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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-24
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Several loads of watermelons-some fine
ones-have met with ready sale on the Streets
Messrs Clark Brothers are having their gro
Gerry store painted.
A nicer patch of cotton cannot be seen in
this vicinity than that in the vacant lot OF
Mr.. Joseph Herndon's adjoining his bakery.
The crop prospect is not so encouraging as
it was few weeks ago. Complaints OF dry
weather, and in some instances of prolonged
drouth. reach us from all sections of the
county.
Do not forget the meeting of the survivors
of the Twelfth Regiment, called by Col. Jones.
to be held in the Court House on the first Mon
day of next month. Every member of the old
Regiment residing in York county is earnestly
requested to attend.
Lest there should be some misunderstanding
as to the correct date appointed for the elec'
ton on the question of changing the fence
law in Cherokee township, we rise to explain
that the date is correctly printed in the ad-
yertisement of the County Commissioners In
our paragraph last week, calling attention to
the notice, typographical error occurred,
giving wrong date. The election is to be on
Monday the 18th of August.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Mr.. W. Arthur Metts, of Columbia, is visit
ing his father.
Mr.. Paul McCorkle returned from Spartan
burg Tuesday morning.
Mr.. w. E. Rose, of Columbia, proprietor of
Roses hotel in that city, and also of a Similar
establishment in Yorkville, is here on visit.
Mrs. Emily Adickes is visiting relatives in
Spartanburg.
Mrs. Mills has returned to her home at
Blackstocks. She is accompanied by Mrs. H..
G.. Strauss.
Rev. A. J. Mccoy, after brief stay at
Cleveland Mineral Springs, returned Satur-
day morning
Mrs. Hammond, of Charlotte and Miss Mary
Mobley, of Lancaster, are visiting DR.. j. M.
Lowry's family.
Messrs. James Hemphill; w. K. Lowry;
John S. Bratton; John NJ. Rawlinson; Mrs
Fannie L. Dobson and child and Master Has
kell; Mr. C. G.. Parish and son, Master Latta;
Mr. J. F. Wallace and family; Mrs. R. F. Clark
and little daughter, and Mr.. w. R. Carroll,
are at Cleveland Mineral Springs.
Miss Missouri Williford returned to her
home in Rock Hill, Tuesday, accompanied by
Miss Mamie Glenn.
Mrs Frances V. Grist, Miss Hannah E.
Grist and Masters Albert and Reginald, start
ed to Hendersonville, N. c., yesterday. They
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-24

Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
The Latest EIOpement,

Just as in the romantic novels the
"Bless you, my children, bless you !"
is always the denouement of the elope-
ment of the fair heroine with the brave
lover, so in the case of the latest fash
ionable runaway marriage in real life,
the paternal forgiveness has at last
been granted, and all is peace and hap
piness once more. After the young
bride had been snatched from the arms
of the groom in New York on Monday
last by her irate father and taken back
to Philadelphia, her new made husband
followed as a matter of course. The
report was started that the young lady
had been packed of to Europe, but this
was merely blind. The young man
was on hand OH Wednesday and had
an interview with the Phillips family,
which terminated SO satisfactorily that
the happy couple once more took the
train for New York, it is said this time
accompanied by the smiles and good
wishes of the rel-nting father.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

To SHOW THAT all this Democratic cry
of using troops and force at the polls is
but sham, we have only to state that
with all the troops, supervisors and
United States Marshals complained Of
the South was not prevented from vot-
ing solidly for the Democrat ticket, and
there is not Southern bull dozer in
Congress that has any fear whatever
that the South cannot be controlled in
the future in the same way. 1t is
we'll known that the whole object of
the law is to carry New York City, and
through the city the State for the Dem
ocratic party. This law did at the last
election reduce the party majority i'll
New York city, among other methods,
by cutting down the votes cast upon
fraudulent naturalization papers from
Is 900 in 1868 to 1900 in 1876, and
the Democrats are seemingly afraid
that if that kind of thing continues
they will fail in 1880 to carry their
electoral ticket in New York State. The
solitary reason why most Of them are
willing to accept such a disreputable
politician as Tilden as their candidate
for 1880 is that they realize that the
thirty-three electoral votes Of New York
are requisite to give them the victory,
and they believe that Tilden can get
them, by fair means or foul, more sure
ly than any other man. The entire
scheme ought TO be labelled, "a move
ment to capture New York for the
Democratic party"
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
PRESENCE OF Mind.

