Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-09
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singing. He said it was a natural thing for
hinsto do, as he had been singing to poor
houses ever since he began his career.
"A Washington newspaper casually OBJ
serves that 'in the midst of all the honors
lavished upon General Grant, the feasting
that is given him and the homage that is paid
him, it is pitiful to see his only brother going
about town, dirty and ragged, harmless i'm
beetle, borrowing quarter or half:dollar
from anybody who will give it to him."
At one time during the past week, the re-
ceipts of cotton at the Atlantic ports were be-
yond the capacities of transportation compa-
nies to carry. The movement Of cotton for
this season has been unprecedentedly great
this fall, owing to the remarkably favorable
autumn weather which has prevailed all over
the South.
In India, snakes alone, in 1877, killed
nearly $4,000 persons, and tigers, elephants,
leopards and other wild beasts, nearly 5000
more. Efforts were made at the same time to
destroy the animals, but without apparent re-
duction of the numbers. About 127, 900
snakes and $4,000 wild beasts were killed, and
$4,000 were paid in rewards for their des-
truction.
- Augusta, Georgia, has sustained great
loss in the death of Col. Henry Moore, one of
her public spirited citizens He was formerly
one of the editors of the Chronicle and Senti-
mel, and was one of the most active and effect
i've promoters of the scheme for the building
of the Charlotte Columbia and Augusta rail-
road. Of late years he has been in the hard
ware business.
D.oc,.,o, T;oo On &hot no ORC fo hove
on the night Of November 18th, the most
brilliant meteoric display ever seen since 1883,
when to all intents and purposes the sky lit
orally rained fire. The display for this year
will not commence until about o'clock in
the morning, but the professor says that the
magni6cence of the display will more than
compensate for the inconvenience Of the vigil.
The Philadelphia Times is powerfully i'm.
pressed with the fact that everything points
to busy and prosperous season the volume
of business, as measured by the exchanges,
shows rapid growth, legitimate and substan-
tial, and it thinks that business men need but
to 20 forward hopefully in the widening chan
nels that open out before them to bear their
part in the restoration of national prosperity
that will make memorable the winter Of
1S79-'S0.
"A curious fact is reported from Tulare
county, California. Wheat is growing near
Hanford, where, four years ago, the waters of
Tulare Lake stood ten feet deep. In the four
years prior to last April, the lake receded FIVE
miles, and since last April one mile. On the
land reclaimed from the lake are found evil
dences of former occupation, remains of q
cabin and corral, and irrigating bitches can
be traced running in straight lines, and some
of them extending into the lake and apparent
ly still under the waters.
The Rev. DR.. Boyd, of the St. Louis Sec
ond Baptist Church, breaches that all men
dained of God and needful to the varied
views of mankind that Jew may be saved
without believing in Jesus; that close COM
munion is only an inference drawn from one
passage in the Scriptures; that the Baptist
denomination is too rigid in its views of COM
munion that baptism is not prerequisite to
communion only an orderly precedent-and
that man has right to picture his God ac-
cording to his needs, and has right to 60 to
his God in any manner he chooses It is not
surprising that DR.. BOYD has been expelled
from the St. Louis Baptist Association.
Mrs. George Fromm, of New York, has
just become the mother of boy baby, which
weighed at its birth eleven ounces and three
quarters. The head of the child, although
smaller than a small apple, is covered with
an extraordinary growth of light brown hair.
The features are regular, the eyes bright and
clear, and the skin fine and delicate The
arms are the thickness of an ordinary little
finger, and the fingers are the size of extra
large pencil leads. The nails, although not
much bigger than good-sized pinhead, are
perfectly formed. An ordinary luncheon
basket is an ample cradle for the babe. His
height at birth was 5 inches, and breadth
across the shoulders %.
Several San Francisco bar.tenders have
been led into buying almost worthless paint
ings at $3.50 apiece in this way: A welldressed
stranger lounges round the bar-room day or
two, and then asks permission to hang pic.
ture in the place for rattle. The bar-keeper
thinks of the profit to come from incidental
drinking and readily consents. The painting
is put up, the stranger praising it excessively,
and placing 200 tickets on sale at 81 each.
A second well.dressed stranger soon appears.
He sees the picture, and says that. knowing its
high value, he will buy it for 5000. Can the
bar.keeper make such bargain The bar
keeper intent on clearing $50, goes to the
first stranger, and succeeds in buying the daub
for $3.50, but the second stranger never re-
turns to take it for 5000 or any other price.
In the militia convention at St. Louis,
Mo-, last Thursday, General Beauregard in
the chair, General Hunt, chairman of the COM
mittee to which was on the previous day refer
red the bill now before Congress for the organ
ization of the National Guard, reported that
the committee was unable to agree, and that
the majority and minority reports had been
prepared. Both reports ask for appropriations
from Congress of 100000 annually ly for the
benefit OF the National Guard, and the only
difference between the two is that the majori-
ty report says the appropriation shall be ap.
portioned according to enrolment of militia
in the several States, while the minority re-
port provides for the division of the money
according to population. Considerable de-
bate followed the reading of the reports,
strong speeches being made on both Sides
Finally, vote was taken and the minority
report was adopted, the vote being taken by
States. The Convention then adjourned sine
die, to meet at the call of the executive COM
mittee.
"A correspondent of the Raleigh Observer
gives the following account of one of the in
dustries of our neighboring county: 1t is
stated that there are ffty-6ve authorized dis
tilleries in the county of CASTOR, and that the
price Of corn has gone up to ninety cents a