Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-05
Straps aud fafts.
R. R. Miller, Of Kingsley Lake, Fla, for
two weeks past, has been shipping cucumbers
North, for which he receives $3.50 per dozen.

The city council of Chicago has passed
an ordinance forbidding the erection of over.
head telegraph line, and requiring all wires
ground by the first of May, 1888.
-Gorham, the editor of the National Re-
publican and Mahone's nominee for Secre-
tary of the Senate, has been defending Brady
so vigorously that Garfield says he will take
his election as personal insult.
- The old home of Lincoln was recently
torn down at Springfield. A boy bought all
the shingles for dollar, and with a scroll
saw, is turning them into ornamental memen-
toes, which he easily sells at from so cents to
81 each.
The Georgia Baptist State Convention,
at Athens, last Saturday, passed strong reso-
lutions on the liquor question, and decided to
present memorial to the Legislature asking
that body to take some action to restrict the
traffic in liquor.
"A call has been issued by the National
Temperance Society for q National Temper
ance Convention, to meet at Saratoga Springs
June 81, 1881. 1t is expected that all the ma
tional societies, including the Woman's Ma
tional Christian Temperance Union, will be
fully represented; also the State societies and
grand bodies, together with large number
Of ecclesiastical bodies.
"A Mr.. Perkins, of England, has designed
an ocean steamship which he says on con-
sumption of fifty tons of coal day of twenty
four hours, will cross from Queenstown to
New York in four days, and on occasions can
make forty miles an hour. The suggested
steamer has twin screws forward and aft, the
bow screws pulling, and stern ones going
ahead.
- General Joseph Lane, who died recently
in Oregon, was the last but three of the Mex
ican war generals General w. S. Harvey
and General Patterson alone survive him.
The former was born in 1898, and is conse
quently 80 years old and the latter is only
year or two younger. He was in command
of the Federal forces about Harper's Ferry
in 1861, when 10. Johnston gave him the
slip and concentrated his forces at the battle
of Bull Run.
1t is announced that Mr.. Sayre, of the
Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel Works, has made ar.
rangements for the investment of 81 100000
in new steel works at Birmingham, Ala. and
will erect the necessary buildings this sum-
mer. A few years ago the site where Bir-
mingham now stands was cotton field now
the place boasts of population of 5000, and
has In successful operation iron furnaces,
acres of cooking ovens and extensive rolling
mills, whilst it is rapidly becoming one of the
most important railroad centres in the South.
There are only four newspaper editors in
Congress, but the newspaper owners are nu-
merous. Senator Hawley is principal pro-
prietor of the Hartford Courant, Anthony
owns part Of the Providence Journal, Jones,
of Nevada, owns the San Francisco Post,
Plumb the Emporia (Kan.) Neacs, Hill owns
in part the Denver Tribune, Fair owns part
of the Virginia City Enterprise, Allison has
stock in the Burlington Ha,okeye, Malone
owns the Richmond Whig, or most of it, and
Jay Gould represented in Congress by sever
al proxies) owns controlling interests in the
New York Tribune and World.
The cities of New Orleans and Vicks.
burg, distant two hundred and forty.three
miles from each other, are connected by tele.
phone, which is described as working most
satisfactorily. Merchants of Vicksburg or
der goods from New Orleans by telephone,
and the first order of this character over the
line was distinctly heard and promptly filled.
The plantations along the river and in some
cases back from the river in Louisiana, are
being connected with New Orleans by tele-
phone, and it is said that the exchange in
that city will embrace nearly all the State
before great while.
- General Grant is at present in the city of
Mexico in the interest Of certain railroad
projects, and seems to be making some progress
IN interesting the cooperation of capitalists
there in the matter. For some time the eyes
of certain money kings in this country have
been turned to the mines of Mexico as good
field for profitable labor and speculation, and
they have been quietly at work for several
years to get possession of these mines and
such concessions from the Mexican govern
ment as will enable them to construct lines of
railroad into that country, connecting with
our own roads. This is Gen. Grants mission
now. Railroads, while they will prove the
developers, will eventually become the con-
querors Of the land of the Montezumas.
Peru is in bad fix. After waging an
unsuccessful war with Chilli, the time has
come when settlement is to be had. The
terms proposed by the victor are severe. AS
some one suggests, they are quite in the man.
ner of Germany's dealing with France after
the very disastrous war with the latter. Chill
demands as her terms that Peru be dismem-
bered and disarmed, with the addition of
very heavy war debt to be levied upon a de-
vastated and impoverished country. 1t de-
mands some of the richest provinces in Peru
as part ofits spoils. We suppose the latter
will be forced to comply. 1t can hardly pro-
tract contest in which it is damaged and
pounded at every turn. To the victor
belong the spoils, and in this instance they
promise to be very large.
- The returns thus far published of the re-
cent municipal elections in Illinois, show
that the women won some notable triumphs,
which are perhaps the omens of greater and
more important victories in the future. The
question of temperance was leading one in
the canvass, and, as may be expected, the
fair Illinoisans were on the side of the Pro-
hibitionists. The enthusiasm with which they
worked and the numbers in which they turn
ed out, showed the keen interest they took in
the subject. In one little town one thousand
ladies appeared at the polls and succeeded in
electing three out of fourteen aldermen At
Mount Vernon all their candidates were
elected by a majority of FIVE hundred, and in
other portions of the State their efforts were
crowned with more or less success This is
good beginning of the female suffrage ex-
pertinent in the West.
An uneynectedlv 1aroo VITO vos no11od