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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

PARTIAL TO DoGs.-The Earl of Bridge.
water lived in Paris during the last century,
where the circumstances we narrate took
place. He was miserable-looking little
man, unable to walk without the support of
TWO lackeys. He had an immense fortune,
which he spent in gratifying every caprice.
Was book lent to him, it was regarded as
the representative of its owner, and returned
in the Earl's landau, occupying the place Of
honor and attended by four footmen in costly
livery, who handed it to the astonished own.
er. His carriage was frequently to be seen
filled with dogs, his special pets. On the feet
of these dogs he bestowed as much attention
as though they were unfortunate human be-
ings. He ordered them boots, for which he
paid as dearly as for his own. Not caring
to entertain his own kind at his table, few
people dined with bm. Still, covers were
daily laid for dozen, served by suitable at
tendants. At this table he received, and
dined with no less than twelve favorite dogs,
who seemed to comprehend the compliment
paid them, as they occupied their chairs with
decorum, each with its white napkin tied
around its neck. They were so trained that
should any, by any instinct of appetite, trans
gress any rule of good manners, he was ban.
ished from the table, and degraded to an
antechamber, where he picked his bone in
modification, his place remaining empty un-
til he had earned his masters pardon Cham.
bers' Journal
The RUSSIAN SOLDIERS OBEDIENCE TO
ORDERs.-The uniformity existing among
the Russian troops is something quite aston
ishing. This uniformity is something car
ried to an absurd extent, for their dress, way
of marching, manners, even faces, are pre-
cisely alike In the Guard, men with light
hair and blue eyes are put together in one
company, the dark-haired men in another.
The excessive discipline leads at times to the
spirit of an order being confounded with the
letter. One day a ship with many officers and
men on board went down in the Neva. The
order was passed to the soldiers to save in the
first place the officers Of the Guard They
therefore anxiously inquired of each officer
they got hold of if he belonged to the Guard?
The poor fellows could not answer, as their
mouths were filled with water so they were
allowed to drown. On another occasion, as it
was very dusty, the soldiers were ordered to
water the field for exercise. While employed
in this duty there came on heavy rain, but
they continued their task with the utmost
gravity. They had been ordered to do it, and
that was enough. At the time when the Win
ter Palace was destroyed by fire, clergyman
succeeded, with great difficulty, in saving the
sacramental plate On returning he saw a
soldier in the corridor, enveloped in smoke.
He babe him follow him, else he would per-
ish in the flames but the other calmly asked
for his blessing, and died at his post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

locked the gate The train arrived at Wash
ington at 7.56 P. Man average run from
New York of almost fifty miles an hour, and
from Philadelphia Of over 6fty.6ve miles an
hour. This is the fastest railroad time for
the distance and considering the stops on
record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04
YANKEE DOODLE.

In the summer of 1775, the British arm,
under command of Abercombie, lay encamp
ed on the first bank Of the Hudson River
awaiting reinforcements of militia from tn
eastern states, previous to marching upor
Ticonderoga. During the month of June
these raw levies poured into camp, company
after company, each man differently armed
equipped and accoutred from his neighbor
and the whole presenting such spectacle al
was never equaled, unless by the celebrated
regiment of merry Jack Fallsraff:
Their oatre appearance furnished grea
amusement to the British officers. One DR.
Shacksburg, an English surgeon, composed
the tune of Yankee Doodle, and arranged il
to words, which were gravely dedicated tc
the new recruits. The joke took, and the
tune has come down to'this day. The origi
nal words, which we take from Farmer q
Moore's Historical Collections, published in
1924, we have not, however, met with before
in many years.
Father and I went to camp,
Along with Captain Goodwin,
Where we see the men and boys
AS thick as hasty-pudding.
There was Captain W Nashington
Upon slapping stallion,
A giving orders to his men
/ guess there was million.
And then the feathers on his hat,
They look d SO l..rnai ina,
WANTED peskily to get
TO give to my Jemima.
And there they had a swamping gun
AS large as log of maple,
On deuced little cart
A load for fathers cattle:
And every time they fired it off,
1t took horn of powder;
It made a noise like fathers gun,
Only nation louder.
went as near to it myself
AS Jacobs underpinnin,
And father went as near again
thought the deuce was in him.
And there see little keg,
Its heads were made Of leather
They knocked upon with little sticks
To call the folks together.
And there they fired away like fun,
And played on cornstock fddles,
And some had ribbons red rs blood,
All wound about their middles.
The troopers, too, would gallop up
And fire right in our faces;
It scar'd me almost to death
To see them run such races.
Old uncle Sam come there to change
Some pancakes and some onions,
For lasses cakes to carry home
TO give his wife and young ones.
But can't tell you half see
They kept up such smother;
So took my hat off-made bow,
And scampered home to mother.
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s. @, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4. 1884,

