Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-23
Sfraps aud fafts.

mother-in-law but they live in Greenwood,
Miss, and the law of that State forbids such
a union.
There have been over 5000 petitions pre-.
sented to Congress this session-2,000 on the
tariff, 300 for woman's suffrage, and nearly
200 in regard to the liquor traffic.
The present Legislature of Ohio has just
enacted rigid law for the protection of fish.
1t prohibits seining within the Jurisdiction of
Ohio, and prohibits the catching of fish by
any means during their spawning season.
Robert Bonner is worth nearly 1O,OOO,-
0OO During his lifetime he has spent
in advertising over million dollars, and his
present immense fortune is the direct result of
it.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain will deliver
the address before the literary societies of
Oberlin University, at Westervelt, Ohio, at
the annual commencement exercises OF that
institution.
- An old saying of Napoleon is current
again. He observed that "there never was
any trouble in getting Russian army to in.
wade a neighboring province; for there was
no spot on earth where Russian wouldn't be
more comfortable than at home"
- Ex-Financial Agent Kimpton, now fu-
gitive in Canada, has recently ordered hand
some yacht of forty-fve tons sent OF from
New York, with which he expects to make
fishing cruise on the St. Lawrence and around
Anacosta Island.
A case of "quickened conscience" of a
very practical sort, is reported from Ohio.
Henry Mattison, of La Rue county, a bache-
lor Of IS, supposing himself to be on his death
bed, has given his estate to the government,
as a recompense for $4,000 which it lost by
his manufacture of "moonshine" whisky since
the war.
-Forty-fve years ago 25 500, 900 shad and
750000000 herring were caught annually in
the Potomac, and now it is estimated that not
over 250,000 shad year are caught. Pro-
fessor Baird says we have destroyed them by
fsh-murder, and the weapons used were gill
nets, and other destructive contrivances. In
spawning season the fish have been merciless-
ly pursued and given not moments rest.
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South has been in session
in Atlanta Ca, since the 1st instant Much
business affecting the future of the Conference
and the Church has been transacted. Several
important changes have been made by redis,
trcting conference bounds-none, however,
applying to this section. The question, "Do
you expect to be made perfect in love in this
life" was restored to the discipline.
Jobnathan Walker, the noted aboitionist
hero of Whittier's poem, "The Man with the
Branded Hand" died recently in Muskegon,
Michigan, in great poverty. For attempting
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prisoned, pilloried, and branded on the right
hand with the letters rs. S., or Slave Stealer.
He was born in 1899, and was long noted as
one of the most vehement of abolition and
anti slavery lecturers.
- The Louisiana Christian Advocate points
out, in the following lucid manner, wherein
the sinner wins "a correspondent wants to
know if Christian can 60 to the circus.
Why, yes, he can 60 to the circus easily enough;
but it will cost him quarter when he gets
there to get in. You see, Christian is al
ways too proud to carry water for the ele-
phant, and that is where the sinner has the
advantage over him in the matter of free
passes"
AT Baltimore, Friday, the Annual Confer
ence of the African Methodist Church passed
q
African exodus movement as "a new evil
among our people of the Southern States, of a
disastrous and fatal tendency" and declar-
ing that "we regard this scheme as measure
ill-advsed and pregnant with the worst of
consequences in its general tendency and re-
suits upon the interests of our injured but
steadily advancing people"
- Charlotte N c., has a young man who dis
plays practical method of looking only at the
brightest side, if we may credit the following,
from the Southern Home: This hopeful young
man has been in love long time, but his
friends were satisfied that the contest was
hopeless one and so informed him. They as
signed as the reason that the affections of the
Young lady we're centered on another. 81
know it," responded the still hopeful lover,
"but YOU see he might die before the marriage
and then could stand a chance" This argu'
ment was overwhelming and conclusive to bis
advisers.
The last of LaEtte's buccaneers, Achille
Arnaulde, died few days ago in Louisiana,
aged 81. His death was due to a visit last
winter to Illinois, where the change of eli.
mate prostrated him. His tomb lies on what
was formerly known as the German coast"
not far from the scenes of his most memora-
BILE exploits-the great Pass of Barataria and
the island of Grand Terre. He was the last
of the buccaneers, and with his death the
memory of this once powerful league, which
fought and conquered sixty years ago, under
the insurgent flag of Carthageua, is relegated
forever to the past and to American history.
American competion in foreign markets
is daily adding proof that "carrying Goals to
Newcastle" is not necessarily such an absurdi-
ty, after all. Supplying the English dinners
with American beef was sufficiently daring
commercial enterprise, but what shall we say
of the prospect of inducing Germans in the
"faderland" to drink American beer in pre-.
ference to that brewed at home? A New
York firm of brewers have already had the
enterprise to send samples of their beer to
Bismarck, who pronounced it good, and they
have since received such large orders from
Germany that they are making arrangements
to export it on a large scale.
The Treasury department has directed
that hereafter no more standard silver dol
lars be paid out, at the sub-treasury in New
York, for greenbacks. Nearly all the silver
issued in this manner has found its way back
into the sub-treasury, in payment for custom
duties, the parties thereby saving the premium
on gold in making such payments. The OBJ
iect in paying out silver for greenbacks was
to get the former into general circulation. AS
their object is not realized at New York, all
the silver coming directly back into the Treas
ury, the practice has been discontinued. In