Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-06
Straps aud fafts.

port and New York.
- The knowing ones in New Orleans who
bet upon the cotton crop, are offering wagers,
with few takers, that the crop will fall under
2,750,000 bales.
- 1t is announced that Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Herald, proposes
to fit out an Arctic expedition for the discov-
cry of the North Pole.
- Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, the editress of
Godeys Lady's Book, is eighty-fve years old,
and still vigorous in body and in mind. She
has been widow ever since 1922.
- In some of the Western oranges, it is
said, their members are pledged not to golaw
with each other, but to settle their disputes
by arbitration. This is not very encouraging
for the lawyers.
- The Grange movement in New England
seems to be most popular in Vermont. That
State has 27 oranges, Massachusetts has five,
and New Hampshire four. Connecticut and
Rhode Island have none.
Iii is estimated that there are twenty
thousand working girls out Of employment in
New York at the present time, as one of the
results of the depression of all kinds Of bust
ness, such rs straw sewing, artificial flower
making, and the lighter descriptions printing
office work.
1t is stated that nearly all the wire is
constructed and the contract out for new
cable between England and some point on
Long Island. The capital is ten millions of
dollars and the directory embraces prominent
English and American capitalists.
- According to writerin the Popular Sci
ence Monthly, a house should be so placed that
the direct rays of the sun have free admission
into the living apartments, because the suns
rays impart healthy and invigorating quail
ty to the air, and stimulate the vitality Of hu-
man beings as they do those of plants, and with
out sunlight, human beings, as we'll as plants,
would sicken and die. The aspect, therefore,
should be southeast.
oil City, Penn, is probably the only
town North of the traditional Mason and
Dixon line, the Chief Magistrate of which is
colored man. The charter of Oil City pro-
vides that the Councilman elected by the lar
gest number of votes shall be the successor of
the Mayor, provided the latter dies or resigns
during the term for which he was chosen.
At the last Oil City election, colored man
was nominated as Councilman, and was
voted for by both parties as joke. The
Mayor has just resigned, and the result of
this little Joke has been the accession of the
colored Councilman to the Mayoralty. So
far, he seems to have given satisfaction.
"A Paris correspondent writes: "a
man named Escapard died q few days ago,
about whom a curious history is related. In
1918 he was convicted of the murder of
nurse in the little Republic of Andorra. 1t
was the first murder ever committed in that
happy valley and the grand council ordered
an estimate to be made of the expenses of
hanging the culprit, which amounted for
cords, gibbet, coffin and burial, to sixty-eight
francs and forty centmes. The council found
they had noauthority for the expenditure, and
no one wished to get up subscription to hang
man. Escapard was hence conducted to
the frontier of the republic, and informed he
was at liberty to 60 and be hanged elsewhere
He found his way to Paris, and lived as
carver in metals under the name of Benoit.'
- They are eclpsing the government at
Chicago in putting silver coin in circulation.
The Chicago Tribune of Saturday announces
that at least one bank in that city is paying
out silver at par on checks Of its depositors
in all cases where the request for silver is
made The First National Bank of Chicago
received on Saturday from the United States
Mint at Philadelphia, the sum Of thirty-two
thousand dollars in silver half dollars, this
being the first installment Of coin received in
return for shipment of eighty thousand dol
lars silver bullion made by the bank to the
mint last week. Other remittances of half
dollars will be received from the mint from
time to time, and unless the currency price Of
gold should 90 up Gin other words, unless the
gold value Of greenbacks should decline
again below the gold value of silver half dol
lars) this silver will be steadily paid out on
checks at par with greenbacks. The bullion
from which it was coined was from one of the
smelling and refining works at Chicago,
which is producing about two hundred thou
sand dollars per month, all of which will be
coined for circulation.
- The panic has had the effect to bring
down prices in dry goods as we'll as in every
thing else in New York, and A. T. Stewart
has taken the lead in marking down prices.
The Commercial advertiser says: "This firm
has marked down frst-class goods Of all
kinds at astonishing low figures. Money
must be circulated There is enough of it,
but confidence is wanting. Panic prices in
dry goods is happy move, and will most
certainly draw the attention of the public.
Mr.. Stewart, with his usual shrewdness, seems
to have anticipated the general reduction
which must come, and has marked down the
prices of stock on hand as we'll as upon that
laid in since the commencement of the crisis.
1t was thought it would be some time before
the market would become settled again. Mr..
Stewart, while in Europe, (now returned in
excellent health, we are glad to say,) bought
large quantities of goods at low rates for cash,
and these are arriving in weekly instalments,
and are offered at rates suited to the times.
Silks which sold few months ago at one dol
lar and fifty cents are now put upon the mar
ket at seventy-6ve cents, and we're opened to-
day. This house foresaw the depression, and
put their stock in condition to suit the times.
All goods are offered at rates far less than
when the financial trouble began"
An English expedition is now being fit.
ted out preparatory to the search for the
exact location of Mount Sinai which has for
long time remained mystery to the human
race. DR.. Beke, the English geographer and
Absynian explorer, has lately advanced some
views decidedly new in regard to this mount,
which may be pronounced the originating
ground of all legal and civil codes that have
followed, that sore farther investigation may
be desirable, if inteligently conducted. He
thinks that it was volcano situated near the
Arabian Desert, and in this connection he be-
lieves the Israelites passed through the Gulf