Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-02-21
Straps aud fafts.

There are now twelve American officers
in the service of the Khedive of Egypt
Active preparations are being made to
consummate peace between the Spanish forces
and the Cuban insurgents.
Small pox is raging in an epidemic form
at Bremond, Texas. Nine-tepths of the in
habitants have left the place.
- The President has approved a joint reso-
luton that reduction of the tax on distilled
spirits is inexpedient
Virginia's Court of Appeals has decided
that the quor-registration tax by the Motfett
bell.punch is constitutional.
The Cardinals assembled in conclave last
Monday evening for the purpose of electing
successor to Plus TX.
John T. Ables, over sixty years of age,
was hanged at Carthage, No., last Friday.
He killed John L. Lane, in Macdonald
county Mo-, in 1874.
Gideon Welles, Secretary of the U. S.
Navy during the administrations Of President
Lincoln, died at Hartford, Conn.,, on the 18th
instant.
The mansion of Daniel Webster, at
Marshfeld Mass, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th instant. Only a few articles
of its contents were saved.
The obsequies of Plus TX were celebrated
throughout Christendom, last Wednesday, in
the English language, and on Monday in
Latin.
The Senate checkmates the President by
not considering his appointments or report
ing them. This is supposed to be neat de.
vice for keeping the old Grant Ring in power.
Mr.. Andrew Green, of New York, one of
the parties in divorce suit, testi6es that he
has been obliged to keep his hair short in Or
der to prevent his wife from pulling it out.
No living wife knows her own value. 1t
is only when railroad company comes to be
sued, that husband begins to learn what
treasure he has lost.
The former Private Secretary of President
Polk, has been discovered, old and poor, in
Sante Fe. He was we'll acquainted with An
drew jackson, and relates how he once saw
him praying at the grave Of his wife.
- Destructive fires are reported as having
occurred last Monday, in New York, Mobile,
Savannah and the town of Midway, Ala. In
the latter town fourteen stores were burned,
involving loss of $4,000.
Skeleton manufacture is the latest branch
of business in Chicago. The discovery that
an enterprising family has been engaged in
this horrible work for some time past, boiling
down human remains for the purpose, has Gre
ated a sensation even in that city.
A Washington dispatch of Monday night
says the silver caucus has resolved to have the
silver bill referred to the Committee on Bank
ing and Currency, with authority to report
any time. General Ewing, chairman of the
committee, is indisposed to accept the bill in
its present shape.
The Governor of Louisiana is in favor of
licensing gambling houses. He has present
ed bill to that effect to the Legislature. His
idea is that games of chance ought not to be
forbidden. but that cheating ought to be
guarded against by close official inspection
and severe penalties.
- The Mofett bell punch is in favor with
the Richmond, Va, liquor seller First, it is
a check upon the bartender, just as it is on
car conductor second, it enables him to raise
the price of every drink of whisky and ap.
plejack five cents, of which sum he only pays
one half to the State; third, it puts an end to
the credit system.
"A Russian paper estimates that about
forty million bushels of wheat will be ready
for shipment from Black Sea ports, as soon as
there is an absolute assurance of peace. The
Turkish blockade of the Russian coast is al
: ready raised, and the expectation of the aecu.
mutations of breadstuf will probably soon
begin.
"A bill has been introduced into the Vir-
;rio pIrIpr oil
ing cigars to take out State license and be
furnished with MoAett register. Every time
the dealer sells a cigar he turns the crank of
the register, and at the end of each month
he makes oath of the number sold, and pays
tax of one cent on each cigar sold.
Among the recent shipments to Europe
by the Waltham Watch Company, was lot
of two hundred stem. winding watches, by
order of the British Government, for the use
of conductors and engineers on the State
railroads Of India. This order was obtained
in direct competition with foreign manufac-
turers.
"A so.called Congress of beautiful and
elegant ladies" opened in New York Monday
evening, but was pronounced by those who at
tended it to be extreme vulgarity and folly.
The Tribune says the show opened with forty
or fifty young women and girls, in tawdry or
very plain attire, ranged on platforms and in
boxes, or fortified by tables used for the sale
of sheet music. If one of them secretly en-
tertained any claim to beauty, or even pret-
tiuess, it was case of misplaced vanity. A
dozen, perhaps, appeared to be too good for
their surroundings, and were probablyin need
Of the pitiable salary and the possible prize
which the show offered them the majority
were silly, light headed girls, who giggled but
scarcely blushed under the scrutiny of jeering
men. A few matrons were il the ranks, so
plain in features and 80 sedate chat they were
not annoyed.
Among the schemes set on foot for the
relief of the unemployed, is one to promote
settlement on the surplus lands of the South.
1t is said that capitalists in New York, Bos-
ton and Philadelphia are concerned in the
movement, and have formed an association
with a paid-up capital of Sl,000,0OO, with
view to purchasing lands and advancing
money for stock and buildings. Each settler
sent out by the company is to receive one hun
dred acres of land and the necessary advan-
ces for beginning cultivation, executing
mortgage to secure repayment. Gen. Rosen-
Grams and General Gilmore are mentioned as
concerned in it, and an effort is making to
secure General Bsauregard, in Louisiana,
and General Imboden, in Virginia, as agents.
The plan looks feasible and promises SUBJ
stantial benefits to both North and South,
ifsuccessfully carried out.
Among the many virtues of the eucalyp-
fms or hlue-pum tree ia the prOperty of ab-