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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
WHAT TIE NEW FIRM PROPOSES,

WddI IGE NE W EInM 1nU1V
VyHE BUSINESS OF THE NEW FIRM will
be conducted under the special supervision
Of JOHN r. ALLEN, upon the same liberal
terms to customers as heretofore. All goods have
been marked down to STRICT HARD PAN
PRICES. Many fully so per cent below cost
Those who have little Cash to spend, would do
we'll to call and examine those Dress Goods worth
rs cents per yard for 40 cents; worth so cents for
cents, for Is cents worth 80 cents, for Is cents;
worth rs cents, for 10 cents. and some others re-
gardless of cost. Many other goods have been
marked down in the same proportion.
Messrs. J. J. ROACH and D. P. STEELE are
employed and will always ON hand with their
usual Kindness and politeness to wait on their
friends and customers, and sell them goods as
low as can be bougbtanywhere. ..
J. r. ALLEN & CO..
Successors to Allen, Barber & Co.
Rock Hill, s. c., January 18 8 8m
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
NOTICE.

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
SOAP.

XKTE have in our Store a. stock Of Soap, which
w we will close out at very short profits, by
the box. We will sell you Soap cheaper than any
''''o 49, G. G. PARISH & co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06

n POUNDS of Coffee for $1.OO can be bought
n rom "a ~ y G. G.. PARISH & co.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
PLOWS.
FLOUR. BACON, sc.

- FLOUR, BACON, &C.
| A N elegant stock Of Flour, Bacon, Meal, Lard,
n Molasses, Corn and Oats, on hand, and we
will keep we'll supplied with everything usually
kept in first-class Grocery Store. Remember,
we will not be undersold.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
THE OPENING OF THE FREE SCHOOLS.
HARRIS FERTILIZER.
TlHE York Drug Store is headquarters for tht

nor the new Sign Of the York Drug Store.
JOHN G. KUYKENDAL.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
ARREARS OF PENSIONS.

The pension bill recently passed by Con.
gress is a stupendous affair. 1t is political
dodge of the Republicans, and will likely do
harm to the Democrats in it's final analysis.
The bill provides that all pensioners on &C.
count of death from causes which originated
in the United States service during the late
war of the rebellion, or in consequence of
wounds, injuries or diseases contracted in
said service during said war of the rebellion,
shall commence from the date of discharge
from said service Of the person on whose ac-
count the claim has been or may hereafter be
granted, or from the termination of the right
of the party having prior title to such pension"
This is the gist of the measure as it pass
ed No provision is made to raise the money
wherewith to pay the pensioners, and the ope-
ration of the act will require many millions
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
SOLE LEATHER.

a. G.. PARISH q CO. are offering Sole Leath
~. er at 20 cents per pound. d.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06
CHAIRS.

C1ANE, Walnut Maple, Oak, Dining Rattan
7 J and Split Bottom Chairs, at
GEORGE II. O'LEARY'S.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-06

DY virtue of writs Of ferI tacias to me directed,
ID will be sold between the legal hours OF
Sheriff g sale, ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN
MARCH NEXT,
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
SPORTING NEWS.
The Opening Day Of the Chicago Races.

