Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-18
Strips aud fafts.

manufacturer in the Union. There are 100
factories in the United States altogether.
A young lady at ball in Dublin Castle
displayed her charms so freely that locker
on turned to Chief Justice Doherty with
did you ever see the like of that since you
were born ?" "Well," said the Judge, "cer-
tainly not since was weaned."
Commissioner Raum, replying to COM
muncation of member of the British Parlia-
ment, states that there are upward of 166, 900
liquor dealers in the United States, and that
the consumption of malt and alcoholic bever-
ages is about $685. 100000 worth per annum.
1t is unoficially stated al Paris that, in
the distribution of awards to be made at the
Worlds Exhibition, Americans will obtain
more prizes than the citizens of any other
country, in proportion to the number Of ex-
hibitors.
A farm sixty miles long and ten wide, in
one tract, mostly fenced, is that of Miller q
Lux, cattle monopolists of California. They
have $4,000 head of stock, own 100000 acres
of choice land and are rated as worth $l5,-
100000.
- The editor of the Troy Times refuses to
believe in Gov. Hampton's Blackvile speech,
unless the Democratic clubs disband and al
low the Republicans to walk over the course.
The Times is as implacable as Grant, who
has taken the time and trouble to write all
the way from Europe that he believes Hamp-
ton is a traitor.
"A late decision was recently made by a
Western girl. 1t was during the marriage
ceremony. When asked whether she would
have this man to be her welded husband, she
distinctly answered, Mop She had just de-.
tected the fumes of whisky in his breath, and
was frightened off at the last moment. A
wholesome fear.
- The "Chinese Sand Pear" is the name of
a variety of pear now being cultivated with
great success in Southern Georgia. 1t is said
to be subject to no disease or insect, to bear
at the rate of 1000 bushels per acre, and to
ripen month earlier than other large pears
the fruit being in market about the first OF
August-and consequently commanding fancy
prices.
From present indications, the growing
cotton crop will be nearer surplus crop than
any raised in the cotton producing States
since the war. 1t is predicted that 8 large
proportion of the planters will gather grain
enough to support their places during the next
year. AS consequence, the pleasing assu-
rance is given that the planters will have
more money next winter than they have had
at any time since the close of the war, and
we may confidently anticipate brisk business
season in the South.
Wendell Phillips is credited with having
said, recently: GAS matters stand to-day, with
no keen interest in any question except finance,
the South has the choice of the next Presi-
dent. Conciliating the West by her concur
renee on finance, she holds all the cards.
Unless radical change is wrought in the
coming year, western Democrat on soft
money platform will be the next President,
and some Southern Confederate leader, civil
or military, will be Vice president"
Gov. Wade Hampton's speech at Black.
vile, on the 4th of July, has made quite a
sensation in the North. Quoting some of
the more notable passages of the Governor 8
address, the New York Erpress says: "Such
are the sentiments which the people Of the
South every where respond to most heartily.
And so long as such utterances ring out from
one end of the South to the other, and ex-
treme Republicans like Colonel Higginson
are forced to confess that the Democratic
rulers treat the colored people with remarka-
BILE fairness, it is easy to see why the Repub-
honrs despair or success.
The Tennessee crop report shows the aver
age wheat yield to be four and half bushels
per acre. Total yield of the State, 6,750,0OO
bushels. The oat crop is better than ever
known. Not more than two-thirds tobacco
crop will be housed. Grasses are damaged
by too much rain. There has never been a
better prospect for corn. Cotton averages
from 60 to 10. The average peanut crop is
rs. There is a marked increase in the ship
ment of fruit and vegetables to Northern
markets. Ten thousand barrels of Irish po.
tatoes were shipped during the past four
months.
The latest discovery in California is that
the great seal of the State has been counter
feited, and that the fraudulent impression is
borne by deeds under which thousands and
perhaps millions of acres of land have been
sold. A great number of school land war.
rants are said to have been forged and sold
on the strength of this seal, and an immense
amount of land taken on forged Indian scrip
and soldiers warrants The Chronicle ex-
poets an "appalling amount of litigation" to
result from this 1t says that hundreds have
been concerned in the frauds, and thousands
have been victims, and among the perpetra'
tors were men who hold prominent positions
and have enjoyed the best regulations.
- Terrible tales of suffering from the fam.
inc continue to reach US from both China and
South America. The latest reports from the
Asiatic Empire are too horrible for contempla-
ton. Reliable missionaries send the sicken-
ing word that not only have the dead become
an article of food, but that the people are ac-
tually killed openly to be served up like ordi-
nary meat on table. The famine has not yet
been stopped in the Province of Ceara in Bra
zil and horrible su1erings are reported from
the neighboring State of Bolivia. The usual
rains have not fallen in the latter countries,
nor in China nor Brazil, and crops are de-
stroyed, while the absence of roads prevents
assistance from being easily forwarded from
provinces not quite so unfortunate as that OF
Cochamba.
A recent traveller in Palestine was aston
ished by the number and preservation of
roads built in the Roman era. They were
laid out on all main routes, and were con-
structed 80 perfectly, that in many sections
they endure to-day as we'll as if finished not
long ago. The country of Palestine was one
of the most difficult sort to carry system OF
roadways over, and yet its obstacles were sur
mounted with the least possible expenditure
of labor. Every route was curbed on each
side by lines of stones pro jecting from one to
two feet above the surface of the soil ; between
A. fhn uoH .