Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28


the clergyman ten cents for his fee.
- The Shah of Persia, according to the
following story, has the true Oriental prefer
ence for fat women. Being shown some very
adpose cows at the Home Farm at Windsor,
he asked how they were fed. Being told that
they were brought into this plump condition
by diet of oil cake, his interest was at once
excited, and he said to his interpreter, "Ask
if the oil cake is good for wives"
- Rowel's new american Newspaper d.
rectory reports the existence of 400 religious
journals in the United States. Forty.seven
of these are under the control of the Metho-
dsts, the largest number in the hands of any
single denomination. The Roman Catho-
lies have forty-one; the Baptists thirty.fve ;
the Presbyterians twenty-one; the Lutherans
and Reformed Germans fourteen each; the
Jews nine, and the Congregationalists eight.
- Should a subscriber to newspaper or
a periodical, who has paid one years postage
in advance, remove within the delivery of
another place before the expiration of year,
the postmaster should give him receipt; the
party should then notify the publisher to
send his paper to the new Office where, upon
presentation of the receipt, the postmaster
must deliver the publication free for the re-
mainder of the term paid for.
An old farmer at Harrisburg, Pa, has
wagon piled with lumber standing in his
shed which has stood in the same position for
sixty-one years. He was engaged to be mar
ried and was building home for his bride,
but, on his return from an expedition to buy
l,,,>bo, f,,,J n r;1o1 bod bic lo1v
love. He thereon made VOW that his wagon,
laden as it was with lumber, should stand
Just as it was for all time
The Democratic candidate for Govern
or of Ohio has been popularity known for the
last twenty-five years as Roaring Bill Allen.
In 1913 a great Democratic meeting was held
in Clarke County in railroad station. The
Wings got an engineer to run his locomotive
into one end of the station and. open the whis-
tle In this manner the voices of several
orators were drowned in succession. Mr.. AL
len was then brought forward, and his voice
was so powerful that it was heard by the null
titude over the whistling, although second
locomotive was brought in and added its pow
ers to the hideous clamor. =.
- The Journal Of applied Chemistry says
that the number of cans of peaches packed
last year approximated about twelve millions,
tomatoes eighteen millions, and corn from
six to eight millions. The headquarters of
peach.canning are in Maryland and Delaware,
more than half of the peach-packing firms
haling from Baltimore alone. Large guam
titles of oysters are also put up along the Ches-
apeake. Tomatoes come chiefly from New
Jersey, although many are packed in Balti-
more, New York and the Eastern States.
The best corn comes from Maine, where also
are situated the largest lobster establishments.
- Not in the memory of the oldest inhab-
liant has there been such rain storm, extend
ing over so vast an area, and of such long
continuance and severity, as that which has
lust visited the country from New York to
Baltimore, submerging railways, destroying
property, deluging the whole land, and in
terrupting mail communication, trade and
travel. Baltimore seems to have been a seri-
Gus sufferer from this "rising of the waters" !"
and the papers are filled with accounts of its
destructive effects in that city. All along the
coast, from New England down, reports rep
resent the storm to have been the severest
experienced for years, and bad news from
sea is fearfully expected.
- A curious accident occurred during a
recent thunder storm at Oil City, Pa. The
lightning struck an oil tank, capable of hold
ing 10000 barrels of oil, but containing
about 5000 at the time of the occurrence.
The bolt struck the top of the tank at the
edge, and run completely around the periphe-
ry of the top, cutting off the head of every
bolt that fastened the top to the side. The
top was raised about two feet by the concus-
sion, and the oil took fire, sending the i'm
mense body of flame high in the air. In an
instant the top fell back to its position, in
Stantly smothering the fire inside. The oil
burned off the outside of the tank, and no
further damage was done. The cover was
not two inches out ofits original position after
its fall.
- An extremely aged colored person, who
was twenty-five years of age when the revo-
utionary war began, is living near Milan,
Gibson County, Tennessee, in condition of
good health which is truly remarkable. This
old negro, Fortune Snow by name, is said by
DR.. A. A. Davidson, of Mayfeld, Kentucky,
who went to see him in June Of last year, to
be nearly 124 years old. He was born in
South Carolina, and was owned by Cap
tain Snow, who fought, accompanied by
Fortune, under General Francis Marion, in
the war of the revolution. He has had
thirteen children, the oldest of whom were he
living, would be over 100 years old, and the
youngest of whom is ffty-three. He also
has grandson who is sixty-fve years old.
Old Snow reads his Bible without glasses,
and hunts and shoots squirrels and birds
hears we'll, and declares that he was neversick
in his life, and never took dose Of medicine
Many persons go to see him, and with all
visitors he talks fuently and sensibly. In
height, he is about FIVE feet six inches in
weight, about 115 pounds, and he is undoubt
edly the oldest man on the continent.
- The New York Evening Post sees dan
ger in the use of Paris green by planters on
large scale. 1t says: "There is nothing new
in the use of poison wherewith to destroy in