Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-01
Sfraps AMI faGts.

There is woman living in Cherry Val.
lev, Pa, who has read the Bible through an
nually for the past twenty-five years, begin.
ming at the age of twenty.
1t paws to be President of life insurance
company in New York. One company pays
the officer $4,000 salary, two others $4,000
apiece, and hardly any less than $4,000.
"A teacher in Nashville Sunday school
urged the familiar lesson that the early bird
catches the worm. A bright boy reminded
him that the owl, wisest of all birds, is out all
night and sleeps all day.
- The cotton manufactures of the world
run total of 64,0S9,000 spindles, and spin
1858, 100000 pounds of cotton. England
operates S5,O00,00O spindles, or more than
one-half.
- The New Hampshire election takes place
this month, and desperate efforts are to be
made By the Radicals to elect all the MEM
bers Of Congress from the State. Money and
orators are.to be sent there in abundance.
= Frederick May, one of the principals in
the late bloodless duel, has returned to his &C.
customed haunts in New York. JAS Gordon
Bennett, the other principal, is in London,
where letters report him as enjoying an ex-
ceedingly gay season. .....
An experienced lady observes that good
way to pick out husband is to see how pa
tiently he waits for dinner when it Is behind
time. Her husband remarks that good
way to pick out wife is to see whether the
woman has dinner ready in time.
-"I had nine children to support, and it
kept me busy" said Smith 10 Jones, as they
met, "but one of the girls got married. Now
I have" "Eight" Interrupted Jones
"No, ten-counting the son.in-law! said
Smith, with sigh which might have been
heard afar of.
Nearly 100000 Germans are settled in
some forty counties of Texas, particularly Co.
NAL and Guadalupe, and they are highly sue
cessful as agriculturists. In nearly every in.
stance they began as day laborers, and have
now comfortable homes, full grain houses and
barns finer than their residences
There has been great slaughter of cattle
in Nevada by railroad trains this winter. The
snow has been so deep that the animals have
sought the tracks for comfortable standing
places, and upon the approach of train, af-
ter making frantic efforts to scale the banks
of snow lining the track, have been crushed
in large numbers.
Another new design of a postal card is to
be issued by the post.o&ce department. Many
people, it is said, still persist in writing the
message, address and signature on the same
side with the stamp, and it is to be the object
of the new design to make it impossible to
write more than the address on the proper
side. =
Attorney General Taft reports that he
employed II ,614 Deputy Marshsls to secure
fair election throughout the country. Eight
thousand of these constables we're employed
in the Southern States, and largely in Louis
lana, Florida and South Carolina, where the
Hayesites assert "the poor, unprotected black
man" was driven from the polls. In addition
to these armed constables, troops were liberal
ly distributed through the three States named.
A party of English and German capital.
lists have purchased 100000 acres of the
Florida State lands, and are organizing an
emigration company. The money paid for
these lands, it is said, will pay off the State
debt and leave balance in the treasury.
Florida, since the war, has become one ofthe
marvels of the South, and the Northern peo-
pie have found there some of their most de-
lightful hours.
Two boys in San Francisco resolved to be-
come robbers of the Claude Duval kind.
They began by breaking into store and
stealing $3.50 with which they bought horse,
guns and camping outfit. Loading them
selves and their goods on the horse, they took
to the road, intending to undertake daring
highway robberies They made their first at
tempt on a stage coach, were captured, and
are now in Jail.
An eminent New York physician, who
has attended many cases of the peculiar fever
resulting from visiting the Centennial, be-
lieves that the disease was caused by the pres
ence of formites in certain articles on exhi-
biton, which had been brought from some
of the worst plague spots on earth, and says
he has fears that other types of fevers, hither-
to unknown to US, may follow as a result of
the exhibition.
- The venerable DR.. Lovick Pierce, now in
his ninety third year, is writing series of
"reminiscences of the century. He is the old
est Methodist minister living on this conti-
nent, and probably the oldest of any denomi-
nation. He points to the great difference that
exists between Methodism at the beginning of
this century and now, and concludes that
either primitive Methodists were more reli'
gious than was needful, or else modern Meth
odists are less 80.
DIR. Bucknill has returned to England,
after visiting the inebriate asylums of the
United States, and does not hesitate to con-
denim them. He says that the patients admit
ted to him that they could get liquor when
ever they pleased; that the asylums were
"capital places to pick. up in after debauch,
but good for nothing else" he also contends
that these institutions afford great facilities
for the wrongful detention of inmates whose
presence at home is not desired by their
friends.
The New York Tribune says: "We hope
that the conduct of Southern Democrats at
Washington during the past forty.eight hours
has not escaped the attention of those Repub-
licans who have tried to persuade their party
that former rebel was necessarily to be dis
trusted. We think it is not an exaggeration
to say that the country owes the peaceful de-
cision of the Democratic caucus to the honor
able attitude of Southern rebels. Under the
wise leadership of Lamar, Randall, Gibson
and kindred. spirits, these gentlemen have
placed patriotism above party in way so
conspicuous, and at time so critical, that
neither the country nor the incoming admin.
istration can afford to forget it"
Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana, called upon
the President on Saturday to urge upon him
to recognize Nichols Government. He said
that some such action was necessary to pro.
tect life and property in the State. He stated