Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-10
Straps aud fafts.

Jesse, will sail for Liverpool from Philadel-
phia, on next Thursday.
There are forty-fve cotton factories in
Georgia, all in active operation and paying
dividends, either in money or stock.
Jennie June Croly and Nine. Demorest
are going to Europe for two or three months,
and will bring home the fashions at trst
hands.
ALLEN Hannah was married in New York
to Miss Hannah Allen. Miss Hannah Allen
is now Mrs. Hannah Hannah, and that's
what's the matter with Hannah.
One of the last utterances of Parson
Brownlow was declaration in favor of Hamp-
ton for President in preference to any North
ern Democrat
An oil painting of Governor Hampton has
Just been sent to Germany to be Autographed.
More than 5000 copies have already been
ordered by his admirers. So says the New
York San.
"A Republican paper states that Packard's
metropolitan police, before evacuating the
Louisiana State-House, destroyed over one
thousand stand of arms by saving off the
stocks, &c. Only about two hundred rifles
were IOuQQ III 10 Oe uSeu.
The owner of the American side of Nj
agara Fails, is to be classed either with the
great geniuses c. great lunatics of the age. He
proposes to sell the Falls to drive cotton
mills with, and has written to the Governor
General of Canada and Queen Victoria about
it.
The San Francisco newspapers tell OF a
case of what they call spontaneous combus-
ton of human being. The story is that
topper, presumably saturated thoroughly with
alcohol by long drunkenness, lighted his pipe
at gas Jet. Instantly his mouth was ablaze,
and he was burned inwardly so that be died.
The coroner began an investigation.
The impression prevails in commercial
circles that the spectators for rise in bread.
stu6s have overdone the business, and will
quite likely come out losers. Very little Of
the grain, purchased to meet the expected for
eign demand, has been shipped. Should the
war prove brief one of a single campaign,
and involve no other European powers than
the present contestants, there will not be sut-
fcient demand for American grain to justify
a natural advance in prices.
Experienced life insurance operators say
that it costs in advertising about $125 to get
an average religious newspaper to inform its
readers that any given company is zone of
the best" $3.50 is the figure for the observa-
tion that "this company is unsurpassed )" and
about $500 will lead to the devout exclama-
ton, "To insure in this company is Chris.
tian duty. Pastors, urge it upon your fiocks. >
These statements show how experienced life
insurance operators will lie-when they feel
funny.
"A Washington dispatch states that bill
is in course Of preparation, and will be intro
duced in the House at the extra session, re-
ducing the army to 10000 men, and thereby
efecting saving to the government OF many
millions. Now that the Indian wars are at an
end-and it is the opinion of Gen. Sherman
and Gen. Sheridan in conference there on the
subject that we will have no more Of them
and the troops are to be used no longer for
police duty in the Southern States, the advo-
Gates of retrenchment claim that there is no
need of standing army of the present size
Mr.. G.. S. Bells, Northern settler resi-.
ding near Littleton, n c., has an orchard of
some twenty-five or thirty thousand peach
trees, embracing over one hundred different
varieties. He is going North to make ar
raugements for his shipments and sales. He
ships altogether by rail, and expects to realize
$4,000 or $4,000 by his sales. He has also
large strawberry fields and a fine vineyard.
His success in fruit-raising in the old North
State has aroused the interest OF the people
there in that culture. e.
The Rochester Chronicle. the leading Re-
publican organ in western New York, says {:
I'VE are in receipt of numerous letters from
Republicans in regard to the Southern policy
of the President, and we are frank to say that,
neither in conversation nor in correspondence
have, we found, throughout this section of the
State, any universal commendation of that
policy. 1t is acquiesced int is accepted as
an xperiment-it is taken on trial-it is re-
ceved with tremulous hope at the best Often
it is bitterly denounced, being esteemed sur
render Of principle"
Paris fashion writer's agree in asserting
that a radical changein ladies' dress is already
inaugurated. Waists are made shorter, and
the skirts fall in graceful folds Our dress
makers declare that they cannot make these
dresses hang we'll and produce the desired
effect without stiff underskirts of some kind,
and to meet these wants some of our enter
prising manufacturers have introduced new,
light and elegant crinoline skirts and bustles.
These differ greatly from the large, clumsy
hoop skirts formerly used, for they are in
Princesse shape, which is close and fiat at
front and sides, and gracefully sweeping out
at bottom of the train.-Ladies Journal
Rev. John Miller was tried before the
New Brunswick Presbytery, at Trenton, N.
j., last week, on the charge of heresy. The
Presbytery, by unanimous vote, sustained
the following specifications and charges
First. He teaches that the soul is not immor-
tai that at the death of the body it dies and
becomes extinct until the resurrection. Sec
ond. That Christ as child of Adam was
personally accounted guilty of Adams sin
that like other children of Adam he inherited
corrupt nature, and that he needed to be
and was redeemed by his own death. Third.
That he teaches that there is but one person
in the God-head. A resolution was adopted
suspending Mr.. Miller from the ministry of
the Presbyteri Church until such time as he
shall make manifest to the satisfaction of the
Presbytery, his remuneration of the errors he
holds, and his solemn purpose no longer to
promulgate them. Mr.. Miller said it was
simply moral intellectual impossibility for
him to renounce his views, and gave notice of
an appeal to the Synod.
The Cincinnati papers are giving accounts
of the opening of the new Southern Railroad
from that city to the Kentucky river, where
there is said to be the highest railroad bridge
yet built. 1t is 275 feet high, having three
spans, the middle one 375 feet long, and the
others 300 each, the total length being 1,l25
feet. There is bridge in Switzerland which