Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-06
Sfraps and fatts.

wink my toes"
A woman living near the foot of the Blue
Ridge Mountain, in Georgia, caught four
wild turkeys in a trap recently, and when she
tried to get them out they attacked her so
fercely as to break one of her arms.
A lady tells something which ought to
have remained a secret with her sex. 1t is
that woman, in choosing g. lover, considers
garded by other women, than whether she
loves him herself.
The resolutions of the Connecticut State
Democratic Convention leave the delegates
to the National Convention to vote accord
ing to their individual choice The majority
of the delegates, it is understood, will support
Tilden.
- Stocks and bonds on Wall street, New
York, have declined about fifty million dol
lars in the past month or two, and the worst
part about it is that the Wall Street sharks
generally unloaded themselves on the coun-
try suckers who swallowed their tempting
bait.
- 1t costs $50 year each, or S2,227 ,450
for the 44540 farms of Massachusetts to
keep the fences in repair. Few farmers take
any account of the time spent in repairing
fences, while the timber used in fencing and
which is growing upon the farm, is not
charged to the account.
- Emigrants have been pouring into Castle
Garden, New York, at an average of over
1,4OO per day since April l. All these have
to be temporarily sheltered, guarded and d.
rected at the expense of New York State.
Those of them who have any considerable
capital, 90 West, as rule, while of those who
remain many become dependent for varying
periods on public bounty.
Georgia is prosperous State. Its credit
is so high it floats four per cent loan, and
there being $4,000 in the treasury not need
ed for any public purpose Governor Colquitt
has directed that this sum be applied to the
redemption of the four per cent. bonds and
such other bonds as can be redeemed at par.
This is in pleasant contrast with carpet'bag
times.
- The last Army Register gives the names
of 2,126 commissioned officers, of whom only
S29 began their military career at the West
Point Academy. Of the remaining 1897,
who have not enjoyed the advantages of the
national training school, ia have risen from
the ranks of the regular army, and 9o4
served in volunteer regiments during the
war.
- DR.. Edward Burnett has invented new
butter worker that some people think will
astnnish, if it does revolutionize, the butter
world. When the butter comes in the churn
ne dumps it into cloth, and places cloth
and all in a revolving upright cylinder. This
'buzzes" the milk out with perfectly even
pressure, leaving it dry and in perfect condi-
ton 1t Is the work Of only minute.
Gen. E. P. Alexander, President of the
Georgia Railroad Company, has resigned,
and accepted the vice-presdency of the Louis
Vile and Nashville Railroad, at salary of
$4,000 per year, with headquarters at Louis
vile, XIV. He will, however, retain the vice
presidency of the Georgia Railroad, and will
be in virtual control Of the longest line of
railroad in the world.
- The Tennessee Historical Society has
been presented with coat, made by Presi-
dent candy" johnson in 1856, for Judge
w. w. Pepper, who was at that time Judge
of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Tennessee.
Andrew johnson was Governor Of the State,
and the coat was made by him in return for
an iron shovel made and sent him by Judge
Pepper. johnson was tailor and Pepper
blacksmith by trade.
A Philadelphia shoemaker is making
fifty pairs of shoes for the men who are to 60
on the Howgate Polar expedition. Each
pair will weigh from four to FIVE pounds, have
soles 4s inches wide and heels 81 inches wide
Between the inner and outer sole thick lay
er of cork is placed to prevent dampness pen
etrating. The shoes are made of beaver
cloth, and lined throughout with lambs skin
with the wool on. Between the cloth and the
lambs skin, pieces of bladder are placed to
insure dryness to the feet.
- The oldest man in the world-unless he is
lying, which is rather more probable-is a
colored man who was before New Orleans
Police Court the other day for breach Of
the peace. He said his wife had been 'gal-
livantin' round town wild lot of ignorant
niggers late at night" and no went to try
the same racket to make her Jealous. They
met-they fought. He was arrested. "How
old are you?" asked the Judge. "Well,
I dunno persackly, but members when
dey wus diggin' de Tombigbee River"
- Iowa, which is the banner Republican
State, shows the worst official corruption of
any State in the Union. OF SO county
treasurers, not less than As are defaulters.
The Governors private secretary has made
off with $4,000 of the peoples money, the
State Treasurer has appropriated $4,000 be-
longing to the agricultural college, and the
assistant State Treasurer has also secured
several thousand dollars of public moneys
Such is the picture of the banner Republican
State as drawn by the Chicago Times.
A writer in the Washington Republican
carries the war into Africa, by showing that
Senator Bruce of Mississippi, is socially, in
telectually and politically, vastly the superb
or of Cadet Whitaker, and yet the ostra-
cism practiced towards him in Washington is
in no way exceeded by Whittaker's isolation
at West Point. 1t is also shown that while
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, gushes all
over in depicting the Nervousness of the West
Point cadets, he himself has never extended
any social courtesies to Bruce or to his wife,
who is said to be nearly white, handsome and
highly cultivated.
y When Grant left Vicksburg, the other
day, his coming was flashed by wire to Jack
son. The news spread like wild fire, and
about 5000 excited negroes gathered and
surged around the depot. The negroes ap
peared to 60 clean crazy over Grant, and
laid down all decency and self respect. The
vertable Christ could not have stirred
more their sentiment Of reverence and adora-
ton if he had descended from Heaven. A
fat old negro wench by a strange good luck,
gained access to the third.term car almost
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