Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
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offices in the past four years, and they do the
in Office holding, in fact, than men.
- The Commissioner of Pensions has issued
circular to those entitled to pensions under
the bill signed by the President recently, in
which he says they do not need the services
of any claim agent, and that no claim agents
will be recognized by him in the matter.
When young tobacco chewer, who boast
ed that his father used the weed up to the day
of his death, was asked if he didn't think it
shortened his days, he replied: "Not at all.
Each one of his days was twenty-four hours
long, Just the same as if he hadn't used to-
bacco.'
- The ice harvest on the Hudson River this
season is the most successful ever known, the
quantity secured being greater and the quail
ty better. The gathering will be finished this
week, and it is expected 100000 tons will
be obtained, which, it is supposed, will suffice
for two years crop, thing that has never
happened before.
The jury in the Arlington case returned
a verdict for the plaintiff, Gen. w. P. G. Lee,
for the whole property in fee, known as the
Arlington estate, and which was con6scated
or sold for taxes during the war, the Govern
ment becoming the purchaser and converting
the property into a national cemetery. The
case will be appealed.
The New York Tribune states, in the most
positive terms, that the remains of A. T.
Stewart have not been recovered by his wild
ow or Judge Hilton. Reports to the contra
ry grew out of exaggerated repetitions of
hopes expressed by Mrs. Stewart to her friends
in December last that negotiations then pend
ing would result in the return Of the body be-
fore the end of the year.
- 1t is charged By the investigating commit
tee that General LeDuc, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, only spent $4,000 Of 100000
given him for the Department of Agriculture
last session, and is unable to account for the
$4,000. They charge, too, that he turned
over to party, in Washington city, twelve
bushels of foreign wheat for which $50
bushel was paid by the government. He says
he can account for everything.
- 1t is becoming common to send children
by express, and number of boys and girls
in different parts Of the country have been
transferred safely in this novel way. The
express agents care for their human freight,
giving them meals at hotels along the road
and accommodations in the express car.
When transfer is made from one line to
another, the lad or lassie, properly billed, is
handed over to the expressman of that line.
- Senator-elect Matt Carpenter is not so
much of a stalwart as he was. In his Mil
waukie reception speech, few days ago, he
said "a chief duty and a chief means of
increasing the prosperity of the country, is
that the existing differences in the South be
healed. Bayonet rule has had its run as long
as it was useful, and civil government is now
the proper instrumentality to use in dealing
with the affairs of the South"
The amount of luxuriousness bestowed
upon pet dogs in New York is something al
most incredible. Says the New York Home
Journal ut is not at all uncommon to see
carriage, with two liveried men upon the box,
morning with only a dog, or perhaps a pair
of them inside, taking sniff of fresh air.
They have had their baths, their locks have
been dressed, and fresh ribbons adorn their
necks while short-haired dog is carefully
blanketed." -
- The Georgia farmers are preparing to
protest in a very emphatic manner against
the recent action of the guano agents conven-
tion in Augusta. This convention fixed the
minimum price of ton of commercial fertil-
izers at 500 pounds Of middling cotton. In
many counties the planters have taken the
bull squarely by the horns. They have held
meetings, declared that they will not use
pound Of commercial fertilizers at such prices,
and pledged themselves to use their influence
to prevent others from using them. The
general throughout the State.
The whipping post is said to have worked
we'll in Virginia. Cases of petty larceny and
the criminal charges of the State have sensi-
bly, fallen off since its adoption, and the Sem
ate stands by the lash by decided majority,
on motion to repeal the law sanctioning its
use. A colony Of 800 negroes working in
Pender county, N. c., quarry, have volunta-
rily adopted the whipping-post to suppress
thieving among themselves. The jury of their
own choice finds the guilty out every time,
and the plan seems to be a success in keeping
things straight. Missouri and several other
States are now considering the advisibility of
employing the same means to punish the pet
ty thieves and other scamps who fear no pen
atty as much, and just now the tide seems to
set toward the whipping-post as more effective
with petty criminals than confinement or fines.
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution.
ahs has discovered new miracle.worker in
the person Of farmer named Robinson
James, who lives about eleven miles from that
city. Mr.. James is about fifty years of age
and knew nothing of his strange power until
after severe fit Of illness some years ago.
Since that he has made some wonderful cures
of chronic rheumatism and neuralgia by sim
ply rubbing the patient with his hands. He
makes no charge for his services, and the per-
sons cured by him are said to be of very high
standing in the community, and one is myste.
riously limited at as "a distinguished states.
man who once held high office in Georgia"
The Chronicle says that the impression seems
to be that the power possessed by Mr.. James
is nothing more than animal magnetism in a
very strong degree, and thus acting upon the
nerves removes the pain and effects cure"
- Washington special to Baltimore Sun:
"In conversation with your correspondent,
Senator Patterson said that he expected to
makea speech on the Butler Corbin case when
it came up for action in the Senate. He said
that he considered himself the bitterest kind
of partisan, that he had never given any
but partisan vote in all his life, that he voted
to seat Butler because he was elected, and he
should vote to keep him in his seat for the
same reason. The speech which he would
make on the case, would be the last one that
he expected to make in the Senate and it
would be a rattling one He intended to