Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-05

scientific man, and can see as far into grind
stone as anybody.
The ten orphan children of Gen. Hood
are to live in Austin, Texas. They will be
under the especial care of Mrs. E. r. Hennen,
their grandmother, to whom they were con-
signed by Gen. Hood only few hours before
his death. The fund raised for the orphans
now amounts to $4,000, of which $4,000
have been invested in government bonds.
- Many of our exchanges are protesting
against the custom in schools of making the
children study so many of their lessons at
home and merely reciting in school. They
are right Children should never see school
books after school closes As a rule, children
are sent to school too young anyway, and in
many cases not for what they may learn, but
simply to get them out of the way and make
the teacher take the place of the nurse.
- The New York Worlds Fair committee is
going to Washington with view of getting a
bill through Congress to nationalize the pro-
iect. 1t does not ask for money appropria-
ton, but simply that the General Government
shall invite the participation of foreign na.
tions. The money appropriation, however, it
, is certain, will come up later IN the session,
and the expectation is that the New York
City delegation will make special effort to
get it through. They stand pledged to that
effort.
Two, barrels shipped to B. j. Avery &
Son, Atlanta, Geo., plough manufacturers,
were opened one day last week, and found to
contain the corpses of three half.grown persons,
which, owing to recent developments in that
vicinity regarding body-snatching, caused
considerable sensation. The police were no.
titled, and it was soon found that they belong
ed to another Avery, druggist of Peach
tree street, and were for the Atlanta Eclec-
tic Medical College, and came from near
Cincinnati.
- The Sultan of Turkey has ten servants
whose special duty it is to unfold the carpets
for him when he is going to pray ten to take
care of his pipes and cigarettes two to dress
his royal hair, and twenty to attend to his
most noble clean shirts. There are multi
tude of other attendants about the palace in
deed, it is stated that 800 families and about
1000 persons live at his majestys expense
He is an extravagant housekeeper; the annu-
al expenditures of the palace are mentioned
as nearly s14,000,000.
The town of Van Wort, Ohio, was greatly
excited the other day by the horsewhipping Of
Rev. j. r. Henderson, the pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, by Miss Norma Co.
mer, organist of that church. Miss Conner
had been attending dances during the last
week, for which the reverend gentleman CEN
sured her publicly in church, on Sunday.
He called on her toapologize, and was met by
her in her fathers store, where he received
the chastisement, which was quite severely ad-
ministered. He offered no resistance, and re-
paired to his home after she had her satisfac-
tion.
They will begin cutting ice on the Ken
duskeag stream, Maine, this week. The ice
is of good quality, and fourteen inches thick.
On the river at Bangor it is only eight inches
thick. The best ice is looked for during this
month. In Connecticut they have already
stored considerable ice, but it is only Of infe.
rior quality and only six inches thick. Many
New Jersey towns are lamenting the loss Of
revenue consequent upon the failure of the
ice crop. No ice of consequence has been
harvested on the Hudson, and south of that,
so far, there has been no show of an ice crop.
"A singular suicide recently occurred in
China. A young widow publicly announced
that she would hang herself rather than yield
to the wishes of her parents and marry again.
and the sacrifice was actually consummated
in broad daylight. A crowd of the woman's
friends and admirers assembled, and the trag-
ic ceremony was preceded by reception of
visitors on platform erected for the occasion.
After receiving the mingled applause and
coincidence of her friends, the poor young
creature mounted a. chair, placed rope
around her neck, and swung herself off in the
presence of the gathering.
The name of Major Hammond, nomina.
ted by President Hayes as one of the super
withdrawn soon after the nomination was
made, to be supplied, we suppose by Repub
lican but Senator Butler is in correspon.
dence with Gen. Walker on the subject. The
correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel elsays: II am requested to be silent, for
the present, concerning the true inwardness
of this matter but it will soon be made pub
lie. Ma jor Hammond's s name will be sent in
again or else the world will know how this
so-called great country runs its civil service
from the President down"
The House committee on post, Offices and
post-roads have agreed to report favorably
the bill introduced in the. Senate by Senator
Bailey, of Tennessee, which, as amended by
the committee, provides that the Postmaster
General shall readjust, in accordance with
the act of June IL, 1866, the salaries of post
masters of the third, fourth and fifth classes
whose salaries have not heretofore been read
iusted, who made direct official application on
sworn returns of receipts and business for re-
adjustment, and whose quarterly returns show
they were intended for 1eadjustment, sub
sequent to the law of 1S76-such readjust-
ments to date from the beginning of the quar-
ter succeeding that in which such applications
on sworn receipts were made.
The recent hanging of Swift Runner, an
Indian murderer, at Fort Saskatchewan, Can
=. ada, was in temperature 40 degrees below
zero. A gallows had been built out of doors,
so that the Indians could see the execution !;
but when the officers and prisoners arrived at
the spot, it was found that most of the scat
fold had been used for frewood by the half
frozen crowd Swift Runner complacently
warmed himself at the fire while the gallows
was being repaired. When everything else
was ready, the nervous hangman said he had
forgott, to bring strap to fasten the pris-
oner's arms and legs. He offered to save fur
ther trouble by killing himself with toma.
hawk, but his proposition was rejected, and
he ate a hearty meal of pemmican, with the
moose around his neck, while messenger was
fetching strap. A priest attempted to give
him spiritual consolation, but he said that the