Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-12
Sfraps and fafts.

price OF S3OO each, or Sl7 ,OUOln round num-
bers. On Friday fifty five head were sold for
$l3.3l7.5O, an average price Of 1920 per head.
Texas has an area enough for an empire
Its 225 counties cover 274,000 square miles
In 1870 it had population of S1S,579.
Returns Of the present census indicate that it
has nearly doubled in inhabitants in ten years
- The census Office says that the total pop
ulation of the United States will be little
over 49,000,000. The official count will be
needed to determine whether Ohio or Illinois
is the third State of the Union in population.
1T is claimed, and the experience of the
last two years bears it out, that the United
States can supply Europe with breadstufs
and provisions cheaper than they can be pro-
duced there.
- A committee from the Tammany Hall
Democracy waited on the regular State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee last Friday,
and it YVES finally resolved to heal all local
differences and unite in the coming campaign.
- Hon. George II. Pendleton thinks Ohio
will 60 Democratic in November. He form
ed this judgment by extensive journeys over
the State and an intelligent observation of
the temper of the people.
The gain in Southern representation in
Congress by enfrancbising the negroes did not
amount to 80 much as is sometimes suggested.
At most, it is thought, only seven additional
members accrued to the South from the meas
ure. But were the negroes now to be disfran-
chised we would lose very largely.
"A Montgomery, Ala, dispatch of the 9TH
says recent rains have done much damage to
the cotton crop. Worms had commenced to
eat the cotton, and the rain prevented poison
ing as much as was desired Its now thought
that on the prairies and bottom lands not
more than half the cotton will be made that
was expected four weeks ago. Rust is injur'
ing the cotton crop.
The total receipts of the Post Office De-
partment, as shown in the report of the Au-
ditor for the last quarter, amounted to $S,-
1882, and the total expenditures &c., 1885,.
385, showing deficit Of 1886. 553. The re-
port also shows that the deficiency for the
first nine months of the last fiscal year was
$685. ,642, making the deficit for the entire
year about $2,53f 900.
Senator Ben Hill, it is said certified in
writing to the loyalty of a Southern claim.
ant of war damages, and a year or two after
wards, going to inquire as to the condition
Of the claim, he was shown appended to the
certificate he had given, another also in his
handwriting and with his signature, testifying
to the same mans loyalty to the Southern
Confederacy.
This is nice time of night for you to be
coming in, said mother to her daughter, who
returned from walk at 10 o'clock. "When
was like you" continued she, "my mother
would not allow me out later than o'clock" ="
"Oh, you had nice sort of a mother" MUIR
INJURED the girl 81 had. you young jade, I"
said the mother, "a nicer, mother than ever
you had"
The cheapest service in the world is that
rendered by the great railways of the United
States in transporting freight. During 1879
the average rate per ton per mile received
by thirteen trunk lines was only one cent
and two hundredths, while on several of
these roads the average was below eight
tenths Of cent. Ever since 1873 the an
nual average has been downward, and that
without compulsion by Legislatures.
- 1t is stated that Mast refuses to caricature
Hancock in Harper's Weekly the alleged rea-
son being that Mast favors Hancock, and be-
sides, in March, 1873, he adorned Harper's
Weekly with double page cartoon, in which
Garfield was conspicuous figure, among
other Radical statesmen" arranged under a
placard as follows: "Disgraced in the eye
of the public for owning Credit Mobiler stock,
which was in fact and intent fraud upon
the government. Also for deceit and eva
sion."
- The Republican National Executive
Committee met in New York last Friday.
The meeting was held with closed doors, but
at its conclusion it was stated that a long dis.
cussion was had over the question of sending
money and speakers to the Southern States.
Views were heard of the representatives from
Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and West
Virginia. 1t was also stated that decision
was arrived at to send aid to Florida. No
conclusion, it was stated, was arrived at in
the cases of the other Southern States.
The President has already begun prepa-
rations for his exit from the White House.
For some time past large boxes marked to
his address at Fremont have from time to
time found their way to the railroad freight
houses, and Mrs. Hayes contemplated trip
to Fremont this fall will combine elements
other than those strictly of pleasure, for oc-
casion will then be taken for the shipment
of such household articles as can be easily
dispensed with during the remainder of their
residence in Washington. Webb Hayes, it
is said, intends to engage in business in Tole-
do next spring.
-"Would you mind standing here till I
60 in and get cigar" he asked. "Of course
not" she replied "but don't you think, Hen
ry, that smoking is offensive, and that it will
be easier practicing economy after marriage
if it is practiced during courtshipi" "You're
right" he said II shan't smoke any more,
sweet" and she looked unutterable love at
him as they resumed their stroll. Just then
they came to an ice cream saloon, and he
said: "There, now, | meant to treat you to
ice cream, but, as you say, it is best to prac
tice economy during courtship. Ten cents
for a cigar, 80 cents for two ice creams-40
cents saved in single night. Lets 60 over
to the fountain and take drink Of water"
They went; but she was mad enoug b to bite
her own head off.
Mosquitoes can be entirely got rid of, it
is declared in Harper's Bazar, by burning in
a room teaspoonful of pyrethrum roseum
or Persian chamomile, an innocuous drug
which can be purchased all ready for use of
any apothecary at seventy cents pound
The chamomile is said to be also an enemy to
the house fly. 1t is affirmed that if you put
the pyrethrum into close, warm room, where
flies most love to swarm, just after dark, in
thirty minutes you will find them all dead or
dying. But the drug must be pure. The