Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-17
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REPUBLICAN SENTIMENT.

Charleston Hotel last evening.
81 Think" replied the Collector, "That you
Democrats for once in your lives showed lev
el head in nominating Colonel Thompson.
think you couldn't have selected a more suita-
BILE man, and think he will make as good a Gov
ernor as the State has ever had. lam heartily
glad of his nomination, and am pretty certain
that the Republicans will make no opposition
to his election. If he isn't acceptable to all
classes, white and black, l don't know the
man that can fill the bill.'
The reporter, having been detailed to feel
the Republican pulse in the city generally,
next wended his way to the United States
Court House
Colonel J. E. Hagood, Clerk of the Circuit
Court, who had just returned from a trip to
Pickens, expressed his approval of the nomlna-
tion then and endorsed it heartily. Hetlought
one nomination would be acceptable to every
one in the State.
Colonel r. NJ. Wallace, United States Su-
pervisor, thought the nomination an accepta-
BILE one to the people at large, and did not
think it would meet with any opposition from
Republicans in the State.
Most of the other Republican officials were
out of the city. An attempt was made to
get the views of some of the prominent color
ed Republican leaders, but these were difficult
to find, the fact being that most of the respec-
table colored men in the city are Democrats
and naturally heartily endorse the nomination.
All the old party hacks who in the days of
Bowen and Mackey were prominent in politics
have retired into snug places in the postoftice
or custom house or into the shades of private
life.
Coming out of the postoffice the reporter
met Paris Simpkins of Edgefeld al intelli-
gent colored man, formerly Chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee Of the House and
and now clerk in the post office. Simpklns,
in reply to the question, said that the nOmina-
tion was capital one. He said ''the State
ticket, as put out by the Democratic Conven-
ton, is good one, and l can't see how the
colored people can refuse to support 1T. Col-
onel Thomson has proved his friendship for
the race by the steady and unremitting interest
he has taken in their education, and he should
have, if he has not, their fullest confidence
and support
"WHAT A PIECE OF WORK Is MAN. ."-Al-
ready in the first man who trod the soil OF our
planet, the great mechanical and chemical dis
coveries of uncounted coming ages were all
ticipated. His tissues were woven in loom
no Eastern fingers, no Western machinery,
could rival. Where strength was needed, a
power of resistance, like that of iron, was
given to strands of fbres finer than the SPIDERS
thread, seen only as it glstens in the sunbeam.
Where elasticity was wanted substance like
caoutchouc exuded and solidified. The pillars
which support his frame would crumbe under
it were they not many times stronger in sub
stance than the columns which support his
temples. The leverage of his limbs is adjust
ed to his needs with an audacity which no en-
gineer would venture. The hydraulics of the
circulation are but clumsily initiated in our
acqueductS and their distribution. And what
are all the flood gates of human contrivance
compared to those delicate translucent valves
which we were 50 recently studying, Which
stand guard at the mouth of the great artery,
and arrest the solemn column Of blood coming
back upon them like a hammer, day and night,
seventy-times a minute, for seventy years, and
so many more as life may spare us Man is
more than machine, but as a machine he is
an ever present miracle. His heart is time
keeper which counts the seconds for century
with one winding up. The heating apparatus
of our dwellings, in the surfaces of its radia-
tors and the pots of it's surfaces, only repeats
the valvule cOnniventeS and the Will OF our
own mucous membranes. No telephone COLI
veys message so faithfully as the membrane
of the tympanum transmits it to the listeners
in the receSses of the labyrinth. No steam en-
gine can work with so little fuel as the human
organism no dye-house can reproduce the
glow of youthful cheek; 10 laboratory can
manufacture grain of albumen no musical
instrument reaches the human heart like a
womans voice; no lens can adapt itself to
light like the human eye. And so we come
back to the microscope, the perfection of which
was developed by initiating, us it best might,
those acromatic arrangements, the darkenng
pigment, the diaphragm, the adjustments for
distance, which were all complete in the first
man who opened his eyelids on creation.
POLYG ANGUS PROSELYTERS.-The Laramie
Boomerang gives the following historical
sketch
Yesterday six Mormon missionaries from
Zion passed through here Oh their way to Ten
nessee to convert some dirt eaters and poor
white trash to the beautiful doctrines of po-
lygamy and the glorious custom of tithing.
Number one was a young man with mouth
like railroad washout, and sharp nose that
extended out into space with a good deal of
vigor. 1t is rare that we find a man with
nose like can opener who has ability, but
this man you could see at once was an intel
lectual Hercules, for the base of his brain
hung out over his coat-collar behind like Il
water blister.
Number two was an old man with fringe
of dirty gray whiSkerS that encircled the lower
part of his face and took the place of clean
collar. He had a broad, sleek brow and sore
eyes.
Number three carried a shiny olcloth grip,
which contained the baggage Of the six and
lunch enough to last them to Omaha. He
seemed afraid all the time that the train
would 60 away and leave him, and when an
engine bell rang he jumped pretty near out OF
his clothes.
Number four was weak-eyed man with
wide waste of freckles and holy oil, but a head
that looked as though it had been picked too
soon. He wore small boys hat, and it was
too large for him.
Number five was a blonde, who looked sick
and discouraged He had either been disap-
pointed in love sometime, or his corns hurth him,
for he seemed very miserable and unhappy.
Number six was a little dried up man, who
was travelling without brains, baggage or
grub He went into the lunch room with an
emaciated quarter of dollar, and ate about
81 worth in the name of Zion, and slid out
just in time to dodge bung-starter.
All these men had the same intellectual re-
tinement of manner that is so noticeable in
the Zulu, and the basement of the brain, which
is supposed by phrenologists to indicate an alb
normal longing to be betrayed and ruined on
the train without their knowledge or consent,
was quite prevalent and noticeable.
A MILLION OF YEARs.-Croll, in his ''Cli-
mate and Time;;" says: 'Here is one way of
conveying to the mind some idea of what a
million years is. Take q strip of paper an inch
broad or more and eighty three feet four inches
in length, and stretch it along the wall of Il
large hall, or round the walls Of an apartment
somewhat over twenty feet square. Recall to
memory the days of your Doyhood, SO as to get
some adequate conception of what a period of
a hundred years is. Then mark off from one