Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-20
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concurrent resolution allowing women the
right to vote, will cause the people at large to
open their eyes to the strength of the woman's
rights movement. 1t is hardly probable,
however, that the bill will become law in
that State, for many years to come at least
The owner of the Gettysburg battlefield
has filed claim before the Congressional
committee for the rent of the ground while
the battle was fought But the nation can
put in as Offset claim for per centage of
the profits on the relics sold there. the most
of which were manufactured in Pittsburg.
- The Pittsburg Post states that within the
last ten days twenty furnaces that sell iron
in Pittsburg have gone out of blast 1t is
also estimated that there is enough finished
iron in stock to last till fall, and there is not
likely to be any life in the pig-iron trade till
that stock is exhausted
- Among the late arrivals at the Bridge
port, Connecticut, cutlery shop, are three
Swedish women who work in the blacksmith
shop. They wear short dresses, stout boots
and do the regular blacksmith work, having
been trained to that occupation in their ma
tive country.
A candidate for the Office of Recorder
of Jasper county, Ohio, solicited votes on the
ground that, if elected, he would return half
his salary to the public treasury. He was
elected, but the Supreme Court has declared
the election void, because the inducement
that he offered to voters was in the nature of
bribe.
- The Washington City, Virginia Mid
land and Great Southern Railroad, extend
ing from Alexandria to Danville, with its
various branches, was sold at auction on
Thursday last, for S4,5000O0 to R. T. Bald.
win, Wilcox Brown and Robert Garrett,
trustees for the associated boDdholders and
creditors.
- One day last week, at Augusta, Ca, a
man was severely bitten by a large dog. which
of its own accord has been guarding the Con-
federate monument in that city for the past
two weeks, preventing any one from approach
ing it. The man went to put out lamp at the
corner of the monument when the dog fought
him savagely, inficting painful wounds.
"A Washington dispatch of the 18th says: ::
The Senate in executive session to-day re-
sunied consideration Of the nomination Of
Robert M. Wallace for re appointment as
United States marshal for South Carolina
His confirmation was earnestly opposed by the
South Carolina Senators, and after long
discussion the nomination was rejected by
strict party vote.
- The representatives, of the various branch
es of the Methodist Church have decided on
holding and Ecumenical Council of Method
ism at City Road Chapel, London, in Au-
gust, 1881. The executive committee has
determined to have four hundred delegates,
two hundred from the United States and two
hundred from Great Britain and other places.
Bishop Simpson was selected as chairman OF
the Western section, and Bishop McIyelre
of the NJ E. Church, as vice-chairman.
- The sub committee of the U. S. Senate
on the postofice appropriation bill have re-
ported the original bill with number of i'm
portant amendments. The committee strike
out The whole of the House requirement for
reletting the expedited Star service contracts,
and also the clause authorizing the postmas
ter-general to remit in favor of the colonies
of Zealand and New South Wales so much
of the charges for overland transportation of
Australian mails as he may deem just. The
committee add the following amounts to the
House items for the purposes named: $780,
600 for railroad mail service, $4,000 for
pay of mail messengers and $4,000 to pro
vide new mail locks.
- The Cbadd's Ford, Pa, Club, wishing
to encourage the young folks to a study of
the best methods of farming, &C., has offered
a handsome lot of prizes to Chester and Del
aware county boys of seventeen years and
under, who shall raise the largest number of
bushels of corn on one.eighth Of an acre
Of land in the year 1880. The contestants
are to be allowed to do as they please about
manuring, hoeing g., but are to keep record
of what they do and the cost, and report at
the end of the season. Similar prizes are to
be offered to the girls of the two counties who
shall make the best butter. The butter and
the corn are to be exhibited together. Such
trials of skill are calculated to do a great
deal of good by directing the attention of the
young folks to a study of the conditions
necessary to the achievement of the best re-
suits
- The Iowa Constitutional amendment has
passed both Houses of the legislature in the
following shape: mo person shall manu-
facture for sale or sell or keep for sale as
beverage, any intoxicating liquors whatever
including ale, VINE and beer. The General
Assembly shall by law provide regulations
for the enforcement of prohibitions herein
contained, and shall thereby provide suitable
penalties for the violations of the provisions
hereof" 1t is safe to say to say that there is
deep rooted sentiment in South Carolina for
the enactment of a similar law in addition to
one prohibiting the carrying of concealed,
deadly weapons. The people are beginning
to see that they can easily trace to these two
causes nearly all the horrible crimes and
outrages upon civilization that are so fire.
queptly chronicled in our country.
"A corps Of engineers from the Texas and
Pacific and New Orleans Pacific Railroads,
has just reported the result of q thorough
inspection recently made of the Eads jetties
at the mouth of the Mississippi River. This
report states that the South Pass, which FIVE
years ago was not navigable for vessels draw
ing over six feet, is now magnificent stream
one thousand feet in width, with central
channel varying from two hundred and fifty
to FIVE hundred feet in width, where twenty
six feet is the least depth on the outer
edges, and where thirty-6ve feet is the aver
age prevailing depth of the middle. This
channel, also, has pro- jected itself beyond the
ietties, for distance Of FIVE hundred feet.
Outside the sea wall there is a well-detined
channel one thousand feet in width, with
depth of twenty.six feet on the edges and Of
thirty two and thirty-seven feet in the centre.
- Prof Wickersheimer, the celebrated tax
idermist attached to the Anatomical Muse
nm of Berlin. has lust discovered LIQUID,