Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-09-16

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- 1t is estimated that Europe to-day has
an army of 100000 of men, at a cost per
annum Of 500, 100000 What tremendous
tax is this upon power and misgovernment of
the world.
= The Graphic Printing Company, of
New York, made proposition to pay the
Internal Revenue Department S25, 100 year
for the exclusive privilege of printing the
two-cent stamps on checks and other docu-
ments. The Commissioner has accepted the
novel proposal.
- Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, recently ap-
pointed as aid-de-camp on his staff boy
thirteen years old and later he has added to
his staff son, aged six months, of George T.
Duff, the assistant secretary of State. The
baby ranks as colonel, and the governor de-
clares that he is more ornamental and fully
as useful as any adult whom he could have
chosen.
-- The steamship Nova Scotia, which ar.
rived at Baltimore last Thursday evening
from Liverpool, brought Foley's bronze statue
of Gen. Thomas j. Jackson, the famous Con-
federate leader 1t was presented to the
State Of Virginia by Hon. Berresford Hope,
NJ. P, and other English gentlemen. The
statue cost $4,000, and will be erected in
the capitol square at Richmond, Va, near
the equestrian statue of Washington.
-- Money is so plentiful in Massachusetts,
that one savings bank at Northampton recent
ly refused to accept deposits on account,
and Springfield bank has had to send mon
ey away for investment. Despite the hard
times, the savings deposits are increasing,
though the deposits are smaller in amount
than usual, evidence thatpeople are becoming
impressed with the necessity of economizing
rigidly.
-- The Duke of Abercorn, Lord-lieuten-
ant Of Ireland, at a speech at an agricultural
fair, the other day, represented the condition
OF Irish industry as most prosperous The
harvest is uniformly abundant, labor is in
high demand, emf migration falling of, and
crime decreasing The investments of the
Irish people in government bonds and banks
now amount to the handsome sum of $780,
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- Years ago. when the middle.aged men
of to-day were boys, Horace Greeley wrote
ut is great source Of consolation to US that
when the public shall be tired of US as an ed
itor, we can make satisfactory livelihood at
setting type or farming, so that, while our
strength lasts, ten thousand blockheads, taking
otfense at some article they do not understand,
could not drive US to the county poor house."
And 80 many man becomes truly indepen.
dent
-- The Atlanta Herald states that Gen.
Joseph E Johnston has been appointed and
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chief of the army of Egypt. Only short
time since, and for the third time, was he
rendered the position. This time it was urg-
ed upon him 50 strenuously that he at length
consented, and is making his preparations
to 90 over and assume his position i'm.
mediately. He is to get 100000 to prepare
himself an outfit, and to receive the sum of
$4,000 annually for having supreme con-
troll of the army of the Khedive of Egypt.
- The New York Tribune says, the gen.
eral impression in that city is that the Til
ton-Beecher suits are at end, at least as far Mr..
Tilton is concerned. One great difficulty
seems to be the want Of money. Some friends
of Mr.. Tilton, a short time after the former
trial, evinced desire to get up a subscription
in his aid, but the project has apparently fal-
len through. 1t is stated that Mr.. Tilton's
counsel feel that they did their duty to their
client by working for him through the first
trial, and they are unwilling to 60 on further
in the matter without compensation. There
has also been a little pickering between some
of the counsel and their client, and this
has caused the counsel to become little luke
warm in the cause. 1t is stated authoritative
ly, that under the present circumstances,
should the matter be brought to trial again,
the former counsel will not act.
- Recently there was wholesale hang
ing at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Six men at the
same time and place expiated their crimes OH
the gallows, in pursu ,nce Of sentence pronoun-
ced at the last term Of the United States
Court. Among them we're three white men,
two Cherokees, and one negro. All were
young men between eighteen and thirty. Most
of them had wives and children. They all
showed nerve and refused to make any con-
fession One said he was as anxious to 60 as
the spectators were to see him go !; another said
he was game, and would die game two said
nothing, aud the remaining two declared that
they were innocent. Five of the six protessed
religion, two becoming Presbyterians, two
Catholics, and one Methodist. Some OF
them were well connected and we'll educated,
and under favorable circumstances would in
all probability have made useful members Of
society but falling under evil influences and
becoming associated with lawless frontier
men, they became highwaymen, horse thieves
and murderers.
- Keely, of motor fame, looms up again
in the letter of a correspondent Of the New
York World, describing visit to the remark
able man and the appearance of his workshop.
1t was strewn with broken models and pieces
of machinery twisted as though Titan had
played with them. Being asked what force
curled up iron in this way, Keely rected the
familiar phrases "latent power in water"
multiplication Of force" q generation of va.
por"-leaving the questioner exactly as wise
as he started. The chiefly interesting part of
the letter is passage containing some bits
of description not previously made public
Keely is forty-fve years old. From boy yhood
he has had an affinity for mechanics. At II
he made steam engine; at ID he made
another; then he became a clerk in drug
store, then locomotive engineer, and then a
gymnast He has been blown into the water
from steamboat, has made two balloon ascen-
sions, lived out West in Minnesota, been ro-
yer, troubadour, restless seeker after some
thing new and strange. With his friends he
displays his spirits like fawn. He will toss
a cigar to the ceiling and catch the right end
in his teeth, fling across the yard weight
that would break the backs of three ordinary
men, vault fence, create devil in his work
shop, and TRANQUILITY toy with him while con-