Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-01

days ago.
-- 1t is said that three-fourths of the wo-
men place the postage stamp on the left hand
corner of the envelope.
-- The manufacturers of the Eastern
States are combining to reduce production
until remunerative prices can be obtained.
- 1t is asserted that 500 pounds of frogs
are consumed daily in New York. They are
caught chiefly in Canada.
- Waynesborough, Pa, boasts of haunt.
ed distillery, which is just the place where one
would naturally look for spirits
- A mulatto made a speech in Columbus,
the other day, in which he claimed to BE- the
superior of both races, because he was the of:
spring of the two.
- Any girl may raise moustache by
shaving her upper lip every day for about
month. A St. Louis girl has demonstrated
this fact, and now wishes she had not.
- The Republican State Convention, at
Utica, on Wednesday of last week, unani-
mously renominated Gen. John A. Dix as
the candidate Of the party for Governor OF
New York.
- Nothern people wonder why the South
does not stop the fiery, untamed orators.
Southern people wonder the North does not
gag Ben Butler. There are bad men and
plenty of fools, North and South.
- Horace Maynard, on Wednesday of last
week, was nominated for Governor of Ten
nessee by the Republican convention which
met at Chattanooga. The convention refused
to endorse the civil rights bill, yet Horace
avoWs ZealOus advOcacv Of If
-- The following States, nineteen in num-
Der, are to choose United States senators the
coming winter, viz: Vermont, Maine, Indi-
ana, Nebraska, West Virginia, Louisiana,
Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey.
- "Our lives are spent either in doing
nothing at all or in doing to no purpose, or
in doing nothing that we ought to do. We
are always complaining our days are few, and
acting as though there would be no end of
them"
-- At a meeting of manufacturers held at
Providence, Rhode Island, last week, facts
were submitted showing that the prices Of
cotton fabrics are below the actual cost Of
production. For this reason, most Of the
New England mills will be run on short
time during the next three months.
- A popular clergyman says it is interest
ing to observe how many people 60 to the
circus ':just to please the children" and very
curious to notice that sometimes it takes sew
eral able-bodied men and motherly women to
look after one little boy or girl on such an oc-
casion.
-- Hardly year passes by without sor,e
new use for paper being discovered, the posi-
bilities of that article seeming yet undevelop-
ed. 1t is now very successfully used for
making buggy boxes, baskets, betting for
machinery, boats, clothing, and household
materials and in some branches of trade it
is rapidly superseding wood in the manufac-
ture of fancy articles.
The extent to which snuEdipping is in
dulged in the United States, may be Judged
from the fact that one New York firm, last
year, sold $4,000 pounds of snuff all of
which was of the kind used for dipping, be-
sides more than 100000 pounds of the regu-
lar mixture for the old-fashioned snufers, to
say nothing of the large amounts manufac-
tured in the other cities.
- The treasurers of the New England
cotton mills having Offices in Boston, held
meeting there on Thursday last, and resolved
that the production of the mills should be re-
duced one-third, until the relation between
the cost reproduction and the value of goods
and supply and demand shall be adjusted.
This action will probably further reduce the
price Of cotton.
- A dispatch from Washington says that
'the Postmaster General and Secretary of the
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Federal offices in theSouthern States are held,
have determined to dismiss any person hold
ing office against whom any charges of inca
pacity or doubtful official responsibility may
be made with sufficient substantiation in the
way of facts and upon competent authority"
- The tobacco growers of Virginia have
been unfortunate this season. In some of the
counties where this product has been extern
sively cultivated, there will not be one-twen-
teth Of the usual crop secured. In other
counties the crop will seldom yield more than
duct, according to correspondent Of the Rich
mond Enquirer, who has investigated tic mat
ter very thoroughly.
- They tell queer story about the doc
tors in certain Texas town, who were all
away last summer to attend a medical con.
vention. They we're absent about two months,
and on their return found all their patients
had recovered, the drug stores had closed, the
nurses had opened dancing schools, the ceme-
terry had been cut up into building lots, the
undertakers had gone to making fddles, and
the hearse had been painted and sold as cir
Gus wagon.
"A meeting was held at Camden on Mon
day night of last week in which speeches were
made by John Chestnut and Pinckney of
Kershaw, and johnson and Sam Lee, Of
Sumter, endorsing the Independent Republi-
can movement The Camden Journal, in a
report of the proceedings, says that it was
difficult to determine whether majority of
the persons present were for or against Cham
berlain. Resolutions were adopted, however,
pledging the meeting to the support of Judge
Green.
The Rev. Dr. Newman, formerly chap
lain of the United States Senate, is a man of
wonderful experiences He writes from the
classic East that he has visited the 1eritable
Garden Of Eden that he has had his hands
on the granite lion which stands at the door
of the den that Daniel was cast into; that he
will bring back brick from the Tower of
Babel, and that he has been among the ruins
of Belshazzar's palace. If he had only added
that he had seen the handwriting on the wall
the record would have been complete.
-- They have parliamentary proceeding
down in Florida that beats anything in Con-
gress. At a late Radical District Convention
in that State, two nominees, Martin and Pur-
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