Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-18
Sfraps and fafts.


The streets of Jerusalem will soon be
lighted with gas and line of street cars run
to the top of the Mount of Olives.
- Kansas, has just decided by a majority
of 10000 votes, to prohibit the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors within her borders.
The religious movement against changed"
hair is extending Bishop Elder of Cincin.
natl has issued probibitory order on the
subject.
-Sixty.two soldiers of the regiment station.
ed at Fort Townsend, Washington Territory,
are legally married to squaws belonging to
Indian tribes in the neighborhood.
The way to accept the political situation
sensibly is explained in the announcement
that Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, will
erect 100000 cotton factory.
- A Chicago firm got up corner on pork
year ago, made million and lost three
million, but had the grit to 60 on buying, and
recently cleared out their stock at net profit
of four million dollars
-"Nothing," remarked the Philadelphia
Ne,cs, $50 takes the conceit out of the average
man as to order his paper discontinued, and
then see the editor going along and getting
rich without him."
"A grand army of postmasters we have in
this country. The annual report Of the ap
pointment division of the Postoffice Depart
ment for the fiscal year just ended, shows that
there are no less than 10000 persons con-
nected with our postal service.
Eleven children at four births was the
feat of Mrs. Scanned Hickson, of Shamrock,
Mo- First birth, three; second and third,
two each and at the last interesting occasion
there were four, all of the latter being alive
and doing we'll. Ten out of the eleven are
alive.
- The Hancock campaign for 1884 has
been started by the organization of a Han
cock Club in Hudson City, Wisconsin. They
lay down their platform in detail, closely
following Hancock's letter of acceptance,
and resolve that to promote the success of
their principles they are favorable to the
nomination of General Hancock for Presi-
dent in 1884"
Master Abe Kayton, of Baltimore, but
thirteen years of age, performed violin solo
at the theatre in Richmond, Va, few nights
ago, which fairly carried the actors, orchestra
and audience by storm. Leader Kessnich is
said TO have embraced the youth and con.
graduated him in such terms Of praise as has
scarcely ever been lavished on one so young.
Master Kayton was born in Richmond, but
has lived for many years in Baltimore with
his father, Mr.. Henry Kayton.
- The modesty and honesty of japanese
beggars are worthy of the imitation Of their
profession all the world over. To save them.
selves the trouble of answering the calls of
medicants, the shopkeepers in Japan hang
copper coins, by strings, on nails, in front OF
their shops, and when the beggar comes that
way he takes one, and only one. He never
abuses the merchants generosity by taking
two or more coins, nor by entering the shop to
solicit larger amount than hung on the
nail.
According to DR.. S. Gibbon, London
health officer, the Jews are the longest-lived
people in the great metropolis. They are no
toriously exempt from tubercular and scrofu
lous taint. 1t is very rare that one meets
with pulmonary consumption among them
In the district of White Chapel the medical
officer of health has reported that on the
north side of the High street, occupied by
Jews, the average death rate is twenty per
1000, while on the south side, occupied by
English and Irish, it is forty.three per 1000.
- Mr.. j. C. Febiger, of the Chicago, St.
Louis and New Orleans Railroad, has intro.
duced the use of cotton seed hulls in the
journals of car wheels, and has obtained a
patent for it. These journals, said to en-
tirely prevent the annoyance and danger Of
"hot boxes," have been applied to one pas
s,nger coach on the Chicago, St. Louis and
New Orleans Railroad, and after running
over 26000 miles it was found that no ad-
ditional packing was needed, the West Vir.
ginia oil being used as lubricator. On one
of the paymasters cars over the same road
distance of 1000 miles, has been run with
with like result.
- Judge Briggs, in the Court of Common
Pleas, Philadelphia, recently refused to ex-
cuse juror Ly reason of his being bust.
ness man, and gave sharp reprimand to
those who are always seeking to be excused
on account of press of business. Said the
Judge: 81 will excuse no man for business
reasons. The business men are the very ones
who are continually growing because Of the
incompetence of jurors, and yet those very
men, when they are summoned, seek to be
excused, and as a consequence the business
of the court is turned over to the two-dol
lar-and ahalf men. We might as we'll close
the courts. The thing must be stopped"
In Lincoln county, New, there is spring
of ice cold water that bubbles up over rock
and disappears on the other side, and no one
has been able to find where the water goes.
At another point in the same county is a
large spring. about twenty feet square, that
is apparently only some eighteen inches deep,
with a sandy bottom. The sand can be
plainly seen, but on looking closer it is per-
ceived that this sand is in a perpetual state
of unrest, and no bottom has ever been found
1t is said that teamster, on reaching this
spring one day, deceived by its apparent
shallowness, concluded to soak one of his
wagon wheels to cure the looseness of its tire
He took if off and rolled it in to the, as he
thought, shallow water He never laid his
eyes on that wagon wheel again.
- Charles D. McGufey, of Chattanooga,
has been endeavoring ito get some idea" Of
the magnitude of the national debt at the
close of the war. He has made the calcula-
tion that if four men were to sit down to pay
the interest, and count silver dollar Sec
ond, and work every second of the year, they
could not keep down the interest Of the origi
nal debt and if another should sit down at
two years of age to count the principal at the
same rate, he would be over 107 years old by
the time he counted the last dollar, interest
on the principal having ceased from the first
moment. The pile of silver dollars, more