Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-12-20

1877.
that brother and sister, after thirty.seven
years separation, during which time each
Thought the other dead, stood in the presence
of each other
Of course the meeting was very happy
one, and much talk had to be INDUCED in
about the days of the past and the events
which had intervened since the paths OF the
brother and sister diverged, so many years
ago. During this interview, Mr.. Kelly learn
ed of another sister who is living now IN the
adjoining county of Iredell, who was an in
fant when be left home and the fact of whose
existence time had entirely blotted from bis
memory. ..
Another strange part of the story is that
Mr.. Kelly has been much in Charlotte OF late
years, and has repeatedly passed the store OF
his sister. On one occasion he passed there
with friend, and seeing woman standing
in the door, remarked upon store being
found so far upon the outskirts. His friend
remarked that it was the store of Mrs. Bart
ley, and Kelly looked at her, but never gave
the matter another thought until the events
of the past few days recalled the circumstance
to his mind.-Charlotte Observer.
A COUNTRY WITHOUT NEIGHBORS.
INCIDENTS OF THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADE.
The Southern Confederacy was country
without neighbors, pugilist without hackers.
History furnishes no instance of more effect
i've blockade. Landward, except where Mex
lean robbers and Indians held the frontier,
lay the country OF the foe within hail Of each
other, from Virginia to Texas, the vessels of
the United States navy shut in the besieged
States from the world, and shut the world out
from them. The men who ran the blockade
risked life and liberty for this risk they de-
manded large profits on the goods which they
brought. The war produced its natural crop
of extortioners After the reputation in
1868 of one third of the Confederate debt, few
people had faith in the currency. Those who
held it spent it freely, anxious to exchange it
for something Of more tangible value: No
one who could afford to let capital remain idle
was anxious to sell merchandise, which every
day increased in market value. Thus inAa-
ton bore its legitimate fruits, and the rare
spectacle was presented ofpurchasers anxious
to buy, while merchants were 10th to sell.
For four years the Southern States were
shut up to their own resources These re.
sources, though immense, we're undeveloped
and the means to develop them we're, for the
most part, lacking. Manufactures sprang
up all over the country; but where chemical
agents were necessary to the perfection of
their work, that work was left unprotected.
Confederate cotton.cloth, as already stated,
was sent forth from the factory in its natural
unbleached tint. Confederate paper was in.
ferior in color and texture to the brown wrap
ping paper, commonly used in dry goods
stores to-day. The Georgia wooden mills pro.
duced army cloths and blankets of good quail.
ity, but wool was wofully scarce, and the cloth
sold for two or three hundred dollars yard.
Cow.hair was carefully saved from the tan.
neries, and, mixed with cotton, was spun and
woven into garments which, if coarse, were at
least thick and warm. The highest ladies in
the land did not disdain to wear homespun.
The wash poplins Of to-day, sold in all dry
goods stores at from ten to fifteen cents yard,
closely resemble the homespun dresses of
The prettiest home. made cloth of the Confed-
crates was mixture of silk and cotton. For
this, black silk too much worn to be of use in
any other way, was cut into bits and picked
into lint, mixed with more or less cotton and
spun and woven for the dress. The process
was painfully tedious, as from pound and
half to two pounds of picked silk was requir-
ed and not few girls who set out to accom-.
plish dress, stopped short at enough silk to
knit pair of gloves.
The statement made in former article
upon Confederate make-shifts, published in
Harper's Magazine, to the effect that the Con-
tederate women did not know what was the
fashion, was the occasion of some incredulous
comments. Not only did they not know, but
many of them did not care ! They wore
what they had or could get, and were con.
tent. A lady friend of the writer laughingly
declares that never but once in her life did
she always have something to wear, and that
was in war times when reduced to one dress
q black cashmere made of two old ones; she
had no choice, but must always wear that or
none ('alicoes in 1864 we're worth thirty
and forty dollars yard, and new calico
was regarded as a handsome dress. Gar
ments already on hand we're turned and re-
turned, dyed and made over, as long as
piece of them remained. The Costume" of
the present day, in so fur as it means a dress
made of two materials, was perforce fashion
able in the Confederacy-a convenient mode
of making two old friends cover each others
de6ciencies.-MRs. M. P. HANDY, in Phila-
dsiphia Times ...a ...
JOHN WESLEY. .-"
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