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

TESTING UNITED STATES ARMs.-The fol-
lowing account is given of how small arms
are tested at the Springfield (Mass.) Armory:
The gun, with its work open, is placed in a
long, narrow box, which is then closely cover.
ed with heavy canvass. A quantity of sand
is placed in hopper and ground to the fine
ness of -four; large fan suspended from the
ceiling then blows quantities of this dust
through tube into the box which contains
the gun, until every part is completely clog
ged. The gun is then taken out and fired
with cartridges which have been made defec-
tive by slit across the head and four deep
cuts down the sides. The gun, after being
fired twice, is completely filled with gas which
escapes from the defective cartridges, the
parts are a second. time laid open, and the
gun replaced in the box and again subjected
to the dust, which, mixing with the gas, forms
gum, and half pint of dirt is in this way
forced into the guns mechanism. If the
weapon by this time can be worked at all, two
more charges are fired, also with defective
cartridges. In the secondary trial the gun
will remain FIVE days subjected to the rusting
test, after which two charges of 100 grains OF
powder and ,250 grains oflead to each charge
will be fired. 1t is said that out of the seven.
ty guns submitted but ten or eleven will be
able to pass the secondary test successfully.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28

YOKE FOR OxEN.-No one will dispute
that the OK is sometimes misused likethe horse,
by being worked in gear that does not fit
him. You will find fifty horses with lacera-
ted breasts or shoulders from hard leather
collar where you will find one OK with scar
from yoke. If q yoke is long enough, oxen
will not waddle and haul sideways, and fthe
yoke and bows are made to fit the neck and
shoulders, you will seldom see them sore. A
yoke should be made just. crooked enough,
and the staples just long enough below the
yoke to have the bows stand about perpendic-
ular when you haul load The bows should
be set close to the neck, so they will not play
backward and bruise the points Of the shoul-
der, but so arranged that the yoke will rest on
the ton or front of the shoulder.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
SAVED THROUGH MASONRY.

We clip the following from the Portland
Argus: A young Maine man, who is engaged
in the Commercial travelling" business for
Chicago house, was travelling out in the far
West, when he was taken possession of on the
train by two men, who simply informed him
that they were officers and wanted him. He
expostulated, explained, demanded explana-
tions, &C., but all in vain. No one on the
train knew him, and there were those who did
know the officers. All that he could get out
ofthem was that he was the man they wanted.
In this way he was taken some ninety miles
into the interior. Upon arrival he had no
longer to remain in ignorance of his supposed
ofense, the whole village being out to welcome
him with such cries as Here's the d-n horse
thief, caught at last. Let's string him up"
The officers made some show Of resistance,
but the excited mob took possession Of their
victim and marched him into town, near the
centre of which moose was already strung
over the limb of tree. Our friend thought
it was all up with him sure. Expostulation
was received with derision. Everybody rec
ognised him as notorious horse-thief, whose
depredations had been continued and extern
sive A horse.thief in that section is looked
upon as something worse than an average
murderer. There was not plying eye in
the crowd, and the universal howl was, "Lynch
himw He tried to pray, but the commercial
travelling business had ruined him for praying
While waiting under the moose happy
thought struck him! His Masonry! He is
a Royal Arch Mason! y
. In all that crowd there must be Masons.
He gave the grand hailing signal Of distress.
We are not at liberty to explain how it was
given, for several reasons, the chief of which
is, we don't know. But he gave it, and in an
instant one of the foremost citizens of the town
sprung to his side and gave some more Ma
sonic signals, and the prisoner was quickly
surrounded by twenty or thirty determined
men, who held the crowd at bay with drawn
pistols. Our friend explained to the leading
man who he was. They organized commit.
tee of investigation, telegraphed to Cairo and
verified all his statements, and the brutal mob
skunk away heartily ashamed. Our friend
was made as comfortable as possible by his
Masonic friends, but he says he never expert
enced such intense anxiety as he had when he
stood under the moose.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28

sssH A loving heart and pleasant counte.
nance are commodities which man should
never fail to take home with him. They will
best season his food and soften his pillow. 1t
were a great thing for man that his wife and
children could truly say of him: qHe never
brought frown of unhappiness across his
threshold"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
1345 deaths by suicide, while there were only
POP by lightning-an individual is six times
as likely to kill himself as lightning is to kill
him."

