Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-09-14
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SHIPMENTS OF OATs.-Referenco was made
the other day to the very large shipments of
red oats over the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta and the Columbia and Greenville
Railroads, to Charleston and various points
outside of the State. Mr.. Cardwell, Of the
railroad service, has just furnished me with
the movement of oats from the single station
of Greenwood, by way of the Augusta and
Knoxville road, from June 10 to August 15.
The total shipments amounted to 36, 1873 BUSH
els, or l, ,192, 1906 pounds. Of this quantity
1884 bushels were shipped to Charleston, 773
bushels to Savannah, $40 bushels to Athens
and 80, 1874 bushels to Augusta. The ship
ments Of oats over the Columbia and Green
vile road from the beginning of the season to
July 81, amounted to 2,361 ,134 pounds. OF
this quantity 726,907 pounds were shipped to
Columbia, 33344, 1884 943 pounds to Greenville, 2s2,
| 143 pounds to Charleston, by the South Caro-
lima railway, and l97, ,9l4 pounds by the Attain
tic Coast Line, 1868 pounds to Norfolk,
426, 1897 pounds to Baltimore, 50, 1872 pounds to
Richmond, 4S,05S pounds to Augusta, %, $50
pounds to Wilmington, and 36,331 pounds to
| Atlanta Abbeville county has led the State
in the shipment of oats, the shipments from
Ninety-six amounting to 1,l06,233 pounds,
from Greenwood to 495,093 pounds, from
Hodges to 254, All pounds, and from Able
vile to ITS, AIS pounds.
| In 1876 the oat crop in Abbeville county was
very large, so that it has grown ID be prcverb
| in that section that 'red rust proof oats and
Wade Hampton saved South Carolina" The
gods are with us this year, for heavy yield OF
red oats in campaign years may always be
taken AS an omen of Democratic success
Cor. Ne,cs and Courier.
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| ELECTRICITY OF THE HUMAN BODY
Most people are familiar with the spark
which may be produced under certain cond-
tions by stroking the fur of a cat and trav-
elers in Canada and other cold, dry countries
have witnessed the still more remarkable phe-
nomenon of the human body being turned into
a conductor of electricity and the possibility
of lightning the gas by merely placing ones
fnger-given the necessary condition of elec-
trical excitement the gas jet, without
any other agency.
| Mr.. A. w. Murcheson, the African traveller,
gives some more startling facts. He states
that, one evening, when striking an African
native in a moment of anger with cowhide
whip, he was astonshed to see sparks pro-
duced and more surprised to find that the ma
tives themselves are quite accustomed to the
phenomenon.
He subsequently found that a very light
touch, repeated several times under certain
conditions of bodily excitement and in certain
states of the atmosphere, would produce asuc-
cession of sparks from the bodies of native
men as well as from native CATTLE A lazy
negro, it seems, yielded none of these signs OF
electricity-a rather unfortunate circumstance
for his more active brethren, who may possibly
come in for share of undeserved fOgglng
from the hands of future travellers in search
of electrical phenomena among the human
race. We are not aware that these facts have
been recorded by other travellers, but they de-
serve thorough sitting by competent observers.
THE MORMON QUEsT1oN.-A Salt Lake
dispatch of the 1st instant says the Utah com
missioners have made appointments OF "a
registers for "a counties under the Edmunds
law. These appointments consist of seven
Gentiles, nine apostate Mormons and eight
Mormons. Judge Hodge, a Democrat and a
strong anti-mormon, received the appointment
| for Salt Lake county. These registers have
the appointing of assistants for every precinct,
subject to the approval of the commission.
There is much dissatisfaction among the Gen
tiles over the composition of the registers,
and they cannot see how the Commission can
reform the Territory and perform the duty
for which they were sent there, by placing
Mormons in the responsible position of regis
! ters, the duty of registers being to exclude
polygamists from the registration lists.
| 1t is also stated that John Taylor, Geo. Z.
Smith and Joseph F. Smith, prominent Nor
mon leaders, have issued an address to the
Mormon people, reciting the measures taken
| by the general Government for the suppress
sion of polygamy by means of what is known
as the "Edmunds law" and exhorting the
faithful to stand by and uphold the plural
marriage, which they say lis part OF our re-
ligion and interviewer with our dearest and
holiest hopes connected with etemity.''
THE TRADE OF CHARLESToN.-The an
nual review of the trade of Charleston was
published in the NerS and Courier of the 1st
instant, and filled two pages of that sheet.
The review, which is comprehensive, shows
marked Improvement in the trade and mer-
camille prosperity of the City by the Sea.
Crop returns are so favorable as to more than
compensate for the disaster of last year. The
| yield of wheat, oats and corn far surpasses
| that of any previous season in South Carolina.
The business, for the city for the past year,
foots up $4,000, 900 agaidst $71 600, 900 last
year, notwithstanding the falling off in the
receipts owing to the diminished yield OF the
last crop. The trade in naval stores, lumber
and phosphate rock exhibits very heavy in
crease. The factories of the city now num-
Dti 10, eIHploylus s,foO Pclooio eiu o 'io"
cotton factory with 10000 spindles is nearly
ready to start. The condition of truck farm
ing, jobbing and railroad interest is more
prosperous than for many years past. The
city debt has been reduced 1852, 300 during
the last year. and provision has already
been made for the payment of the installments
of the debt maturing in 1888 and 1894, while
any increase of the debt for any purpose is
prohibited by law.
a. Three kinds of light are produced during
thunder stoms, and known us forked light
ming, sheet lightning and ball lighting. Mr..
B. G. Jenkins, F. R. A. S., contends that
only the first of these is true electricity
thunder storms, according to his view, being
manifestations of chemical rather than cleo
trical energry. He believes that hydrogen ex-
lists in the earth's upper atmosphere and under
certain conditions is drawn into the mixture
of nitrogen and oxygen about us, the chemical
union of the hydrogen and oxygen causing
the second form of lightning which appears
to be almost wholly flame among the clouds,
and is the form most frequently seen. The
thunder is not so much the noise of electric
discharge as the report of gas explosion. Ball
lightning is probably not electricity, but gas
in intense ignition. The harmlessness of the
last two seem to indicate their non-electric
character.
EASY CONES EASY GoEs.-The finder of
hidden treasure, the heir of unclaimed estates,
the land owner who ''strikes oil, !" the holder
of the prize ticket in the lottery, or any other
son of Adam who finds his pockets full of un-
earned dollars, is in position of peril all the
more dangerous for the reason that it is un-
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