Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-01
Straps aud fatts.

sent one hundred and hve million yards OF
cotton goods abroad ten times more than was
exported the year before
- Hon. Alexander H. Stephens writes to q
friend in Washington, D. c., that his health
is better now than it has been for the past
twenty years, and he has no doubt but that
he will be returned to the next Congress.
A blunt philosopher says that the proper
time for girl to marry is after she has count
ed up her cash and found that she can sup
port herself in case her husband turns poll
tician.
Calvin Anderson, negro of Bellbuckle,
Tennessee, was the wrong man for lynching
party to attack. He killed the man who car
ried the rope, and wounded two others. They
were glad to let him 60. Bully for Calvin
On the night of the 23rd ultimo, farmer
near Faribault, Minnesota, shot and instant
ly killed tramp, whom he caught in the act
of setting fire to the harvesting machine in
his wheat field. He gave himself up, but
was instantly released.
Prof Grote, of Georgia, VIM. j. Jones,
of Virginia Point, near Galveston, E. H.
Anderson, of Mississippi, and Professor Com
stock, of Cornell University, have been ap-
pointed by the Agricultural bureau at Wash
ington, observers to study the cotton worm
during the present season.
- William Howchins, who resided near
Fluvana G. H., Va, on the 22nd ultimo,
murdered his wife, mother-in-law and one
child, and then committed suicide. A son Z
years old saw his father commence on his
mother and he took the baby out of the cra-
die and fled to place of safety.
Prof B. S. Hedrick, who, in 1856, was
removed from professorship in the N. G..
University, on account of his Abolition SEN
timents, and who now holds the position of
Examiner in the Patent office at Washing
ton, is under investigation charged with a
failure to be governed by official regulations,
and with using official stamped envelopes for
private purposes.
The ticket of the Texas Democrats, nom-
mated at the Austin convention, stands as fol-
lows For Governor, ChiefJ Justice, O. M.
Roberts; lieutenant-governor, Jos. D. Sayres !;
attorney general, George Mccormack; con-
troller, Stephen II. Darden treasurer, F. +.
Lubbock land commissioner, w. NJ. Walsh.
The convention was composed Of 1900 dele
Those newspapers which are too proud or
toe obstinate to retract any unjust or impro-
per language which they have admitted to
their columns, should profit by the example
ofan exchange, which gives notice as follows {:
"If any subscriber finds line in his paper
that he does not like and cannot agree with,
if he will bring the paper to the Office and
point out the offending line, the editor will
take his scissors and cut it out for him."
-Ex. Governor Woodson made speech at
the Missouri Democratic Convention in which
he said: "The man whom the Democrats
had elected to the Presidency, when the cr-
sis came, proved himself unequal to the con-
test. If he had had the courage of Wade
Hampton, of South Carolina, and had stated
to the people of the United States, you
have elected me to the first Office in your
gift. and, by the eternal God, will be Presi
dent, he would be President"
Patagonia is very attractive country.
It's climate is of the coolest, its men are of the
tallest, and its women are of the ugliest speci-
mems of the human race. Its mice are like.
wise gigantic, and the natives display an in
eradcable propensity to tell lies. This de.
lightful country is destined to become very
important, in consequence of the recent dis
covery of gold therein. From the Cordilleras
to the Atlantic. from Santa Cruz to Terra
del Fuego, the country teens with gold.
From the records of the War Depart
-ment at Washington statement has lately
been compiled, showing the total number of
men who served in the Federal armies during
the late war, their nativities, etc. The total
number of men in the late civil war, on land
and sea, was no less than 1852, ,401-consid-
erably more than one. third of the whole white
population of the Confederacy. Of these
lO4,943 we're in the navy, 17S,S95 were COL
ored troops, and $4,000 were re.enlistments; !;
leaving 2,110,000 white soldiers for land SER
vice.
The particular machine which excites the
ire of communistic tramps in the West is
new self.binding harvester, which is described
as a marvel of inventive genius, combining
with the reapipg of the grain the binding OF
it into bundles-thus dispensing with the
manual labor always hitherto indispensable
in harvesting. The manufacturers Of the ma.
chine find their sales completely stopped In
the West by The demonstrations of the work.
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notice thst their barns will be burned if they
dare to purchase one Of these enemies of
mankind, very naturally countermand their
orders rather than run the risk of incen-
darism.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company OBJ
jects to the forwarding of coin from the Pa
cific coast to Washington and New York on
government account as mail matter of the
third class over their several lines, because
of anticipated overlooking of the cars, the ad.
dtional responsibility and the transportation
of the additional number of employees required
as guards. The post Office department, in
answering the objections of the road, writes
that coin is properly mailable matter, within
the law, and if sent through the mails, the de-
partment, as far as it can consistently, will
observe the wishes of the road, and, if after
consideration the company declines the busl-
ness, the department will make other arrange
ments. Under Mr. Sherman's scheme for
transporting gold as third-class mail matter,
a four pound package, or $1,000, will cest
only 81 cents from San Francisco to New
York. The extra cost will fall on the post
Office, however.
- The Washington relics, for the purchase
of which Congress made an appropriation of
$4,000 at the last session, are expected to ar
rive at the Patent Office early next week.
This collection, which is quite large, embraces
several articles of furniture, chairs, two bed
steads, marble-top table, account books, ledger
in which Washington kept his own accounts
of profits and losses portrait of Washington
by Trumbull from which copies have been