During the stampede in the Opera
House last night on account OF the
alarm of fire raised outside, much cred
it is due to Mr.. Edwin Hirst and his
daughter Florence for their presence OF
mind which enabled them to stand
still and by doing SO calmed the ex-
citement which was growing danger
Gus. Mr.. Hirst occupied an orchestra
chair near the centre and his daughter
Florence and Miss Emma Johnson were
on the platform singing the vocal Duet
called, "Whsre gentle Winds" when
the alarm of fire was raised and the
rush of the audience commenced tor the
doors. The two young ladies named
started and tore the music sheet in two,
but Miss Hirst's eye meeting the glance
of her father from his seat from which
he h ad raised in the audience, the lat
ter shouted to his daughter, "stand
firm" Thus treasured the two young
ladies resumed singing th- duett,
and during the whole time of the ex-
citement they kept on singing until the
audience had become seated and quiet.
Such presence Of mind had these young
ladies, assured by Mr.. Hirst who kept
his eye on them, that they sang the last
verse over two or three times in order
to give the audience time to quiet
down. Professor Clarence Shank, with
great presence of mind, also re-
mained at the piano which he kept
on playing as though as if nothing had
happened. At the close ofthe piece the
Misses Hrst and Johnson were greeted
with round after round of hearty ap-
plause in response to which they ap-
peared and sang Where gentle winds"
over again after the wild winds of ex-
citement had swept harmlessly by. This
is an example of presence of mind in
Mr.. Hirst which no doubt prevented
what might have been serious acci-
dent, but after all it was that feeling
and look of confidence on the part OF
Miss Hirst to her father that did so
much towards stilling the tempest of
excitement. We are told in poetry that
"music hath charms to soothe the saw
age breast" Lut in the meeting at the
Opera House last night, it might well
be rendered that,
Music Gains the tempest wild,
Though the singer be child.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

THAT "DRr question came again
before the Council last night and some
members took a hand in throwing it
around. A majority, however, seemed
to be on the side of Mr.. Rowe, the con-
tractor, and so Christiana Avenue will
he given the go-by for the present. If
Mr.. Rowe puts on good force of work.
men and carts this week, he can finish
the job by the next meeting Of the
Council and stop all this dirt throwing.
We hope the City Council have learned
a lesson from this contract, so that
when any more are to be given out,
they will express the terms 50 intelligi-
bly, and plainly that there can be no
more mistakes.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
Fall OF q Building.

The carpenter shop of H: W. Will
liams, on Union street, Petersburg, Va,
fell suddenly on Wednesday with a
great crash, injuring two men, both
named John Pond, father aud sou, the
latter it is feared, fatally. The build
ing was sixty feet long and was heavi-
ly slated, aud the upper floor stored
with lumber. This is thought to have
caused tue fall. The crash caused a
panic in the dining room of Jarratt's
hotel, Immediately adjoining, where the
guests, just sitting down to dinner,
thought the house had fallen.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
That Partisan j Jury.

Tie "Gazette" cannot deny that tn,
jury panels for the May term Of ceur
are intensely partisan, and it tries hare
to break the force of the charge by
going away back to war times. and
showing that Republicans were just as
strong the other way. This may be so,
but if it is true there was some show OF
reason for such discrimination then be-
tween parties. There is none however
now; not even was there a case to
come before court of a political charac-
ter, hence the utter folly of selecting a
partisan panel. We have already given
credit to President Bright and a couple
of other Levy Courtmen, for their i'm
partiality in the selection Of jurors,
and We always endeavor to do so when,
ever impartiality is shown by public
officers. We do not care to 90 back all
over the juries chosen during the war,
when half the Democratic party of Del
aware, if they had been forced to fight
At all, would have fought on the rebel
side, and when one half of the other
half were in sympathy with the rebel
lion, to hant out some instance in which
the Republicans had majority of the
iurymen, and upon one or two instan-
ces perhaps three-fourths of them were
republicans, neither do we care about
travelling all over the nation to see how
U. S. Jurors are chosen; i. is enough
for our purpose to know that now, four
teen years after the close of the rebel
lion, when the Democrats say that all
cause for partisan feeling has passed,
and have advocated an era of economy
and reform, that these same Democrats
show their insincerity in their professed
principles by selecting jury panel in a
county where there are more Republi.
cans than Democrats. and rs Democrats
and only 26 Republicans were chosen
as jurymen. Neither the Gazette
nor the Herald" need try to cover up
this fact, by bringing up the days OF
the war: The present is what we are
alluding to, the time of Democratic re-
form, which has been so often promised,
and now that the Republican has the
independence aAd back bone to show up
the hollowness of such sham reform,
both the papers named are trying to
show that the reform they advocated
was that of an eye for an eye, and a
.ooth for tooth. Revenge is what the
Democracy is after, and they have com
menced it in New Castle county by
stutting the jury wheel with partisan
Democrats. All We can say is, go ahead
gentlemen there is hereafter in the
not far future.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

