Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-27
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to make single inch in thickness.
An Arab legend says the feet of pigeons
are red because their ancestors walked in the
red mud which settled upon the face of the
earth after the deluge.
General Grant smokes ten cigars day
for which he pays twenty-five and half cents
a piece. And the Nation is asked to pension
him because he is so poor.
"A Hancock and English banner, in tat
ters, still hangs from the liberty pole at Char
lottesville, Va. No one will haul it down,
and the purpose is to let it float for four years.
Brewer Gunther, of Paola, Kansas, has
committed suicide because the stringent State
law has rendered his brewing establishment
worthless
In Illinois total abstinence society of
twenty members have adopted novel meth
Cd for keeping themselves straight. Each
member has deposited 5000, which is forfeit.
ed to the rest in case he breaks his pledge.
The friends Of temperance in Pennsylva-
MIA, are circulating petitions to the legislature
requesting that body to take necessary pre-.
liminary steps to submit constitutional
amendment similar to the one recently adop-
ted in Kansas.
- The car in which Gen. Garfield will ride
to Washington in March, has been made at
Jacksonville, Ind, at a cost of $4,000, and
everything in it. except the carpets and some
mahogany, holly and ebony used in decora-
ton, is the product of Indiana, and it is the
result of Indiana mechanical skill.
I'D ctbo nf
New York, has granted an injunction to
Rufus Hatch restraining the Western Union,
the Atlantic and Pacific and the American
Union Telegraph Companies from entering
into any agreement Of consolation, and from
increasing their capital stock.
"A young couple of Fairfield, Iowa, who
had been long engaged, became involved in
lovers quarrel and parted in anger The
same night both of them attempted suicide,
and alike made failures. Convinced that
they could not live happily apart, recon
cilation and hasty marriage took place the
very next day.
The Baltimore Sun gives the Presidential
vote for President as follows: Hancock, A.
43297S Garfield, 4,43O.327. Hancock ma,
jority over Garfield, 5,66l Weaver, Green
backer, received 05,OSS; Dow, Prohibition.
ist, 9644 scattering, 1898. Total vote, g.
1S2,S34. The Sun says the figures were OBJ
tained at the proper sources in Washington
and at State capitals
The system of preparing postage by
means of small adhesive labels, to be sold to
the public and received by the postoffice in
evidence of payment when attached to letters
or papers, '7as first advocated by Rowland
Hill, in 1887, and was adopted by the British
postofics i: 1910. The stamps were first
used May 6 of that year. and were introduced
in lS47 into the United States. All civilized
nations have them.
The recent opinion of the Assistant At
torney General for the Postoffice Department.
by which invoices, bills of lading, circulars
and the like are stricken from the list of third
class mail matter, is decision of serious con-
Germ for the business community. We be-
lieve that these ought all TO be retained on
the list, and further that the written words,
please remit" or "Shipped via" etc., ought
to be allowed on an invoice, and that receipts
should come under the same head. Why
not make everything third class mater that
the sender is willing to send unsealed?
"A German correspondent of the PaN.MaH
Germany is very great. Selling prices and
land rents are falling frightfully low. The
result is that the debtors on mortgage cannot
pay the interest on their debts, and are dis
possessed and their properties frequently sold
at half the value they had some time ago.
This depreciation cannot be attributed to
foreign competition, as the importation of
corn and other products has been taxed. 1t
is generally believed that the fall in prices
is due to the scarcity of cash.
Comparatively few persons know how the
White House at Washington got its name.
1t was given to it because of its color The
building is constructed of freestone, and, after
the British burned the interior in 1914, the
walls were so blackened that when it was re.
built it was found necessary to paint them.
Ever since, at intervals Of few years, the
whole structure receives fresh coat of white
paint. The cumbrous title of Executive
Mansion was very naturally dropped for the
short and literally descriptive name of White
House, and now only figures in official docu-
ments and correspondence.
A Nevada newspaper thus describes the
swearing in of Miss Kittrell, new clerk of
the Nevada Legislature miss Kittrell is q
pale, petite young lady, with very serious,
selfpossessed manner. Judge Hawley ad.
jured Miss Kittrell to support the Constitu-
tion and the laws, not to bear arms against
her country, and to pay no attention to the
laws the Legislatures of other States when
they happened to conflict with those of the
battle born State. He assured her from the
tome in his hand, that she was not eligible
as a servant of the State if she had, since the
adoption of the Constitution of Nevada fought
a duel, acted as second at duel or carried
challenge to fight duel. The young lady
was able to set Judge Hawley's mind at rest
on these points, for he seemed to take her
little nod at the end of his parayzing sen.
tences as entirely satisfactory"
The second court martial for the trial of
colored Cadet Whitaker, convened last Thurs
day in the army building in New York
city. The following is the court: Brigader-
General N. A. Miles, President; Colonel H.
A. Morrow, of the Twenty-frst Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Pinckney Lugenbeel, of
the First Infantry Lieutedant. Colonel j. NJ.
Brannon, of the First Artillery Major L.
Merrill, of the Seventh Cavalry; Major E.
V. Sumner, of the Fifth Cavalry Capt. R.
F. Frank, of the First Artillery; Capt. j. N.
Craig, of the Tenth Artillery, and Capt. NJ.
Barber of the Sixteenth Infantry Major A.
B. Gardner, Judge Advocate Daniel H.
Chamberlain, ex- Governor of South Carolina,
and Prof Greener, of Howard University,
conduct the defence The charges are: First.