Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17
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married to a rich merchant in Birmingham,
England, is denied by that lady's friends.
Secretary McCrary has issued an order
placing Adjutant General Townsend in
charge of the work of codifying the Army
regulations under the recent act of Congress.
The statement that Colonel Roberts, of Lou
isiana, has been placed in charge of this work
is not correct.
- Peter Igo, of Lawrence, Mass, was very
poor and very proud Being out of work and
money he did not make his plight known, but
fed his wife and child on bread and water,
and went without any food at all himself. A
messenger, who went to tell him of chance
for work, found him dead from starvation.
Verify, there are heroes who never knew the
triumph and martyrs who never wore the
crown.
"A Jersey City druggist said recently that
to him. 1t has always been an active com.
modify in that city, because of the malarial
complaints that prevail there "but now, "
said he, "it is used as remedy for everything
from a sprain to headache, and it has be-
come saying with the Jersey people that
what they save in rent they spend in quinine. /"
The Baltimore Gazette wittily observes
that Secretary Evarts has been designated as
the gentleman who is to prepare the inscrip-
tion for the monument which is to mark the
birthplace of G. Washington. Congress only
appropriated $4,000 for the monument and
the question has been raised whether 5000
will buy enough marble to hold couple Of
Evarts' sentences. 1t may be necessary to
build an annex.
The New York World publishes list Of
persons killed and wounded by the use of fire.
arms and fireworks on the Fourth Of July.
1t fills an entire column, though each casualty
is narrated in the briefest style, and is doubt
less very incomplete. There are nineteen ia.
talites, and the wounded sum up 1O7, many
of which are so serious that they will result
in death 1t is truly said that if a complete
list could be made the casualties could be
found to equal that of very respectable
South American battle.
II Mr.. Glovers report Of the crookedness OF
the United States Treasury is very startling,
and possibly true in every particular. The
whole machine at Washington is honeycomb-
ed with corruption, so much so that, in our
opinion, says the Augusta Chronicle, the Re-
publicans will never surrender it to q Demo
cratic investigation. Failing to keep out a
Democratic Administration, by force or fraud,
or both, the Republican leaders will destroy
the records of the past twenty years. Mark
the prediction
The English papers are still full OF Incl
dents connected with the Prince ImperiaPs
life and death. The Empress has formally
expressed to the Duke of Cambridge her COM
plete exoneration of Lord Chelmsford from
all blame in respect of the Prince Imperials
death. On the Path of June the Empress re.
ceived the last letters written by her son. So
far she has not dared to open them, and they
remain at Chiselhurst as they arrived. When
the news of the Prince Imperial's death
reached the Prince of Wales so great was bis
grief that those who were present thought he
would have tainted.
= Many tea plants were set in North and
South Carolina and Georgia years ago, but it
was not profitable to gather the leaves and
prepare them in the elaborate Chinese style,
and the plants were left to grow wild. The
Agricultural Bureau in Washington received
barrel of leaves from South Carolina. They
were placed in wire sieves and steamed, and
then run through clothes wringer to extract
the tannic acid. The structure of the leaf
was destroyed in the process, and the mass
was placed in an ordinary pan and dried by a
fire. A decoction was made and the aroma
was delightful
Sir Henry Bessemer has had an expe.
rience enjoyed by few inventors, of living to
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and the economy in resources which has re-
suited from their use 1t is estimated, from
data obtained all over the world, that in la
Dor and material civilized countries of the
globe are gamers to the amount of S1O0, ,0O0,-
600 year by using the Bessemer process of
converting ore into steel, while the saving in
steel rails in Great Britain alone is estimated
at $S50,000000 during the life Of one set of
these improved articles. In view Of these
facts few persons will begrudge the inventor
the $5,250,00O which he has received in roy
alties.
Senator Lamar has returned to Wash
ington from Mississippi, and reports that he
was surprised at the exodus fever and at the
prospects for the future in this regard. He
says the colored people are being excited to
the highest pitch by the stories of the land Of
milk and honey they will find in Kansas.
Recently q white man carrying red flag
marched through one section Of the State,
spreading the report that the Government
had taken up the exodus question, and would
from that time on, furnish all who wished to
90 to Kansas with free transportation and a
supplied farm on their removal to that prom.
ised land. The. day and hour when the free
train would pass was announced, and at that
time hundreds of negroes swarmed along the
line of the road for miles, only to be informed
by the railroad people that there was no free
train.
New York letter of Friday: The yellow
fever scare had but little effect to-day at the
Cotton Exchange, members generally regard
ing the matter as much exaggerated. The
market, however, left off lower than yester-
day, when the "bulls'' made the most of the
news to put up prices. At the Produce Ex.
change, however, provisions were visibly at.
fected, as at Chicago, where there is a bad
break in the produce market. Here the de-
cline is about 81 barrel on pork and 25 to
80 cents on lard, while bacon was unsaleable.
Heavy packers, however, made considerable
purchases in Chicago on the basis of SIC. for
mess pork, and 9-10c. to 4c. for short ribs,
and thus stayed the downward tendency by
buying over 100000 pounds of meat and
about 10000 barrels of mess pork. At the
close the market here was tending upward,
and feverish.
"A private letter has been received in
Washington from Gen. Grant, in which he
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