Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-21

anu CapdUle OI sedLluR IoTLy paSSeuSeTss Ahe
trains are often run at 35 miles an hour, with
no fear of accident. The gauge is but two
feet
SHRINKAGE OF EsTATEs.-But property
does not always "psn out" quite as we'll as it
looks. When Horace Greeley died his estate
was estimated at Sl5OOOO But Horace al
ways had poor head for business. and when
his executors came to examine the estate, they
found that a considerable part consisted Of
worthless paper. He had loaned money to
Tom, Dick and Harry, taking unindorsed
notes as security, and of course the money
never was paid back. The estate that was
valued at $15O,000 has melted down to about
$4,000. This does not include some Tribune
stock, which may ultimately be worth some
thing, but which cannot be sold at present.
Itseems the executors tried to sell it (such, at
least, is the report) but could not get bid
worth considering, so they decided to keep it
for possible future market. Mr.. Greeley's
estate is not, by any means, the only one that
has shrunk fearfuly in the settling up pro.
cess. There have been scores of instances in
the past few years, of property yielding but
fraction of what it was supposed to be worth,
and many heirs, who thought they we're com.
fortably provided for, have found, to their
sorrow, that they we're almost penniless when
the affairs of their fathers were Strengthened
out. The late Moses H. Grinnel was thought
to he q millionaire, but since his death it has
become known that the bulk Of his supposed
wealth was fictitious. The same state of af.
fairs was found to exist i'll the case of William
H. Aspinwall, who ranked among the rich
men, but died almost poor; and several other
heads of old families, who had the credit Of
being very rich, were found, after death, to
have lived upto the last dollar Of their means
1t is decidedly unpleasant for fashionable
heir expectant to realize, after waiting years
and years, to find that the old gentleman was
really almost bankrupt; but, somehow or 9TH
er, such is life, and that ends it. No use rail-
ing at fortune when the jade has flung you in
the ditch, kicked up her heels, and gone ca
vorting out Of sight
How TO HANDLE A GUN.-Guns should
always he carried ut half-cock, as then neith-
er blow on the striker nor pull at the
trigger will bring the former in action.
There is no necessity whatever for gun to be
otherwise than at the halfcock, unless game
is Immediately in front and. further, it may
no: be out of place to add, that it is dangerous.
when shooting in company, for the gun to be
swung around, in taking aim, with the finger Oh
the trigger. The eye should follow the line
of the flight, and the gun BE- raised at the
proper moment. Accidents from guns burst
ing are rare but caution is very necessary, in
getting over fences to see that no earth gets
lodged in the muzzle, or in winter time that
the latter does not get blocked up by snow
dropping from the bushes, or otherwise
These obstacles, although they may be easily
removed, are quite sufficient, if they remain,
to burst the strongest barrels when the piece
is fired. This is caused by the wonderful
velocity of the expanding gases. This ex.
pansion, which is said to be at about the rate
of 1000 feet per second, is the same in all
directions, and the least check at the muzzle
ofthe gun causes such sudden increased pres
sure on its sides that the latter are unable
to resist its effects, and are burst open. No
one is more cautious or scrupuously careful in
the use of his gun than an old sports.
man, and no one more readily than he, de-
tects and condemns carelessness in the manip
ulation of their guns in others