
dance, of over e4, 900 people.- From these fig
ures may be formed some idea of the crowd
and hustle in that city during the next six
months succeeding the 10th of May.
AN enterprising grocer at Santa Clara,
California, has adopted an original method of
doing busi mess. Each side of his store is fitted
up for business on his own account. In the
general arrangement, each side is duplicate
of the other, the difference being that one side
is cash and the other credit. When custom
er comes in, the first question asked is, "Do
you wish to buy for cash or on account? If
it is cash customer, the goods and prices on
the cash side are shown; but if-it is one who
wants credit, he is shown to the other side, and
for the first time in his life, perhaps, made to
realize the value Of ready money.
- Mr.. Howard, who lives near Parkers-
vile, Lyon county, KY, shot crow, sitting
in tree in his yard, one day last week. In
lot near by a young colt was standing. At
the crack of the gun the colt fell. Mr.. How
ards children, who witnessed the shooting,
when they saw the colt fall, exclaimed,
"Lord pa, you have killed the colt" The
old man was astounded when he looked and
saw the colt in the agonies of death. He
knew he shot at the crow-did not point the
gun in the direction of the colt. He ran to
the colt; sure enough, the colt was dead
There was nothing to show that shot had
struck the colt-could not have possibly
struck him, yet he died-literally frightened
to death.
The diamonds sent by the Khedive OF
Egypt to General Sherman's daughter, still
Law in the New York custom house for want
of somebody to pay the duties on them. In
June they will be in the category of unclaim.
ed goods, and will be sold for duties and
charges. Congress gave Lieutenant Fitch
permission to receive the gifts for his wife, but
did not remit the duties The duties amount
to S4O,OOO-a sum General Sherman is
unable to pay, while he is unwilling to ask a
release from the payment of the government
claim. The revenue officials are not disposed
to grant a free permit for the diamonds, and
the Turkish ambassador, who might receive
them, will not ask for their return, because
the Khedive is only vassal of Turkey. On
the whole, Mrs. Fitch's splendid present is not
quite so much of an object Of envy as ii
might be under other circumstances.
In an exchange we find the following as
suring paragraph in regard to the use Of
kerosene oil as an illuminator "On this
subject there is high scientific authority for
the assertion that coal oil will not explode on
very slight provccation. The trouble is not in
the oil itself, but in the gas which rises from it
and the oil is dangerous or safe in proportion
to the amount of gas it gives off, There is a
s6re test" standard for determining the rela.
tive safety of the Illuminating oils offered in
the market, and everything under ITO degrees
fire test is considered unsafe. Three simple
rules, if faithfully observed, will make coal