Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-03-06
Straps aud fatts.

non-paying customers, with amounts due, large
and small
The Greenbackers, at their Washington
conference, are said to have planned for a. Wig
orous canvass of the West and South Gen.
Butler is understood to have dipped generous
ly into his barrel of money, and a considera-
Bile campaign fund was raised.
"A bride waited two hours after the time
appointed for wedding in Goshen, Ohio, but
the bridegroom did not come 1t was decided
to send for him before dismissing the guests.
He was found at home with one side Of his
face shaved, and so nervous that he had not
been able to WELD the razor any longer.
Twenty five thousand dozen Panama hats,
of a poor quality, were sold at auction in New
York, on Tuesday last, at from thirty.f five to
forty-fve cents per dozen. The hats, which
were unfinished, were bought by manufactu-
rers, who will put the finishing touches upon
them and bring them out for the spring trade.
The mint in New Orleans is in full ope-
ration, and the Item says it is great advan-
tage to the trade of that city, as we'll as a
good thing for those reduced in circumstances,
as they have only to send their old plate to
the mint to have it returned to them in bright
dollars of the daddy.
"A decision has been rendered by the at
torney-general that Congressman elect are en-
titled to the franking privilege from the COM
mencement of the term Of service, whether
sworn in or not. This gives members elect to
the Forty.Sixth Congress that privilege from
the 4th of March.
For the first time in twenty years, the city
of York, Pennsylvania, is in Republican
hands At the recent municipal election the
Democracy was routed, horse, foot, dragons
and hangers.on. This was thusly because
small ring of Democratic politicians settled
down in their snug nests and proceeded to
parcel out the Offices in hereditary style.
1t is understood that the court of inquiry,
convened at the request of Major Marcus A.
Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, to inquire into
the charges that Major Reno had, at the bat
tie of Little Big Horn, (the Custer massacre)
been guilty of cowardice and remissness in
the discharge of his duty, report that the in
quiry has not deduced evidence against him
which would convict
During debate in the Maine Legislature,
the other day, lawyer sneeringly remarked
the function Of editors "to ferret out rogues
and thieves" Whereupon the editor mildly
reioined that it was "the function of lawyers
to defend rogues and thieves" The subse-
quent proceedings possessed no interest to the
gentleman Of the legal profession, and he
soon passed out Of the hall to see man.
Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, has taken advantage of
the thick ice on the Missouri river, to lay
railroad track across, over which he is trans
porting the heavy materials which will be
needed in the spring for the hundred miles Of
new roadway which the company has made
arrangements to build during the coming
season. 1t was doubted whether the ice would
bear the enormous loads, but the experiment
is perfectly successful.
Henry Ward Beecher expresses desire
to make lecturing tour through the South.
He would not lecture for money, among the
Southern people, so impoverished by the war,
but if he makes the tour, will devote the pro.
ceeds of his lectures to the aid of charitable
institutions, schools and other public institu
tions. Mr. Beecher says he would be disap-
pointed if not kindly received in the South,
done to help preciptate the war and to free
the slaves, it was done in the spirit OF the
doctor who uses knife on patient to eradi-
cate cancer"
joaquin Miller pleads for the Chinaman.
He asserts that not half of the solid wealth
and worth of the lar West, outside of the pol
iticians, favor the anti-Chinese bill. The cry
against the Chinaman, he says, comes from
the Irish laborers, porters and "help," who,
by extortionate wages, had brought the Chi
namen in competition. The cry has long
been political shibboleth. AS a miner he
testi6es to the honesty, industry and neighbor
ly good nature Of these "lttle brown men )"
and while magistrate in Grant county, Ore
gon, for four years, although the Chinese
population, during the most of this time, out
numbered the whites, he says he never saw a
single drunken Chinaman, nor single Chi
nese beggar.
At the end of the last year the number
of Freemasons in the word was about 5,000,-
900, and of lodges about $4,000. In Germa-
ny there were 342 lodges, in Switzerland 80,
Hungary A, Roumania II, Servia l, Eng
land and Wales 1887, Scotland 334, Ireland
2S9, Gibraltar 5, Malta 4, Holland and Lux
emburg 46, Belgium Is, Denmark 7, Sweden
and Norway 1S, France 2S7, Spain about 800,
Portugal %, Italy 10, Greece II, Turkey 26,
Egypt %, Tunis 2, Algeria II, Morocco 2,
the West Coast of Africa II, African Islands
25, the Cape 81, Arabia (Aden) l India 11S,
Indian Islands Is, China 13, Japan 5, Aus
tralian Islands 4, Australia 229, New Zealand
81, United States 1894, Canada 535, Cuba
80, Hayti 80, West Indian Islands IS, Mexi-
co 13, Brazil 256, other States in South Amer
lea l79.
If Arctic explorers have not discovered
practical northwest passage, whales have,
as is shown by the fact that whales have been
captured in the North Pacific having har-
poons that were thrown into them on the 9TH
er side of the Continent. Capt. Bauldry, of
the Helen Mar, of San Francisco, has taken
a whale having in it a large flint harpoon,
supposed to have been put in by the natives
of Cape Bathurst, or the regions beyond the
mouth of the Mackenzie River, because the
natives living to the westward of that river
never use such weapons, but always bone or
iron. A more positive evidence is found in
the fact that the captain of the Adet'ne Gibbs
took a whale in the Arctic, with an iron in it,
which had been thrown the same season in
Hudson's Bay. This is known to be the case
because the iron bore the mark of ship en-
gagged at the time in whaling in the bay.
- The question of the sacredness of tele-
graphic correspondence is at last likely to be
fully settled before the highest courts, The
IVaotorn IIniop Comnanv will make the fipht