Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17

cost of fifty cents month.
The Chatham, Va, Tribune says: "a
peach tree in our garden has borne three
crops the present year. The first was of the
usual size, the second about half as large, and
the third, although perfectly developed and
ripe, not larger than small MARBLE
- Professor Plantamour, who prophesied
that the world was to be burned few weeks
ago, is now in Paris He desires to read a
paper before the Academy to prove the suns
hest, and that all will befrozen to death about
A. D. 2011.
- The Scottish Earl of Dunmore recently
sold the greater portion of his celebrated herd
of short horned cattle at remarkably high pri-
ces-one heifer selling for $500, another for
S5,05O, third for 81 800, and so on, the low
est price paid for any being 1926, and the for
ty-eight animals sold bringing in all 100000.
"A clergyman meeting Barnum, the
Snowman, the other day, after inquiring for
his health, physical and spiritual, said: "Bar-
mum, always liked you. You are good fel-
low, and [ trust we shall meet in heaven"
"Oh!' said the imperturbable Snowman, with
a twinkle of his eye, 81 have no doubt we
shall-if your are there!"
"A gentleman who used to carry on the
sheriff business, wholesale or retail, out West,
in an early day, was frequently called upon
to quiet tumultuous brawls, which he did by
rushing into the crowd and knocking every
man engaged in the row as fiat as founder,
and then repeating these memorable words
over their PROSTATE bodies: "Say, boys, what's
all this row about? AS sheriff of Ontonagon
county, command peace"
- An old man, an inhabitant of Cernay,
in Alsace, arrived at the German office to de-
clare his choice of nationality. "You are
very DID, said the Prussian, "it is hardly
worth your while to make a choice" "Iknow
cannot live long," was the reply, "but as I
wish to go to heaven, I desire to die French
man." The old man on returning home sank
exhausted, and died holding his certificate of
remaining French in his hand.
- Violet ink is very appropriate for the
use of those deluded beings who are engaged
in writing love letters to each other, but for
commercial purposes it has defect. A San
Francisco broker filled up some certificates
of stock with this uncertain fluid some time
ago, and placed them in a window. One sun
shiny afternoon he found that every trace of
numbers, dates, etc., had been obliterated by
the light. For love letters, we remark again,
this would be no objection.
An important question arising out of
the money order system has recently been be-
fore the Department of Justice, in Norfolk,
Virginia. 1t grew out of controversy be-
tween theremitter and payee of money order,
the latter demanding payment of the same,
and the former forbidding it. The Attorney
General decides that after the remitter of an
order has delivered it to the payee he cannot
stop payment of it.; but the latter is entitled
to have the amount paid to him on proper de-
mand. The decision is based upon the pecu-
liar provisions of the act of Congress estab-
fishing the money-order system, which differ,
in this respect, from the English system.
- The returns of the census of 1870 afford
convincing proof that the attention of capi-
talists in the South is being more generally
directed to the manufacture of cotton goods,
for which that section affords unqualified ad-
vantages. The returns show that there are
S99 distinct manufacturing establishments, of
which Massachusetts has 191 Rhode Island,
139; Pennsylvania, 1888; Connecticut, III !;
New York, 81 New Hampshire, So; Geor-
gia, "a ; North Carolina, 80; Tennessee, %;
New Jersey, 27 :; Maine, %; Maryland, %; =;
Alabama, 13; South Carolina, ~; Virginia.
II. Of looms there is total of 1910; of
frame spindles, 3,994,477 of mule spindles,
1,437,937. In this list seven of the southern
States present an array of 153 mills.
"A Savannah correspondent of the New
York Journal Of Commerce sends that paper
some statistics on the subject of negro NOR
tality at the South, to show that while that
race cannot be expected to increase as under
the cultivation of ofslavery, there is no room to
believe that the statistics of disease and NOR
tality consequent upon sickness, idleness, dis
sipation and insufficient food will be proper
tionally greater among negro laborers than
among corresponding white working classes
The statistics of the writer apply chiefly to
Savannah, where he seems to establish by fig
ures that the conclusion just mentioned would
be erroneous, and he assumes that what he
says of Savannah, from all he can learn, may
be stated proportionally of the rest Of the
South.
-- In reply to North Carolina subscri-
ber, the New York Journal of Commerce re-
peats that limitations of liability which form
the chief part of the printed matter in bills of
lading do not necessarily govern the response
bility of common carriers. An express COM
pany may cover its receipt with notices that
where the value of the package is not named
the company will not be liable for more than
fifty dollars but if it accepts the carriage of
a package of ordinary merchandise with no
stipulated value named in the contract, it will
be liable for its full value in case of miscar-
riage. A carrier is not liable for delay unless
neglect can be shown, and the owner cannot
recover damages for detention unless he can
show that the carrier did not show ordinary
diligence.
"A New York Mail letter tells how a
Chinaman learned to smoke segar: As the
puffs curled out from his lips his face was
wreathed in smoke and smiles. He took it
out, and in silvery accents said, "him good"
Here a pause and more pufs of smoke. "Him
heap good" Another pause and the putfs
more rapid. "Him bully heap good" Yet
another pause, and he put one hand up to the
segar. "Him berry bully heap good" Here
both hands went up, and the silence was bro
ken by-"him big berry bully heap good"
And then change came over the spirit Of his
dream, as his face changed from pie crust to
dust and ashes, and things assumed tinge
M lo,oor oolostia1 hnt ceru1ean until with g.