Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-12
Straps aud fafts,

nomination OF Robert M. Wallace as United
States Marshal for the District of. South Car
olina.
A man of 70 married woman of 90 at
Birmingham, Mich, and finds himself sued
for breach of promise by woman of t5.
"The giddy young things are all in tangle,"
says the Birmingham newspaper.
- Thirteen times widowed is the experience
of Little Rock, Ark, woman. She is now
living with her fourteenth husband. She has
preserved the last hat worn by each, and
from thirteen pegs driven in the wall they
are suspended. An empty peg waits the last.
= An old lady, 10 years old, came into
the Senate gallery few days ago and was
carried down the steps to the front seat and
she asked just the same question that all the
young ladies ask when they come. She want
ed to know which one vas Conkling.
- The old soldiers of both causes are about
equally represented in Congress, there being
68 Union men and 81 Confederates. The
blue scores II generals, Is colonels and 81 Of
other grades; the grey, II generals, % colo
nels and % of other grades-the honors being
thus singularly even.
1t is estimated that this years crop Of
grain, the world over, will be 1S0,0O0,000
bushels above the average, or about 10 per
cent, and as the stock carried over in this
country is likely to be larger than ever before,
cheap food is tolerably certain to lie the rule
next summer and winter.
The Scientific american says that the five
cents nickel piece in circulation is perfect
key to the metric system of weights and meas
ures; its diameter being two centimeters and
its weight FIVE grammes. Five Of them placed
in row will give the decimeter and two of
them will weigh adecagramme. As the kilo:
litre is a cubic meter key, to the measure Of
length will be key to measures of capacity.
Before the Congressional committee which
has under consideration the proposition to es-
tablish uniform rate on sugar, Mr.. Kenner,
of Louisiana, gave as the sugar production in
Louisiana last year 240, ,000, 900 pounds. The
net profits were 81, 900, being only II per
cent. on the S80,O00,000 invested in the busi-
ness. He maintained that if the duty were
diminished to the extent Of II cents pound,
as proposed, the sugar interest of Louisiana
would be ruined.
The Secretary Of War recently trans
mitted to the Senate, an abstract of the mill
tia force of the United States organized and
unorganized) according to the latest returns
received at the Office of the Adjutant General.
The report shows that the organized strength
of the militia force of the different States, con-
sists of $3.50 commissioned officers and Ill.,
037 non-commissioned officers and privates,
and the unorganized force, OR number of men
available for duty in the United States, is
put down at 6,516,75S.
The Pennsylvania State training school
contains an idiot boy with wonderful men,
ory. So remarkable are his powers of men,
ory, that after listening to sermon or dis
course, he is able to repeat it verbatim, pre-.
serving, also, the intonations of the speaker.
As test of this singular faculty, the lad was
once taken to Media to attend lecture upon
some scientific matter, and the next day was
asked to repeat it. To the astonishment of
all he readily repeated the entire lecture, rem.
dering Latin phrases and technicalities as
glibly as the vernacular.
"A special from Topeka, Kansas, says the
officers of the Kansas Freedmen's Relief As
sociation have been instructed by the Direct
ors of the Association to devise and put in
operation some practicable method of avoid
ing the constantly increasing immigration Of
colored people to Kansas. An effort will
be made to turn the tide to other States
where there is more need of laborers and
where the people are better able to care for
such as are in destitute circumstances. The
relief association has found it impossible to
maintain the hundreds Of emigrants who
have lately arrived.
Statistics show that in 1890, when the
population of the United States was only
about 100000, the average value of proper
ty to each individual in the country was $l87.
In 1870, when the population had increased
to nearly 100000, the average of property,
in value, to each individual, was $77696. 1t
has been estimated that in 1865 the average
wealth of each person in Great Britain was
$1,000. By 1875 this had increased to ST..
800. The calculated total increase of the
popular wealth of the United Kingdom in the
same period was $l2000.0O0.0O0, or about
three times the public debt of Great Britain.
just for fun, and for nothing else in the
world, four young people of Toccoa, Ca, two
lassies and two lads, crossed over into South
Carolina and were married by justice of the
peace. They had been told that marriage
in South Carolina was not valid unless IL
cense had been taken out. After the ceremo.
ny the foolish children found that the mar.
riages were valid and their informant as to
the license business knew nothing about it.
They were horror stricken at the discovery, of
course One couple have declared themselves
satisfied and have started in the world as man
and wife, but the other pair, unwilling to &C.
cept the situation, will apply for divorce.
- The New York Times of Monday con-
tains the following, relative to Gen. Grants
position on the Presidential nomination "a
near personal and political friend of ex Presi.
dent Grant, who doubtless knows whereof
he speaks, authorizes the following as cor
rect statement of the Generals position with
reference to the Presidency: He says Gen.
Grant is not now, nor has he ever been, a
candidate for Presidential nomination, but
should the Republican National Convention
nominate him in the same manner as any
other candidate would be nominated, he
would deem it his duty to his country and
party to accept Travelling abroad, he was
a stranger to the contest now going on for
the Presidential nomination, and has written
no letters on the subject to any person, and
all assertions to the contrary are without
foundation"
A Mecklenburg farmer informs the
Charlotte n c., Observer that he is satisfied
that it is not the grasshopper, which is found
in such abundance in the wheat fields at pres
ent, that is doing the damage to the wheat
crop, but worm, resembling the cut-worms