Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-03-08
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the memory Daniel Boone, the pioneer,
and the first settler in Kentucky.
...... In the Senate of Maine there are
seven men that are six feet and two inch
es high; fifteen that are FIVE feet ten inch
.es high, and the shortest Senator is five
feet seven inches. This is undoubtedly the
d. highest Senate ever convened in the State.
I'VE saw, yesterday, says the savan-
nah Neaos, counterfeit bill of twenty dol
lars on the bank of Hamburg, s. c., which
is calculated to deceive the unwary. 1t is
a fac simsle of the genuine bill, and can
only be detected by careful examination
of the signatures, which, it will be discoy-
cred, are photographed, and not written.
..... Anthony Trollope, the accomplished
British novelist, has just issued book on
the West Indies; and he says Jamaica was
land of wealth, rivalling the East in its
means and riches, nay, excelling it as a
market for capital : but now Jamaica 'is
a spot on the earth almost more poverty
striken than any other He ascribes the
change to the emancipation Of the slaves.
Mr.. Trollope holds that for the prosperity
of all countries, 'the United States should
become possessed of Cuba
...... The Chester merchants were the
first, or among the first, to promise their
trade and influence to the wholesale mer-
chants in Charleston, and it is gratifying to
see that they remain firm to their promise,
and that they have no idea of going to the
North for goods this spring. They are all,
without an exception, so far as we know, pre-
pairing for Charleston, and the Yankees will
at least be deprived of the profits arising
from the goods sold in this market. They
are worthy of imitation in this respect,
and we hope that others, and especially our
country merchants, will follow their exam
ple.-Chester Standard.
...". The Commissioners appointed to au-
dit and settle the expenses of the Harper's
Ferry, or John Brown Affair, have report
ed to the Virginia Legislature that they
have paid s137, 7,lS0; that S51, ,103 more
has been audited and reported, and that
sl7,3S3 has been expended by the Gov
ernor, out of the civil continent fund-ag-
gregate s1S5,567. The sum of SS1, 40
was paid to the military. The following
amounts were appropriated to railroads for
transportation, viz: Alexandra and Wash
ington, S102; Richmond, Fredericksburg,
and Potomac, S5,616; Richmond and Pc
tersburg, s207; Baltimore and Ohio, &c.,.
S73,7s. =
....::A letter from Mr.. William Brown,
agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to
Professor s. H. Dixon, states that the first
American locomotive was built at the West
Point Foundry in 1880. It was contracted
for by E. L. Miller Of Charleston, s G.,
and used that same year on the road in that
State. It was called the Phoenix. 1t had
four wheels, all of them drivers. The wheels
had iron hubs and wooden spokes and fel-
lies. The boiler was vertical, and the whole
engine,weighed about four tons and half.
1t commenced running in December. The
! second one was built in the fall of the same
year; and for road in South Carolina al
3d. 1t was called the De Witt Clinton, and
was built at the West Point works for the
same road, in the Spring of 1881.
...." The consumption of coffee in the
United States has increased from ffty.four
millions of pounds in 1884 to two hundred
and fifty y.one millions in 1859. In 1924
the consumption was three pounds perhead I,
at the present time it is eight pounds. Its
price was lowest in lS49, when it was
sold at about the same prices as the duties
levied upon it at the custom house prior to
1888. The average price for the last thir-
ty years has been below nine cents per
pound. The consumption of tea has in
creased during the same period from thir-
teen millions of pounds to thirty-six mill
ions. Its average price for the last twenty
FIVE years has been forty-eight cents per
pound. The average duty levied upon it
at the custom-house prior to 1888 was
thirty-two cents per pound. The consump-
!, tion. Of sugar. during the same period has
increased from one hundred and ninety
: Eve, millions of pounds to eight hundred
and eighty-fonr millions. Its price was low
{ est in 1S42, and for three years was below
four cents per pound.-Boston Post
..,... Nearly a hundred years ago, DR..
Lind suggested to Captain Kennedy that
thirst might be querched at sea by dipping
the clothing in salt water, and putting it
on without wringiug. Subsequently, the
captain, on being cast away, had an oppor-
! tunity of making the experiment. With
great difficulty he succeeded in persuading
part of the men to follow his example,
and they all survived while the four who
refused and drank salt water, became de-
lirious and died. In addition to putting on
the clothes, while wet, night and morning,
they may be wetted while on, two or three
times during the day. Captain K. goes on
to say: tAfter these operations we uni
formly found that the violent draught went
off, and the parched tongue was cured in q
few minutes after bathing and washing our
clothes, while we found ourselves as much
refreshed as if we had received some actual
nourishment.' The bare possibility of the
truth of the statement makes it humanity
for any paper to give it a wide publicity.
since there are not many readers in any hun
dred who may not go to sea and be shipwreck
ed.
...... A new Masonic Lodge, under tht
name of Coleman Lodge, has been opened
!. at Feasterville, under dispensation grant