Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-08
Straps aud fafts.

noon, declaring that the most of the crimes
that come under their supervision were
caused by intoxicating liquors.
There was never but one duel fought in
Illinois. One Of the beiligerents was killed
on the field. The survivor was tried for MUIR
der, was convicted and hanged by the neck
until he was quite dead.
"A rumor comes from Paris that bonnets
are to be worn on the head hereafter. 1t
strikes us the head would be good place on
which to wear bonnet, but such departure
will look little odd at first
- Mormonism still continues to gain few
converts, mainly from benighted Europe,
where the real character Of the institution is
not understood. One hundred and thirty
eight converts landed in New York On Thurs
day last. They were in charge of Elder Pratt
and at once left for Salt Lake City.
Over 800 colored refugees from the South
arrived at Atchkison, Kansas, last Friday, all
destitute. They were housed in the colored
churches. Citizens have temporarily aided
them, but all unite in saying that great suffer
ing must result if this migration of totally
destitute people does not stop.
The rice fields on the Cape Fear River,
near Wilmington, which have lain idle and
grown up with weeds since the war, have
been reclaimed and planted this season by
several energetic parties, who expect to raise
at least 100000 bushels of rice in the next
FIVE years.
"A contemporary has been asked, "Can
man belong to brass band and be Chris
tian p 1t replies eve see no impediment
in the way. But if he is member of q
brass band, and is given to practicing on a
cornet or trombone at home, it is an impos-
sibility for the man living next door to be
Christian"
One day last week, the House of the
Pennsylvania legislature adopted a resolution,
by strict party vote, authorizing the ap-
pointment of joint committee to welcome
Grant upon his arrival in this country, in the
name of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
provided there shall be no expense to the
State. On Friday last, Grant was at Hong
Kong, China.
- The Missouri State central committee, in
session at Jefferson City, last Thursday
night, adopted resolutions approving President
Hayes veto of the army appropriation bill,
favoring thorough organization of the Re.
publican party throughout the State, and
declaring Grant their choice for President in
1880. No time was fixed for holding the
State convention.
- There is one Democrat whom Zachariah
Chandler always treats with marked respect
That is Senator VOORHEES,. Reason: In the
dining-room Of the Kirkwood House, Wash.
ingtou, good many years ago, zachariah
ventured to refer to VOORHEES, as traitor and
copperhead. Whereupon Daniel hoisted
pitcher full Of milk and sprawled him. The
landlord was kind enough not to charge
either for the pitcher or the milk.
SO far as is known, no genuine case Of
hydrophobia has ever yet been cured in this
country. A correspondent of the New York
Herald asserts that discovery of cure for
the fearful malady has been made in Russia,
the remedy being pure oxygen. A little
Russian girl was recently attacked by the
disease and the physicians thereupon made
her inhale three cubic feet of oxygen. In the
course of an hour and half all the symp-
toms disappeared and the child remained
calm. On the next day but one, the malady
returned in all its distressing characteristics.
A fresh inhalation of oxygen was tried, and
at the end of forty.6ve minutes the attack
subsidized and never returned
"A man, calling himself Charles 81. Pen
dleton, of New Haven, c., recently arrived
in San Francisco, having travelled by palace
ear from the Atlantic to the Pacific without
paying cent for passage. The feat was &C.
complished on wager of $4,000, and by
means of hammock, which was slung cross
wise between the rods which run under the
palace cars. The hammock had stays to keep
it from swinging and contrivance to haul it
and its occupant close up to the bottom Of the
car whenever the train stopped, in order to
escape observation. The hammock was lined
with oilskin, and another oilskin, with veil
attached to keep the dust from the face of the
traveller, covered the top. On the brake.
rods and other convenient places were hung
canned meats, &c, nnon which the adven-
turer subsisted during his journey.
"A remarkable departure seems about to
be undertaken by the Jews of the United
States. At the annual convention in the He
brew congregations at Cincinnati last summer,
committee was appointed to consider the
subject of colonization, and this committee
has reported that, in their opinion, the true
emancipation of Jews consists in the greater
infusion of spirit of manhood and selfde.
pendence which can best be dsae by encour-
aging the millions of Israelites dwelling in
Eastern and Southern Europe to become far.
mers and mechanics. The committee points
to the broad, free acres of the West, ready
to yield untold wealth, and impart to mil.
lions of Jews that spirit of true independence
that the owner and tiller of the soil always
enjoys The Jew, as a farmer, is truly a
unique idea in these modern days, and yet it
is but return to the life and work Of the
forefathers in the golden days of the race /;
and there seems no reason to doubt that the
shrewd business tact that is proverbially at
tributed to this people, and their remarkable
success under the weight of the persecution
of ages, may be displayed as brilliantly in ag-
ricultural pursuits as in other fields.
The faith which the hackers of Keely
continue to manifest in the "new motor" is one
of the remarkable features of the times
Though several groups of scientific men have
examined the alleged motor and have pro-
nounced it deception and delusion, busi-
ness men, sensible and careful, are still found
ready to put up the money for him to COM
plete his experiments. Like Mr.. Edison's
electric light, it is always nearly completed,
and awaits only connecting link or linch-pin
or something Of the kind for complete sue
cess. The world is thus kept hanging on the
verge of great event which is to revolution
ize things, and thus year after year it contin-
lies to hang. Keely has indeed demonstrated