Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-17
Sfraps aud fatts.


are gentlemen of leisure. In the Senate there
are 1S ex.Confederate soldiers and 4 Union
soldiers. In the House there are 5S Confed'
crate and 81 Union soldiers.
- The friends of Col. Buford, who killed
Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, KY, recently,
have retained the services Of ex-Judge Cur
It's of New York, for his defense. The selec-
tion of ex-Judge Curtis indicates that the de-
fense will be insanity, he having had large,
varied and successful experience in that class
of cases, including the Helmbold case, the
great Bouden will case, the Kelly case and
others.
The Virginia Legislature likes the Moi
fett bell-punch liquor law so we'll that is has,
after improving it somewhat, provided for its
continuance. The tax on spirits had been
reduced, and the registers are to be put in
more conspicuous places The discovery that
the arrangement increased the liquor revenue
80 per cent. over the old license system, is
what settled the question in the minds of the
lawmakers.
- Mrs. Jefferson Davis has also been inter.
viewed by the Boston Herald. She differs
with her husband regarding the future Of the
negro, and thinks that the race can be edu.
Gated and made selfreliant. She is reader
of Darwin, Huxley, and others, but is so
orthodox in her religious belief that she puts
faith in every line of the Bible. She believes
that the world was made in six days, and that
the whale swallowed Jonah.
- Mr.. Hendricks has emerged from the
convohted recesses Of his shell again and has
been seized by the insatiate interviewer. He
imparts to the world his belief that Congress
is now on the right track and in keeping with
the sentiment of the country. He says en-
phatically that he will not accept the second
place on any Presidential ticket in 1880. 1t
should be understood that Mr.. Hendricks has
never, at any time, either by word or impli-
cation, created the impression that he would
decline the first place on Presidential tick
ct if it were presented to him with proper
formality and with sufficient unanimity.
Mrs. Morrell was an Irish lady lately de-
ceased, who, in her youth, was member OF
the Milbanke household, when Lady Byron,
after many quarrels with her husband, re-
turned to her fathers house. These quarrels
ended one morning at breakfast when Lord
Byron was in a "tantrum," and his wife
brought matters to crisis by asking point
edly byron, am in your way?" Byron,
leaning against the manetlpiece, answered
savagely: "Yes, damnably" Lady Byron
Immediately left the room, and soon after the
house. She never saw her husband again,
and "damnably" was the last word from his
lips which fell upon her ear.
- The dog show at Gilmore's Garden, the
third given by the Westminster Kennel
Club, of New York city, is said to be the
most complete ever held in this country. Be-
tween nine hundred and one thousand dogs
of high and low degree, mostly we'll ones,
however, from pointers and settlers, dear to
every huntsman's heart, all through the list of
household pets to incorruptible mastiffs, brave
and simple Newfoundlands and humane St.
Bernards, who vie with their guardian monks
in works of mercy amid the eternal storms
and avalanches of the Alps, are on exhibition.
Many of the sporting dogs show that beauty
of form and that peculiar action which can
only belong to high bred animal.
- The New York Times devoted thirty-two
columns to reports from various sections of
the country on the popular inclination for
Presidential candidates in 1880. 1t has spe-
cial reports from one hundred and hfty-seven
localities, embracing all the leading sections
of the Union, of which one hundred and thirty
favor Grant ten prefer Blaine, with Wash
burne, Garfield, Sherman, Conkling, Ed
munds and Chandler coming in as scattering
in the order named. Of the same localities,
the correspondents of the Times report ninety
eight as preferring Tilden as the Democratic
candidate, twenty-three declare for Thurman,
eleven for Bayard and the others are divided
between Hendricks and Hancock. The Times
may be right about Grant; but its report as
to Tilden is all fudge. 1t tells US rather what
it hopes than what it knows
- The electric light is gradually invading
the territory of gaslight. 1t has been tried
in the British Museum with success. The ex-
periments with the electric light recently
made in its reading-room have satisfied the
trustees of its applicability for the purposes
of the room as far as the amount and distri-
button of light are concerned, although the
full number of lamps was not employed. On
three occasions the light was turned on at
dusk, in order to enable readers to continue
their studies without interruption for another
hour. As far as could be ascertained, they
were enabled to work by it without difficulty,
even at the tables where the light was weak.
est. A further trial of the light is to be made
with the view to utilize it on dark days
and for extending the hours for using the
reading room in the winter.
- In the Senate, recently, very significant
episode marked the debate on the New
Hampshire senatorship. Senator Ben Hill,
of Georgia. was addressing the body. He
said: IF the Governor of New Hampshire
has the power to fill vacancy in the Con-
federate Senate &C. A burst of laughter
greeted the senator, and for moment he was
very much embarrassed Realizing the situ-
alton, he explained that he had been made
the victim of slip of the tongue, and that he
had no revolutionary designs whatever. Mr..
Hill may explain as much as he pleases, but
he will never convince the loyal sentiment Of
the country that he did not mean precisely
what he said. The present Senate is now
known in Republican parlance as "the Con-
federate Senate" and Mr.. Hill has evidently
accepted the situation. Everything goes to
show that we are in the midst of bowling
revolution.
- The managers of the proposed Worlds
Fair in New York, have agreed upon 1883 as
the year, but have not been able as yet to fix
upon an acceptable site. They desire room
at the lower end of Central Park for all the
temporary buildings, and Manhattan square,
adjoining, for permanent building-to be
turned over to the Museum of Natural Histo-
ry at the close Of the exhibition. But New
York protests with great unanimity against
the diversion fany portion ofthe park for this