Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-03-13
Straps aud fatts.


of Lent from forty to twenty days. He ex-
plains that everything else has come down 30
per cent. since the war, and there should be
no discrimination in favor of Lent.
- An English gentleman recently received
by mail packet of peas which were taken
from the folds of an Egyptian mummy, un-
rolled in the British Museum, 5000 years
ago. He planted them, and they have sprout'
ed, with good promise Of growing vigorously.
- With alum in his bread, coloring matter
in his butter, sand in his sugar, and poison
in his liquor, the average man has hard work
in getting food and drink that will not make
him skeleton or kill him. Now comes the
adulteration of coffee with date stones which
has been discovered in England.
BY the final treaty between Russia and
Turkey, the latter will have to pay the Gar
s166,000, 900 and So, ,335 900 to Russian sub
jects in Turkey for damages sustained during
the war. Of course Turkey can't pay this,
but it is not unlikely that Great Britain will
foot the bill and foreclose on what remains
of the Ottoman Empire for her pay. Tur-
key owes England now about 81 900 ,0OO,O 900.
A stenographic machine has been in
vented by M. Michela, of Paris, by means of
which, it is said, any one can, with fort
nights practice, take down any speech in
short hand character, however rapidly it may
be delivered. NJ Michela claims to have
classified all the sounds of which the vocal
organs are capable, and that his machine
will report, with accuracy, whatever is said
in any language that is now spoken.
Twenty years ago the wife of Mr.. Sulli-
want, of Dubuque, Iowa, eloped, taking with
her their boy. During all the time that
has elapsed since then, Sullivant has been
seeking for his son. After travelling thou
sands of miles and spending fortune and
the best part of his life in the search, he
found him the other day in the Oregon State
Prison, having just entered it under SEN
tence Of twenty-one years.
- The Detroit Free Press says that case
is pending in the Supreme Court of Missouri,
which involves the right of candidates for
county office to promise to serve for less than
the legal compensation in the event of their
election. The test action is brought against
a Probate Judge elect, and is based on the
ground that an offer to serve for 81 200
year when the lawful fees amounted to $4,000
per year was, in its nature, a direct bribe to
voters.
As horrible as it may seem, it is given
out from Washington that not a single Re-
publican Senator can be found who has ever
met Senator Bruce socially, and the families
of Republican Senators bitterly deny that
they have ever called on Bruce's wife
or paid her any attention whatever. Pray,
what is the Republican party good for ? We
invite intelligent colored people in the South
to cut this out and paste it in their scrap
books.
The superintendent of emigration at New
York is overrun with letters from the West
asking him to secure wives from among the
emigrants arriving at Castle Garden. One
man, farmer, writes from Iowa that mar.
riageable women in those parts are very
scarce, and he is anxious to marry this spring,
and will give the best reference. Another, q
St. Louis baker, offers his heart and hand
"to the right person" and is ready to marry
at once.
"A dispatch from Washington says that
ex-senator Patterson, Of South Carolina, has
decided to make his home in the Territory Of
Arizona. He will grow up with the Terrific
ry and hopes to be returned to the Senate
when Arizona becomes State. Secretary
Sherman, it is said, offered Patterson the Gov
ernorship of Arizona if he would vote for the
confirmation of Collector Merit, of New
York, but the Senator spurned the offer. He
anticipates no further trouble from the State
officials of South Carolina.
The war department has promulgated
the report of the court of inquiry into the
conduct of Maj. Reno at the battle of the
Little Big Horn River, fought January %
and 26, 1876. After reciting the events Of
the battle as testified before the court, the
report says that the conduct of the officer
throughout is excellent, and while subordi-
mates in some instances did more for the safe
ty of the command by brilliant displays Of
courage than did Maj. Reno, there was moth
ing in his conduct that require animadversion
from the court.
A railroad conductor writes a long COM
munication to to the Chicago Tribune to COM
bat the current hallucination that the coming
generation of Americans will be puny, sickly
and played out. His experience of many
years convinces him that the contrary is the
case, and that the average American child Of
"under 12," who travels on half-fare ticket,
is as large as a boy or girl of Is or Is used
to be in ante railroad days. He thinks that
an instructive and interesting article might
be written by some psychologist on the subject
of the influence of the invention Of railroads
upon the development of the infant Amerl'
can.
"A San Francisco woman wrote to the
Post: "My husband knocks me down with
a chair or something every few hours, and
last week locked me up in the cellar, while
he went shooting. When he returned after
five days absence, he released me with the
remark, Great Scott aint you dead yet?
Yesterday l detected him putting arsenic in
nv tea. What shall I do about it?" To
which the Post replied "You must win your
husband by kindness. Hiding behind the
door or under the bed will only make him
worse. Plat your hair like trunk handle,
so that he can drag you around the floor
more easily, and work him a satin quilted
club.holder to hang on the bed-post. The
great thing is the proud consciousness of hav-
ing performed your duty. Do this and all
will be we'll in ten or fifteen years.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the only fe-
male practitioner before the Supreme Court
of the United States, is practical, lady-like
person about forty-fve years of age. She
was the principal of female academy in
Western New York some years ago, and has
outlived two husbands. She has young
lady daughter, the product of her first mar
riage, who is of literary turn, and is writer
of sketches of considerable merit. Lawyer
LOCKWOOD dresses plainly but neatly in black,