Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-08
Sfraps and fafts.

- FROM yield or SlOU,UOU, IN DulllOn, III
1865. the Georgia gold fields have advanced
to 81, 100000 per annum, with promise Of
large returns next year.
- A woman at Ulysses, Neb., wrapped her
baby in sheet and left it in the warm ashes
by the fireplace while she went to visit q
neighbor, and when she returned the infant
was burned to a crisp.
"A firm in Westphalia, Connecticut, a
short time ago, brought to perfection new
matchmaking machine, by means of which
one hundred thousand needles can be stamped
and bored in day of ten hours.
TO ascertain the length of day and
night, multiply the hour at which the sun
rises by two the result will be the length ofthe
night. Multiply the hour which the sun sets
by two; the result will be the length of the
day.
The cold weather in France, during the
past month, has been severely felt. A num-
Der of persons have been found dead from
congestion Of the brain produced by the cold.
Reports from the country speak of hares
found frozen in the hedges and Of birds too
weak to fly.
General Joe Johnston is reported to have
been asked the other day why the Southern
army did not move upon Washington after
the battle of Bull Run. "There were two
reasons" he answered myself and the Poto-
mac River. / had reached that age that /
knew an American soldier could not ford a
river mile wide and eighteen feet Deep"
A dispatch from Winnepeg, Montana, says
the Indian cannibal, Swift Runner, was exc
cuted at Saskatchewan on the Goth ultimo,
this being the first legal execution in the
Northwest Territory. He was convicted on
his own confession Of having killed and eaten
his mother, wife and seven children during
last Winter.
Col. Williamson, a noted Texan lawyer,
stood up in church and called on a young la.
dy to come forward and marry him. Since
that event the Texas church has been 80
crowded with marriageable females that a
man can't get standing room inside unless he
makes sure of being on time by camping at
the door over night.
- The american Manufacturer says that
this country is now making more than one
third of all the paper in the world The pro
duct is about 1880 tons daily, amounting
to about. ..640, 500 per year. There are now
927 mills, representing capital of 500, ,000,.
900. These mills employ $4,000 persons,
who draw about $9,550,000 in salaries pei
year.
"A typographical error, in law passed by
the Michigan Legislature. prohibited saloon
keepers from selling to miners, instead of mi
nors, as intended; but the Ingham county au
thorities have convicted asaloon.keeper under
the act, on the ground that the intent of the
law overrode the error of q letter in the print
ed statutes. The case will 60 to higher
Court.
"A child in Auburn, Maine, i'll of diph
liberia, whose life was despaired of, was cured
by slaking lime. Small Jumps of lime were
kept constantly shaking near its mouth fol-
more than day and half, until more than
barrel of lime was thus slaked. The child
was thought to be dying before this remedy
was employed. 1t breathed the fumes of the
lime constantly until cured.
Dan Rice has carried the ways of the cir
Gus into his new business Of evangelism. He
uses letter headings on which circus clown
is gaudily pictured on skeleton horse, and
in red letters are these two words: "Dar
Rice's New Departure-.A Jump from the
Ring to the Rostrum." Brother Moody says
that Dan is not truly converted but Dan in
sists that he is.
- The project for monument to Adam al
Elmira, New York, is taking definite form
A sum of not less than $4,000 is to be sub
scribed, and Thomas K. Beecher, M. H. Ar
not and Henry E. Drake, are corresponding
with sculptars in Europe for design as neal
as possible like the first man. 1t is to be Of
bronze, and unveiled in June with dedica
tory address by Mark Twain.
- For several seasons New York has moi
enjoyed better sleighing than that of last
week. An almost endless succession of sleighs
varying in kind from the light single cutter
to that drawn by six.in-hand team, was tc
be seen every afternoon. Fleet-footed horses
flew like wind over the surface of the snow
to the delight or the groups of fturfmen on the
balconies of the wayside taverns.
An exchange tells of drummer" for 8
New York house who called on merchant
and handed him picture of his betrothed in
stead of his business card, saying that he rep
resented that establishment. The merchant
examined it carefully, remarked that it was 8
fine establishment, and returned it to the as
tonished man with hope that he would soon
be admitted into partnership.
- Lebanon, Me-, is proud of possessing the
stupidest man in the United States. He is a
farm hand, and was engaged to plow a ter
acre lot. Wishing him to draw straight
furrow, his employer directed his attention tc
a cow grazing right opposite, telling him tc
drive directly toward that COW. He started
his horses, and his employers attention was
drawn to something else D.; but in a short time
looking around, he found that the COW had
left her place, while the sagacious plowman
was following her, drawing zigzag furrow
all over the field.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton, has issued circular giving estimates Of
the value of foreign coins for the new year in
United States money. Silver coins are com
puted at their bullion value. compared with
the gold dollars as unit, and the following
changes are made from values as stated in the
circular of 1879: The dollar of Central
America, Ecuador, United States Of Columbia
Peru and Bolivia is reduced from SO $40 to
S3 6 10 cents; the dollar of Mexico from 101
$40 to 80 $40 cents +; the rupee of India from
"A 10 to 80 TO cents, and the rouble Of
Russia from "a $40 to 66 go cents.
1t is related of a well.known merchant Of
neighboring city, that after making his will
and leaving large property to trustees for
his son he called the younp man in and after
reading the will to him, asked if there was
any alteration or improvement he could sug.
gest. "Well, father" said the young gentle,