Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-09-22
Mtapsiae Gatherings.

hibition at Montezlmua, Ga. Cotton bolls
usually have four or five.
Five car loads of dromedaries we're re.
Gently shipped from Texas to Arizona, to be
used in transporting United States mails.
-Jonn B. Raymond, of Fargo, Dakota,
says he has harvested this season S5O,OOO
worth of wheat from a farm that cost him
only $4,000 year ago.
Gen. Beauregard is at Warm Springs in
the Virginia mountains, but will 60 in Octo-
Der to the Yorktown celebration as the In
vited guest of the State of South Carolina.
1t is remarkable that the New York State
Republican Committee met, deliberated, and
adjourned without expressing word OF sym
pathy for the President.
Thirty thousand people have gone to
Europe from this country this year If they
only spend $500 each, there are fifteen mil
lions of dollars gone in pleasuring.
About 10000 columns of biography and
obituary of President Garfield have been in
type for weeks in the newspaper offices of the
United States.
A chap in Oregon married four wives
within ten miles of each other, and wasn't
found out until the four happened to meet at
q picnic and showed the same kind Of dollar
store earrings.
- Wednesday of last week, was the hottest
day throughout the North that has been known
for many years. Everywhere the thermom
eter was over 100, and in New York city it
marked 1O8 in the shade.
- The London police have discovered a
mandatory in that city where horse flesh
was being converted into sausages Some OF
the meat was from animals that had not
been slaughtered.
A man in Southwestern Virginia, who
was holding his large corn crop for rise, was
visited by neighbors who gave him his choice
between selling at current prices or having
his barns burned. He sold. ....
- The publishers of Jeff Davis Book have
delivered 10000 copies to subscribers at the
South, where the book meets much more
rapid sale than at the North. AS the book
retais for $40, these sales alone must mean a
profit to the author Of from $40, 900 to $4,000
The Mexican Minister at Washington
says that General Grant is so popular in
Mexico that the people there would be glad
to have him reside permanently in their midst
A great many people in this country would
be equally glad.
- Holloway, the English pill manufacturer
has given upward Of s3,750,0OO for charitable
purposes during the last five or six years.
1t was money worthily bestowed if it went to
the persons who had taken the pills.
- DR.. Quinn, one of CALIFORNIA; million.
aires, keeps twenty ships busy transporting his
wheat to England He owns $4,000 acres of
rich grain land, $4,000 of which were in
wheat this season. One continuous furrow is
seventeen miles in length.
- The secretary of the treasury has decided
that there is no law authorizing the redemp.
ton of any United States coins on account of
their being mutilated Such coins will, how
ever, be purchased as bullion by the United
States mint.
- VIM. P. Martin, convicted of murder in
Missouri, and sentenced to be hanged two
years ago, escaped by the connivance of the
jailor's daughter, who fell in love with him.
He was arrested few days ago in Tennessee
with the girl, whom he had married, and was
taken back to be hanged.
A Deadwood man saw another reach for
his hip-pocket, thought the fellow meant to
draw a revolver on him, and shot him
dead. Then he found the man was about to
draw flask to treat him, and be much re-
GREETED his hasty act. But he remarked that
the last wishes of the deceased should be car
ried out, and took drink from the flask.
- President Garield's children are FIVE in
number. Harry A. and James, the eldest
two, are we'll along in their "teens;" Mollie,
who is next, is about IA; and after her
comes Irwin Mcdowell, with Abraham fol-
lowing, the youngest of the five. Two
other children have been born to him, but
Doth are dead.
A writer in the New York Sun challenges
anybody to produce case where negro has
ever had hydrophobia. He says: "There is
no such thing-can be no such thing-among
the negroes and they should understand that
whatever other horrors they may have to fear
in this world, they are perfectly safe from
mad dogs and hydrophobia."
1t is announced that Priestly & Sons,
among the largest manufacturers of fine dress
goods whose works at Bradford, England,
continually run 1900 steam looms, are about
to remove their entire business to Philadelphia,
being convinced that the United States is to
be the future industrial centre. A building
has been secured and the machinery is al.
ready arriving. 1t is probable that the op.
eratives of the English works will very gen.
orally follow the mill to this country.
1t is rumored in Washington that "the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is negotiating
for the sale of all its interests south of Balti
more, including the Washington Branch and
the Metropolitan roads, and its stock in the
Valley Railroad, and that it will con6ne its
attention hereafter solely to the promotion of
the trade of its main stem, and to increase
| it's local trade, as such business will be more
profitable than the Southern connections it
has been bothered with heretofore. 1t is
also said that if such be the case, the stock
and bonds of the company will both rise,
and that it was in consequence of the South
ern connections alluded to that Mr.. Walters
one of the best friends of the road, recently
sold his 100000 interest in the road"
The trustees of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, after having devoted ten days to a
careful consideration of the bids for the
lease of that important line of road, which
extends from Cincinnati to Chattanooga,
Tenn, distance of 313 miles, settled the
matter on Saturday last by awarding the
25-year lease to Mr.. Frederick Wolfe. OF
Alabama, and associates, who represent what
is known as the Erlanger syndicate or the
Alabama and Great Southern line. The bid