Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-02
Straps aud fafts.

either peace will be signed, or all Europe will
be in arms before the lst of September.
1t is estimated that ten million of dollars
will not more than repair the damages done
by the strikers.
"A gentleman who has taken note of such
things, has carefully estimated that the work
ing classes of the United States have, during
the last four years, lost $500, 100000 by en-
gaging in strikes.
General Forrest recently had reunion
of the men who formed his escort during the
war. He was physically prostrated; said he
did not expect to live long, and hoped to meet
them in heaven.
The New York Democrats have never
been more confident. They not only mani
fest the most positive faith that they will elect
their general ticket this fall by large ma ajor-
ity, but they expect to get good working
majority in both branches of the Legislature.
Walking thousand miles in thousand
hours having been repeatedly done in Eng
land, is now looked upon as slow. A pedes.
trian named Gale now proposes to walk four
thousand quarters of mile in four thousand
consecutive periods of ten minutes each.
The New York Financial Chronicle says
that the low price of cotton and cotton fab.
RIGS bave so increased the consumption of the
staple, that the mills are unable to meet the
demand. This condition of things is likely
to continue, unless prices be run up to point
which shall check consumption.
Planters in Mississippi, according to the
St. Louis papers, are trying to obtain farm Ia
borers from the cities. They want them from
October to January, picking cotton, and will
pay $3.50 per day. White labor is scarce,
and landowners are anxious for immigration
into the State.
"A young man who is evidently without
pride of ancestry or hope of posterity, is con-
structing raft on which he expects next
month to ride over Niagara Falls. The raft
is being constructed on scientific principles,
but no doubt the young man will be drowned
in the common way.
The mother of Ex-Governor Chamber
lain, who lives at West Brook6eld, Mass,
had severe shock of paralysis last WedDes-
day. Her daughter, Mrs. S. N. White, after
visiting her on Thursday, while returning
home, was thrown from her carriage and had
her arm broken in two places.
Alta meeting of colored Republicans, held
in Alexandria, Va, resolution was adopted
that the legislative bodies of the United
States of America, Congress included, have
devoted too much time to wide-mouthed pro-
fessions about the happiness and prosperity Of
the dear people, and too little to the accom-
plishment of the object of their professions.
DIR. Erasmus Wilson, the first authority
in England on cutaneous disorders, has been
investigating the number of hairs in square
inch of the human head, and estimates that it
contains, on an average, about 1866. Taking
the superficial area of the head at 12O square
inches, this gives about 1920 hairs for the
entire head.
There is nothing more cruel in the histo-
ry of politics than the way Grant has gone
back on his sore-head friends at home. just
as they were organizing grand anti-Hayes
and pro Grant party for 1880, he writes home
from England that he is frst-class Hayes
man, believes in his policy and applauds his
undertakings.
- The King of Dahomey has resolved upon
a grand sacrifice of FIVE hundred human
beings by way of thank Offering for an end
of his trouble with the British. If the King
of Dahomey had been good political econ
omist he would have sacrificed the five hun
dred before the trouble was ended, by setting
them fighting with the Queens troops.
- The fun now in the White Mountains is
snowballing. Within view of one of the ho.
tells is a big snowdrift, which is piled up on
one side of Mount Jefferson. Unless the sum-
mer should prove unusually hot, the greater
of nil ohoho hou o,lio in fho
sun all the season. The drift is about 500
feet in length, 175 feet in breadth, and when
sounded last week was fourteen feet in depth.
The number of men employed by the
great Trunk lines are as follows, and from
them some notion of the vastness of the strike
may be gathered. The New York Central
and Hudson River employs $4,000 men the
Lake Shore and Michigan Central, 10000;
The Erie, 15,500; the Baltimore and Ohio
main and leased lines, 10000; and the Penn
syvania with its leaseholds, 27,500.
A promise should be given with caution
and kept with care. A promise should be
head. A promise is the offspring of the in-
tention, and should be nurtured by recollec-
ton. A promise and its performance should,
like true balance, always present natural
adjustment A promise delayed is justice de-
ferred. A promise neglected is an untruth
told. A promise attended to is debt settled
The National Republican, the administra-
tion organ at Washington, speaking of the
railroad strikes, has the following to say of
the South: "One happy circumstance con-
nected with the present troubles of the nation
is the patriotic spirit which has been display
ed in the South. If it should become neces
sary for the President to call for volunteers to
suppress the present disorders, the men who
lately wore the gray would respond with no
less alacrity than those who wore the blue"
"A recent history of American uniforms
brings to light the fact that the gray of the
Southern Confederacy, was the regulation
dress of the American armies which fought
at Chippewa and Niagara in 1872, and was
adopted at West Point in commemoratiou of
those victories. 1t is still quite extensively
worn by Northern regiments, and is the pre-
vailing color in all military schools, and for
economy and quietness is doubtless prefera-
BILE to the blue.
The King of Gaboon, the oldest native
Prince on the African coast, died about the
beginning of May at the advanced age of 100
years, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Andaunte, who at once broke up his fathers
harem and cashiered the women to the num-
Der of 120, liberated all the deceased kings
slaves and abolished the sacrifice of human
beings at religious rites. He also informed
the traders on the Gaboon river that he will
take immediate steps to facilitate and open up