clerk was ahead of him. A toll-bridge was
before them. Robert paid toll by the year !;
the clerk had to stop to make change. Rob-
ert won the race, and the widow, who at the
end of the year-which was recently-gave
him her hand, and with it the accumulated
fortunes of four husbands, all of whom died
rich
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

No PLACE FOR CHRIsTIANs.-Ihe Detroit
Post says that circus clown in Virginia
took occasion the other day, at the close of
the performances, to speak plain and very
searching words, which deserve the sober at
tention of many more than those who heard
them. In his painted face and mottled gar.
ments he said "We have taken in six hun
dred dollars here to day; more money, ven-
ture to say, than any minister of the gospel
would have received for whole years SER
vices. A large portion ofthis money was CIV
en- by church members, and large portion of
this audience is made up of members of the
church. And yet, when your preacher asks
you to aid him in supporting the gospel, you
are too poor to give anything. But you
come here and pay dollars to hear me talk
nonsense am fool because | am paid
for it; make my living by it. You profess
to be wise, and yet you support me in my
folly. But perhaps you say you did not
cone to see the circus, but the animals. II
you came simply to see the animals. why did
you not simply look at them and leave
Now, is not this pretty place for Christians
to be in 1? Do YOU not feel ashamed Of your
selves? You ought to blush in such place
as this"
SEVENTEEN BEFORE BREAKFAsT.-Wfen
we hear man, puffed up with his Own truly
goodness, express his pity for poor wretch
in patronizing way, we think of the poor
heathen who suddenly discovered that be
was a worse fellow than he had suspected
The missionary read to him the command
ments, and to each the heather responded
"Me guilty" When it came to "Thou shall
not kill,' he quickly answered, "Me no
guilty" 1t was relief to him to know tina
there was one commandment he had not bro
ken. But" said the missionary, mot only
does he break this commandment who com
mits murder, but he also breaks it who feel
in his heart thai he would like to kill anoth
er." "Me kill seventeen before breakfast
cried the poor man, utterly cast down.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

A SHELL EXPLODED BY L1GHTN1NG.-On
last Wednesday afternoon, during sudden
thunder, storm, lightning bolt struck large
pine tree in field belonging to Mr.. s. 6. B.
Faulkner, who resides about eight miles from
Richmond, in Hanover county. At the time
MI. Faulkner and number of hands were
working near by. The report was sharp and
loud, and shocked several of the men. Mr..
Faulkner noticed that the tree was set on fire
by the lightning, and sent bands to clear
away the brush to prevent the fire spreading
to his fencing About twenty minutes after
the tree was struck another loud and deafen-
ing report was heard in the tree, and on ex-
animation it was ascertained that the fire had
communicated with shell which was lodged
in the tree during the war. The tree was
somewhat shattered from the explosion Of this
old companion, and the bushes near by we're
cut down by the fragments. No one knew of
the shell being in the tree. This is most
singular occurrence, and probably the first
where a shell was exploded by lightning
Richmond Whig.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

sGs- The principal feature of new machine
for dressing hogs consists of a perpendicular
hollow iron cylinder, armed on the inside sur
face with series Of flexible knives or scra-
pers, and permeated by jets of boiling water.
The animal, after being killed and scalded, 10
drawn by a hook attached to the under jaw
into the lower end of the cylinder, and in two
or three seconds emerges from the top COM
pletely denuded of his bristly coat and wash
ed white and clean-much cleaner and nicer
looking than by the old process of hand.scrap-
ing, to say nothing of the great saving Of la.
Dor and time. This machine performs the
work usually assigned tc force Of 100 men,
and when running up to its full capacity will
turn out eight clean hogs per minute, the av.
erage being FIVE yesterday at low rate of
speed By an automatic arrangement the
loose bristes are raked from the cylinder,
while the carcass is released from its hooks
and passed over an inclined plane into the
hands of the dresser, and afterwards travels
by its own gravitation over truck rail,
through pair Of folding, self:closing doors
into the cooling room, the whole process not
occupying more than minute.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

