Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-06
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for every officer 10000 francs.
1t is claimed that over FIVE hundred com.
mercial travellers of New York have formed
hotel league, and have selected one hotel in
each city and town of the country at which
to stop when son the road" in order to secure
special rates and cheap accommodations.
Judah P. Benjamin, in answer to an
inquiry, writes from London, that he knows
nothing whatever of the so-called Jennings
estate, and does not believe in its existence.
He says he would not give penny postage
stamp for the free gift of all the rights of all
the claimants to the supposed estate.
- 1t has cost the State of Maryland $780,
900 to pay her militia employed in suppress
ing the late riots. The rate of pay allowed
for men and officers was the same as in the
regular army. Subsistence and transporta-
tion bills and incidental expenses will proba-
bly, amount to as much more.
"A California paper describes "the latest
thing out" as new horseshoe made out of
three thicknesses of raw-hide compressed to.
gether by heavy pressure. 1t is said to last
longer, weighs only one-fourth as much as
the common shoes, never splits the hoof, and
has no bad influence on the foot. 1t is so
elastic that the horses step is never uncertain.
The Imperial Government of China has
lately issued an edict against the use of opium
by the Chinese people, and vigorous efforts
are also making to limit the culture of the
poppy in China. In addition to the home
production, opium is imported into China to
the annual value of over 100000 900, princi-
pally from British India. More than 81 ,000,-
900 worth is annually shipped to California
for the use of the Chinese in that State.
Governor Hampton has at last admitted
that there was just little "bulldozing" done
to secure his election. He told lady CORES
poudent, at the White Sulphur Springs, that
the ladies of South Carolina elected him, add
ing that some of them even went so far as to
threaten to leave their recreant husbands un-
less they worked hard for Hampton. "This," !"
added the Governor, "was the worst kind Of
bull-dozing."
"A. T. Stewart, short time before he
died, said that one of the great plaques of his
life was to find salesman that would be civil
to poor people who wanted few needles and
some tape To ladies that traded in satins
and aces men would bepolite. But the same
salesman would snub a small buyer. 1t is
the universal complaint that officials are i'm.
pertinent. One can hardly get civil answer
in trade.
- The old coachmen of Jefferson Davis, a
coored man, now living at Raleigh, N. c.,
denies that Mr. Davis was disguised as wo-
man when captured. He was dressed in or
dinary clothing, cavalry boots, waterproof
cloak and shawl thrown over his shoulders.
When ordered to surrender, he at first said he
would die first, but Mrs. Davis threw her arms
around him and begged the soldiers not to
kill him.
Admiral Semmes, whose recent death ls
recorded in another column, captured, during
the late war, IS vessels in all, valued at ST.
100000. The damage done to American
commerce by the Alabama gave rise to the
alabama Claims" which we're settled by ar
bitration between the United States and Great
Britain, at cost to the latter government of
near S16,000,0OO in gold, as the penalty for
permitting the cruisers to escape from British
waters.
Senator Morton's illness has called fresh
attention to the small Republican majority in
the Senate and its possible disappearance al.
thirty-n Republicans and thirty three Dem
ocrats, one Independent, and three vacancies;
two in Louisiana, and one in South Carolina.
Should all the vacancies be filled with Dem
ocrats, as is predicted, the Republican major
ity would be reduced to three, and if Mr..
Morton should not recover, the majority
would come down to one.
The Washington Star says: "The mana
gers of the Republican party may not see it,
or, like the boy passing the graveyard, they
may be whistlng to keep their courage up,
but at present all the indications are that
Ohio will 60 Democratic this fall by from
$4,000 to 10000 majority. 1t is possible that
reaction may set in before the election comes
of, and that the Republicans may be able to
hold the State by slight majority, but in
any event it is settled thing that Mr.. Mat
thews cannot be re elected to the Senate"
"A cemetery was established near Chicago
in which no recognition of the existence of q
God, or of the Immortality of the soul, was
ever to be allowed, nor was any prayer ever
TO be offered there The association which
owns this cemetery is now annoyed by the de-
moralization of its financial affairs caused by
tonary, who seems to have neither cleared
God nor regarded man." stole all the porta-
BILE possessions of the concern, leaving only
the tombstones, the cemetery lots and the
corpses The whole thing seems to have been
a sorrowful undertaking.
Wendell Phillips has addressed letter to
Lord Dufferin, Governor-General Of Canada,
urging him not to surrender Sitting Bull and
his associates to the United States, because,
as he holds, they are the objects of white
mems persecution, and saying: Every rea-
son which made England refuse to give up
the fugitive slave exists in the Indians case,
and there are some considerations which make
his claim to protection even stronger than the
negros was. l beseech you, sir, let not the
first time that England's magnanimity in this
way fails, be in the case Of this friendless and
hunted race, meted out and trodden down
alike by the greed and neglect of a powerful
and grasping people"
DR.. Caldwell, of Iowa, states that in 1862
he was present at the exhumation of body
which had been buried two years before. The
coffin had sprung open at the joints, and the
hair protruded through the openings. On
opening the coffin, the hair of the head was
found to measure eighteen inches, the whis-
kers eight inches, and the hair on the breast
fveor six inches. The man had been shaved
before being buried. In 1847 similar cir
cumstance occurred in Mercer county, Pa. In
digging grave, the workmen came upon the
skeleton of man that had been buried ten
years. The hair was as firm as during life,
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