Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-27


speech in reply to Ben Hill on the Kellogg
case.
- 1t used to be common thing for sailors
to refuse to 60 to sea on Friday. We hear
nothing of this in these steamboat days.
Steam has made every day alike. Where,
ever steamboats, and steam engines appear,
superstitions disappear.
Thomas A. Scott, who has just retired
from the presidency of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, has just sent to the treasu
rer of Washington and Lee University the
sum of $4,000, being the balance of sub
scription of $4,000 made short time ago
to the endowment fund of the university.
Selling cigars at a hotel on Sunday has been
decided by the Supreme Court of Indiana to
be a "work of necessity" If hotels are to be
kept open at all, the Court rules, there is no
difference between selling cigars and a cup Of
coffee or tea, tea and coffee being no more
necessities than cigars.
- The English language is rich in synony-
nous terms. A mechanic in search Of work
is "out of a job;" clerk in the same predica-
ment is "disengaged," and professional man
similarly placed is cat leisure" The me.
chanic gets work, the clerk connects" him
self with some establishment, and the profes-
sional man resumes" practice.
- New York City is again talking about
seeding from New York State, and politi-
cal reform society has been organized to
bring the matter before the people in pub
lie address. The proposed new State would
be composed of the counties of New York,
Westchester and Richmond, together with
Long Island, which have more than half the
population of the State.
- The dental authorities estimate that the
10000 dentists in this country are every
year packing into teeth of the people not less
than half a ton of pure gold, costing half a
million dollars besides about four times as
much cheaper material as silver and platina,
worth 100000 more. Then there are made
every year about 100000 artificial teeth
mounted on gold, platina or rubber. This
indicates that as people we take pretty good
care of the teeth, yet the dentists say that not
half the people who need it avail themselves
of their services, and that indeed only one
person in eight has perfect teeth.
- At the Conference of the Colored Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, last week,
DR.. Turner, the editor of newspaper for
colored readers, printed at Philadel phia, said
id The course of a speech: "The colored mau
will not be satisfied till he is invited into the
parlor instead of the kitchen of the white man,
when he is equal in intelligence and in
wealth. Poverty is not the equal of wealth,
nor ignorance the equal of intelligence but
when the poor man grows rich and the ignor-
ant man intelligent, then all barriers to social
equality on account Of color should give way,
and social equality be established between
those in wealth and intelligence equal" DR..
Turner's remarks were loudly applauded.
A few weeks ago President and Mrs.
Hayes went to Mount Vernon, and passed the
night there, sleeping in the bed formerly
used by George and Martha Washington. A
good deal Of fun was had when the fact got
out, but the custodian of the property at
Mount Vernon says that it is the usual thing
for Presidents to do. Lincoln, Grant, John.
son, Buchanan, Pierce, Fillmore and Tyler,
he says, have all slept in Washingtons bed,
and he supposes that other Presidents have,
but that is as far as his memory runs. Some
of the Presidents named occupied the bed
several nights during their term of Office, and
President Pierce was in the habit Of going
to Mount Vernon to pass the night very often
during the summer.
The Episcopal Methodist thus sketches the
physical condition of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South: "The
Bishops are all in Nashville. Bishop Paine
is very feeble, but meets with his colleagues,
and with unabated zeal for the Church Of
God gives his counsels and sympathies to the
work before them. Bishop Pierce is so un.
mistakably improved in heath that the hope
is justified that he is now on the road to COM
plete restoration. Bishop Doggett shows
strength. Bishop Wightman is suffering
from hoarseness superinduced by severe labor
and exposure. Bishop Kavanaugh is the
picture of rotund and robust health, ruddy
as a peach and fresh as a rose. Bishop
Keener is in excellent health and good
preaching tune. Bishop McTyere never look
ed stronger"
Prices for number of leading commodi-
ties 10 July, 1879, and May 1850, are group
ed by the Financial Chronicle to show that
the late fall in the last three months has
been as regular, and widespread and almost
as rapid as the rise in the six months before.
With the exception of cotton, which is now
lower than at any time during the past year,
no staple has fallen quite to its old price; but
they all tend there, and may 60 lower before
current stocks are worked off. This fall the
prices must be laid not so much to an excess
of production as to the simple fact that a sud-
den demand, due to previous depressions and
abundance of money, due to enormous ex-
ports, led American dealers to stock up heav-
lily. The Old World has been scraped of old
iron, for instance, on American orders, and
the iron reaches here just as American furna.
ces are turning out all the iron the country
can use.
"A Philadelphia child was born with
fair complexion, dark eyes and brown hair.
ssSoon after birth he began to turn dark of
skin, the color deepening from yellow to
saffron, and finally to black. The color was
uniform all over the body, except at the
joints, where it was little darker, and in the
palms of the hands where it was lighter. The
once brown hair grew stiff and jet black, and
the eyes also grew darker, 50 that the line
between the pupils and the iris could not be
distinguished. DR.. Reynolds, who has close
ly studied this singular case, says that the
disease is meanosis or fermentation, which
is mentioned in the books in general way,
but there is no case given where it had de-
veloped all over the body. This was more
than sixteen months ago, the child being then
thirteen months old. Since then the boy has
greatly improved, by degrees becoming light
er, until now he is Of light chestnut brown