Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-18


Gus women in Massachusetts,.
- From the 1st of September, 1874, to
the 1st of September, 1875, ninety-eight gin
houses were burned in Georgia, as we learn
from the Savannah Nesos, three-fourths Of
which were destroyed by the torch of the
incendiary.
- Senator Bayard, of Delaware, tells an
Augusta editor that the people of the South
have but faint conceptions of the distress at
the north that, in his opinion, where one
southern man is suffering from poverty, ten
northern men are suffering much more.
-A distinct shock of earthquake was
felt at Knoxville, Tenn, on Friday morning
last, causing buildings to sway. 1t produced
a rumbling sound like an explosion, coming
from the west and rolling gradually to the
east. The shock was the heaviest ever felt
there, lasting ten seconds.
- In 1870, the German women decided
that thereafter they would never use chignons
and other French modes and fashions. The
decision was maintained during the war, but
that once over, and the fashions mill again
started, the German fair sex couldn't withstand
the pressure, and again applied in the proper
quarter for bonnets and dresses. The male
purists of Germany are quite beside them
selves over this feminine fckelness.
- Mail advices from Europe give mel
ancholy account of the depression Of trade IN
Germany and its effect on the industrial class
es. Serious distress is anticipated among the
working classes during the winter, and there
are fears of a financial crisis. Accounts OF
the failure of the Russian crops add to the
discouragement of the outlook on the CONT
nent. 1t is said that never before has
failure been so general in Russia.
- Casts of spirit hands are the latest nov
elty in Spiritualism. A dish of melted wax
is put under table, and curtained in from
view. The medium and others sit with their
hands on the table. After while the cur
tains are removed, and mould of wax is
found, as though hand had been pressed
into the soft wax. Plasteris then poured into
the mould, thus making cast. Believers ex-
pect that spirits faces may thus be modelled
- An exchange tells US that when the
election returns came in at Sardis, Miss, the
scene beggared description. The people
were wrought up to the highest frenzy OF ex
citement and enthusiasm. Staid and sober
old men ran and shouted through the streets
Bon6res lit up the town, while the heavy
booming of guns was heard in every direc
ton, herslding the glad tidings of one of the
greatest and most glorious victories that ever
came to an oppressed and tyrant ridden State
- A suit is in progress in New York to
decide the most merciful manner of killing
hogs. The suit is brought against Mr.. Bergh's
animal society by hog butcher. who com
plains that the society interferes with his busi
ness. Mr.. Bergh charges that the plaintiff {
system is to pass chain round a hind leg Of
a hog run it up sharply at the risk of dislo
eating its leg, and causing unnecessary pain
cutting its throat and throwing it into the
scalding vat before fairly dead. The case
has not yet been decided.
- While the net recei pts Of the govern
ment from newspaper postage under the re
duced rates, with strict prepayment, are less
than before, and less even than was anticipa
ted, the government is itself getting quite a.
much money. The reason is, that most o.
the newspaper postage is now paid at tht
large offices, where no commissions are allowed
whereas, before, it was largely paid at small
Offices, where the postmasters were entitled tt
alarge per centage. The total receipts tor news
paper postage for the last year are about 81,
100000, and the government nets abou
100000 Of this.
- In New York, last week, the old Astol
estate, located on Fourteenth street, neal
Ninth avenue, consisting of eight lots, wa;
sold, realizing only $46,506. 1t was valued
at $4,000, and ten years ago $4,000 wa
offered for the property. On the same day, a
q sale of some valuable uptown lots, the bid
ding was dull, and the prices obtained for the
property that was really sold were, in most ca
ses, but little above the mortgage thereon, ano
represent about fifty per cent. decline from
those that could be obtained in 1872. This il
a portentous fact, the full significance O.
which did not escape the attention of othel
large real estate owners who attended the
sale to look on.
DIR Hunter Mcclure sends to the Rich
mond Dispatch a long account of "Stonewalp
Jacksons last illness. He gives the follow
ing as the generals last words: "About half
past one he was told that he had but two
hours to live, and answered again feebly bu
firmly, Very good; it is all right A few
moments before he died, he cried out in BIZ
delirium, "Order A. P Hill to prepare fol
action Pass the infantry to the front rapid
lyr Tell Maj. Hawks'-then stopped, leav
ing the sentence unfinished. Presently {
smile of inefable sweetness spread itself ove
bis pale face, and then he said quietly, ane
with an expression as if of relief, Let US cros
over the river and rest under the shade of tht
trees; and then without pain or the leas
struggle, his spirit passed."
- Commenting On the recent elections
the Boston Advertiser says: "Let the Presi
dent permit the foolish friends who wait or
his smile ahd subsist on his patronage to star
third term agitation, and the majorities o
Tuesday will vanish like Tuesday morning
snow. Let him 90 to work to set on thei
feet again the former republican Leaders
whom the party revolted against and over
threw, and there will follow another revolt
worse than the first. 1t is not on account o
longing for them that the party is restored
to favor, but because of confidence that they
are perm anently retired. Let the Senate at
tempt to re-establish national control of the
politics of the Southern States, or suggest new
force bills, or give its days and nights tt
speech.making for buncombe, or persistently
neglect the legitimate and pressing business O.
the nation, and the party will fail of securing
popular appreciation next year" So it WASH
an endorsement of Chandler after all.
- A drunken woman performed an extra
ordinary surgical operation upon her husband
in Cleaveland, Ohio, recently. Both were un
der the influence ofliquor at the time, and hac
been on spree all day, which finally resulted
in terrible fight. The woman received bad
beating, and, infuriated beyond reason by
drink, planned and executed most diabollca
reuenne. She first induced her spouse to &c