Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-21
Sfraps aud fafts.

Beast Butler says he issued that famous
order against the ladies of New Orleans, be-
cause he knew it would please the Massachu-
setts school marms.
The infant son of COL Nicholas Smith and
his wife, Ida Greeley Smith, has just been
christened Horace Greeley, in honor of his
dead grandfather, the great journalist.
As an evidence of the regard the Ameri-
cans feel for the father of his country, there
are thirty-four counties and two hundred and
five towns and villages in the United States
and Territories named Washington.
-Virginians claim that since the whipping
post was reestablished in that State, most of
the jails have been emptied, petty crimes have
almost ceased, and vagrants are seen no more
in the streets.
Queen Victoria has just attained her 6f:
ty.eighth birthday. Only twelve others of
the reigning sovereigns of Christendom (out
of thirty-eight in ally have attained to this
age.
Since P. T. Barnum offered $4,000 for
the return of Charley Ross, he has received a
great number of letters from people who know
where the boy is, and want $50 or $3.50 to
send detectives to get him.
Learning that George Peabody and
Grant are the only Americans to whom the
freedom of London has been rendered, the
Boston Post observes that one is noted for
what he gave, and the other is famous for
what he has received.
The Philadelphia Times says that Asso-
ciate Justice Wright, of South Carolina, is
colored man of full blood and native of
Pennsylvania. He lived in Susquehanna
county previous to the war, and studied law
and was admitted to the bar. He is without
education.
Cooked snails are said to possess the pow
er of restoring tone to the coating of the
stomach when badly injured by strong drink.
to the peasants of Tivoli, near Rome, Italy,
and the flavor is said to be more delicious
than that of oysters.
A patentee of favorite "bitters" testified
under oath that ffteen.ounce bottle thereof
contains fourteen ounces of whisky and one
ounce spirits of juniper. A contemporary
thinks he might have thrown much more
light on the "bitters" question if he had been
required to tell what the fourteen ounces of
whisky are made of.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain's wife is quo
ted by Cincinnati Gazette writer as saying:
Daniel has had all the notoriety he cares
for, and more than he ever dreamed of hav-
ing. He has had quite enough of political
life. Now he is going to live for me and the
children, and make something remunerative
out of his profession"
The New York Tribune gives rather
formidable list of churches in that city upon
which mortgages rest. The Presbyterian
Churches there are in debt, $706,000 Re-
formed, S644,000; Protestant Episcopal,
S45S,000; Roman Catholic, $229,000; Bap-
tist, $4,000; and other denominations
enough to bring the total up to nearly $2,-
100000.
-Apropos of the political complications in
Europe, it may be ofinterest to know the cost
Of the maintenance of soldiers in each of the
great countries on the other side of the ocean.
1t is said that England spends for each of
her soldiers $500 per annum Russia, $240; !;
France, $23440; Belgium, S207. 40; Germa.
ny, $195; Turkey, s184.40; Italy, S1S3.46;
Denmark, sl76; Spain, Sl55 Austria, $l44.
The first shipment of pig iron from
America to Europe has been made Five
tons have gone from Pittsburg to Antwerp.
Belgium is importing American car wheels,
which seem likely to come into extended use
in that country. That will indeed be COM
mercial revolution when we cease to be de-
pendent on foreign countries for iron and
steel.
- When the members of the Louisiana re-
turning board were in the custody of the
House of Representatives at Washington last
winter, some of their sympathizing Republi-
can friends in the Senate raised sustaining
purse of 81 100, both for aid and comfort and
for obstinacy. But the white members COB
bled the whole money, and the black men &C.
tually had to borrow money to get home to
.Lousians again.
Among the papers submitted to Attorney
General Devens, by District Attorney How.
ard of Utah, are the unpublished portions of
Lees confession, which are said to implicate
Brigham Young and other high members of
the Mormon Church in the Mountain Mead
ow Massacre. The chief obstacle to effecting
conviction upon Lees statement is said to
be the difficulty of procuring witnesses, now
widely scattered.
- The Detroit Tribune publishes number
of letters from leading Republicans of the
State in response to circular asking opinion
upon the Presidents Southern policy. Sew
enteen of the letters cordially approve of that
policy, as the only wise and just course eight
give their qualified approval with regret at
some of the results. Three are doubtful and
four are emphatic in their condemnation. All,
however, are warmly in favor of standing by
the party and the administration. .....
The tax collector of the first district Of
New Orleans has been in Office only two
months and half but his returns show that
in licenses alone he has received more than
was paid into the same Office during the whole
of last year. This has been done without en-
ploying any harsh or even urgent means to
force such collections, but is due to the cheer
full readiness of all classes of the people to pay
their taxes to q government which they feel
confident will make proper application and
render an honest account of the same. The
other tax collectors of New Orleans have
been equally successful. ..r...
= The Baltimore Suns Washington special
says, alludng to Chief Justice Waite: cal
though not stated by his authority, it is known
that the Chief Justice was not pleased with
his experience in South Carolina, either po-
litical or social. In regard to the trials of
the Ellenton prisoners. the Chief Justice was
not pleased that the jury were divided on the
color line-the six black jurors being for con-
viction and the six white jurors for acquittal.
The impression produced on the mind of the
Chief Justice was that some of the prisoners
we're guilty and ought to have been convicted.
And now California comes to the front
With tale of longevity little overlapping