HEALTH AND SUCCEss.-In the learned pro.
fessions, good constitution is indispensable.
There is nothing else which so takes, tries,
and exhausts the life-force as mental effort:
Instead of being pale, delicate, feeble and
sickly, the thinker, whether in the law-ofhce,
the pulpit, the editorial room, the counting
room, or the hall of legislation, needs to be
stalwart and hardy. He should have toug gher
thews, and stronger sinews, and more vigor.
Gus pulse, than the man who holds the plough
or sboves the foreplane 1t has been said,
with not little truth, that small body has
comparatively small chances of success; peo-
pie will yield that to mere physical largeness,
which they will refuse to, or at least dispute
with, lttleness of body and self.distrust. No
matter how true the rifle or the aim, a light
ball will not carry far; heavy men, like heavy
bullets, do the most execution, and win the
battle at long range. See Palmerston, at four
score, still handling the helm of empire with
the firm grasp Of thirty.
That the king never dies, and that Broug.
ham never sleeps, used to be the two leading
features of English constitutional doctrine.
One would think from his toug ghness, when al
most ninety, that he was son of old McDon-
aid, of Keppoch, the Scotch chieftain ofwhom
it is told that camping out one night with his
clan he went and kicked the snow from under
his sons head-which the youth had piled TO-
gether so as to form sort Of pillow-declariDg
that "the young rascal, by his degenerate ef:
feninacy, would bring disgrace on the clan"
The life of Brougham was a perpetual series
of mental feats and triumphs of the frail
physique of humanity. It's told that he once
worked six days on stretch, one hundred
and forty.four hours, without sleep; then ran
down from London into the country, slept
from Saturday night till Monday morning,
and then returned and buckled to his work
again, as fresh and elastic as ever. Is it not
an immense advantage to have such work.
ing constitution as his?-to be able, if pro-
fessional man, to endure for whole week
perpetual strain on your brain, and amid con:
inement and close air, with heaps of confused
papers, law books, and books of reference to
pet through, to 90 on daily and nightly ex-
tracing therefrom liquid and transparent re-
suits, and find yourself, when you rise from
your task, as elastic as rubber ball? Is not
a lawyer doubly sure of success who, after
fortnight's laborious attention to suit, can
rise up to address jury with all his faculties
as vigorous and eager for the contest as on the
first day of the term, while his waited and ex-
hausted opponent has hardly more vitality
than bag of sand?-From Prof. Matthews
"Getting on in the World."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28

"What became of Moore and little Sally?"
"Moore never drank drop afterward it
was enough to be warned by ghost, he said !;
and he is now the owner of some land, and
is doing we'll. Sally is buxom farmers wife,
with a houseful of children. Isee them often."
II believe in ghosts, myself!'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
because you are cripple" was the cruel

