Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

- The Baltimore postmaster paid his en-
ployes in gold, last Saturday. Several mer-
chants did the same thing.
- Within about fourteen months, 300 ap-
plcations for divorce have been made in St.
Louis Women are in the majority as plain
tfs.
- The New Jersey correspondent of the
New York Sun says that Governor Mcclellan
is undoubtedly candidate for the Presiden-
tial nomination by the Democracy of 1880.
- One of our business men, who never ad-
vertises, was asked by friend the other day
how business was, when he replied that it was
"like peddling peanuts in graveyard."-
Lockport Journal.
Two hundred workmen of the Ames'
Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Mass,
have attached the mill and machinery tor
wages, due from December, to the amount OF
$4,000. Other creditors have attached the
property, making the amount $4,000.
The Peabody fund, devoted to education
al purposes in the South, which in 1876 yield
ed an income of 100000, has produced only
100000 for 1877, and promises yet smaller
sum for 1878. Depreciation in real estate Is
the cause.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has discharged its ticket collectors and
sleeping car conductors and three hundred
first class mechanics. All the mechanics and
laborers kept in the service of the road are
to have their pay cut down fifteen per cent.
- Advices from England represent the iron
trade as being in most stagnant condition.
Large numbers of men are out Of work.
Within the last few days two of the leading
works in Rotterdam have stopped, owing to
a scarcity of orders, and about one thousand
additional men have been rendered idle.
- The well-known pianist and composer Of
piano-forte music, Franz Hunten, whose
"Method" has been studied by so many
Americans, and who was once the most sue
cessful and popular teacher in Paris, has
Just died at Coblenz, at the advanced age of
eighty-6ve
Texas has, 4,40O fugitives from justice,
with forty counties yet to hear from. Seven
hundred and fifty of these persons are muir
derers, and 100000 in rewards have been Of
fered for three hundred of them. One hum
dred thousand horses have been stolen in the
last three years.
- Isaac Adams died at Sandwich, N. H.,
on Wednesday of last week, leaving for
tune estimated at from four to six million
dollars. He bought what is known as the
Adams printing press from the inventor Tor Tor
an old gun, afterwards receiving S4oOOo
in gold for the use of it in England.
Ten years ago Mrs. Nicholas Weiss died
at Fort Wayne, Ind, and was buried near
the city. She was portly woman, weighing
about 200 pounds Lately her body was dis
inferred for the purpose of removal, and was
found to be petri6ed, weighing about 1000
pounds. The features were as natural as IN
life.
A colored preacher in Richmond, Va,
has knocked Galileo higher than kite: he
proved to the entire satisfaction of his dusky
and enthusiastic auditors, that the earth does
not revolve around the sun, but that as the
Bible says the sun moves, he believes it, and
reckons that Gods Book knows more about
it than an Italian Mathematician.
The Cincinnati Gazette publishes dispatch
from fifty. points in Southern Ohio, lndl'
ana, and Northern Kentucky, from which it
appears that the prospects for large crop of
wheat are exceedingly good. The acreage
sown last fall was larger than ever known.
Not one report is unfavorable, although
from few points there are apprehensions OF
rank growth.
The result in New Hampshire is at last
known. 1t gives Prescott, Republican, 94l
majority for Governor this year, and l,715
plurality. Last year he had 4O34 plurality
and 1853 majority. The total vote varies
less than one hundred from the vote of last
year. The Democrats gain in the Legislature,
but both branches remain Republican by de-
cided maiorites. Both Chandler and Hayes
claim victories in New Hampshire, and each
also reioices over the defeat of the other.
Judge Rice, Of the Western Circuit Of
Georgia, decided in recent case that mar
riage, though it was contracted without the
consent of the parents, is legal and binding,
and that the man and woman sustain to each
other the relation of husband and wife, but,
as the wife is minor, the father has right
to the possession of the girls person until she
becomes twenty.one years old, in defiance of
the wishes and marital rights Of the husband.
An arrested "moonshiner" says there are
about 200 illicit distilleries in Putnam coun-
ty, Tenn, FIVE being in circuit of one-half
mile. Every bushel of corn produces an
average of two and half gallons of whisky,
and the price of corn in that locality seldom
reaches fifty cents bushel, making the price
of whisky less than twenty cents gallon. 1t
is generally sold at from one to three dollars
per gallon.
Ladies are likely to benefit by the great
Eastern conflict Dealers in human hair
have been travelling within the last three or
four months through Bulgaria and Reuma-
mia, and buying up all the tresses the unfortu-
nate wives and daughters of the refugees are
willing to sell. Some of these tresses are
said to he over three feet long, and all those
of blonde and auburn shades have been sent
to America.
"A little granddaughter of Prince Bis
marck was sitting on the Princes knee, when
he suddenly cried out: "Oh, uncle, | hope |
shall be great man like you when | grow
upI "Why, my child?" asked his uncle.
Because you are so great, and every one
fears you" "Wouldn'tyou rather have every
one love you ?" The child thought little,
and then replied: mo, uncle; for when peo-
pie love you they cheat you but when they
fear you they will let you cheat them"
A doctress writes to the Australian Star
that more quarrels arise between husband
and wife owing to electrical changes affecting
their nervous system by occupying the same
bed, than any other disturbing cause. "There is
nothing" she says, "that will derange the sys
tenn of a person who is eliminative in nervous
force like lying in bed all night with another
person who is almost absorbed in nervous
force. The absorber will 60 to sleep and rest
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