Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-03
Straps aud fatts.

- Fifteen hundred persons are employed
at Key West in making cigars More than
half of them are Cubans.
-- A convention of iron founders, recently
in session at Pittsburg, Penn, advanced the
price of bar, sheet and plate iron about six
dollars per ton.
- During the recent deep sea soundings in
the Pacific, depth of 1856 fathoms, nearly
five and one-third miles, was found off the
cost of Japan.
- While the railroad conductors we're in
convention at St. Louis the other day, tel-
low put his head in the door and called out
Tickets" He got his head punched.
- Louisiana will produce this year, un-
less unforeseen misfortunes prevent, the best
crop of cotton, sugar, and rice that has been
grown since the war. 1t was cultivated ex
cusively by colored laborers.
AT convention of railroad managers
held in Boston on the 25th ultimo, a general
reduction of freight from Boston and New
York to different points in the South was
agreed to-
- The time is doubtless coming, says the
New York Bulletin, when increasing competi-
ton will constran the people to be less exact
ing as to the relative social position Of any
business, provided it pays.
"A correspondent Of the Christian Union
says you can no more keep rascals out of
party by putting the word "purty" into the
platform, than you can keep crows out of a
cornfeld by writing "no thieving" on the
fence.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
declared that the practice by express compa.
MES of selling off fevery now and then unclaim-
ed packages, is illegal and fraud upon the
rights of the owner, for which the company is
liable in damages.
-- Munroe Jackson, a noted thief and muir
derer, who shot and killed man named
Wilbern, at Clayton, Alabama, about six
months ago, and also killed another man,
named Allen, near Columbus, Georgia, three
months afterward, has been arrested.
The Lesson of the Day-as delivered by
the New York Graphic-"It is high time that
people began to recognize the fact that par
sons are not made Of fine porcelain, as seems to
be generally supposed, but Of common clay
like the rest Of mankind"
- In California churches, when deacon
rises in his seat during the sermon, and un-
buttons his collar, and asks, "See here Mister
Parson, amt ye getting a leetle too p'inted in
them ere remarks ?" the preacher invariably
closes his book and adourns the meeting for
one week.
- Prison discipline, along with many
other things, is sadly needed in Texas. A
convict in the pententiary at Waco refused to
work, and was accordingly put in the tank
with his feet tied down and the water turned
on. He refused to pump it out, and was
drowned The poor fellow must either have
been tired of life or too lazy to work.
- Philadelphia and New York are to be
tied together with new railroad, three miles
shorter than the present one, avoiding Tren-
ton, New Brunswick and other places, in passing
through which trains have to be Slowed" A
great saving of time is expected by the new
road, as the ninety miles will be made in two
hours.
- Laury Berry fell fainting in the school
room at Carson, Nevada, recently. She had
within three weeks committed to memory
800 pages of history and 200 Of natural phi
losophy. The night before she and class
mate had not gone to bed at all, but studied
through the night and until nine IN the morn
ing That was alI the reason she tainted.
- In Mississippi they have law very
similar in its provisions to the civil rights
bill; but the Judge of the United States Court
for the Northern District of Mississippi told
the black man that while the proprietor Off ho-
tel was obliged to receive him as a guest, he
was at liberty to seat him at any table and as
sign him to any sleeping apartment he pleased.
- In Chattanooga, on Friday last, J. O.
Smith, discharged employee from the Ala
bama and Chattanooga Railroad, made an
attack on VIM. R. Carlisle, treasurer, who
shot and killed him in selfdefense. Smith
had been very abusive for some time, and
threatened to take Carlsle's life on sight.
His i'll feeling was caused by being unable to
get money due him by the railroad company.
- The negroes of Wocochee Valley, Ala
bama, near Opelika, are reported to have
been holding,secret meetings for several nights
of late, preparing to attack the whites. Their
plan was revealed last Thursday by all old
negress. in time for the whites to prepare
When the negroes, made an attack they were
driven back-four were killed. They then
burned down two churches and left.
- When the late General Thomas, u. S.
A., was asked for furlough by backwood
soldier, in order that he mis- ght visit his wife,
to whom he had been married but three
months, he replied: "Why, fellow, | haven't
seen my wife for three years. The back
woodsman stared incredulousy at the General
for moment, and then broke out, "But you
see me and my wife amt that kind
- Hot lemonade is one Of the best reme
dies in the world for cold 1t acts promptly
and effectively, and has no unpleasant after
effects. One lemon properly squeezed, cut in
slices, put with sugar, and covered with halfa
pint of boiling water. Drink just before 60.
ing to bed, and do not expose yourself on the
following day. This remedy will ward off an
attack of the chills and fever, if used
promptly.
- TO cut down the record one.quarter Of
a second in four mile race is an exceedingly
delicate operation, calling for scientific ac-
curacy in every detail. Let US consider what
quarter seconds are. In Lexington's time
7.194-there are exactly 1859 quarter Sec
onds In mile there are exactly 1,76O, yards
Therefore one yard difference in the track
would account for difference of quarter of
a second in the time The line actually run
by a racer in passing other horses and getting
position often makes greater difference.
- On Sunday morning. says the Detroit
Free Press, there came over the Great Wes-
tern road, on its way West, trunk which
made the hair Of the baggage-masters stand
right up. 1t was thirty-four inches long,
three feet wide, and was made of solid boiler
iron an eighth of an inch thick. The han