The enquirer southerner., 1874-06-05
Thomas A. Scott will be fifty De
IS. S.1274

C0mDer -ot 1CIf
A wel!-digger was lately buried
alive in Texas. He recovered, but is
not as well digger as he was.
The colored aristocracy of Wash
ington have a Lotos club. One white
ball rejects.
The Baltic, upon which Mrs. Sar-
toris sailed for Europe, has arrived
at Queenstown.
The total exports of general mer-
chandise from New York for the
week ending Friday were Sc, 1884,
146.
A small piece of borax allowed to
dissolve in the mouth is said to be an
excellent remedy for sudden hoarse-
ness or loss of voice.
A professional beggar in New York
of "easy, winning manners and gen
tlemanly appearance" is known to
make as much as $l5 per day.
The Richmond Enquirer modestly |
hints to Ttnnyson that he must tune |
his harp for few modest verses to
"Little Nell'' if be would be great in
this country.
Profundissimus has discovered that
the reason why the Jews will not eat
| pork is because their Scriptures con-
! tain the melediction : "Cursed* be
Ham," g
The machine shops Of the st Louis
and Southwestern railroad, at Mount
Vernon, Mo, we're burned on We'd
nesday night, with three locomotives
and two passenger coaches. Loss
100000; uninsured.
Why" said physician to his in
temperate neighbor, "don't you take
a regular quantity of whiskey every
day: set stake that will GO so far
and no farther? Il do, but I always
get drunk before I get to it."
The iron trade throughout the
country is greatly depressed. It is
estimated that IT'S, 900 men who are
usually employed at the rolling mills,
furnaces, ETC., are out of employment
to-day, in consequence of the paraly-
zation of tho iron business.
The Committee of the Teachers and
Pupils Fund of the Agasiz Memo
rial, in Boston, Mass, recognize the
: day, which is his birthday, by placing
flowers on his grave, in the namo OF
the teachers and pupils of the United
States.
At Convention held at Company
Shops Wednesday, Hon. Sohn Kerr
of Caswell, was nominated as can.
didate for Judge of the Seventh Dis
trict, by acclamation, and Mr.. F. N
Strudwick, of Orange, was nominated
= for Solicitor on the fourth ballot.
The death of Edgar Tompson
president Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, will be severe blow
It to the interests confded to his keep
v ing. Whilst not conspicuously &C
tive in railroad affairs for the pas
few years, yet it has been his brain
: that has really shaped the policy o
Q the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
r Company, although his vice presi
! dent, Thomas A. Scott, has receive'
!, all the credit, "--Er.
o Washington special, under dat
h of Saturday, says: ''The decoration
of the soldiers graves was very gene
eral to-day. Many of the friends Q
3. the Confederate dead who are burie
4 at Arlington took occasion to beauti
: - fy with floral offerings their graves
l. and without any objections from eve
g the rabid foes of the South, as here
(, tofore. The weather was pleasant
J. and everything passed off agreeably.
l. The Charleston News and Courier
copying from the Herald an articl
"a on the manufacturing industries {
= the South, which recommended as
d means to induce capital to seek invest
% ment the exemption of such propert,
i from taxation, says that there is n
@ doubt that the exemption of manr
. facturers from taxation for term {
40 > years will be a benefit to any con
Oh munity, and in South Carolina, a
N well as Georgia, that exemption ha
ee been granted by an act of the Legi;
lature. For ten years al! the ne,
manufacturing undertakings are e,
n empted from State and county taxa
t. ton, SO that capital can be investe
IF in this one way in South Carolir
- and be free from the excessive taxs
'a ton to which otherwise it would /
q liable so long as ring rule lasts.