Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-03


Sidney Smith once rebuked swearing
visitor by saying, "Let US assume that every
thing and everybody are damned, and proceed
with our subject"
AN Illinois man, writing to the clerk of
the Supreme Court of the State for license
to practice law, said "If you have two sizes
send me the largest one.'
The Jewish population of Jerusalem,
which was only three hundred at the begin
ming of the present century, is now over thir.
teen thousand
There are only two Republican United
States Senators from South of the Potomac
Bruce, of Mississippi, and Kellogg, of Loui-
siana.
- Medical men often puzzle themselves over
the large sale that Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup en-
joys. Its great popularity is due only to the
excellent qualities possessed by this household
medicine. 25 cents.
Arrangements are in progress for holding
Worlds Fair in New York, in 1883 or 1885,
1t is probable that when the time comes, the
necessary buildings will be erected in Central
Park.
Andrew D. White has been appointed
minister to Germany, to succeed the late
Bayard Taylor. He is President of Cornell
University, and is native of Syracuse, New
York
- The Chinese are inclined to take the Pres.
idents veto of the anti-immigration bill as an
invitation to come. A steamer, which arrived
at San Francisco recently, brought nearly 600
of them.
Joseph H. Rainey, ex-Congressman from
South Carolina, is to be appointed registrar of
the land Office at Fargo, Dakota, on the ur
gent request of Alexander H. Stephens and
others of prominence in the South.
The Boston Pilot thinks that "to refuse
Jeff Davis place on the Mexican war pen
sion list, because he was a rebel quarter Of
a century after he had fought as a patriot, is
like Furnishing son for misdeed by his
grandfather"
Cox, the murderer of Aston, is comfort
ably quartered in the Atlanta (Ga.) jail,
where his wife and sister spend the days with
him. His face is still very much swollen, and
his physician says he will be unable to appear
for his trial at the next term of court.
The Republicans do not gain much by
jeering about the rebel brigadiers in the Sen
ate. The Democrats quietly point out that
only four of the Republican Senators were in
the Union army, and two of them, Logan and
Kellogg, are nothing to brag Of.
An Illinois reformer aims to suppress by
legislation, the social abuse of treating"
He has introduced into the lower branch of
the legislature bill providing that any per-
son who "treats" another in saloon shall be
punished by a fine of not less than So, but
not more SIS for each and every offence.
- Judge Carter, of Washington, doesn't
take kindly to Mrs. Judge Lockwood. She
was endeavoring to obtain the ear of the court
and probably trife over anxious, when his
Honor cried out: "Sit down you don't know
any more about law than Nicodemus did
about the second birth"
The New York Democracy are so torn
up with internal dissensions, that there is a
loud call for Governor Horatio Seymour to
come to the front and resume the leadership.
He has declared repeatedly that he will not
be candidate for Office again, but it is held
that he owes too much to the Democratic par
ty to refuse in such an emergency as this.
New Zealand, like Australia, groans un-
der the rabbit pest. A Mr.. Cowan killed
$4,000 on 10000 acres, in four months. The
cost of destroying them was pence each, or
over 81 1900, and the skins only fetched half
that sum-. A member of the Legislature said
they had rendered whole districts worthless.
1t is estimated that couple of rabbits will,
in four years, increase to the enormous total
of 250,000. 'a as. .-.
- We would suggest to the Southern States,
which have large bodies of good land in a &C.
nial climate to do as the Federal government
is going to do. They should prepare just the
same information, so as to induce immigration
to FIJI up their waste places The cost need
not be great Many thousands of cultivators
Of the soil, stock farmers, miners and others
would prefer the South if they knew its ad-
yantages.-N. Y Star.
"A resolution has been offered in the New
York board ofaldermen, proposing to sell the
franchise for building railroad on Broad.
way to the highest bidder. 1t was stated that
a responsible gentleman would give $1,000,-
900 for the franchise, and assume all the con-
ditions that Mr.. Belmont and his associates
were willing to accept. Among the condi-
tions of the proposed franchise, are that fares
shall be limited to five cents, that the cars are
to take no more passengers than they can
seat, and that the seats are to be separated 80
that nobody can be crowded.
- The Mississippi papers state that fatal
disease has broken out in the counties border
ing the Alabama line, which is pronounced by
the physicians as "Black Measles" and by the
negroes as the "Black Plague" Itisrepresent-
ed to be very contagious and unusually fatal,
not single case having thus far recovered.
The disease is also reported to be rapidly ex
tending into Alabama, and the papers along
the border demand that commission Of the
most prominent and experienced physicians of
both States be instantly appointed to exam.
inc into the character of the disease and pro-
vide some means for checking it.
- Correspondence Of the Times, dated Ar
ment, Upper Egypt, February "a, gives a
heart-rending account of the condition Of the
population Of the Nile Valley The scenes
are described to resemble those in India du.
ring the recent famine. In some Of the vii
lagos the people are past help. sitting naked,
like wild beasts, eating roots, and suffering
with the endurance of despair. Madness
worked on by famine, stamps such brand on
the starving Fellahs as cannot easily be des-
cribed. In one town the women and children
fought over scraps of bread like wild animals.
The case is believed to be still worse in the
inland hamlets where the villagers are said
to be starving like dogs.
"A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch to the New
York Times, says an investigation of the af-
fairs of the Ohio State Asylum for the insane