Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-14
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The Atlanta Constitution says that he has
gone to work promptly with a systematic
zeal that looks like business, and that much
is expected of his administration.
- A law of Maine, passed in 1871, declares
that the holder Of railroad ticket shall have
the right to stop over at any station along the
line Of the road, and that his ticket shall be
good for six years from the time it is first is
sued.
Senator Bayard thus describes the Office
seeking rabble at Washington ut makes my
heart sick to see them come, every Inaugural
tion season, focking to Washington on the
mere hope Of an office, hanging around the
hotels till their money is gone, and then
pawning their watches, taking to drink and
running down to the lowest degradation"
- The Chicago Inter. Ocean tells a singular
story of man who became beggar by fall
ing asleep in the street with his hatin his hand.
On awakening he found it contained 81 in
small coins. As he was sick and destitute, he
concluded that begging was good business,
and went into it Systematically. In six years
he received $4,000, and with that he drop
ped the business, speculated in Western lands,
and is now a millionaire.
Prince Alessandro Torlonia, of Rome,
believes in practical charity. He keeps two
doctors especially attend poor families who
have horror of hospitals he entirely pro.
vides for 800 children, and educates $50
more and he has established an asylum for
old people and hospital for the blind. Ev-
cry day he gives 12O dishes of soup, with
bread and meat, to the poor. 1t is said that
no one has ever applied to him in vain.
Northern papers coincide with Hon.
Thomas Hardeman that the great obstacle
to universal prosperity in the South is the
usurious rate Of interest the planters have
to pay for their fertilizers and provisions.
The city merchant will not lend the planter
money, for then he could not get more than
s per cent, interest, but by advancing. him
provisions while the crop is making" the
merchant manages to charge such profits as
to receive from 20 to 40 per cent.
"A foreign correspondent relates an Incl
dent which speaks volumes upon the labor
question in Italy. A lot of workmen in
hemp factory recently struck, demanding
eighteen cents day for twelve hours labor,
instead Of fifteen cents for fourteen hours,
which they had been receiving They re-
turned to work, however, upon their employ
ers promising them an increase to sixteen
cents for the old hours of work. 1t will now
readily be perceived why the humble pro.
ceeds of organ grinding and keeping peanut
stands should seem like dazzling wealth to
the Italian mind.
In some of the sections of southwest
Georgia, the people are reduced to straits just
now that they have not known for years.
An exchange from Cuthbert says: 1--WE
might relate many circumstances that have
come to our knowledge that would awake the
liveliest sympathies of our readers. There
are people in our county who have not had a
mouthful of meat for two days-some that
have not had bread for that time. Many
horses and mules are ploughing that have had
neither corn, fodder nor oats for two weeks
being ploughed till dinner and then turned
upon the swamp grass and canebrakes to
Craze till they are put to the plough again"
Dispatches of the 9Th from Santa Fe, re-
port that on the previous day party of
Americans, en- route to Chipuahua, returned
to Paso Del Norte, reporting that the point
where the road from Ell Paso to Chipuahua
enters Sand Hills, forty miles from Ell Paso,
they found thirteen dead bodies belonging to
surveying parties of that road, locating road
toEnlpuahua. So far none of the names of
the killed have been learned. 1t is not known
whether the raid was made by Indians or
Mexicans, but it is supposed some of the Vic
tor war chiefs and Right Hand Man, with
about 80 warriors, escaped from the Tusca-
1oros frht tho
"A Washington letter to the Baltimore
Sun says: ut can be stated with the utmost
confidence that in case Of the Presidents
death and the accession of Vice-President
Arthur to the Executive chair, the latter
would Immediately call an extra session of
Congress, so as to give the representatives of
the people an opportunity to express officially
their opinion on the situation. Gen. Arthur
is resolved to take NO responsibility whatever
on any points or principles of Importance on
which there have been any real or supposed
and that wing of the party to which Gen.
Arthur is attached. 1t is believed that this
contemplated course Of action meets the ap-
proyal of both Gen. Grant and Senator Conk.
ling. They hold with Gen. Arthur that it
would be very unwise to do anything to fo.
ment existing differences
The Pennsylvania Railroad has in use
an automatic track tester which discovers
faults in the track not ordinarily apprecable
to the eye, and makes record of them which
indicates their precise locality, and all this
while the machine is passing over the road at
from fifteen to twenty-five miles an hour.
1t has the external appearance of a baggage
car, but inside is fitted up with selfregis-
tering apparatus, electric clocks, &c. A bad
joint between the rails registers itself by the
jolt it causes to the delicately hung car. Err
rors Of level in the track are recorded by
pencils on ruled paper, and so nicely arranged
that variations Of an eighth of an inch are
made manifest. If the gauge is too narrow or
the rails have spread, the fact is noted by
another apparatus. An ingenious time table
and distance register enables the observer to
locate the imperfections recorded. A machine
of this kind kept constantly going over a rail-
road would be scarcely less careful than the
track walker in discovering sources of danger
to travel.
- On the next day after the President was
shot, "crazy" man presented himself at po.
lice headquarters in Washington and inquired
for Mr.. Blaine, announcing also that he had
come on to Washington for the purpose of
shooting him. He hailed from King viii.
liam county, Va, and gave his name as Dan
iel Mcnamara. He was arrested and locked
up. From the most authentic sources it is
learned that he is not native of Virginia,
as he claimed to be at the time of his arrest,