Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-12
Straps aud fafts.


in favor of the Democracy by about 10000
majority.
Andrew Johnson's last words were
characteristic of the life he had lived: LET
my winding. sheet be the flag of my country"
Alexander Hamilton. son of the great
statesman, died in New York, last week, aged
ninety.
- Only 55,00O,OOO acres, out of total
area of 5O7 100000, are under cultivation in
the Southern States.
The colored schools in Memphis, len
nessee, have all. been turned over to colored
teachers.
"A boy was killed and twenty persons
wounded by an explosion at the Franklin,
Pa, arsenal last Saturday.
- The motion to reduce Tweed's bail from
s3,OOO.O00 has been denied, and his counsel
have appealed from the decision.
"A movement is on foot in England for
the abolition of the custom of ofwearing mourn
ing in memory of the dead.
- The coin and bullion in the Bank Of
England, at the present time, is said to be at
the highest ever known.
- The jury in the case of John D. Lee,
charged with being the leader of the Noun.
tain Meadow massacre, have disagreed and
been discharged.
- The crop prospect in North Georgia
has been materially injured by the late gen.
eral drought, and the damage done in two or
three weeks has been very great.
During the past six months the fire
insurance companies in the United States
ol bo
gate to s26,OOO,OOO.
II The New Orleans Times says: "Three
hundred thousand dollars were expended by
the planters of Lafourche last year for corn
alone. This year they will have more corn
than they will need
"A few weeks ago the reports from every
part of the cotton region was favorable to
a large cotton crop, but the long continued
drouth and hot weather has materially chang
ell the prospect.
-- Twenty-6v years ago agriculture was
scarcely known in California; now 6,OOO,-
900 grain sacks are made in that State an
nually for home use, and the annual yield Of
vegetables, fruit, etc., is almost beyond com.
putation.
- A thirteen.year-old son of Dennis
Powers, at Eau Claire, Wis, stole pocket
book, containing S245. The father returned
the money to the owner, and then overcome
with shame because his boy was thief, killed
himself.
- The general opinion in New York and
Brooklyn seems to be that the services of the
notice for new trial in the Beecher-Tilton case
by Mr. Tlton's lawyers, is only "matter of
FORM" and that there is little probability Of
anything ever coming oft.
-- The New Orleans Pieayune says that
"never before in the history of Louisiana have
so many white men taken active part in the
practical details of agriculture and it is at
least singular coincidence thatseldom if ever
before has there been crop so promising in all
respects as that now on the ground. 1t con-
cludes that white men can endure field labor
in that climate.
II The Mississippi Democracy are begin
ming the work ofthe approaching State canvass
with an earnestness and wisdom which pro-
mise success. The State Convention on Tues
day was the largest ever held in Mississippi A
broad, liberal platform was adopted, on which
men of all parties can unite and, as in the
Congressional Convention which repominated
Lamar, the color line was ignored,
- 1t is not generally known, as it ought to
be, that pounded alum possesses the property
of purifying water A large tablespoonful Of
pulverized alum sprnkled into hogshead Of
water-the water stirred round at the time
will, after the lapse of few hours, by pre-
cipitating to the bottom the impure articles,
SO purify it that it will be found to possess
nearly all the freshness and clearness of the
finest spring water A palful, containing four
gallons may be purified by a single teaspoon
full.
Am estrayed Northerner writes home
from Virginia that no one from the North
should venture in to that State at present unless
he is prepared to be "waylaid, seized upon and
carried off to houses and stuffed and filled and
put through course of mint julep and butter.
milk, and johnny cake, and fried chicken, and
mush, and old ham and cabbage, and Pow
hatan pipes and reed stems and the finest to-
bacco in the world" Yankees are ku-kluxed
in this way at sight, he says.
- A wonderful invention has been pat
tened in England by the Victoria Printing
Machine Company, in machine which can
turn out, ready for the reader, 1000 copies
of work, containing twenty-four pages
bound together, without any manipulatlve
aid. The machine has cost about $4,000,
and requires no feeding" as it regulates its
own supply, taking in sheet at one end, and
in less than second ejecting it at the other,
printed, and with the pages stitched together,
ready for the booksellers!
- New York is disappointed as to the re-
suit of the late census. She looked for mil
lion and half and had to count in suburban
towns in order to make upa million. Accord
ing to the Times the taxes levied twenty years
ago in New York amounted to but SO 2S per
head of the population; they amount this year
to s31 IS per head. Still more disquieting is
the fact that the ratio of debt per head of the
population has risen from S23 81 in l655, to
Sill 81 in 1875. The outlook just now is any
thing but pleasant to contemplatlve taxpayers.
At West Point, day or two ago, an
attempt by several of the older cadets to
"devil'' Cadet Irwin, Of the fourth class, who
reported in June, did not result so favorably
to the hazing party as they might have wished.
As Irwin was walking his post on guard, at
at about midnight, they attacked him with
the design, it is stated, of rolling him down the
side bank of Fort Clinton. The assaulted ca
det stabbed one of them in the thigh with his
bayonet and clubbed two of them over the
head with his musket. They were carried on
itters to the hospital, and will probably let
that cadet alone in future.
- The fall elections this year, though of
no great Importance intrinsically, will be
watched with interest on account of their
bearing on the Presidential campaign of next