RELIGION IN AMUsEMENTs.- "A celebra-
ted divine says, People may ask, "What have
you to do with amusements p I have not
to do with them but God made man to do
with them. That is human nature land that
man takes wrong course who tries to dam
up human nature. want to turn human ma.
ture in right direction, and let men have
good amusements, for they like them. Where
is the man that does not like to have amuse.
ments? Why, like to see kitten chase its
own tail IF the ministers of religion had
done their duty in trying to guide and direct
the amusements Of the people, there would
not be so many bad amusements as there are
this day. Instead of the clergy standing
askance from amusements, l would like to see
them taking more interest taking part in
them. 1 agree with John Wesley, who, when
some people found fault with him for taking
tunes which had been associated with foolish
songs, and applying them to sacred hymns,
replied, see no reason why the devil should
have all the good things in the world" No
more do I. There are music, painting, chess,
quoits, bowls and cricket. | would yoke
them all in the service Of religion and virtue"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

of wind, and consequently not much could be
gained by making the bridge strong enough
to resist storm which would blow a train
off it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-04

A Movement in favor Of Prohibitory Legis.
latiOn.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03
Some travellers, while passing

Some travellers, while passing
through the town of Franklin, Macon
county. n. c., sat down to rest on a
bench near a shop belonging to an IN
ouisitiye, prying smith. The Smith
walked out, wiping the pcrspiration
from his brow with his sleeve, and APP
preached the travellers, when about the
following conversation ensued
Smith Travelling, suppose?
Yes, sir, we're a travlln.
where are you going, II may make
so bold?'
Going to Rabun county, Georgia
sir" !,
To Rabun. Oh to see klnfolks, !
reckon?'
Yes, sir, that's our business
"Pard0n me for asking, bat are your
aintolks who live in Rabun mostly
men,
Mostly menfolks, we believe, SIR.
.If that Is so, | am happy TO inform
you, gentlemen. that you can see your
men kirsfolks by just stepping across
the public square, for we now have the
entire male population Of Rabun county
in our jail for violating the revenue
laws
The travellers look blank, get up.
give their Wristbands a violent hitch,
and say, "Boys, lets 60" And they
went, madden if not wiser men.
To a lover of nature and solitude, a
Journey through the Allegheny noun
tains will never prove mOnotonous nor
insipid. But l, like the poet, have
never discovered the charms that sdges
have seen in the face of solitude.
Sometimes while passing through mar
row defiles, with the mountains. sweep
ing up to tremendous heights on either
hand, the road overshadowed by a dense
growth of laurel and spruce pine, sur
rounded by she sombre gloom of twi-
light, the oppressive silence, unbroken
save By the solemn roar of the cataract,
the hoarse~ croaking of a raven or the
startling scream Of an eagle, a feeling of
loneliness and helplessness indescribable
would assail me.
A weary, foot sore traveller addressed
a woman standing near a house by the
roadside:
Madam, can you tell me how to go
the widow BIS"
4 certainly kin, sir; you just go to
foot of this here hill and take that thar
road"
but, madam, | see two roads I;
which must | take, the right or the
left 2"
well now, stranger, | don't believe
I can tell yer"
The traveller went on his way, a sad
der. but a wiser man Daddy Dedke,
IN AsheriUe RepuJhcun- NeUs.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03
RATHER RoUGH OK THE MISSIONARY

