Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-16
geraps aud fafts.

the position OF drivers and conductors.
1t gives some idea of the destructive fury
of the mob at Pittsburg, to learn that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has for sale,
at that point, about eight thousand tons of
scrap-iron.
The public debt is slowly getting down
toward the round sum of two thousand mil.
lion dollars. Last month chopped off $685.
9O4, and the exact amount now due is $2,O6O,-
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A party of painters have started westward
across the Continent, under contracts with
patent medicine manufacturers and other ad-
vertisers, to cover all the picturesque rocks
and big trees with inscriptions.
1t has been announced authoritatively
that the United States troops will not be re-
turned to the posts and barracks of the South,
as such removal at this season would be
prejudcial to their health.
The President has signi6ed his intention
of making general Southern tour during
the Christmas holidays. His purpose is to 60
to Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston, At
lanta, Mobile and New Orleans, and return
to Washington via Jackson and Nashville.
- Russia has, in the last six months, export
ell wheat to the value of over $13,000,000,
against wheat to the value of $8,000,0OO for
the corresponding period of last year. So, in
spite of the war; she has food enough to feed
her own people and handsome surplus for
outside nations.
The Cabinet has determined to appoint a
commission to act with a similar commission
from Canada, to arrange for the extradition
of Sitting Bull and his braves. One MEM
ber of the commission will be selected by the
secretary of war, one by Secretary Schurz,
and the third by the President
Louisiana sugar lands, according to the
New Orleans Times, are rapidly increasing in
value since stable and honest State govern
ment has been secured. Plantations that a
year ago could have been bought at $15 per
acre, are now worth S25, and sugar lands are
now Justly regarded as the safest and most re-
liable investments.
Every little while We read of some one
who has run rusty nail in his foot or some
other part of his person, and lock; jaw has re-
suited therefrom. All such wounds can be
healed without any fatal consequences fol-
lowing them. The remedy is simple; it is to
smoke such wound, or any wound or bruise
that is infamed, with burning wool or woolen
cloth. Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool
takes the pain out of the worst case of infiam-
nation arising from any wound.
"A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, dated
the 18th instant, says special dispatch re-
ceived there from Rio Grande City, reports
that at one o'clock that morning fifteen men
from Mexico entered the town, broke open
the jail, shot Judge Cox and the jailer, and
released two notorious outlaws. The civil
authorities called upon the military for assist
ance, and Colonel Prince, with 100 regulars
and two Gatlin guns, started in pursuit, but
failed to overtake them. They recrossed the
river and entered Mexico seven miles below.
The troops have not yet crossed.
General Stewart L. Woodford is still talk
ing about how pleasant he found everything
in Mississippi. He now says: "The three
things that gave me most encouragement are
these First, everybody, white and black,
seemed to be at work. Second, there were as
many acres of corn under cultivation as there
were of cotton. Third, the planters, leading
business men, and leading lawyers were evi.
IDENTIFY sincere in their desire to give the Union
their hearty and effective support" After
speaking about the South on the stump for
ten years, he is surprised to find that he knew
so little aboutit.
Italians are unusually excited about Mt.
Vesuvius, and strange stories are told of the
sounds emitted from its interior which are
likened to the roar of disturbed sea, amid
which is distinguished a cracking as of many
burning logs of wood. These noises are heard,
it is said at distance of two miles from the
crater; and fears have been expressed lest
continuous discharge of lava should effect a
passage which would place the observatory in
danger. Some thirty persons, ladies included,
make nightly ascent to the mountain to
witness the magnificent spectacle presented.
Several symptoms point to better con-
dition of the money market. Greenbacks
have decreased to the extent of three millions
in the New York banks during the past week,
having, it is said, gone West to move the
crops. 1t is popular idea that business is
thriving when the rate of interest is low. The
reverse is true. Active business creates de-.
mand for money; when business is dull money
lies idle in the banks and money is cheap. 1t
is the opinion of those who watch narrowl y
the signs of the times, that the money market
will be better this fall than at any time since
1878, and that business of all kinds will SYM
pathize with it.
The Boston advertiser 80 Classics the re-
ported failures in business of the first half of
this year, as to show that in some sectious
there is great improvement over the con-
dition of the first half of 1876, and in others
there is an increase of failures. The sections
in which there is a great decrease in the
amount of failures are in the New England
States and the Southland it is perhaps wor-
thy of remark that these were the only Sec
tions not involved in the late strike. The
failures in New England fell off from S24,-
100000 in 1876, to $12,500000 in 1877 and
those in the South from ST., 100000 in 1876,
to $5,700,000 in 1877. In the other sections
there was an increase.
The manufacture of paper -four barrels is
one of the growing industries Of Wisconsin.
These barrels are made from straw paper
pulp, which is run into molds in the shape Of
half barrels and subjected to great pressure.
The ends are made in the same way, and so
prrfectly does the machine do its work, that
any piece in barrel may be substituted for
similar one The barrels have an average
thickness Of three-sixteenths of an inch, and
are very light. Their advantage over other
barrels is found in their lightness, durability
and cheapness, for they will not cost third
of the ordinary price. Moreover, the grooves
fit 80 perfectly that no -four is lost by sitting
through in transportation, and thus certain
per centage is saved.
Her Majesty of England is thrifty. She
takes care of the pennies and lets the pounds