The MORNING "Herald" of this morn
ing, says:
"The "Rspuhlican" received its just
deserts yesterday from all the city
journals, tor its malicious attack upon
the administration of law in this coun-
try"
Yes, all the papers in the city are
tearing 1--WE had almost said swearing, }
at tho REPUBLICAN,, and still it goes
ahead in the even tenor Of its way, in
creasing all the while in influence and
circulation. We had much rather be
right and have all the other city papers
opposed to us, than to be wrong and
have their plaudits. Pitch in, gentle
men.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

: There is no doubt about it, Mr.. Tilden
must set that barrel to rolling through
tho South at once, or there'll be trouble.
The opposition to him in the Southern
journals becomes more outspoken each
day. They go so far as to say that it
would be great boon to the party to
have him out of the field, since his
nomination will take all the energy and
spirit out of the campaign SO far as the
Southern Democrats are concerned.
Why not start Smith Tweed at once?
He knows the ground, and how to
irrigate 1t.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
A Challenge for Parole.

Mr.. Gretton, owner of Isonomy, re-
garded as the fastest colt in England,
has proposed match with Parole for
G5, 900 side, at Newmarket; weight
for age. Parole defeated Isonoiny in
the Newmarket handicap last week
with ease. Last year, for the Cam
bridgeshirs stakes, Isonomy won $780,
600 for his owner. The reason why
Mr.. Gretton offer this challenge is said
to be because at the recent contest at
Newm arket Isonomy, 4 years old, car.
ried 124 pound penalty, and Parole, 6
years old, carried l16 pounds only.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

IP Mr.. BAYARD should not succeed
in getting the nomination for the Presi-
dency, it will be very easy matter
for the EVERY Evening" to publish a
column editorial denying that he had
ever been a candidate.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
NOBODY SEEMS to be more pOpl

NOBODY SEEMS to be more popular now
than S. J. Tilden. The Democrats
want to nominate him for President,
and the Republicans are unanimous for
making him the Delsocratc candidate.
Surely he ought to be nominated, even
if it should make the "Every Evening"
swear.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
Tile VOTE In the Senate on the Army

THB VOTE IN the Senate on the Army
Appropriation bill is to be taken to
morrow at three o'clock, and will no
doubt pass by party vote. The Pres
ideEt will then commence to wrestle
with it, but by this time he should
have his mind iully made up as to the
course he intends to pursue.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

Now NJ It the every Evening" has
made 1t appear as clear as mud, that
George II. Bates Esq, was net a canii-
date for Insurance Commissioner, we
suppose it is happy, but ~e presume it
would have been more happy if Mr..
Bates had received the appointment.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

Keller's Roman Liniment, for rheu.
matism, neuralgia, sprains and bruises
and oil diseases requiring local appli-
cations, at Taylor & Fullerton's, Drug
gists, 302 King street.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25
1PEN ED THIS DAY.

Depot Il. NJ. Wier, 12O9 Marke. street. 8 tts
of delicious milk biscuit, rs cents; ginger
snaps, loo D.; peas, &c can; 8 cans tomatoes, rs
cents; 3 h can Of peaches, lOc; 8 cans succo
tash, 25c; glasses Jelly, &c; quart can sweet
pickles, 3 c; quart can chow chow, 25 cents;
dried apples, &c ib; tbs French Prunes, 25c
8 lbs prunes, 25c; ibs pared peaches, 25c;chow
chow, l0c bettle; catsup, &c bottle; tts rice,
25c; 8 its rasins, 26c; preserved peaches. 15c n
h; sugar, 81, and &c ID; granulated cents.
Our 26c ,ofIee is excellent; our 2Oc coffee can't
be beat: our 6Oc tea is the best in the city for
the price; our flour at SO is good; rs lbs SOC is
good; lbs Olien soap, 26c; our syrup, 10 and
lie quart: honey drips, l2c, is excellent; wash
boards, 25c; 2 buckets, Csc; brOoms. Csc; at
THOMAS NJ. WIER,
ap23.tf 1909 Market street.
Daily Republican., 1879-04-25

"UNcLB TINS" mule is crowded over
until tomorrow. It's ears were too
long for to-day's paper.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07
Poison.

