Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-13
Straps aud fafts.


want of picking is estimated to be over S.
900.
Richard Coke has been nominated for
Governor and R. B. Hubbard Lieutenant
Governor of Texas.
- The Agricultural Fair of the colored
population, held in Wilmington, N. c., Christ
mas week, was quite success.
1t is estimated that &c, 900 pounds ofpork
have been lost in Wayne county, N. c., by the
recent warm weather.
"A. w. Tourgee, who was elected Judge
of the fifth circuit in reconstruction days, has
been appointed pension agent at Raleigh, N. G.
- If there is past in which men have
done ill, let them have hope, for there is a
future in which they may do we'll.
- The Legislature of Mississippi is in ses-
sion and bids fair to meet all promises of re.
form made in the last canvass. Lamar will
probably be elected u. S. Senator.
The general amnesty bill now before
Congress, is opposed by several Republican
members because it makes Jefferson Davis el-
igible to seat in Congress-
- Ex-Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee,
says Governor Ames, of Mississippi, "knows
about as little of the temper and wants of his
constituents as mule does Of mathematics"
- Mr.. w. G.. Durham has severed his con-
nection with the Shelby Banner as associate
editor. That paper is now conducted by Mr..
j. L. Webb, editor and proprietor.
Mrs. A. Worsley, a lady of good family,
died in the lunatic asylum at Raleigh, N. c.,
last week, having been an inmate of the insti-
tuition about twenty-five years.
Trying to do business without adver-
tising, is like winking at pretty girl in the
dark; you may know what you are doing, but
nobody else does.
- The Hon. A. H. Stephens continues in
very feeble state of health from disease in one
of his lungs. 1t is thought he will not be
able to take his seat in Congress during the
present session.
- The desertions from the United States
army during the years 1867 and 1868 exceed
ed 10000 men year, or on the average, two
out Of every seven enlisted.
- An Indiana gentleman buried one
wife on Tuesday, married another on Thurs
day, was divorced on Saturday, and wants to
know if a bigger weeks work was ever per-
formed by one man before the panic.
- The Republican State Convention of
Missouri has nominated P. c. Cheney for Gov
ernorand W. A Pierce for railroad commits
sioner, and has re-affirmed an unyielding op-
position to the third term.
- The bappiest moments in a woman's
life are when she is making her wedding gar
ments; the saddcst when her husband comes
home late at night and yells to her from the
front step to throw him out some key-holes,
assorted sizes.
- Among the bills recently introduced
into the Ohio Legislature, is one making for
chile entry into corn cribs and poultry yards
burglary and one requesting Gen. Grant to
dismiss his relations and appoint Union SOL
dierS in their places.
- Chill leads off among the nations for
woman suffrage, the question of the registra-
ton of women for voting at the coming Pres
idental election having been decided favora-
bly,, and large number of the genAer sex, it
is said, will avail themselves of the opportu-
nifty to exercise their right.
-"What can you say of the second law
of thought~ Student-"It cannot both be
and not be. For example, the door over there
must either be shut or open; it can't be both
shut and open" Tutor-"Give another illus
tration." Student-"Well, take the case of
another door,
"A western correspondent has interview
ed young Joe Smith, son of the Mormon pro-
phet. Young jos is described as broad
shouldered, good looking and forty-three. He
is opposed to polygamy, but says the Nor
mons of Utah will not give it up without
fight.
- The farmers in the cotton-growing Sec
ton of the State of North Carolina are con.
tracing with laborers for the year. The
price generally adopted is So per month for
the first three months then $40 per month
until the crop is laid by, which is about the
first of August, when the hands will have the
privilege Of picking by the hundred.
- The annual statement the business of
Richmond, Va, for the year 1875, shows an
increase in the products of its manufactures
of $6,042,514 as compared with 1874. Its
commerce has also increased, and it boasts of
both larger number of vessels and of greater
amount of tonnage-the latter by about thir-
ty per cent.
- This is what the Pittsburg Presbyterian
thinks about it: "If the Republican party,
under the leadership of Grant, or any other
man, proposes to enter campaign on the plat
form of taxing Christian churches out of exist
ence, and heathenzing our public schools, it
will be buried under an avalanche hotter and
heavier than ever rolled into the Alpine val
leys."
- The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald says that among the Dem
ocrats of the House, determined effort is to
be made to force the passage of bill thrust
ing both Sherman and Sheridan, two of the
three major-generals- Hancock, Scho6eld and
Mcdowell three of the brigadier-gener-
ais, from the army and consigning them to
civil life, with, perhaps one years salary to
begin the business of life upon.
-A A New York letter says the feeling
among the Republican leaders there, so far as
can be gathered from conversations at the
clubs, is decidedly in favor of having the Ma
tional Nominating Convention assemble in
Philadelphia this year; and there is reason
to believe strong pressure has already been
brought to bear upon the executive committee
to that end. The Democratic National Ex-
ecutive Committee, there is hardly doubt,
will be led to make the same choice.
- The Delaware and Bound Brook rail
road, last week, claimed the right to cross the
track of the Pennsylvania railroad near Hope
we'll, N. j., and took possession of the cross
ing, which act brought on small railroad
war. The Governor of New Jersey sent four
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