CHICAGO, June 23.-About two thousand
people attended the races this afternoon. The
weather and track were fine.
The first race was for purse OF $500, for all
ages; $75 to the second horse, $25 to the
third distance. q mile and q quarter. The
starters were Mintzer, .Edinbnrg, Adhesion,
Florence Payne, Bill Boss, America. Virgil
liam, Aunt Winnie and King Faro. The race
was pretty and exciting, the horses all COM
ing down the home stretch In q bunch, Mintz-
er first, Virgillan second, Btll Boss third,
King Faro fourth. Time, 2:16Aa.
The second event was the grand Pacific
stakes for two-year-old colts for purse Of
$780, 5000 to the second horse, three quarters
OF mile dash. The starters we're Kemball,
GriDstpad, Chris Doyle, Victory, Vapor and
Luke Blackburn. The race was q pretty one.
KembalI won, Luke Blackburn second and
Grinstead third. Time, / 1871.
PLAIsTED BEATEN IN ENGLAND.
LONDON, June 23.-T. A. Plaisted, OF New
York, and VIM. Nicholson, of England, rowed
race to-day from Dunston to Scottswood
suspension bridge, a mile, for private wager
OF ESQ and purse. Nicholson won easily by
more than ten yards.
BASE BALL.
WORCESTER, Mass, June -Woreesters Z,
Holyokes 4.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, plume 23.-Manches-
ters 2, Springfields TO.
UT1oA, N. Y, June e2s.-Uticas 5, Nationals
9; game called q draw; clubs play to-mor-
row.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
CANADA.
The Latest Balloon Ascension Fiasco- Bad
Gas Credited With the Failure.

MONTREAL, June 23.-Grimley, the aero
ra1t, accompanied by Mr.. Crulman, Of the New
York Herald returned to the city this fore
noon, and was interviewed by your. corre-
spondent. They had much difficulty IN land
treal gas, owing to the weight OF which 1t was
with the greatest difficulty II could be got
out Of the balloon after the ground was
reached. In his efforts to shove IT out Grim
ley was overcome, and lay some time before
dragged him away from the escaping gas,
but worked at him three quarters Of All hour
before he was restored to consciousness.
They touched ground about II o'clock Satur-
Grlmley still expresses confidence In his steer
Ing app apparatus, and says be will probably
make an experiment with 1t tn New York,
where the gas is OF better quality.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
FRANCE. 1.
A Legitimist View Of the Situation.

PARIS. June 2a-The Orleanist organ. Le
.yoletl, In comm enting. upon the politleal, sit-
uation as affected by the death Of the Prince
Imperial, says that only two solutions are
possible, the republic or q monarchy: The
present belongs to arepublic, but the future
to monarchy.
A DEPUTY WHO DESERTS HIS CoLoRs-THE
CONDITION OF PRINCE PIERRE BoNAPARTE.
PARIS, June ON. Mott, Bonapartlst Dep
uty, has Joined the Republican Union party
Pierre Bonaparte. being to iii to attend tier
church, had mass In his lodgings at Yer.
sailles. Hence the report that the last sacra-
ment of the Church had been adminlstered
and that he had died. He continues very Ill.
DE LEsgEps HIMSELF TO INACCURATE WORK
ON THE IsTHMUs CANAL.
PARIS, June 23-M. De Lesaeps now an
nolnces that he will start for Panama early
ID November, and that he will turn the first
sod for the interoceanic canal on the first o.
January, 1880. He says he will employ 40. 600
navles, including Chinese and also 5000 free
negroes from Brazil.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
Tne Colorado Raliro.d Troubles.

DENVER, June 23-United States District
Judge Hallett to-day rendered decision
In the railroad case, commenting severely
on the proceedings taken by the old officers
of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad IN
the State courts' decision was void; that the
sheriff had no right to do more than read It
to the Atehison, Topeka and Santa Fe, but to
take no part in putting into possession any
parties, and grants an order on the Denver
that no writ Of restitution will issue or any
effort be made by the United States marshals
to restore possession until it is hereafter
shown that the road is not restored or that
the parties are resisting.
LARGE bodies OF armed men are lining the
road. and forty have been constructed at
nIaeee. from which the impression obtains
here That the order will not be obeyed.
Associate Justice b. +. Miller coneure with
District Judge Hallet.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
Half the Prices Charged by Other Restaurants.

