Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-19
Straps aud fafts.

- Sellers of liquor in Oregon are not re-
quired, under new law, to be licensed; but
every drinker must pay So year for license,
and whoever sells to an unlicensed person
may be imprisoned. The names of procurers
of license are to be published every six
months.
- A despatch from Washington says that
the Atlantic Coast line, via Wilmington !;
the Piedmont Air Line, via Richmond and
Charlotte; and the Kennesaw line, via
Lynchburg, Knoxville and Atlanta, are ma
king desperate fight for the great South
ern mail. 1t is carried at present over the
Kennesaw route, and the indications are that
it will continue to 60 over that line.
Growing crops are now taxed in Calitor-
MIA but the Granger element is everywhere
aroused in opposition. In some counties,
says the San Francisco Bulletin, crops have
been assessed as high as five dollars to the
acre. In others the assessment has been
placed at mere nominal figure, while in some
few the order of the State board has been dis
regarded.
- The railroad car of the Emperor Alexan-
der can be run on any tracks in Europe,
whatever the gauge may be, owing to pecu-
liar arrangement of the wheels. 1t contains
parlor, bedroom and dining room, all
magni6cently furnished The Emperor sends
ahead pilot locomotive. Half an hour after
the Imperial train starts, wrecking train
follows. to be on hand in case of accident.
Twenty minutes behind this is train with
the Imperial suite, and lastly an extra escort
of three hundred soldiers.
- The Rev. Alonzo NJ. May was an Episco.
pal minister in Iowa, who turned Methodist
and was admitted into the Methodist ministry.
On the strength of the change which he made,
the Episcopal Bishop of Iowa publicly de.
posed him "from the ministry of the Church
ofGod," stating as the reason that Mr.. May
had "renounced the ministry and entered
upon secular pursuits" Mr.. May thinks
this is rather rough way of putting it, as he
is unable to see that in engaging in the work
of the Methodist ministry, he has 'entered
upon secular pursuits" He has issued
newspaper statement on the subject.
- The director-general of the statistical de-
partment in India, DR.. w. w. Hunter, be-
leves that he has discovered a method of
predicating before hand the year in which a
failure of the crops and consequent famine
are apt to occur in India. His Investigations
show that the great fanines in Madras since
the commencement of careful record in 1910,
have occurred in the years during which
there have been few spots on the sun, and
that in such years the rainfall has been lowest
in Madras. He does not 60 so far as to say
that the famines are dependent upon the sun
spots in the way of cause and effect, but he
shows that when there are fewest spots on
the sun there is minimum rainfall.
The Rev. DR.. w. P. Harrison of Atlanta,
Ca, who has recently made an extended tour
to the Northern and Western States, in re-
Gently published letter, expresses the opinion
that the South is immensely better Oft than
the North. He says he saw more life and
posperity in Richmond, Va, than in any
Northern city. He met with one family that
owns 100000 of railroad stock who could
not get an income sufficient to justify them IN
keeping house servant; in Pittsburg, Pa.,
he heard of house which cost SCI 900 rent
ing for $500, and one in Cleaveand, Ohio,
that cost $4,000 rents for $400. DR.. Har-
risou is confident that in the recuperation
that is ahead of US, the South will be fore
most.
- 1t has been decided by the Courts of
Texas that the statutes of that State prohibi-
ting marriages between white persons and
black are obsolete, the reason for their enact
ment having ceased with the abolition of
slavery. 1t is said that the main object aimed
at by the law was not to prevent the amalgama-
tion of the races, but to withhold from the slave
the demoralizing spectacle of a fellow slave
raised suddenly from the degradation ofa bond
aye like his own to the dignity of a master,
a mistress, or STAKEHOLDER, which it might
we'll be supposed, would naturally inspire
hope, whatever the folly or the fatuity of
that hope might be, which would not fail to
produce results evil and injurious to the
slave.
A curious story is current in Richmond
to the effect that strong effort was made by
certain lawyers and politicians there and else
where to induce Miss Van Lew Qate postmis.
tress) to refuse to surrender the Richmond
post office to her successor, Colonel Forbes,
on the ground that his appointment was null
and void, as President Hayes himself is not
legally elected. The matter was to come up
for trial in the Supreme Court of the United
States. The scheme fell through. as Miss Van
Lew refused to become party to it. Among
the names mentioned as parties to the scheme
are General Bradley T. johnson, B. F. But
tier, of Massachusetts, the Hon. Simon Came.
ron, of Pennsylvania, Senator Blaine, Of
Maine, and others.
The New York Sun tells, in a very touch
ing way, the story of Horace Greeley's last
days, and says it was not his defeat for the
Presidency which broke the old mans heart,
but the shabby manner in which he was oust-
ed from the chief editorship of the Tribune.
An article of which he did not approve was
printed in the Tribune. He wrote and sent
to the office an article in which he tried to
set the paper straight. His article did not
appear. He ordered it in on three several
days, and each time the actual editor left it
out. The light dawned on him. Another
man had been put in his place. He dropped,
and was sent to private insane asylum.
Among his last words were: "The country is
gone! The Tribune is gone! I am gone!'
Thus ended, in grief and disappointment, the
man who had been the brains of the paper
whose present owner is proud to say that it
was FOUNDED by Horace Greeley"
The education of Queen Victoria's grand
children is conducted on the principle that the
Prince Consort introduced into the family
Particularly is this true of the children of the
Crown Princess of Germany. They have to
rise early and retire early. During the day
they are required punctually to perform their
duties and to keep strictly the time allotted to
the various branches of study and recreation.
They breakfast at eight with their parents, and
the time between ten in the morning and five
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