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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

THETEA PLANT-About twenty-five years
ago DR.. Junius Smith, native of Massachu-
setts, who resided at Greenville, South Caro-
lina obtained some tea-seed from daughter
who visited the East Indies, and demonstra.
ted that tea could be grown in the Southern
States. In 1857 and '58, the Patent Office
distributed some plants and seeds, and a mum.
Der of them are living and growing, furnishing
for their owners a home-supply of "the bever.
age which cheers without inebriating."
Gen. LeDuc, the present efficient Commis.
sioner of Agriculture, has examined this sub
ject with great care and is convinced that the
tea consumed by the United States might be
raised here, thus producing what now costs us
about twenty millions Of dollars in coin. he
has imported plants and seed Cor rather nuts
from China and from Japan, and is now fur
nishing the plants to such parties in the Car.
olinas and Georgia as will carefully cult
vate them. Next year the tea.plants will be
aent small l-numhars- to ANY part -af- -tha
country where it is fairly probable success
can be attained. The Chinese and japanese
expend a great deal of manual labor in heat.
ing, rolling and drying tea leaves, and many
have thoug ght that the cost of this labor here
will prevent the culture of tea. But if some
plants can be grown, some ingenious Yankee
will soon patent machine for manipulating
the leaves. The cotton-gin, the moving ma
chine and the telephone show that the in
ventive genius of Americans is also equal tc
any emergency.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

Of went the dark wig and the black whis
kers-there smiled thedear face she had new
er forgotten. leave you to imagine the tab
leau-even the cat gotup to look, Bowse sal
on his stump of tail,iand wondered whether
he was on his heels or' bis head. The little
widow gave one scream, and then said
But stop! Quiet people like you and me
dear reader, who have got over all these fol-
lies, and can do nothing but turn up our nos
es at them, have no business here. will
only add that two hearts we're very happy;
that Bowse concluded after while that all
was right, and 80 laid down to sleep again
and that not great yhile afterward there
was a wedding at the: house that made the
neighboring farmers sstare. Widow Cobb
had married her first Rover
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

Mr.. STEPHENS INDEPENDENcE.-In view
of some of Mr.. Stephens recent public acts,
and more especially his well-known opposition
to the election investigation now progressing,
he has written letter to the chairman of the
Democratic executive committee of the
Eighth Congressional District of Georgia, in
which he says he shall neither seek nor de-
cline nomination at the hands of the con-
vention to meet; but if, he says, "the conven.
tion shall repudiate me as an unfit represen-
tative of Democratic principles, and shall
attempt to rule me out of the Democratic
party because of anything connected with my
recent public acts or sentiments, then say to
you and to them plainly and distinctly that I
shall regard their edict as but brutem full
men, issued by an irresponsible faction of
tricksters, and the question whether 1 or
they are sound in the faith of the fathers
shall be left for the true Democracy of the
ulsrflur 70 serrI5 ar the polls. II this shali
produce any division or dissension in -tha
party, then the responsibility for the conse-
quences must rest upon those who have so as
sailed and so grossly misrepresented me-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

WHY He NEVER WORE A CoLLAR-Tt
was fact observed by many, that Governor
Briggs for several years before his death nev.
er wore collar. When he was the honored
chief magistrate of Massachusetts he appear
ed at his levees and on all public occasions
without a collar. There was comparatively
few who knew the reason for this. But the
secret is most interesting and suggestive. He
had neighbor, whom he very highly esteem.
ed, who had fallen into the habit of using
intoxicating liquor. He was already the
slave of appetite. Governor Briggs remon.
strated with him. The man replied, 81 will
never drink again, if you will never wear a
collar again." "Agreed," said the governor:
The man gave up the Intoxicating cup, and
the governor laid aside his collar. He never
wore it again, but he saved his neighbor.
The adverse criticisms to which this seeming
lack of attention to his dress and personal
appearance exposed him, never moved him
from his purpose.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

HORSE BEEF.-The use of horse.hesh as
an article of diet has spread from France,
Belgium and Italy to England, and the first
shop for its sale on the island has just been
opened in London. The event created great
excitement in the neighborhood, and the de-
monstrations of aversion on the part of
large and not particularly cleanly mob were
go pronounced that large force of police
men had to be called upon to keep order.
Sides of horse, donkey and mule, decorated
with tinsel and holly, and certified by a We.
terinary surgeons certificate to be those of
healthy animals, hung around the shop,
forming the background to a large display of
joints, sausages, etc. Most of the purchasers
were foreigners, who had before formed the
acquaintance of this sort of meat in their ma.
tive countries.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20
LEAD PENCILS.