Whatever of good might have existed in
his original nature those words crushed out /;
the flavor of their bitterness fingered in his
heart unto the last days ofhis life. From the
hourin which they were spoken his disposition
gradually changed; he became taciturn, cal
lous, and calculating cynic, heartless de-,
bauchee, sparing neither man nor woman that
stood in the path of his interest or his pleas
ure. He had not been spared, why should ne
spare others? 1t was not for nothing he
earned thereafter the title of "diablesboiteux."
The AMERICAN KING.-The wealth and
power of Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is as
suming appalling proportions. The great
consolidated railway line from the West to
the Northern seaboard, which he controls, is
represented on the New York Stock Exchange
by sureties equal to s215,O0O,O00, and its gross
income last year was not less than $45,0O0,-
OOO-more than the whole income of the Uni
ted States Government few years ago. In
commenting upon this fact Harper's Weekly
remarks:
1t is impossible to contemplate this vast
aggregation of money power and commercial
control in the hands of one man without feel
ing concern for the result. Neither military
nor POLITICAL nor commercial supremacy can
be pushed beyond certain limits without dan
ger. 1t would seem as though the limit in
this case had been reached. Yet not content
with the mastery of 2150 miles Of railway,
involving, in large degree, the control of the
internal trade of the States of Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio and New York, it is we'll understood
that in October next, at the annual election
of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
the Commodore will enter into possession of
that great property likewise, with its sixty or
seventy thousands of miles of wires, its forty
millions of capital, and its eight or nine mil
lions OF revenue. When this occurs, not only
will the commerce of the four chief States of
the North be subject to Mr.. Vanderbilt-un-
der such feeble restrictions as our Legislatures
may impose the whole telegraphic cor
respondence of the country will obey his law.
He may prescribe not only what shall be the
price Of barrel of -four in New York, but
also when, how, and at what cost citizens may
communicate with each other by telegraph.
Ofcourse he will be subject to legislative con-
troll. What that will amount to we all know
In the past, no legislature in this State has
ever dared to beard him. He will be bold
man, indeed, who attempts to do so now, when
his resources are 40 unbounded and his power
so far reaching 1t was said that the late
James Fisk, jr., who controlled q paltry 400
miles of Erie, running through half settled
country, could, OH any emergency, bring
$4,000 votes into the field. At how many
votes, then, must we reckon the master of
215O miles of railway through a thickly set
tied country, and $4,000 miles of telegraph :?
1t is, moreover, one thing to pass laws, and
quite another to execute them against man
fertile in resource, energetic in action, obsti-
nate in combat, and inexhaustible in purse
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28

SAM PATcH's LAST JUMP.-While in Roch.
ester met Mr. Hubbard, an old resident Of
Genesee county, who saw Sam Patch make
his famous jump off Genesee Falls, thirty or
forty years ago. He says that jump day was
great day in Rochester. The people gath
cred for miles around to see this intermittent
American jumper, as he performed his last
feat.
Sam Patch had previously jumped over
Niagara Then, saying, "some things can be
done as we'll as others" he slashed around
like Sergeant Bates, through the western part
of the States to back up his proverb. Before
his last jump he bought big black bear of a
circus man, and led him over the turnpike to
Rochester
The morning of the day came. Sam had
arrived in the town with the bear, and the
crowd rushed into Rochester, from miles
around. Twelve o'clock was the hour to
iump-to Jump a hundred feet downtown
the terrible fall into the boiling caldron be-
low. A staging had been built out over the
water, and Sam appeared on the staging
dressed in sailors fancy jacket. His friends
now took up collection on shore, while Sam
swung his hat, and said, after jumping him.
self he would return and throw the bear over.
Then, amid death-like stiffness, he ran few
steps and gave one leap into the air, and fell,
cutting the mist like a lead sinker, two hun.
dred feet in the seething whirlpool. As he
left the staging, his body assumed an oblique
position, his head foremost, but above his feet
As he struck the water there was dreadful
silence while the populace awaited with chok-
ing breath his temperance. One minute
two minutes-three minutes-and no signs Of
the daring jumper. Then the people set up
loud wail-a long murmur of sorrow.
This was the end cf Sam Patch.
They say he had been drinking during the
morning, and failed to keep his feet together
and his body perpendicular, as on previous
occasions. So when he struck the water, the
breath left the body, and he was knocked
senseless A month or so afterward, they
found his body away down below Rochester,
drifted upon the rocks. - .....'
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25

On Saturday and Sunday last,
we paid a visit to q number Of our
relatives in Benton township, Hook
ing county. During our visit there
we came to the conclusion that
there are many good farms and
rst-class farmers in that township,
but we are sure there cannot be
q more rocky and uneven
quality Of lands between the Allie
gheny and the Rocky Mountains
than some Of those we observed
west Of Ilesboro, and especially on
Queer creek, below Cedar Falls,
about two miles west of the resi-
dence of SIDNEY BANTER. The
highest Of the rocks at Cedar Falls
is one hundred feet, more or less,
according to the distance from the
top of the rocks to the cool
stream away down below. We
were highly pleased with the
Falls of Queer Creek, but really
think it is the queerest place in
the Ohio Valley. We have conclu-
ded to visit that wild and fright
full region again during the water.
melon harvest.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25
What Can Be Done,

