Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-28

by half a dozen or more railroads, and inhab'
tied by people combining western strength
of body with eastern vigor of mind and tinan'
cial shrewdness, it is not surprising that it
fourishes as the green bay tree, spreading out
its limbs in all directions except into the lake
As an indication of how Cleveland gets along,
we will consult the record. In 1860 (not so
very long ago. the population was less than
forty thousand and now it is over hundred
thousand. Wealth has increased at an even
greater ratio. Such is Cleveland, the beautl-
full city of the lakes. But it is a cold place.
The wind sweeps from the lake into the city
with almost artic ferceness. Snow, when
there is any, which is often, is driven by the
gale into your face and stings like nettles. l
know by experience, experience gathered in
this autumnal month. If it is proportionate-
ly cold in January, 1 should think the people
of Cleveland would feel like selling out and
leaving. But they are used to it. Did you
ever think how much heat and cold man is
capable of getting fused to" He inhabits
all portions of the globe, and is about as
healthy and long lived in one section as an
other. The dweller of the upper artic, almost
within cannon shot of the North pole itself,
has as long lease of life as the happy and
half naked inhabitants Of Central America.
NOTES OF TRAVEL.
I arrived in Cleveland at seven in the
morning, having come from Cincinnati, two
hundred and thirty-fve miles in nine hours
Some items of Cincinnati and the trip gave
in previous letter to the ENQUIRER. Hav-
ing been tucked away in little bed in the
sleeping car, did not notice the cold, and,
when stepping out, l was struck by lake
breeze which reminded me rather forcibly
where was. For the first time this year
saw newly formed ice, and ice that was not
very 'sthin" either.
The horse disease has come down on Cleve-
land, as on other cities, and gobbled the horse
in itsinsatiate embrace. The passengers had
to walk from the depot to the hotels or wher-
ever it was, they intended to 60. My valise
being rather heavy, I stopped at the first ho-
tel I came to, having more regard for distance
than outward appearance.
"Do you want breakfast ?" asked the land
lord.
eyes, ifyou please"
"What will you have%
"Oh not at all particular" and wasn't, for
who would be particular as to what they had
for breakfast after an all nights journey with
the thermometer considerably below thirty ?
A man who can't eat what's set before him
under such circumstances don't deserve any
breakfast. They gave me coffee, beefsteak,
light bread, baked potatoes and buck wheat
cakes. A man who could not make out on
that, ought to be hung. I notice in coming
North that as you progress, the coffee becomes
poorer and the butter better. The yankees
can't make good coffee, or at least they don't
do it; but when it comes to bread, butter,
pumpkin pie, cheese, and "dough nuts" they
can't be beat. They do not drink as much
coffee as the southern people, and what they
do drink they do not make as we'll. 1t is
weak, and-well, not good generally.
But in many respects the northern style of
cooking is far preferable to the Southern.
They use less grease and do not invite dyspep.
sia with hot and heavy bread. Hot bread
with them is the exception, not the rule. In
this they are right. Hot bread and grease
all the year round is little less than recruiting
agencies for southern grave-yards. The fry
ing pan kills more people than bullets and
dirk knives. Can you point to anything in
the eatable line that the average rural south
ern cook does not fry? They fry bread, beef,
eggs, pork, mutton, chicken, cakes, hash, hon.
eny, ham, vegetables, and in short everything
that is supposed to be fit for the table, This
is all wrong. The less frying and the less
grease the better for the poor human stomach,
and the stomach is the engine that keeps the
frame in motion-that feeds life. Take
graveyard dotted with its marble head-stones,
and write upon one-third Of them "killed by
a frying pan," and you will not miss it far.
The northern people eat far less meat than
the southern. A family of five in Georgia,
will eat in year, on an average, five times
more meat than family of five in New York.
1t is very rare, indeed, that you will find meat
for supper in a northern family, and often not
for breakfast. Bread, vegetables and pastry
take its place. Thisis not strictly as it should
be. In fact, it ought to be just the other
way. In this latitude the system requires
more meat than in the southern, but it gets
less. My impression is, however, that it re-
ceives all it needs, and that in the south too
much is consumed. Less meat and more fruit
and vegetables would be better. A cutting
down in the quantity of meat consumed would
lead to cutting down in theamount Of grease,
and that is certainly desirable. The frying
pan should next be abolished, as relic Of
barbarism.
But am drifting away from my subject, if
can be said to have one. In writing from
Buffalo, have said nothing about Buffalo,
and will have to leave the subject open for
future discourse, as the preachers would say.
In my next, the readers shall know more about
Buffalo, and the trip from Cleveland here, and
less about frying pans. MEMO.
TREASURER PARKER ENJOINED.
The Columbia Phexir Of Friday last says :
His Hon. Judge Samuel w. Melton yesterday
issued the folloWinp Injunction. restraining n.