Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-13
Straps aud fafts.

Two young men, named Joseph E. John.
ston and Fitzhugh Lee, are learning the ma.
chinist trade in the Pennsylvania Railroad
machine shops at Altoona. They are neph-
ews of the Confederate officers whose names
they respectively bear.
- The Egyptian cotton crop promises we'll
this season. The amount of land planted
equals that of last year, and none of the draw
backs which attended the harvesting of last
years crop have as yet made their appear
ance.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company
have recently made considerable reduction
of rates on their lines, which extend through
out every portion of the Union. Points in
North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia,
which were formerly 30, 35 and 40 cents,
have been reduced to 25 cents.
Madame Bonaparte. of Baltimore is in
her ninety-third year. She still exercises
personal supervision over her large estate, es'
timated at more than million dollars. In
the event of the death of the Prince Imperial,
her grandson, Col. Bonaparte, would be in
the line of succession for the French crown,
should the old dynasty be restored.
- Senator Barnum says however conciliato-
~ the Administration party may be, it is
simply breaking up the Republican party.
"a president causing split in his party has
never been success in the history of the coun-
try. If there was a general election pending.
I don't believe the Republican party would
carry six States in the Union"
- The dedication of the old John Brown
monument at Ossawattomie, Kansas, last
week, was attended by at least 10000 people.
Resolutions were passed requesting the Kan
sas Legislature to make an appropriation to
procure statue of John Brown in bronze or
marble, to be placed in the National Hall of
statuary in the Capitol at Washington.
- Brigham Young didn't put on historic
airs when it came to the "last words" His
son asked him if he knew him. II should
think I ought to" responded the indignant
candidate for an obituary. This is only
equaled by the historic declaration of Mrs.
Ward when confronted by her elated husband,
disguised in his regimentals. "Know your"
said she, "of course do, you old fool!
- The result of examinations in the Inte-
rior department at Washington, showed that
great many of the applicants for positions
were not we'll grounded in the subjects taught
in the common schools The questions in
grammar and arithmetic were exceedingly
simple; yet they proved stumbling blocks in
the way of many. 1t is said that in some in
stances college graduates were found lamen-
tab!y deficient
"A wealthy freedman in Texas has a pas.
sion for II ightning rods. He has thirty-three
mounted with golden balls, on his house and
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stable, ten with zinc globes on his barn six
with tin globes on his hen-house; three plain
ones on his smoke-house and forty more in
course of erection on the other out-houses.
Three lghtning.rod agents have built across
the street and paid for their farms out of the
profits ofthe proximity.
A lady in this city sent description of a
child she wanted to a foundling hospital in
New Orleans. A day or two ago she received
reply that child was on its way to Gin
cinnati, and yesterday the messenger of the
Adams Express rang the bell and announced
package for Mrs. =, at the same time
presenting a little girl of tender years with
an express label tied to one arm,-Cncin.
"A man Of property dying Of smallpox in
New Orleans, recently had great difficulty in
finding notary to make his will for him.
The whole city was secured, and finally an
impecunious lawyer ventured the job and then
charged $500 for it. And now the probate
judge is in quandary to know whether to al.
low charge so much higher than the legal
one. The notary backs up his claim with the
deposition of innumerable lawyers and other
notaries, who swear that they would not have
incurred the risk for double the sum.
Efforts have been made recently on the
part of the claim agents, to get the Treasury
Department to reopen number of cotton
cases which were rejected under previous ad-
ministrations. Thus fur Secretary Sherman
and Assistant Secretary French have decided
against all such applications, and refused to
refer the cases to Solicitor Raynor for an
opinion, which the persons were very anxious
should be done. The fact that Solicitor
Raynor is Southern man, probably accounts
for the action of Sherman and French.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has been inter.
vieweda at White Sulphur Springs about the
first Bull Run, and said that the troops on
both sides were greatly demoralized toward
the close of that battle, and that he now be-
lieved that it would have been better for the
South if the North had won the battle, for in
that event the war would probably have
ended there. But Gen. Johnston says that
Gen. Robert E. Lee was always of the opin-
ion that our differences would never have
been settled but by the fearful ordeal through
which we have passed.
Rev. VIM. S. Plumer, D. D., grows old
faster than any other man in our church, at
least in the newspapers. Several papers have
referred to his speeches in the General Pres
byterian Council as those of patriarch in the
S4th year of his age. The Philadelphia Pres
byterian states that "Dr. Plumer was born in
1901, and passed his 77th birthday in the city
of Strasburg, where his fellow-travelers waited
on him with their congratulations, and with
expressions of thankfulness for his long. g.contin-
ued service in the church of Christ. Chris
tian Observer.
A New York correspondent Of the Bos-
ton Journal says: "Boarding-house people
complain that while there is rush for board
in New York, prices are disastrously low.
Walters who would scorn less than $40 a
week thankfully take SIS. One of our larg-
est establishments advertised for bookkeep-
er. Hours from 7 to 6; pay $6 week. In
one day over six pounds of applications were
received. Houses that readily rented for
$1,000 can be had for $500. Good board
that has not since the war been less than $40
a week, can be obtained for $6. Dinner at a
first class hotel can be had for 40 cents, with
three courses, including luxuries. Around
the postofice number of restaurants have
been opened on cheap bill of fare, with
very fair table. Roast beef, with fxings, Is