The Democrats and Liberals
can achieve a triumph in Ohio,
next October, elect the Cover
nor, secure the Legislature, and
United States Senator, if wis
dom and harmony prevail In
their councils, if their organiza-
ton is held intact and perfected,
and they work untiringly, de-
termined to win. The Radicals
are d~istrustful and apprehen-
sive of the situation, as they
have cause to be. The Dem
ocrats could have carried the
last two Legislatures, and thu
Constitutional Convention, :,
they had concentrated tho;,
strength and saved t.'orea ., ' S,,,
counties that should not have
been lost. Democrats have now ova
golden Opportunity, if thew do
not waste it, ftittey awav theil
strength, or allow their willy.
scheming enerAy to distract Of
impair our Organization, or Sc.
quce any from the path of duty
IN TINS county, the Radicals
srs Playing a deep game, en-.
des.goring to divide the Demo,
Cratic ranks, and need close
watching. Their object is to
elect the Representative, TO as.
sist Gov. Noyes, or some other
Radical, into the u. S. Senate.
as the successor of Judge
Thurman. Stand firm all along
the line, and checkmate the
opposition. - HrcleuNe Demo.
crat.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25

A SPECIAL dispatch from Wash
ington to the Boston Post, says
that "within a few days, it has
been discovered that all the ar
chives Of the War Department
pertaining to the secret histo-
ry of the Rebellion have been
stolen. It is known that they
were all in the War Office when
Mr.. Stanton retired. He had
them briefed and slowed away
in a safe place, and had he lived
and remained in public life they
would probably have figured
largely in preventing the ap-
pointment of men to office who
have since shown that they
were no better fitted for the
Civil Service than they were
for positions of trust and high
command in the army. These
private archives covered a Pc
riod Of time from the first bat.
tie Of Bull Run down to the
surrender of Lees army. They
embraced orders for court-mar-
tails with their findings, some of
them sentencing the offenders
to be shot, records of which the
were ignorant"
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25
Arlington Estate.


The Pittsburg Commercial, as
illibersl a Radical paper as is
published in this country, has
had its say about the PROPOSE
ton that the government do
justice by Mrs. ROBERT E LEE
in the matter of the Arlington
property. 1t says:
The patriotic feeling of the coun-
try will not tolerate any such pro-
position. Mrs. LEE has reaped as
she sowed and the nation must
not be asked to pay her for the I'M
productiveness of her harvest.
The "patriotic feeling Of the
country" seems to tolerate the
fattery and enrichment of such
rebels as LONGsTREET, MOsBY,
SETTLE, AKERMAN, and others.
If we mistake not they "sowed"
a good deal more than Mrs. LEE
did, and it cannot be said that
their harvest has proved unpro-
ductive. The reference to LONG
STREET and MosBY may appear
hackneyed; but in the face of
such out-croppings of loyalty
as the Commercials, it cannot
be made too often.
The Radical interests in three
States have been run by three
notorious x-rebels--LoNGsTREET
in Louisiana ; SETTLE in North
Carolina, and MOsBY in Vir-
ginia. These gentry have been
surfeited with Radical favor;
and what offensive cant it is to
talk about Mrs. LEE having
"reaped as she sowed" in the
face Of this political back-pat-
ting with x-Confederates 1t
is enough to make a Radical
ward politician sick with dis
gust. The government, in its
policy towards the Southern
leaders who do it a little dirty
work, has fairly estopped itself
from urging the "disloyalty" of
Mrs. LEE as a ground upon which
to refuse her Justice. = Cleveland
Plaindealer.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25
Additional Locals.
Reconstruction Needed.

The Methodist Church gave q
public Festival, a strawberry and
ice cream blowout for the benefit
of the church last week. In order
to accommodate everybody, it was
held in the Church. Samuel Poin-
dexter, a colored man and a school
teacher, took his lady, paid his dol
lar, and went in. We understand
they took their seats quietly, and
paid no attention to any one except
themselves. But when the people
were invited publicly to go down
into the basement for their straw
berries, etc., Poindexter and his
lady was refused a~dmittance; their
money handed back, and were told
by one of our most loil stumpers
that they might have had more
sense than to come there. "Tyl
surprised at you; get out of here"
and they got. We were mo-, pres.
ent' but presume the loy al crowd
felt relieved when they were gone.
If this had Happened down
South, what a howl these same fell
lows could have set up for equal
rights-plack the beam out of
thine own eye before you tear out
the mote in inc eye of your South
ern brotEer.-JacksOn Herald.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25
General News.
Gov. DIX has signed the New
York Industrial Exhibition Bill.

