Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-07-25
Straps aud fafts.

the black by 100000, and 10000 votes.
JEFF. Davis brother, General Reuben Da.
Wis, is candidate for Congress in Mississippi.
Elopement, marriage, twins and divorce,
have all happened to an Indiana girl in one
year.
- Ireland gained 1856 in her population in
1877, notwithstanding the emigration was
3S.5O3.
- Wisconsin has just passed law legalizing
the marriage of any man and woman who SIM
ply agree to live together as man and wife.
Among the mechanical toys at the Paris
Exposition are dolls that swim, dive and tread
water, after the most approved human style.
-"What's that man yelling at p asked an
Illinois farmer of his boy. "Why," chuck
led the boy, "he's yelling at the top of his
voice."
III. S. Eastman, founder of Poughkeepsie
Business College, is dead. Many of the
business men throughout the South, who
have attended the institution, will regret to
hear of Mr.. Eastman's demise.
Every once in while we hear of CAL
ifornia woman killing bear. This is all
right But we challenge the world to ran
sack the pages of history and show US where
woman has ever got away with mouse.
- All claims against the estate of Isaac NJ.
Singer, of sewing machine fame, have been
adjusted to the satisfaction of all parties, with
out recourse to litigation. More than $780,
900 was distributed among five wives and
twenty FIVE children.
An unwillingness on the part of the elder
Dsraeli to pay forty guneas, caused his son,
the Earl of Beaconsfeld, to become an atten-
dant at Christian churches. The former be-
longed to the Portuguese synagogue Of Bevis
Marks, in London. He was chosen president
of the synagogue, but declined to serve. The
penalty for the declination was forty guineas.
This he declined to pay, and withdrew from
membership rather than comply. Being q
free thinker and Jew by race rather than
religion, he Immediately attended an Episco-
palian church with his family. At his death
a friend paid his fine, and he was buried in
the Jewish cemetery.
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 18th, has
four column article, giving the crop statis-
tics of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, show
ing that the farmers are in the midst or at
the close of the wheat harvest, which is un-
precedented in quantity or quality. The grain,
with few exceptions, is being gathered in
good condition. The average was largely in
excess of the previous years, and this applies
equally to the other cereals, which promise
more than an average yield. Corn is back
ward, owing to the low temperature of the
spring. Under the warm and refreshing
showers of the past two weeks, it is growing
rapidly and looks promising. Fruits are in
less abundance, but the quality is fine.
- Honest John J. Patterson's recent move
ments are thus recorded by Washington
correspondent of the Philadelphia Times ::
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, has
lust returned from two weeks visit to the
Camerons, of Pennsylvania. The trip was
made without unnecessary noise, for it is said
that Governor Hartranft, although again and
again besought to do so, would not promise not
to surrender Patterson on a requisition from
the Governor of South Carolina. 1t was
said during the winter, after Patterson's con-
valescence from his severe illness, that ex-
Senator Simon Cameron had invited him to
spend few weeks with him in quietude
and rest that the invitation was accepted,
but that Patterson hesitated to make the trip,
having heard that requisition would be is
sued for him to return to South Carolina to
answer the six or eight indictments still pen
ding against him. While the Senator re-
mains in Washington he cannot be disturbed,
being coustructively in attendance upon Con-
gress, during which he is protected from ar
rest under decision made by the court in
Washington last winter.
Under date of the 22nd instant, the De.
partment of Agriculture issued synopsis of
crop reports showing the condition, July 1st.
In corn, almost fifty million acres were under
cultivation, slight decline from 1877, the
falling off in the west being greater than the
increase in the east and south Texas. The
increase was 10 per cent. on 100000 acres.
The condition is 95 in South Carolina in
the Gulf States, and the States west Of Mis-.
souri,, 100 or above. Forty-6ve of the
seventy-two counties report the standard
Southern crops remarkably promising: Of
winter wheat large crop has been gathered
in the South with conditions of growth unfa-
vorable, hence the low figures in that section
bring down the general average to l0l. In
Spring wheat the condition of the whole area
together is 1O6. Of rye and barley, in the
South, except Alabama and Texas, small
amount is grown, and is inferior in condition,
though high elsewhere. Nineteen-twentietbs
of the tobacco crop was raised in twelve
States, the condition of which are as follows ::
Kentucky, Virginia, Illinois, 90; Missouri
and Massachusetts, 101 Tennessee, SO; Ohio,
1O5; Maryland and Indiana, 80; North
Carolina, "a Pennsylvania and Connecticut
100.
Prof F. w. Clark of Cincinnati Univer-
sty, F. w. Smith of New York, II. A. Cren-
shaw of Louisburg, N. c., j. Lowe of Savan-
nah, Ga, and Isaac Lowman of Baltimore,
have Just returned to Asheville, N. c., from
visit to Bald mountain, having given it q
thorough investigation. They report that
the mysterious noise is simply rock slide on
a grand scale, and is not confined to Bald
mountain proper, but to spur on the south
side 1t is caused by gradual giving
away of the bed rock, and small portion Of
the mountain, that is nearly perpendicular,
gradually seeking frmer foundation. In
doing so it has severely shaken some huge
boulders, splitting many Of them as if cut
with knife, grinding some nearly to powder,
and was the cause of the rumbling and loud
noises heard occasionally the past few years.
They will, no doubt, be heard occasionally for
some years to come, or until the rocks are
firmly settled. The splitting of the rocks
has formed a cave, not wide but high, and
the gradual spreading Of the rocks at the bot
tom to better foundation has caused the
ground and rocks at the top of the slide to
open, showing cavity from two to four feet
wide in some places, and about seventy-6ve
deep. and nearly hundred feet in length in