Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-03

- A Philadelphia named keeler has dis
covered vapor which is far more powerful
than steam as motor, costs nothing, takes up
but little space, and will move steamers around
the world as cheaply as sailing vessels, and
will reduce freight to one.half rates.
- A recent Washington letter mentions
that Honest John Patterson, of South Caro-
lima, was whining few days ago. Bristow
had kept him waiting in an anteroom whole
forenoon, "receiviug heads Of bureaus and
damn newspaper men all the time, and when
he did see me he treated me more like an in
terloper than United States senator"
- The first ounce of blood injected into
Gen. Frank Blair caused effects upon the
General similar to intoxication. Upon in
vestigation the physicians discovered that the
subject who had furnished the blood had been
on bit of spree the day before, and with the
blood had been transfused some alcohol. 1t
was clear case of drunk by proxy.
- The only colored cadet now at West
Point is Flippin, of Georgia, who in the third
class, composed Of eighty-6ve cadets, stands
torty.sixth. All concede that Flippin is get
ting along finely, though there are those who
believe he will never graduate. They say no
colored cadet will be allowed to graduate
there that he may get as far as the first class,
but there he will be slaughtered"
- The crater at Petersburg, Virginia, the
scene of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the war,
seems to have come into mercenary hands.
A reunion of Mahones Confederate Brigade,
which participated in the battle, was held at
Petersburg, a few days ago, and those who
desired to visit the spot found that before do
ing so they must pay the owner of the farm
on which it is situated twenty-five cents each.
- The horse races in Kentucky this year
have developed remarkable speed. In re-
cent trial of speed at Lexington, Searcher, a
young horse, made mile in the heretofore
unrecorded time of 14l7. More recently, at
Louisville, a four year old colt did a dash of
q miles in 3.484. This is the best time for
the distance on record, being second and
quarter better than any previous achievement.
- The Postmaster.G General having in
structed the Postmaster at Cincinnati not to
deliver letters addressed to well-known
lottery dealer in that city, the lottery man
has applied to the Superior Court of Cincin.
natl for an order to compel the delivery of
his letters On the ground that the order is un-
authorized. The Postmaster.General is act
ing in accordance with the provisions of an
act of Congress.
- 1t seems to be thought in New York
that cloud now hangs over Chicago. The
spectators there are carrying some Sl0,0OO,.
600 of grain. They are holding it for prices
much above the New York and Liverpool
markets and yet they are compelled to pro-
tect themselves by taking everything that
comes from the interior at the high prices
they ictitiously established, thereby augment
ing their loads from day to day. The effect
of this is declared to be injurious in many
ways.
- 1t is stated from Washington that the
law in relation to the prepayment of postage
on newspapers at the Offices where published,
which came into operation January l, will re-
duce the income to the government from that
source about one-half that derived under the
old law. There is a great saving, however,
in clerical labor in the postofices, and as the
law is thought to be satisfactory to both pub
fishers and subscribers, it is thought that the
department will not make any recommends
tion for its amendment.
- The whales have had comparatively
easy time since petroleum was discovered,
but it seems that they are now going to suffer
again, since whale oil is coming in demand, for
some cause or other, and the New Bedford
whale people are fitting out a large fleet for
a regular old-fashioned whaling cruise. For
years the business has been as dead as it we'll
could be- but the old New Bedford wharves
are now said to be alive with busy preparation.
One hundred and eleven ships will soon be
started out.
- The San Francisco Chronicle wants to
see the United States take the affairs of Mexico
in hand, and provide the unhappy people
of that republic with government that will
enable them to develop the mineral and
other resources of that country. 1t says, with
a great deal of truth, that the Mexicans have
displayed an utter lack of ability to govern
themselves, and the sooner some nation can
teach them how to do so, the better for all
hands. With permanent peace, Mexico would
take rank as the richest and most prosperous
State in America.
1t is given out in Brooklyn and New
York that Henry Ward Beecher will short
lv 90 to the Holy Land, and remain there
year, in pious reflection, preparatory to finish
ing the Life of Christ" If the jury find him
guilty, he will stay away two years. Even
if the verdict is mot guilty" Beecher thinks
it will take year of Holy Land atmosphere
to extinguish the bad odor upon his gar
ments. He might create sensation at Jerusa-
lem by opening church on the Plymouth
plan in the free and easy, jocular prayer-meet-
ings.
- Monday was signalzed at Memphis by
practical demonstration of the fact that we
are rapidly approaching condition of per-
feet harmony and good feeling between the
sections Decoration day was made com.
mon one by the resident ex exConfederate and
ex.Federal soldiers, and the result was a
determination such as has not been witnessed
since the war. A dispatch says: The largest
procession ever seen in Memphis, with the
exception of that in honor of the memory OF
Gen. Lee, was formed. The ex-tederal SOL
diers, almost to man, turned out with the ex-
Confederates, and in the ranks were seen the
tattered battle-fags Of both armies
THE Montgomery Advertiser of recent
date says the planters of Alabama are in
much better spirits than they were at this
time last year. The corn and cotton prospects
are very good, and the former crop is made
superior to the latter, which speaks we'll fort the
country. A Montgomery merchant, who was
last year selling from twelve to fifteen carloads
of corn per day, says that the sales now aver
age one and two and that the corn is ship
ped to points sixty to seveny-fve miles distant
from Montgomery. His experience is that OF
the other grocery and grain dealers Of that
city. The Advertiser says: There is no dis
guising the fact that our people are on rising