Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-24
Sfraps aud fafts.

now tnat II taxes young man 10 carry IL
home from church.
Nebraska farmers have still 10000
bushels of corn to send to market, and it is
becoming serious question how to get Fac of
this great surplus.
= jeff Davis had his pocket knife sharpen
ened the other day, and certain Republican
journals Immediately declared that the South
was preparing for new rebellion.
"A vessel which arrived at Boston last
week from Rio Janeiro, was sent to quaran'
tine, in consequence Of two deaths from yel-
low fever having occurred on board during
the voyage.
= The Missouri Legislature was about to
pass marriage license law, among the pro-
visions of which was one that clergymen must
be recorded in the county clerks Office "as Of
good moral character" before they could law
fully perform matrimonial ceremony"
Systematic vaccination has rarely had a
more complete vindication than was offered
by the health returns of New York city last
year. Out of q 900 deaths, but two were
due to smallpox. A solitary case last week
was the first, or nearly the first, during the
current year.
"A pretty girl "out West" told her beau
that she was mind.reader. "You don't say
so p he exclaimed. "Can you read what's
in my mind ?" eyes" said she "you have
it in your mind to ask me to be your wife,
but you are just little scared at the idea." !"
Their wedding cards are out.
The underground telegraph system has
been given thorough trial in Germany, and
has been found such a complete success
that the imperial postmaster general is now
engaged in extending the system throughout
the empire, and the task will be completed in
year and half.
The citizens of Charlotte and Mecklen-
burg county generally, propose celebrating
the coming Goth of May (their 4th Of july
with great eclat. Several mass meetings have
been held in Charlotte and numerous COM
mittees appointed to arrange the programme
that will do honor to the occasion.
-Ex-Congressman Rainey, of South Caro-
lima, was recently rendered by Secretary Sher-
man the position of assistant appointment
clerk of the treasury department. lnas-
much as he had been prominent applicant
for the third authorship Of the treasury de-
partment, he declined the smaller Office with a
good deal of Indignation.
The celebrated Benner bale of cotton,
which had been going the round Of Southern
cities, for the benefit of the family of Lieu
tenant Benner, has reached the Augusta (Ga.) }
Exchange, and will be either raffled or sold,
as may be determined hereafter, and the
proceeds forwarded to Lieutenant Benners s
family, after which the bale will be sent to
some other city.
An elderly lady living near Cochran
(Ga.,) has for twenty years carried brass
pin in her mouth day and night, during
which time it has never been out of her mouth.
She frequently moves it from one side to the
other, and by request will exhibit it on the
tongue, but not suffer it, under any circum.
stances, to be removed from the mouth. No
reason is given for this strange conduct.
"A Russian author who cared to publish a
volume fearlessly criticising the iniquities OF
the government, has been compelled literally
to eat his own words. The judge of Mos
cow court gave him the choice of eating his
book or suffering the punishment of the knout,
and on three different days the unhappy man
of letters ate his production leaf by leaf until
the quarto volume had been chewed up and
swallowed.
"A man has been discovered in New York
by newspaper reporter who doubtless pos
sesses the most remarkable beard in the coun.
try The man is truck driver, and during
working days wears his beard coiled up and
braided together under his clothing, but on
Sundays he loosens it and combs it out and
goes upon promenade with hirsute growth
which reaches to his toes, and lie is man
nearly six feet high at that.
Senator Bruce, who has been appointed
chairman of Senate special committee to in.
vestigate the affairs of the defunct Freedmans 3
Bank, announces that he will begin his Ia
bors as soon as Congress adjourns, and he
doesn't propose to stop till he finds out what
has become of the missing millions. Thou
sands of defrauded colored men have lively
interest in this work, and will naturally de-.
sire to see Senator Bruce make good his
promise.
The execution of Hezekiah Shaffer, the
wife-murderer at Chambersburg, Pa, THURS.
day, was attended by circumstances of pecu'
liar horror. The criminal was so weak that
he could not walk, but had to be borne to the
scaffold in blanket. He had, from the first,
protested his innocence, and when asked on
the gallows if he had anything to say, he
merely shook his head. The drop fell, and
the demands of the law were satisfied.
DIR. VIM McClung Piggott, who was in
charge of the Confederate States Laboratory
at Petersburg during the war, has written a
letter to prominent Charleston physician
from Tambo, Queensland, Australia, in which
he says that there are wide field and many
splendid openings for competent physicians
in Australia, and advises young, energetic
and competent doctors who are struggling to
make practice at home to come out at once.
He says that position worth from 81 500 to
$4,000 the first year is certain, and that ifany
physicians make up their minds to make the
change he can secure them cheap transpor-
tation as immigrants.
In New York, on Thursday last, Syndi-
cate composed of nineteen banks and bank
ing firms of that city and Boston, made sub
scription of $150,0O0, 900 four per cent. bonds
and $4O,OO0,OO0 funding certificates, making
thu largest single subscription ever made to
government funded loans in this or any other
country. The Syndicate which has made this
unparalleled subscription of one hundred and
ninety millions, is composed, it is understood,
of the First National Bank, Fisk & Hatch,
Metropolitan National Bank, Winslow, La.
nier & Co.. J. & w. Seligman, Morton, Bliss