Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-26

cases but it will cure if continued.
DIR. Aver, the Massachusetts, medicine
man, might have been elected to Congress, if
all the men in the district who have swallow
ed his medicines had voted for him. 1t was
the fellows who didn't take it, who were alive
on election day. They voted for Tarbox.
- There are more kid gloves sold in New
York than in any city in the world. The an
nual receipts at that port are about 100000
dozens of what are called frst-class gloves.
Including an inferior article, the number
reaches 100000 dozens year, making S1O,-
100000 paid annually by New York mer-
chants for this one article.
"A New York dispatch says: "This has
been a very hard year on newspapers and
periodicals. 1t is asserted that only four of
all the New York City dailies have made
any money, and not one of the magazines
has proved profitable. 1t is estimated that
fully s2,0O0,0OO has been lost in twelve
months in the publication business"
- By the disobedience Of lad in 1909, a
garden gate in Rhode Island was left open,
and pig got in and destroyed few plants.
A quarrel between the owners of the pig and
the garden grew out oft, which spread among
their friends, defeated the federal candidate
for the legislature, and gave the State dem
ocratic senator, by whose vote the war OF 1917
with Great Britain was declared.
- The Galveston Neus declares that "the
revolution of Northern sentiment has ava
kened a reciprocal sentiment in the Southern
heart. The response is frank, emphatic and
not to be mistaken The star-spangled ban
ner can now be greeted with pride and exul-
tation by Southerners who, not long since,
gloomly contemplated it as the symbol Of a
monotonous and blghting misrule."
- The New York Commercial advertiser
says: We understand that new telegraph
company has been organized under the title
of the American Automatic Telegraph Com
pany, which is under the direct auspices Of
the Pennsylvania Central, Erie and Balti.
more and Ohio Railway Companies. This
will engender further rivalry, and should
tend to insure cheap telegraphy."
"A barrel with only one stave is now
manufactured. A steamed log is rotated
against knife ofequal length with: itself, and a
continuous stave or sheet of wood is cut from it..
The sheet is cut into proper lengths, these
are slit at each end in several places, and the
ends reduced so as to fit the heads and make
the proper swell or bulge in the circumference.
Hoops are fitted as usual, and a much stronger
barrel than the ordinary one is produced.
"A case under the railroad law of Hill
nois, submitted to the Supreme Court, is a
dispute about two cents. A passenger on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
rendered the legal fare of three cents a
mile. Its aggregate for the distance he wished
to travel was two cents less than the fare fixed
by the company. When he refused to pay the
extra two cents the conductor attempted to
eject him. He brought suit before justice
Of the peace, and got verdict of ten dollars
damages. The company took an appeal to
the Supreme Court.
"A New York letter says: "Western
Democratic Congressman are making ur-
gent appeals to the delegation from this city
to aid them in a strong effort in favor of low
er tariff duties at the coming session of Con-
gress. 1t is intimated that disposition
of this kind on the part Of the Democrats
of the Eastern States would do much to
smooth down the rough edges which may
be created by differing views on the fnan-
cial question. The appeals are made
verbally as we'll as by private correspon-
dence So far as New York is concerned,
they will probably not be made in vain
- Woman suffrage advocates have little
reason to feel eated by their success in Michi-
gan. They succeeded in inducing the Legisla-
lature to pass joint resolution submitting to
the people a proposition to strike the word
"male" from the article on elections in the
State constitution, thus admitting women to
equal franchise with men. Boxes were put at
the polling places at the recent election to re-
ceive votes for and against this proposition,
but the vote was so overwhelmingly in the
negative, what there was of it, that scarcely
any mention of it has thus far been made in the
returns Few people cared enough about the
question to vote at all, and those who did care
voted in the negative.
- An extraordinary account has appeared
in French agricultural journal to the effect
that straw forms an admirable lightning con-
ductor. 1t has been discovered that straw
has the property of discharging Leyden jars
with spark or explosion, and some one in the
neighborhood of Tarbes had the idea Of con
structing straw lightning conductors, which
we're formed by fastening wisp of rope Of
straws to a deal stick by means of brass wire
and Gaping the conductor with copper
point. 1t is asserted that the experiment has
been tried on large scale around Tarbes
eighteen communes having been provided
with such straw conductors, only one being
erected for every six arpents, or 100 acres, ano
the whole neighborhood has thus been pre-
served from the effects not only of lightning
but of hail also. The statement comes from
respectable source.
"A bold express robbery, perpetrated or u
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road, in New Jersey, one night last week, is
remarkable instance Of the high daring anc
cunning of thieves of this class. The trair
arrived at Delaware Station soon after dark
and stopped fifteen minutes for tea. Th'
night was unusually dark and the express
messenger hungry. He locked the safe anc
the door of the express car, and went to hlssup
per. The burglar watched an opportune mo
ment, and when the safety valve of the engln'
was blowing off he thrust his hand through
the window by the side of the entrance door tt
the car, opened the side door on the opposlt
side from the depot, placed railroad til
upon the ground and to the door of the car
and by that means noiselessly slid the safe
weighing two hundred and eighteen pounds
to the ground. Then putting the tie to tn
ground and showing the side door back to it
place, he dragged the safe by main strengttII
toward the river. Forty yards from the rail
road track he applied a lever to the handle
broke open the safe and began to examine tn
contents of each express package He wa
evidently in hurry, as ia some instances h
did not get all the money from the eoe enve We