Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-01

tries to coax it to say papa" but it pays no
attention to him. He tries again and again,
getting madder all the time and dreadfully
afraid the visitor will think the child is dull
At last he grabs the child by the arm and
shakes it, and yells; "why don't you say pa
pa as tell your" Then the child screams
like backyard full Of cats. The more the
mother soothes it the louder it gets, until the
father exclaims, "Gi'me that brat" and
picks it up and dashes out of the room, and
is heard spanking it in the entry. Then the
visitor goes home looking at her, dress and
deciding that the end of that infant will be
the gallows, if its characteristics are allowed
to develop fully as it grows up.
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DEATH OF r. CLARK SPRINGS.
On Monday, Oath ultimo, about half past
II o'clock, A. NJ, Mr. Richard Clark Springs,
a very worthy citizen of this county, a mute
residing at Cedar Springs, was accidentally
run over and instantly killed by the cars on
the Spartanburg Union and Columbia Rail-
road, just below the railroad shops. Mr..
Springs had walked to town that morning.
made some purchases and was walking down
the railroad track, returning home, when Mr..
Frazer, an engineer of that road, was back
ing an engine and fiat car down the track to
bring up car load of bricks from Mr.. j. w.
Maxwell's brick-yard. Mr.. Springs, being
deaf and dumb. never heard the car coming
| up in the rear of him, and continued to walk
on down the track, unconscious of any danger
till he was struck by the car. The engineer
not knowing Mr.. Springs was deaf and dumb,
bowed the whistle several times, and noticing
that he did not get off the track, reversed the
steam of his engine and made every effort to
stop the train, but could not stop in time to
and the engineer not knowing that he was deaf,
combined to cause the accident, which, under
the circumstances, was unavoidable, and for
| which no one blames the engineer.
Mr. Springs was graduate of the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum of Hartford, Connecticut,
and was one of the first assistant teachers en-
ployed by Mr.. N. P. Walker, when he found.
ed the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Cedar
Springs. He was native of York county,
and an uncle of Colonel A. Baxter Springs
and the late Colonel Richard A. Springs, of
that county, and moved to Cedar Springs
about twenty y.seven years age, o,where he resided
up to the time of his death. He was in the
18th year of his age, and had been conss.
tent member of the Presbyterian church of
this place, for many years, His wife, who
survives him, is also mute, and we'll ad-
vanced in years. He was highly esteemed by
all who knew him, and his death will be re-
GREETED by large circle of friends and &C.
quaintances.
The coroner held an inquest over the body,
after which the jury returned verdict in
accordance with the facts stated above
Spartanburg Herald.
WHAT THE SCHOOLS NEED.-Superinten-
dent Thompson is earnest in his efforts to re-
form the school system of South Carolina. He
is adopting the capital expedient of getting
the Judges to explain the system in their
charges to grand juries, and in causing the
courts to take surveillance of school officials.
No better man for the position than Captain
Thompson could be found in the whole State.
Able, active and energetic, he is fully compe-
tent, while his genial manners and fine per-
sonal address will do much to popularize an
institution, which, though so sadly needed, is
at present laboring under the disadvantages
of public disfavor in consequence of its fright
full mismanagement in the past. We firmly
believe there are but two steps necessary to its
final, triumphant success: first, the rati6ca-
tion of the school amendment, with few al
terations in the present law; and secondly,
the grant to the State superintendent OF lib.
eral salary and sufficient travelling expenses,
that he may be able to visit every county in
the State. The superintendent of education is
the only State officer, besides the adjutant
general, whose business should be, for the
most part, away from the State capital, and
yet his salary this year has been cut down to
the grade for competent Office clerk. AS
long as the Legislature manifests niggardly
spirit in dealing with the State uperintendent,
lust so long will the school system be ineAi-
cient, the schools mockery, and the children
of the State set of ignoramuses. From our
acquaintance with the State superintendent,
we feel assured that he only needs substantial
backing to make him one Of the most efficient
public servants the State has ever had.-Fatr-
field Register.
A HoesHEAD OF RATs.-In the kitchen
of Sacramento hotel, says the Reading
Union, stood swill hogshead which was
centre of attraction to swarms of rats. One
night the hogshead was emptied of its con.
tents, except enough for bait and then the
mammoth trap was so arranged that as many
rats could enter as desired, but there was no
means of escape. A few minutes after it was
set three or four rats sprang into it, and not
finding much food, became hoggish, and be.
gan fighting for the possession of what there
was. Their squeaing attracted more rats,
and when the trap was examined before mid
night, it presented singular spectacle being
apparently about one-fourth filled with the
pests-little rats and big ones, gray-headed
fellows, and others that had scarce y sprouted
their moustaches squirmng, scratching,
squeaing and biting Soon afterward they
were killed, when the number disposed of
proved to be one hundred and six.
NINE HUNDRED FoLD.-A farmer in Ohio
has recently made an experiment which sug-
gests an idea. He had procured all ear of
very fine yellow corn, and wishing to procure
seed from it, planted it in good soil, having
first ascertained that there we're about five
hundred grains on the cob The corn pro-
duced from these five hundred kernels meas
ured nearly nine bushels, or about nine hun
dred ears from one. Morak-Plant the best,
and you'll get the most
s@A New York chemist says he wants
nothing more than three pals, barrel of old
water, and twenty cents worth of drugs, to
make six gallons of just such champagne as
| fools pay dollar pint for.