Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-01
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spectacle of man poulticing his wife's throat
for the purpose of restoring her voice.
- Reports from Arkansas are that "the
white and colored people are all busy with
crops, and no violence of any sort is heard of.
In fact the State has never been 50 free from
all disturbance as now"
-- The value of the cattle stolen from Tex
as since January is estimated at upwards of
100000. This is, indeed, theft on a large
scale. Should it continue, cattle.raising in
Texas will prove an Improbable business
"A Newark girl hastened the departure
Of lingering gentleman caller the other
evening by remaking as she looked out of the
window, "I think we shall have beautiful
sun RISE"
- Holland has 10000 wind mills in ope.
ration, each doing six or ten-horse power
service through the twenty four hours. They
are kept up at an annual cost of $4,000, 900,
and perform all the services required of steam
engines at one-twenteth the cost.
- A committee of three, appointed by
enterprising parties who have suffered loss by
the destruction Of their property in the Black
Hills by the military, have brought suit at
Omaha against the government officers who
destroyed it. The damages claimed are s22,-
900.
-- In Chicago they are discussing the
ques ton Of reducing the daily sessions in
the public schools from six hours to three,
many able men strongly advocating it. They
hold that three hours in the school room are
tax enough on the physical endurance of chill
dren.
- A thorough exploration is soon to be
made in India ofanother mammoth cave that
has just been discovered there. Two persons
who discovered the cave went down distance
of seventy feet on an incline of thirty feet, and
found themselves in chamber eighty by one
hundred and fifty feet in area and one hum
dred high.
-- "When 1 married" said x.Chancellor
of the Exchequer Lowe, at London dinner
party, l declared, "With all my worldly goods
I thee endow," although hadn't shilling
in the world. "But," chimed in the wife,
"you had your splendid talents" "Yes my
dear; butyou knowI didn't endow you with
them," was the right honorable gentleman's s
reply.
-- The San Antonio (Texas) Herald gives
the following notice to its subscribers: "Here-
after we shall publish the list of names of
those who 60 fishing on the Lords day and
fail to send US string of trout. Perch and
suckers have too many bones in them to allow
US to forget that the moral element of our
population look to the press to eradicate this
growing desecration of the Sabbath.
- One of the propretors of the alpaca fac
tory in Chautauqua county New York, having
been presented with fine pair of Angora
goats, attempted the remarkable feat of taking
the heeces from their backs and making a
fashionable dress of the wool between sun and
sun. Operations were commenced at sun
rise, and at an early hour in the afternoon the
goods were ready for the dressmakers. Four
ladies then made the dress complete in every
particular, and it was ready for wearing by
sunset.
-- The London Lancet recommends new
remedy for coughs, viz, resistance of the de.
sire to cough until the phlegm has accumula-
ted in large quantities, when there will be
something to cough against, and the phlegm
may be brought up with much less effort.
The Lancet says that great deal Of the
hacking, hemming and coughing in invalids
is purely nervous or the effect Of habit, and
that an exercise of will is needed to pre-
vent the wasteful exercise of power in clear
ing of the throat. Experiments in hospitals
l.-~- IL tl-:- ~ L. 49,
- Herr D0ppe of Berlin, professor Of
music, has invented curious method Of learn.
ing to play pianofnrte. He raises piano, by
means of wooden blocks placed under the legs,
to such height that when the player sits on an
ordinary music stool, he has to hold his hands
on level with his eyes in order to reach the
keys. Herr D6ppe thinks this is the true po.
sition in which to cultivate and acquire
strength and delicacy of touch. He has
many pupils, and some Americans studying
under his direction write from Berlin that
he has found the very secret of Liszt's wonder,
full power on the piano.
- The reception accorded to the Sultan
of Zanzibar on his recent arrival in London
would seem to indicate that the English have
become surfeited with halfcivilized monarchs.
Had hecome before the Sultan of Turkey and
the Shah of Persia he might have made a
great excitement. 1t appears he is not exact
Iy a Sultan. His proper title is "seyyid,'
which means Lord-a higher title than Sui.
tan, it is averred. The belief that he was a
negro-Englishmen say nigger-fast fixed in
the British mind, has been dispelled by a sight
of him. He is an Arab and rules his negro
subjects by right of conquest, or, as he ex.
pressed it when asked what settled the right
of succession among the sons of his father,
"the longest sword
- Jennie June says the days Of fifty dol
lar bonnets are numbered. Not much longer
will there be found idiots among women who
will pay the amount for an article which the
first shower spoils, and of which the fashion
changes every month. For long time the
question has been asked, why cannot women
have their hats for ordinary purposes finish.
ed and made ready for wear by the manufac
turers like those of men? That question has
been answered in part at least by the ladies
Panama" This hat can now be obtained
neatly bound, finished upon the inside with
leather like those of men, and trimmed with a
band and bow of broad black, blue, or brown
ribbon. Hats and bonnets will be furnished to
women and girls for ordinary wear, in the
same way, and without any more expense or
trouble than they are supplied to men and
boys. There is still hope for the millennium
- II was Col. William Thomas Cutler of
Wilmington, North Carolina, who was indig-
nant. What he was indignant about it is a
little hard to discover, but believing, as we
DO, in free speech and unlimited spelling. we
could hardly refuse to print brief abstract
of his remarks. He said he was con hand at
the meeting of de Fourth Ward when Reve'
rend Parson Banks presided, after he was bout