Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-07
Straps aud fatts.

-- Mrs. Lincoln, VINO IS staying Wltn nef
sister at Springfield, Illinois, accosts every
one with, "Now, you don't believe me insane,
do your
- In one of the large London hotels they
have introduced steam machinery for wash
ing the dirty plates and dishes, and also for
cleaning boots and knives and forks. 1t is
said to answer we'll.
The Commissioners of the Fredman's 8
Savings and Trust Company will commence
paying a dividend of twenty per cent. on all
audited claims on the 1st of November next,
at their Office in Washington.
- The Governor of Virginia has issued
proclamation fixing the 2Sth of October as the
time for unwilling Foley's statue of Stonewall
jackson, and inviting the people of the Com
monwealth, and all others who admire the
character of Jackson, to attend on the occa-
sion.
- The growth of Gainesville, Georgia in
population and business, since the completion
of the Richmond and Atlanta Air Line Rail
road, on which it is located, has, been quite
remarkable. The road has been completed
only two years, and in that time the value of
town property has increased from $4,000 to
$8S0,000.
One of the remarkable men of the Ala
ma Constitutional Convention is Col. Bethea.
He is a lawyer, but has had only one case in
his life. 1t was his first and last. The case
involved large amount of property, and his
fee was 100000, and with this he gracefully
retired from the bar. A legal career so brief
and so brilliant has probably been the lot Of
no other man since litigation began.
- 1t is significant fact that the New
York Times, Journal of considerable pol
itical sagacity, predicts the final defeat of
hard money men, and thinks there is no room
for doubt that, when it comes to the final con-
test, the force of numbers, as we'll as the bold
ness, the earnestness and the hopefulness so
necessary to success, are all with the green
back party.
- The agricultural report from the de.
partment at Washington, says the tobacco
crop has greatly fallen off since the last re-
port. From condition Of twenty per cent.
above the average in July over September, the
report indicates deduction of ten per cent.
below the average. East Of the Allegheny
Mountains there has been on the whole an
improvement. The Virginia returns indicate
u
age. Kentucky has fallen from 134 to S6.
- The greatest sale of prints ever made in
America, was concluded at the establishment
of H. G. Clafin & Co., in New York, on Fri
day. In connection with some sales which
were made on the previous day, over seven
thousand cases of the most celebrated brands
were disposed of at prices lower than ever
before, ranging from FIVE and quarter to Six
and three-quarter cents, the terms being net
sixty days, or two per cent. off ten days. Ev-
cry State in the South and Southwest was
represented at the sale.
- They have fountain of death in Penn
sylvapia. 1t is on Mellow Ridge, near Read
ing. The water is cold, but bubbles and foams
as if boiling. The bubbling is caused by a
deadly gas There is no animal life within
hundred yards of the fountain. Birds that
fly over the spring and too near fall dead:
Snakes have been thrown into the charmed
circle of it's influence and died in three min.
utes. 1t is estimated that it will destroy hu-
man life in twenty minutes, but the actual
experiment has not been made. The State
ought to doom criminal to the fountain of
death and see how long he could stand it.
1t is said that venturesome fellow once
stood over the pool FIVE minutes and found it
very difficult to get away in time for healthy
respiration to resume.
- A remarkable instance of death bed re-
pentance has just occurred in Butler county,
Ky. A man who was very i'll, confident
that his last hour was fast approaching, sent
for magistrate, and made confession that
in the year 1870 he had murdered man
named Charles Mitchell, on Green river.
His story was that during the war he and
Mitchell had robbed man named Daven-
port in Warren county, and that in the divi-
sion of the spoils Mitchell had taken more
than his share. In revenge, the self:confess-
ed murderer watched his victim for ten years
with the purpose of killing him, and at last,
when favorably opportunity presented itself,
he shot him through the heart. Mitchell,
when shot, was standing on barge, and his
body fell into the river 1t was never found,
and though suspicious of foul play were enter
tained, there was no proof even of his death.
The man who fired the fatal shot, having
eased his conscience by confession, immedi-
ately began to get better, and now promises
to regain his health entirely. In the mean
time the officers of the law are preparing to
arrest and prosecute him whenever he has
recovered sufficiently to be safely removed
from his bed.
The newspapers in the East, as we'll as
in the West, all agree that there has been a
marked and healthy improvement in the va
rious branches of trade during the past two
weeks. The New York World of Sunday, in
noting this revival, says that "the average
crops throughout the country exceed anything
known during the last ten years." while "the
receipts of all the shipping ports since Sep
tember 1, 1875, have been larger than they
were during the corresponding time last yea" J."
The New York Herald of Monday says that
Enquiries thus made within few days show
an extremely satisfactory condition of trade.
The fall business doing by the wholesale dry
goods merchants is Unexpectedly large Sew
eral of the leading houses express their sur
prise at its extent, and say that trade has not
been so good for FIVE years past. There is a
livelier demand, and buyers are more numer-
ous." A letter from St. Louis makes the
claim that most of the branches of trade are
better in that city than in any other city in
the country; and dispatch from Chicago
states that "the dry goods jobbers there report
larger business for the past week than has
ever before been transacted in that branch of
trade in the same length of time" The fall
trade is proving to be very heavy, the country
merchants throughout the Northwest buying
freely, and the outlook in business is very
promising. Upon the whole it is most graft
tying for healthy revival of trade through b.
out the country-not such forced activity as
would lead to wild speculation, over-trading