Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-25

RANDoLpH's VIEW OF THE B1BLE-Con
spicuous in John Randolph's library was q
family Bible. Surrounding it were many
books; some for and others against its truth
fulness, as an inspired revelation. One day
Mr.. Randolph had clergyman as his guest
and the family Bible became topic of con.
versation. The eccentric orator said:
II was raised by a pious mother (God bless
her memory y, who taught mo the Christian
religion in all its requirements. But alas
grew up all .in6del-if not an infdel com.
plete, yet decided deist.
"But when became man, in this as well
as in political and all other matters, re,
solved to examine for myself, and never to
pin my faith to any other mans sleeve. So
bought that Bible; I pored over it; ex.
amined it carefully.
II sought and procured those books fol-
and against it; and when my labors we're
ended, I came to this irresistible conclusion
The Bible is true. 1t would have been as
easy for mole to have written Sir Isaac
Newton's treatise on Optics, as for uninspired
men to have written the Bible"
PET DoGs.-The New York Home Jour.
nal, referring to the fashion of making pets
of dogs, says: "The amount Of luxurious ten.
derness that is bestowed on these worthless
creatures by some of our wealthy citizens, is
so astonishing as to be almost unbelievable
1t is not at all uncommon to see carriage
with two liveried men upon the box, driving
through the Park, upon pleasant morning,
with only dog, or perhaps pair of them,
inside, taking sniff of fresh air. They have
had their bath, their locks have been dressed,
and if they are very shaggy dogs, such as
poodles, Skye terriers, ETC., fresh ribbons are
in the braid or curl of their topknots, and
possibly tiny cluster of fresh blossoms is
tied in the same becoming fastenings. A
sleek, short-haired dog is carefully blanketed
and perhaps stockinged also with crotcheted
comforts, the like of which only the fortunate
few among children are able to possess"
DUMAS READY Wr-One fine morning
Dumas, the elder, printed an article in which
he handled the Italian people in manner
more vigorous than courteous. At eight
o'clock the paper came out; by ten Dumas
had received thirty challenges; by noon, six.
ty. At 1 P. M. he called meeting of the
one hundred and twenty friends of his chal,
lengers, and said unto them: "Gentlemen, 1
leave Naples tonight, and, therefore, have
not time to fight all your principals singly.
Nevertheless, | am anxious to give them all
the satisfaction that is in my power, so, as
have the choice Of weapons, I propose fight
ing with pistols; your sixty principals will
be collected into a group, and, on receiving
the word, fire volley at me, and I'll blaze
away into the crowd" The proposition was
not accepted.
AN INF1DEL REBUKED.-An inidel, boast
ing in published letter that he had raised
two acres of "Sunday corn," which he had
intended to devote to the purchase of in6del
books, adds, Call the work done on it was
done on Sunday. and it will yield some sew.
enty bushels to the acre so don't see but
that nature or Providence has smiled upon
my Sunday work, however, the priests of the
Bible may say that work done on Sunday
never prospers. My corn tells another story"
To this the editor of an agricultural paper re-.
plies: "If the author of this shallow non.
sense had read the Bible half as much as he
had the works of its opponents, he would have
known that the Great Ruler of the universe
does not always square up his accounts with
mankind in the month Of October"