Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-24

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Henry Ward Beecher has made over
$4,000 this season by lecturing, and yet these
are "hard times"
- Hon. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of
the treasury, says that in no branch of indus
try are the people of the United States behind
Europeans except in farming.
"A loness, supposed to have escaped from
some menagerie, is at large and committing
depredations in Hanover county, Virginia.
Much CONSERVATION prevails among the in
habitants and an active hunt is being made
for her.
Gen. Burriel, who executed the Virginius
prisoners and was afterwards promoted and
appointed Governor of Blboa, is at last un.
dergoing trial at Madrid in accordance with
the promise made by Spain to the United
States more than three years ago.
A gentleman in England committed sui
eide the other day, and left a paper stating
that he did so because his wife was great
deal too good for him. That's why the jury
returned verdict recording their opinion
that deceased was of "an unsound state Of
mind"
People generally will be glad to know that
charcoal has been discovered to be sure
cure for burns. By laying small piece Of
cold charcoal on the burn, the pain subsidies
Immediately. BY leaving the charcoal on for
all hour, the wound is healed, as has been de-
monstrated on several occasions.
"A Chicago merchant, who knows more
about grain and pork than foreign affairs, was
asked recently what he thought of the "Eas.
tern question" He hesitated moment and
then said, with wise air: "Well, 1 am a
Western man." He evidently means to stand
by his section.
Clumsy legislation has left Tennessee
without any law against horse-stealing, larce-
ny from the person, house or bridge burning,
or house-breaking with intent to commit rob-
berry. The old laws against these crimes we're
so severe that the last Legislature repealed
them, but forgot to restore the old law or en-.
act new one. Hence the present awkward
condition of things in Tennessee.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain admits the
Justice of his doom. In recent conversation
with Northern clergyman, he is reported as
having admitted the necessity of President
Hayes Southern policy, and that there was
nothing else that could be done. He said, in
almost these words: 81 am sorry that the ne
groes have been 80 over-anxious to hold Office.
The result has been that very many of the
offices have been filled by persons perfectly
incompetent, mentally and morally, for the
positions"
There is Methodist Church at Trinidad,
C.,l., almost on the line of New Mexico, which
has not single male member in it. 1t is an
adobe building, plastered inside and out. 1t
cost $4,000 and is paid for. The official
board is composed entirely of women, who
keep their finances up to the mark. The
pastor, Rev. j. E. Richards, talented young
man, says be never had board that kept its
business in as good order as this one. At the
last quarterly meeting the minister's salary,
that of the presiding elder, the sections bill
and all the incidental expenses, were met
promptly.
A new and fashionable diversion is be-
coming popular in Baltimore among young
ladies and gentlemen fond of horseback ri
ding. 1t is called "Hare and Hounds" and
is played every Saturday. A young gentle
man and young lady, we'll mounted, are cho-
sen to represent the hares, and all the rest
play the hounds. The brace of hares are Civ
en- fifteen minutes start, and have satchels of
white paper cut in small pieces, with which
they are expected to mark their course. The
ride is sometimes five miles and back, by va
rious roads and lanes and the first couple that
overtakes the hares, has the privilege of
playing that part in the next performance.
The Paris Patrie gives some particulars
about the treasures of Islam" 1t says that
all the pilgrims who visit Mecca cast an offer
ing into the three sepulcbres for the defence
of Islam. The writer calculates that no less
than s3,O00,000 year are thus contributed,
and adds that from one of the sepulchres which
was opened in 1929, immense sums we're
drawn. Another sepulchre was opened dur
ing the Crimean war, and now the Sheik-ul-
Islam has gone to Mecca to draw funds from
the third, which has not been opened since
l4l5. Taking the three sepulchres, together,
it is computed that they must contain about
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A correspondent asks "why the term
Sublime Porte is applied to Turkey?" The
words mean lofty gate, or magnificent en-
trance, and are French, which is language
generally used in diplomatic relations in the
old world. The title Sublime Porte" is Of
6cially given to the Ottoman government.
1t comes from the circumstance that Orkhan
(1426-60) erected in his capital Brush, a
palace with an imposing entrance, on which
he bestowed the name of Sublime Porte, !"
which from that time to the present has been
applied to the monarch and government of the
Ottomans. The use of the term, too, is partly
owing to the oriental custom Of transacting
public business at the gate, or ante-chamber
of the palace
"A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
that the rival Republicans for office in the
South are piling up charges against each other.
1t needs no Democratic remonstrance to ex-
clude the present set. If what they say of
each other is to be believed, not one of the
present applicants is fit person to hold an
office of honor, trust or profit The President
is beginning to see but two means of disposing
of Southern Offices. One is to give them to
Democrats, and the other is to send down new
men from the North. The present Republi-
cans of the South, native and imported, can
not endure each other and promise to be a
feeble foundation upon which to construct the
proposed old line Whig, native Republican
and colored mans party.
In speech at Mobile, recently, Mr.. Jef-
ferson Davis said "For the honor of COM
rades whose untimely death you mourn, for
the respect due to the cause you loved, for the
pride you feel in your ancestry, for the hopes
you cherish for your posterity, let not your
eyes revert constantly to the past; but con-
fronting the present and looking patriotically
on to the future, let your efforts be made to
repair what has been injured, and to build
again higher and broader. on q more solid