A lead pencil is in itself small affair, but
considered as manufactured product, it rises
into much Importance. To start first class
factory with improved machinery and stock
of well.seasoned wood, requires capital of
about 100000; ground covered is about
half an acre, chiefly occupied by drying
houses for the storage of red cedar. The
Florida red cedar is most used in this coun-
try and in Europe-some "iben" wood, as
the Germans call it, or English yew, is used
in Germany-white pine is occasionally used
for common grade of carpenters pencil
The "lead" Of the pencils is the wellknown
graphite or plumbago; the best of this is the
natural, found in pure state in masses large
enough to cut into strips. Of this there is
but one mine now up to the standard, which
is in Asiatic Siberia, and pencils made from
this graphite are all one grade, and pay fifty
cents per gross special, and thirty per cent.
ad valorem duty. The Cumberland mines in
England were the first discovered, but are
now almost exhausted.
What was formally refuse in cutting the
graphite is now ground, cleaned and refined,
and then mixed with fine clay. In mixing
the clay and graphite great care must be
taken in selecting and cleaning the clay and
getting the proper proportions; the mixture
with water after being we'll kneaded is placed
in a large receiver and strong ly compressed
and forced out through small groove in the
bottom, in the shape of thread the thick
ness and style required-either square, octa-
gon or round. This thread or lead wire is
cut in bars of proper length (done by little
girls) and then Strengthened, dried at mod
crate heat and packed in air.tight crucibles
and placed in the furnaces the grade of the
lead depends upon the amount of clay used
in mixing and the quality of the plumbago.
The colorng of the lead is by various pig
ments.
The wood after being thoroughly seasoned
is cut into thin strips and dried again, then
cut into strips pencil length. These strips
are grooved by machinery, then carried on a
belt to the glueing room, where the lead is
placed in the groove, and the other half OF
the pencil glued on. After being dried un-
der PRESSURE they are sent to the turning
room and rounded, squared or made octagon
by very ingenious little machine, which
passes them through three cutters and drops
them ready for polishing or coloring-the
former is done on lathes by boys, and the lat
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

ter by machine which holds the brush and
turns the pencils fed to it through hopper.
After the pencil is polished, it is cut the ex-
act length by circular saw and the end is
cut smooth by drop knife, the pencil resting
on an iron bed.
The stamping is done by hollow die,
which is heated; the gold or silver foil is
then laid on the pencil, which rests in an iron
bed, and the die is then pressed on it by a
screw lever. The pencils are then ready to
go to the packing room, whence they find their
way to all parts of the civilized world, at
prices ranging from two dollars to twenty
dollars per gross.-American Exchange and
Revieu.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

THE ROMANCE OF NEEDLE. WoRK-The
needle has been many an imprisoned queens
best friend. To it she has owed the power Of
cheating the long, weary hours out of some OF
their tedum. Mary, Queen Of Scots, found
this art of needle work, which she had acquired
when girl in the convent, and later practiced
in the Court of Catherine Medicis, solace
and beguilement to her dreary captivity. Du.
ring the early part of her confinement she
was asked how in unfavorable weather she
passed the time. She replied that all the day
she wrought with her needle, and that the di.
versity of the colors made the work seem less
tedious and she continued so long at it till
every pain gave over. Marie Antoinette pas.
sed the weary hours of her imprisonment in
needle"work, knitting, or tapestry. work with
her daughters; and when at one time there
came the order to remove all kinds of instru-
ments usually taken from criminals, the un.
happy queen and princesses were the more SEN
sible to the loss of their knitting-needles and
all the little articles used in their embroidery,
as they were in consequence forced to give up
all the feminine handiwork which had be-
guled their prison hours. After the Empress
Josephine was divorced, she kept sort of
domestic court at Navarro or Malmaison,
where she and her ladies worked daily at
their embroidery. The bangings of the salon
at Malmaison were entirel y the work Of her
own needle, and were of white silk embroider-
ed in roses. Surely there were thorns in those
roses! 1t is said the ex-Empress Eugenie is
an accomplished artist in needle.werk and
embroidery. During the past few years she
has spent her days in working set of vest
ments for the little chapel where she worships,
and also stool and cushion for the use of
the priest. So jealous is the fair devotee Of
sharing the pious task with other hands, it is
said, that she will not allow another needle
but her own to set stitch upon the work.
Harper's Razar.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

