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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-18
YORKTOWN PROGRAMME.

The programme below has been arranged
for the 18th, 18th and 10th of October, or
what are known as the United States govern
ment days, at the Yorktown Centennial. The
exercises on these days will be under the con-
troll and direction of the Yorktown Congress
sonal Commission, Of which Senator Johnston
is chairman. Congress, it will be remember
ed, gave this commission $40, 900 in addition
to the 100000 for the monument. 1t also
gave Secretary Blaine like amount to enter
tain the French visitors. The Commission
will have their headquarters on the steamer
George Leary, which has been chartered for
the purpose. Mr. Blaine will have his head
quarters, it is understood, on, war vessel,
which is to be decorated in manner BETTING
the occasion. Before the 18th, and after the.
10th, the Yorktown Association, of which
COL Peyton is the chief manager, will carry
out their programme of exercises already no.
ticed in these columns.
The following are the details Of programme
on government days:
October 1Sth-Medley overture of national
airs by the Marine Band. of Washington;
meeting called to order at II o'clock (sharP)
by Senator Johnston; prayer; "The Star
Spangled Banner" by the Centennial Chorus
Gas the last line of the air is being sung the
United States flag will be hoisted, and the bat:
teries on shore will fire salute, which will
be taken up by the ships in the harbor); in.
troductorv address by Senator Johnston;
"Marseillaise Hymn" by the chorus; address
by Governor Holiday "Hail Columbia" by
the chorus laying of the cornerstone of the
monument by the Masons, during which ap.
propriate music will be rendered by the cho.
rus; yankee Doodle" by the Marine Band.
At night there will be grand display of
fireworks from barges, anchored in the stream,
in position to afford view to every spectator.
October l8.-The exercises on this day will
be as follows Music by the Marine Band at
little before II o'clock A. M; prayer, fol-
lowed by the singing of the hymn entitled
"The Prayer" by the chorus; address by
President Garfield; Centennial Ode" by the
chorus oration by the Hon. Mr.. Winthrop;
music by the Marine Band; reading of an
original poem by James Barron Hope, Esq;
music; at night, reception by the President
and his Cabinet.
October 2O--Military day. There will be
grand parade of all the troops, and review
by the President and other distinguished off.
cials.
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and even stupidity treats every Indian with
contempt and unaffected dislike, no Indian
tribe is too insignificant for them to seek its
favor. Their favorite method is to seek to
breed contempt for governmental authority,
and distrust of all its movements. They
adapt their proceedings to the conditions OF
each tribe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-18

scendants of the ancient proprietors. In fact,
it seems to be the lot of Yorktown that the
more it becomes historical spot, the less it
becomes anything else.-Harper's Magazine
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-18

A Kiss THAT DIDN'T PAY.-The Toledo
Record gets off good one in regard to a
citizen Of Iowa, whose wife, in his absence,
had been kissed by drover, while giving a
glass of water. When he heard of the out
rage, he started at once in pursuit, found the
lover after hard days ride, and accused him
of the theft.
The drover admitted the truth of the soft
impeachmeat--said he had been long time
from home, was sorely tempted, and in an
unguarded moment Of frenzy purloiDed the
kiss, but that he had not damaged the wo.
man in the smallest particular-was very
sorry-thought it was no matter to make a
great ado about, and therefore begged to be
excused.
The husband finally concluded that this
was the right view of the matter, and agreed
to settle it upon the receipt of SIS for his
DAYS ride. This being satisfactory, the dro
yer handed over $40 bill and received S.
in change. But when the aggrieved bene
dict returned aome and consulted his detec
tor, he found the bill counterfeit. He
found he had suffered the indignity of hav
ing his wife kissed by nasty drover, passed
one day IN the saddle ana losI i've uollars
and concluded that it didn't pay.
AN UNREASONABLE PRoPosAL.-An Irish
servant, who was in the employment of an
English gentleman residing in Ireland, wa:
on one occasion, about going to fair, held
annually at neighboring village, when hi
master endeavored to dissuade him from go
ing. "Yoa always" said he, "come home
with broken head; now stay at home, Oar
by, and I'll give you five shillings." "I'm fo1
! ever and all obi ged to your honor" said Oar
by; "but does it stand to raison," added he
Aourishng his shillilah over his head, "doe
it stand to raison that I'd take FIVE shilling
for the CRATE Zig batting I'm to get to day?'
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YORKTOWN scene of the surrender
has long been much neglected spot York
town is not reached by railway, and is off the
line of progress. Some day it may revive its
old time prosperity; at least it ought to be-
come more accessible as point of future
pilgrimage. Before the revolution the town
was quite an emporium, the only port from
which the Virginia planters shipped their
tobacco to England. Baltimore and Nor
folk gradually reduced it by competition.
Some two centuries or more ago we first
heard of It as one of the outposts or forts in
the colony. In 1925 it was the centre of a
thriving County-an Episcopal parish Of
sixty communicants, with church. Will.
iamsburg, the capital, with its House of
Burgesses and growing college, attracting
thither the wisdom and fashion of the Domin-
ion, was scarce dozen miles away. Until
CORVALLIS stationed himself there, Yorktown
had escaped the ravages of war on the Vir-
ginia coast, and after its surrender it still con-
tained about seventy houses, not more than
two or three having been wholly destroyed.
Fifteen years later it had not extended its
limits, and we find its population, more than
half of which was composed of negroes, num-
bering about 800 souls. The last war, it
need hardly be said, left it in a depressed con.
dition, almost beyond recovery, and today
it contains not more than 800 inhabitants,
among whom are to be found but few de.
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THE IRREPRESSIBLE NEGRO.

