Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-08
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- There are 10000 locomotives in the
United States, and each contains $500 diff
ferent pieces, requiring renewal every ten or
twelve years. This conveys notion of the
industries which railroads foster.
The skin of a boiled egg is the most ef-
fcacious remedy that can be applied to
boil Peel it carefully, wet it and apply it to
the part affected. 1t will draw off the matter
and relieve the soreness in few hours.
Gen. Henry Pleasants, the man who con-
ceived the idea of blowing up all the Confed'
crates by digging the mine under Cemetery
Hill, near Petersburg, in 1864, died in Potts
vile, Pa, the other day.
u. S. Grant, Jr., tried to smuggle 1900
cigars into New York the other day. After
having been taken to the seizure room as an
illicit importation, they were released by
special order Of the treasury department, on
payment Of a penalty equal to the duty.
The signs of an inevitable decline in the
prices of the large staples have begun to ap-
pear in various directions. Iron, which has
hung so long at what was once the fabulous
price of $40 ton, has begun to shade off to
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The Southern Baptist Convention will
meet Thursday, May 6, 1880, at 10 A. NJ, in
the First Baptist Church, Lexington, KY.
Rev. P H. Nell, D. D., of Georgia, to preach
the Convention Sermon-Rev. I. t. Eaton,
D. D.. of Virginia, alternate.
- The Lower House of the General Assem-
bly, of Kentucky, has passed law making the
seduction of any unmarried female of good
of
promise of marriage, felony. 1t fixes the
penalty at one to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
- In the United States District Court at
Lynchburg, Va, OH Wednesday of last week,
the trial of Judge Griffin, of Roanoke county,
for not putting negroes on juries, resulted in
hung jury eleven for acquittal to one for
conviction. Other cases Of similar charac
ter in the Court were continued.
The New York Daily Journal Of Com
merce announces that in consequence of the
large advance in the price of printing paper
and the increased cost of every department Of
news gathering and publishing, it will return
to its former rates of subscription, $l5 per
annum. The previous rates were Sl2.
- In the course of debate in Congress re-
Gently, Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, created
a good deal of amusement by stating that
he had made calculation and had discover
ed that twenty eight members consumed II
per cent. of all the time of the Hoase Of
the remaining time per cent. was consumed
by Southern men, 10 per cent. by one man
from Michigan (alluding to Mr.. Conger,) and
the balance by Northern Democrats.
"A list of the ages of the candidates for
the Presidential nominations will interest all
our readers and may surprise them Charles
Francis Adams is 75; Horatio Seymour, 70 !;
Mr. Tilden, 66 Senator Davis, 65 ex. Cover
nor Parker, of New Jersey, "a; Senator
Thurman, 81 ; ex President Grant, So; Secre-
tary Sherman, 81; Gen. Hancock, IS; Gen.
Mcclellan, 54; Senator Bayard, So; Senator
Conkling, 81 and Senator Blaine, so.
The indianapolis Sentinel says that ex.
Governor Hendricks is somewhat annoyed by
intimations in various quarters that he would
consent to run as second on the ticket with
Mr.. Seymour or Mr. Bayard or Gen. Han.
cock. He wishes it to be distinctly under
stood that while he has the utmost respect for
these and other distinguished Democrats,
whose names have been mentioned as possible
candidates for the Presidency, he positively
declines to stand as second to any one.
- Gen. Grant and party arrived in New Or
leans on Wednesday of last week and was re-
ceived by the City Council and prominent
citizens. During Gen. Grants reception at
Galveston, Texas, the gas was turned off
from the street lamps, and candles had to be
used. The guns of the artillery company
which were to be used to fire salute for
Grants arrival were spiked, but the spikes
were removed in time to be used. Five hun
dred dollars reward was offered for "the mis-
creant who spiked the guns"
On Thursday last, the House ways and
means committee reported, by vote of 8 to 3,
TO place on the free list all manufactured
paper wood pulp, jute butts, manufactured
fax straw, and all other fbrous plants
fit for use in the manufacture Of paper. They
also decided, by vote Of to 5, to fix the
duty at 40 per cent. on fannels, blankets, hats
of wool, knit goods, balmoral, woolen and
worsted yarns, all manufactures of every des-
cription, composed wholly or in part of worst
ed, the hair Of the al paca goat or other like
animals, except such as are composed in part
of wool, not otherwise provided for.
The census taker will be around next
June, and as he is required to ask number
Of questions about farm products, and in or
der that the farmers may be prepared to
answer those questions, we will give them,
below, some idea of the information the Gen.
sus taker will expect them to give. He will
want to know the number Of acres planted
and the amounts raised in 1879, of wheat,
rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, peas and beans,
rice, tobacco cotton, potatoes, orchards, vine
yards, small fruit, hay, clover seed, grape
seed, hops, hemp, flax, flax seed, bees and
honey, sugar cane and sorghum number of
sheep clipped nnd pounds of wool in 1880, of
butter, cheese, milk sold, value of animals
slaughtered, market gardens, forest products,
and value Of home manufactures.
- Leslie Combs of Kentucky, favors Judge
Thurman for the Presidency, as much on ac-
count of his wife as for any other reason.
He says Mrs. Thurman is one of the greatest
women in the world, and what the Judge
does not know she does. He winds up like
a gallant man thus: "Look at Hayes. What
would he be without his wife? She has made
a respectable man of him. She springs from
the best blood of this section, and belongs to
family of courage and brains. As Mrs.
President she has earned an excellent reputa-
ton for herself and her husband. He can't
90 very far wrong while she is around. | tell
you believe in women in politics or out OF
it. They understand everything, and some
things better than men. It's just as necessa.
ry to have good woman in the White
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