vals. Lucien Bonaparte has arrived. a spe-
elal train Is waiting to convey Her Majesty
the Queen to Chiselhurst.
AFEE1INa OF DIsQUIET IN SHEFFIELD BUs1.
NESS CIRCLES.
LONDON, June 23.-The Times correspond
ent at Sheffield says 1t is D long time since
such q feeling Of uneasiness prevailed there. q e
Local failures have been announced during
the past week with liabilities aggregating
g2OO 900.
DISTURBANCES AT BELFAsT-THE SITUATION
IN EGYPT AND chilli.
During procession In Belfast yesterday
there were several slight disturbances.
y "A dispatch from Cairo says there is grea1
excitement there owing to the report That tne
Khedive ID now willing TO abdicate on certain
conditions, upon which the powers are united
The Chilian government has satisfactorily
explained the reasons for the bombardmeni
Of the British consulate at Pisaqua.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
Coming Picnic Of the Marriage Pronoter

CINCINNATI, June 2s.-Augnst 10. 1877, a
society for the promotion Of marriage was
organized here. The members claim that
over 1000 marriages have taken place
through its instI umentality. and on August
10 this year will give graud picnic at u
wood Park, where 100 marriages VIII bake
place.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
S
II,oe Palace
Ito and liz Barenne Street.

I 80 asors having undergone the necessary
Sssira, yro are now prepared to meet the de-
sssi With the best selected stock OF
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
Openinx Of the Currte MURDER Trial.

MARSHALL, Texas, June 23-The case Of
Currie, charged with the murder OF Porter,
the actor, was called to-day In the criminal
court, but no progress was made. The day
was consumed In preliminary arguments and
motions without reaching any result.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24
THE CrOD4 IN Indiana !,

ISDIANAPoLIs, June 49, The journal prints
crop reports for sixty counties Of the State.
ever raised, with the possible exception OF
1854. Oats are failure Corn 10 backward.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-24

sEFoR OTHER TELEdRAPHIc NEWS
SEE EIGHTH PAGE,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
The financial affairs of the Massashu

The financial affairs of the Massashu
sets Home Missionary Society are being
investigated, in order to ascertain
whether there is any crimiEality in the
conduct of Charles Desmond, the treas
urer. Mr.. Desmond has long been con-
spicuous in New England religious
movements, especially in Congregation
alism. In connection with his official
position in the Missionary Society, he
carried on an extensive and finally
disastrous banking business. Money
was intrusted to him by coniding indi-
viduals for investment, and he put it
into Western mortgages that for time
yielded ten per cent. interest. About
two thousand five hundred persons let
him have an aggregate of $3.50, 00e, most
of which is irretrieyably lost, as we'll as
a large amount of money belonging to
the society, and which, it is charged, he
used in foolish effort to avert the dis
aster. A widow loses $4,000, and the
savings of many poor elergymen have
been swept away.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
Sudden FOrgetfulness.

Another curious feature of learning
by heart is that which is known to
actors as studying part out of your
head" The process is an unexpected
and alarming one. A man studies in
tensely and hurriedly, with no relaxa-
ton. He gets perfect in remarkably
short space of time, when all of sudden
he finds he cannot remember a single
word of all he has studied.
Heis frightened-he thinks his men,
DRY has failed him-and as memory is one
of the first essentials to an actor, he be-
lieves he is ruined man, with his &C.
cupation gone; but he is not-he has
simply applied himself too closely and
has studied part clean out of his head.
The words will, in all likelihood, come
back again like fiash-as suddenly and
for as little reason as they left him.
But to insure this good result he must
stop studying or even thinking of the
words-he must go out, look in the win
dows, talk with friends and try to forget
the mental strain, and to lead the mind
into different channel of thought, and
by the time he has managed to forget
his trouble and fright, the whole part
will come back, as have said, like a
fash of lightning.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
The Pyramids.

