Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-27
Straps and fafts.

five hundred hogsheads of wine on board. 1t
is intended to take twelve months voyage,
the object being to improve the wine by
passage through the tropics.
At meeting of the Grand Lodge of the
United States, of Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, recently held at Baltimore, propo.
sition to change the name of the body to the
Supreme Lodge, l. o. O. F., was lost by yeas
"a, nays 6l-not two-thirds vote, as re-
quired by the constitution.
- Henceforrh, no man need labor through
life under the burden of an ill-shaped nose.
A London philanthropist advertises ''nose
machine" which, "applied to the nose for an
hour daily, so directs the soft cartilage of
which the member consists, that an Informed
nose is quickly shaped to perfection"
- The demand for boots and shoes is taxing
the capacity of the New England manufac-
tories to the utmost. Some of the large buy
ers are already in the market replenishing
their stocks, and advices from all points at
the South and West indicate very consider
able increase of business.
The adjustment of damages caused by the
strikers at Pittsburg, is said to be as follows:
Railroad company, $1,500,000; freight de-
stroyed, 100000; elevator, $3.50, 900; Key
stone Hotel Company; 100000; Pullman
Car Company, $80,000; private individuals,
100000; total, $2,930O00.
The lynching of two negroes, the other
day, in Iowa and Illinois, Republican States,
leads the Courier-Journal grimly to remark
that neither white nor colored men are any
longer safe outside of the Southern States.
If the troops are not too busy in Pennsylva.
MIA, let them be sent at once into Iowa and
Illinois, not to mention Ohio"
Governor Hampton and President Hayes
both made speeches in Louisville, Kentucky,
recently. Hayes complimented Hampton and
Hampton complimented Hayes-in fact,
Hamp mpton fully endorsed and approved Hayes
administration to which the Charlotte, N.
c., Democrat pertinently asks: "Now, how is
it that some people can praise Governor
Hampton as the very essence of prudence
and propriety, and at the same time keep
up constant abuse of President Hayes?"
A terrific cyclone visited Galveston, Tex
as, and vicinity, last week, inhicting damage
to property estimated as follows: The govern
ment works in Bolivar channel, including
portion of fleet, $4,000. Galveston, Hous.
ton and Henderson railroad, loss of track
and bridge, $2O,O00 Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad, loss of track and bridge,
$4,000. Cotton presses $lS,5OO. Com
pleted buildings in the city, $4,000. Bath
houses on beach, $500. Twenty school
schooners capsized, loss $4,000. Private
buildings and property, $4,000.
Brigham Young's death was under dis.
cussion at an English dinner-party when
young lady rather startled the guests by ad-
vancing bold proposition that the principles
of Mormonism should for the future be re-
versed. "The times" she said, "are so bad,
and fashions so expensive, that it is absurd
for one man to have four or FIVE wives
whereas, if each woman had four or five hus-
bands, see how much cheaper it would be for
each husband and" "-the point which seemed
most to commend itself to her-"how much
better wives could Dress"
- The proposition to admit women to a
voice in the election of vestrymen, appears to
have met with no favor in the Illinois Episco-
pal Convention last week, the subject having
been ordered to lie on the table indefinitely.
The fair sex in the church in that State is
thereby relegated to what Mr. Canon Knowles
spoke of as that "lovely obscurity which the
true soul alone could appreciate" and to the
congenal occupation of "rearing babies for
the glory of God" If the ladies should ever
have vote, and Canon Knowles should ever
be candidate for Bishop, he'll be sorry he
made that speech.
- At the reunion Of the Federal soldiers
at Marietta, Ohio, the principal feature was
the presentation of gold medal to Major
Thomas G. Jones, of Montgomery, Ala, for
merly on the staff of Gen. Gordon. This me-
dal is the gift of Massachusetts soldiers in
honor of Major Jones remarks on the Union
dead on decoration day in Alabama. The
presentation speech was made by Gen. Will.
liam P. Richardson, who commanded Fed.
eral brigade, and lost an arm at the battle
of Port Republic. He is a native of Shenan-
doah county, Va. Major Jones' speech was
in excellent taste, and excited great enthusi-
asm.
- Gov Wade Hamptons speech at Rock
ford ILL.,, has caused great sensation and
adds another woe to Jim Baines burden.
The Missouri Republican says: whether
Southern influence in national politics is
thing to be desired or deplored, it is thing
not likely to be prevented. There is no
resisting the grand patriotism of the Rockford
speech. Hampton is coming to be recognized
as man to be proud Of in the North as we'll
as the South-in Illinois as we'll as South
Carolina. There are Northern orators who
can play on special Northern feelings better
than he; but there is mo northern man who
can elicit more hearty response from the old
American spirit
- With what severity the famine in India
is pressing upon the natives it is happily i'm
possible for Americans to imagine, A native
Hindoo, who signs himself "Dharwar," de-
scribes some of the scenes Of suffering, Incl
dent to the calamity, in letter to the Times
of India He speaks in his letter of people
eating seeds of the bamboo and tamarind
and the leaves Of forest trees, baited with a
little salt and eaten with coarse bread, three
parts of which are dust and chaff In one of
the towns, says the correspondent, the poor
people lick the patravalees, the leaves from
which the others have eaten their food, de-
YOUR mapnopeels and rotten fruits cast into
the gutter, and dispute the garbage of the city
with its dogs.
"A Chattanooga, Tenn, dispatch ofthe 23rd,
gives the following gloomy account of the
effect of a freshet in the Black Warrior val
ley: The abundant crops cf cotton, corn and
fodder, in the valley of the Black Warrior,
Alabama, have been entirely swept away.
The river suddenl rose sixty.three feet,
which is within two feet of as high as it was
in the terrible freshet of June, 1872 The
planters in that vicinity had just commenced
picking cotton and had not hauled the corn
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