It is not true that the colored people Of
South Carolina have failed to prosper under
the condition of things that has existed in this
State since the war, and to establish the
truth of this assertion, I need only mention a
few cases of extraordinary thrift among the
negroes that have come under my personal
observation in this section. Elijah Hampton,
who lives near Cokesbury, is doing we'll. At
the time of the surrender he was at his post
with his old mistress, widow, working the
farm, as be had always done, for the support
of the family. He was then at a matured
age, with wife and children to support. He
first hired himself for wages and few years
afterwards worked for part of the crop with
white men, and by industry and close atten.
tion to businesss he saved few dollars. He
next bought a house and plantation to be
paid for in two years, which payments were
promptly met He is now out of debt, and
owns two plantations, which are we'll stocked
and in good cultivation. He also owns in
the City of Greenville one house and lot.
He is a hard worker and never would give a
lien on his crop. When he makes store &C.
counts he pays them off promptly. During
all the political excitement here be took no
part in it. He said the white people would
make laws good enough for him, and his
work in the corn and cotton field would pay
him better than going to the ballot.box.
Anderson Williams, who is blacksmith
and planter, has also Jared we'll. His former
master was mechanic and farmer, and was
very precise in all his ways. Everything
was kept in it's proper place, and he lost no
time by loafng and idleness. Now, Ander-
son is trying to fill exactly all his former own.
er's ways. He owns good house and plan
tation, and everything about his plantation
wears look ofprosperity. When the Green.
wood Township voted to levy tax to build
the Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, he
rode eight miles and voted for taxation. He
has an enterprising spirit, does not meddle
with politics, and has no use for the lien law
Samuel Jefferson is one Of the old land
marks in this section. At the close Of the
war he had large family and nothing to 60
on. He secured home with white planter
of the neighborhood and went to work in
earnest. After remaining here six years he
had accumulated enough money to buy a
farm of his own, which he has finished pay
ing for, and is now comparatively indepen-
dent of the world.
These three negroes are all full-blooded
Africans, but among the copper.colored, or
mixed breeds, there are a number of men
who have prospered abundantly. Beverly
Vance and Mitchell Goggins are notable in
stances of what men with little education but
strong muscle and industrious habits can &C.
complish. They have both taken part in
politics Goggins being a member of the
Legislature for two terms during Radical
rule but they are now making money in the
more honorable competitions of industrial
life.- Cokesbury Correspondence Of the Ne'os
and Courier.
YoRKTowN.-The scene of the surrender
L., 1nno. h,on q r,uob poo1oofod enot York
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A BAD L1AR.-Among the inmates Of the
county Insane Asylum of New York, is man
who is often perfectly sensible, and when &C.
costed at such times causes visitors to wonder
why he is confined. This inmate entered into
conversation recently with a caller, whose
dress proclaimed him clergyman. Said the
madman:
at was too bad, was it not, the killing Of
Jones, at Chicago?"
"It was," said the minister, who followed
the adopted custom of asserting to the state
ments of lunatics for peace sake.
"Brown was assassinated at Cincinnati, was
he not ?" again asked the lunatic.
"Yes," replied the clergyman.
"And was not Queen Victoria murdered in
her palace?"
To this query from the madman the cleric
al visitor once more answered in the atirma-
tive. The lunatic, with "damnable iteration"
named, one after the other, dozen living
royal personages, all of whom the clergyman
was led to admit had been put out of the way.
Finishing his catechism, the madman turned
on the clergyman and said 6ercely:
"Your dress shows you are minister, but
you are the worst liar ever met"
UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE The very han
ding of the nursery is significant, and the
petulance, the passion, the gentleness, the
tranquility indicated by it, are all reproduced
in the child. His soul is a purely receptive
nature, and that for considerable period,
without choice of selection. A little further
on he begins voluntarily to copy every thing
he sees. Voice, manner, gait-every thing
which the eyes see-t': mimic instinct de-
lights to act over And thus we have a
whole generation of future men receiving
from us their future beginnings, and the deep
est impulses of their life and Immortality.
They watch US every moment-in the family,
before the hearth, and at the table; and
when we are meaning them no good or evil,
when we are conscious of exerting no inhu-
ence over them, they are drawing from us
impressions and moulds of habit, which, if
wrong, no heavenly discipline can wholly re.
move or, if right, no kind Of association
utterly dissipate. Now it may be doubted, l
think, whether, in all the active influences of,
our lives, We do as much to shape the destiny
of our fellow.men as we do in this single ar
ticle of unconscious influence over children.
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FROM the New York Sur