Gov. Dix has signed the New
York Industrial Exhibition Bill.
Crop reports are very unfavora-
BILE from Arkansas, owing to con-
tinued wet weather.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY, for lille
gally voting, has been sentenced to
pay a fine of 500, and the costs Of
prosecution.
The grain crop in California, the
harvestingof which has been begun
in many places, promises to be a
full average crop.
The repairs to the Welland ca
nal have been completed, and navi-
cation is again resumed.
ALBERT SHORE has been elected
President of the Chica 60 q North
Western Railroad, vice j. F TRACY.
HENRY RAY MYERS of Alabama,
has been appointed Consul at Ham.
Iilton, Ontario, vice BLAKE, suspen-
dsd.
IT is reported that rich gold pla-
GERS have been discovered near the
head waters Of the Big Laramie
River.
The President accompanied by
General BABoooK," reached Wash
ington, yesterday, and will return
to Long Branch tonight.
A DECREASE in the custom re-
ceipts, and an increase in cattle
stealing, II reported by Treasury
Agent, Abbott, at Ell Paso del Norte.
The assets of the firm of S. R.
Mclean e. Co., Pittsburgh bankers,
which suspended a day or two ago,
are said to exceed the liabilities.
The pig-iron manufacturers, in
session at Cleveland last week, re-
solved in favor of an increase of
currency and a decrease of pig
metal. t.".
GRAvEYARDs and tombstones and
monuments therein are Church
property. The Republican press
which have undertaken the cham
pionship of the taxation of all
Church property, would, therefore,,
have this sort of Church property
taxed.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25

CHANGES AFTER JUNE 80, 1873.
/. Franking privilege abolished.
2. Postmasters supplied with Of
fetal stamps.
3. Official stamps must not be
used except for official business.
A. Stamp of one department can
not be used FOR correspondence Of
another.
b. No matter can pass through
the mails free.
6. Postage must be collected on
newspapers published in the county
where delivered.
z. Exchanges not free. Publish
ers must pay postage on each ex-
change received.
8. Postal cards uncalled for are
not sent to the dead letter office.
o. Postal cards cannot be sent a
second time.
10. Ordinary cards can be transmit
ted through the mails by afflxing a
one cent stamp, providing the en-.
tire message is printed. The adj
dress may be written.
POSTAGE.
Letters-Three cents for each
half ounce or fraction thereof.
Drop Letters-Where delivered
by carriers, two cents for each halt
ounce of fraction thereof. AT 9th
err offices, one cent for each hall
ounce or fraction thereof.
Printed Matter@One cent fol
each two ounces or fraction there.
of. Seeds, bulbs, cuttings, roots
scions, chromos, and engravings are
classed with printed matter.
Merchandise-Two cents for each
two ounces or fraction thereof, linn
tied to twelve ounces. When any
of the above matter is mailed Who'll
ly unpaid, and by inadvertence
reaches its destination, double
rates should be charged and collect
ed.
The Postmaster General on
Thursday determined to issue an
order directing that all postal
cards which cannot be delivered to
the persons addressed, shall be i'm
mediately returned to the writer
without charge. = Posto6ice Ga
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-06-25
The MOdOcs.

The President and Secretary
of the Interior have under con-
sideration, and will probably
adopt as a means of settling
the Modoc que stion, the entire
breaking up OF the tribe, bring
ing all belonging to it east of
the mountains and distributing
them by families among other
tribes and nations. None will
be informed as to where the
rest have gone, and the object
will be to separate them widely,
care being taken that families
are not divided. Means will be
taken, if this plan is carried out,
to have the knowledge of the
punishment inflicted we'll circu-
lated among the Indians, and it
is believed it will exert a most
influence and especial
ly cause the chiefs, and those
who hold positions among the
Indians, to maintain peace, lest
their tribes be broken up in the
same manner.