Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-14
Straps aud fafts.

whom requsition has been issued by Gov
ernor Hampton, has fled to Canada.
The State Geologist of Georgia asserts
that its gold region is richer than that of
California, and says that its yield must very
soon become enormous.
The latest Cabinet rumor is that Post
master.General Key is going to resign and be
succeeded by Postmaster James, of New York,
the mutual friend of Evarts and Conkling,
while Evarts, himself will soon follow Keys
example.
The late Pope Plus TX was once in this
country. He was shipwrecked on the North
Carolina coast, near where the Metropolis
and Huron disasters occurred, and just before
the wreck his vessel put in at Norfolk for
water.
There are $4,000 miles of telegraph wire
in the United States, and $3.50 Offices, or one
mile of line to every thirty-six square miles of
area. England has $4,000 miles of line and
$500 offices, or one mile of line to every
one and half miles of area. Russia has 81
500 miles of line and 900 Offices, or one mile
of line to over $50 square miles of area.
A deplorabe state of affairs exists in one
of the counties of Minnesota. In the past
two years 1890 acres of growing wheat have
been ruined by grasshoppers, and now the
farmers, who have 10000 acres ready for
seeding, say that unless the grain is furnish
ed them by the State, they cannot plant more
than one-half of the land prepared
The practice of advertising little now
and then may be of some benefit, but as con-
temporary remarks, "it is only a drop in the
bucket compared with standing advertise
ment in the columns of an influential and
respectable newspaper" All the prosperous
business men of to-day, who have made their
money legitimately, have done it by steady,
persistent advertising
The walls and buildings of the North
Carolina penitentiary are being rapidly con-
structed. They are of granite, taken from the
quarry within the penitentiary. The whole
structure is expensive, magnificent and grand
in its proportions About three hundred con-
victs are within the walls, including ten wo-
men the remainder are working on rail-
roads.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of the
late President Lincoln, is living secluded
life in an interior town in France, and de-
clines to return to America, lest she may
again be placed in lunatic asylum. 1t is
said in France she still indulges. to a moder-
ate extent in her propensity for buying things
for which she has no use, and filling closets
with articles wholly unnecessary.
A Virginia paper says that there is
constant decline in recei pts from the bell
punch in that State, either because the novel
ty of having drinks registered has worn off
and fewer are taken, or because barkeepers
are learning to evade the law. The Misss-
sippi Senate has passed bill for the intro
ducton of the punch into that State, and a
legislative committee in Louisiana have re-
ported fsvorably on similar bill.
Leading members of Congress prophesy
that the present session of that body will last
till August. Both houses are further behind
with routine business than ever known in any
preceding Congress. A Washington CORES
pondent says the members are generally llv-
ing cheaply this session and can afford to stay
longer 1t is subject of remark that fewer
members are living at the expensive hotels
this winter than ever before. Many have ta-
ken lodgings where the bills are not over $50
month. Some are living for $40.
- The following successful experiment is
reported A Frenchman is to be credited
with discovery, that if mortar is likely to
peel of, the tendency can be prevented by
substituting saw dust for hair in the original
mixture He had previously tried in vain to
make mortar that would stay in place on
building exposed to damp winds near the sea-
shore. After frequent renewing the mortar
in the old way, he tried the use of saw dust
that had been thoroughly dried, and its coar-
ser portions removed by sitting.
- The recent experiments testing the effect
of music on the inmates of the insane asylum
on Blackwell's Island, seem to substantiate
the following conclusions Rhythm was found
to affect all whose vital natures were suscepti-
ble melody affected those whose emotional
natures were still susceptible harmony affect
ed only those whose intelligence had been de-
veloped and was not utterly extinct This is
in accordance with the accepted functions of
these three musical elements-rhythm repre-
senting vitality; melody spirituality; har-
mony, mentality.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the necessary order for carrying out the pro-
visions of the Silver Bill. The coinage will
commence in Philadelphia within a very
short time, and in San Francisco and Carson
City within the present month. 1t is found
that the bill makes no provisions for the
mode of issue of the silver after it is coined,
leaving it entirely to the discretion of the
Secretary. Upon this point, additional leg
islation is necessary. The President feels
badly at the haste in which the bill was pass.
ed over his veto. He characterizes it as Gin
decent haste"
The Hartwell Georgia. Sun says: "The
election of Col. Thomas Thomson, of Able
vile, S. c., as Judge, calls to our mind his
politeness, which he exerted to rather an un-
usual extent during the war. He was colo.
mel for time of the Second South Carolina
Rifles, of which we were member, and when
about to make charge at the head of his
regiment, on one occasion, addressed the boys
as follows: Gentlemen, are you ready? If
you are, please be so kind as to charger His
knowledge of tactics was not equal to his
knowledge of law. We have known him to
order the regiment to Order arms, right face,
countermarch and follow nae right around
this way, gentlemen.
- The commissioner of agriculture is still
pursuing, on an extensive scale, his efforts to
Introduce the culture of the tea plant through
out those portions of the United States adapt
ed to its growth. Thousands Of the plants
which have been set out in pots in the depart
ment lighthouses are in the most hourising con-
dition and growing rapidly. The commits
sioner is receiving applications all the time
from citizens living in the South for the
plants. A letter was received at the depart
mept from lady of Georgia who has for ten