Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-09
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present, adhere to the old version, or "King
James Bible" of which they have many
thousand copies on hand, out of 1,042, 900
manufactured last year.
Spring wheat goes from St. Paul, Mimi,
to Glasgow, Scotland, via New Orleans, for
% cents per bushel, and sacked -four from St.
Louis by the same route, to Liverpool, for 30
cents per 100 pounds.
The English holders of Confederate bonds
are quite hopeful set of men. They held
meeting the other day and decided to levy a
small assessment to pay the expenses Of
committee appointed to take charge Of the
bonds in trust.
The Galveston and Pacific Narrow Gauge
railroad company was organized at Galveston
recently with capital stock of S750,OOO.
The route Of the road will be from Galveston
to Victoria, San Antonio and Camargo. Sub
scription books for the capital stock will be
opened next week.
Large numbers of camels are said to roam
along the Gila and Salt River bottoms in
Arizona. They are supposed to have sprung
from number of beasts which were import
ed into Texas in 1878 for use on the sandy
plains, and were turned loose when the war
broke out.
There is vessel on the stocks in the
Charlestown, Mass, navy yard, whose keel was
laid in the year 1S1S For sixty.three years
she has been there and her cost to the govern
ment exceeds million dollars. Through
successive administrations the old hulk has
received occasional attentions, but she is not
finished and never will be.
"A very silent funeral took place recently
in Sheffield, England. The remains were
those of an old lady who had been deaf and
dumb for years. The mourners were all deaf
and dumb, and the service was entirely con-
Quoted with deaf and dumb signs by Mr..
Stephenson, the superintendent Of the Shef.
field Deaf and Dumb Association.
"A statement prepared by the Post Office
Department, for the qualification of the Gu
rious, shows that 2,720, ,234, ,252 letters, postal
cards, newspapers, magazines, and other pc
riodicals, and packages of merchandise, we're
mailed last year in the United States. The
number of letters alone was more than one
thousand and fifty millions, an average of
about twenty.on for every man, woman, and
child in the country.
The Appletons received the copy Of the
Revised New Testament in England simulta-
neously with English publishers. They had
force of compositors on board fast steam
er, and had the book put in type and stereo.
type plates cast coming over, working of
bound volumes few hours after landing, and
shipping them back to England before the
English publishers issued any.
A cruel bunder was made in announcing
the verdict in St. Louis murder case. The
foreman of the jury handed the clerk several
slips of paper, and the clerk read : 1--WE find
the prisoner not guilty on the ground of in
sanity" The culprit's face lighted up with
delight, and he exultantly shook hands with
his counsel. "There's mistake" said the
foreman to the clerk "you've read the wrong
slip. The one that's signed is our verdict
guilty of murder in the first degree"
The New Orleans Democrats crop reports
last week were from Arkansas, Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.
They were generally favorable to cotton, and
especially so to corn. An increased acreage
in the first and decreased in the latter are re-
ported. The troubles spoken of are local,
and include some dry weather, grass and
scarcity of labor, the general prospects being
however very fine. Rice and sugar cane are
both reported to be in excellent condition.
A matchmaker in Newcastle, Penn, says
Pitttsburg paper, has completed a set OF
three gold shirt studs, in one of which is
watch that keeps excellent time, the dial be-
ing about three-eights of an inch in diameter.
The three studs are connected by strap of
silver inside the shirt bosom, and the watch
contained in the middle one is wound up by
turning the stud above, and the hands are set
by turning the one below. But perhaps the
most remarkable thing about the lilliputian
machine is that it works with pendulum
like clock, and the pendulum will act with
ease and accuracy in whatever position the
time-piece is placed, even if it be turned up
side down.
Baltimore dealers have received discour-
aging replies to their inquiries about Western
wheat. Twenty counties in southern Illinois
report half crop; Litch6eld, ILL.,, reports
quarter crop and Greenville, ILL.,, says:
"Wheat prospects worse than ten days ago.
Hundreds of acres will not be cut A general
failure in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri and
part of Kansas. Farmers holding wheat on
hand at Sl.25. Many will not make their
bread and seed Four counties adjoining
ours will make quarter and third of
CROP" Three points in Indiana report from
fourth to half crop, Sutton, Ohio, reports
failure. and Sidney, Ohio, Hessian fly and
drought. All the accounts received are
gloomy.
"A Connecticut man has invented
breech-loading pipe which can be discharged
and reloaded without being relighted, and
saves vast amount of time and matches and
vexation of spirit. The inventor calculates
that the average smoker fills his pipe twelve
times day, averaging six minutes each
time-causing loss of seventy-two minutes
per day, or eight hours and twenty-fo min
utes per week, or eighteen days four hours
and forty-eight minutes per year. At this
rate person who smokes for fifty years will
waste nearly three of them in loading and un.
loading bis pipe. The inventor estimates the
number of pipe-smokers in this country at
100000, and that each pipe lighting re.
auires an average expenditure of fourteen
matches-which is equal to the destruction of
56,940000,0O0 matches per annum.
A leading Conkling man threatens direful
things to reporter of the Philadelphia Times.
He says "Don't you believe that Roscoe
Conkling has fired off all his ammunition
yet I know that Mr.. Conkling has regretted
ever since that he did not do as he was pre-.
pared to do at the time the electoral count
was before Congress, and denounce that infa-
nous steal and all connected with it, and he
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