Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04
Straps and fatts.

asked "What makes you uncomfortable af-
ter you have done wrong?" "Father's leath-
er strap" feelipgly replied the boy.
- The only company in the world that
makes fsh.hooks by machinery, is at New
Haven, Ct, and has monthly capacity of
100000 hooks. A New York house has
just given an order for 100000 hooks, and
another large order has been shipped to
Berlin.
- The Wilmington, N. c., Star, states that
cit has been only a year or two since pine
straw first became an article of port in this
market, and now, we learn, it is almost i'm
possible to supply the demand for it. It is
shipped North, where it undergoes certain
preparations, and is then used for stufing
mattresses, in the place of oakum, and for
other purposes, besides yielding g. kind of oil
in the first process to which it is subjected.
II The Legislature of Oregon has passed a
constitutional amendment providing for wo.
man suffrage in that State The amendment
will be submitted to the people for their ver-
dict, and if the women of the State really de-
sire suffrage they, no doubt, have sufficient
influence over the men to induce ma
iority to vote for the amendment. The
West seems to be much more favorable to
the enfranchisement of woman than the East.
- The Rev. John w. Kennion, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, has put in operation system tor
dispensing freely coffee and bread in the
streets most frequented by the needy and in
temperate. He has four-wheeled cart.
In the front is basket capable of holding
thirty loaves of bread, and in the rear a ten
gallon urn to hold the coffee. A flag dis
playing the words, Coffee and bread free
to all" flies from the front of the cart The
system is to be supported by the charitable
people of New York.
"A gale blew down a circus tent at Argen.
ta, Ark, and two lions escaped from their
broken cage. The beasts bounded through
the frightened assembly and disappeared into
the darkness The rare opportunity of a
lion hunt was not embraced by the inhabi-
tants, who all got behind securely fastened
doors as quickly as possible. The circus en-
ployes, however, provided themselves with
torches, pursued the fugitives, frightened
them with the faring lights, and drove them
into a cage.
- Belknap and Mrs. Greene eloped togeth-
er, at Melrose, Wis. They drove good horse
rapidly, but had not got more than ten miles
before they heard the clatter of hoofs behind.
Greene had hastily mounted and started in
pursuit The race was long and exciting
but the husband at length rode alonside the
pair, cooked pistol and commanded a halt.
Belknap was abject with terror. "You may
have your wife, Mr.. Greene he said. II
don't want her; you don't think I have chased
you like mad to get her back! Oh! no.
But III take my dollar and a half that she's
got in her pocket" The money was given
up and the elopemeut proceeded quietly.
Mrs. Arnold, the sole surviving sister of
"Stonewall" Jackson, now lives at Buck.
hannon, West Virginia. She was through
out the war a faithful Unionist, although ev.
cry member of her family except one-a
young nephew-were secessionists. For her
brother she entertains the reverence of an
undying love and affection, and she insists
that it was with extreme reluctance and pro-
found misgiving that he took up arms against
his country. He declared that he never
would 60 outside of Virginia to fight; he voted
against the ordinance of secession in old Vir-
ginia, and urged his sister to use her influence
TO keep West Virginia fast to the Union. A
profoundly religious man, he was wont to say,
even after he had taken up the sword: "lf
we are right, God will prosper US if we are
wrong, God will destroy u.s..
- The next President will probably have it
in his power to appoint majority of the
Judges of the United States Supreme Court.
Justices Hunt and Clifford are both suffer
ing from paralytic strokes, and it is not pro-
bable they will remain upon the bench much
longer, even though they partially recover
health. Justice Swsyne is rs years old and
Justice Strong is r. 1t is said that both OF
them contemplate retiring, as they have the
right to do. Justice Miller has been on the
bench twenty years, and is 65 years of age.
He, too, has the right to retire. Justice
Bradley is 67, and will probably remain on
the bench for some years yet. From this 1t
appears that should the party which succeeds
the present administration in power desire to
effect change in the Supreme Court, it can
he done without the necessity Of legislation
to that end.
Some mention has been made of the ef
forts to introduce Chinese labor into Louisi.
ana by the planters of that State. Move
ments have been actively made to ship Chi
nese laborers from Cuba, and arrangements
had been made for several ship loads. But
the Chinese consul at Havana appears to be
acting in concert with the Spanish authori-
ties to throw obstacles in the way. The Span
ish officials charge four dollars to each Chi.
naman for passport, and the Chinese consul
charges four additional This practically
puts an embargo on the deportation of the
Chinese, whom, it is understood, the Spanish
authorities do not wish to leave the island.
The Louisiana interests are, however, in ear
nest i'll the matter, and as soon as Mr. Evarts
gets through with campaigning and is ready
to attend to the business of the department
of State, he will be asked to make the proper
representations in the matter. The Louisiana
people say they would be very glad to take a
few thousands of the Chinese who are giving
the Pacific coast citizens so much trouble and
anxiety, but it would cost at least ten times
as much to bring them from that section, and
this is the reason why they are compelled to
look to Cuba to get them.
- There has just been turned out from the
Grant Locomotive Works in Patterson, N. j..
a new locomotive of peculiar construction.
intended for the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago Railroad. Eugene Fontaine, the in
ventor, claims that this locomotive can be
made to 90 ninety miles an hour, while the
machinery is run no faster than that of an
ordinary locomotive travelling at the rate OF
sixty miles an hour. The machinery is all
on top of the boiler instead Of under it. The
driving wheel rests on another wheel, which
in turn rests on the track. This lower wheel
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