Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-05-04
Straps aud fafts.

Union League met at Phlladelphla on FRIDAY
last. The secretarys report states that there
is a united movement to abandon secrecy, and
he claims that this new departure meets uni
versal approval in the South and West.
"A terrible story is told in the Moscow
Gazette of party who were travelling on
sledges, not very far from the city of Moscow.
A troop of wolves attacked them, and only
one person out of twenty four succeeded in
making his escape, all the rest being torn to
pieces.
- The emigration of negroes from middle
Tennessee is beginning to attract attention.
An emigration board, appointed by the COL
ored mems convention, held in Nashville last
year, is actively at work organizing. Three
hundred left Nashville last week for western
Arkansas, and two thousand are expected to
depart during the next thirty days.
- Toombs has given to patent medicine
man certificate that the nostrum has cured
him of ian obstinate affection of the throat"
Whereupon the Lynchburg Ne'us asserts that
the vender of the medicine ought to be indict'
ed as public nuisance "Anybody," it says,
"who will aid in strengthening the voice of
Bob Toombs, is no true friend Of the South"
A train was carrying clergyman and
five or six youths, who kept scoffng at religion
and telling disagreable stories. The good
man endured it all, simply remarking as ne
got out: ave shall meet again, my children"
"Why shall We meet again ?" said the leader
of the band. because am prison chap
lain" was the reply.
The Danville, Va, Express mentions that
there is widow lady living in one OF the ad-
Joining counties of North Carolina, whose
husband was a Confederate soldier, and who,
during the war, was in prison at Elmira, N.
Y, where he died. This lady, since the close
of the war, has received regularly every year
the check of A. T. Stewart, the deceased mil
lionaire, in the sum of $50. Why, she has
never known. The lady is in dependent cir
cumstances, and she now fears that her an
nual donation will cease.
One of Mr.. Stewards last business acts
was the personal supervision Of an advertise.
ment for the newspapers. DE never found
he was doing as much business as he cared to
d." and never committed the folly of throw
ing away money on circulars and cheap job
work, reaching a few hundred persons who
never read them. He believed in newspaper
advertising, and readers by the thousand and,
strangely enough, never reached the point Of
imagining himself and his great establishment
so we'll known that advertising was unneces-
sary.
- The independent voter is an Individual
whom neither party can afford to ignore, and
the consciousness of this is growing in the West
A striking instance of his influence in politics
was afforded by the Chicago city election last
Tuesday. The regular republican ticket was
elected by majority of 5000, except the
candidate for city treasurer, who was defeated
by nearly that many. The reason was that
the republican candidate was unfit, while the
democratic candidate for that Office was one
of the best men in the city. The Independent
voter in this case numbered 10000 in the
difference he made when he chose to assert
himself
Curious people are anxious to know how
Moody and Sankey pay their washing bills,
and whence comes their subsistence. A New
York paper explains that Mr.. Moody is con-
stantly receiving from friends in this country
and in Europe, thank offerings in the shape of
money given out of gratitude by persons who
believe they have been benefited by Mr..
Moody's teaching. The secret of how much
he receives in this way is his own, and it is to
be presumed he will keepit. The New York
paper in question makes the guess that his in
come during the last year has not been less
than the incomes of popular metropolitan
preachers.
The great steam engine at the Centennial
weighs 800 tons will drive eight miles Of
shafting has fy-wheel 30 feet in diameter
and weighing 70 tons; is of 1, 400 horsepower,
with capacity of being forced to $500 horse
power; has two walking-beams, weighing ~
tons each; two 40-inch cylinders, a 1O-foot
stroke, crank shaft 19 inches in diameter
and - feet in length connecting-rods "a feet
in length and piston.rods Al inches in diane
ter. The platform upon which it rests is %
feet in diameter, and composed Of polished
iron plates resting upon brick foundations
that extend far down into the earth. The
height from the floor to the top of the walk
ing beam is 80 feet.
"A cigar-shaped submerged torpedo, pro-,
PEELED and exploded by electricity from on
shore, was tested satisfactorily in the Potomac
river last Saturday. 1t is an iron boat about
twenty feet long and three in diameter, and
contains motive power sufficient to drive 1t
two miles, The machinery is controlled by
an electric battery, to which the operator
communicates through wire which rolls from
q reel as the boat moves. The operator is
able. at will, to turn the boat in any direction,
stop or back it, or fire the charge which blows
the boat to atoms, and must certainly destroy
the strongest ship ahoat. 1t moves under wa
ter at such depth that no shot can reach it,
and travels faster than the swiftest steamer.
Officers of the navy who are familiar with this
implement of warfare, say harbor protected
by it need fear no enemy.
"A Washington letter says: "Much incon-
venience is already experienced by merchants,
hotel keepers and others, and especially by
small dealers, owing to the scarcity Of frac.
tional currency, much of the latter having
been exchanged for small silver coin within
the past two or three days. Persons in New
York and other large cities, have been disap-
pointed in not receiving fractional currency
heretofore promptly furnished, as fractional
currency redeemed in silver is not now reissu-
able Members of Congress are already dis
cussing the question as to the future Of small
change. Some of them are of opinion that
both fractional currency and small silver coin
will soon become a matter Of speculation in
the hands of brokers, and that the need of
the usual supplies of fractional parts of a
dollar will become 50 pressing that Congress,
before its close, will be compelled to pass a
law to relieve such pressure by restoring the
issue of fractional currency"
1t was only year ago, thoug gh it seems so