Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-31
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deep gratitude, and has done more for the fra
ternization of which many idly prate, than
would many volumes of rhetorical assurance
off it cost anything" says thinker, who
pleases US, "to 60 to church, people who never
20 now would run around like wild men
for free passes" The remark resembles that
made by Madame DeSteal, who said in effect
that if water was only as rare and as dear as
wine it would be the most exquisite beverage
known to humanity.
Apples are so plentiful in New Hampshire
and prices so low, that the farmers cannot at
ford to pay for picking them. Barrels, on
the contrary, are in such demand that when
some thieves entered barn in South Sea-
brook the other night, they emptied the ap'
ples upon the barn floor and carried of only
the barrels.
The bark Azor, belonging to the Liberian
Emigrant Association, arrived IN London on
the 9Th instant. She experienced quite
rough trip, however, being for seventeen days
in very rough weather, with gale OF wind
blowing during large portion of the time.
She will leave London for Charleston, on the
first of November.
-"Honest" John j. Patterson is political
prophet of no mean ability. He gives it as his
opinion that the Democrats will carry every
county in South Carolina except, possibly,
Beaufort, and is positive that not single
Republican will be elected to Congress-. he
unkindly adds that president Hayes is re-
sponsible for all this-his Southern policy has
crushed out the Republican party OF South
Carolina"
Gen. Jos E. Johnston is having some
trouble with an independent who is opposing
him for Congress, in the Richmond, Va, DIS
trict. A circular, addressed to the Irish
American voters of the district, has been lssu;
ed, which charges that General Johnston had
two young Irishmen, of Hayes Louisiana
brigade, shot Just after the first battle of Ma
nassas, for some slight insubordinatlon, IN
spite of the earnest entreaties of Beauregard
and others. 1t further states that brother
of one of the men vowed vengeance, and shot
Johnston through the shoulder during the
battle of Seven Pines. .
- 1t is quite probable, as the London Spec
tator suggests, that gas will survive the elec-
trio light, lust as horses have survived the
introduction of railroads. 1t may develop
more highly special utilities, as for cooking
and lighting interiors, however practicable
electricity may be for streets. But at present
it costs twelve times as much to light the new
avenue of the opera at Paris by electricity, as
by gas. The above journal says that the
greatest rival to gas in London is "parattin,
which is hawked about all our back streets
daily like milk"
A private letter from Mogador, gives a
fearful account of the famine in Morocco.
It saws: "The famine here to the southwark
has been, and still is, something frightful.
You may see living skeletons OF men, women
and children cropping in foul refuse heaps
for hideous bits of o6al. Down at the wa
terport, poor starving wretches are constantly
scratching and sitting sand, dust and mud for
stray grains of rice or barley, Beggars swarm
in the streets, corpses are often seen, and
smallpox is horribly rife among the poor folk,
who all huddle together. Sick, sound and
dead may be seen lying together in foul fe-
lid dens."
Secretary Sherman says that there is not
the slightest anxiety in his mind regarding
the success of resumption on the IND OF JAN
nary neyt On that day the assistant treasu, nut,
coin for greenbacks, in sums OF fifty dollars
or its multiple, to all who come. He said 1t
would be impossible for spectators to make
any trouble or embarrass the government IN
carrying out the law. 1t is possible that they
may carry gold up point or two, but this
will not interfere with resumption. The Sec
retary says there are now in the vaultsi New
York over SlOO,OO0,OO0 in gold coin, to say
nothing of silver, and that by the first of Jan
uary there will be at least $135, 100000 of
coin to begin resumption with. The Secreta.
ry wishes that every important question OF
the government were as easily disposed OF as
the resumption of specie payments.
The Springfield Republican very justly
thinks that it will not do for the North, any
longer, to hold up its hands in horror over
the disposition of the South to indulge in
lynch law. 1t is only few days ago that a
negro. guilty of an aggravated assault on a
white, girl narrowly escaped lynching in An
sonia, Conn. about the same time Stephen
Wade, a black man of 60, out in Drake
County, Ohio, was taken out of bed and shot
down by party of masked men for stealing ;
q few weeks earlier mob in Sandusky, Ohio,
took q negro murderer from the officers and
hung him to lamp post and now comes the
latest and most shocking case from Posey
county, Indiana, where four negroes were
hanged, and one negro and three white men
shot to death. Judge Lynch has left the
South and gone on the New England and
Western circuits
The canny Scotchman is wary and pru-
dent even in his dealings with Divine Provi-
dence. At the Glasgow Presbytery, fort
night ago, motion came up under the rules
for the appointment of day of thanksgiving
for peace and for an abundant harvest. The
Afghan complications having broken out sud-
denly, and peace being by no means assured,
the author of the motion suggested that 1t
would be well to postpone thanking the Al,
mighty for peace while the present state OF
things lasted. The word "peace" would have
been removed from the motion, but tor the
prompt application of the Scotch love OF
hair-splitting, by which it was unanimously
resolved that the thanks to the Almighty tor
neace should be offered on the express under
standing that the peace was the peace OF Ber-
lin. and had no reference whatever to the
present complications and impending war in
Afghanistan.
A New York letter of Tuesday says ::
"The indications are that planters will lose a
good deal of money on their cotton crop, while
the factors and merchants will escape. Re-
ceipts are now pouring in upon this and foreign
markets; decline has already taken place
that no one dared to predict two months ago,
and on this declining market the heaviest re-
ceipts Of the year will soon begin to fall.
Awhile ago the planters could have sold their
cron in this market on contract delivery at