Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-31
Straps and fafts.

- For your own and your children's sake,
learn to speak gently. They will remember
that tone when you are under the turf. So
they will remember harsh or angry tone.
- Iowa farmers complain of scarcity
of laborers. Three dollars day will not
bring them help enough to attend to their
crops. And yet the cities are full ofidlers.
"A gentleman who has been attacked
occasionly for twenty years with cramp collie,
says two pills of gum camphor swallowed
will give relief in twenty minutes.
- The Catholic farmers of the West are
organizing oranges of their own, to cooperate
with the original oranges. This course is
taken because Catholics cannot join any
secret society.
"A Memphis girl was married the other
day, and Immediately sold her piano, bought
her sewing machine, and made her husband
a suit of clothes and herself two calico dresses,
and now fourteen young men are seeking the
hand of her unmarried sister.
- England raised 100000 bushels of
wheat century ago-now 1O0,000,0OO BUSH
els year. How came the increase is sugges-
ted in part by the fact that since 1887, she
has inn ported over s15O,OO0,OOO, of bones as
fertilizers.
- The postmaster-general intends, at the
end of the present calendar year,to furnish to
Congress statement showing the results Of
the repeal of the franking privilege and its
effects upon the revenue of the postofice de-
partmeut. 1t is said that the department will
be quite near selfsustaining on this account.
- Blind Tom, the celebrated negro prodi-
gy, has settled near Warrenton, Va, on a
farm which belongs to General 3ethune, for
merly of Columbus, Ga. Tom was slave of
the General, who brought him up and took
special pains in his musical training. Toms
father is living near Columbus.
Some one asked Col. Thomas c. How
ard, of Georgia, the other day, if he thought
a certain politician of that State would steal
"Steal!" said he; "why, by jove, if he was
paralyzed and hamstrung l wouldn't trust
him by himself in the middle of the desert Of
Sahara with the biggest anchor of the Great
Eastern. Steal! should think he would p
THE length of the East River Bridge
connecting New York and Brooklyn, will be
five thousand eight hundred and sixty-two
feet, of which three thousand four hundred
and ffty-six feet will be suspended. This is
seven times the length of Niagara Suspension
Bridge. The towers will rise two hundred
and sixty-eight feet above high water mark,
eighteen feet higher than Trinity spire.
The plates for the new FIVE dollar nation
al bank note have been completed at the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing of the
Treasury Department, and the work of print
ing the new issue will be commenced in a
week or ten days, though they will not be
ready for circulation for month or six weeks
The new note will be one Of the handsomest
ever issued by the Government, its general
appearance being far superior to the old one.
- 1t is stated that the Congressional Com
mittee on transportation have issued circular
to the State Oranges of Husbandry through
out the country, asking them to appoint dele
gates to meet the committee and furnish infor-
nation on subject which they are investiga-
ting, and present the views Of farmers of diff
ferent States in regard to defects, abuses and
grievances alleged to exist under the present
system of transportation.
- The fall importations are beginning to
arrive at New York. The dry goods entries
last week, showed marked increase. The
total is $685. ,767, an increase of 100000
compared with that of the week previous.
Importers and iobbers alike anticipate brisk
business in about month from date. At
present it may be said stagnation reigns su-
preme. The other merchandise imports for
the week at New York, are estimated at S4,-
,000-making, with the dry goods, total
of s6,421,767.
-- The Belgian Government has recently
ordered securely locked letter boxes to be
placed in all the insane asylums of the coun-
try, public or private, in positions where they
will be easily accessible to all the inmates.
They are designed to allow complaints and
suggestions to be made to the authorities in
way independent of the officers or attendants.
The complaints are investigated, and if any
one asserts that he is sane, he is ordered to be
examined by medical experts.
- joaquin Miller relates story horrible
enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of
sensation horrors. 1t is about mining camp
in lonley district in California, where the
scurvy broke out. They had no way of
treating the afflicted ones, when one of the
miners happened to remember cure he had
formerly heard called the "earth cure" So
they dug six deep pits in the shadow of
huge pine, and buried the patients up to the
chin, having first taken off their clothes. The
earth was shoveled back, closely patted down
about them, and the six heads, in the moon
light, had CHASTITY look, "like men rising in
resurrection to meet the judgment" The
buried men, like all hard-working miners,
soon dozed off into deep, stupor-like sleep.
Their companions, who were watching them,
grew dozy, and crawled off to their beds and
slept soundly till morning, when they went to
sec how their companions were getting on.
They found that the wolves had been down
and eaten off every one of the six heads level
with the ground.
-- The movement looking toward the for
nation of new State out of North Mississip-
pi, West Tennessee and Western Kentucky is
being discussed with considerable animation
by the newspapers published in the section in
terested. A convention is to be held at Jack
son on the 29th instant, when delegates are to
be present from every city, town and civil
district within the limits of the proposed new
State. The general sentiment seems to be in
favor of the movement. The negro pressure
is the cause of this movement. Despairing of
getting relief from the despotism under which
they are groaning in any other manner, the
whites are about to seek it in the proposed
separation. 1t is thing only to be contem-
plated as last resort If such movement
once begins, it will extend beyond Mississippi.
The same principle of segregation would lead
to change in the structure of the common
wealths of Alabama, Florida and Louisiana
1t would result in giving up forever to the ne