Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-24

lands tabulated statements of the variations
of the orbit of the moon The eclipse began
at o'clock and 16 minutes, Paris time, or 8
o'clock 81 minutes and 8 seconds, Jerusalem
time.
Greatest phase, o'clock, minutes and
4 seconds, Paris time, or o'clock, 19 minutes
and 6 seconds, Jerusalem time, End Of the
eclipse, 6 o'clock, % minutes and 8 seconds,
Paris time, or o'clock, Al minutes and 8 sec
onds, Jerusalem time; the shadow covering
SO of the moon AS the moon arose at
o'clock and minutes in Jerusalem, she rose
already eclipsed over the horizon. Finally
let me add that the 3rd of April, of the year
SO, was a Friday" = 5.s. a-t lsir "a
ADVICE TO OLD MEN BYA BOY. o :,
I can not pick up newspaper without
"Adyice to Boys" stares me in the face. ,LOld
men write it, s'pose Nobody else! is capa
BILE of giving any advice to boys; of course
not! They know all about US, they do
cause they've been there. Advice is a good
thing to have, no doubt, and no family should
be without it; but feller don't want to be
crammed with it all the time to the exclu.
sion of all other diet. a"'}--a e-auiHt s..ts
Now, old men need advice occasionally.
but in looking through the newspapers,
don't see as they getit. So | thought would
just write little Advice to Old Men myself,
if am not presuming too much, Gas Aunt
Chloe says) and 1 presume l am. s.:s.fl Z -
In the first place, you old chaps ought to
get over telling how much smarter boys were
when you were young, than boys are now.
You believe it yourself, of course, cause
you've told it 50 many times, but we boys
can't see it. We have notion that boys are
boys pretty much Except some that are girls)
the world over, and one generation don't lay
over another to any alarming extent. .siaa
Only let you tell it, and you could out
jump, out-run, out-wrestle, out anything else
the rising generation Of to-day when you was
boy" Grandfather, who has got the gout,
and half dozen different kinds Of rheuhaa.
tism, is always saying that. + heard him
singing the other day, Il would were "a
boy again." would he were. If i couldn't
beat him running, and flop him On his back,
side-holt, don't want cent? ,s,,sa,y 10,
l wouldn't 90 so far as as to say. Parents
obey your children" but would suggest to
fathers that they give us boys g hearing oc-
casionally on matters in which we are the
ones most interested Don't make usgo and
slide down hill when we want,to skatel;, and
don't try to make preachers Of us when we
prefer to run saw mill. This is 6gurative,
but I guess you know what mean.
After giving US boys advice about our con.
duct, and how to behave, You old men ought
to be careful how you get to relating your
boyish serapes to each other and laughing
over them before we are out of earshot. The
other day grandfather read me long lecture
about the rights ofproperty, temperance, and
Sabbath breaking
That night an old crony of bis'n came to
visit him, and they had glass Of punch TO-
gether. They thought | was asleep on the
sofa, and the way they run on about the fur
they had when they were boys together
They tol6 all about robbing Captain Ly'
mans melos. patch. and it turned out that il
was on Sunday night, too! When l went
to bed they were taking their third glass oi
punch, and I don't know how many they
had after that. know grandfather's rheu
matism was great deal worse the next day
and he complained about his liver. Old men
ought to be careful about taking too much
punch. ...
have noticed old men hate to give up
that they can't stand as much as they used
to, or as younger men can. They get mad il
Teller like me, hints that they cant. o. But
what's the use Of fooling yourselves? We'ye
all got to play out some day, and when
man feels be is losing bis grip, why not come
down gracefully and acknowledge the corn ?
Now, in the above remarks, | don't mean
any disrespect. / like old men in their place
but don't want so much Of their advice
Give the boys chance Cincinnati Times .
GEN. GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY,
A Washington letter says: "The statement
is made that a gentleman in the party now
travelling with Gen. Grant, writes here that
Gen. Grant will not again be a candidate
for President under any circumstances. 1t il
very we'll for Gen. Grant to make this decla
ration and to have it sent here for publication
If when the time comes for making the nomi:
nation the skies look propitious, he will Of
course take the nomination, if he can get it
Ifthe outlook is gloomy, he can fall back on
the declaration now, made, and refuse with
the utmost grace. The signs thicken that
there was a deep.laid scheme concocted as
soon as Gen. Grant left this country, to work
up sentiment which would demand his re.
nomination for President at theshands Of tie
Republican Convention in 1880, The man
who originated this scheme and the men
who are now most actively at work pushing
it, are of the same class who blockaded all
the avenues of the White House during Gen
Grants administration, and who did 80 much
to make that administration odious in the
eyes of the country. These men do not doubt
nor does any one here doubt, that with Grant
back in the White House, their influence
would be as overshadowing as before. In
deed so little prudence and discretion have
some of them that they are even now, at this
long period in advance, chuckling over theil
Anticipated return to the luxury of power
and plunder. But the very fact that Gen
Grant is already providing a loop-hole by
which he can crawl out if there is not a GER
tainty of success, shows that he, at least, has
retained some of the horse sense with which
he has always been credited. As far off al
he is, he is no doubt able to see what some
of his henchmen at home are too blind tc
see, that all the hurrah which has been got
ten up over his repominstion is simply the
work of few politicians, and that it has
not found any lodging place in the hearts
of the people. The shrewder politicians
among the Republicans who are not pre-
JUDGED by personal interest in nor person
al infatuation for Grant, have no difficulty
in perceiving this, and they have no hesita
ton in expressing the opinion that unless a
great change in public sentiment occurs