Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-14


cariates and four abbots; there were twenty
one priests there are now 1880; there were
three or four chapels; there are now forty-seven
cathedrals, 4,250 churches and 1854 chapels
and stations. There are now also 1873 monas-
teries of men and 3S3 converts of women, l.,
SIT academies and schools, 3S3 charitable in
stitutions and 112 seminaries and colleges, in
which, among other students, S4S young men
are studying for the priesthood.
The following remedy for the caterpil-
lar is highly recommended by the South. west
ern papers Quarter of pound dry Paris
green, one pound arsenic, five pounds wheat
flour, twenty pounds slack lime or ashes mix,
and apply when the dew is on the plant
through box or can, with a sieve two inches
in diameter in the bottom. The above guam
tity is sufficient for FIVE acres. Care should
be taken not to inhale the mixture. When
scattered over the plant in the morning, the
worms may be alive next morning, but will
turn white and die within twenty-four hours,
meanwhile losing their appetites.
Brigham Young's divorce suit has
apparently been cleverly quashed. The huge
figures of Mrs. Young the Seventeenth, in
her afidavits and petitions, appear to have
frightened the willy prophet, Notwithstanding
his previous contempt; and, according to
dispatches from Salt Lake City, he has COM
promised the case by paying over to his cast
off wife the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
Her attorneys have not been provided for in
accordance with the programme the prosecu-
ton, hence they are endeavoring to set aside
the compromise. Presuming this to be the
value of each prophecies in the Mormon
harem, the great saint would have heavy
bill to pay should they all strike and adopt
the tactics of the unhappy No. II.
The franking privilege does not die
without leaving an unwelcome legacy behind
it. Perhaps the period at which this great
abuse was availed of to the largest extent was
during the three months Immediately pre-"
ceding the date of its abolition. The crank
ers" were anxious to avail themselves of the
free postal facilities while they lasted, and
they consequently sent forward with rush
all the documents and other packages avail
able at the time. This greatly increased the
bulk of the mails during last April, May and
June, and the railroads quite naturally want
to be paid for the extra labor. So the unwel-
come legacy left by this dead abuse is claim
for extra compensation for services by a
number of railroad corporations, which is to
be presented at the next session of Congress.
- 1t seems that another cherished dream
of childhood is gone-the story told in the
primers and biographies of the voluntary vic
TINS in India crushed under the wheels of the
car Of Juggernaut. DR.. Pringle writes to
the London Times that the deaths inflicted by
the car are entirely due to accident, though
the native priests have no sort of objection to
such accidents, being exceedingly glad when
they occur. 1t ia kes crowd of 1900 or l.
800 devotees to drag the moustrous car, with
its sixteen huge spiked wheels, and confused
and entangled in the four or five long ropes
which they hold, many of these poor wretches
naturally fall and are crushed out of life un-
der those great wheels. Since an English COM
missioner ordered nets to be fixed to the car
for the protection of the people, the deaths
have become fewer
- In his collection of essays on ''Science
and Commerce, and their Influence on Man.
utacture," Mr.. Simmons gives the following
account of the first importation of raw cotton
to England from the United States "Many
years ago, the senior editor of one of the
leading American papers was informed by
his venerable friend, Mr.. Samuel Maverick,
of Pendleton, that when boy, as clerk in
the house of his uncle, Mr.. William Turpin,
of Charleston, he assisted in packing the
first bag of cotton ever sent to Liverpool
from the United States The cotton packed
by Mr.. Maverick was put up in the seed.
This was long before Whitney's invention Of
the cotton gin. The consignee of the lone
bag of cotton informed the house of Wads-
worth & Turpin that he could not sell it, that
it was valueless, and advised them to send no
more"
- The question of standard currency
throughout the world is in a fair way of being
solved Recent news from South America,
confirmed by dispatches from Washington, is
to the effect that no less than eight or ten of
the different governments of that part of the
continent have applied to the United States
to have silver coin manufactured at our mint
of our standard dollar, half.dollar, dime half
dime and quarter-dollar pieces, and gold coin
ofour quarter and halfeagle, eagle and double
eagle denominations, with, of course, their
own distinctive designs, but of the same values
Of our own coin, so as to be interchangeable.
Congress will be asked next winter to pass
law authorizing this coinage, which if sue
cessful, will soon make the coin Of this half
Of the globe of one value, and do more to
produce an international money system than
all the French theories and financial writer's
could bring about in century.
- The Madison (Wis.) Courier tells this
of a revenue officer who was sent into an
illicit distilling district in Kentucky. He
knew illicit distiling was going on, but he
could get no basis to work from. Coming to
an Irishman who was tolerably drunk, the
officer tapped him on the shoulder, and said,
"My man do you want to make s10?" "ls it
slO" said Pat "sure and do" "Then,"
said the officer, "show me private still"
"Ill do the same; follow me, yer Honor"
The officer followed across lots and fields to
the camp of company of soldiers that had
been sent there to aid the revenue officers
The soldiers were in line-dress parade. "Do
you see that red.headed man?' asked Pat,
pointing to one of the soldiers. eyes" replied
the officer. "He is" said Pat, "my brother.
He's been in the service twelve years. He'll
be corporal after awhile, but he is 'aprivate
STILL" "Ten dollars gone, and no illicit
whisky found" moralized the officer as he
wended his way back to his hotel.
A man was indicted the other day at
San Francisco for murder, with weapon of
peculiarly dangerous, and, for long time,
mysterious nature. This is sand club, formed
by filling an eel skin with sand. When
this instrument was first brought into use
the authorities were greatly puzzled by deaths