A BOYS AFFECTION FOR HIS MOTHER
Next to the love of her husband, nothing so
crowns a woman's life with honor as this sec.
ond love, the devotion of the son to her. And
I never yet knew boy to "turn out" badly
who began by falling in love with his moth
er. Any man may fall in love with fresh
faced girl, and the man who is gallant to the
girl may cruelty neglect the poor and weary
wife, But the big boy who is lover of his
mother at middle age is true knight, who
will love his wife as much in the sere-leaf
Autumn as he did in the daised Spring.
There is nothing so beautifully chivalrous as
the love of big boy for his mother.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20
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I'M STILL A FRIEND TO YOU.

I'm STILL A FRIEND TO YOU.
All! years have come and gone, dear Tom,
The past seems like dream,
Since you and together met,
Down by the winding stream:
When hand in hand we promised, Tom,
To each we would be true;
Old time has made no change in me,
I'm still friend to you.
How often have wept, dear Tom,
When thinking DER the joys,
The happy scenes of long ago,
When you and were boys;
But now Pm told you are very poor,
And your days in life are few,
It gives me joy to meet you, Tom
I'm still friend to you.
Old friendship often withers, Tom,
Wheneer man grows poor,
The rich and proud forget "old friends"
And know them then no more.
But keep that honest heart Of yours,
Well make old friendship new;
care not what the world may say,
Pm still friend to you.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

The WOMEN INDIGNANT.-Thea action O.
Judge Hilton in his management and subse
quent closing of the Working Women's Ho
tel, erected by Mr.. Stewart, has evoked al
earnest protest from the fair sex of New York
Nor is the indignation confined to working
women alone, but all classes of female society
manifest their resentment. One of the larg
est mass meetings ever held in New York foi
the past ten years was held in the large hall
of the Cooper Institute one evening last week
to protest against Judge Hilton's conduct
and what the participants in the meeting
characterized as his insults to the sex gener'
ally. Mrs. DeLozier presided, and addresses
were delivered by Mrs. Matilda Fletcher, Of
Iowa; Mrs. Lettie Devereaux, Blake and
others.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
manner in which the enterprise had been
conducted, but exonorating Mrs. Stewart
from all blame, and laying all the fault Of
the matter at the door of Judg &c Hilton, who
was characterized as the evil genius Of sordid
gains, that presides over Stewards vast COM
mercial enterprise.
The following document has been placed in
active circulation, both in New York and
Brooklyn "The ladies are so much trouble
to Judge Hilton. Until FIVE years after date,
we shall not buy anything at Stewards store,
in consequence Of the unmannerly insinua'
ton regarding the management and failure
of the Women's Hotel, hoping that in that
time the managers thereof may better learn
the characteristics of American women.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

