Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-24
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thousands of bushels will he converted into
brandy.
- The San Francisco Chronicle renews the
old argument in favor of vegetable diet, and
adduces in support of it's claims the Coolies,
whose strength is equal to that OF horses or
oxen.
" The North Carolina Commissioner of Ag-
ricuture estimates that the total cotton con-
sumption in the mills of that State, for the
year ending August 81, 1882, will approximate
10000, 600 pounds. This is a decided increase
on any previous years. consumption.
The Utah commissioners arrived at Salt
Lake City last Saturday, preparatory to enter
ing upon the duties assigned them by Con-
gress. The Mormon press complains OF the
treatment of Utah by the United States Gov
ernment, and compares the condition Of Utah
to that Of mere satrapy,
Temperance is making progress in Eng
land which draws from the London Times the
astonished remark that ''its rise and growth
are like the rise of new religion. The du-
ties it lays down are an addition to the accep-
ted moral standard of the age. 1t is not long
since good port wine and good church princl-
pies were thought to agree"
The number of retail liquor licenses issued
by the Federal Government for the year end
ing April, 1881, was 170,64O. The greatest
population to each license, says an exchange,
was in South Carolina, it being 917 in that
State Then it decreases until Maine and
Kansas and Iowa are reached, with very
much less number. In Montana there are on
ly 81 residents for each retail place. ....
"A practical railroad man informs the New
York Sun that before long every engine draw
ing passenger train will have pilot; his
place will be forward of the engine or above
the present cab-with which he will have a
signal connection-and his business will SIM
ply be to watch everything on or near the
track and quickly signal any danger to the en-
gineer.
A patent has lately been issued which
will be of great advantage to those who are
obliged to 60 through life on crutches. 1t
consists of crutches set on rockers which are
faced with heavy rubber band. The user
thus moves forward eight feet at a step, with
a smooth, even motion, which does away
with the jar experienced in the use OF the Or
dinary crutch.
- The Lee Memorial Association, after
many years. work, have at last made final ar
rangements for the completion OF the maui
soleum of Gen. Robert E. Lee, at Lexington
in Virginia, and the statue of Lee will be un-
veiled on Thursday, June %, 1883. Soon
afterwards, on day yet to be appointed, the
centenary of Washington and Lee University
of which Gen. Lee was President when he
died, will be celebrated.
The first notice the newly appointed clerks
in the pension office had of the success of their
applications was prompt assessment from
the indefatigable Hubbell AS these fellows
are on probation anyway, they are pretty like
ly to pay two per cent. on salaries, never
earned as yet, in the hope of improving their
chances. In the meantime, Hubbell is drum
ming up the delnquents with a second cir
cular.
A secret marriage at Atlantic City has
created some excitement recently. A young
man has been constant visitor at cottage
where resided pleasing widow and her pref
ty daughter. He at first divided his atten-
tions on both, but of late the mothers jeal-
ousy was aroused by the daughter .becom-
ing the favorite, and he was forbidden the
the house and the mother exercised her tongue
very freely. He bore it very meekly until
she had got through, and then calmly announ-
ced that she was already his mother-in-law.
Mr.. L. G. Thompson, a South Carolina
delegate to the Georgia Agricultural Conven-
ton, informed the Atlanta Constitution that
1--WE have fine farms in South Carolina, but
you are ahead of us in diversified crops, and
that is where the money comes in in farming
now. We are waking up on this line rapid
ly, and we will try and overtake and excel the
Georgia farmers if we can. We have found
out this year where the money lies in farming.
1t is simple proposition. Raise our provls-
ions and make cotton and rice our surplus
crop.''
1T has been ascertained, says the Atlanta
Constitution, that the South has this season
paid the North $50, ,O0O, 900 for wheat, $50, ,OO0,
Co. fnr re OH
S25, ,0O0, 900 for hay, butter, cheese, oats, ap-
pies, potatoes, etc. The North, in other words
draws on us for about 5000 900, 600 year to
liquidate bills that should never have been
made This sum is far more than we can af
ford to pay for bread and meat, if we wholly
depend upon cotton. This drain has impover-
ished us and from bitter experience we have
ut least learned to do better The North will
not next season be able to take from us over
800, 900 on account of provisions and grain,
and a year later the South should be fully self
sustaining. 1t must be done if there is to be
any real independence in the South.
Now before the cotton season opens, we
wish to impress upon our friends the advan-
tages of having their cotton clean, well gin
ned, and properly graded before shipment.
season by mixing good cotton with an indif-
feeent article. 1t sells not according to the
best part of it, but according to the worst.
Again, we lose heavily by not having the
staple clean, free from dirt, mud and leaf.
Slight specks detract from the value of the
article, while sand and mud render it almost
understandable. Cotton ought to be care
fully handled through every operation. There
are some manufacturers who make it point
to buy, at greatly deprecated prices, cotton
of good staple that has been stained or is leafy
They get it at low prices, and then use it to
advantage. A sandy cotton, as we under
stand, no manufacturer wants. 1t has to be
cleaned before it can be worked.
"A telegram from Governor Roberts, of
Texas, was received at the Treasury Depart
ment in Washington last Saturday, stating
the suffering condtiolfof those sick with yel-
low fever and of two thousand persons in
Brownsville, Texas, out of employment on
account Of the quarantine and requesting aid.
Acting Secretary French replied that the De-
partment would take charge of the hospitals
and quarintine at suitable stations if the Gov
ernor desired it, but that the State of Texas
must support all persons not in hospital. If
the Governor accedes to this view the Sur
geon General of the Marine Hospital service
will at once muster into his service and pay
guards at proper points to prevent egreSs from
Brownsville, and will, through one cf his
surgeons, take charge of all hospital arrange
ments. Surgeon General Hamilton has already
made arrangements by which hospital tents
have been sent to Memphis, Tenn, and in
structions have been given to the surgeon of
the service there to proceed at once on receiv
ing orders to Brownsville and take charge of
the yellow fever patients.
On the 18th instant, in the Dublin Crimi-
nal Court, E. Dwyer Gray, a member of Par