Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-07-26

States Is, Middle States %, Southern States
80, Pacific States and Territories 25, Canada
and Provinces %, New York City 10.
The Lincoln On. c. Press says that fo1
several days last week the commissioners OF
CASTOR county were engaged in settle
ment with ex-SheriffG. W. Mckee. Their
committee reported him due the county
something over $4,000. On the settle
ment last week, Mr.. Mckee produced re-
ceipt for S1,7OO0O which the treasurer, Mr..
]. A Davenport, swears is forgery.
= The New York Tribune says that while
Blaine is undoubtedly the most popular man
in the Republican party, and stronger now
than he has ever been, it is well known
that he has peremptorily refused to be con-
sidered candidate, or to let his friends
work for him. He has been out of politics
for two years, has found congenial employ
ment, and has no desire to engage in polltl-
cal strife again.
In the savings bank which was founded
in the Eastern Penitentiary of PennsylVa-
mia, one year ago, with view Of encoura-
ging industry among the inmates by giving
them per centage of their earnings and de-
posting it in the bank, there is about s., ,0OO
to their credit already. Since the bank has
been started the convicts have earned by
overwork about $25, 900, and have sent, over
1000 to their families.
"A committee waited on Jay Gould last
Friday on behalf of the New Orleans Expo
sition to request his subscription to that en-
terprise. He referred them to Capt. Hays,
general manager of his roads at St.Louis,
Who will subscribe what he thinks proper.
C.P. Huntingdon has subscribed S25, 900, and
President Baldwin of the Louisville and
Nashville Company has recommended a lib
eral subscription. The committee reports
S15O,OOO subscribed, and this with what has
been raised in New Orleans, it is said will
ensure the success of the exposition.
- The buildings for the Louisville exposi.
ton are now complete, the space is being oc'
cupied by exhibits, and on August 1st the
exhibition will be ready for Inauguration
The applications for space already filed In
sure an exposition so complete as to satisfy
the most exacting, and every day is adding
so largely to the list that the question OF
space is serious problem. The round trip
rates from Charlotte to the Louisville eX'
position will be one fare. Over the Lynch
burg route the rate is S23.35. Through At
lanta $27. The rates over the Warm Springs
route is not yet announced.
The other day in Washington, a "crank''
appeared in the Interior Department. who
said he had come from California and had
an invention for producing rain. He was
unwilling to 60 into particulars, but said
that he reached an upper cold current by
. means of balloons, and brought 1T down tC
a warm strata of air. He thought in this
way the desert of Sahara could be made in.
habitable, and the discontented Irish could
be removed there. In some way his pat
ent was designed to avert the catastrophe
to the earth, which the Californian said
was predicted in Peter 2, chapter 3.
Bishop Knudson, Mormon of Utah
has Just been arrested, charged with placing
dynamite under bed and blowing up his
two wives. The particulars of this eNtraor,
,dinary occurrence have not been received,
but is is very evident that the Bishop mar
ried the wrong two. The "eXtreme meas
ure'' of marital discipline only shows to
what man may be forced by two wives
Dynamite as peace-maker may not be an
advisable engine, but it is probably an etfec,
tive one, and is altogether preferable as a
MASCULINE measure to the feminine vitriol
We expect to hear presently that the un-
married or only moderately married men
of Utah have lynched the Bishop.
Third Assistant Postmaster General Haz-
en- has issued a circular to postmasters
throughout the United States in which he
says that the reduction Of postage to two
cents on first class domestic mail matter will
90 into effect October l. He instructS post
masters to limit their acquisitions for three
cent stamps and stamped envelopes to the
actual needs of their offices, SO as not to
have stock of unused stamps on hand. He
calls attention to the fact that the head OF
Washington has been adopteffor the new
two-cent stamp, and the head of Jackson
similar to that on the present tWo-cent stamp
has been adopted for the new wfour-centstamp
The new tWo-cent stamp will be issued on
September Is, and stamped envelopes on
September l, but they are not to be sold be-
fore October l. There are no other changes
in the rates of postage.
- Wreaths and votive offerings taken
from the tomb of an Egyptian King, where
they have been drying for $500 years, have
been experimental upon. Under judicious
manipulation in hot water the dry cells
swelled into their original plumpness, and
the leaves, attached to card board and
treated like recent specimens, were sent to
Sir Joseph Hooker at Kew and exhibited
at late soiree of the Royal Society. Not
only were the forms Of the leaves SO far re-
stored that they could be botanically iden-
titled, but the intricate venation of the
flower petals could be plainly traced, the
coloring Of lilies, larkspurs and other How
ers were displayed, and even the distinct
i've odors of some specimens were preserv-
ed. In general these old leaves and grasses
were the same as of similar specimens to-
day.
The following regulations with regard
to baggage will be in force and effect at all
stations of the Associated Railways of Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas on and after the
first of August next: No piece of baggage
weighing more than two hundred and fifty
Wounds will ha oooonfaf1 for trapcnorfa tiOr
as baggage, nor will it be checked or trans
ported in the baggage cars. If passengers
desire to carry on the passenger train more
than two hundred and fifty pounds of bag
gage, they will have to divide it into sepa-
rate packages of less weight each than two
hundred and fifty pounds. They will be
allowed one hundred and fifty pounds free,
and will be charged excess baggage rates
on all over that amount. House-like 'Sar.
atogas" and capacious sample cases will not
be objected to, as they will be rated and
charged for the same as freight of like char,
acter.
The following from the Savannah Neacs
explains one cause of the demand for can
celed postage stamps: ''Several weeks age
an advertisement appeared in our columns
over the signature of one OF our enterprls'
ing business firms, offering to pay at the
rate of Is cents per hundred for two thous-
and cancelled Scent postage stamps. In
the interview with one of the partners it was
learned that the stamps thus purchased
will be used for educating young China
man now under the protection of lady in
Washington, D. C. Through friends here
this order was placed in the hands OF the
firm. The stamps are converted into cash
in China, where a certain coloring is greatly
in demand. This coloring the Chinese can