Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-20
Straps aud fafts.

suit against her husband for assault and bat
terry. Chief Justice Davis was ungallant
enough to dissent.
"A pretty girl in Sweden turned up her nose
at her poor but deserving lover, and it froze
in that position. Now she doesn't know
whether to retire from the world or hire out to
stand in somebody's hall as hat-rack.
A Venetian glass manufacturer is fabrica-
ting ladies' bonnets by the thousand, and sell
ing them, too. The glass cloth of which they
are made is SINNER than silk, has finer color,
and is none the worse for a heavy shower OF
rain.
R. G. Dun & Co.'S. report of the failures
for the seven days ending last Friday is as
follows Southern States thirty-three, Wes-
tern thirty-four, Middle nineteen, Eastern
twenty-five, Pacific and Territories eight, and
New York City six. Total, one hundred and
twenty-five.
"A young man who thought he had won the
heart and now asked the hand in marriage of
certain young widow, was asked by her, "What
is the difference between myself and Mr.. Bax-
ley's Durham cow ?" He naturally replied,
ssWell, I don't know 'sThen," said the
widow, s'you had better marry the cow.'
A Southern sugar planter, referring to the
floods, says that the whole territory "is artifi-
cial and liable to overflow all the time, and the
more it overhows the better it is for the land.
Every flood leaves it higher. 1t may be rough
on the resident population, but it will be the
making of future generations
On Friday last, the House committee on
commerce heard arguments from The congress
sonal delegations of Georgia, South Carolina
and North Carolina in advocacy OF approprla-
tions for river and harbor Improvement which
the members desire incorporated in the river
and harbor appropriation BILL
-Ex-United States Senator A. Mcdonald,
Hugh ]. Jewett, of the Erie Road, A. S. Sui
livan, of New York, and Milton Taylor, OF
Cincinnati, have organized the Florida mill,
land and lumber company, with capital OF
S5OO,OOO. They have purchased $1,000 acres
in three of the gulf counties of Florida, from
which they propose to take yellow pine for
shipment to New York.
"A synopsis of the April report of the De-
partment of Agriculture upon the area and
condition of Winter grain shows an increase
of nearly one-half million acres, or per cent. !;
the estimated area of the previous crop was
24,346, 600 acres. The condition of Winter
wheat is high throughout the West, (Ohio
alone reporting below 1907 in the cotton States,
and in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith, the oldest daugh-
ter of Horace Greeley, died Wednesday morn
ing of last week, of diphtheria at Chappaqua,
New York State She leaves three children,
the Youngest an infant four weeks old. She
married Col. Nicholas Smith, Of Kentucky, on
May l, 1875, and after making a European
tour settled at her fathers celebrated farm at
Chappaqua, where they have since lived.
The vicissitudes of American life are Won
derful The millionaire of to-day becomes a
bankrupt tomorrow. The tramp of to-day
becomes capitalist the day following. This
is strikingly illustrated in the case OF Cover
nor Littlefield, of Rhode Island. When
Sprague was Governor of that State Little
field was common workman in cotton mill
The turn of fortunes wheel has made Little
field Governor while Sprague is bankrupt.
John Sylvester, man of some note died
in New Orleans, last week, aged 70years. lie
was inferred by the Odd Fellows in their
''Rest,' OH Metaire Ridge. The deceased was
printer. He had an interesting history, hav-
ing been soldier of the Mexican war, and in
several Indian campaigns, and is mentioned as
one of the four soldiers of Col. Burleson's reg
iment who captured Santa Anna the day after
the battle of San Jacinto in April, 1886.
A Gypsy funeral, recently held in an Asa
tian, village shows how tenaciUusy the tribes
still cling to pagan customs The corpse was
shrouded in garment with two pockets, each
containing twenty franc piece, bottle OF
wine was laid on the right side of the deceased
and package of beans on the left, bean al
so being placed in his mouth. Wax tapers
were burned round the coffin, which was subSe-
quently carried round the grave yard III SOL
emn procession.
- A South Carolina farmer thus spoke to the
Augusta Chronicle the other day 81 have
Just purchased some improved implements and
am cultivating my land better than ever.
(,o44 T OF /
bushels of corn and did this with scarcely any
rain. am making money on small grains and
forage Last year raised ten bales OF cotton.
This year / have not seed planted. l find
no difficulty in selling my corn and hay in Au-
gusta."
Jack Wharton, the Louisiana Marshal,
who died suddenly the other day, was one of
the rarest and most gifted of mortals. He was
hero of romance. In early life, nc man was
more adventurous. The Confederacy had no
bolder chevalier. The world did not contain
his equal as converSationalist and wit. He
turned Republican at the end OF the war, and
was rewarded for it but no Democrat ever
spoke an unkind word against the man whose
head and heart had nothing mean about them.
He had barely reached his 5Oth year; but real
ly measured by action, lived century.
"A dispatch of last Friday from New Ibe-
id.
hy violent storm which came from the north
west on the night of the 18th inst. Houses
were torn to pieces and fences and provisions,
forage, furniture and everything previously
saved from the floods were destroyed. In 1be-
ria Parish at least 1,500 persons are left home
less and without means of support or shelter.
The situation is appalling. The height of the
flood above tidewater was nearly seventeen feet.
The east side of the Teche, from .Loreauvllle
to Pattersonville, one hundred miles, in a
straight line, north and south, is lake eX-
tending from west to east to the high rigdes
of Bayou Lafourage, fifty miles wide.
The bill which has passed both houses of
the Ohio Legislature, and only awaits the con-
currence of the House in few trltling amend
ments to become law, in regard to closing
drinking places on Sunday, is creating consid-
cradle excitement in the cities of the Buckeye
State. The bill closes all saloons and drinking
places on Sunday under heavy penalties and
pain of imprisonment. The bill was cham
pioned by the Republicans, whilst it was
strongly opposed by the Democrats. 1t is con-
ceded that should it become law it will have
disastrous effect on the Republican party in
the cities, and that with this and the Pond
liquor bill the Republicans can hardly hope to
carry the State at the October election.
Some of the Methodists in Baltimore are
much exercised about the action of the camp
meeting association which persist i'll keeping
their camps on Sundays during the summer.
The Washington Grove Association falls under
especial condemnation in this respect. Atthe
recent meeting of the Baltimore Conference
one brother saidhe hoped the Conference would
stamp out the Washington Grove Association
for it's sin in encouraging Sunday cars. Anoth-
er brother said that he saw no more sin in rid
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