Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-25
Straps and fafts.

Florida is now shipping 5000 head of
cattle monthly to Cuba, with the prospect for
an increase in the demand.
"A Sioux Indian was recently hung at
Halletsville, Texas, in the presence of 5000
spectators, for the murder Of negro in Feb
ruary, 1877.
1t is said that Eastern capitalists have
recently bought the Mammoth Cave of Ken.
lucky for 100000, and will build railroad
to it and improve the property.
- Comptroller General Goldsmith of Geor-
gia, has been found guilty and expelled from
Office, for appropriating public moneys to his
own use.
Daniel Drew, the noted stock broker, and
known among brokers in New York as Gun
Gle Daniel" died suddenly. in that city on
Friday last, aged 80 years.
In consequence of the floods and bad
harvests, the people in some parts of Hun
gary are threatened with terrible famine
this winter.
Work is so lively in the Pennsylvania
iron foundries, that it is difficult to procure
enough operatives, and some employers are
increasing wages.
= The State of Texas having imposed
license tax of 5000 on commercial travellers,
nearly all the houses in New York have re-
called their agents, feeling that submission
to the tax in one State would lead to its impo-
sition in others.
- AS an incident of American competition,
says an English paper, it is mentioned that
eggs imported from Chicago have been eaten
at Dublin breakfast tables during the past
month !; and good American butter at pence
per pound has been on sale at the Dublin
quays.
"A Washington special says: Nine hun.
dred tons of standard silver dollars are stored
in the treasury. The amount increased last
month, notwithstanding the payment of one
tenth the current expenses of the government
in silver Over s30,678,0OO were stored in
the vaults, September l.
= Reliable reports from different sections Of
Virginia, represent the corn and cotton crops
as up to the average, Notwithstanding the ex-
cessive drought which prevailed from the 18th
of June to the 18th of July last. The tobac-
co crop will only yield two-thirds of the usu-
al quantity. The peanut crops are said to be
the best ever raised in the State. All minor
CTopS are III q plouiSinS SohoiGion'
Rev. James A. Spurgecn, brother of the
famous London minister, preached in New
York Sunday evening in the Broadway Taber-
nacle Church. He spoke with clear and
distinct enunciation, but with melancholy
tone. His discourse was confined strictly to
his topic: 'The Holy Man of God" His
chief point was that Christians should be
quite distinct in their bearing from other peo-
pie, so as to be instantly known by their walk
and words.
= The consumption in this country Of beer
and whisky, present fearful aggregate. In
one city alone, Cincinnati, the sales at retail,
week before last, amounted to $32O,OOO, a
yearly consumption, by this estimate, of $16,-
$4,000. 1t is safe to presume, therefore,
that Cincinnati will spend, during the next
decade, for spirituous and malt liquors, the
immense sum of $166, 100000. Nothing can
save it but tidal wave of temperance or
little fire and birthstone, applied outwardly
to counteract the effects of that taken within.
A car load is nominally 10000 pounds.
1t is also 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 80 Of
-four, 80 of whisky, 200 sacks of -four, 6 cords
of soft wood, 1S or 20 head of cattle, so or 60
head of hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 5000
feet of solid boards, $1,000 feet of siding, 49,
900 feet of flooring, 10000 shingles, one-fourth
less of green lumber, onetenth of joist, scant-
ling and other large timbers, $40 bushels of
wheat, 400 of corn, $50 of oats, 400 of bar
ley, $50 of faxseed, $50 of apples, $50 of
Irish potatoes, $50 of sweet potatoes, 1000 of
bran.
To rid themselves of the constant throng
of applicants for free passes over their route,
the managers of railroad company have
posted the following notice "1n those days
no passes were given. Search the Scriptures.
Thou shall not pass.'-Numbers Xxx: 18.
Suffer not man to pass.'-Judges iii :2S.
The wicked shall no more pass i ::
Is. None shall ever pass.'-Isaiah xxxviii:
10. This generation shall not pass.'-Mark
xiii 80. Though they roar, yet shall they
not pass.'-Jeremiah ii AZ. SO he paid his
fare and went.-Jonah i: g." Under the
last quotation, in large letters, is the word
"West."
- The following statistical information con-
cerning the order of Odd Fellows in the
United States, was furnished by the grand
secretary of the meeting of the grand lodge
in Baltimore, and will be of interest to mem
bers of the order elsewhere: Number of grand
lodges, so; increase, 2; subordinate lodges
6,975; increase, 81; grand encampments,
Sesame as last year subordinate encamp-
ments, 1858 increase, %; lodge limitations,
33,S60; decrease, 1927; lodge members,
1929; decrease, 5,72S; encampment men,
bers, S2,40S; decrease, 2,379; total relief,
$1,740, ,405.6S; increase, 35,13S.97; total
revenue, 81, ,266, ,9S6.53; decrease, $l56,065.-
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Under date of last Friday, Gen. Pope
telegraphs to the War Department from
Fort Leavenworth, that the United States
troops had FIVE hours fight with about a
hundred Indians, near Hillsboro, New Mex
leo, on heprevious day, losing ten men killed
and a number wounded. 1t is believed that
there are troops enough at Fort Bayard to
deal with these Indians, and Gen. Pope tele-
graphs that they are all out after them. The
hostiles are said to be from the Muscalero
agency, under Chiefs Victoria and Mama
On the 4th inst. they attacked the herd of
Capt. Hooker, at Pjacalienle, killed the
herdsmen and drove off thirty horses and
mules, and it was in pursuit of the band by
the troops after this outrage that the fight en-
sued.
The city Of Providence began, year
and half ago, to dispense its charity on
new plan. Helpless paupers were kept in an
almshouse or aided at home, as before; but all,
able-bodied applicants for food or lodging
were put to work in a wood yard at fifty cents
day. Unworthy families who had been as