Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-15
Sfraps aud fafts.

are in the main obliterated. Only few OF
the extensive Notifications are now visible.
The place known as the Crater is overgrown
with young peach trees that have sprung up
from the peach stones thrown away by sol.
ders during the siege.
The city authorities of Leipsic, in Ger
many, have imposed fine of not less than
FIVE nor more than ten marks, upon any wo.
man who may wear trailing dresses in the
Streets The police have orders to arrest them,
and their names are to be published each
week in the local papers.
-"It is very unclerical practice, and
must say, an uncleanly one. Tobacco! Why,
sir, even hog would not smoke it." "Doc'
tor c." replied his amused listener, "do
you smoke tobacco?" 81? No, sir J" he an
swered, gruAly, with great indignation
"Then, pray, who is the hog, you or l?'
The chairmanships of the committees OF
the Federal House Of Representatives, geo.
graphically considered, are as follows: New
Eng none; Middle States, nine; Yves.
tern States, twelve; Southern States, twenty
six. By this it will be seen that the South
gets FIVE more chairmanships than all the
rest of the country.
1t is eighteen hundred and odd years
since Christian gentleman named Paul wrote
to one Timothy, "I suffer not a woman to
teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence" And now as many as
twenty nine women are advertised in the
Chicago papers as conducting religious servi-
ces and preaching on single Sunday.
After three years litigation, the company
organized to construct a tunnel under the
Hudson river from Jersey city to New York,
have effected a compromise with the opposing
companies, and the work begun in 1874 is to
be Immediately resumed. When the tunnel
is completed, it is expected that passengers by
rail will be able to 60 through it from Jersey
city to New York in two minutes.
- People talk abb aut Christian fortitude, but
Mohammedan fort fude seems to be quite as
equal. Nothing can exceed the endurance
displayed by the Turkish soldiery. There is
what seems preposterous rule, according to
which Turkish soldiers limbs cannot be re-
moved by surgeon without the sanction of
the authorities at Constantinople, whose decis-
ions are oftentimes delayed for weeks, and the
poor fellows will lie day after day in agony,
awaiting their fate without murmur.
A successful farmer, living near Mt.
Mourne, in Iredell county, says that he never
loses his sweet potatoes after they are once
put up for the winter; and this is the way he
manages After placing the potatoes in a
heap, he covers them with straw, then with
corn stalks and dirt. The common plan here
tofore has been with many to leave place
open at the top for ventilation when the po-
tatoes sweat This, he says, will admit air to
them and cause them to rot, whereas, if the
air is entirely excluded, the potatoes will re.
main sound. To prove the correctness sf this
theory, he says that potatoes, when in the
ground, will never rot, unless frosted or in some
way left exposed.
William Jones died few days ago, pen
nless He was better known as "Canada
Bill" the most expert three.card monte play
er in the world, and the evil genius of the
railroads centreing at Omaha. He was an
Englishman of gypsy birth, and came here in
1860 at the age of 23 As a card.sharper he
made several fortunes, and conducted a nam.
moth business in Nebraska till the railroad
companies ruled him off their lines. So plausi-
BILE was he that he made, in good faith, an Of
fer to the railways to con6ne his operations to
clerygmen and to swindle no other passengers
if they would allow him to work the trains
unmolested
-Advices from the Samoan Islands, Of the
9th instant, which have since been confirmed,
report Consul Griffin elected from the Ameri-
can Consulate by the English. Griffin ap-
pealed to a French gunboat for protection
and assistance, and after remaining some days
aboard, reoccupied his Consulate with the
French and American flags unfurled. The Sa'
moan, or Navigators' Islands, comprise a
group of eight in the Pacific Ocean, and are
estimated to have an area of 2, $50 square miles
and population of about 10000. The soil
is rich and we'll wooded, and the exports of the
Islands are valuable The Consulate of the
Island is an important position, and England
may be required to explain her part in the
transaction.
The New York Tribune, in regard to the
case of Patterson, the "carpetbag" Senator
from South Carolina, says: "a Charleston
dispatch reports that another indictment has
been found against him on the testimony of
twenty-four ex-members of the Legislature,
who declare that they were bribed to vote for
him as a Senator. The great difficulty in pro-
wing charges of bribery has always been that
those who gave the bribes and hose who took
them, were equally unwilling to bear evidence
against others that would also disgrace them
selves. But here is cloud of witnesses al
ready secured, and unless there is some slip in
the progress of the case, it cannot be long be-
fore the Republican majority in the Senate
will be further reduced by one, and the Re-
publican minority-let us hope it is-in the
South Carolina Jail be increased by the same
number"
Previous to the year 1920, there was not
single railroad in existence. About the time
mentioned, Thomas Gray, who was born at
Leeds, England, conceived the idea of fa-
ciitating the transportation of coal from Mid
dleton Collery to Leeds, a distance of three
miles, by means of a sort of railway which he
constructed of wood. Upon this his cars
moved along at the rate of three miles and a
half an hour, to the great merriment OF wise
and discriminating public, who laughed at
the idea of railway as something very Wis.
ionary, and as the mere suggestion Of laziness.
Poor Gray thought otherwise. Magnificent
visions of future railroads, such as are now
stupendous realities, loomed up before him,
and he began to talk in public of a general
system of iron railroads. He was, of course,
laughed at, and declared a visionary, moon
struck fool But the more Gray cortempla-
ted his little railway for Goals, the more firm
ly did he believe the practicability and i'm
mense usefulness of his scheme. He saw in it
all that is now realized, and he resolved, in
spite of the ridicule, the sneers and rebuffs
that we're heaped upon him, to prosecute his