Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-20
CINCINNATI. February II, 1873.

CINCINNATI, February II, 1873.
I left Louisville at o'clock Saturday and
came to this city over the short line road.
This is the shortest distance attainable be.
tween the two cities, pretty straight course
on the south bank of the river having reduced
it to one hundred and seven miles. The fast
trains make it in four hours. The grand new
bridge having been completed at this point.
trains run from the south direct into the city,
which is great advantage over the old "ar'
rangement." Formerly the traveller had to
"dump OUT in Covington and cross the sus'
pension bridge in an omnibus, which was not
the most pleasant trip imaginable There are
now two bridges spanning the river here; a
suspension bridge for street traffic and wagon
travel, and the other massive railroad bridge,
constructed of iron, and resting upon granite
piers. 1t is sufficiently high for steamboats,
to pass under Over this the trains from the
south roll into the little Miami depot, making
close connection north and east. Verify
we live in fast age. Some people think we
are living too fast, and will get through the
world sooner than necessary. But, after all
boastingly of annihilating time and space, but
we do no such thing. We do not now, and
never can, cheat Nature out Of anything. She
will have her dues, and after we have run our
little round, whether by railroad or on foot,
it matters not which, she brings us up sud-
denly at some grave yard. All our roads
end there, dear friend, diverge and branch
about however much they may now-they end
there. He is wisest who every day lives as
though the end Of his journey was just a
little way beyond.
When was here in November, I remem.
ber to have written the ENQUIRER about the
progress and effects Of the "old epizoo," as the
horse disease is playfully called. Well, it is
all done now, and man can ride about at his
ease in street car for five cents, in an omni.
bus for fifty cents, and in hack for from
seventy-fve cents to dollar and half
No more is the weary traveller compelled to
carry his heavy carpet-bag along the stony
streets, like pack mules in war times, laugh
ing stock for all the loafers and income idlers
on the corners, but he places himself behind
the useful dumb-brute, just we'll Of the epizoo,
and rolls to his hotel.
The winter has been severe here, as every
where, and business has suffered in conse.
quence. 1t has been the dullest winter in
business circles since the war. This is &C.
counted for in various ways, but the cold
weather and horse disease are principally given
as reasons. 1t certainly has not been on &C.
count of scarcity Of money, for money is
abundant. 1t can be borrowed here on real
estate at seven and eight per cent, and often
for six. To you in South Carolina, where
money is scarce, this will be considered very
reasonable. But the city is exceedingly
wealthy. There is perhaps more real wealth
here than at either St. Louis or Chicago.
There are dozen men in this city who are
worth over two millions each, and several
dozen who are comfortably close to million.
Then of the hundred thousand dollar chaps
there is regiment or more The manufac,
turing enterprises here served in great part to
bring this here and keep it here. Cincinnati
is the third most important manufacturing
city in the United States. Ohio, too, is very
wealthy State, containing perhaps dozen
cities of large manufacturing interests.
Say what you may in the South about the
Empire of Emperor Cotton, there is no deny.
ing but what manufacturing and agricul,
tural country will outstrip-far outstrip-a
section devoted entirely to oagriculture. Some.
where 1 saw it laid down that purely agri.
cultural country is always poor, and to one
who has travelled much in the South, it looks
as though the propOsitiOn WAS correct. So