PROPOSED EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS
The rumor that Governor Hampton, when
recently in Washington, consented to an ar.
rangement with the President whereby the
prosecutions in this State would be discontin.
ued on condition that the General Govern.
ment would discontinue all prosecutions un-
der its authority for political offences in
South Carolina, is contradicted in the fol-
lowing Washington telegram to the Baltimore
Sun:
"Governor Hampton remained in Wash
ington several hours, on bis way home from
Baltimore. While in Washington he had a
brief interview with the President His pur-
pose in calling on the President was simply
to intercede with him for the pardon of sever
al persons now confined in the Albany Peni-
Tertiary who were convicted and sentenced
during the Ku.Klux prosecutions in South
Carolina a number of years ago. Governor
Hampton has reason to believe, and so rep
resented to the President, that the persons in
whose behalf he spoke were convicted with
out due cause. The President assured him
that the cases should all have his attentive
consideration, and that if he ascertained that
executive cemency was merited he would
not hesitate to extend it. During the inter-
view all political illusions were avoided by
mutual consent.
"A suggestion was made short time ago
that if the State authorities of South Carroll.
ma would discontinue the prosecutions against
the late Carpet.bag officials then the General
Government would discontinue all prosecu-
tions under its authority for political offences
in South Carolina. Governor Hampton, be-
fore leaving Washington, spoke of this propo-
sition, which, by the way, it is understood,
did not emanate, from any authorized official
source, and said that it could not for a mo-
ment be entertained, that the execution ofthe
laws, either State or National, was not tit
subject to make commerce Of"
DEATH OF A MILL1oNAIRE.-Charles Nor
gan, who died in New York, on Wednes-
day, in his eighty. fourth year, leaving a for.
tune of about $10,OOO,OO0, was a native of
Connecticut having been born at Clinton,
New London county. He was compelled to
support himself from his fourteenth year, and
by 1886 was in control of such large steam
ship enterprises that he built the Morgan Iron
Works in order to construct his own gines
and boilers. His steamboat.line holds al
most monopoly of the Gulf traffic, and to
further its capacities he, some years ago,
bought the New Orleans, Opolousas & Great
Western Railroad, paying s2,050,00O for it,
and spending 100000 more in improving
it.
These enormous outlays we're only part
of what be spent upon the Texas lines. The
Berwick, or inside route to Texas, was diff
cult because of shoal water of the ALchafa-
laya bays. A ten-footed channel to the sea
became necessary. This work was finished
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

MORE ELECTION INVESTIGATIONS Pro.
PosED-In the United States Senate on the
9th, Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, submitted the
following resolution:
RESOLVED, That in order that all the facts
connected with the Presidential election of
1876, and the result thereof which was finally
reached may be made fully known to the
American people, that select committee of
eight Senators be appointed and instructed to
inquire and investigate all charges of fraud,
illegalty, intimidation, violence and other OBJ
stacles to free and honest suffrage occurring
at said election in the States of South Carroll
ma, Florida and Louisiana, and also into all
similar charges which said committee may
deem of sufficient gravity concerning said
election IN &futbama, rfissisoippiJ Oregon; or
any other States also into all circumstances
which they may deem expedient to investi-
gate connected with the Presidential Electo-
raj count, in the Forty. Fourth Congress also
into all circumstances of dissolution of the
Legislature and government in the State Of
Louisiana, known as the Packard govern.
ment, and the establishment Of the Legisla.
ture known as the Nichols Legislature, and
to ascertain whether or not such dissolution
of one government and establishment of the
other, was in consequence of any acts or
transactions occurring prior to March 4th,
1877, and through what persons or agencies,
if any. such result was accomplished, and that
said committee have power to appoint sub
committees, employ clerks and stenographers,
administer oaths, to send for persons and pa
pers, examine witnesses, to sit during recess,
with all the powers of full committee of the
Senate, and that the expenses thereof be paid
from the contingent fund of the Senate.
Mr.. Bayard, of Delaware, moved to let the
resolution lay over and be printed when Mr..
Spencer gave notice that he would call the
resolution every day until a vote upon it
should be reached,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

The GREENWOOD AND AUGUSTA RAIL
RoAD.-In a recent communication, Mr.
Bradley, President of the above road, says:
II regard the completion Of the road fixed
fact. We have now seventeen miles of the
grading finished on this side of the river.
The entire length of the road from Green
wood to the Savannah is forty-six and FIVE
sixteenth miles. The actual work is fully
one.third done. The contract for erecting
splendid iron bridge at the river has been
awarded to reliable contractors, who are now
casting the iron for the structure. We think
we get it remarkably cheap, $4,000. TIE
cost of grading is only five hundred dollars
mile. The highest grade of the road is
sixty.one feet. The grade Of many new roads
is now over two hundred feet to the rnile.
The improved machinery of the present day
enables railroad officials to run their trains
with ease on much greater grades than form
erly. Some of the new roads in Nevada
have grade of two hundred and ten feet to
the mile, and the trains move on this grade
around the curves of the Rocky Mountains
at what we would call fearful speed. We
make our road more level, because we can
then use cheaper machinery"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

