Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-15
A REVOLUTIONARY REL1c.-Bridgeto

A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.-Bridgeton
N. j., boasts of negro inhabitant named
Jeremiah Welles, who is 112 years old. He
was born in 1866, in the old tavern kitchen
at Cantwell's Bridge, on the Appoquimink
creek, in St. Georges Hundreds, Newcastle
county, Delaware, and when mere babe was
sold as slave by his father to the proprietor
of the tavern. At the age of nine he was
sold to Mr. Abey Cole, with whom he lived
in bondage for twenty.six years. He remem'
bers the breaking out of the war of the Rev.
olution, and has a perfect recollection OF
many occurrences of those stirring times. Du.
ring his slavery days with Cole he married
and raised four children, three of whom are
living now. In 1889 he married Miss Su'
sannah Buck, he being seventy-three and she
eighteen years of age, by whom he had one
daughter. With this daughter, who is thir.
ty.fve years of age, he now lives. The old
negro shows the marks of his great age in his
shriveled skin and attenuated body. AL
though he has drunk whisky and used tobac-
co all his life he does not betray any Inarks
of dissipation. He has deep chest, sinewy
limbs and a strong, clear voice, while the
grasp of his hand is as firm and steady as it
was half century ago. His eyesight, how
ever, is very poor. Twelve years ago, the
one hundredth anniversary Of his birth, he
was made citizen Of the United States.
The NEwsPAPER.-Some one who seems
to know about the relation of good newspa-
per to the family, writes as follows: "The
strong attachment of subscribers to well.con-
Quoted newspapers is fully confirmed by pub
fishers. Stop my paper words of dread to
beginners in business, lose their terror after q
paper has been established for term of
years. So long as paper pursues just,
honorable and judicious course, meeting the
wants of its customers in all respects, the ties
of friendship between the subscriber and the
paper are as hard to break by an outside
third party as the link which binds old friends
in business or social life. Occasional defects
and errors in newspaper are overlooked
by those who have become attached to it,
through its perusal for years. They some
times become dissatisfied with it on account
of something which has slipped into its col
umns, and may stop taking it; but the ab.
sence of the familiar sheet at their homes and
Offices for few weeks becomes an insupport-
able privation, and they hasten to take 1t
again, and possibly apologize for having it
stopped. No friendship on earth is more con.
slant than that contracted by the reader for
the journal that makes an honest and earnest
effort to merit its continued support Hence
a conscientiously conducted paper becomes
favorite in the family"
STILL HAPPY.-For the past two weeks q
Woodward avenue druggist has put up a pre-.
scription of some kind or other about four
times day for certain small boy, besides
filling orders for large variety of patent
medicine and porous plasters. The sales were
all cash, but the druggists curiosity was at
length aroused, and he said to the lad
"Got sickness in the family?"
KINDER was the reply.
"Your father?"
"Yes-ali but me. Ma is using the plas-
ters for a lame side and taking the tonic for
q rash which broke out on her elbows. Pa
takes the troches for tickling in the throat,
and uses the arnica on his shin. Louise uses
that catarrh snuff and the cough medicine.
Bill wants the brandy for sprained ankle,
and the squills are for the baby. That's all
but grandma, and this prescription is to re-
leve the pain in her chest and make her
sleep harder"
"Rather unfortunate family" remarked
the druggist.
"Wel, kinder, but pa says it's cheaper
than going to the springs, and so we plaster
up and swallow down and feel purity happy,
after ALL
CUR1os1T1Es OF KANSAS PLAINs.-A Kan"
sas correspondent says: "In travelling over
these prairies many interesting phenomena
are to be observed. Here in many places are
to be seen the prickly cactus, the sage bush
and the sand-hll plum-so much written