Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-05-18
Scraps aud fafts.
~ What a mother lacks in skill she makes
I'D in enthusiasm when she cuts her boy s

of business there quite as much silver now
handled as fractional currency.
i Since the postofice department have EN-;
ployed men to repair mail-bags, instead OF
paying the contractors for so doing, it has
saved in six months $33, ,386.40. ." .:.'''.-
The crop prospect for small grain in
Georgia is scheering. Larger areas are plan
ted in wheat, oats, rye and barley than hereto
fore. There will be more corn and less cot.
ton this year. ... .,.
In Germany the telegraph wires are
in future to be carried on underground in
stead of being supported by posts. The, ob.
iect of this change is to prevent interruption
of communication which regularly follows a
great storm. .... .,s,......
Col. T. j. Smith, of Washington county,
Georgia, master of the State Grange, has thir-
teen hundred acres in corn, thirteen hundred
in cotton, and five hundred in oats. He ex-
poets to make FIVE hundred bales of cotton
and twelve thousand bushels of corn. .t
The company publishing Beecher's Chris.
tian Union, after hard struggle with de.
clining fortunes, the past two years, has had
to give up and 90 into bankruptcy A new
company has been formed to carry on the pa
per, whose circulation has declined from 1885,
600 to $4,000, within less than two years:
A merchant of jackson, Tenn, asked two
friends to keep store for him while he went
of while. During his absence, each sold
the other large lot of goods cheap for credit.
The merchant considered it joke, but they
claimed to be his agents, and now the courts
will have to decide the matter. ..-...
"A paper company Of Holyoke, Mass, has
manufactured an immense ream Of paper for
the Centennial The sheets are 6 by 1S feet,
the ream weighs about a ton. The value of
the 4S0 sheets is $1,000, and if cut into ordi-
nary sheets of note paper they would make
100000 sheets. -...'.'.-. ....,.
Most of the negroes of Georgetown, Tex
as, to whom sharper gave the first three de-
grees of ee-Masonry, are getting better, and,
according to the Austin Statesman, can now
sit about on the stumps and curbstones. The
letter IN" that was branded on them is large
enough to be seen hundred yards distant.
"A startling account of the prevalence Of
the crime Of incendiarism was given in the
convention of the underwriters in New York,
on Thursday. The committee on the subject
reported that thirty five per cent of the whole
amount of property destroyed by fire was
through incendiarism, or, in other words, that
the losses by this crime for the year, in the
United States and Canada, ran up to fifty mil
lions of dollars.
The original Masonic apron worn by Gen.
Washington has been presented to the histori-
cal department of the Centennial. 1t was
given by Bushrod Washington, the Generals
favorite nephew and executor, to Governor
Smith, of North Carolina, and 5y him be-
queathed to Dr. Clitherall, whose son, DIR.
Clitherall, now deposits it in the above named
department. It is of white satin, with appro-
pirate emblems. So the Philadelphia papers
say.
"A book agent, who has retired from &C.
tive labor upon the hard. earned accumulation
of a life of industrious cheek, says that the
great secret of his success was when he went
to house where the female head of the fam.
ly presented herself, he always opened by
saying, 81 beg your pardon, Miss, but it was
your mother I wanted to see.' That always
used to get 'em. They not only subscribed
for my books themselves, but told me where
I could find more customers.
"A Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,, judge recent
ly gave curious decision in case ofsabbath
breaking. An Israelite was brought before
him charged with violating the Sabbath by
fishing. The accused pleaded that his Sab
bath was Saturday, which he always religious
ly observed The judge fined him small
amount, on the ground that while the statutes
of the State permitted him to transact his reg
lar business on the Christian Sabbath, they
did not authorize him to 60 a-fshing on that
day.
The Indians of Florida number about
500. There are more Mickasukis than Sem
inoles. They inhabit the islands of the Ever.
glades, and are believed to hold a few negroes
in bondage. TheSeminoles keep aloof from
the others, and elect Tustanugee or war
chief, every four years. OLD II ger-Tail is
the recognized head of the outside band.
They make pets of their pigs, and the pork
ers follow them like dogs They use sails in
their canoes, and tie blue ribbons around the
necks of their hogs.
There are some pious editors after ALL
The New York Graphic says that Reid, Of
the Tribune, and Prime, of the Journal Of
Commerce, are Presbyterians. Marble, Of the
World, was brought up as a Baptist, and at
one time it was thought he would be preach
er. Hastings, of the Commercial advertiser, is
Roman Catholic, and 50 is Bennett Canont,
of Harper's Weekly is son of a Baptist min
lister, and he has never gone back on the old
gentleman's teachings G. W. Curtis reads
the service in little church on Staten Island,
and Bonner is one Of the strong men of Halls
congregation. W. c. Bryant is President of
the American Unitarian Association, and one
of the Herald staff is Methodist.
Assurance has been given by Dr. Linder-
man, director of the mint, that there need be
no apprehension Of scarcity of silver coin, as
there has been issued but $1,500,000 under
the substitution provision ofthe statute, while
the Treasury Department has on hand about
fourteen million, and the mint coinage will
supply from 81 500, 900 to 100000 month.
With the passage Of additional enactments
now pending in Congress, looking to the ex-
change of legal.tender notes for silver, the
whole silver reserve may be available. An
other plan for preventing dearth OF small
change is also pending, looking TO the issue of
about ten million more small notes.
There is possibility that after March 4,
1877, the Democrats may have majority in
theSenate. On that date the terms Of twenty
six senators expire, and of this number seven
teen are Republicans and nine Democrats. If
the latter can replace the retiring Democrat
ic senators with others of the same party, and
can gain six or seven senators out Of the sew
enteen which must be elected to succeed the re-
retiring Republicans, they will have a COM
L xla hadu In nnnstinn