Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-16
Strips aud fafts.

Baron Anderson, on being asked to give
his opinion as to the proper length of a SER
mon, replied, Twenty minutes, with a lean.
ing to the side of mercy"
- The will of Mr.. Land, late of Kentucky,
leaves his property to his wife, and specifies
that she can "marry again ifshe wants to." !"
And yet people sing about a land that is
fairer than this.
At a dog show in Baltimore, last week,
the dog that attracted the most attention was
the English setter, Paris, owned by H. l..
Smith, of Strathrow, Canada, and valued by
him at 100000.
Official returns made to the bureau of
statistics show that during the month ended
April 30, 1878, there arrived at the port of
New York 8,529 immigrants, of whom 5,266
we're males, and 3,263 females.
Every applicant for liquor license in
Alabama is now obliged to take an oath that
he will neither give nor sell any kind Of
liquor to a minor, or person Of unsound mind,
without permission from parent or guardian.
The intense competition of the lines of
steamboats, running up the Hudson river
to Albany and Troy, has eliminated in the
case of one of them in ten centfare for pas
sengers to and from those cities to New York,
distance of one hundred and fifty miles.
"A very good cheese is made of potatoes
in Saxony. The potatoes are boiled, reduced
to pulp, salted and mixed with sour milk,
when all is kneaded together and left for few
days. After this the substance is again
kreaded, and placed in little baskets to dry.
This cheese will keep, and is not likely to be-
come inhabited.
The fruit crop of the United States for
1877, amounted in value to $140,000,000, or
about one half of the outcome from bread
stuffs. Fruit of every species and climate
is now raised in this country The vine is
prospering finely and the oranges Of Florida
and California surpass those of Italy and
Spain.
In the course of recent interview, Bar
mum said: "My present show represents
nearly $1,50OOOO. The expenses are about
$4,000 day. pay my best rider 500 q
day, Sundays included acrobats and gym
nasts $50 to $1OO per week, according to
ability; clowns, from $3.50 to sl75 per week
pictorial printing this year, $4,000. My ex,
penses on my trip, three years ago. amounted
to S65O,OO0, and in that year, in six months,
the profit was 100000"
In New York city, on the 9Th instant, Ed
ward Megy, the recognized leader ofthe Com.
mune of that city, and who is said to be the
individual who caused the death of Archbish-
op Darboy of Paris, and Chief of Police Grey:
boy, was arraigned in court, charged with
threatening the life of Harvey W. Marks, an
attache of the World newspaper. Justice
Smith soundly lectured Megy, telling him that
the Commune was not an institution of this
country and its principles would not be tol-
Grated here. He held Megy in $500 bail
to keep the peace.
- Tie Springfield Republican says: "The
two most striking figures in American public
life to-day are the Republican President of
the United States, and the Democratic Cover
nor of South Carolina. The explanation is
very simple. President and Governor alike
have turned their backs upon the past, and
are blazing the way toward the future. The
people, weary of the past, and disgusted with
politicians who would still perpetuate its pre-
judices and animosities, are quick to recognize
the statesmen whose thoughts are occupied
with the future.
- The New York Herald publishes a state
ment showing that in 1865 there were thirty
thousand more shoe-makers in Massachusetts
than there are to-day, although the products
of that branch of industry in Massachusetts
exceed, by the enormous amount of $7l ,OOO,-
900, the production of 1865. This extraordi-
nary increase of product, with so great dim
mutton in the number of hands employed, is
of course attributable to the extensive intro
duction of the most approved labor-saving ma
chinery, and by which Massachusetts com.
msnds, to great extent, the markets of the
world in the shoe trade.
In Augusta, Georgia, on Wednesday of
last week, Jerry O. Harra, while asleep, was
shot and instantly killed by Robert Rufin.
Whisky was at the bottom of the trouble.
Both men, who were industrious workmen-
the victim being contractor and carpenter
commenced the day in friendship, and after
several libations, had a quarrel, when they were
separated, and O'Harra was taken to room
on Broad street, where he soon fell asleep
While thus lying unconscious, Rufin, inf1amed
by whisky, entered the room, and fred three
pistol balls into his body, inficting as many
wounds, either of which would have caused
death. Ruffin was arrested and committed
to Jail for trial.
- Hon. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, re-
minds his Democratic friends and fellow Con-
gressmen that if they succeed in proving, be-
yond doubt, that Mr.. Hayes had not been
elected legally, and the evidence should be
50 clear that he would resign, the result would
be to throw the election on the present House,
on the ground that there had been no cleo.
ton and no valid Inauguration. In that
CASE he told them that vote would be taken
by States, that the Republicans, having
majority of the States, would elect their Pres.
ident, and that "in the present attitude OF
events, and the peculiar position in which
the Republican party has been placed by the
relations between the present Executive and
the party leaders, the choice would inevitably
fall upon General Grant or Senator Blaine"
john N. Genin, noted New York mil.
lionaire halter, who used to have hat stand
under Barnum's old museum, twenty years
ago, died suddenly at his residence in that
CITY on Tuesday nj ght of last week, in his fif-
ty.ninth year. He bought at auction tor
1925 the first seat sold at Jenny Lind's hrst
concert in this country, and claimed that ne
made thousand times that sum out Of it.
AS an advertisement of his business, when
Kossuth visited this country in 1851, Genln
gave 81 900 for the expenses of bis reception,
and afterwards sold many thousand Kossuth
hats. The next year he cleaned Broadway
from Union Square to the Battery at bis own
expense, and continued doing it nightly un-
til he shamed the street commissioners into