Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-08
The PoRaY FIsHERY.-The process o1

The PoRaY FIsHERY.-The process of
catching porgies, carried on by large mum.
Der of steamers on this coast, is an exceeding.
ly interesting and novel sight. When
school is sighted, small boats 60 out with the
drag nets and surround it. The nets are then
gradually drawn in till the whole school,
which at first occupies several acres is massed
in a space of 20 or 80 feet. Then the steamer
runs alongside, part of the net is taken on
board, and the dip net set in motion. This
is shaped like bucket and holds five or six
barrels. 1t is attached to tackle and fall,
and works similar to the apparatus used for
unloading coal. 1t is operated by steam, and
with remarkable swiftness scoops up the fish
and transfers them to the hold of the steamer.
The net is emptied and filled three times per
minute, and in an hour the steamer can be
completely loaded. When the hold is filled,
the hatches are put on and the deck loaded.
The fish are white, and as they are poured
into the hold, glittering in the sun, all alive
and squirming, they present singular and
beautiful appearance. Some mackerel are
found mixed with them, as porgies are fre.
Guently found in schools of mackerel. Some
of the steamers have chartered schooners, to
which their fish are transferred as fast as they
are filled up. The princi pal porgy factories in
this State are at Bristol and Boothbay. The
fish are put into large tanks and steamed,
which reduces them to pulp, when the oil is
pressed out. The oil is obtained in much
better shape, as we'll as more thoroughly, BY
this method than could be done by pressing
the raw fish. The chum, as that which re.
mains after the oil is extracted is called, is
sold for 8 fertilizer. It is much improved BY
being mixed with ground bones. The porgy
fisheries are very useful.-Rockland (Maine)
Opinion.
ATRAMP's TERRIBLE R1DE.-A tramp who
arrived in Cheyenne few days ago from the
West, gives his experience in dead-heading it
over the Union Pacific from Cheyenne to
Green River, on one of the express trains,
by climbing upon the roof of the coach. He
Gays that from Cheyenne to Sherman he rather
enjoyed the ride, but that between Sherman
and Green River his experience was one never
to be forgotten. The rapid movement of the
train and the rocking of the coach forced him
to wind his arms and legs around a stove.pipe
and hang on for dear life. His hat flew of
early in the ordeal, and after the train left
this city he was discovered by the engineer,
who began throwing heavy shower of Gin.
ders but so rapid was the movement of the
train, that the heaviest ones merely cut
through his clothes like bullets, while the
lighter sparks passed above him. His coat
tails tapped so hard that he realized that he
must part with them, but he dare not loosen
hand to tuck them under him, and they
we're soon torn off to blow away. Although
he managed to keep his face behind the pipe
nearly all the time, he was frequently struck
in the face by flying cinders, so that when he
reached Green River his face and neck we're
badly cut and scratched. So great was the
poor tramp's fear of being thrown of and
killed, that this, added to the terrible strain
of hanging to the pipe by main strength for
so long distance, and the intense suffering
from the wounds inflicted by the cinders,
caused bis hair to turn gray, and when be
climbed down at Green River, he looked like
man who had seen fifty instead of twenty.
two summers.
ARTEMAs WARD.-No more amusing an.
ecdote is told of Artemas Ward than the fol.
lowing:
One day, while travelling in the cars and
feeling miserably, and dreading to be bored
by strangers, man took seat beside him
and presently said:
"Did you hear the last thing on Horace
Greeley?"
"Greeleyf Greeley ?" said Artemas. "Hor.
ace Greeley? Who is he?"
The man was quiet about five minutes.
Pretty soon he said:
"George Francis Train is kicking up good
deal of row over in England. Do you
think they will put him in the Bastile?"
"Train? Train? n?-George Francis Train r
said Artemas, solemnly. II never heard OF
him."
This ignorance kept the man quiet for
fifteen minutes then he said:
What do you think about General Grants
chances for the Presidency" Do you think
they will run him ?"
"Grant? Grant? Hang it, man." said
Artemas. "you appear to know more strangers
than any man ever saw.
The man was furious he walked up the
car but at last came back and said:
"You confounded ignoranus, did you ever
hear of Adam 7"
Artemas looked up and said, "What was
his other name?'
WHAT Is IT THAT KILLs2-Within hun
dred years persons have died at nearly two
centuries of age. St. Monagh, of Kentigen,
lived to 1856; the Countess of Desmond to
145; Thomas Parr to 152, and Henry Jen-
kins to 169. Within our own time Humboldt
died at 80; Lord Brougham at 50; Peter
Wright, of Philadelphia, at about the same
age. During the last year forty persons died
in New York, aged 80, and only few years
ago a clergyman, aged ia, preached sound
and sensible sermon. We have Earl Russell
writing books at 84. All these men we're &C.
tive workers in their lives, who either possess.
ed an iron constitution, or strictly observed
the laws of health. Brougham, when young
man, was considered the hardest drinker Of
his set, but then in later years he regulated
his appettes to suit his work. Men of genius
and ability, who drank deep or lived high,
have generally died comparatively young.
Witness Pitt, Fox, Poe, Coleridge, Byron,
Campbell, and many others. Indolence kills
more men than intemperance, and worry than
intellectual effort.
FOND OF THE FAM1LY.-Claiborne F. Jack.
son, a native of Kentucky, was once Cover
nor of the State of Missouri. He joined the
Southern Confederacy, and died, during bis
term, at farmhouse opposite the city Of Lit.
tie Rock, among strangers, with no Kind
hand of affection near to soothe his pain and