Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-30


for Governor and Lieut. Governor. The
Hamm and Eggs ticket ought to take in these
times.
The railroad system at Searcy, White
county, Arkansas, consists of four miles OF
wooden rails laid on natural road bed. The
equipment is one working car; ths working
force is one man; the motive power is one
mule, and the fare from the outside world to
Searcy is 81. There was no strike on the
Searcy Railroad.
The publishers of Summers Life and
Speeches complain that there is little or no
sale for the books. Many Republicans for.
sook Sumner when he refused to swallow
Grant & Co. Many other people have lost
all interest in him since contemplating the
evil he has brought upon the country by his
negromana And yet Mr.. Sumner was man
Of very remarkable talent and industry.
The appropriation of the Georgia Legis-
lature not being adequate, by the sum of $780,
600, to defray the expenses of the late consti.
tutional convention, Gen. Toombs advanced
that amount from his own private purse, or
pocket, or safe, or whatever receptacle IN
which he keeps his spare change. Such men
are handy to have about when appropriations
fall short
Only few months ago there were IA
companies of artillery and one regiment and
nine companies of infantry in the Depart.
ment of the South, composed of the States of
North and South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida and Tennessee. Now there are only
six companies of artillery and two of infantry.
In the Department of the Gulf, composed
of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Ala
bama, portions of Tennessee and Kentucky,
there were three regiments of infantry in
March last. Now there are only two com.
panies. And yet everywhere in the South
law and order reign supreme.
Last Friday, as the train was leaving
Pensacola, Florida, the sheriff, with a posse,
boarded the cars to assist two Texan officers
to arrest the notorious John Wesley Harden,
who is said to have committed twenty.seven
murders and for whose body $4,000 reward
has been offered by an act of the legislature
of Texas. His last murder in Texas was the
killing of the sheriff of Comanche county.
He has lived in Florida for several years as
John Swain. Being related to the county off,
GERS, he has escaped arrest. About twenty
shots were fired in making the arrest. Har-
denis companion, named Mann, who had a
pistol in his hand, was killed.
A New York letter says: "Advices from
India report steady increase in the cotton
manufacturing interests of that country, and
more machinery is being made at the present
time, and has been, for year or more past,
for that far-off land, than for America or any
European city. Indeed, the mills of Man
chester, England, and Lowell, Massachusetts,
could find active employment to-day in India,
whereas they now stand, for the most OF the
time, idle. In the vicinity of Bombay, where
there was once but two cotton manufactures,
there are now about forty, and the progress
is onward. 1t is here we have the solution of
the reiterated cables during the past year or
eighteen months of dull and depressed
trade in the English cotton manufacturing
districts. England has lost her grip upon
her hitherto lucrative India trade, and India
is manufacturing for herself. 1t is a revolu-
ton in trade, and the same revolution is being
every month more and more felt in our own
Eastern manufactures. Where these once
had an immensely profitable business with the
South, they now have next to no business,
because of the South steadily building its
own factories"
Governor Wade Hampton has said many
remove any doubts of his entire loyalty and
of the loyalty Of his followers, but he has fire.
9uently been suspected Every unjustly) of
speaking from motives of self-interest words
which he did not mean and which his friends
could not endorse. He is now the Governor
of South Carolina, and under no pressure to
speak otherwise than he feels, and he recently
responded to serenade at the White Sulphur
Springs, Virginia, where the surroundings
were calculated to arouse any lingering trace
of "rebew sentiments that he might have in
him, but his words were as bravely patriotic
as ever He said that he was willing to pledge
the people of the North that those Of South
Carolina would prove as brave, honest and
loyal in defence of the government and Con-
stitution of the United States as sny people of
this Republic, and he explained that when he
spoke of the Constitution he meant "all of
the amendments and all that they implied"
There will be small room for msunderstand-
ings between North and South when all the
Southern leaders follow Wade Hampton in
speaking out in as clear and emphatic style
as that.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The boring of an artesian we'll has led to
some interesting geological discoveries in the
strata beneath the city of Sacramento, Cali
fornia. After passing through strata of loose
sand, gravel, clay, boulders, &C., the tools, at
depth of eight hundred and eightysix feet,
struck soapstone, then passed into cemented
sand, and at 1000 feet struck wood, which
was met with at intervals until depth of
1,lOS feet was reached. The wood is black,
but in good state of preservation, looks like
pine or redwood, and remains solid after ex-
posure to the air. Soapstone followed the
cemented sand and was in turn followed by
cemented sand at depth of 1850 feet, and
the boring tools have been in that substance
ever since. The tubing is full of water to
within about fifty feet of the surface of the
ground. About the time depth of 1915
feet was attained, gas commenced bubbling up
through the water, and one night when can
die was lowered down to look at the water,
there was quite little explosion. The hole
in the tubing was covered over at the top,
leaving an opening in the centre through
which piece of halfinch gas pipe was pass
ed. The gas escaping through this pipe was
ignited and bazed up to height of q feet,
burning with blush fame, but neither
when burning nor otherwise, did it emit any
odor. The next morning the gas would not
ignite, but that afternoon it burned freely
again. Wood has been found at several
depths besides that mentioned above, the low
est being 1920 feet, when some of the pieces
taken out had a coating of cemented sand,
II. bot tIo et;oL of r. her from which