Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-19
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mas normal SCHOOL Ill OpeTdIlou uulluS tAo
summer months
Jefferson Davis expects to gather about
1000 bales of cotton from his plantation in
Mississippi this year.
A Boston inventor has made machine
which makes thirty seamless paper boxes a
minute.
At Dayton, Florida, there is not drop
of liquor sold, except upon physician's pre-
scription, and license fees are $500, besides
responsibility for damages.
- Senator Bruce and his wife are at Sarato-
ga, at stylish house kept by colored people,
for the better class of people of their own
color.
A woman walked from Omaha to San
Francisco in three months. just etc see if
woman could do it," although she had plenty
of money and husband and children at the
end Of her route.
- 1t is thought that ireland will be rapidly
depopulated by emigration. No less than
100000 young Irishmen are expected to ar
rive in America and 60 Westward before the
next snow fall.
"A colored preacher of Cobb county, Ca,
has novel way of collecting his salary.
When his members have not the money, ne
puts them to work on his farm until they
work out their assessments.
A negro barber at St. Louis studied law
at night for several years, and was finally ad-
mitted to the bar. He now works in the
shop on Saturdays and Sundays, and prac-
tces with considerable success in the courts
on other days.
"A mob, supposed to be Tennesseeans,
broke into the jail at Athens, Alabama, Sat
urday night, took therefrom white man
named Bailey who had murdered his wife in
May, 1879, and hanged him to tree in the
courthouse yard.
The Railroad Gazette reports the construc
ton of 2,424 miles of new railroad thus far
this year, against 1922 miles reported at the
same time in 1879; 900 miles in 1878 751
miles in 1877; 1,010 miles in 1875; 53S
miles in 1874; 1872 miles in 1878; and g.
237 miles in 1872.
- In Bavaria man who allows himself to
be killed in duel, is considered as suicide.
Not long ago an ex officer of the army fought
with Bavarian Count and shot him dead.
The police forbade Catholic celebration OF
the funeral, and the corpse was handed over
TO one of the Munich hospitals for dissection.
From returns received at the census office
lis learned positively that no State in the
Union shows decrease in population. Three
counties in Vermont show decrease, which
gave rise to the report that the State had
fallen behind but full returns show the pop
ulstion to be 3334,455, an increase of about
1000 since 1870. This is the smallest per
cent of increase reported from any State.
DR.. Tanner says: 81 know that / am right
about how long a man can live without eat
ing. The accepted theory is wrong. knew
that it was wrong, and have proved it.
There is always a strong feeling against over
throwing anything which has been believed in
for a long time; and in establishing the truth
of my idea have to contend against this
feeling of opposition, which expected"
- Gen. Walker, superintendent of the GEN.
sus, says it will be some time before he is
ready to issue special figures of population
&c. After the FIRST review of compilation is
made, it is subjected to two revisions, and un-
til such revsions are made, the data is not
considered accurate. 1t is estimated that 1t
will take three years at least to complete the
entire compilation of the census.
"A St. Louis dispatch of the 18th, says
that the President of the colored relief board
of that city has advices that ten thousand ne
groes will emigrate from Mississippi and Lou.
isiana within the next two months and will
arrive there en- route for Kansas and other
Northern States. About forty per day for
the past month have been cared for at ST.
Louis, by the board, and forwarded to their
various destinations.
- Gen. Robert Toombs is not the only
Georgian who is debarred from the rights Of
American citizenship. Among the men ex.
cepted under the provisions of the general
amnesty bill, was Gen. Henry r. jackson,
who at the age of twenty.three years was
colonel in the United States army, then
Federal Judge, an ex.United States minister
to Austria and afterward Judge of Confed
crate States Court. Gen. jackson is now
living in Savannah.
"A letter to the DesMoines Qows) Regis
ter, from responsible citizen, S. A. James, Of
Sigourney, gives the information, on the au-
thority Of all eyewitness, who is also re-
sponsble man, that the notorious Bender fam
lily, four in number, were captured soon after
the discovery of themurder of Colonel Yorke.
The eyewitness says that the four were stood
in row facing nine rihemen and were told
their fate; that Kate was plucky to the last,
and called upon their captors to 'shoot and
be damned" and that the four were buried at
the corner of the four counties of Labette,
Wilson, Neosho and Montgomery.
The census office clerks at Washington
are excited over the appointment of two col.
ored women as clerks there. While none of
the white male and female clerks in the cen.
sus Office has filed any protest against them,
it is generally understood that all are opposed
to working in the same room with them, and
the chief clerk of the office has not yet been
able to make up his mind to what particular
duties and rooms he will assign them. Color
ed male clerks are to be found in almost all
the departments, but colored female clerks are
rare, though there are few in the treasury
department.
The Cumming (Ga.) Clarion tells of
case of amatory bull-dozing as follows: James
c.. went to Jacksonville and procured license
for himself and Miss Laura H., without con.
sultng her or her fsther-never having said
one word to her about marrying. He showed
her the license, and told her that her father
had given her up, and he was ready to marry
her. She said: II don't want to marry, and
if do, I won't have you" He told her she
would have to take him then or forever be de-
barred from the privilege of marrying. for
there could never be any more license granted
for her until he died, and if she did not mar
ry him he would burn the license and leave
the country.