Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-02-08
Straps aud fafts.

Nine hundred South Carolinians are en-
gagged in New York city at various occupa-
tions.
In Paris everything in feminine fashions
is as tight as nature can endure. The rage
even extends to husbands in some cases.
England isn't satisfied with her eighty
ton gun, and will build one weighing twice as
much.
"A lemon tree at Stanford, Fla, produced
5000 lemons last year, some Of which weigh
ed pound each.
According to the London Army and Ma
w Gazette, recruiting has been 80 brisk, ow-
ing to the general depression in all trades,
that no fewer than 10000 young men enlisted
last year.
Marshal Jewell is. said to have discovered
the secret of making genuine Russia leather,
while minister at St. Petersburg. 1t lies SIM
ply in the fact that birch.bark tar is used to
dress the skins with instead of grease and tai
low.
"A protest which will be presented when
the Mississippi electoral vote is opened, alleges
that the new registration law requires addi-
tional qualifications and oaths for voters in
violation of the constitution Of Mississippi !;
that the present Governor is usurper, and
the certificate given the electors worthless.
At the same time that remarkable ship
ments of muskets and munitions Of war are
being made from this country to Turkey, the
news comes from Birmingham in England,
whose principal industry is the manufacture
of rifles, that never before, at a time of i'm
pending war, was business 90 dull. In the
United States the facilities for producing
arms have. been much improved and devel-
oped, aad the arms are made 80 cleverly and
cheap, that a serious blow has been givenkto
this branch of England's commerce.
"A young bank clerk at Toronto, Mr..
Barber, gets $4,000 year for five years.
This is how. It was found that he had been
taking the securities Of the bank (of which he
was custodian and using them himself as col.
laterals to obtain loans on for stock specula'
tions, or to lend to other people for a consid.
GRAFTON. A public trial would have exposed
q great number of his accomplices, men OF
high position, 80 he elected to be tried sum-
marily, pleaded guilty and was sent to the
Penitentiary for fveyears. The men of high
pOSiGloH JUST oiluuou w poiu I'LL ~Aoo,ooo w
take this course. ..
Slavery is diminishing every year in Bra
zil.. By the law of 1871, all the children of
negroes are born free. In the province of
San Paulo, the number Of slaves in three years
declined from 147, TAG to less than 136, 600.
In Ill of the 151 parishes of the province,
1915 children of slaves were born free be-
ings. In the province of Pernambuco, the
number of slaves has been reduced from l06,-
2Ol to 100000, and 1882 were born into
freedom. The same ratio Of decrease Is vlsl-
ble in other provinces throughout the En-
pire.
"A Western railroad man has invented 8
safety stove that is expected not to set fire to
cars in case of an accident The stove stands
on water tank with perforated top. The
bed plate is perforated with apertures which
are closed by valves, which fit into the bed
plate like an ordinary stove griddle or cover /;
their own weight retains them in position
when the car is upright, and they fall out in
stantly when the Car is upset, the water
rushing out instantly submerging the fire.
The invention has been tested az Cincinnati,
and railroad officials have pronounced favor
ably. Iti designed by a conductor of twenty
years experience.
- In the Supreme Court of the United
States, Monday, in case from the West, the
court decided that where town officers re-
signed under the laws of Illinois, the law pro-
viding that the designations of public officers
should not take effect until successor had
been elected and qualified, they did not cease
to be such officers until this provision was
complied with and that, although they had
sent in their designations and they had been
accepted, still they remained officers under
the law until their successors qualified. Mr..
Justice Hunt delivered the opinion. This
decision has unusual significance in connec-
tion with the Presidential contest.
The House Committee on Appropriations
in the legislative and executive appropriation
bill, only provide $25 900 for the salary of the
President, and accompany it with provision
repeating the section of the revised statutes
which increased the salary to $50,00O It
will be remembered that the Senate at the
last session, failed to pass over the veto of
President Grant the bill restoring the salary
to the old figure, although it passed both hous-
es by majority vote. 1t is likely that the
provision as it stands now in the appropriation
bill will be agreed to, and the next President
will have to be content with $4,000 per an
mum.
Susan Shrock had the reputation in
Princeton, KY, of being a wonderfully trust
worthy fortune teller. She was not an old
hag, according to custom, but rather young
and pretty. She predicted that G. Lewis
Hollingsvorth would meet death at the hands
of unknown men on the highway, and that
his horse would return home alone, and that
his body would never be found. A few days
ago he started on horseback journey, and
soon the horse came back riderless. His wife
was grief stricken until she learned that Su-
san had also disappeared, and that her hus-
band had taken his best clothes and all the
money he. could accumulate. Now she is
searching for his body, but she expects to find
it alive, near by Susan.
- The former residence of Edwin Forest,
near Philadelphia. now home for INDECENT
actors, is strange place. The house is a
palace in its gorgeousness; the furniture is
beautiful and expensive the library, the pic
lures and the statuary are such as are seldom
seen in private collections. All this is enjoy
ed by two old and in6rm actors and super
intendent, for the benefits of the establishment
have not been availed of by any except the
two mentioned. Celia Logan, who recently
visited it, says that their chief trouble is to
kill time. Forests will orders the erection Of
miniature theatre, in which the inmates of
thehome may entertain themselves and others.
The endowment is sufficient to maintain a
large number of persons, and it is supposed
that in time the institution will become filled.