Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-26
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In the Senate, on Thursday, Mr.. Chan
dlerintroduced a bill authorizing the Sec
retary of the treasury to pay out Of the
direct tax fund $50 for the passage and
sixty DAYS arations to the United States
and! Congo steamship company for every
adult negro who may emigrate to any free
State in Africa. .
An English court that recently had to
decide whether a wild birds egg was the
private property of a man upon whose
land it was laid, after elaborate consider
alton decided that it was and gave Judg-
ment for one pound in favor Of the man
whose sea-gull's egg had been taken by a
fisherman.
Mr., Coke TaImadge, a train hand on
the Macon and Covington road, killed a
rattlesnake at Greenwood, Oconee county,
Ga, the other day, that was seven feet
long and twelve inches in circumference,
and. had ten, rattles. The natives in that
section rise and say that this is the largest
ever seen in that section. j,at,G t.a 15sa
Among the passengers of an incoming
steamer at New York on Thursday, was
Oscar Gallem, a Belgian who had been
convicted of riot and sentenced to twenty
wears, im~prisonment.t He had been re-
leased after twenty-six months on condl-
ton that he emigrate to America. az
saws he will be sent back n says ne WILL
have to serve his time out.
An old man was watching a balloon as
cension at the C%entreville, Michigan, talr
last Wednesday, when his foot became en-
tangled in the ropes and he was borne
aloft. head downward. The aeronaut,
who was performing on a trapeZe ABOVE
the old man, succeeded at last in drawing
him M on the bar, and seated together the
two made q safe descent, after rising to an
altitude of 1 600 feet a'.
The delicate' duty of deciding whether
or not the Mormon Bible is authentic has
devolved upon the Custom Department.
If really q Bible, the duty to be levied
upon it is but five per cent, but II not a
Bible, it is q mere book, taxable at the
rate Of fifteen per cent. The department
has levied the higher duty, thus practi-
cally determining that the work is no rev
e~lation, but the production OF human In
tellect.-CToronto Mail.
John Kaufman, of Brazil, Ind, who
died suddenly the. other day, had a most
curious mania for stealing Women's SHOES.
he never stole anything else. A lew
wears ago he was arrested, and forty or
fifty pairs. of shoes and slippers were re-
covered. He was imprisoned short time
for the offense. After his death over sixty
pairs of women's shoes were found In the
hut where he lived alone.
s. F. Shaw, of Dixon, CAL, lost his way
when hunting for his cow, and was three
DAYS without food in q very rough coun-
try. He became so exhausted that he con-
Guided that he could not live longer, but
managed to build a fire, by which ne
lay down. He was then not over one u
dred yards from the house OF a ranchman,
who saw the fire and went to 1t, surprised
enough to find a starving man at his very
door. ..,r
"A dispatch. of Thursday from Beaver,
No Mans Land, gives the proceedings OF
the Oklahoma territorial convention: y.
G.. Chase was nominated Tor delegate 10
the Fifty-frst Congress, and a full ticket
for q territorial council placed in the heid.
The platform asks that No Mans Land be
placed under the control of the State of
Colorado until it perfects laws of its own,
and calls upon Congress to drop political
strife and iegislate in the interest OF No
Mans Land, where it is badly needed.
Last week, William Clinton, teacher
of q colored school near Perryvi!le, ARK,
whipped a f~ourteen-year old girl pupil
with q small switch. The brother of the
girl sent Clinton word that he would meet
him 1.-THE school house and whip him, and
-aeoordipe to promise hi entered the school
room to execute his threat. Clinton drew
q knife, as did his antagonist, the
men grappled, stabbing each in a fright
full manner. Some of the older pupils H.
terfered and succeeded in getting their
knives from them and separating them.
Both were badly wounded.
The wonderful grit and ferocity of a
bull dog was shown in a most striking
.,o,x - Mon, VorL IN Tt,oodoy He WAS
set to catch a rat, but through some mis-
understanding his temper was rutfied and
he chewed up the legs and hands of three
men and nearly killed q Scotch terrier
that ran in to see the fun. He was in
duced to relax his amusement only after
he had received thirteen bullets in his
body and had been severely beaten with
clubs and q strong spade. The dog was
killed, but the rat escaped during the
confusion.
The old tragedy of the bull and loco
motive was enacted near st. John, N. B.,
the other day. A huge bull strayed on
the Grand Southern Railway just as a
locomotive drawing a picnic train appear
ed in sight. He lowered his head, paved
the ties, switched his tail, beloved and
paid no attention to the frantic toots from
the engine. When the locomotive drew
HO0k thO S1oA6SN
was a below, a cloud of dust and steam,
and then silence. When the smoke, dust
and steam rolled away the locomotive and
the bull lay in the ditch, the horns of the
latter locked in the bars of the cowcatcher.
The noble animals neck was broken. No
one N the train was hurt.
Prof. Butler, of the Wisconsin State
University, is a great believer in outdoor
exercise, particularly walking, though his
flesh is not always as willing as his spirit.
One day, when he was trying to walk
around Lake Mendoza, his legs began to
swell, and SO he stopped not far from the
insane hospital, and, sitting on the ground,
stuck his feet up on a rail fence to reduce
the swelling. While in this awkward
posture two men drove up in a wagon,
and, after a whispered consultation, jump
ed out, bounced upon the professor, hand
cuffed him, bundled him into the wagon,
and, in spite of his indignant protesta-
lions, carried him to the hospital, think
ing he was an escaped patient.
DIR. Schliemann's excavations at Ny
cene are being %energetically carried on,
and are bringing to light many objects of
great archaeological and anthropological
interest. The town is surrounded by
tombs cut in solid rock, whose construction
antedates Homer. They average forty
square yards in size, and the dead were laid
in them without covering, instead of be-
ing cremated as in Homer's time. A late
discovery includes glass, crystal and ivory
work, and engraved precious stones, bear
ing admirably-executed figures of ami
mails. They throw much light on c~iviliza-
ton q Thousand years before Christ, and
by their generally Oriental character prove
that the ancient Greeks received not only
all their "a material. but also the art of