The poison so freely used by the Ital-
ians in the seventeenth century was
called "aqua tofana," from the name
Of the old woman Tofania, who made
and sold 1t in small fat walls which she
called mamma of st. Nicholas, on one
side Of which was an image Of the saint.
She carried on this traffic for half GEN.
tHry and eluded the police, but ON be-
ing detected confessed that she had
been party to poisoning six hundred
people. Numerous persons were i'm
plicated by her of all RANKS, and many
Of them were publicly executed. All
Italy was thrown into a ferment, and
and many fed, while some persons of
distinction, on conviction, were stran-
gled in prison. 1t appeared to have
been used mainly by married women,
who were tired of their husbands.
Four or six drops were fatal dose, but
the effect was not sudden and therefore
not suspected. 1t was as clear as wa
ter, but the chemists have not agreed
upon its real composition. A procla-
nation of the Pope described it as aqua
fortis distilled into arsenic, and others
considered it as solution of crystal
hzed arsenic. The secret of its pre-
paration was conveyed to Paris, where
the Marchioness de Brinvaliers poison
ed her father and two brothers, and
she with many others were executed,
and the preparers OF it were burned at
the stake.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07
AGRICULTURE.

CONCRETE WALLS UNDER OLD BARNS.
Many farmers, who desire to build
good stables, are deferred from doing
SO because they think 1t necessary to
build new barn for that purpose; and
In order TO have proper basement sta
BILE, they seem to regard side hill as
indispensable. Now, both these ideas
are often mistaken. First, If the old
barn Is large enough and Of the right
form to suit the purpose, 1t may be
raised and good concrete wall placed
under 1t, so as TO give as good q stable
as If under o new barn, When the
wall Is TO be land with stone by mason,
in the ordinary way, the shores or block
ings are very much in the way of build
ing the wall-requiring each blocking
to be filed in after its removal, thus
making much more work. But when
the wall is built with concrete, the mat
ter is very easy. Raise the barn to the
height desired (giving eight feet In the
clear for a stable); level it accurately
on the bookings; then place SKA scanU-
lings plumb under the centre Of the
stills mot In the way of any window or
door,, in sufficient number to hold the
building firmly in position brace these
from the top and take out the bookings.
Now, there Is nothing in the way of a
concrete wall, as it is built around these
shores, which will stand In the centre
of the wall, and cannot injure Nc by rot
ting. The wall should be twelve Ia
ches thick, and TO build it set standards
fifteen inches apart, In pairs, SO that / y u
inch planks, placed between them
against each standard, will leave twelve
In. ..h ~ haN hn II na- tpo
of standards will be plumbed, so a., to
bring the outside OF the wall even with
the outside edge of the sill. These
Standards and planks are carried around
the building. Only one tier of pla4ks
is equired, and it Is isconvenient to have
these fourteen inches wide. When this
box is filled with concrete, it will usu-
ally set hard enough while filling, so
that the workmen may commence at
the length first filed and raise it twelve
inches, leaving two inches la ped on
the first tier of the wall made, and each
length of blank Ia raised in turn, and
refllled with concrete-thus placed lay
er on layer until the wall Is completed.
When the last layer is to be placed un-
der the sill, raise the outside plank to
the top so that the concre.e can be
pushed against it, and the inside plank
may be lett down enough 20 give room
for the introduction of the matter. 1t
can be tamped in solid under the sill,
so as TO make complete wall with no
space left for air. The door frames are
made of planks, with jambs as wide as
the wall Is thick. The door frames are
set up before the bookings are placed,
the box planks slide up on the edges Of
the door jambs. The window frames
are set up under the sill, and the con-
crete fills up under and around them;
and the basement should be well light
ed. 1t Is bad economy to save glass at
the expense of liberal light in q stahle.
Sun light is as important to animals as
TO vegetables.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07

