Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-02-07
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WAYSIDE GATHERINGS.

sion, cost an aggregate OF soo,ooo per uaN.
Mississippi legislators are required to fur
nish their own newspapers and stationery.
A Mofiett bell punch bill is before the
Louisiana Legislature for adoption.
There are only two hundred and forty
Israelites in Augusta, Georgia-men, women
and children.
- Both branches of the Kentuck ky legisla-
ture have passed bill for a convention to
revise the constitution Of the State.
i Every male citizen of Atlanta, Ca, is
taxed five dollars for the maintenance OF the
streets
Nearly every successful business man in
the country who has made large fortune in
trade, has been liberal advertiser in news
papers.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has ordered that, hereafter, on all unpaid
messages, the word "collect" shall be charged
for as a portion of the telegram.
"A man at Harrisburg, Pa, invited his
friends recently to his "grand annual bawl y
He has been married eleven years and has
eleven children.
- Near Cincinnati, last Thursday, while
an officer was pursuing four highwaymen,
he was shot and instantly killed. The muir.
derers escaped.
- Mrs. Matilda Stanley, the recognized
Queen of the Gipseys of the United States
and the Canadas, died at Vicksburg, Miss,
last week.
- The Messrs. Tiddy, proprietors of the pa.
per mills near Lincolnton, n. G., are manu-
featuring, for New York contractor, paper
for postal cards.
"A man in Harmon, N. H., has sued the
dlatory lover of his daughter for $500 for
room rent, fuel and lights during four years
of courtship
- Gen. Wheeler, of the Confederate army,
who will be remembered as being at one time
in command of all Gen. Joseph f. Johnstons
calvary, is practicing law in Tennessee.
- The Mormons are building magnificent
temple on the summit of a high mountain in
Manti, Utah. Five hundred men are at
work on it, and it will not be completed for
four years.
"A resolution has been introduced into the
Legislature of Massachusetts, opposing the re-
vval of any State or sectional anmoslty, as
being detrimental to the best interests Of the
country.
- 1t is rumored that the President, in his
forthcoming civil service message, will recon-
mend that the selection Of posmasters in
smaller towns be made by popular vote, and
that the Postmaster General shall merely
confirm the selection made.
j. H. Miller, the insurance agent, who
was arrested few weeks ago at St. Johns,
N. B., under the extradition treaty, for forge
ry committed in Georgia, has been discharged,
the forgery not being proven. 1t was proved
that he uttered forged acceptances, but this
was not the charge against him.
The House judiciary committee will pre-
sent an elaborate report by its Chairman, Rep
resentative Knott, Of Kentucky, in the case
of Smals, member Of Congress from South
Carolina, that his privileges do not shield him
from the custody of his State under the
charge Of felony.
- The London Lancet says that out of every
hundred buried persons, one living person is
consigned to the tomb. Pretended spirits
say that the greatest agony is frequently
caused to the spirits of the dying and ap.
parently dead by the immediate packing of
the remains in ice.
A Detroit boy stood an umbrella, with
a cord tied to it, in public doorway. Elev-
en- persons thought that umbrella was theirs,
and carried it off with them the length of the
string. They then suddenly dropped it and
went off without once looking back or stop
ping to pick it up again.
A Philadelphia woman is suing horse
railroad company for damages. She was
thrown down in car by collision, break
ing her leg. The company introduces proof
that she was not grasping the straps, or she
would not have been hurt. She swears that
her corset was so tight that she could not
reach up to the straps.
Mr.. William F. Taylor, second auditor of
the State of Virginia, in a communication to
the Speaker of the House of Delegates, says
reports received from the operations of the
Mof1ett whisky registers, indicate the revenue
from them will amount to 100000 this year,
which is $4,000 in excess of the revenue
under the license law. Mr.. Taylor says that
when the registers get full under way, the
revenue will reach fully 100000 per year.
1t would seem from statistics gathered by
medical men, that the old adage, Railways
sick, never die," has better foundation than
mere hearsay. A high medical authority,
DR.. R. Southly, in lecture on health, said
Health and longevity are not synonymous;
neither are health and great muscularty.
The most muscular men, great prize.fghters,
men who could fell an OK with their fists,
have been known to be always ailing and
complaining about themselves. Longevity,
like height, is rare attribute, but it does not
signify health. The three oldest people |
ever knew-women who reached respectively
49,, SO and 100-were valtudinarians, and
had been so nearly all their lives"
-Oysters of enormous size have been found
at times upon the Atlantic coast, but rarely,
if ever, one which rivals in dimensions one
taken in 1910, in Mobile. 1t was taken in
April of that year by Xavier Francois, while
oystcring at his accustomed beds 1t meas
ured three feet and one inch in length, and
twenty-three and half inches in breadth
across its widest part. 1t was opened and
served up in savory stew. In 1865 JEFF
ferson market New York; oyster dealer
found among his stock of East River oysters,
one which contained a dead fish, six inches
long, of the spotted gummel or butterhsh
species, having a dorsal fin extending from
the head to the tail, filled with sharp spines.
Whether the oyster was also dead, tradition
does not inform US.
"A rival to the Moffett Bell Punch is at
tracing attention in Virginia. The plan is
that the State auditor shall have prepared
book of coupons, to be sold to all bar rooms
and liquor dealers generally. When the
dealer sells drink, the consumer receives a
coupon, which entities him to receive from