Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-08

from Key West, reports one death and two
new cases of yellow fever there on Friday.
The atmosphere and present indications are
unfavorable.
- Women, it seems, are more easily dis
appointed than men. Of the one hundred
and forty-one inmates of the Michigan insane
asylum, whose supposed cause of insanity can
he traced to disappointed affections, eighty
four are women and ffty.seven are men.
Over 81, 100000 of National Bank cur
rency has been issued since May 9th, upon
which eighty per cent. of legal tenders will
he retired. Since the passage of the Act Of
January IA, 1875, nearly sS,OO0,0OO Nation
al Bank currency have been issued.
- Headquarters of the National Grange
Of the Patrons of Husbandry, which, ever
since the organization of the order in 1869,
have been in the city of Washington, will
probably be moved to Louisville, KY, in
short time.
- Missouri correspondent of the Chica-
60 Tribune tells of swarm of locusts from
30 to 70 miles wide, half mile deep, passing
through the air at speed of fifteen miles an
hour for sixty hours continuously, and driving
people in doors for fear of being smothered to
death.
"A wealthy man died some months ago.
Some of his heirs were slighted, and tried to
break the will on the ground of unsound mind
on the part of the testator. The effort failed.
1t was shown in evidence that the man made
most of his money by judicious advertising.
The Court remarked: We need look no fur
ther for proof of this mans sound judgment"
And the Court was right.
The Palace Hotel, now nearing COM
pletion, in San Francisco, is the largest hotel
structure in the world. It covers sc, $50
square feet of ground, and is seven stories
high "a. .661 900 bricks were used in its walls,
5000 tons Of cast and wrought iron, and A.,
561 ,524 feet of lumber and timber. 1t con-
tains 1860 windows, 377 of which are bay
windows; 926 rooms, none of less size than
16x16 feet, and 3SS bath rooms. 1t contains
over three miles of halls; there are passenger
elevators and FIVE grand stairways; there are
4,540 doors, 5000 gas burners, and thirty-two
miles of gas and water pipe. 1t requires
$4,000 yards, or twenty eight miles of carpet.
1t can accommodate 1900 guests besides $50
servants and employees. And, best Of all,
there is not a dark or windowless room in the
house. 1t has been decided to run length
of heavy plate glass, sixteen inches high,
along the top of the bulusters and balustrades,
as precaution against accidents by children
sliding down the balusters or climbing the
balustrades. This plate glass will reflect the
gas jets, and at night the interior courts will
present dazzling scene.
- There is notion quite prevalent in
tha ,o;nls of tho manila tbo tho dr;pkino of
hard water is injurious to health, and most
physicians have warned people to so far as
possible avoid the practice. But DR.. Lether-
by. an English physician, who has devoted
much time to investigating the subject, finds
as the result Of his observations that hard
water is not only clearer, cooler, ard more
free from air and agreeable to the taste than
SOFT but that it is less liable to the absorption
Of organic matter and to the sustenance OF the
life cf symotic organisms, or to exert solvent
properties upon salts Of iron or upon leaden
conducting pipes And he claims that the
lime salts exert beneficial influence. 1t is
asserted that practical test of the truth Of this
new theory is to be had in the case ofthe res
idents Of mountainous districts, where the
water is almost invariably hard, and where
the inhabitants exhibit the best physical de-
velopment. He claims that water containing
six grains of carbonate Of lime to the gallon
is suitable for use in all household pur-
poses, for such water offers the necessary
amount of caboDate Of lime for the support of
life in the simplest and most digestible form.
Moore's Rural New Yorker.
- The Southern Congressman will spare
their Northern friends great deal Of anxiety
during the next session of the National Gen.
eral Assembly. Recently, in conversation
with a reporter of the New York Times, Sen
ator Ransom, of North Carolina, said that he
had recently conversed with a number Of
those gentleman elected to the next Congress
from Southern States who were officers in the
rebel army, and is led to believe that they
will be more conservative in speech and ma
than very many Northern Democrats who will
be members of that body. They are deter
mined to avoid everything that might be con-
strued as sectionslism, and will strive to dis
charge their public duties in such manner as
will command the respect and confidence Of
the people of the entire country. The Sena-
tor believes that those who expect to see these
ex-Confederates moving to undo the results
accomplished by the war, advocating payment
of debts incurred by the late rebellious States,
or any other follies so frequently alluded to
in this connection, will be egregiously disap-
pointed. He says some Of the more promi-
nent of this class express the belief that they
will find more difficulty in curbing some of
the Northern Democrats than in discipining
their own number They will, he thinks,
prafer RI fnllow Gordon and lamar rather
than hot-heads like John Young Brown.
- The following is an extract from let
ter written by lady in Lincoln, Nebraska,
to her mother in Maryland in regard to the
grasshoppers that are devastating portions
ofNebraska: "The grass-hoppers have been
flying over US for the last five days, so thick
that a person can look at the sun without
hurting the eyes, the clouds of insects max
ing everything hazy, like Indian summer
weather. To give you some idea of how many
there are, will state that some Of the profess
sors at the university, with their telescopes,
made some experiments on them, and found
that the grass-hopper clouds we're one mile
thick, and by the telegraph ascertained that
they were 400 miles wide, and have been
flying for FIVE days at the rate Of 100 miles
per day. Thus you can form an estimate
of their multitude; but person must see
them to believe Last night shower brought
them down on US like hail storm. In a
great many parts of the State where they
have alighted they have cleaned up every
green thing. They have eaten up a great
deal here since last night, and if they stay
through the day we will not have much left.
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