Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-11
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- Mayor King of Philadelphia, has ap-
pointed four colored men to the police force,
the first of their race to wear police uniforms
in that city.
"A bill has been introduced in the Geor-
gia Legislature to prohibit the sale, manutac-
ture or importation of any chemical fertili-
zers in the State.
The treasury department has ordered
100000 standard silver dollars to be coined
at the United States Mints during August, of
which amount 100000 will be coined at New
Orleans.
The New York World says its special
train, carrying the paper to Saratoga last
Sunday morning, ran the last ten miles at the
rate Of seventy miles an hour, and the whole
distance at over a mile minute.
The President has lost forty pounds since
he was shot. He weighed 203. 1t is said he
lost forty pounds by the persistent persecu-
tions Of Office seekers before he was shot
Gen. Hancock can reflect upon these things.
- California made, by guess some 100000
600 bushels of wheat, and Oregon has sur
plus of nearly 30,0O0,000, including what
was left over from last year. The amount
available for export from the Pacific coast Is
placed at 100000 bushels.
- The Philadelphia Press says: "Of the l.
100000 illiterate voters in the United States,
1,123,000 of them are in the old slave States"
1t forgets to add that these illterate voters at
the South are, for the most part, members OF
the Republican party.
"A vengeful Illinois farmer has commenced
5000 suits against railroad company for
failing to keep axes and saws, as ordered by
law, in that number of cars. The aggregate
penalty would be 100000 if the prosecu-
tion proved successful, and the complainant
would receive half.
A quarrel in Petersburg, Va, last Fri.
day, between John w. Green, of the firm of
Walton & Green, and William Lee, of Little.
ton. N. c., resulted in the killing of both
men. Lee cut Green's throat in three places,
and Green shot Lee in the shoulder, the ball
lodging in his back.
The Cincinnati Commercial started one
cent subscription to pay the fine of an old
soldier in Licking county, Ohio, for striking.
man in the mouth who said that he "wished
to God President Garfield would die" The
sum needed was S32. The contributions al.
ready amount to $50.
The Denver (Col) Times says that Henry
Murat at one time millionaire and leader
of fashion in the West, and who spent $780,.
900 in one brief visit to Europe, slept the 9th
.er night on the floor of Blake street barber
shop, because the proprietor could not find it
in his heart to reject the now shattered old
man.
Says the Augusta Chronicle; There are
young men in Georgia and South Carolina
who prosper at farming, because they work
hard themselves, crop within their means,
raise food for themselves and animals, avoid
gambling, luxury and all kinds of extravagant
outlay. They have started right, and under
stand the value of good credit or cash pur.
chases.
Here is another illustration of the whirli.
gig of time. Ed Cox, who killed Bob AL
ston in Atlanta has to feed, harness and take
care of 60 mules in the convict camp This
is perhaps the lightest job in the camps, still
it is by no means soft one Cox was con.
vict lessee himself, when he fell into his pres
ent trout e, and had the management of
number Of them. His transition from boss
to convict, was one of the most 6tful freaks
of fortune ever known.
- DR.. Louis, of New Orleans, who is some.
thing of wag, called on colored minister
and propounded few puzzling questions.
"Why is it," said he, "that you are not able
to do the miracles that the Apostles did ?
They were protected against all poisons and
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protected in the same way?" The colored
brother responded promptly: Don't know
about that, doctor s'pect I is. I've taken
mighty sight of strong medicine from you
and | is alive yet"
- Sitting Bull, the Indian chief who sur
rendered to the U. S. Government several
weeks ago, is being treated with the honors
due prince. At Bismarck, Dakota Terri.
tory, everybody did him reverence. Dressed
in his Sunday clothes and smoking the pipe
of peace, he held little reception in the hotel
parlor. Blue blanketing formed his panta-
looms and his white shirt was of pattern
much finer than is usually seen in the far
West Three streaks of red war. paint deco
were smeared. His black hair hung in braids.
People almost lionized this red handed MUIR
derer.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has issued letter of instructions to collectors,
informing them that the preparations COM
posed of whisky or any other distilled spirits
and rock candy, is compound liquor within
the meaning of the law, and every person
who makes it and sells it by the bottle or
larger package is recti6er, and must pay H.
cense as recti6er and that liquor dealers
license must be had by all who sell it in any
quantity and for any purpose, and the fact
that it may be put up in bottles and called a
medicine and held to be a remedy for various
complaints, will not relieve the druggist who
sells it from the necessity of having liquor
dealers license.
- In summing up the good results of prohi.
bition in Maine, ex Governor Dingley states
that the number Of dram.shops has been re-
duced from l to every 225 inhabitants in
1883, to less than one secret groggery to every
1000 inhabitants in 1881, while the sales
in those secret shops are less than one-fourth
what they would be in openly licensed saloons
He refutes the charge that there is more crime
in Maine than in any other State by showing
that there is in Maine one State Prison con-
vict to 2,700 inhabitants in Alabama, one to
l,400; in California, one to 600; in Connecti-
cut one to 2,100; in Massachusetts,, one to
1900; in New Hampshire, one to 1900; in
Vermont, one to 1900 and in New York, one
to 400.
Dispositions have been taken of sixteen
persons relative to the shooting of the Presi-