The Pyramids continue to puzzle
mans ingenuity, not only as to their
methods of construction, but as to the
purpose for which they were built. Mr..
Smyth, whose astronomical views i'm
bued everything he looked at with his
favorite science, endeavored to show
that the pyramid was nothing more than
an everlasting monument, with the be-
nefcent intention of keeping forever
fixed the unit of length-a sacred cubit
standard. The last idea is that the
pyramid is simply cairn, and that as
cairn it viii be resolved some day, and
will crumble to the ground. Discus
sions as to the age of the pyramids still
rage, and are apparently as far as ever
from being settled. What they do
point at, however. is their erection in
time of profound peace. There must
have been subject race and people
who could be called upon for an
arts there was no display, but immense
skill in engineering, quarrving and
building. 1t might have been architec-
ture, but of crude kind One thing we
can get at, however, and that is some
idea of the cubical contents of the Great
Pyramid. Having obtained this APP
proximately, it is interesting to compare
its process of erection, taking the labor
question in view, with modern work and
toll. The labor expended on the Great
Pyramid was equivalent to lifting 49,
733, 100000 cubic feet of stone one foot
high. If accounts can be relied upon, it
took one thousand men twenty years to
complete it. There are innumerable
railroads in the United States where a
greater quantity of cubic feet have been
raised to the same height with one-tenth
the number of men in one half to one
third the same time. We can get exact
statistics of an English railroad, which
will help the comparison. The London
& Birmingham Railway, in its building,
lifted $4,000, 100000 cubic feet of mate
rial one foot high. The road was built
by twenty thousand men in less than
FIVE years.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
Mark Twain and the Piutes.

The Eureka Republican, tells about
Mark Twain's lecture in Dayton, Neb.,
some years ago. His agent used to get
up an excitement about the lecture by
building bonfire before the hall and
sending fife and drum through the
streets an hour before the beginning of
the entertainment. He did this in
Dayton, then a fourishing camp, and
the Piutes naturally got the impression
that some kind of an exciting show was
to be given, and the chief tackled the
enterprising agent on the subject of
half-priced admissions, and some thirty
paid their half dollars and filed into the
hall. Presently Mark made his appear
ance on the stage and began drawing
away in his usual style. The white
people laughed boisterously, bat the
Indians looked puzzled, and, after
standing it for fifteen minutes, they
began whispering ard granting among
themselves, and finally the chief got up
and went out to the box Office, and in
CURED when the tumbling was going to
commence, and that heap big fool |"
was going to quit talking. Upon learn
ing that the performance was going to be
all talk, and conveying this horrid in
formation to the other Indians, they
rose in a body left the hall and swarmed
to the box office, and demanded their
money back. The agent couldn't think
of such thing, and the Piutes went out
in the street and gave vent to their feel
ings in war-whoops. 1t looked for a
few minutes as if the disguised war
riors would start in to wreck the hall
and murder the lecturer. A crowd of
whites, attracted by the loud, angry
yells of the red men, gathered, however,
and Mark Twain was saved tc an admir-
ing world. $500 t
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08

ARIZONA, generally regarded as for
lorn and unfruitful, and deserving of
consideration only for its mines, seems
from accounts to be improving as a
stock country. A number of herds of
cattle and fine horses have recently been
introduced into different parts, and many
substantial buildings and corrals con-
structed. The Valleys of the Salt and
ella Rivers are arabic and irrigable,
but much of the land, though Offering
few attractions to farmers, is excellent
for grazing, and is used more and more
every year for this purpose. 1t is far
better for cattle than for sheep. and
these are steadily giving way to those
throughout the Territory. The con-
struction of the railway from Adoude
to Maricopa Wells, and even to Tucson,
is not likely to be expensive, as the ma
ture of the country through which the
road is laid out is generally favorable to
the work. The track is now being laid
at the rate of mile and half a day.
Great effort seems raking to develop
Arizona, which certainly needs devei-
opment, as it is deficient in many nat
ural advantages. The best known town,
Tucson, has population of less than
five thousand, of whom only about two
hundred are American proper.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08

In the Maine Senate, resolve was
presented and referred, instructing the
Maine Senators and Representatives in
Congress to use all honorable means in
their power to effect reduction of the
salary of the President of the United
States to twenty-five thousand dollars
per annum, and the salary of the men,
bers of Congress to three thousand dol
lars; also the number and salaries of all
other officers of thegovernment, and all
other expenses to correspond with the
general depression in business, and
increased purchasing power of money.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
Abolish Treating.

