Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-03

weighed heavily upon her. She was too
young to accept patiently "the needful dis
cipline of life" coming in such unWelcome
shapes as these. And Marion, sympathiz-
ing with her, often put aside her own sad
thoughts and tried to be companionable to
her. Indeed Jessie had no other companion,
for Kate was dreamy and romantic, and,
moreover, in love-for there had long been
a tacit understanding between her and one
of the young gentlemen in the neighbor-
hood-and preferred her own musings to
the society Of a thoughtless and simple
minded chatterbox like her sister.
TO BE CONTINUED.
LIFE IN THE WEsT.-The Pittsboro, n.
c., Record editorially notices the return of a
young citizen of that town who recently
emigrated from good home to try his fort
une in the wild West. His experience is
but that of thousands Of others:
For the information of our readers, who
may desire to "go West," we will give
some of the experience of our toWnsman,
Mr.. Spence Taylor, who went to Oregon
shortly before Christmas and returned last
chief city of Oregon, he found it impossible
to obtain any employment whatever, there
being hundreds of capable men unable to
obtain any work, and business of all kinds
being very dull. By chance he met at
Portland the proprietor of large store at
Prineville and obtained clerkship with
him, and together they set out for that
town, which is situated in the interior of the
State and is reached by stage coach from
the nearest railroad station 120 miles dis
tant. Prineville is town Of about 400 in
habitants, and, as Mr.. Taylor soon found
out, is one of the most lawless places on
the Pacific coast. Quite a number of the
leading citizens had each ''killed his man."
some Of them several, and everybody con-
stantly carries one or two revolverS ready
to shoot on the slightest provocatiOn. On
the first morning of our friends arrival his
employer asked him where was his pistol,
and upon his answering, "in my trunk"
he told him to get it at once, carry it on his
person and be careful not to let any body get
'sthe drop" on him. Although Prineville
was the county seat, they had no jail, for they
had no use for one: whenever a man was
arrested he was generally lynched, a pris-
oner in the sheriff's custody having been
shot by mob few days before MIR. Tay-
lor's arrival. No sort of respect was shown
for Sunday, all kinds Of business being
transacted on that day just the same as on
any other. There was only one church in
the town and that was seldom opened.
luGTG "eEG SCNSldl llIuOl ollopo StiSh ttii
were we'll patronized, although it was 25
cents a drink. Gambling was the favorite
amusement and hundreds of dollars daily
changed hands over the card table.
The chief occupation in the surrounding
country was stock raising, thousands Of cat
tie being driven to market every year.
Wheat was the chief crop, no corn at all
being produced, so that meal was scarce and
sold as high as 10 cents a pound. There
was little or no paper money in circulation,
gold and silver being the currency of the
country. There were no coins less than
dime, and nothing was sold for less
than that amount. 1t is a very cold eli
mate, and one day while our friend was
there the thermometer showed tempera-
ture of 80 degrees below zero! One day
while Mr.. Taylor was busy at work a man
told him that his (Mr. Taylor') nose was
freezing, and sure enough it was, but by
rubbing it with snow, it thaWed all right d!
experience at such place, our friend con-
Guided that North Carolina was the best
place for him?
DEBT AND PIsToIs.-The discussion Civ
ing pension to Thomas Jefferson's grand
child has evoked some curious facts concern
ing the poverty of the earlier Presidents.
Madison and Monroe were in desperate ex-
tremities. They had talents of the highest
order, but the money making gift wasdenled
them. Mr.. Monroe tried to make a com
Portable support in New York, but failed.
1t is related that his life was embittered by
debts that he could not pay. He was espe-
cially harrassed by one impOrtunate credi-
tor. At last, when this man made his GUS
tomary dunning visitation, the old-eX-Pres-
ident pulled from drawer pair OF dueling
pistols and said: "Sir, owe you money, to
my sorrow, and cannot pay it. You have
bounded me almost to madness. Now, l
can endure no more. Take one of these pis-
tolls and will keep the other and so, let
us fight it out. If you decline this PROPOSE
tion and continue to persecute me uselessly,
l will shoot you like dog" The man de-
camped, and yet he simply demanded his
pound Of flesh. If it be true, as political
economists say, that ninety-tive per cent of
mankind are financial failures, what ter
restrial hell this earth becomes to those who
owe money and cannotpayit. The "glorious
only by the few. The majority are in debt
or in the graveyard Upon the tombstone
placed above the remains of Adall lsaacs
Menken are these words: 'ThOu KnoWest." D."
Some irreverent satirist says that the truest
inscription on the tOmbStOnes of the millions
of the departed would be as to each individ-
ual "Thou OWest." Luckily, perhaps, for
many unfortunates their monuments, if
they have any, are not inscribed so much
by the hand of Truth as the hand of Chari-
ty.-Cor. augusta Chronicle.
MORMON CONVERTs.-NIoSt of the recent
converts made by Mormon missionaries have
been settled in Colorado. One oftheir settle
ments, Manassa, in Conejos county has been
visited by a correspondent of the Cincin-
natl E51quiyer who furnishes his paper with
a statement Of the condition Of affairs there,
and q number of interviews with individual
converts to Mormonism. Theseimmigrants
are mostly from Georgia and Kentucky.
They were attracted by the preaching Of the
missionaries, who said nothing about poly
gamy or blood atonement, and forgot to
mention the "doctrines and covenants" and
various other peculiar features of Mormon
ism. "They kept pretty close to the old
Bible" They represented that Utah was a
land of promise; where all would be better
off in a worldly way, and where all was
goodwill and brotherly love. When they
reached their settlement, they found the
soil was capable of one good crop in six
years that polygamy was practiced that
they were obliged to buy their supplies of
the Mormon dealers, who charged them two
or three prices that the "old Bible" van
ished into the background and the doctrines
and covenants of the Mormon church came
prominently forward ), and that they were
expected and required to vote according to
was an exercise Of this last prerOgatiVe of
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