Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-18
Straps and fafts.

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scenes of his Mexican campaign.
The Duchess of Marlborough, writing to
the Lord Mayor of London, says the distress
in Ireland is not yet diminishing, continues to
be general, and in some parts is increasing.
= In Buncombe county, N. c., a one legged
man married a woman similarly manned.
Two souls with but single thought, two
legs that serve for the entire family.
= Mayor Cooper, of New York city, draws
a salary of $4,000 year, while the Com
missioner of Jurors, whose duties are not
much more than those Of clerk, draws
$4,000.
A North Carolinian who has just return.
ed from Texas, expresses his views upon it as
follows: IF hell is any worse than that place,
don't blame the people to join the church
and quit all their evil ways in order to be
saved from such fate"
Every department of the Baldwin Lo-
comotive Works, at Philadelphia, is busy
night and day. A large force of workmen
is employed and contracts have been closed
for building twelve locomotives for the gov
ernment of South Australia.
Hon. w. E. Smith, member Of Congress
from Georgia, now at his home on visit, ex-
presses the opinion that Congress will not ad'
journ until after the Presidential vote is coun-
ted. He says that the wires are working for
most bitter political struggle, and that both
parties at political headquarters are marshall
ing their hosts for the conflict.
"A railroad is now nearly finished from
New York to Whitehaven, in Nova Scotia
One of the objects of building the road is to
shorten the ocean travel between America
and Europe When the road is finished, the
trip from New York to Whitehaven, can be
made in thirty to thirty-six hours, and from
thence. to the nearest English port, in FIVE
and half to six days.
- The citizens of Kansas will vote next au-
tumn on prohibitory amendment to the
State Constitution, forbidding the manufac-
ture or sale of Intoxicating liquors. The
temperance people, led by Governor St. John,
are hard at work in its support through the
press and on the stump, but the liquor dealers
are as actively in the field, and at recent
convention in Topeka they voted to raise
100000 to defeat the measure.
- The Postofice department., on Thursday
last, concluded the contracts for the Star
mail service for the following ten States ::
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. The con-
tracts are for four years from July 1st next.
The total amount of the contracts, as award
ed, is about SSS5,000. The routes included
in this letting are 5000 in number. There
were ZOO bids
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken has introduced a
resolution in the House appropriating ten
thousand dollars to be used Sin securing" q
farm containing not more than one hundred
acres, and for the erection of buildings and
appurtenances, for the purpose of cultivating
the tea plant, and developing its possibility as
a branch of American industry and an ad-
ditional $4,000 for the purchase of seeds,
plants, implements, and other necessary ma
terials, and pay of the tea farmer, superinten-
dent and laborers for the year ending June
80, 1881. The sub committee of the House
discussed the general features Of the bill, but
took no action on it.
- What is known as the Southern claims
Commission expired by law on the 10th in-
slant. The commission was organized March
8, 1871, since which date 22,29S claims were
filed against the Government, aggregating in
amount over $60,000,000. About 1900
cases, Involving over S41, 100000, were re-
ported upon, of which about $4,500,OOO we're
allowed. About 1000 cases remain unacted
upon, the claimants having failed to take
testimony as required by act of Congress.
1t is understood that with the completion of
the work of the commission, all war claims,
with the exception of those now pending in
Congress, have been finally and forever dis.
posed Of
The most remarkable ground for d.
vorce known, perhaps, in the history of divorce
suits in this country, is that set forth in a
complaint recently filed in the clerks office
in Lafayette, Indiana. The complainant is a
well-to.do-farmer who has been married about
twenty years. He lives in neighborhood
which is strongly Republican in politics, and
he wants to be separated from his wife be-.
cause she will not allow him to bring Demo-
cratic newspapers in the house. The COM
plainant is Democrat and thinks more of
his politics than he does of his religion. For
five years, he says, he has stood his wife's
tyranny relative to his newspapers, and he
declares that he will stand it no longer He
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"A female elephant was born in Philadel-
phia, on Wednesday of last week, in build
ing which is used as the winter quarters Of
Cooper & Bailey's menagerie. The baby
weighs 2l33 pounds, is 80 inches in height,
and measures 35 inches from the base of the
trunk to the tail. 1t is the only instance of
the kind on record where birth has occur
red while the elephant was in q domesticated
state. The mother was considerably exercised
over the event, and amused herself by de-
stroying the railings which separated her
from the other animals and tossing a stove
about the stable. All of the other animals
seemed cognizant of the fact that something
of an unusual character had happened, and
eviuced signs Of joy.
Under the heading of "a word to Mer-
chants" the Marietta (Ga.) Journal contains
the following on the subject of advertising ::
Advertise by the year. 1t is cheaper and
yields better return in proportion to the
money invested. An advertisement should
always be before the public in some shape.
Ifit disappears, it is soon forgotten, and those
that remain have the superiority and advan-
tage of the absence of the competitor. There
is only one excuse for the discontinuance of
an advertisement, that of retiring from busi-
ness. So long as goods are to be sold and the
vast public to be supplied, advertising is a
necessity, and while no single individual
can expect to attract all trade, all may ex.
pect to get some portion of it, which he would
not have obtained independent of an adver-
tisement.