Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-02
Straps aud fafts.


from the bite of grand.child whom she was
chastising.
Mr.. Wheeler, of New Hampshire, who
died worth $1,000, seems to have been a
pleasant sort of man. His will says: "Ex-
pend it all on my tombstone"
The Supreme Court of Alabama has de-
cided that doctor may be summoned as
witness, and be made to give medical opin-
ion without compensation.
The Baltimore Gazette thinks "a popular
and profitable income tax must always be a
practical impossibility." That might be said
Of every kind of tax.
At Stoughton village, WIS.,, grain deal
er recently attempted to resume specie pay
ments, but it being strong greenback neigh
borhood, most of the farmers refused to touch
the gold, and demanded greenbacks.
An organ of the tobacco trade asserts that
if the tobacco consumed annually, about A..
O0O000000 pounds, could be made into roll
two inches in diameter, it would encircle the
world sixty times.
- The New York Bulletin remarks, with
much truth, that zone Of the most serious
hindrances to the return of better times is the
vast number of young men who are adrift,
who can get nothing to do, simply because
they can do nothing that any body wants
done.
A free negro woman was kidnapped in
Cincinnati twenty-five years ago by slave
dealer, and sold into slavery in Kentucky,
where she remained until the close of the war.
Recently she sued Sheriff Ward, of Little
Rock, the kidnapper, for $4,000. A long,
closely contested trial resulted in verdict
for $4,000.
The Jefferson Davis who recently appear
ed in full uniform at military review in the
city of Mexico, was Gen. JEFF. G. Davis, Of the
United States army, and not the ex-Confed-
crate President. General Davis commands
the Federal forces on the Texas frontier, and
has recently visited the Mexican capital with
his wife.
When Judge Black was asked how he
could conscientiously defend confessed de-
linquent like Belknap, he rejoined that he was
lawyer, that Washington was in his field of
practice, and that there seemed to be only two
methods of getting living in Washington
one by robbing the Government, and the other
by defending the thieves when they were
caught.
Congressman Blackburn, Of Kentucky,
discussing the Blair bill, says: "If there was
the slightest hope of gaining anything, l
would favor the bill. AS it is, [ can only
see harm. For the rest, l would as soon in
stitute suit in hell against the devil, with
Beelzebub as presiding judge, as to refer the
question to the Supreme Court as it is now
constituted"
On the 29th of July, next, will occur an
astronomical event of great Interest," total
eclipse of the sun-which will be visible gen.
orally in the United States. The eclipse will
be visible from 4 to o'clock in the after
noon. The path of totality in this eclipse
runs diagonally across the centre of the Uni
ted States from Montana to Texas, and is be-
tween 120 and $50 miles wide.
"A lawyer once asked the late Judge
Pickens, of Alabama, to charge the jury that
"it is better that ninety and nine guilty men
should escape than that one innocent man
should be punished" "Yes," said the witty
Judge, II will give that charge, but in the
opinion of the court the ninety and nine
guilty men have already escaped in this
county"
On Thursday last, a cyclone passed over
a section of country four miles from Rome,
Ga, clearing everything as it went. As far
as heard from, eight persons were injured and
several horses and mules were killed. Trees
three feet in diameter were twisted over end
swept away Nine dwellings we're blown
down. The path of the cyclone was three
hundred yards wide, passing from southwest
to northeast.
1t is estimated by intelligent observers
that the total acreage now sown to wheat
throughout the Northwest exceeds that of any
preceding year to the extent Of about 80 per
cent, and the prospect is that if the weather
of the next four weeks should prove favorable
for planting, at least 20 per cent more of corn
and potatoes will be planted this season than
ever before. With anything like favoring
conditions, the year 1878 will be productive of
immense crops of all kinds of grain and other
agricultural products.
- The new method of Matching shad in
which steam machinery plays an important
part, and to test which an appropriation
was passed by Congress last December, is said
to give promise of being eminently successful.
The work of fish Matching in the waters of
Albemarle Sound, on the cost of North Caro-
lima, has been progressing finely under the
new process, and it is estimated that nearly
Eve million of young shad have been planted
in Virginia and North Carolina waters by
this means.
"A letter received in New York from aprom-
inent member of the Waysand Means commit.
tee of the House of Representatives, expresses
the opinion that thoug h the proposed REIN.
position of the income tax may possibly 60
through the House, it stands no chance in the
Senate. A New York letter referring to this
matter says: "One thing is tolerably certain,
and that is no representative from this part
of the country who votes for it, need expect
ever to be sent back to Washington. Both
Democrats and Republicans are agreed on
that point, differ as they may on Others"
The negroes are to hold convention in
Charlotte, n. c., on the 18th of September
next, the object of which is to petition the
law.making powers of the country to restore
the whipping post for stealing and other griev.
Gus ofenses. Stephen McCorkle, colored
man, is at the head of the move, and he says
there will be delegates from several of the
Southern States. Ofcourse the white crimi-
nails of the like sort would come in for whip
pings also-which kind of reconciles the
blacks to it. This is the case in Virginia,
Delaware, &c. To the States it saves much,
in not having to maintain so many petty
offenders in prisons.
The French Communists, living in New
York, selected Good Friday as good occasion