Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-09

the consequence of having neglected your
business" observed his wife.
We'll posted judges estimate the tobac.
co crop in Missouri, this year, at thirty thou
sand hogsheads. Last year it reached eighteen
thousand hogsheads.
- Miss Sophie Barnes took premium at
Montgomery, (Ala.) fair as "the young wo-
man who would make the best wife for poor
man."
Two young officers, after mess dinner,
had very much ridiculed their General. He
sent for them and asked them if what was re-
ported to him was true. "General," said one
of them, "it is and we should have said much
more if our wine had not failed"
- 1t is thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another sum-
mer above ground. When he dies thirty-sev-
en- widows will mourn his loss, and one hun
dred and seventeen children will be father:
less.
- They have compulsory education in
Texas. The law requires that all persons un-
der the age of fifteen shall attend school. A
married lady in Houston, who has not yet
reached the age that would entitle her to ex-
emption, attends school regularly and carries
her baby with her.
- The Great Eastern Circus was lately
sold at Selma, Alabama. The elephant was
bought for $4,000. Six bay horses brought
S340O The den containing the lioness and
cubs S6O85. The Bengal tiger and leoapards,
$4,000. The buffaloes s400 each. The ring
horses sold at from $500 to $1,000 each.
There will be four eclipses this year
two of the sun and two of the moon. The
only one the people of this country are inter-
ested in will be total eclipse of the moon,
visible for few moments only, and which is
predicted to come off the 18th of May, at 4:15
A. NJ
- The other day, jenkins announced the
price of tickets, in an advertisement of his
coming lecture, as follows: "Tickets, so
cents; children supplied at the same rate. Z"
During the afternoon he received orders for
three and pair of twins. He is now trying
to buy out an orphan asylum.
In Indiana they are trying to remedy
the nuisance of the plea of insanity in crimi-
nal cases. A bill before the Legislature of
that State provides that whenever an indicted
person is found not guilty by reason Of his
temporary insanity, the court shall send him
to lunatic asylum for term of years pro.
portionate to his crime.
Very few people know that the Chief
of the Cherokees is a graduate of Princeton
College and man of culture; that the Cher
okee nation has society organized on the
model of modern civilization, with newspa-
pers, schools, court houses and the like, or
that the highest prizes for cotton were won at
the St. Louis Fair by the Chickasaws.
The annual production of cotton seed
in the Valley of the Mississippi is not less
than $4,000 tons, worth, at the present mar
ket price, sl0,500,000. The entire cotton
seed product of the South is worth, in its
crude state, nearly s24,000,000. The six cot
ton seed oil factories in New Orleans are pro-
ducing nearly 1900 gallons of oil per day.
- Could the entire crop of cotton be con-
verted into yarns at the South, and shipped
abroad in that form, it would add one hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars annually to
the wealth Of this portion of the United States.
Foreign mills would adapt their machinery
to working up the yarns instead of the raw
cotton. If but one-quarter Of the crop could
be thus converted it would be great blessing
to this country, and enable numbers of wo.
men and children who are now dependent on
others to support themselves.
- There are in the possession of the chem
ist of the Agricultural Department some very
beautiful specimens of rock salt, which are
proven by chemical analysis to be pure chic.
ride of sodium, and are so transparent that
fine print may be read through cubes more
than an inch thick. They were taken from
a mountain of rock salt in the region of the
Colorado, in Arizona, 500 feet high and Is
miles long. The width Of the stratum is not
known, but it has been penetrated to dis
tance of three miles through cave.
- Advices to the Agricultural Depart.
ment state that in Alameda county, Califor.
mia, thousands of bushels of wheat still remain
on the field where it was thrashed, there being
no place to store it. Granaries and ware
houses are full, and there are not one-hali
ships enough to take the surplus away. There
are needed in San Francisco bay one hundred
more ships than there are to export grain.
The high prices of labor, sacks, and freights
have about discouraged the farmers, so that
they are at present doing but little toward
putting in another crop.
- An Atlanta wife, whose patience had
been sorely tried by the continued drunken
ness of her husband, an employe of one of
the railroad shops, went out on her muscle
last Saturday. Before she returned she had
pounded the proprietor of whisky shop for
selling her husband liquor, slightly pummell-
ed the foreman of the railroad shop for pay.
ing her husband his earnings while in state
of intoxication, returning home in triumph
with her hand in the collar of her intoxicated
lord. This is certainly more vigorous war
fare than any of our temperance societies have
introduced, and we are not so sure but vastly
more efectual in certain cases.
- Central Park, in New York, presented
lively scene on Sunday. 1t is estimated that
fifty thousand persons visited the Park. Ten
thousand skaters were on the lakes, and five
thousand sleighs dashed around the snow
covered roads, and large number of specta-
tors were there enjoying the sport, comfortably
muffled for the occasion. The New York pa.
pers describe the scene, not only in the Park
but in Harlem lane, on the Fifth avenue and
other portions of the city, as enlivening and
brilliant as the city ever wore, notwithstand-
ing the solemn character of the day. The
price of team ran up as high as forty dollars,
and many were disappointed offering that
sum.
- The idea of compulsory education is
entertained in some of the States. The right
to make this demand is based on the alleged
fact that the State is but an enlarged family.
This was the theory of the Romans 1t is
needless to say that it prevailed in more an