Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-06-14
Sfraps aud fafts.


to the custodians of Charlie Ross.
Ex!Treasurer Spinner is the most success
full fisherman in Florida. The secret of his
success is said to lie in the fact that he uses
his autograph for bait, and the fish imagine it
is new kind of worm.
JEFF. Davis is now residing at Beauvoir,
on the Gulf coast of Mississippi, between Mo-
bile and New Orleans, preparing his me-.
moirs. He is in excellent health, and looks
younger than he did few years ago.
Henry Ward Beecher says: "With re-
turn to specie payments, with the Southern
question, expunged from politics, with a re-
awakening industry, the future looks brighter
than it has done for twenty-five years"
"A Washington despatch says the daily
acquisitions upon the Third Assistant Post.
master General for postage stamps and
stamped envelopes lately show steady in
crease, indicative of marked revival of bus
iness throughout the country. ...
During 48 hours ending at o'clock last
Saturday morning, 13s inches of rain fell at
Memphis, Tennessee, flooding bayous, creeks
and rivers. 1t is feared that crops in the
uplands are badly damaged by this unprece-
dented rainfall. ... ....
The Secretary of State has received a
communication from Minister Foster at Mex
leo in effect that the Mexican authorities will
cooperate with the United States authorities
on the Rio Grande to prevent raids into Tex
as and break up cattle stealing in that section.
An express train in Russia, carrying g.
100000 of roubles, not only failed, the other
day, to reach its destination, but has altogeth-
er disappeared, without leaving the slightest
trace affording clue as to what has become
of it, Almost as we'll as could be done in
America!
-"I try to preach the milk Of the Word" /"
replied city clergyman to parishioner who
demonstrated that his sermons were too long.
"Yes," remarked the other, "but around here
what we want is condensed milk" Let the
political controversialists read and ponder
this. Their letters are too long by half.
Powder paper is the latest substitute for
gunpowder. 1t is paper impregnated with a
mixture of potassic chlorate, nitrate, prussiate
and chromate, powdered wood charcoal, and
a little starch. 1t leaves no greasy residue
on the gun, produces less smoke and less re-
coil, and is less impaired by humidity, and it
is 5.16ths stronger than gunpowder.
The District Attorney for the Southern
district of Mississippi has been instructed by
the Department Of Justice at Washington to
investigate the facts attending the death of
McClella6d, in the Kemper county, Mississip-
pi, massacre, in compliance with request
made by the British authorities, who claim
that McClelland was British subject.
The Philadelphia Times says: "Governor
Wade Hampton is expected to visit Auburn,
N. Y, on the 20th of this month, to attend q
reunion of the Shields Guards of that city, a
military organization named after General
Shields, who commanded the New York Vol
unteers and the South Carolina Palmettoes
in the Mexican war, and who was an intimate
friend of Governor Hampton's father.
Captain Macdonald, who has had re-
markable success in training Indians for army
service, proposes to utilize the savage tribes
by incorporating them into the regular ser.
vice. He thinks corps of 10000 troops
could thus be added to the army without ad-
ditional expense, and he offers, at the end of
six months, to march his red infantry to
Washington to give visible proof that they
will make good soldiers
Whatever criticisms may be pronounced
upon the administration, it is universally con.
ceded that Mrs. Hayes is entitled to credit
for inaugurating reform in the customs and
manners of society at Washington. The
loud, garish, vulgar display that character
ICED society for several years past is succeeded
by quiet grace and simplicity that are re-
freshing, and meet with commendation on ev-
cry hand.
-Postmaster-General Key speaks with
much satisfaction of his recent trip to the
South, and with his intercourse with the busi-
ness men and citizens in regard to the postal
service. The appropriation of S175,000 for
fast trains between Washington and New Or
leans, Judge Key regards as inadequate, but
he will employ it to the best advantage, dis
tributing it to such roads as shall bring up
the speed of the mail trains to the require.
ments of the public service.
The General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church South at their recent session in New
Orleans squarely condemned all kinds of
dancing. One of the resolutions says: Some
forms of this amusement are more mischiev-
GUS than others, the round dance than the
but none of them are good, but all of them
are evil and should be discountenanced, and
we aGectionately urge all our Christian pa
rents not to send their children to dancing
schools, where they acquire fondness and an
aptitude for the dangerous amusement"
"A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune who is now vending his way home.
ward, after tour of the South, writing from
Southwestern Georgia, represents the condi-
tion q 0Dthe negro in that State as much better
than that of the colored people in South Car
olina, and attributes it to the fact that Geor-
gia has been longer under the dominance of
the intelligence of the State. In his opinion
twice as many negroes own real estate in
Georgia as they do in South Carolina, and
all this is owing to their having as rule,
dropped politics and gone to work in dead
earnest.
The Mormons double once in six years.
They now number 10000. They have thir-
ty incorporated cities, three million dollars
worth of irrigating canals, 35S school-houses,
IL newspapers, missionaries in every nation
in the world, 10000 militia, 6 cotton and
woolen factories, 500 miles of railroads, tele-
graphs sll over the Territory, and temples
built and being built enough for all their
people to worship in. Besides, missionaries
send them 5000 emigrants every year, and
their elders >baptize many hundred native In
dians and receive them into the Mormon
. church.
"A deserter from the United States army
went into business as a barber in Oakland,
California, and prospered. A former com.
rade recognized him, and extorted blackmail
IL. IN him fo tho anfhnrl.