Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-24
Straps and fafts.

idea of billion when he stated that billion
sheets of ordinary newspaper, packed closely
one on the other, would reach an altitude of
47,000 miles.
- Capt. E. G.. Nichols, of Portland, is
calmly reported to possess one of the coins
which Joseph's brethren received when they
sold him into Egyptian slavery. 1t is Curl
Gus square piece of silver, and came from a
citizen of Port Mahon in the Mediterranean.
- Mr.. Evarts thinks the Republicans ought
to carry three or four Southern States in 1880.
If Mr.. Evarts will show the South wherein
the Republican party has offered any induce
ment to this end, we should be glad to make
it public.
Says the Charlotte Democrat Col. Isaac
Shelby, Jr., the only living child of the cele-
brated hero, Col. Isaac Shelby, who fought
at Kings Mountain in October, 1880, is now
living near Danville, KY, and is about 80
years old. COL Isaac Shelby, ST., we believe,
was the first Governor of Kentucky.
- Congressman Ladd writes encouragingly
about the prospect in Maine. He says: ave
are working with 'one heart and one mind,
Democrats and Greenbackers trying to out
do each other in offering up upon the altar
of our country former differences for the par
amount object of securing permanent cur.
rency reform"
= Bulldozing in New England seems to
run to tar and feathers. Connecticut and
Massachusetts have both had cases recently
where this sort of treatment has been applied
to obnoxious persons by their neighbors, and
now Rhode Island follows suit. But bowling
against the South will continue to vex the
air.
Mrs. Mulbrandon, so far, has the unenvia-
BILE celebrity Of having introduced the black
vomit into Memphis, this season. She had a
coat once worn by yellow fever victim and
saved it. With woman's careful forethought
she gave it to her husband, and he, poor man,
died of this kind. act, and many more will
follow him.
There is now no doubt of the correctness
of the statement heretofore published in re-
gard to the successor of secretary McCrary.
Ex-senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, has been
rendered the office of Secretary of war, and
has accepted. The change will not occur,
however, until the present secretary retires
from his present position to fill the Office made
vacant by the resignation of Judge Dillon,
Of the Eighth United States Judicial Circuit.
= The tramp printer as described by the
Reidsville Times: He was an aged man, in
telligent, faithful to his work, correct man,
tramp. He stood like marble bust of
Napoleon at his frame, never spoke a word
except yea or nay to question, or possibly
anon during the day to ask piece of tobac-
co. He did his work we'll and was paid off,
and next day entered the editors Office, and
was quite voluble upon the situation Of politi-
cal affairs in the country. He used no cloves.
= The House of Representatives of the
Georgia Legislature, last Friday, voted to
instruct the judiciary committee to prepare
articles of impeachment against Comptrol-
ler.General Goldsmith, based on the re-
port of the committee of the General Assem-.
bly,, which has been investigating the trans
fer of titles to the wild lands grounds. The
impeachment will involve Hinton P. Wright,
friend Of the comptroller, who offered to
bribe two members of the Legislature. 81.
1t is reported that the will of Mrs. Dor
sey, bequeathing all her property to Jefferson
Davis, is to be contested by her relatives, some
of whom reside in Brooklyn, and that steps
to that end have already been taken. The
property in question consists, besides ready
money, Of large tract of uncultivated lands
in Kansas, and of the Beauvoir and Elk
Ridge plantations and Elliston plantation in
Tensas parish, La, and is thought to be
worth over $250,000.
Mrs. Potts, the famous pedestrienne, ar
rived in Mobile on the evening of the 14th
She has walked occasionally on country
roads, but generally taking the railroad track
She lost 80 days on the way, but is still much
ahead of time. Mrs. Potts walk upon the
track of the Montgomery road is one that
will long be remembered by her, for she found
that portion of it near Mobile decidedly dan
gerous. She arrived at that city completely
drenched by the rain.
The list of names of the candidates for
appointment to the thirty.seven vacancies in
the position of second lieutenant in the army,
as made up by the secretary of war, has been
revised by the President, and the appoint
ments will be made probably next week. In
the revision the South, it is said, is cut down
to only three appointments. Among those
selected are sons of Gems. Fremont, Rucker,
Perry, Hatch and Ord There were 1900
applicants.
- 1t is given out officially that the Demo
Gratis in Ohio will begin their campaign next
week. To-day Gen. Ewing is to be given a
public reception at his home in Lancaster,
when he will address citizens of Ohio, "who,"
as the General says himself, "stand on the
broad platform Of Democracy" Congress
man Cox, Of New York, is booked for num-
Der of speeches in Ewing's favor, and such
eminent Greenbackers as Congressman Lowe,
of Alabama, and Henry Carey Baird, of Penn
sylvania, are to take the stump in the same
cause.
Joseph J. Sanford, a circus performer,
went into New York gymnasium, Wednes-
day, to "take the perspiration out Of him"
He ran around the ring, where circus horses
are exercised, which has forty-two laps to the
mile, about twenty times, and then went into
the wash-room to rub off: A minute later he
came out and prepared to take "turn" on
the horizontal bar. He had hardly declared
his intention when he fell to the floor and
died. He was well known as clever bar
performer and tumbler, and had travelled
with many of the circuses now on the road
- The New York Herrld says: The gener-
al result, though it comes about slowly, is a
real revival Of all branches of industry on a
basis which enables US to produce more cheap
ly than ever before, and the demand abroad
promises to be heavy; everything now works
with us toward new period of good times, !"
and before long general confidence in the flu
ture will be so entirely restored that capital
lists will begin to unbutton their pockets and