A CHINESE ToPER.-A story is current
among the Chinese of a great wine drinker,
who was able to sit on all the day at table,
and after consuming what would have been
sufficient to drive the reason out Of half q
dozen men, would rise up, perfectly sober.
The emperor hearing the fame of this deep
drinker, asked him to dinner, that he might
test his marvellous powers As the story goes,
the king had ordered hollow figure to be
cast in bronze, of the exact size and model of
this man, and, as the wine was served, for
each cup that the guest drank, similar cup
was poured into the opening on the top of the
head of the image. This went on for some
hours, until at length the bronze statue over
t9oaoed while the guest continued at the table,
and rose from it perfectly sober.
SOMETHING NEw.-A scientific wonder
equal to the telephone, is reported from France,
though, unfortunately the details are not so
cerefully given as to make the matter entire
ly Ineligible. 1t is called the "electric mir
ror," and consists of a number Of rehectors so
arranged along a railroad line that in each
is seen the movement of every train on the
road. 1t is stated that in the mirror set up
at the station at the end of the line can be
seen picture of everything going on over
100 miles of road, though how electricity is
brought into the case is not clearly stated, but
after telephones and monographs we ought
not, perhaps, to doubt that wonders may be
wrought by electricity on simple mirrors to
greatly increase their rejecting powers
CABBAGE WoRMs.-Mr. J. Y. Whitted
tells us he tried last summer, with good effect,
mixture of three parts of unslacked lime
and one part fine salt, busted on cabbage
plants when the dew was on in the morning.
The worms were completely conquered. Last
year was remarkably fruitful year for
worms, and cabbage plants looked as if they
were riddled with buck.shot. The above
remedy is cheap and simple, and ought to
have trial by every gardener.-Hiasboro
Recorder,
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KILLING OF CITIZEN BY REVENUE OF-
F1cERs.-A dispatch to Collector Brayton,
received in Columbia on the 10th instant,
gives the following account of the killing OF
Amos Ladd, an Illicit distiller in Pickens
county: Officers Kane, Durham, Moore and
Scruggs, while on an expedition through the
mountains in search of reported "stills," went
to the house of woman named Ladd, who is
generally supposed to be an illict wife Of Red
mond, the notorious outlaw. Here they
found Amos Ladd, the woman's brother and
one of the party who broke into the Pickens
jail several weeks ago. The officers at once
attempted to arrest Ladd, and he resisting, a
struggle ensued, in the course of which Ladd
tried to kill Kane and was himself fred upon
and mortally wounded by officers Kane and
Durham.
As soon as the probable fatal result of the
struggle became manifest, the four officers re-
turned to Greenville the same day and sur
rendered themselves to the civil authorities at
that place to await trial. The shooting took
place about II o'clock Sunday morning, the
9th. Immediately upon reaching Greenville,
oHiU1r Kuu1 repUrred the circumstances by
telegraph to Collector Brayton, who prompt
ly submitted his information to Governor
Hampton.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20

FIVE years ago. Passenger steamers now ply
between Galveston and Brashesr through q
channel six miles long, 200 feet wide and
ten feet deep, in which formerly there were
barely two feet of water, and very shifting
bottom. This vast undertaking took two
years and cost $2,O00,0O00.
The marvellous feature of all this aggrega-
ton of capital and enterprise is that it was
created and managed from first to last by
himself. He never had partners after his
prosperity rendered him independent of out.
side capital. During the nearly seventy
years of his business life he seldom failed to
spend brief summer vacation in his native
town. In 1870, he make to it the only con-
siderable benefaction of his life, by presenting
it with handsome school building, which
bears his name. This was built and endowed
at cost of 100000.