Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-01
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him something for not marrying her.
- The New Orleans mint has turned out
2,SS7 900 silver dollars and 100000 worth of
gold double eagles during the eight months it
has been running.
- DR.. Everitt dentist of Charlotte, was
found dead in his room on Wednesday morn
ing of last week. There were no evidences
either of foul play or suicide, and the verdict
of the coroner's jury was that he came to his
death from causes to them unknown.
The New Orleans Democrat estimates at
more than 100000 the loss Of mules and
other stock, in the Ouachita Valley section of
Louisiana, from disease produced by the
bites of myriads of gnats that invaded that
part of the State lately.
- 1t appears from a statement recently
made by the Secretary of War, that S69,S23
pounds of cannon, condemned as useless for
army purposes, and worth Sill ,345, have
been given away by acts of Congress tor
soldiers monuments.
- An order has been received by the Win
chester Mass Arms Company to make from
fifteen to twenty million of cartridges for
the Chinese Government. This is the first
order, it is said, ever given by the Chinese
Government to foreigners, for the manufac-
ture Of cartridges.
- Edison has not yet succeeded with the
electric light, but in his spare moments he
invented new principle of telegraphy for
which the Western Union Telegraph Com:
pany has just paid him round hundred
thousand dollars. This was little side
speculation, so to speak.
- DR.. Atticus G. Haygood, President OF
Emory College and Editor of the Wesleyan
Advocate, and DR.. j. H. Carlisle, President
of Woford College, have been appointed
fraternal delegates from the Southern Metho..
dist Church to the General Conference of
the Northern Church, which meets in Gin
cinnati in May.
- The Cincinnati Southern Railroad, just
completed, cost the City of Cincinnati eigh-
teen millions of dollars. But it opens an IN
dependent route to the Atlantic ports, and is
expected to realize handsome profits A train
of cars made the trip, a short time ago, be-
tween Cincinnati and Port Royal, in thirty
four hours.
- The rush of immigration at New York
is somewhat remarkable. The seven ocean
steamers which arrived there Sunday and
Monday, of last week, landed 2,9ll imml'
grants, making the total for the month up to
date, 1920, against 6,051 for the entire
month of March of last year, and as the
season advances the numbers are expected to
increase.
OF the seventeen daily newspapers pub
liShed in Philadelphia, eleven are strongly
pronounced against the third term movement,
and one has nothing to say either way.
Twelve of the thirteen weeklies, published IN
that city, are also opposed to the nomination
of Grant, both dailies and weeklies represent
ing an aggregate circulation of 100000 pa
pers.
- The Mobile Register of last Saturday
publishes an interview with S. II. Sewar,
colored man who has returned from Illinois.
He gives full and sorrowful account OF his
brethren in the West, and says their condi-
tion is worse than it ever was in slavery
times. He intends to travel through the
State to warn his colored brethren. He says
the South is the place for his people.
So tickle have been the prices of old rail-
way rails for few months past, that parties
having old rails to sell write the officials Of
rolling mills: "What will you give for q
few thousand tons of old rails, providing they
are not sold before your answer IS received?
The rolling mill official answers: 81 will pay
S4S per ton if don't change my mind before
hear from you"
"A Bridgeport attorney recently took
strong exception to ruling of the court that
certain evidence was inadmissible. 81 know,
II Il hot I &c
proper evidence. Here have been practic.
ing at the bar for forty years, and now l
want to know if am fool?' "rhat," re-
piled the court, "is a question of fact and
not of law, and 30 I shall not pass upon it,
but let the jury decide"
AT noon, on Wednesday of last week, the
aggregate of the contributions sent from
America to the relief of the suffering poor of
the famine districts of Ireland, was 81 ,OO2,.
600. This is larger than the reported aggre'
gate of both the Dublin funds, that Of the
Duchess of Marlborough and the Mansion
House combined. The New York Herald
fund had reached the magnificent sum of
S3lE $3.50. Of the total sent from this side
of the Atlantic, $45O,OO0 is credited to the
Catholic Churches.
- The United States Consul at Pernam-
buco has written letter to Secretary Evarts,
giving an account of the famine which pre-
walls in his Consulate (which is in Northern
Brazil. A secca, or drought, began in that
section in 1876 and continued to the close
of the year 1873, no rain having fallen dur
ing that lapse of time, and the once fertile
and productive province now presents the
appearance of vast blackened desert, burnt
over by fire. When this drought commenced,
the Province Ceara, numbered 900, 900 inhabi-
tants; out of these 100000 have died of dis
ease and starvation.
- The most monstrous story OF mlserliness
comes from the Russian Province of Podol-
la, where, iu the town of Duois, an elderly
man was found dead in garret. He had
perished of cold and slow starvation with
half million of roubles in gold in the room,
hidden under heap of rubbish, which also
concealed a greater sum in securities For
many years he had not been known to have
fire in his miserable lodgings or candle at
night. To save few copecks in the price, he
would Journey to village several versts dis
tant for bread, which was his principal food.
"A lady correspondent says she recently
saw new arrangement for wiping dishes
that saves half the risk, while the dishes look
nicer and brighter. The only outlay re-
ouired is half bushel basket. Set this eth
er in sink or in a pan. Wash the dishes as
usual and put them in tin pan Or pail.
Pour boiling water over them, rinse thor
oughly, then set them up edgeways IN the