Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-17

years, recur with pride to these days.
'Then none were for party;
Then all were for the State,
Then the great helped the poor,
And the poor man loved the great
do not remember any preserved record
of these great gala-days in South Carolina,
and have therefore, been moved to tell to
the young, as we'll as the gap of years allows,
the pomp of the reception at their State
capital, of the Marquis de Lafayette, proud
ly participated in by the gay company from
York.
fro BE CONTINUED.
The TRADE DOLLAR AND ITS HISTORY.
OF the trade dollars authorized by the act of
February 12, 1873 and made legal tender
to the same extent as other silver coins,
there were coined up to July, 1876, $685.
OO0 of which sl2, 1868, los had been exported
for trade" purposes in China and Japan,
leaving $3,36l, 1892 in circulation in the
United States. When first coined the 420
grains of silver in the trade dollar were
worth 1925 cents in gold and 1856 cents in
currency, the gold value of dollar note at
that time being but S6.5 cents. BY 1876,
when Congress took away from this coin the
legal tender quality-Which it was said the
trainers of the act Of 1878 never intended to
give lI-lllc value vi SliSCl lldu SO
declined that the trade dollar was worth but
S4.S cents. The quantity Of silver in the
standard silver dollar being but 4124 grains,
its value was proportionately less. After
the trade dollar ceased to be a legal tender
$20,540,910 more were coined. When, in
1878, its coinage was stopped, the total
amount issued was $35, ,959, 800. Of this
amount it is estimated that from 100000
to $8,000,000 remain in the United States.
Up to July ], 1883, the trade dollar would
bring in New York 80 cents, but concerted
movement being then made against them,
their value fell to Sc cents, and they passed
out of circulation. Their popularity had
not been enhanced by the fact that they had
been bought at a discount by manufacturers
and mine owners in Pennsylvania and else
where to pay out at their face value to their
employees, SO that the agreement Of the
New York produce dealers to decline after
certain date to take the trade dollar was
welcomed all over the country as signal to
put an end to an odious practice. The bill
which has just passed the House authoriz-
ing the exchange by the treasury of standard
dollars for all trade dollars, dollar for dollar,
will have, of course, if it becomesa law, the
effect of raising the value of the trade dollar
to par. AS bullion it was worth during the
past year from sc to S73 cents. The final
passage of the bill is considered doubtful.
WHAT CHINAMEN HAVE DoNE.-China
is nearly as large as Europe, and contains
much larger population, every third man
in the world being, it is calculated, China
man. Their progress in the past has been
most marked; thus the Chinese appear to
have been among the earliest, if not the
very earliest, of the human race to emerge
from barbarism. They have literature
older than the days Of Moses, and astronom
ical observations that 60 back at least to the
days of Abraham. Comparing their early
progress with that Of European nations,
they were clothed in silk robes when our
savage ancestors still painted their naked
bodies. They invented printing, and had
printed books about the middle Of the tenth
century, five hundred years before the time
of CaxtOn. Gunpowder and the mariners
compass were Chinese inventions long
before they were known to Europeans.
Lieut.. II. n. Shore pointed out, in recent
paper read before the society of Arts, that
in the matter Of canals, the utilization of
carrier pigeons, the artificial culture of
oysters, fish and poultry, and the satisfacto-
ry solution Of the great sewage question,
the Chinese have been before us in time in
some of these at least, and are still ahead Of
us in results.
INTERIOR AFRICA.-A mighty revolution
seems to be impending in the center Of the
Dark Continent. The valley Of the Congo
is inhabited by colored race, who are not
negroes. They are tall, with thin noses and
lips, andare industrious and Warlike. Hen
ry NJ. Stanley says there are $4,000, 900 of
them whom he is trying to civilize. The
difficulty with the valley of the Congo is its
rny ntn from
a fertile and populous region, is $50 miles
from the Atlantic ocean. Were railroad
built this distance between it and the coast,
it would render available the wonderful re-
sources Of Central Africa, and bring country
almost as populous as the United States into
the relations with the rest of the world.
There is no reasonable doubt but that by the
of the next century measures will
have been taken to open up Congoland; and
it is some comfort to us to know in America
that Henry M. Stanley, our cOuntryman, has
been the first to bring this ismarvelous region
to the knowledge of the outside world.
WILL READ EITHER WAY.-Our young
friends have heard of palindrones-words
or lines that read and spell the same back
ward as forward. The Following sentences,
printed in the London Truth, simply make
sense read word by word either way:
"Solomon had vast treasures-silver and
gold-things precious. Happy and rich and
wise was he. Faithfully served he God.
"She sits lamenting sadly, often too much
alone.
"Man is noble and generous often, but
sometimes vain and coWardly.
Carefully boiled eggs are good and pala-
table,"
Bega "Hello! Where are you going? Don't
60 up there its dangerous"
"What's the matter?"
"They are going to explode blast up
there in few minutes"
"Well, there amt any danger, guess"
eyes, there is"
"Oh, no; guess not. see policeman |
up there, and if there was any danger, he
wouldn't be there. ."--.SOmnaeryiUe Journal
ba" A boy found woman's switch on the
opera house steps and returned it to her.
"Thank you, my little man." said the
lady; "you are an honest boy"
"Oh, no, Pm not SO very honest; but l |
know what am"
"What are you then ?'
"a hair restorer."-OH city Blizzard.
Basn Texas comprises 2sS organized coun-
ties, and territory enough to form 100 more
without violating the Constitution, which |
fiXes the minimum at thirty square miles.
There is one county 400 miles in length.