the kidneys and bladder, sometimes become
torpid and weak from unAscertanable causes.
When this occurs, their dischArging function
Is of necessity very imperfectly performed,
and certain debris, which is the result OF
natural bodily waste and decay does not es-
cape As 1t should but remains TO corrupt the
blood and develop poisonous humors and
dangerous as we'll as painful diseases. 1t ID
one OF the benehcent effects OF Hostetter' q
Stomach Btters 10 gently stimulate the uri-
nary organs and prevent them from lapsinG
into state of inactivity, always provocative
OF their inflAmmatory degeneration and decay.
How much better, then, is 1t to adopt this
mild diuretio as q means Of melting them tc
action, than to incur the danger OF this de.
struotion. To expel from the system waste
matter through the bowels and kidneys, and
70 regulate and Aronse the stomach and liver,
are among the chief uses of this valuable
remedy.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07
Going on an Excursion.

They had been preparing for the ex-
cursion for about two weeks. The day
at last dawned, and as the boat was to
start early, The young wife determined
TO be on hand. The clock struck eight,
and still she was in the kitchen, her
hair down her back, packing edibles in
the basket.
"Hurry up" said John, her young
husband.
~I'n be ready presently" and away
she darted to blacken her shoes and put
on a clean collar. Then she stuck her
head out of the back window to ask her
next door neighbor TO lend her a
breastpin.
Hurry up. john" said she, sYou
bring the basket, now Pm ready and
am going down to the boat, and say,
John, don't forget a box of sardines
you'll find in the closet, and bring the
pickles and tongue, and be sure and
bring a big knife. Do you hear me,
John2''
John reeled into the kitchen and be-
gan his work. He was interrupted by
his wife's voice from below yelling:
John, there's can of strawberries
in the ice-box, don't forget them. Now
hurry, Wen be fearful late, and say,
bring one or two more handkerchief
and sun umbrella or don't know,
1t looks like rain bring my waterproof.
Oh, you old poke, you're going to stay
there all day Now run back and close
those back shutters and put the cat in
the kitchen, and leave pan of milk
for her, and say, just stop around at the
butchers, and tell him we won't need
any meat to day; and leave the key of
the cellar under the parlor door-mat.
Now hurry, John. Pm of. And don't
forget anything, or T'll 90 "wild!''
de didn't forget anything; but when
he reached the wharf he found the boat
had been gone two hours.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07
A MYsterY Explained.

Parlor scene Mrs. Brown, who has
spent the summer among the White
Mountains in search Of health, and who
seems to have searched the whole
mountain side without being able to
find pair of blooming cheeks or an
inch of healthful skin ; Mrs. White,
who has remained at home because
her husband could not afford to go,
but whose fresh complexion and bright
eyes seem to have caught their bloom
and brightness from mountain breeZes.
Mrs. B.-Dear me, Mrs. White, how
we'll you are looking Ii you will not
think me impertinent, let me ask you
how you can keep so healthy In this
dreadful city | have been to the
White Mountains, go there every sum-
mer, in fact, and can't keep off the
doctors list at that.
Mrs. w. (smiling).-I'll tell you the
whole secret, Mrs. Brown. You re-
member how poorly | was last spring,
some days even being confined to my
bed. DR.. told Mr.. White to send
me to the mountains, but l knew he
couldn't afford il, and / tried DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Its
effects were so marvellous that | also
tried his Golden Medical Discovery, to
cleanse my system. In my opinion,
one bottle of the Prescription and the
Discovery is better than six weeks of
the White Mountains for sick woman.
have only been out of the city week
during the whole summer; then my
husband and l went to Buffalo and
stopped at DIR. Pierce's Invalids' and
T0nrists' Hotel. The baths and me-
chanicaI apparatus for treating patients
were alone worth going to see. Be-
sides, our accommodations were better
than we had at Long Branch last year,
and the drives and scenery are superb.
Let me advise you to use DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription, and try the In
valids' and Tourists Hotel next sum-
mer instead of the White Mountains.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-08-07

PLANTS AND FLowERs.-To have ros-
es bloom we'll keep old wood cut back !;
cover the bushes in winter with straw
corn stalks or loose manure and work
into the soil around them plenty of iron
Filings or filings or break up old pieces
of cast-iron as fine as possible and put
around next the roots. If rose bugs
trouble your roses put a spoonful of
white hellebore in a pail of water and
sprinkle it on the bushes or vines. To
kill the peach tree borer, use fish brine
diluted with an equal quantity of water
"a pint poured around each tree in
spring or fall; for each small tree use
less.