Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-03-22
Sfraps aud faets.

- Ihe telephone has been tested with the
most gratifying success between Chicago and
Detroit, distance of 284 miles.
The Rhode Island Senate has indefinitely
postponed the House bill to permit the inter-
marriage of races.
Max Strakosh is already arranging to
utilize the new telephone discovery in a con-
cert. actually given at Philadelphia, but the
audience seated in the New York Academy
of Music.
My son." said doting mother to her
eight-y -year-old, "whst pleasure do you feel
like giving up during the Lenten season p
SWELL, ma, / guess I'll stay away from school"
was the reply. .-.......-. .......
In reference to the Cabinet appointments,
the Memphis Avalanche regards them as strong
and evincing an earnest determination on the
part of President Hayes to conciliate the South
aud restore peace and prosperity to the coun-
try.
Carl Schurz is the first German who ever
filled Cabinet place, but no less than four
secretaries of the treasury have been Of for
eign birth-Albert Gallatin, born in Switzer-
land Alexander j. Dallas and Alexander j.
Hamilton, natives of the West Indies, and
VIM. j. Duane, an Irishuan.
"A New York letter of Monday says: ut
is estimated that, by the middle of April,
Liverpool will have stock of cotton amount
ing to 100000 bales, the largest stock
known in that market since 1860. 1t is this
heavy weight of cotton that keeps prices from
advancing to meet the American markets,
and keeps back also any favorable influence
from our light receipts. Cotton has gone for
ward more rapidly this year than for many
years past, and this is why Liverpool is get
ting her maximum so early"
"A correspondent of the London Times,
writing of the great interest now taken IN the
exploration in Palestine, suggests that, If the
historical books of the Bible are to be relied
on, efforts to recover valuable treasures of the
temple might be successful. According to
these books the prophet Jeremiah was in
structed, just before the Babalonish captivity,
to deposit in Mount Nebo, the Tabernacle,
the Sacred Ark and the Tables of the Law
which it contained, and, if they were con-
cealed there, there is reason to suppose that
they are there still.
- There is a petition now circulating in
some of the colored churches of New Orleans
for signatures which presents some very novel
and peculiar features. 1t asks Congress to
take away from the colored people in Louisiana
the right of suffrage for some time to come,
and to place them under military protection.
The grounds alleged by this extraordinary
petition are, it is said, that the colored people,
as a whole, are not able to intelligently and
prudently exercise the right of suffrage. This
is an ingenious way for Radicalism to attempt
a reopening of breach between the conser.
vative whites and the colored people, and
comes out of the fact that the carpet-baggers
and Radicals no longer expect to control the
colored vote.
There was a curious comedy of errors
that came near being tragedy at San Fran
cisco, recently. A sailor returned from sea,
and found his young wife fondling baby.
Without giving her chance to say that the
child was a neighbor's, he knocked her down
and then tried to throw her from window.
A crowd gathered below, and the man stabbed
his wife in the back, and jumped from the
window and escaped unhurt. But some Of
the crowd had entered the house, and, going
to the wrong room, awoke sleeper, who
emptied his revolver on them, but was dragged
to the street, and was just being hanged to
lamp-post, when the mistake was ascertained,
though not before rib or two was broken by
the mob. The woman was not much hurt,
and is anxious to have her husband find out
his mistake and return.
-Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl of ~,
arrived in Paris the other day from South
America. Her life has thus far been check
cred one At the age of Is, tired of the mo-
notony of home, the ran away from her faith
er's house with large sum of money. She
cut her hair short and donned boys garb.
After becoming in succession cabin boy, q
clerk, and a horse dealer, she turned up in
Buenos Ayres, where she entered the army,
still disguised. She distinguished herself in
the service, and became colonel. Some
months ago, at meeting Of officers, she quar-
relied with one of those present. A duel fol-
lowed, and she killed her adversary. On ex-
amining the dead mans papers, she found
that she had killed her oldest brother, who
had left home when she was years Of age.
Horror-stricken, she threw herself at the bish-
ops feet, who promised to intercede with her
father.
When the oath was administered to the
new Cabinet at the White House, they all
stood up in line-Evarts, McCrary, Devens,
Key and Schurz. Chief Justice Cartier, of
the District Supreme Court, administered the
oath-the iron-clad, so.called. He read it
until he came to the words, "do you solemnly
swear that you have never voluntarily borne
arms against the United States" when Mr..
Key interrupted, exclaiming, "Hold on,
Judge, I can't swear to that" There was
quite laugh, and Judge Cartier remarked, in
his quaint way, "That oath was good enough
for US, sir, until you came in" when Mr.. Key
retired, and the remainder of the oath was
read and assented to by the other four. After
wards it was found that there was not copy
of the modified oath in the White House, and
it had to be sent for to the State Department
before it could be administered to Mr.. Key.
Among those who have recently inter-
viewed President Hayes, was Col. Mosby, of
Virginia, famous during the war, as the lead
er Of corps of rangers. During the war
Mr.. Hayes was at one period engaged in the
campaigns in the Valley of Virginia, and he
and Colonel Mosby exchanged some jocular
remarks on the alternate games of hide and
seek in which they and their respective COM
mands had INDUCED. In conversing on the
political situation, President Hayes remarked
that the question presented to the country
was whether it was to continue in semi-state
of war or to have peace, and said that he in:
tended to go in for vigorous prosecution Of
peace. Colonel Mosby said to him that in his
belief his policy would be heartily responded
to by the Southern people, that the ice was
beginning to crack, big thaw was coming,