Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-03
Straps and fafts.

The american Miller (good authority
states that the total area of ground available
for the cultivation of wheat is no less than
47O,000.O0O acres, and that the entire crop
of the past year would not supply seed enough
to plant all of it.
- The State of Missouri is agitated over
the prohibition question. 1t is now before
the Legislature of that State and there is a
probability that stringent liquor law will
be passed, as the country members who favor
it outnumber the city members. The strug-
gle is said to be quite bitter.
A circus proprietor has offered premi-
um of $4,000 to the loveliest lady in Amer
lea, on the condition that she give her services
for thirty weeks as the main participant in a
grand daily pageant. 1t is stated that as
beauty, and not talent, is required, good
looks alone will secure the prize.
Some wag, says the Washington Star,
started the story little while ago, that street
cars are now running in the city of Jerusalem,
and the papers are printing the statement as
an item of genuine news, whereas there is not
a street in the city wide enough to accom-
modate an ordinary track, and if road were
built there would be no business for it.
BY recent decision of Judge Fitzhugh,
of the chancery court of Richmond Va,
the stockholders of the defunct Southern Ex-
press Company, though it is now fourteen
years since the company ceased to do business,
are liable for its debts, and aR assessment of
thirty per cent. on the capital stock subscribed,
is ordered to he made on the stockholders for
the purpose of satisfying creditors.
A beautiful girl, the daughter of a beer
saloon keeper in New York, is said to receive
forty dollars per week from Murray Hill
robe and cloak concern, merely to display
upon her person the articles of apparel that
are for sale. She has the department of an
ideal princess, and anything and everything
looks we'll upon her. She commenced with
the firm when only Is, and she is now 20
years old.
In Millbridge, Me-, at the house of Capt.
Means, there is a little girl, nine years old,
who comes from one of the cannibal islands
of the Pacific. An American vessel called
there for water, and the natives brought the
child to sell to the captain for his dinner,
offering to prepare her properly. The cap
tain bought her. but said he would prefer to
kill his own meat, and so brought her home.
She still believes she will be killed and eaten
and when strangers enter the house she clings
to Mrs Means and begs not to be taken away.
The woman suffrage law in Utah provides
that every woman at the age Of twenty.one
years, who has lived in the territory six
months next preceding any general or special
election, born or naturalized in the United
States, or who is the wife, widow or the daugh-
ter Of native born or naturalized citizen
of the United States, shall be entitled to vote
at any election in the Territory. The Nor
mon newspapers are indignant because Gov
ernor Murray has declared that under this
law any girl twelve years of age, if married
to Mormon, may vote.
Puck proposes to rename the months,
describing them by names which would sug-
gest their most prominent qualities. This
would enable children to. learn the names
readily on the kindergarten plan, and the
months, if this sensible plan were adopted,
would be named as follows: January would
be Slushuary. February would be Slopuary,
March would be Winduary, April would be
Ranuary, May would be Buduary, June
would be Warmusry, July would be Roast.
uary, August would be Broiluary, September
would be Chiluary, October would be Cold
uary, November would be Frostuary and De-
cember would be Snowuary.
The Bronze statue of Gen. Morgan, which
is to surmount the monument at Spartanburg,
S. c.. is now standing complete in the foun
dry of Messrs. Bureau Brothers & Heaton
Philadelphia. The statue was designed by
Mr.. j. @. A. Ward, and is one of the most
spirited ever executed by that artist. 1t is
eight and a half feet in height, and shows
Morgan in the uniform of his rife brigade
leather hunting shirt, breeches and moccasins
The General is represented as having just
drawn his sword on sight of the enemy his
nostrils are dilated, his face illumined with
the excitement of the approaching action,
and he is just in the attitude where he will
turn in a moment and call to his men to
follow him.
"A recent visit of Gen. D. H. Hill, of the
Arkansas Industrial University, to Little
Rock, prompts the Democrat of that city to
recall what Gen. Grant said of him during
his trip from Memphis to Little Rock last
April "'I know Gen. Hill well,' said he to
one of the party. 'and am glad to learn
that he is succeeding so we'll in your Univer-
sity. He is man of very firm, decided char
thoroughly upright and conscientious
He is we'll fitted for his work, and | hope
that his whole school may be sustained
We do not always agree with Gen. Grant,
but his estimate of General D. H. Hill is
quite right, and we join in the hope expressed
that the school may be we'll sustained. The
Arkansas Industrial University belongs to
the people of the entire State 1t is the only
thoroughly equipped university in the State,
and it is the duty of our Legislature to deal
generousl y with it,"
Quite remarkable instance of the forti-
tude of negro is related to have taken place
at Lynchburg. Va, recently. 1t appears
that few years ago man named Frank
Helmbolz shot very young negro boy. The
ball struck the boy and inflicted a severe
wound, from which an entire paralysis of one
side resulted. The boy suffered intensely at
times, yet attempted to make living, and as
many good people pitied his helpless condi-
ton, he made a living by the sale Of cakes,
confectioneries and matches Last week, du.
ring the absence of his mother, he undertook
and accomplished the entire amputation of
his paralyzed foot with small pen knife and
pair of scissors When found, he was in
sensible, but the foot was off and the stump
wrapped up in rag and paper bag such as
is used in wrapping confectionery. Strange
to relate, the boy began to improve forthwith,
and he has suffered but little since the ampu-
tation.
"A New York letter says: "The Castle
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