Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-15
Straps and fafts.

Gen. Stephen D. Lee has been elected
president Of the Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College.
The brewers of the United States have in
creased the price of lager beer from So to 50
per barrel.
- Hart, colored pedestrian, in a recent
walking match in New York, accomplished
565 miles in six days, winning the prize belt
over seven competitors.
1t is said that the three literary societies
connected with the University of Indiana, at
Bloomington, have decided to invite Mr.. JET
ferson Davis to deliver the annual address be-
fore them.
The new legislature of Maine provides
that the constitution Of the United States and
the constitution of that State shall be read as
a part of the exercises Of the public schools,
at least once in each term, by every scholar
who has reached the age of IA.
1t is said by learned men that Good Fri
day and Easter this year fell exactly on the
anniversary of the events they commemorate;
that it was on the 26th of March that the
cruci6xion took place, and the 2oth witnessed
the resurrection.
- The Great Eastern, which has lain idle at
Milford tor some four years, is undergoing
extensive alterations. Her paddle engines
are being taken out of her, and she will in
future be driven by twin screws. She is being
fitted for the conveyance of cargoes of live
cattle from America, and her passenger sa-
looms are being redecorated.
Here is an old German recipe for happi-
ness: "Wouldst thou be happy for day, get
shaved; for week, 60 to wedding; for
month, get fine saddle horse for six months,
build a fine house for thyself; for whole
year, marry beautiful young woman; two
years, inherit from rich uncle; but if thou
wouldst be happy for all thy life-be temper
ate."
- The Massachusetts Legislature has grant.
ed charter to company to run railroad
from Cairo, Egypt, across the 1sthmus of Suez,
through Palestine by Damascus to the River
Tigris. Several branches are contemplated,
including one to Jerusalem where depot has
been located near the Damascus gate, and
another from the same point westerly te Jop-
pa, where Jonah took shipping for the voyage
during which be was swallowed by the whale.
The Anti-third. term Convention, soon to
be held in St. Louis, promises to be an affair
of more consequence than was at first thought.
Many leading Republicans in all parts ofthe
country are signifying an interest in the move
ment, and the committee now causes it to be
understood that Secretary Schurz will attend
and be one of the speakers. 1t is possible
that the influence of the Convention will not
be strong enough to prevent the nomination
of Grant, but it may do something toward in
suring his defeat at the polls.
In recent speech delivered by Mr.. Houk,
of Tennessee, in the House of Representa-,
tives, he showed that while the thirteen slave
States furnished 432,227 men to the Union
armies, the New England States only furnished
373,131. Rebel Missouri, he said, furnished
47,OOO more than loyal Massachusetts, and
10000 more than loyal Michigan, while
Kentucky sent more "boys in blue" to the
front, than Vermont and New Hampshire
combined There were also 10000 negro
troops raised in the South.
- The King of Siam will leave Singapore
on the 23rd instant, on visit to France,
Germany and England, and from thence, on
the lst of July he will embark at Southamp-
ton, on an American man-of-war for Ameri-
ca. He will be accompanied by splendid
retinue, among whom will be several royal
Princes, Ministers of War and Foreign At
fairs and dozen prominent noblemen. He
will remain three weeks in America, going
South as far as Richmond and West as far as
Chicago His visit to America is the result
of an earnest invitation extended by Grant
- 1t appears that the hotel proprietors of
Cincinnati have arranged special schedule
of prices which is to be enforced during the
sitting of the Democratic Convention. Writ
ten applications for rooms during the Con-
vention have brought forth replies that ex.
pose the intention to demand excessive prices
for accommodation In one instance small
hotel demanded S8 per day for singh room.
The Grst-class hotels have all been engaged
by the friends of the various candidates for
the nomination, and this opens the way for
the smaller establishments to make the con.
vention profitable thing to them.
Mayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, has vetoed
a resolution of the city council to permit the
erection of Confederate monument in Eu-
taw place. He says the issues involved in the
war were settled by its result, but the sympa-
thies of those who were actors in it on the
opposing side continue to exist, and the erec-
tion of the proposed monument would wound
the sentiments of great number OF people.
The highways and squares are common prop
erty, and the rights of all classes of people
in them should be respected. This resolution
has been opposed by some of the most promi-
nent ex. Confederates of Baltimore, upon the
same grounds that the mayor objects to it.
General Daniel Ruggles, of Virginia, at
the request of the Senate Committee on Ag-
riculture, appeared defore them in Washing
ton and briefly explained his method of pre-.
cipitating rainfalls by scientific means. His
method (for which he has recently been grant
ed a PATENT is to send up to the cloud realm
cartridges Of dynamite or similar explosive
materials in skeleton balloons, and to explode
them either by time fuses or by magnetic. .elec-
tricity, through light metal wires connecting
the balloon with the earth. General Ruggles,
as the result of many years of study and In
vestigation of this subject, claims that the diff
ferent mists passing over arid regions, or To-
calites suffering from unusual drought, may
readily be consolidated into rainfals by con-
cussions and vibrations thus arti6cially pro-
duced
The Burlington Hawkeye gives the follow
ing as the meaning of the Monroe doctrine :"
"'fhe Monroe doctrine, simply and explicitly
declares that no foreign nation shall come
over here and slide down our cellar door !;
that England and France shall not hang on
our front gate to do their courting; that they