Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-08-27
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whisky and carry no fire arms, the happiness
and peace of all communities would be in
creased about 1000 per cent.
"A very fat man, for the purpose of quiz
zing his doctor, asked him to prescribe for
a complaint, which he declared was sleeping
with his mouth open. "Sir," said the doctor,
"your disease is incurable. Your skin is too
short, so that when you shut your eyes your
mouth opens"
- In Antwerp they have found way to
put out the otherwise inextinguishable flames
of burning petroleum. 1t is by chloroform,
which is absolutely uninfammable. They
have found, also, that mixed with petroleum
in the proportion of onesixth chloroform will
also render the latter incombustible.
-- Texas is developing extraordinary min
eral wealth. Rich mines of silver ore have
been discovered in many of the counties,
Welding one thousand dollars to the ton, and
that, too, within hundred miles of the State
capital. In the meantime the rush Of emigra
ton toward the Lone Star State is greater than
ever before in her past history.
-- The Memphis Appeal properly states
the case when it says "The talk about gen.
eral war Of races is too preposterous to receive
serious attention. Neither race wants that !;
but the time seems to have fully come when
the question must be peaceably decided at the
polls whether the whites are to rule or the
negroes ruin the Southern States"
- The New York Graphic says: "Since
the mixed school question is not adopted in
Washington there is little likelihood of its
being tried in the South generally The Dis
trict Of Columbia is the crucible of new theo-
ries, and any experiment that can't stand the
test there is in little danger of assuming
national character"
Up to this date the amount of clrcula-
ton withdrawn by the deposit of legal-tenders
is greater than the amount issued since the
passage of the new law by about one million
dollars, thus working the contraction of the
currency to that extent. A majority of the
banks thus Withdrawing their circulation are
located in the South and West
- A Louisville brute refused point blank
to push the baby wagon Sunday afternoons,
and his wife has sued for divorce. The Tri.
bune says he is a wooden-head. If he had
gracefully consented and then upset the wag-
on once or twice. she would never have risked
the darling with him again, and peace would
have reigned.
- We are to have a great crop and
lower prices of food all over the world, in
consequence Of the abundant harvests now be-
ing gathered This will unquestionably be OF
great benefit to Europe, and particularly to
Great Britain, and the ball will in the end
rebound back to us. But probably two or
three years will pass by before the full effect
is produced.
- The great social and political enigmas
of the day are refreshing themselves with sea
breezes and mountain air. Grant is at Long
Branch, Beecher at Peekskill, Moulton at
Portland and along the coast, and Mrs Til
ton has disappeared. Grant is silent about
the third term, and Moulton about blackmail
Beecher is rhetorical, and Mrs. Tilton hysteri-
cal. Nobody seems to understand any OF
them exactly, and all but Grant wish they
were dead-or words to that effect.
-- The immensity of the California grain
crop of this season has been frequently allu-
ded to, but the amount of transportation
facilities it will require, gives the best idea Of
its extent. 1t is said that at least seven hum
dred ships of 1900 tons each will be required
to carry the surplus to Europe Not more
than FIVE hundred and fifty are as yet at San
Francisco or on their way to that port, but
many more will be attracted there on account
of the slackness of freightipg business on the
Atlantic side.
"A bloody and fatal duel was fought OH
the 18th instant, in the parish Of St. james,
La, between DR.. Gray, member of the
Legislature, and Mr.. Richard, a deputy
sheriff The duel was fought with Smith
& Wesson revolvers-distance fifteen PAGES.
Two harmless shots were fired, but at the
third round, both parties fell mortally wound
ed. Each it appears, received his antago-
nist's shot in the side, in about the same place
Dr. Gray expired first, Mr.. Richard surviv-
ing only a few moments longer.
Il In the Eure- Wood scandal case at
Portsmouth, Virginia, that city should un-
doubtedly put up her rival claims to Brook
lyn. A married woman eloped with her step
son, leaving the old man with the bag and
the children to hold the errants were cap
tured, returned to their home, and arraigned
befor magistrate, who released the parties;
the woman returned to her home, was severely
chastised by her husband, whereat she became
highly indignant, and fled the second time
with her step.son, Henry Eure, and they are
now enjoying their freedom in Baltimore.
"A teacher, wishing to improve the oc-
casion, said to the boys at the conclusion of a
strawberry festival, Have you enjoyed these
berries to-day ?" "Yes, sir, yes, sir" came
from all sides with unmistakable heartiness.
"Well, children, if you had seen these berries
growing in my garden, and had slipped in
through the gate without my leave, and picked
them from the vines, would they have tasted
as we'll as now? "No, sir, was the prompt
reply. "Why not?' Because" said wide
awake boy, "then we shouldn't have had sugar
and cream with 'em."
-- Baron Anselm Rothschild, who has
Just lately died, at his country seat at Dob
ling, near Vienna, was man of extreme SIM
plicity Of character, despite his immense
wealth. By his express desre-says Paris
journal al-recorded in his will, his funeral was
celebrated without any pomp. A hearse
drawn by two horses, followed only by few
servants, conveyed the body to the North
eastern station, whence it was taken to the
domain in which the family vault is situated.
The fortune Of the Baron is etimated at
2OO,OOO,OOO of American gold dollars.
- Henry Ward Beecher pronounces that
reputed sermon of his, which has been widely
published, advising the hanging Of Jefferson
Davis, in 1865, an unblushing forgery. lie
saws "Not only did I never utter or make
such miserable stuff, but the whole world
knows that while many were clamorlng tor
some sacrifice or victim, I everywhere and al
ways opposed, with intense earnestness, the