Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-28
Sfraps and fatts.

1eali"ay anu CteauSulp TIelSuI AssoClatioh
met in New York last week. After lengthy
discussion on freight rates, to .and from all
points South had been heard, it was resolved
not to change the rates for the coming year.
Says the Boston Herald: "There is
regular temperance uprising all over the
South, and it aims at more sensible measures
than absolute prohibition in. many States,
and nowhere is characterized by such follies
as have often attended temperance work in
Northern States"
George w. Seward, deaf mute, was ar
rested in Philadelphia on Thursday while 60.
ing from door to door soliciting aid to defend
the assassin Guiteau. In reply to question,
Seward wrote on slate, "Guiteau is French
man am Frenchman. He is all right to
kill Garfield"
The Mississippi State Prohibition Con
vention met at jackson on Thursday. Two
hundred delegates from thirty-seven counties
were present. The action of the convention
is directed toward getting the next Legislature
to submit to the people an amendment to the
State Constitution prohibiting the liquor
traffic.
The Willimantic Spool Company, of New
England, has made arrangements to bring
from fifty to one hundred girls from its facto-
ries to Atlanta, where they will remain du.
ring the exposition. The whole process of
making spool thread will be gone through
with. The company has appropriated $4,000
for the expenses of the display.
The editor of the Union Times gives the
following as remedy for whooping cough ::
"Cut an onion in thin slices, lay the slices
separate upon plate and cover each slice
with brown sugar. Let it stand a few hours
until the sugar has melted. Give the child
teaspoonful of syrup thus made when you
find the proxysm of coughing coming on.
With our own children this remedy never
failed to give relief"
Two Italians closed their candy store at
Savannah, Ga, paid the rent three months in
advance, told the owner that they were going
to Italy to get a stock Of goods, and cautioned
him to let nobody enter the premises until
they returned. They had murdered ped
dler, taken his s200O and hidden his body
in the store, but their ingenious way of cover
ing their flight prevented the discovery until
three months had elapsed.
The Vienna correspondent of the Standard
says the latest estimates of the harvest in
Hungary agree that the yield of wheat will
be much larger and of better quality than
last year. Reports from Russia state that
the yield will be excellent In Roumania.
the grain crops are much damaged by spring
rains and storms Reports from France
show that the harvest, with a few exceptions,
will be excellent. 1t is believed that she
will have no need to import any wheat.
The Columbia Register is of opinion that
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida will, in the next decade, contain g.
100000 inhabitants and that whoever con-
templates this region with masters ken,
must behold in it one of the great keys of our
future commerce, production and civilization,
and a vast transportation accruing with 1t,
such as few men dream of now. And along
with this, the important fact that our South
ern roads cost only one-half of what the North
ern do.
- Governor Foster, of Ohio, will recon-.
mend to the Governors of the States the sug-
gestion of Mr.. A. S. Solomons, of Washing
ton, to fix October 19 as the national day OF
thanksgiving and praise for the restoration
of the President. This date is the one hun
dredth anniversary of the surrender at York
town. Governor Foster says, however, that
it is just now too early to consider the mat
ter of fixing date, and that, in addition,
there are many who deprecate any noisy cele-
brations or rejoicing, such as would be Incl.
dent to the Yorktown anniversary.
- A conservative Republican of eminence,
is thus reported: ut does seem that better
tone is over the country, and things are being
thrown in the teeth of neighbors very little
now. The war seems to be finally buried.
The authority of the President seems to be
fully recognized as against the Senate or any
other faction to overawe him. The Execu.
tive is as much the pet of the people as he
was in the first administration. Politicians
have had their combs cut everywhere. Jeff
Davis cannot lead the South any more, nor
Conkling the North, nor Logan and Grant
the West"
"A reporter of the Philadelphia Times,
who has been making some inquiries into the
condition of iron manufactures in that city,
writes that all the large establishments are
run down with orders, with no prospect of a
falling off in their business. The Disstons
employ 1900 men in their saw works, and,
although running night and day. are month
behind in their supply and the Baldwin Lo.
comotive Works, employing 5000 hands,
have Mexican orders alone for 200 locomo.
tives, and their contracts will run into 1882.
Othersfactors tell similar stories of the pres.
sure of trade.
- President Herrick, of the Universal Life
Insurance, which has just failed, told the
clerk at his hotel, after the failure was an.
nounced, to tell the reporters, when they
call, that I have nothing to say about this
business and will not talk to them about it.
| shall be gone until II or IL o'clock to.
night, and when get back shall probably
be so drunk that I can't talk with them"
The amazing humor of this was probably
less apparent to Mr.. Herrick when he saw it
conspicuously published in the New York pa.
pers the next morning, with pleasant refer
ences to his personal habits.
1t is stated that members of the Richmond
and Danvile Railroad syndicate, holding g..
624 shares of stock of that road, have formed
pool which, under the conditions of the or
ganization, is to exist for ten years. The
stock will be assigned to committee com.
posed of Gen. T. M. Logan, Joseph Bryan,
John P. Branch, VIM. II. Palmer and James
H. Dooley, of Richmond, and VIM. P. Clyde
and G. W. Perkins, of New York. The stock
is to be deposited with the Central Trust Com.
pany of New York, which company will give
certificates therefor. A large number of un.
successful applications have been made. to se-
cure membership in this pool. The members