cost less than dollar apiece, and still! there
was spent in this way sl,376 25. And here
provision was made for the defence of the
negro cadet. Whitaker The charge of Mar
tin I. Townsend, of Troy, his lawyer, was
1854 Is.
An element figuring for some time in this
contingent fund has been htched to the ''cod'
iication of the army regulations" Congress
made provision for this several years ago,
and it was intended that some of the army
officers loa6ng around here doing nothing
should do this work. 1t was done, however
by a civilian, an ex. Confederate, named Rob-
erts. The next question was how to pay him ?
The all useful contingent fund was the re-
source, as Congress had made no allowance
for this peculiar work. 1t began with Rob-
erts getting $3.50 a month. Then came an
assistant at small salary. The thing grows.
Roberts was allowed 5000 month, with two
assistants at $3.50 a month each, one at S85
month, and another at SIS, making this
work which was not anticipated would cost
the Government anything, aggregate $3.50 a
month, or nearly $4,000 year, all covered
up in the contingent fund.
Everybody has heard of Greene's report on
the Russian. Turkish war. Greene was a
young officer sent over there at the expense OF
the Government to take lesson in actual
warfare Like his predecessors he wrote a
report. and good one but unlike them his
| book did not appear as a public document
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WHOLE NO. 1913.
Funeral Of the Gar.

The funeral Of the dead Car Of
Russia was grand affair. Three
cannons fred from tho fortress di-
reeted the manOeuvers to get ready
and take places. At Midday they
started. The artillery fred minute
guns, and all the bells in the city
were toling. The route was lined
by troops from The garrison, and all
the houses were draped In mourn
ing. The vast car containing the
body was drawn BY eight black
horses, completely shroaded in black.
-Four general aides-de-camp stood at
each corner Of the cafalqe, and six
teen general officers held the silken
cords Of the canopy. Behind the
bier of his murdered sire walked AL
eZander ILL., in his imperial solitude.
The emperor was dressed in gener-
ais uniform, wearing q ribbon Of the
order Of St. Andrews. Following
the Emperor, at a respectable dis
tance, came the minister Of the
household, ministers of war, and
four officers on duty. Next followed
grand dukes and princes, according
to rank The procession consisted
IN all Of thirteen sections, compris
ing one hundred and seventy-two
groups.
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Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs.
Pendleton and other ladies of Wash
ington, have issued an appeal to the
people of the United States in be-
half of the sufferers from the disas-
trous earthquake in Chic. Pastors
of all churches-Protestant, Catho-
lie and Hebrew-are appealed to to
take up collections at the earliest
possible moment. Presidents of
Boards of Trade and the heads Of
mOneyed institutions are requested
to start subscriptions at once.
Riggs & Co., Washington, will re-
cei7e all moneys collected for the
purpose named.
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Solomon and the Blacksmith

