Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-31
Straps aud fatts.


tribution was discovered.
Eleven States will hold elections before
the meeting of Congress, viz. Oregon, in
June; Alabama, in August Arkansas, Cal
ifornia, Vermont and Maine, in September;
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, in
October.
The change from the Polish to the Rus
sian language is thus described /: Where a
man would have said "Oischski willski givski
youski punchski in the snootski," the poor
fellow is compelled to say, "Oiskvitch will
witch givivitch youavitch a punchivitch in
the snootivitch.'
- The Ukiah (Cal.) Dispatch is edited by
Miss Belle Lynch. She said something ex-
asperating about Mr.. F. L. Caruthers, who
thereupon invaded the "sanctissima" and
caned the lady. Miss Lynch will graduate
in journalism after awhile; but what town
Ukiah must be!
Virginia militia companies were ordered
out "to suppress lion roaming at large,
fugitive from some menagerie." The beast
was found and killed. It was large "yal-
ler" dog. A stray policeman might have
answered all purposes, but that did not hap
pen to be the Virginia style.
just before his death, President Harrison
issued an order informing all Office holders to
attend strictly to their duties and let politics
alone, under pain of dismissal. This would
be good thing to revive, but as President
Harrison did not live many days after its
promulgation, there may be danger in it.
The most remarkable physician of any
age recently died at Portsmouth, N. H. He
graduated at Harvard, and afterwards stud
led in Paris, but never had but one patient,
for whom he extracted tooth, receiving
fee of twenty-five cents. He was never mar
ried, and lived to be nearly four.score years
old, leaving fortune of 100000.
Judah Peter Benjamin, the most popular
LAWYER in London, whose income is over
100000 year, was formerly Secretary of
State of the Southern Confederacy. He is
sixty-fve, was born in San Domingo, is He
brew, went to New Orleans after graduating
at Yale, was Whig, then Democratic Uni
ted States Senator, and then Confederate.
An Illinois clergyman is reported to have
said the other day at the laying of the corner
stone of new meeting house: "If the boys
and girls do their sparkling in church, I say
amen to it. I have daug hter whom I cher
ish as the apple of my eye. When she is of
suitable age, I would rather she should be
courted in the house of God than in the
atre."
We read that municipal election was
held in Vermilionville, La, last week, and
the whites divided into two parties, one Of
which put up ticket composed entirely of
whites, and the other one Of whites and
blacks. The white voters we're almost evenly
divided, and the election was decided by the
negroes, who gave majority for the straight
white ticket.
The town of Maple Grove, Wisconsin, is
excited over a recent Sunday occurrence
there. The people were mostly at church,
and in one house twelveyear old boy was
the only occupant. During the absence Of
the family, man came to the house COM
petely enveloped in beef hide, with horns,
tail, and all complete, and so fitted that moth
ing else could be seen. 1t was known in the
neighborhood that the occupants of this house
had money, and there was there at the time
about two hundred dollars. The object dis
guised in the hide told the boy that he was
the devil, and that be had come after his
money, and he must give it to him. The boy
answered that he could not have the money.
Fhe devil then told the boy that he would
have him and kill him if he did not bring
out the money. The boy then stepped into
the house as if he was about to comply, but
instead of bringing the money he brought
gun and shot the man dead in his tracks
The boy then ran to the nearest neighbor,
and, finding only woman there, told her
that he had shot the devil at his house. The
woman went with the boy, and found that the
devil, whom the boy had shot, was her hus.
band.
The President talks freely about his poll
cy and gives the best of reasons for adopting
it. According to correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Times, he said to a visitor recently
that he was not surprised at the Republican
opposition to his course, as he had expected
even more than had been shown. Had he
been private citizen he would probably have
been inclined to oppose it himself, but when
he became President he reflected upon the
subject and having made up his mind that it
was his duty to endeavor to restore peace and
harmony through the land and protect the
rights and liberties of the whole people, he
adopted that course which he believes will
best secure these objects, and he intends to
stand firm in the execution of his purpose.
In addition to his policy of non.intervention,
he would recommend that the test oath ad-
minstered to members of Congress be abol-
ished as useless and irritating reminder of
an unfortunate period in the nations history.
He would encourage the development Of the
resources and promotion of the industries of
the South as far as that lies within the power
of the national government, and believes that
the removal of causes of political agitation
of purely sectional issues and the return of
material prosperity will tend to awaken ma
tional feeling in the South.
The saying of Hamlet that "The funeral
baked meats did coldly furnish forth the
marriage table" was practically illustrated a
few days ago in Georgia, although in this
case the man, not the woman, offended the
proprieties. In April last the wife of Mr..
Caraway, a farmer, near Atlanta, in that
State, was found lying in her own home, bru-
tally murdered. Suspicion was directed
against Charles Tommey, negro, and on his
being arrested he confessed to having COM
mitted the crime. The husband of the mur-
dered woman was apparently overcome by
grief, but prevailed upon the populace not to
lynch the murderer, who was safely lodged
in Jail, tried, convicted, sentenced to death
and executed on Friday last. And now comes
the curious part of the story. On that morn
ing Mr.. Caraway, the bereaved husband,
bought license for second marriage, put it
in his pocket, witnessed the hanging and
then quietly went OF and got married. 1t is
not every man who can thus crowd double
amount of enjoyment into single day, and