"Treating constitutes one of the
chief perils attaching to the custom of
imbibing spirituous liquors, and there
are few persons who could not, II free
from its shackles, restrict the indulgence
of their thirst to decent moderation.
A man meeting group of his friends
Just as he is bent on obtaining his after
noon allowance of sherry and bitters"
must, if he does not violate usage and If
he wishes to do what's expected of him,
ask them all to join him. Suppose the
whole party to number seven. Seven
drinks are poured down seven threats,
willing or unwilling. What is the i'm
mediate result of this hospitality Six
other individuals feel themselves mort
gagged with an obligation to equal it.
There may be little chat, and then
some one says: "Ah. let's have another
drinkv' Then seven more drinks are
poured down seven threats. More talk.
Another happy thought by another
member of the party. Seven more drinks
descend the seven throats. More talk
A fourth inspiration by fourth par
ticipant. Some one who has done his
fated duty tries to beg of; has business
to transact; ought not to drink any
more. His objection is vetoed by the
asking party, who is already slightly
stimulated perhaps. "No Sinking, ole
Teller, come onp Repetition of the
gulping act by seven performers. Every
one feels the mellowing influence by
this time. Charley" says No: Six af-
fectionately to the genius of the bar,
"Giv's mother! All hands roundv'
Encore the feat of seven men swallow
| ing seven drinks. No. Seven's turn has
arrived. The happy reliefis near. He
happens to be the least experienced OF
the party. He is already full of bliss,
His words are few but expressive. "Set
'em up again, hic!" Up they go, and
then down they go-seven more drinks
Let us sees Seven times seven are forty
nine. And all because one man felt
like taking little sherry aud
bitters" Perhaps he goes home to his
dinner afterward. Perhaps he don't
Perhaps he fails to see his wife and
mother-in-law until the next day. Such
is life in a country where " treating" IL
the custom.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-03-08
SUPERSTITION.

In the Piedmont district in Virginia
there is family graveyard in which,
sixty years ago, a certain Colonel Fair
fax was buried. He was, as the story
goes, cynical old man, who requested
in his will that his grave should be left
bare and uncared for, hoping " that God
and man might forget him."
The grave was sodded and flowers
planted as usual, but every leaf with
cred Immediately upon it, and to this
day, so the story goes, it is impossible
to make blade of grass grow over the
SPOT where helies. 1t is certain that his
grave remains bare red clay, while all
around it isgreen.
The story has peculiar ghastliness in
it. Something akin to it is the supersti-
ton of the fishermen at Cape Henlopen
concerning the dunes, or hills Of sand,
which rise year by year out of the ocean,
and slowly move inland, covering in
their memorable progress houses, forests
and streams.
They were sent, the fishermen super
stitiously believed, by the angry spirits
of some shipwrecked sailors, whose
bodies the coast-people left half CEN
fury ago unburied on the beach.
There is, it is said, an "accursed farm"
on the Ohio, which was put under the
ban by its Indian owners. So strong is
the popular belief in its ill-luck, that it
is valued as waste land, while neighbor-
ing land rates high in the market. -
There is no superstition more universal
all over the world than this, which
holds certain ground blasted or doomed
by the crime, or sometimes the mere
wish, of some wicked, iron-willed man
dead long ago.
Even in China there are patches of
ground in every neighborhood sacred
to the evil powers, on which it is sac
religious to build. The English mis-
sionaries, intending to prove the absurd
ity of the superstition, once built a
house on one of the interdicted sites
hat 4 virulent fever soon broke out in
it, and the heather was triumphant.
The accursed spots proved to be those
known to the priests as subject to ma
larial influences. Some such common
place cause, no doubt, exists for all
such superstitions In our own country.