Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13
STORIES OF BURGLARS.

STORIES OF BURGLARS.
A gang Of four men once robbed the house
of a railway ticket agent, and the next morn
ing bought their tickets Of him with the money
they had taken from him the night before.
In spite of the fact that the children of
member of the New York legislature were
awake nearly all night talking about the
Fourth of July, three burglars drilled hole
in his safe and carried away ST, ,OOG in 500
bills which he was accused of having received
as, a bribe for his VOTE but which he did not
dare deposit or invest less he should excite
suspicion.
Another time three men, who had success
fully robbed a house and were going out with
their plunder, heard an alarm clock 60 off
and two visitors get up and dress themselves
for sporting expedition. The burglars hid
in the parlor and the sportsmen let themselves
out without knowing that the house had been
plundered., They found out all about it, how
ever, and learned that the police had suspect
ed them Of the robbery and insisted on arrest
ing them. On another occasion when burg
lars were all ready to leave house they were
astounded at seeing a form in white pass
back and forth in the hall, which finally dis
appeared from view. They lost no time i'll
getting out Of the house. 1t was only adaugh-
ter of the family who was in the habit Of walk
ing in her sleep.
A. thief was robbing church one day, and
found on the Bible sermon which the clergy
man had left there in order to make sure of
his not leaying it at home. When he was
already to begin his preaching he discovered,
to his amazement, that the sermon was gone.
Hese the choir to singing and went home after
it, but of course could not find it, and had to
come back and turn his services into prayer
meeting
A bachelor uncle who was expected to give
his niece something nice for wedding present,
failed to send it along. he was plentifully
denounced for his stinginess, until note was
received announcing that the burglars had
made raid on him the night before and taken
away thejewelry and silverware he had bought.
A burglar laughed so that he came near be-
traying himself, on hearing mother tell her
little boy to say his prayers, be good boy and
always look up to God. THE mother had re-
Gently appeared in fine sealskin coat, which
the neighbors were told was present from
her husband) "But," said the boy, ''you
will loose by looking up" ''Never," said the
mother. Eyes you do, too," said the boy,
''for if I'd been looking up the other day some
other boy would have found that pocketboOk
and you wouldn't have had that sealskin
sack.'' Before morning the sealskin went off
with the balance of the plunder.
ANCIENT ENGL1sHMEN. The earliest race
of men who peopled England, says Grant Allen
in knowledge, were the black fellows OF the
palaohthic or older stone age. They were low
browed, tierce-jawed, crouching creatures, in
ferior even to the existing Australians, and
were all swept away in the last glacial epoch.
Long after the glacier Of the ice age had. clear
ed of the face of the country a second race
occupied Britain, some of whose descendants
almost undoubtedly exist there at the present
day. These were the neolithic, or later stone
age men, who have been identified, with,
great probability, as branch OF the same
isolated Basque or Eustrarian race which now
lives among the valleys of the Western Pyre-
nees and the Austrias Mountains, Our know
ledge of them is mainly derived from their
tombs or barrows-great heaps of earth which
they piled up above the bodies Of their dead
chieftains. From these have been taken their
skeletons, their weapons, their domestic uten-
sils, and their ornaments. 1850 gs ~
In stature, the neolithic men were short and
thicE-set, not often exceeding five feet four
inches. In complexion, they were probably
white, but swarthy. like the darkest Italians
and Spaniards, or even the Moors, their skulls
were very long and narrow and they form
the best DISTINGUISHING mark Of the race, as
we'll as the best test of it's survival at the pres
ent day. The neoliths were unacquainted
with the use Of metal, but they employed
weapons and implements of stone, not rudely
Clipped, like those of the older stone age, but
carefully ground and polished. They made
pottery, too, and wove cloth they domestl-
Gated pigs and cattle and they cultivated
coarse cereals in the little plots which they
cleared out of the forest with their stone
hatcfets or tomakawks. In general culture,
they were about at the same level as the more
advanced Polynesian tribes, when they first
came into contact with European civilization.
The barrows which they raised over their
chieftains were long and rather narrow, not
round, like those of the later Celtic conquer
ors They appear to have lived for the most
part in little stockaded villages, each occupy
ing small clearing in the river valleys, and
ruled over by single chief; and the harroWs
usually cap the summit of the boundary hills
which overlook the little dales. Inside them
are long -chambered galleries OF large, rough
hewn stones, and when these primitive erec.
tions are laid bare by the dacay or removal OF
the barrow, they form the so called "Druldl-
cal monuments'' of old-fashioned antlquarles,
a few of which are Celtic, but the greater part
Eustrarian.
ADAM ATwARTER's ADvENTURE.-Al-
most an age ago, abode at AndoYer, Adam
Atwarter. Avocation, artist. Able and ac-
complished, active and ambitious, all admired
Adam. An adept at almost anything, Adam
also acted as an assistant at an academy AFFORD.
ing aid at arithmetic, algebra, astronomy, and
so forth. Adams affluent Aunt Almira also
abode in Andover, and although austere and
arbitrary, and an aristocrat, appreciated Ad-
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