Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-09
Straps aud fatts,

the rest are nlreQ OUT 10 WOrR on rallrOauS
and farms. One is said to be hired to his
wife, and lives comfortably at home.
Columbia Veterinary College, New York.
recently had a huge subject for dissection in
the shape of an elephant. Investigation
revealed the fact that it died of congestion of
the lungs.
- Three singular cases Of defective vision
are reported from Ocracoke Island, N. G..
Three children of James Howard become
totally blind each day Immediately after the
sun goes down. They retire, sleep soundly
until after sunrise, when their sight is restored.
The blushing editor of a Philadelphia
paper wants the custom of society modified,
so that women can "pop the question" as we'll
as men. He thinks it one sided business as
it is unfair to the ladies, and awfully hard
on bashful men.
Pinchback, the negro politician of Louis
lana, is publishing newspaper, in recent
issue of which he suggests that the first effort
at the disfranchisement of the colored voters
will come from the North, and the negroes
may yet be led to vote the Democratic ticket
in order to preserve their rights.
"A Deputy Sheriff at Richmond, KY,
being unable to collect taxes from resident,
got third party to admire the residents
false teeth and ask to be shown them, then
darting forward, seized them. After living
on soup for few days, the resident paid his
taxes and redeemed his property.
Rev. Moses E. Lord, of Stanford, KY,
rebuked his congregations propensity for
turning round every time the door opened to
admit worshipper, by saying: ''1f you
will give me your close attention, will keep
lookout on the door, and if any thing worse
than man enters I will warn you in time to
make your escape"
- The temperance men of Evansville, In.
diana, compelled the enforcement Of the
Sunday law against the liquor sellers. The
same law applies to nearly all business, and
the liquor sellers have retaliated by closing
the drug stores. barber shops and cigar stands
on Sundays, and by prosecuting the publish
ers Of a Sunday paper.
For eighteen years the Senate of the
United States has been in the hands of the
Republicans, and now that it is about to pass
from their CONTROL they are blandly suggesting
to the opposition that the number of officials
on the Senate payroll is outrageously large,
and that it ought in reason and good govern
ment to be largely cut down. This is politics.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S annual statement of
the precious metals produced in the States
and Territories, west of the Missouri River,
including British Columbia and the receipts
in San Francisco from the west coast of
Mexico during 1878, shows the following
aggregate: Gold, S3S,956,321; silver, $685.
1891 lead, $3,452,OOO; total being less
by Sl7,267,132 than for 1877.
- The fact, says the Baltimore Bulletin,
that the national debt of France is mainly in
the hands of her own people and is distribu-
ted among the poor as we'll as the rich, is
one of the chief causes that tend to give
solidity to the government of that country.
1t is said that there are half million people
among the rural population of France, who
live, in frugal way, upon the interest OF
their government securities.
After marriage ceremony had been per-
formed in one of the churches in Adrian,
Mich, the bride, when receiving the congrat-
ulations of her friends, shed tears, according
to the established ridiculous custom, at the
sight of which the groom followed suit, with
a copious flow of the briny fluid. After his
friends succeeded in calming him, he said he
couid-not help it, for he felt as bad about it
as she did.
- Some of the Republican papers are be-
ginning to enter protest against allowing in
the next Republican National Convention,
solid South, which will probably not cast
single Republican electoral vote, to name
the candidate whom Northern States must
elect, if he is elected at all. They propose
that representation in the next national con-
vention be based upon the number Of Repub,
lcan votes cast at proceeding election,
rather than upon the electoral vote OF States,
under which system Southern Republicans
would have very few delegates.
"A committee, composed of leading North
Carolina agriculturists, having investigated
the matter of the tax on commercial fertlll-
zers, report that it has been productive Of
great benefit to the agricultural classes in
several particulars. 1t is claimed that the
ANALYSIS to which the law subjects fertilizers
has checked frauds in their manufacture,
and improved the quality Of those imported
into the State at least 33 per cent, whilst the
home manufactures of fertilizers has been
stimulated. 1t is also said that the opposition
to the law on the part of the fertilizer manu-
facturers has mostly died out.
Richards, Nebraska herdsman, who is
now under sentence, confesses to the murder
of nine persons, and tells with perfect cool
ness and apparent pride how he killed at one
time a woman and her three children. They
were to start in the night on long journey,
and he calculated that it would be safe to
murder them, because the neighbors would
not readily suspect anything. He went out
and dug their graves before committing the
crime. 81 was not" he said to a reporter,
"any more excited than I am now. | had
studied the matter over for long time. l
had calculated the risk I ran, and | knew
thoroughly what was doing. | went at it
exactly as if I had been butchering so many
hogs"
. The Charleston Ners and Courier says
that the statement recently published in the
New York Tribune to the effect that the
trial of the Charleston election cases would
be held by Chief Justice Waite Immediately
after the opening of the new year, appears to
be without foundation. United States Dis
trict Attorney Northrop says that he has
heard nothing of it. Colonel Hagood, the
clerk Of the United States Circuit Court,
states that there was no understanding at the
time the court adjourned before Christmas
that the Charleston cases would be tried at
the time stated, and that he has received no
iptimation whatsoever that the Chief Justice
intends coming to Charleston before the May
term of the Circuit Court. Mr.. Hagood
further states that no juries have been order
al Co.. tho trial of the cases. and that in his