Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-23
Straps aud fafts.

the Lord at a dollar dozen," was his reply.
- The St. Louis Republican recommends
biennial sessions of the Legislature, and says
Missouri has saved from S150,00O to $500, 900
by prohibiting adjourned sessions and limiting
the Legislature to one session in two years.
More than FIVE million cans of corn are
now packed in Maine annually, and sold in
various parts of the world, giving employment
to from 5000 to 10000 persons during the
packing season.
Preparations are going on in Philadel-
meets there on the 30th instant. The Gov
ernors will 60 on free excursion to the
manufacturing establishments of New Eng
land, after seeing all Philadelphia has to
show.
- 1t is beautiful starry night, and the
Seniors are out singing. First Senior (who
studies astronomy )-"Look up there and see
how beautiful Orion looks" Second Senior,
who does not study astronomy, but who has II
streak of Irish blood-"Is that Organ
Thank the Lord, then there is one lrishman
in heaven anyhow"
i Ross goose laid eggs in Hotts dooryard,
in Cincinnati, and Hott's goose hatched from
them one gosling Who owned the gosling !?
The question was angrily disputed by Ross
and Holt, and they have gone to law about
it. The gosling has grown into a goose and
is worth a dollar at most. The litigation has
already cost two hundred dollars.
Agricultural Commissioner Ledus has two
ideas. One is to save S60,000,00O to the
country by stimulating the production of su-
gar, and the other is to persuade it to rain
over the deserts of the far West by planting
forests there. The Commissioner, however, is
not, by any means, without other ideas more
or less practicable.
Last Saturday, the agents of the Russian
Government, in New York, purchased fully
1000 bales of cotton on the Cotton Ex-
change, at full prices, and it will be exported
to Russia as fast as possible. Since the out
break of the war the transactions in cotton
on Russian account have involved fully 3d.
900 bales, worth about $2,00O,000.
How nearly great men agree on certain
questions, is shown in the opinions expressed
by General Toombs and Foster Blodgett, of
the capacity of the Georgia Constitutional
Convention. Toombs says he can take five
negroes and Foster Blodgett, and make bet
ter Constitution than the Convention will
make whereat Blodgett says he can take five
negroes, without General Toombs, and make
q better one.
- An army officer, stationed at Washington,
is authority for the statement that at no dis
tant day the President will receive petition,
numerously signed by reputable army officers,
requesting that Board of Inquiry be detail.
ed to inquire into and report whether General
Babcock is guilty of the manifold iDiquities
charged against him, and if so, that he may
be court-martialed as unfit to hold his position
as an army officer.
- Civil service reform begins to mean some
thing. The postmaster-general has issued a
card, to be posted conspicuously in postofices,
asking the public to report promptly to the
chief special agent of the postoffce depart
ment at Washington, D. c., all losses of let
tiers and irregularities in the service general
". A circular is addressed to the postmas
tiers at the same time requiring prompt reports
of all losses made to them, and that record
be kept of all complaints.
- An ice machine in Dallas, Texas, just
flushed, produces ice-cakes thirty feet long
and six feet wide, weighing from ten thous-
and to twelve thousand pounds each. They
are formed by freezing fine rain or spray.
When the freezing is done, the bottom and
sides of the cake are thawed loose from the
inclined plane, and the cake slides out upon
platform, where it is cut into pieces six feet
so uare Four cakes day are frozen. The
works cost $4,000.
- The Turks have German at the head of
the central army, an Englshman in COM
mand of the Black Sea fleet, two Prussians
prominent among the engineers, an Egyptian
taking the lead in the artillery department,
and another Englshman handling the caval-
ry. The Russians have five or six German
generals, Polish chief Of staff, two Arme-
mans in command in Asia, and variety of
other foreigners scattered throug their SER
vice.
Barnum warns the public against the
baby elephant born in America, and says
ut is an established geological fact that ele-
plants do not breed in captivity, and there
never was one born this side the Atlantic.
The one advertised by Adam Forepaugh is a
small and inferior Asiatic elephant, exported
from Singapore to Hamburg, and there offer
ed to my agent, who declined to purchase it. "
The great Snowman then cfers 100000 for a
genuine baby elephant Of American origin.
If any of our readers want to make their for
tunes here is fair chance. Don't crowd Mr..
Barnum.
Charles B. Walden, deputy collector of
customs at Richmond, Va, was arrested last
Monday on warrant charging him with EN-.
bezzling $500 of the government funds. He
was admitted to bail by Commissioner Atkins
in $1,000. Upon further investigation by
special treasury agent Aver, it was found
that Vaden's defalcation reached $4,000, and
bail fixed at $4,000, and he was held for that
amount. He says the money was lost gam
bling. COL Aver telegraphed to Norfolk or
dering an increase Of the bail Of several
parties arrested for irregularities in the GUS
tom house of that city.
Mr.. Keely says that he has just about
completed his new machine, which is made of
wrought iron and cast-steel, cost 100000 and
weighs twenty tons. He says that he has OBJ
tanned pressure of II 900 pounds to the inch,
and then stopped because the gauge would
hold he could work his present engine up to
10000 horsepower. 1T is" be told repor-
ter, "a quart machine-that is to say, it uses
only quart of water. With the condenser
that have now nearly complete, I will make
that quart of water produce 1000 horsepower
motion of sufficient duration to run steam
ship across the ocean,"
The State of Texas has magnitude and