Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-22
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or nearly two.thirds.
- The Ohio river has pretty nearly ceased
to be- At Pittsburg there is but ten inches
of water, at Cincinnati twenty-four, and at
Evansville but thirty inches.
The latest adulteration discovered is ar
ti6cial honey The comb is nodded out OF
parafine wax and the cells are filled with
glucose.
1t is noted as a curious fact that no Pres
ident, from Washington to Garfield, was born
in city, and that only the second Adams
was even nominally resident of city when
elected.
- Massachusetts mill owner sued man
for watering six head of cattle in his mill
pond. The cattle drank enough to stop the
mill for forty minutes, and the damages are
laid at S23.
- Preparations are being made in New
York for the reception of the two regiments
of French infantry, which are expected to ar
rive there in the latter part of this or early
part of next month, to participate in the
Yorktown centennial.
There is negro in Morgan county, Geor-
gia, Lewis Jordan, who is thoroughly con-
versant with the rudiments of the Latin Ian
guage knows a smattering of French. and
is fast learning to read and parse Greek. he
is capital scholar in English grammar and
is ready in mathematics.
-Cocoanut growing is becoming an impor-
tant industry in Florida. Charles Maloney
has plantation of several thousand trees on
Stock Island, j. " Harris, of Key West, has
about 1000 trees, E. O. Lock about 10000,
and Lieutenant Governor Bethel is having an
extensive grove of cocoanut trees planted.
The citizens of Logan, Ohio, have start
ed five cent subscription to be used in pro-
curing counsel to defend Sergeant Mason for
attempting to assassinate Guiteau. The clerks
of the Treasury Department at Washington,
have started subscription for similar pur-
pose.
- The section in Michigan that has been 80
desolated by forest fires, is said to contain 5O,-
900 Inhabitants. Of these, 10000 have been
rendered homeless, and 600 are believed to
have lost their lives. 1t is certainly very
awful visitation. The Governor of the State
has addressed circular to the American
people appealing for aid.
- 1t is said that the private fortune OF
Queen Victoria amounts to SSO,OOO,OOO, and
she possesses an annual income of So, 25O,O 900.
Before her birth her parents were so poor
that they had to borrow the money to pay
their passage to England that the expected
Princess might be bern on British soil, and
she remained in comparative poverty until
she ascended the throne.
At Bristol, England, cargo of 300 tons
of human bones is being discharged to the
order of a local firm engaged in manufacturing
manure. The bones were shipped from Rod
osto at Constantinople, and are supposed to
be the remains principally of the defenders
of Plevna. There are complete limbs among
the cargo, and in some cases the hair still
adheres to the skull.
- Gen. A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island,
prominent Federal officer during the late
war, died suddenly on the 18th instant. HI
was one of the United States Senators from
that State. His war-horse, which bore him
through the war, was killed on Thursday.
The animal had become helpless, and the
General had arranged for its death whenever
it could be killed without his knowledge.
In recent speech at New Berne, Senator
Vance stated that North Carolina furnished
to the armies of the Confederacy no less than
eighty-two regiments, ten battalions, and
fourteen unattached companies, numbering
altogether $4,000 men, being more in num-
ber than those furnished by any other State.
Not only more in proportion to population,
but more, absolutely, than any other State in
the Confederacy.
At a meeting of the Tammany committee
on organization, Friday evening, over which
Hon. John Kelly presided, a resolution was
unanimously adopted tavoring joint prima-
ries, to be participated in by the three demo-
cratic organizations in New York, for the
election of single delegation to the New
York Democratic State convention. All OF
the speeches were strongly in favor of union
and harmony.
Dispatches of last Saturday report un.
usually cold weather at Des Moines and
other parts of Iowa for several days. Snow
fell all along the Rock Island Road between
DeSoto, twenty miles West of Chicago ILL.,,
and in Nebraska. 1t was two inches in depth
at Omaha. The tops of the cars on the Rock
Island Road on arriving at Chicago on Fri
day evening, were covered with snow. The
weather is cloudy and very cold for the
season.
A monster mill is to be built in Minnea-
polls which will turn out 81 barrels Of flour
per minute, 333 barrels per hour, 5000 bar
rels of flour per day, 100000 barrels per
year 600 days.) 1t will require 100000
bushels of wheat per year to supply it, and
the value of its annual products will be at
least s14,OOO,OO0. 1t will make one-third of
the present wheat crop Of Minnesota into
flour, and require an army of men to carry on
the work growing out Of its operations.
- The New Orleans Picayune of Thursday
says: "Last evening, R. B. Elliott, colored
ex-Congressman from South Carolina, deliv-
cred lecture to large colored audience at
the Central Church, corner of Gasquet and
Liberty streets. Elliott lectured under the
auspices of the American Club, choosing for
his subject: The paramount necessity of edu-
cation for the preservation of Republican in
stitutions The speaker was listened to
throughout with great attention and deliver
ed an interesting lecture"
A horrible tragedy occurred near Pow
der Springs, Cobb county, Ga, on Friday last.
For years there has been an old feud between
the Mitchell and Cooper families. They live
on adjacent farms. On Friday Cooper discov-
cred Mitchell driving his chickens from his
corn field. This renewed the bitter feeling,
and fight was the result. Cooper was armed
with shot gun and instantly killed one of the
Mitchells and mortally wounded another.
Coonor WAC hadlv cnt with knives and his