Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-02
Straps and fatts.
Two inches of snow fell at Montreal,
Canada, on Thursday last.

Will TURN OUT 10 Oe SOOu one, duu Ine SLdIis-
tician, who is already at work, says that more
than so per cent. of it is produced by white
labor.
Oh Thursday last, large boulder of
native white quartz rock was moved from
the mining region near the Wilderness, and
placed to mark the spot where Stonewall
Jackson received his death wound. A simple
inscription will be engraved on the. stone.
- The various cotton manufactures in and
around Augusta, use $1,5O0,0O0 worth of raw
cotton per annum. The annual sales from
their product amount to about $4,000, 900.
The product of the Augusta -four and grist
mills yields $1,500,000 per annum.
Singular, isn't it, that when a man gives
his wife dime to buy box of hair-pins or
a gum ring for the baby, it looks about seven
times as big as when he planks it down on the
bar for little gin and bitters for the stom-
ach's sake?"
- A real duel was lately fought at Pepin-
ster, Belgium, by Count de Veysy, who is
noted for his enormous wealth, and Baron de
Vauloo. They used pistols, and the Baron
was killed. The Count was arrested, and,
though he offered to give 100000 bail, was
put in prison.
The PostoHice Department is preparing
the proposals for carrying the mails in Ohio,
Indiana, North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky and
Tennessee, which will be published in No.
vember, and the opening will be in February
next.
= The Comptroller General of the State of
Georgia, having been impeached for the en-
bezzlement of the public funds, has been
found guilty. Being found guilty, he is for.
ever debarred from again holding office OF
trust, honor or emolument in the State, togeth-
er with such other punishment as the Court
may see fit to infict.
= Joe Pentz took rife to his wedding, at
Marks Gap, Texas. The sexton tried to
persuade him to leave it at the door on en-
tering the church, but he persisted in carry
ing it across his shoulder as he walked with
the bride up the aisle to the altar rail. His
explanation was that rival suitor had threat
ened to kill him on this occasion, and he
meant to be prepared for defense.
= Gen. Sherman, in little speech to some
school children the other day, said: "You
may think, children, when you read about US
war men, that we like battles and fighting.
1t isn't so most of US hate it. So far as | am
concerned, have been engaged in wars and
with business connected with war, for forty
years, and 1 hate it with deep and growing
hatred
"A writer in the Galveston Ne,ss expresses
the opinion that a river of petroleum is flow
ing through the subterranean cavities of Tex
as. 1t takes its rise in the carboniferous
strata north of the Colorado River, and may
be traced at various points on its course to the
Gulf of Mexico, by oil appearing on the sur
face of springs, streams and lakes, while at
what is known as Oil Bay on the Gulf, the
water is so covered with oil that the waves
have no effect.
AN English journal frankly gives credit
to American genius for at least fifteen in
vertions and discoveries, which, it says, have
been adopted all over the world. These tri-
umphs of American genius are thus enumera-
ted: i. The cotton gin. 2.'The planning ma
chine. 8. The grass mower and grain reaper.
4. The rotary printing press. 5. Navigation
by steam. 6. Hot air or caloric engine. 7.
The sewing machine s. The rubber indus
try. 9. The machine for the manufacture of
horse shoes. 10. The sand blast for carving.
IL. The gauge lathe. II. The grain elevator.
49, Artificial ice manufacture on large
scale. IA. The electro-magnet and its prac-
tical application. IA. The composing ma
chine for printers.
The late report of the National Cotton
Exchange, places the total consumption of
cotton by Southern mills during the year
1S7S-79, at 1S6,4S9 bales, against 147,7E
bales the previous year, showing gain OF
26 per cent. Georgia is by far the largest
cotton manufactures, having 100000 spindles
in operation, North Carolina standing second,
and South Carolina third. Texas is the small
est in the whole list, her consumption during
the past year having been only 3S1 bales.
While the consumption in the Southern States
last year showed an increase Of rs per cent.
the gain in that of the North was only 2 per
cent. A number of new mills are now in
course of construction in different parts of the
South, and, the production thus being in
creased, the percentage during the next few
years is expected to show much greater
rate than in the past.
"A New York letter says: "a cool, crisp
weather is imparting fresh life to the business
world on every hand. Merchants, in almost
every branch of trade, report increasing ac-
tivity. and not a few Of them report orders
considerably ahead. Immense quantities of
merchandise of every description continue to
90 forward by the Southern coast steamers,
taking in every point of distribution from
Norfork clear through to Galveston. The
Eastern transportation companies also are
as busy as they we'll can be, and at the
freight depots of the railways along the river
front, the scene, night and day, is one Of the
busiest imaginable. Everybody seems to
have employment The hotels have as many
guests as they can accommodate, and the
business thoroug ghfares exhibit an animation
and hustle the like of which has not been
seen for many day."
- The papers in every one Of the great
trade centres, are paying special attention,
day by day, to the growth of business The
Cincinnati papers gleefully announce that
the wholesale houses along one street are
lighted all night packing goods. All the
Chicago papers have been publishing broad
side after broadside, full of encouraging
interviews with the merchants, the last from
the Chicago Times of the average dimensions
of a circus tent. In New York, series Of
reports in the World shows that the hotels
are full of buyers as they never were before,
and business of all kinds is overhowing on to
sidewalks and streets in the narrow ways of
older New York after the good, old, dirty,
uncomfortable, prosperous fashion. Philadel-
phia shares the remarkable impetus, all manu-
factures show this summer, and the Philadel
phia Times points out that several branches