Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29
Snaps and fafts.

There are 700 railroad employees IN
Little Rock.
A Springfield, ILL.,, special says the Hon.
Preston Breckenridge, of Cottonwood, died
Sunday, aged 73. He was cousin Of the
ls:e John C. Breckenridge.
OF one hundred patents issued from the
government Office in Washington, ninety
eight never pay back the amount of the fee
to the owners.
- The Mormon population Of Utah has in.
creased 45 per cent. in the last ten years, and
the non-Mormon population 200 per cent.
There are nearly four Mormons, however, to
one Gentle in the Territory.
- The average price of farms in this coun-
try, according to the report of the agrlcul-
tural department for 1879, increased in that
year 8 per cent, the increase in the average
value of timber land being altogether larger
than for cleared lands.
King Stanley, the ruler of all the gypsies
in this country, lives in the midst of set
tement of his people near Dayton, Ohio.
His daughter, who was to become Queen at
his death, has lost her heritage by eloping
with man not gypsy.
In the Supreme Court at San Francisco,
Saturday afternoon, ]. NJ. Kalloch, Jr., was
arraigned for the murder of Charles DeY Young
The accused was allowed until to-day, to
plead. A. motion to set aside the indictment
will be made and argument on the motion IS
set down for one week from Saturday.
At the last meeting of the Tennessee
Press Association only nineteen papers were
represented. The Memphis Avalanche objects
to the plan of organization of these meetings,
and says that no Tennessee town that has
once entertained press convention has ever
been known to invite it to return.
"A swindler has been selling residents of
the lower Pennsylvania counties boxes of
what he called electric light. They contained
simply colored borax, which he declared was
extract Of electricity and would last hum
dred years. The secret of how to use it was
to be impaired when ten purchasers, at SlO
each, had been obtained in the town.
Although yellow is the prevailing color,
ladies should remember that every shade OF
that color does not match every other shade.
There should be some sort Of harmony in the
hues, and the combinations not unfrequently
seen are enough to set ones teeth on edge.
A Tuscan straw bonnet trimmed with cloth
of gold roses is simply hideous.
Alta convention of the colored Republl.
cans of New Jersey, held on Thursday, it was
resolved to send petition to the Republican
National Committee asking that representa-
tive white Republicans make thorough can
vass of the South, and that representative col
ored Republicans supply their places in the
North.
james T. Dearnette who Stayed his sis.
ter in Danville on the 9th instant, has had
preliminary examination before the examin.
ing court on the charge of murder. He
waived an examination and was recommltted
to jail for indictment and trial at the next
term of the corporation court of Danville,
which WI be held the first Monday in Au
gust.
Gen. U. S. Grant has been elected Pres
ident of the San Pedro and Canon de L'Agua
Company, which owns forty thousand acres
of land in New Mexico, including copper and
gold mines. Boston and New York capital
lists are largely interested in the enterprise
While in New York General Grant will make
his headquarters at the banking house Of
George Williams, Ballou 4 Co.
j. Finnell, a California farmer, has &c.
600 acres of wheat. Thrashing began on the
22d of June and will not be finished before
the 1st Of September. Two hundred and
forty horses and mules are now being worked
in heading, thrashing and hauling the sacked
grain, and soon ploughing will be commenced,
the four operations progressing at the same
time. The yield has averaged % bushels per
acre.
DR.. Tanner, who is undergoing fasting
process in New York "in the interest of sci.
ence," has divorced wife in Minnesota. This
lady, or somebody in her confidence, says the
theory that people ate too much grew upon
Tanner until it became mania, and made
him exceedingly disagreeable to his family.
He tried to impress his theories upon his wife
and she resented the experiment and left him.
She was fond of good living and wanted three
square meals day.
- Investigation is bringing out hard stories
about the New York State prisons. 1t has
long been known that the Officials" who have
charge of prisoners rob them of money, jew.
elry and clothes. 1t now seems that there is
a regular practice OF taking money from con.
victs, who have any means outside, in consid'
Grafton of which they are let off from con-
tract hard labor and given some easy berth
in the prison. This swindling of prisoners
has been going on for long time.
BY an accident in the tunnel now being
constructed under the Hudson river, connect.
ing New York and Jersey City, twenty men
lost their lives on the 21st instant. An i'm
mense quantity of earth caved in on the work
men who were beneath, and the only way to
save portion of the gang was by cutting an
"air lock-" which was sure destruction by
drowning to another gang. But boss named
Woodland, we'll knowing that his life would
pay the forfeit, gave the order for those who
could to save themselves by breaking the lock,
which was done, and he and nineteen others
were drowned by the rush Of water.
1t is not strange that 10000 dentists 6nd
employment in the United States. DR.. j. N.
Farrar states in an article, published in the
Dental Laboratory, that no less than half
ton of pure gold, costing about S5OO,O00, is
annually packed away in the mouths Of Amer
leans. He makes the curious and interesting
estimate that only 300 years would be re-
quired to bury the amount Of gold coin now
in circulation in the country, $l5O,OOO,O0O,
in the graveyards. The magnitude of Amer
lean dental operations is shown by the state
ment that about 100000 artificial or porce-
lain teeth, mounted on various kinds of plates,
are made every year.
"A consignment of enormous horses was
received in Boston on Wednesday from Nor
mandy. The lot comprised twenty stations
and six or eight mare colts, and is to be sent
to Rloominoton TIL Three of the horses