Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-26
Straps and fatts.

Flipper, the colored West Point gradu-
ate, has been ordered to Fort Brady, Michi-
gan, to take charge Of that post.
-"Give me liberty, or give me breath" is
what Georgia girl remarked to her lover
few evenings since.
The colored Baptists of Louisiana, num-
bering 10000 voters, bave, in convention, en-
dorsed President Hayes.
- The Georgia Constitutional Convention
is in session. A proposition has been intro
duced to reduce the homestead exemption in
that State, from $4,000 to $500.
"A special dispatch to the Galveston Ne.0s
says COL Brice has arrested Gen. Escabado
and staff, about to cross the Rio Grande in
the interest Of Lerdo.
Mr.. John G. Thompson, sergeant-at-arms
of the House of Representatives predicts that
Ohio will give 10000 Democratic majority in
October.
The exiled Modocs are living peacefully
on their reservation in Kansas, and occasion
ally turn penny by selling bows, arrows and
Indian notions to the whites.
1t is reported that cotton worms have
appeared in considerable number at different
points in the counties of Brazos, Colorado,
Gaudaloupe, Nueces and Trinity River, Tex
as.
Several travelling circuses this year pay
no wages to ordinary laborers. Work is so
scarce that men are willing to engage for
their board alone, the privilege Of travel be-
ing also an incentive.
There are 10000 houses to let in Phila-
delphia, and real estate dealer predicts that
before cold weather sets in the number will
be increased to $4,000, in consequence of the
doubling up of families.
The Norristown Herald says Montgom-
cry county postmaster declined to purchase
a photograph of Hayes because the recent
order of the President doesn't permit him to
meddle with politics.
Out of twsnty-one States that will hold
elections next fall, the republicans are GER
tain of only FIVE. Thirteen are Democratic,
or doubtful, with chances favoring the Demo.
Gratis.
TO cure collie in horses or mules, give q
tablespoonful of pulverized nux vomica in
pint of whiskey or any spirits Relief will
follow in half hour or even sooner. If not
relieved repeat the dose, but the second is
rarely necessary.
There is most interesting widow in that
appropriately named town, Hazardville, Con.
necticut. This lady has lost five husbands by
powder.mill explosions. Is she alarmed? Is
she discouraged? Not at all. She is about
to be Joined to the sixth, and he is powder
miller, also!
"A sudden draught of hot air is reported
to have passed through a cotton field and
peach orchard in Western Texas, few days
ago, scorching and killing every green thing
it touched for a space of one hundred and
forty yards wide and four hundred yards
long.
-Flipper, the colored West Point graduate,
addressed an enthusiastic concourse Of colored
people and school marms in Atlanta the 9TH
er night He expresses himself we'll pleased
with his treatment at West Point, and is sat-
isfied that he will be received with courtesy
in the army.
The Southern gold mines are rising again
to prominence, the product of North Caroli-
ma for the fiscal year 1855 amounting to
$1O,3350OO, that of Georgia to $7,379,000,
and that of South Carolina to S1,381, 900,
total of s19,O96,O0O. The product for the
year Just closed is supposed to be much great
er. Eleven stamp-mills are now running
near Dahlonega, Ga, and Boston capital is
the dominant interest.
General Fields, who has been in the
Egyptian military service for several years,
with other distinguished American officers,
announces in his last letter that the Khedve
has discharged all of the American officers in
his service, and he is now on his way home
The disagreement grew out of some cOmpli-
cations arising from the position Of the Egyp-
tian Government towards the Eastern powers
now at war.
1t is announced in Washington, that
South Carolina Republicans, lately from
Charleston, express the opinion that there
will be no further contest at present by the
Republicans in this State, and the propriety
of assembling the Republican Executive Com
mittee and formally dsbanding the party or
ganization is now under consideration. The
Columbia Register suggests "that forthcoming
developments will create numerous vacancies
in the Republican State Committee, by rea-
son of the enforced and voluntary absence Of
q quorum from active life in South Carolina"
Americans are apt to be scandalized in
Europe by the field labor of women, but we
learn from the statements of the special agri
cultural correspondent of the Edinburgh
Scotsman that in this country, also, women are
similarly employed. Writing from the great
settlement in Kansas he says: "The majority
of those who have settled here within the past
two years are Russians; and, being working
people without capital, they have reduced the
cost of labor greatly. They break prairie and
plough land at 5 shillings or shillings per
acre, which used to cost II shillings or IA
shlliDgs, and for days work Russian women
charge only 25 cents, or l shilling, and ex-
cellent workers they are"
William Penn soresaw, nearly two hun
dred years ago, the possibility of early de-
struction to our timber trees, and insisted on
five acres out of every hundred being allowed
to stand, and he especially desired that the
oak and the mulberry should be preserved.
Prof. Rothrock says that France requires
that thirty-two per cent. of her area should be
in timber, but that in the United States our
proportion of timber land to area has been
already reduced to twenty-five per cent.
More than ten thousand square miles of tim
ber are destroyed each year. The law of
Sweden requires that for ever tree cut down
two shall be planted by the tree destroyer.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has again affirmed its decisions heretofore
made, that National banks are subject to State
legislation, excepting where such legislation
is in conflict with the laws of Congress, or
where it tends to impair or destroy the utility
of such banks as agents or instrumentalities Of