Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-08-08

with catgut, ana give out muSlcal sOunu,
which can be heard for half mile. They
send written prayers up by them to be carried
away by the messengers of the gods.
- The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has in operation 60,502 miles Of line
and 138, 800 miles ofwire. The gross receipts
Of the company for the year ending May 1st,
1872 amounted to ,$8,251 ,694, and the net
profits amounted to S2,697,S1
"A baby lately had the misfortune to swal-
low the contents ofan ink bottle. Its mother,
with wonderful presence of mind, Immediately
administered box Of steel pens, and two
sheets Of foolscap paper, and the child has felt
write inside ever since. ...
- They get up ku-lux to order out in
Arkansas. One portion ofthe Loyal Leaguers
dress up in fancy apparel and shoot blank car
tridges at the other.9 IA ku-klux hullabaloo
is raised, the black militia are ordered out,
and the Radicals have good time. ..
- 1t is asserted that Mr.. Jefferson Davis
denies that any such plan as is attributed to
the Confederate Government by the "Picket
archives" ever went from the Confederate ex-
ecutive Office, or from any officer in charge of
a.. department of the Confederate Govern
ment.
--- John Harper tells the Long Branch
correspondent of the Commercial advertiser
that Longfellow is not permanently injured
He is taking his daily gallops now, and will be
at the Long Branch August meeting, but not
to run. His halfbrother, Littleton, will be
in the four-mile race, and Harper has great
deal of confidence in him when matched
against King-6sher, Alvoy, and Monarchist
- A letter bearing date of the 21st ultimo
from a gentleman in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, to his
brother in Augusta, Ga, indicates dry spell
in that latitude of unusual duration. The
writer says it rained the week previous to the
date Of his letter, which was the first rain that
had fallen for two years last April-a period
of near 2Sth months Crops, as consequence,
are very short.
.-On Tuesday of last week paper was
circulating among the clerks of the post Office
department in Washington, soliciting SUBJ
scriptions to aid in carrying the election in
North Carolina. The Post Master General,
upon learning such thing was being carried
on, at once issued an order stopping it. He
will not allow the clerks in his department to
be assessed by improper means to defray elec-
tion expenses.
- Ofthe five thousand French guns taken
in the war, twenty-five huge specimens have
been set apart for monster bell to be cast
for the Cathedral at Cologne The bell is to
weigh fifty thousand pounds, and will be seven
ty feet high, with diameter Of thirteen feet
at its base. With the exception Of the Ivan
Velki at Moscow-which is a gong rather
than bell, having no clapper, and being
struck with hammer-it will be the largest
on the continent, and will even exceed Big
Ben.
"A startling exhibit has recently been
made at Washington that is we'll calculated
to excite the surprise and Indignation Of the
American people. 1t has been ascertained,
from authentic documents, that Grant and
his Cabinet have been absent from the seat Of
government one-third of the time since the
formers inauguration, on the fourth day of
March, 1869, during all Of which period they
regularly drew pay from the treasury of the
United States, while frolicking, junketing and
neglecting the public business.
- Many narrowing facts have been given
of the late dreadful famine in Persia, but one
incident is now related so intensely horrible as
almost to surpass all belief, although seriously
mentioned in the Levant Times. In the Per-
sian city of Flamatan two famishing women,
aided by seven others, stole three children
and ate them. They were arrested, and the
bones of the dead children found partially
concealed in their clothes. The Grand Vizier
condemned the two women to the gibbet, and
their companions in guilt to be starved to
death in prison. At the end Of a week five of
these seven wretches were found dead in the
prison, after having devoured the other two.
The manufacture of stoves is almost ex-
clusively an American industry. But little
is done in foreign countries, those used abroad
being for the most parr imported from the
United States. The stove manufacturers held
their annual convention recently at Cincinnati,
and from report made there, it was shown
that the capital invested in the manufacture
ofthis article reached the sum of $50, 100000,
recurring the employment of 100000 men,
and giving direct support to 100000 people.
It was estimated that at least 2,500,000 stoves
would be manufactured in this country this
year. The modern stove represents the result
of many experiments and much scientific In
vestigation.
- The following legend relates how GER
tain Grand Duke Of Florence built bridge
without expense to the State "The Grand
Duke issued a proclamation that every beg
gar who would appear in the grand plaza at
a certain designated time should be provided
with new suit of clothes free of cost. At the
appointed hour the beggars of the city all as
sembled, whereupon the officers caused each
avenue of the public square to be closed, and
then compelled the beggars to strip Oft their
old clothes, and gave to each one, according
to promise new suit. In the old clothes
thus collected, enough money was found con-
cealed to build beautiful bridge over the
Arno, still called the Beggars Bridget!
Justin Mccarthy, in a late letter from
London to the Evening Mail, says itisan article
offaith among Londoners that Horace Greeley
is a sort of rough and registering lunatic, who
was nominated for the clear fun and broad
lest ofthe thing by nation of practical jokers.
He further says he don't know of single
Enplishman who could at first be induced to
believe that Horace was seriously regarded in
America as politician at all, but they now
believe that he was put in the Presidential
field solely because he is rabid enemy OF Eng
land, and is especially impatient to imbrue
his hands in British gore. Mr.. Mccarthy
saws that it is the general opinion in England
that in case Greeley is elected he will make
Charles Sumner his Secretary of State, and
that they will instantly insist on having the
whole of the indirect claims paid up in
hmm and in default will declare war on Eng
land.
"a queer story comes from France, to