Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06

company began work and had just turned out
its first lot of syrup when Goesling died. Soon
after that it was found that the syrup made
| from corn would not ssstand, - as it is called
in the trade. It candied or soliditied. Goes
ling had some secret to prevent this, but 1t
died with him. The company sold their stock
of candied syrup to the Tribune to make ink
rollers out of and wound up it's affairs, losing
about S1,OOOOOO. When Goesling sold his
patents there was reservation in the city OF
| Buffalo, where company had previously
bought from Goesling the right to manufac-
ture corn syrup by his process. The company
met with the same difficulties the syrup
would not stand. But instead OF giving up
the business, they went to work to hnd out
what could be done with their product. Ihey
soon discovered that, when mixed with mo-
lasses. it improved it's appearance without in
juring it, and that when candied it could be
mixed with low grade sugars with an enor-
nous profit to the mixer. 1t also found q
ready sale among beer, vinegar and wine ma.
kers. In suit just ended as to the ownership
of certain shares in this Buffalo. company the
fact was brought out that the average yearly
profits Of this one factory are at least 81 ,0OG-
600 upon capital of $400, 900. Glucose is
now made in enormous quantities in Glen
Cove, Long Island, in Detroit and in Chicago,
where 50, ,O00, 600 are about to be inW ,ted in
new factory. A sugar dealer gaW me- siliiss,
morning bit Of glucose to examine and taste
It resembles wax, in appearance, as said. 1t
cannot be crystalized. Its taste is insipid and
slightly sweet So far as it's sweetening quail
tiles 20, it is not much better than so much
cl.alk. But it costs only four cents a pound,
and is, therefore, destined to play an impor-
tant part in commerce.
Among the queer industries unearthed by
the statistic takers, are many in which the cost
of the raw material is put down in the sched-
ules as nothing. Few people know that large
quantities of sO-called Jamaica rum are made
from old shoes, but in New York and Brook
lyn this industry was found to be well devel-
.0ped. There are men who buy from the rag
5piekers all the old shoes collected in their
rounds The good bits of leather are cut OFF
and sold for patching up cheap shoes. The
rest is treated to some kind Of mysterious dis
tillation, and by the aid Of pure spirits comes
forth in the form of Jamaica rum. A liquor
dealer told me that this article is sold not So
much to the saloons as to the druggists, who
pride themselves ON the quality of their rum.
A manufacturer of tomato catsup is also :
among those who pay nothing for raw mate
rial This man does a business of $l6, 600 !.
year, according to his own account. Every
year, in the canning season, he sends tubs to
the firms who can tomatoes, and collects the
peelings Of the tomatoes. These he gr1nds
up, seasons and sells as tomato catsup, which
it is.
SAM HoUsToN's ROMANCE. Ar interest
ing fact has just been made public in regard
to Sam Houston. It is well known that IN
1928 he married and the next day resigned as
~ 80 loho
and went to the Cherokee Agency and thence
to Texas. The mystery is now explained after
half century. 1t appears that as the we'd
ding. ceremony was being performed, Governor
Houston noticed that his bride appeared Ill at
ease. After the ceremony he took her aside
and asked her the cause of her agitation. She
declined to answer; but he pressed her for an
explanation, assuring her that no harm should
result to her, and she finally told him that she
loved another man who happened to be poor,
and that her parents, blinIed by HoustOn's
position, had forced her into an unwilling
marriage. Houston bade her farewell at once,
and the next morning, without word OF eX-s
plantation to bis friends, he went away, His
wife, who yet was not his wife, obtained
divorce, as he had told her TO, and married
minister, lyho wac lIopsta pas tor fren ia
to1861, and Is made in answer to an article
published recently iii thn st. Louis Globe Dem
ocq'at in which it is intimated that Houston
fled from Tennessee with the intention OF
forming southwestern Empire in Texas.
That might explain his fight, but it does not
explain his abandonment of his bride, who was
young, beautiful and accomplished, which
the present story does And as it is sufficient
explanation, and came from General Houston
himself, having been made by him to the lady
he subsequently, married, it is probably true.
1t is as romantic as anything that ever was
invented, and is another veriication Of the
old adage that the truth is stranger than dc
tion.