Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
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the tank, drank all the water, and so COM
PEELED the train to stop.
- 1t is curious that some people think a
newspaper should entertain the same political
opinions as themselves. They claim the right
to think as they please, but deny this right to
any other man.
Cyrus W. Field, few days ago, erected
q monument over Major Andres grave, and
the people of Tarrytown, out Of revenge,
are having statue sculptured in honor of
Andres captors. Thus runs the world away.
- The astronomers say that on the 25th
the big planet Jupiter, will reach its periheli-
on, its nearest approach to the sun, and few
days later it will be as near the earth as it
can come. Then look out for great storm
and sudden changes of temperature.
Henry Herbert Crane lived childless at
Grafton, Ohio, until he was IS. Then his
young wife gave birth to twins. The joyful
father hired band of music and marched
through the village bearing banner on
which was inscribed the word, "Victory."
American mills consumed during the past
cotton year fifteen per cent. more cotton than
they did in the preceding year. The South
ern mills took eighteen per cent. more, show.
ing that they are still gaining on the Northern
mills.
F. E. Patrick, of Charlotte, has been
successful in suit against the Richmond
& Danvlle Railroad Company for $4,000
damages, for refusing to allow him to operate
a cotton compress on their platform, as he
claimed to do under his lease.
In the United States Court at Knoxville.
Tenn, on the 18th, Ex-P Postmaster General
Key presided. An announcement has been
made that amnesty has been granted to all de-
fendants charged with violation Of the inter
nal revenue laws previous to January Is,
1880. Under provisions of the amnesty, about
$50 offenders are released.
"A papyrus manuscript recently discover
ell in the cave of a hermit near Jerusalem,
and said to be the work Of fSt. Peter, has been
submitted to committee sent out by the Bibli-
cal Society of London, and they have come to
the conclusion that the papyrus is in reality the
work of the great apostle They have offer.
ed 100000 for the document in vain.
- The site of the forthcoming Worlds Fair
in New York is not yet determined, but the
probabilities are that Morningside Park will
be selected. This is an uncompleted park,
beginning about FIVE hundred feet from the
northwestern corner of Central Park, con-
tanning little over forty-seven acres, and ly.
ing between 10th and l2Sd streets.
- San Francisco society is deeply interested
in a report that Miss Flood, to whom U. S.
Grant, Jr, was engaged, has Tilted the young
man. He appeared in public with girl
described as not cover nice," and when Miss
Flood heard of it she terminated the engage
ment. The property loss to young Grant is
something like $2,500,000.
- The Holyoke (Mass) Gazette says: 1t is
stated upon excellent authority that in this
neighborhood there is lady who has built a
house out of fund made by selling rum to
her own husband. He is drinking man,
and so his wife struck the bargain with him
that if he would drink, he must agree to buy
all the liquor of her. She thus pocketed the
profit, instead of regular rumsellers.
There was not much doubt in the minds
of the mob at Clinton, Dakota, that Ben Day
ought to be hanged. He had committed the
capital crime of stealing horse; but he
urged persistently that he only meant to bor-
row the beast, and finally said: "1f was
guilty I'd want to be hanged and. anyhow,
'tisnt worth while to make much fuss about
it. Just toss up dime, and if it goes agin
me, then won't say word but ifl win you're
to let me CO." The proposition was accepted,
and Day won.
The increase in the growth of cotton has
been remarkable. In 1867, we marketed
two million bales; in 1870, three millions
in 1874, four millions in 1879, five millions.
The crop marketed for the year ending
August 81, 1880, is 5, 5,76O,16l bales, and it is
considered that the crop now being picked
will exceed six millions. In the fifteen years
since the war we have increased the crop
threefold. And thus it is that the South is
rising from the ashes of desolation, and is
making such rapid strides to power and op.
ulence Prior to the war, the crop never
reached four Dllion bales, except during the
year 1860, when it ran up to 1855, ITO bales.
Ice is being imported all the way from
Norway and sold in New York City al prices
lower than the 'mestic article. 1t is too
late this season for ne importation of ice to
be engaged in very 'tensivel ly, but the OK.
pertinent has demonst ated that there need be
no fear of the ice mon, 'olists hereafter. The
resources and enterprise Of this country are
too much for monopolists of every class.
Last spring, ice dealers in New York COM
bined to raise prices and keep them up,
va;nly supposing that as they had possession
of the supplies on hand, they could dictate
terms but American enterprise has foiled
them, thoug it had to 60 to Norway to do it,
and in the future there will be no "corners"
in ice in New York.
The New York Bulletin says it seems to
be settled now that the mammoth steamer
Great Eastern is going to New Orleans, the
merchants of that city guaranteeing her a
cargo of Mississippi valley products. The
New Orleans Democrat of the 18th, with ref.
erence to the matter, says: ave learn that
one single cattle owner on the line of railway
frow New Orleans to Houston has offered to
freight the great ship himself This gentle
mans herds number three hundred thousand
head, and there are estates equally large fur
ther toward the Rio Grande." The expecta-
tion is that the Great Eastern can be utilized
for promoting British and Irish emigration to
Louisiana and Texas. There would seem to
be no question as to the feasibility of bring.
ing the big ship through the jetties at any
state of the tide.
-Duels have been fought with many
strange weapons, and the choice of strange
weapons has sometimes prevented duels from
being fought. An event of the former sort
came off in Chicago on Saturday night,
which, so far as We know, is unique in its
way and at all events was conclusive. Two
workmen who were unloading ore at the
Steel Foundry in Ashland avenue, began to