Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-02
Straps aud fafts.

Coupdly.
Postal savings banks went into operation
in France on the 1st ultimo. All the post
offices in the country are now open to receive
deposits up to 1000 francs at 3per cent, inter-
est, and special facilities are afforded for pur-
chasing government stock.
- At Chester, Miss, last Thursday during
the progress of trial, Judge VIM. Price shot
and killed Capt. King Turner Turner and
Price were both lawyers of high standing in
Winona. A difference arose, it is understood,
about some trivial matter in the course of
trial in which they were on opposite sides.
-'But pass" said minister recently in
dismissing one theme of his subject to take
up another. 'sThen make it spades," yelled
a man from the gallery, who was dreaming
the happy hours away in an imaginary game
of euchre. It is needless to say that he went
out on the next deal, assisted by one OF the
deacons.
-Guiteau's supply of stationery has been cut
off, and he will not be allowed to issue any
more of his addresses to the public. 1t has al
the warden of the Jail, that for the next week
no one shall be permitted to interview the
prisoner and that no communication shall 60
to him or from him.
The following from Washington letter
possesses interest ''The Mormon Church has
for years kept an accurate record in detail OF
the private life-eSpecially at Westinghouse
every Senator and Representative, and it is
this record, am sorry to say, which has given
the Mormons such a tremendous and fatal
power at Washington for quarter of a cen
tury."
- One of the latest theories brought forward
by the prevalence of smallpox in New York is
that tarter emetic may be used as a substitute
for vaccination. Applied to the skin, combined
with suet or some other fat, it produces pus-
tular eruption, which is said to resemble that
of COW pox and small pox. The theory is not
new, and there is no experimental warrant
for trusting to it as preventive, while vacci-
nation has demonstrated it's efficacy.
- Alabama returns as subjects Of taxation
mechanical tools of the value of S22S, 800 :;
farming implements, ST., 800, making total
value of mechanical tools and farming impie-
ments of S306,000. Of guns, pistols and dirks,
1854, $50; or about S4S,0O0 more invested in
guns, pistols and dirks than in farming imple-
ments and mechanical tools combined. The
average value of weapons in each county is
$1,000.
Two bills have been introduced in Con-
greSs for the reduction of letter postage to two
cents. Such reduction would meet with
general approval, no doubt. The postal SER
vice is not conducted with view to profit.
The people are willing to pay for mail facilities
and cOnveniences. A reduction of letter pos
tage would probably decreasethe revenue from
that source for a time but the decrease would
be only temporary.
West Viginia has reckless bigamist in
Dr. Love, dentist, whose habit was to make
a round of the principal towns every year, re-
naming from week to two months in each.
He sometimes grew sentimental while working
in the mouths of women, and has sometimes
been whipped for his audacity but in seven
instances his advances led to marriage. The
seven wives are living and the doctor has gone
to jail.
An old man named Woods, who was once
wealthy citizen of Kentucky, counting fifty
negroes among his assets, is now living in Gin
cinnati, in happy dependence upon the charity
of a colored man and his two sisters, who were
Mr.. Woods slaves before the war; They are
the members of family separated at the auc-
and united by Mr.. Woods, under his own roof,
after much trouble and delay, and they are
paying a debt of gratitude.
- In the surgical institute at indianapolis,
Ind, four-year old boy is undergoing treat
ment for spinal troubles, which have undoubt-
edly been brought about by much smoking of
cigars and cigarettes. The father of the child,
respectable gentleman from Clay City, states
that his son has been heavy smoker for a
year and half, and that cigars were given
to him from his infancy to keep him quiet.
The little fellow will smoke twenty cigars in
day, and still cry for more.
According to the census bulletins there are
122, ,675, 500, 900 feet of merchantable pine lum-
Der in the States of Alabama, Mississippi and
Texas, enough to supply the demand of the
country for at least sixty years. On the other
hand, Minnesota, which is one of the most i'm
portant lumber States in the North has only
6,100, 100000 feet of this timber. The total
cut in the three Southern States enumerated
is only 63S, ,541 900 feet, or about one-half of
oneper cent, considerably less than the an
nual growth of the forests.
The frSt-aSSistant postmaster-general has
recently made the following postal order which
is most respectfully commended to the atten-
tion of postmasterS "Post-masters will not
allow non-SubScriberS to take from the boxes,
nor will they hand to them newspapers ad-
dressed to subscribers, refolded and returned
to them into the general delivery, without ver-
bal or written permit from such subscriber. A
violation of this regulation will be considered
as sufficient ground for the removal of the
postmaster"
- The cotton receipts the past three weeks
have been as follows, respectively, 9S, TAI, ST.
s16, rs, 24S-in all 264 ,S11 bales. For the same
three weeks last year. the receipts were 366, ,61O,
and for the year 1880, 446,9S1 bales So the
receipts this year in the last three weeks has
fallen $4,000 bales short of the receipts in the
same weeks in 1880, when the crop reached
only 5, 600. 1t is true, however, that the
weather the past week has been bad and haul
ing has been almost impossible The price at
Liverpool this time in 1880 was 1-16d-now
it is 6sd. The necessity for an advance is ap-
parent.
- The overflow of the Cumberland River last
week, was destructive to large amount of
property, entailmgmuch distress and suffering
upon the people along its banks. A dispatch
from townsville, Tenn, during the height of
the flood, said "Every house in the settle
ment is partially submerged Some have over
turned and some foated off. Houses are daily
floating down the river, and some have lodged
against the railroad bridge, where they were
broken up by the inhabitants to preserve the
bridge from destruction. Much live stock has
been drowned. Many people have found refuge
on RATS and boats with some live stock. There
is already much suffering and it must necessa-
rily increase"
- A haSty, though somewhat accurate, COM
pllation of the cost of maintaining the House
OF Representatives of this country at Wash
ington, shows it to be about S23 a minute
Probably very few persons ever thought that
each little remark, objection or move made
bya member of the House costs from $40 to
500. How many members indulge in $500
speeches every day! And yet how many there
are who indulge in $4,000 speeches, too
Three days, almost, were taken up by the ef-
forts of Mr.. Robson, of New Jersey, to in
crease the number of members of standing
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