Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-03
Scraps aud facts.

Gov. st. John, of Kansas, states that pro-
hbition is progressing so well in that State
and others that he believes in fifteen years the
law will be made a national one.. In Kansas
Il stimulus has been given to business OF all
kinds.
Illinois has the lead in railways, followed,
but not closely, by Pennsylvania and Ohio
New York, Iowa, Texas, Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Georgia come in the order named. South
Carolina Stands number % in the list ofStates
and Territories.
- The net earnings of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad for the past year were
$3.50, GA. The fixed charges were. S294, 900,
and there was consequently loss OF SlO,3oo.
The operating expenses were swelled by out
lays for steel rails, &C., otherwise the net
earnings would have been 1928, 339.
"A man in Georgia lost a gold collar button
two years ago, and recently the missing jew
erly was found in the fat of the digestive Or
gans of slaughtered cow. How the COW got
under the bureau in the bedroom, where de-
tached collar button always rolls, is an mex
plicable mystery.
Arab Bey, if report be true, is not only
the Dennis Kearney of the Nile and the Billy
Malone of Egypt, but he is also the General
Pope of Africa. 1t is stated that in his account
of the bcmbardment of Alexandria, addressed
to the natives, he announced that eight iron
clads were burnt, four captured and two sunk.
That reads very much like Pope's dispatches
during the war.
Shoe Heel, N. c., has curiosity that
would be entered for big money in Barnums
museum. 1t is cross-eyed dog, the property
Of Capt. H. R. Mckinney. His eyes are SO
cross that if you lay two pieces of meat on the
in, Of i'm ho h
er, but will bite the ground all around them.
Fact, as men of veracity assert.
-Duelling should never be encouraged ; but
if people will fight, the example of Capt. Alvero
and Mai. Cordova, of the Second Mexican
Regiment, is to be commended to- them. These
gentlemen went out to fight and both were
brought back dead. So honor was satisfied
on both sides and peaceable people relieved
from future terrorism on the part of both hire
eaters.
Hon. Alexander Fl. Stevens will 60 into
the campaign during August and September.
He will visit all parts of Georgia and will
speak from his rolling chair. In consideration
of the fact that Mr.. Stephens will have but
little if any opposition, the spirit he shows IN
making an active canvass, under the great
physical disadvantages, is an example worthy
the consideration of younger and healthier
men.
Swimming plates are one of the latest nov.
elites. They are described as flat disks OF
light pine wood, from eighteen to twenty
eight inches in circumference, and are adjust
ed to the hands and feet by straps in such
way as not to interfere with perfect freedom
of motion. 1t is claimed that the swimmer
can propel himself seven feet further at a
stroke with these plates and carry from forty
to fifty pounds weight.
The postoffice department has on it's pay
roll about 1000 cats, which are regularly in
it's employ throughout the country, and are
paid for their services with food and shelteH
These estimable creatures make themselves
very useful by keeping rats and mice out OF
the mail matter. Their number and the cost
of their maintenance are strictly accounted
for. and when any one of them declares dlvl.
dend that fact is duly reported, and provision
is made for the newcomers.
1t was charged during the Franco-Prussian
war that both sides fired poisoned bullets. An
exchange says 'Wounds not always danger
Gus in themselves, sometimes proved fatal or
required long time to heal. DR.. Gross, OF
Paris, has found out the cause. Modern
breech-loading rifles are so constructed that
the bullet conveys with it portion OF the ny.
drocyanic acid which the explosion of the pow
The poisoning of the wounds was accidental,
not Intentional.
Hon. Judah P Benjamin, ex-Secretary OF
the Confederate States, is now the acknowl-
edged leader of the bar in England. Fleeing
from the Confederacy, he reached Great BIT
tain. and in six months was admitted to the
bar and published book, Benjamin on
Sales" At first he struggled, making only
$500 the first year, e40O the second and 81 ,0OO
the third. Now wealth is pouring in upon
him, and recently he had one half OF all the
appeals to the House of Lords from England
Ireland and Scotland.
- There has been heavy decline in flour,
owing to the large arrivals, accommodating
stocks and material decline in the prices of
grain at Western points. A settled flour
market is not looked for before the latter part
of August. AS prices are expected to be
much below those of last year during the
coming season large foreign demand is an
ticipated The news that the duties on flour
at Havana have been considerably reduced
will undoubtedly have quite an inspiriting
effect in the flour trade.
- The Chicago Tribune cries out for law re-
form in Illinois, and cites a case in point
which hung on for ten years The amount
involved was $1,000 for which sum the Ex-
Boskowitz The Tribune concludes as fol-
lows ''How much cheaper it would have
been had Boskowitz and the Express Compa-
ny played game of euchre in 1872 for the
$4,000! The uncertainties of fifty-two cards
are not to be compared with the uncertainties
attending the workings of what we call IAN
enlightened system of Jurisprudence
There is one way for accounting for the
unfortunate financial condition of Egypt. All
Europeans in that country are favored by eX-
empti0n from taxation. English, French and
Italian merchants own the finest cotton and
sugar plantations and employ hundreds OF
hands without paying one para OF tax TO the
State. This concession was obtained 10y Ma
poleon in 1899, to run one hundred years, and
it has been respected ever since by Cover
nor and Pasha. 1t is not strange that the
native Egyptians, who are ground down un-
mercifully by taxation, should have SO fierce a
hatred of the privileged Europeans.
commissioner Raum reports to Secretary
Folger that the entire collections OF internal
revenue for the past fiscal year have been ac-
counted for and turned into the treasury.
The whole sum collected was SAG, 52O, ,273. IL.
During the past six years the sum Of S14S ,S3l =
OIL has been collected from this source with
out loss by iefalcation. The expense Of col
lection for the past fiscal year will not exceed
IS, 10S, 300, being less than 81 per cent. OF the
whole The combination among Illicit dlstll-
lers, in some parts of the country, to eVade
the law have been broken up, and the relations
existing between the Taxpayers and the reve-
nue officers are harmonious.
-. In Utah the wholesale persecution of the
Gentiles has been inaugurated, and arrange
ments nave been made testing the constitu-
tionality of the Edmunds Act. If the decis-
ion should be adverse the MormOns have de-