L YIN lie LiISS1ON \
Some two years ago, according .
Pi,tsburg paper. George Bovard q &
Clara Shaffer became engaged, at Mei'
ser. He went to India as a inissiona
~, whence he wrote for her to come t.
him and be married. He had no money
to pay her expenses, and she had nom
In this emergency, a few months age
she made a confident tie, d f Dick
Wright, a heady clothing merchant
Mercer, and he being a big healtcs
man, with generous impulses, otfe,ec
10 supply her with what money sh'
needed to reach her far-off lover. She
gladly accepted his offer, and at ones
began her preparations for the long
journey, Dick" and Miss Shaffer were
thrown much together for a Vile, am
about the time she was ready to s'aI
he was 1eeply in love with her him
self. But he said nothing, and sh,
started for New York with enough q
'Dick's.' money in her pocket to TAX,
her to India. Two or three days after
her departure be grew respondent, an,
chided himself for having given ava,
his chance for marrying Miss Shs ffel
| Ia 'cu. y lnouSHt LICK MN, arc
that was to follow her, and if possible.
overtake her before she boarded 6
steamer in New York for distant India
He acted promptly on the thought
took the cars, reached New York, anc
found the vessel on which she was IL
sail. Miss Shaffer was already OF
board. He made known his affection.
and asked her for her hand for himself
was accepted, and the two returned to
Mercer a few days ago as man and
wife.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03
WHAT LANGUAGE DID CHRIST
SPEAK?
Was 1t Aramaic, Creek, or BothP
"A Learned OrientaliSt's
Opinion.

At their weekly meet on Monday the
Baptist preachers compared theories ann
coniactures as to the language spoken
by Jesus of Nazareth in his CONVERSE
lions with his disciples and his sermons
to the m~ultitudes. Yesterday a repor-
ter for the Sun asked one OF the most
distinguished Oriental scholars OF the
country for his opinion on the point:
1.-THE discussion Of the Baptist min
listers as reported in this mornings pa
nars," said the eminent OrlentailSt'
does not give me a high opinion OF their
common sense. The connection between
Erse and PhGnicon Is too remote Tor
serious consideration. as to- the lan
guage spoken by Jesus, we must re
member that in his time not one bu'
three languages were IN use IN Judea;
The pure Hebrew had long before died
ont and been succeed by the Ardmalc,
which was a kindred language, received
from tLc Dd6ylonlan conquerors. This
was spoken by the peasantry and lower
classes. Latin was used by the Roman
officials in all formal proceedings.
Greek was employed by the upper
classes, by merchants, and by most OF
the inhabitants of cities. Hence the
superscription on the cross was written.
as we are told by Luke, in Greek and
Latin and Hebrew.
That Greek wa extensively employ
ed is proved by the fact that all the
apostolic epistles were written in Greek,
and that Paul's d~iscourses were deliver
ed in Greek, except upon one occa
sion, when it is expressly mentioned
that he arrested attention of a Jewish
mob by speaking to them in the com
mon tongue. Greek was, In those days,
what the Hngua frdnca is now, IN Orlen-
tai countries bordering on the Medlter-
ranean the medium of intercourse be-
tween people of different nationalltles.
1t was more than this. 1t was like
French among the Europeans of the
last century. All the noble Roman
youth learned to read, write, and speak
Greek, and on one occasion ever the
debates of the Roman Senate were car
risd on in Greek.
"At all events, Greek must have been
spoken by the Saviour, at least a part
of the time, for the occasions on which
he use Aramaic words are specially men
toned, as, for instance, In raising the
dead girl, in opening the dumb mans
mouth, and when be uttered his last
words on the cross. If all his sayings
had been in Aramaic, these special
phrases would probable not have been
singled out as they were, and the inter
probation ofthem given In Greek. Or
comse, when he spoke to the peasan
try and rustics generally he used the
language with which they were familiar,
and which was, as | have said, the
Aramaic.
THE case may be illustrated by hat
of a Catholic missionary in Wales or in
a remote district of France. In Wales,
he would speak English in the cities,
and Welsh in the country and the
small towns. In France, he would
speak French in the cities, but else
where the peasant dialect, whatever it
might be of the locality which he was
visiting and he might, for certain off
clal purposes, write documents in
Latin"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03
Decisive BATTLES OF THE WoRLI

DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD.
-Creasy's extremely interesting volume
narrating the history of the fifteen de-
cisive battles of the world, those few
battles Of which a contrary event would
have ess entially varied he drama of the
world in all its subsequent scenes. /,
highly esteemed by all readers of his
tory. 1t has a long time been on Har
per's list as one Of their standard book
at the price o f$l.50. Now it is issued
in a very handsome cloth bound volume
by the American Book Exchange, New
York, at the nominal price Of 30 cents.
It forms one of their Acme Library .
History: which includes M~acaula,'
England, at Sl.25 (reduccd from s. 5G)
Gibbons Rome. 500 (reduc, d frol
5000, Rollins Anei,n n. History, $l.75:
FroiSsart's Chronicle, 81. 81, and I
which list will soon be aaje /, at equ.l.
low prices. Grote's Greece, Green
Qarger) England, Monuments Roune
Masson's Guizot's France, Carlyle.
Franch Revolution, Schiller's Thirt,
Years War, and others. Catalogues Q.
the standard low priced books of IT,.
Literary Revolution will be sent on az
plication to the American Book Ex
change, Tribune Building, New York
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03

all this is true why have not erterprislng
people seen this and put their money
in a scheme to develop this mineral
wealth? Well, it Is easily explained
the people who own these various prop
erties are unable themselves to under
tale SD berculean a task, and are pos
sessed of an insane idea that some day
ar other they will be able to sell then
n~ropertv at some enormous price and
realize q fortune with the stroke OF a
pen. The Egypt coal property once
sold in New York for 500. OOO the
Gulf property was held at 500, 900
the Wicker coal field was held at tl6O,
900; the Taylor property vas sold ior
$50. 900; the Fou.hce pro rerty sold foi
$4,000; and those who own any of
those lands now are holding them still
at the highest figures. Ore I'LL iron
property was sold once Tor sos, 900,
and the person who holds :. now Is estl-
mating it at an enc price.
The gentlemen who visited Whining
ton, You say, spoke of the michel
county iron ore as superior to all they
have found in this country for making
the Bessemer steel. Why, sir, the Ore
Hill iron ore in nathan county. spoken
of as only Is miles from the coal bed.
Of Deep River, has been tested IN New
York by the best and most scientific
assayers and pronounced to be the only
ore in America fit to make Bessemel
steel; and, indeed, quite a distinguish
ed man of our State informed me TN.
fall that while in New York, a short
time previous to his statement, he wa
told by an eminent iron monger. If you
choose to so style him, that Ore Hill,
in Chatham county, North Carolina,
was the only one in the world from
which Bessemer steel could be manu-
featured, except one place IN Africa,
and he asked me if [ knew such a place
as Ore Hill Che had never heard OF IT., ]
replied yes, it is within Is miles OF my
town and just on the Yadkin Valley
Railroad leading from Fayetteville to
Greensboro.
| mention all these facts as coming
within my own knowledge, and invite
the attention of capitalist to a field for
speculation and advancement of the
real interests Of the State and especially
for the benefit of my old home. Viii
mington Boat Navigation already exists
between Wilmington and Fayetteville 9
months in the year ard often the entire
and often the entire year, the Yadkin
Valley Railroad is now in full operation
from Fayetteville to the Coal Fields and
lacks only the laying down the iron
from the Coal Fields to Ore Hill, only
Is miles. Will not some of your CAPT
talists take hold of this opportunity to
make themselves Vanderbilts, and build
up the ancient, beloved old city of vii
mington, so that ships with three masts,
like a forest of dead trees, may once
again be seen on the bosom Of the old
Cape Fear River as Of yore -SapoHd
IN RerieU.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-03
For the n FER AND AnCdAulE

Mr.. EDITOR: | see from the report'
of Legislative proceedings a bill intro
duced by Mr.. Bunting, of Wake, direct
ing the Board of Agriculture and State
Chemist to report on the feasibility o.
establishing guano works by the State
and selling guano or prepared fertilizer
to the planters Of the State at prime
cost. | think this one of the very best
propositions that has been made for the
farming people, and it would make the
agricultural bureau Of our State of much
more Importance than at present.
should be very much pleased to see al
article from you, Mr.. Editor, On this
important question. w. w. w.
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