| Blacksmith and Wheelwrlghtl
The story goes that, during the build
| ing of SolOmOn's Temple, that wise
ruler decided to treat the artisans en-
| plOyed on his famous edifice to a BAN
quet While the men where enjoying
the good things his bounty had provid-
! ed, King Solomon moved about from
table to table, endeavOring to become
better acquainted with his wOrkmen.
To one he said
''My friend, what is your trade?'
"a carpenter"
''And who makes your tOOlsg'
''The blacksmith, - replied the carpen-
ter.
To another Solomon said
''What is your trade?" and the reply
was
ga mason.
'sAnd who makes your tools?n
''The blacksmith, - replied the mason.
A third stated that he was a stone-
cutter, and that the blacksmith also
made his tools. The fourth man that
King Solomon addressed was the black
smith himself He was a powerful man,
with barred arms, on which the muscles
stood out in bold relief, seemingly
almost as hard as the metal he worked.
'And what is your trade, my good
man?" said the king.
Blacksmith, laconically replied the
man of the anvil and sledge.
''And who makes your tOOls?n
''Make' EN- myself" " said the black
smith.
Whereupon King Solomon immedi-
ately proclaimed him the king Of
mechanics, because he could not only
make his own tools, but all other arti-
sans were forced to 60 to him to have
their tools made.
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The Readiusfer,s Position.

The difference between the posi-.
ton of the Readjusters and their op-
ponents in Virginia on the debt ques-
ton, which is made so prominent
now by the contest in the Senate, is
about as follows; The Mccullough,
or Debt-payers' bill, fixed, with the
consent of creditors, the debt al
$32, 100000, made coupons receiva-
BILE for taxes and other dues to the
State and bonds non taxable. It
fixed the rate Of interest at an aver
age of four per cent.
The Riddelberger bill, which the
Readjusters stand by, fixed the debt
at less than S20,000,0O0, made the
coupons not receivable for taxes,
made the bonds taxable and the rate
Of interest three per cent. 1t was
proposed to make this bill a law
without the consent Of the States
creditors, on the ground that it was
Just to both the creditors and the
State. The Readiusters bill ex-
cludes from the State debt the inter
est accumulated during the war and
the reconstruction period. The Nc
Cullough bill includes this.
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MOST every farm house contains what
Is called the best room, and which is
only used on eXtraOFdinarya occasions;
1t being almost wholly closed not only
to the members Of the family, but TO
the sun and light Now it strikes US
that the most convenient. agreeable,
and for that matter, the most pleasant
room in the house should be selected as
the family room. Let its doors be ever
Open, and when the work of the kitchen
is completed let the mother and daugh-
ters be found there with their apprOpri-
ate work Let it be the room where
the family altar is erected, and cOuse-
Grated to neatness and purity. Let no
hat ever be seen in that room on the
head Of its owner let no COatless indi-
vidual be permitted to enter it. If
fathers hesd Is bald, and some there
are in that predicament, his daughter
will be proud to see his temples covered
by the neat and graceful silken cap that
her own hands have fashioned for him.
Let that table which has always stood
under the lOOking-glass, against the
wall, be wheeled into the room, its
leaves raised, and plenty of useful
books and periodicals be laid upOn it.
When evening comes bring on the
lghts-and plenty of them-for sons
and daughters, all who can, viii emost
willing students. They viii read, they
will learn, they viii discuss the subjects
of their studies with each other, and
parents viii often be quite as much in
structed as their children. The well
conducted agricultural journals Of our
day throw a flood Of light upon the
science and practice Of agriculture
viii show its effects to every passer-by,
for with books and studies like these a
purer taste is born and grows most Wig
OrOuslv.
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American novel writer's seem to be
unusually busy just now, Mrs. Bur
nett is said to be writing two new
serial stories; DR.. Holland also has
one in contemplation; Mr.. HowelIs
has two serials on the stocks; Mr..
Boyesen is writing one or two; Mr..
Cable has just finished one and is
starting on another; The author of
Gan Earnest Trifer" has recently
completed a short Watering-plaee Sc
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and the author of "Roxey' is at
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