Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-28
Sfraps aud fafts.

bly, in Chicago, voted against the use of un-
fermented wine in communion.
= It is estimated that the school fund of the
State of Texas will be $30,000,000 when the
school lands are all sold, and the annual in
come will be $2,S00,0O0.
BY the laws of Florida, no man who has
lost an arm or leg, no matter how or when,
or from what cause, can be taxed for any
business he may enter into, always excepting
the liquor business.
= Mothers.inlaw should raise monument
to the late John B. FELTON,, of San Francisco.
He left one.half of his property to his wife,
one.quarter to his mother-in.law, and one
quarter to his children.
ALEX. H. Stephens says that Mr.. Hayes
"holds the executive Office by legal title
that can never be successfully assailed, and
which ought not to be questioned. He holds
it by a judicial decision rendered by the high
est judicial tribunal ever constituted in this
country" ...
There is genuine educational revival in
North Carolina since the Democrats came
into power. One of their first acts was to
establish two normal schools for the training
of teachers, one for each race, and the news
papers give abundant proof that the people
are very generally waking up to the advan-
tages of the common school system and anx-
ious to improve it. - "
Dead dogs are really an odd kind of mer-
chandise: yet there is a firm in San Francis
co which purchases at fifty cents each, the
dogs slaughtered at the city pound. The
skins are removed and sold to the tanners, the
hair is disposed of to the plaisterers, and then
the carcasses are thrown into great boiler,
and there kept until the bones are separated
from the flesh, and these are sold to the sugar
re6ners. The grease that rises to the surface
is made into cod liver oil-at least, so it is
stated.
- The Postofice Department have awarded
contracts for carrying mails on routes recent
]y advertised. There were 5000 bids receiv-
ed for $50 mail routes, The department &C.
cepted bids and let contracts for $50 routes.
Fully three-fourths of the contracts have
been awarded to professional bidders, who
have no facilities for performing their service,
but who rely upon sub letting or selling the
contracts at profit to themselves. The con.
tracts have been let at from fifteen to twenty
per centum lower than heretofore.
Last Thursday, the 21st of June, will long
be notable day in the annals of crime in
Pennsylvania. For the first time since Penn
laid the foundations of the State, eleven men
were hanged in one day. Six were hanged in
Pottsville and four in Mauch Chunk and one
in Wilkesbarre, for murders committed as
members of the notorious band of assassins,
commonly known as Mollie Maguires, which
organization had for its ostensible object the
protection of miners labor and wages against
the tyranny of capital.
Mr.. John NJ. Powers, one of the pioneers
of telegraphy in North Alabama, amuses bis
children with telephone that can be made
in few minutes by any one, and BY means
of which conversation in an ordinary tone
may be carried on between parties hundred
yards or more apart. Knock both ends out
of two tin cans-old oyster cans will do
paste letter paper tightly over one end OF
each can, through which insert the end of
common wrapping twine, although silk line
would be better; tie knot to prevent the
string from slipping through; extend the
string as far as you can without allowing it to
touch the ground or any intervening object;
place your mouth at the open end of the can
and slight whisper will be heard at the 9th
er end of the line, where a similar arrange
ment of the string through the can and pa
per must be made.
-"Ben" Montgomery, a remarkable color
ed man, has just died in Mississippi. He was
once the personal servant of Col. j. E. Davis,
the brother of the Confederate President.
Montgomery had extraordinary ability, and
while slave he was accustomed to attend to
the greater portion of the large estate, owned
and managed by his master, and after the war
purchased from Mr.. Davis, at cost of $780,
900 in gold, the Hurricane place and Brier-
field, the former home of President Davis.
He subsequently purchased from Mr.. Wood,
of Jefferson county, Mississippi, the Ursine
plantation, which made him the monarch of
Hurricane Island, excepting the Palmyra
place, formerly owned by General Quitman.
He was thorough business man, and had
too, it is said, the presence and address of
cultivated gentleman. He was fairly educa.
ted and was we'll read in current literature.
His two sons, known as business men of in.
tegrity, inherit his possessions.
Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, in the Nesus and
Courier, says: We heard a friend in Colum-
bia say, not long since, that quite noted
horse in that city had recently been shot, be-
cause he had broken a leg. We once had a
colt to break its near hind leg; we swung it
up in canvas for few days, bandaged the
leg we'll, and for many years rode that animal
as plantation horse. The New York 1ra-
bune says, that three months ago citizen of
Utica, New York, had the misfortune to have
the left hind leg of very valuable mare
broken, midway between the fetlock and the
back. A veterinary surgeon suspended the
mare in canvas sling in such a way that
she could rest occasionally upon her sound
legs the broken limb was then set, bound
with hickory and leather splints, and heavy
leather boot wrapped outside of all and the
mare did we'll, never missing meal. After
three weeks plaster of Paris bandage was
substituted, and in seven weeks the mare was
we'll and ready for the turf, upon which she
had made her 240 record, and had no sign of
the fracture
"A New York letter says: "It has been
announced that Mr.. Henry G. Bowen, of the
Independent, is to have a grand Fourth Of
July celebration at his residence at Wood
stock, Conn. The real purpose in view, as [
learn from good authority, is to afford an op.
portunity to Mr.. Blaine, Ex-Governor Cham
berlain, and other prominent Republicans who
are dissatisfied with the Presidents Southern
policy, to speak their mind on the subject.
Mr.. Blaine, it is understood, will deliver then
and there the speech he had prepared for the
extra session of Congress, while Chamberlain
will undertake to show that the Southern
States are now entirely in the hands of "Reb-
ols" and that nobody ia to be blamed for it