Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-11
Straps aud fafts.

Philadelphia has mendicant who begs
in seven languages.
Within thirty days there have been seized
in Georgia thirty illicit distilleries, two teams
and about 1000 gallons of illicit spirits
1t transpired in Keokuk lawsuit that
the defendant had sent his wife to the poor
house and married his fathers divorced
wife.
A colored child in Laurens about years
old, has strange pet-a large king snake,
which for some time she has been feeding reg
ularly with part of her own food.
In Schley county, Ga, freedman, with
one mule, this year made twenty bales Of cot.
ton, weighing over 200 pounds each, and 200
bushels of corn.
- 1t has been decided by an Ohio court
that "good and sufficient clothing'' for wife
includes calico dress, costing ten cents per
yard, and warranted fast colors.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr, was married in
New York Monday afternoon of last week,
by DR.. Newman, to Miss Fannie J. Chaffee,
daughter of Senator Chaffee, of Colorado.
A gentleman who attended the fair in
Atlanta says the exhibition consisted of bull
and pumpkin, and that the bull ate the
pumpkin Wednesday night and jumped out
of the grounds and broke up the fair.
- Mrs. Fillmore, the widow of the late ex.
President, is dangerously i'll with paralysis at
her home in Buffalo N. Y. She was attack.
ed week ago, and one side was rendered
powerless and speech nearly destroyed. She
is scarcely expected to recover.
A valuable heifer, belonging to a farmer
near Northallerton, in England, recently
broke its leg, and it had to be amputated.
The animal has since been fitted with wood
en- leg, on which it moves about with the ut.
most ease.
On Saturday there was a fall of snow at
St. Louis, Mo-, but it melted as fast as it fell
At Chicago there was also a slight fall Of
snow, and at Springfield it fell to the depth
of four inches. On the same day there was
heavy fall Of snow at several points in
Texas.
After the next census apportionment, the
New England and Middle States will recede
politically, while the West and South will ad.
vance The East has either to form coali
ton with the South or 60 to the wall. By
keeping reasonable party solidarity, the
South can make the balance Of power.
Thirty thousand immigrants, and more
landed at Castle Garden in October. 1t was
the largest number on record for that month
and for the first ten months of this year
there is an aggregate Of nearly three hundred
thousand an increase Of $50 per cent. above
the arrivals for the corresponding months last
year.
"A detachment of fourteen officers Of the
army, attending the artillery school at For
tress Monroe, are now engaged in making a
thorough survey of Yorktown and its sur
roundings for Congressional information in
view of the forthcoming celebration Of the
centennial of the surrender of CORVALLIS. A
detailed typographical map of the historic
place will be prepared at an early day and
published by the Government.
- The Washington Star says that Mr..
Hayes saves nearly all his salary. No Presi,
dent ever succeeded in saving such large
proportion of his salary. His trip West will
result in a saving to the economical President
of $4,000 All his family expenses here
are now cut of, while his Western trip costs
him nothing. If he should remain in Col.
umbus this winter, and send his message by
mail, he would clinch his annual savings
in way no one here would find fault with.
- Mary Pyatt rejected John K. Arnold's
offers of marriage for long time, at Kim
bery, Pa. but he was persistent, and at
length she consented. There was great
wedding, and the couple went off on tour.
After week the bride returned to her home,
declaring that she had no recollection of any.
thing between her last refusal of Arnold and
her awakening to find, to her great surprise
and displeasure, that she was his wife. She
insists that she was out of her mind during
the interval, and declines to even see her hus.
hand.
The American Bible revision committee
have completed the revision of the English
version of the New Testament and transmit
ted the result of their labors to the English
British committee, which will meet sometime
in November for final action, and the univer-
sity press of Oxford and Cambridge are ex-
pected to issue the revised New Testament in
February, 1881. The Old Testament will be
American revisers have given their time and
labor for eight years without compensation.
The necessary expenses have been provided
by voluntary subscriptions.
A cave in Eastern Tennessee is two miles
in length, and has openings at both ends.
The owner of the ground around each en-
trance charged for admission, and acted as
guide for visitors. The rivalry led to serious
fights in the cave, for each held the other to
be a trespasser. Then one of the contestants
hit upon a novel and effective means of ruin
ing the others business He sunk shaft so
as to admit large stream into the cave at
about the centre, and, as there was an incline
in favorable direction, the water poured
out at the enemy's portal, while his own was
unobstructed. The matter is to be made the
subject Of lawsuit.
- The New Orleans Picayune shows that
over one million bales of cotton were market
ed during the month of October. The re.
ceipts at all ports were 100000, and if the
overland movement be no greater than for
the same month last year, something like
S5O,OO0,000 worth of the staple left planta.
tions during the second month of the sea-
son. These figures are far in excess of any
previous record. When the movement to the
ports last October reached $4,000 bales, the
figures were in excess of the prior season by
nearly 100000 bales, and now these are
again overtopped by 10000. The South At.
lautic ports lead in the gain, Charleston, Sa.
vannah and Norfolk having already counted
nearly 100000 bales more than last year.
At the Gulf ports only $4,000 bales have
come in, compared with $4,000 in 1879.