Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-18
Straps and fafts.

ity of Astoria, Ill.,, last Saturday morning.
"A negro in Bullock county, Ala, while
raising crop last year, slept in one end of
hollow log and kept his cooking utensils in
the other end.
The recent discovery that cotton seed oil
is a perfect and satisfactory substitute for
lard bids fair to create quite revolution in
household economy.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis will sail
Sunday morning for Liverpool on the British
steamship Bernard Hall. of the Liverpool
and West India Line. They are going after
their daughter, who is being educated abroad
"A colored girl in Washington Territory
recently ran away with white. man who
wanted to marry her. The father of the
colored girl prosecuted the man for abduc-
tion.
The passenger rates war in the West
continues. A ticket from Indianapolis to
New York can be purchased for 95 cents, re-
duced from S14. The Grand Trunk Compa-
nys Chicago agency sells tickets from Chica.
60 to Boston for S5 and to New York for SS.
-One of the features of the Atlanta Cot
ton Exhibition will be the manufacture of
suit of clothes from raw cotton in twenty-four
hours. The cotton will be picked, ginned,
spun, dyed, woven and made into suit of
clothes for Senator Brown inside of cne day.
- The Southern cities are very healthy
this summer. So far no sign of yellow fever
is visible in any of them, and the medical
and municipal authorities in the threatened
sections all unite in the opinion that there
need be no fear Of the epidemic this year.
Lightning struck calf at Northport,
Me- The calf was covered with black spots
and white spots. Every white spot on the
animal was singed, even to the taking off of
the skin, while not hair of the black spots
was injured
- There is much disappointment that the
hopeful predictions made by the Presidents
physicians early last week have not been
fully realized. The operation of Monday left
the patient exceedingly weak, and up to this
time he seems not to have fully recovered
from its effects.
- The straight out Republicans, in conven-
ton at Lynchburg, adjourned without max
ing any nominations. They authorized the
executive committee to do so, but their
strongest men "decline the honor" This
leaves the race to Daniel, Debt-Paying Dem.
ocrat, and Cameron, Readjuster.
- The Oglethorpe Echo says "You can't
get the negroes in this county to touch the
Revised New Testament with a ten-foot pole.
They think it a scheme concocted by the
Democrats to get all the darkies to hell, so
that they won't have to associate with them
in heaven on terms of equality"
A Philadelphia policeman, becoming dis
gusted at the recent appointment Of four col
ored men on the force, has resigned his
place. II believed in treating the colored
man well" said he, "and have always tried
to do so, but when it comes down to sleeping
with him am little off.
Spotted Tail. who was recently murder
ed by Crow Dog, was the husband of six
wives, one of whom he brought to Washing
ton few years ago. He was fine specimen
of physical manhood, and was savage of
unusual amiability. Some time ago an effort
was made to convert him to the Christian faith.
After the scheme of salvation had been fully
unfolded to him he remarked: "White re-.
ligion no good. God come on earth, white
man kill him. Indian wouldn't do that"
The ingenuity of the small boy in need Of
pennies appears to be practically inexhausti-
New York on last Tuesday, who had driven
quite brisk trade in coming up behind rich
ly dressed ladies and soiling their dresses
He would then call their attention to the dam
age and remove the stains, receiving reward
for his services. The business was becoming
profitable until it was nipped in the bud and
the boy committed to jail.
During the past fifty years, the Memphis
Avalanche thinks, there has not been so long
a duration of extremely hot weather as has
been felt in most parts of the country, but
especially, perhaps, in the South, since about
the middle Of June. The year 1881 will
long be remembered as the scorching year,
when the North was visited by more sun
strokes and more storms and whirlwinds than
in any previous year during the past fifty,
when more houses were blown down and
more lives destroyed by tornadoes than ever
before, and when the South was more gener-
ally burnt up in her corn crops.
The New York savings banks, if the re.
ports from eight of the twenty-five in that
city may be taken as criterion, are. in
prosperous condition. In spite of the gen.
eral reduction of interest to per cent, the
number of depositors has increased during
the last six months, as, in most cases, has
also the amount on deposit. In all the city
savings banks there has been an increase
during the halfyear of ten millions in the
amount deposited. The aggregate amount
held by these institutions is about two hun.
dred millions, and this sum is owned by over
halfa million Of persons, showing an average
deposit for each of some S4OO.
- The bill introduced in the Georgia Senate,
making the importation of commercial fertil-
izers or their manufacture in that State an of.
fence punishable as misdemeanor, has ex-
cited great deal of comment and aroused
strong opposition. The author of the bill
claims that between 10000 and 5000 tons
will be used in the crop of 1881, costing in
round numbers S10,000,000, or 10000 bales
of cotton. He claims that the continued use
of the fertilizers will not only bankrupt the
farmers, but that the action of the chemicals
used in the manufacture of the fertilizers
must necessarily destroy the gases of the
soil and thereby render it non.productive
within ITSELF"
A Lynchburg paper Of recent date
says: "Mr. w. A Ford, one of Lynchburg's
largest tobacco manufacturers, was poisoned
this morning in the following manner: Last
night demijohn of whisky was purchased
by Ford, Moorman & Co., and part of it is
sued to the fremen, many of whom were ex-
hausted from heat and work, and afterwards
was nlaned in tho ofSoe of thoir facforv a1onp.