Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-28
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invested IN OleOmarSaTlne ldCloEles, auu tuaI
they have added nearly 81 to the value of
every OK killed.
- Kissing is a dangerous practice in more
ways than one. A medical journal of Mu-
Mich says that diphtheria, caught by kissing, is
likely to assume much severer form than IT
the disease was contracted, or the contagion
impaired in any other way.
- Henry Ward Beecher recently announced
from the Plymouth Church pulpit, his belief
that baptism was nonessentlal ordinance OF
the church. 1t was pleasant enough, and use
ful enough, but if man died trusting in
Christ it made no difference whether he had
been sprinkled or immersed, or both or neither.
The New York Assembly has passed a
concurrent resolution providing for the repre-
sentation of the State at the anniversary eel.
ebration of the battles of Cowpens, S. c., and
Yorktown, Va. The band of the Fifth Uni
ted States Artillery will be in attendance at
Spartanburg on the 18th of May.
- The New York Herald thinks the Admin
istration has beached itself, and curiously
wonders what has become of those grand,
magnificent policies, freighted with benefits
for the Nation and ripe with the experience
of master mind" promised in the inaugu-
raj address. We shall see them later-per'
haps.
Gen. Malone has two sons and q daugh-
ter, all old enough to take their places 10 so.
ciety at Washington. His wife is a very &C.
complished lady, and the exact contrast, phys
ically, to her husband. She weighs over two
hundred pounds, and is said to have possessed
remarkable personal beauty in her day. Next
to Alexander Stephens, Gen. Malone is the
smallest man that has ever been in Congress.
- The mayors or mayors elect of the ten
largest cities in the Uniou-New York, Phil
adel phia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, St.
Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco
and New Orleans-are Democrats The mu-
inequalities thus under Democratic control
have population of 4,65S, ,47S souls, or near
ly oue-tenth of the entire population of the
country.
- The State department is just now some
what embarrassed by the Boynton family
Michael is in prison in England for operations
with the Land League, and Paul, the swim
mer, is in Chilli in durance, for participation
in the naval operations of the Peruvlans
Mr.. Blaine will see that both the men have
fair play, although it is said he thinks it is
rather pushing him for single family to
make such demand on diplomacy.
"A Burlingame, Kansas, dispatch of the
18th, SAYS that the Rev. G. w. Hehning, oi
the State board, having in charge the case OF
freedmen coming from other States to Kansas
cared for and distributed 100000 of those
people since the exodus began, and has been
the means of turning 100000 more into other
States. Mr. Heuning also reports that the
board has done all in its power, but without
avail, to check the incoming of colored people
from the South, and are spending much money
in the effort They are bound to come, they
say, to Kansas, the home of Old John Brown
A beneficiary scholarship, to be known as
the "Duane Mower Scholarship has been es
tablished at Erskine College, to which the
above name has been given in memory OF the
late Duane Mower, of Newberry. The amount
of the endowment of this scholarship is not
to be less than $4,000. The following sums
have been pledged to it: Mrs. Mower, Of
Newberry, S. c., $1,000; Mr.. R. N. Hemp
HILL Blackstock, S. c., $400; Mr.. Joseph
Wyle, Chester, S. c., $500; Mrs. Ann Wal
lace, of Kentucky, (paid before her DEATH
$780,
The largest cargo that ever arrived al
New Orleans Qp one vessel Vas ST received M
the bells and the screeching of all the steam
whistles in the harbor. The vessel was the
steamer Henry Frank, of the Memphis and
New Orleans Packet Company, a ship Of
$500 tons burden, 81 feet wide and nearly
800 feet long, and the cargo consisted Of
1926 bales of cotton, 705 sacks of corn, 1924
sacks of oil cake, 1918 sacks of cotton seed
and 500 sacks of cotton seed -four. The val
ue of the cotton was over S450,000.
"A dispatch from Bradford, England, un
der date of the 22nd instant says: "Trade is
so bad here that factory operatives are emf
grating at the rate of fifty per week. The
majority 60 to the United States. Over
sixty left for America last week and large
numbers are booked for the present week,
Some of the Bradford firms contemplate
taking a lot of machinery to America and
manufacturing American woods on the spot.
There are hundreds of disemployed operatives
here, and majority of the mills are running
on short time"
- We sometimes hear it sneeringly said
That mans father was bootblack, or that
lady's mother was a washerwoman. The
sneers, of course, are directed against those
who are trying to make some figure in the
world. Would it not be we'll for us all to put
on the robes of humility The ancestry of
the whole human family were only savages.
The ancestral beginning Of every one Of us
was hardly worth Dragging about, and, what
is worse, we greatly fear that our posterity a
thousand years from now will be heartily
ashamed of us-Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.
1t is learned that the general Offices of the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline Railroad, at
present situated in Atlanta, will be transfer.
red to Richmond the 1st of May, and consoli-
dated with the Richmond and Danville Offices
there. 1t is also reported that Col. G. j.
Foreacre will then resign the position of gen.
eral manager of the road, which he has NOM
inally held for the past month. 1t has been
understood all along that Col. Foreacre was
only holding on till the new owners could be-
come fully acquainted with the operations Of
the road. 1t is reported that he has an offer
from Ohio.
The correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch at Washington, says: "You at a dis
tance who suppose the opposing Senators are
all personally hostile, would discover your
mistake by looking into the Senate any after
noon while the debate is proceeding, for you
would likely find Don Cameron sitting by
NJ. G. Butler Dawes talking to Johnston !;
Conkling to Cockrell or Burnside to Hamp-
ton and apparently as far from fighting as
the cat and mouse in Barnum's happy fami-