Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-20
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-Four sisters named Carr were married
at Joliet recently, and the clergyman who
performed the ceremonies is now called a
patent Carr coupler.
Conversation was held by telephone be-
tween st. Petersburg and Bologne, a dis
tance of 2,465 miles, recently. The expert
ment was conducted at night.
Western farmers are trembling in the
fear that the army worm is about to attack
the winter wheat at period too late to
permit of replanting.
"A Key West paper says there are $4,000
cocoanut trees planted on the Florida Keys
being from three to ten feet high.
"A damper to hasty office-seekers is given
by Grover Cleveland's peremptory order to
his clerks to destroy, without showing them
to him, all letters making application for
Office.
"A Delaware horse thief's sentence the
other day was to pay the cost of prosecution,
$12O restitution money, 5000 fine, stand one
hour in the pillory, receive twenty lashes
and then be confined for eighteen months.
The Washington Post prophesies that no
measure of national Importance will pass
Congress at it's next session, and that be-
yond the annual appropriations, no other
business will be done.
In Hamilton, Ont, poor woman, whose
son had gone astray through drink, knelt
down the curse of God upon the traffic.
For this she was fined 50 and costs, or ten
days in Jail.
On Sunday last, fire destroyed thirty
leading business houses in Goldsboro, n. c.,
the total loss exceeding $500, 1000. The fire
was started by several boys smoking ciga-
rettes near lot of cotton. The total insur
ance may reach $150,00O.
The Washington Monument on We'd
nesday, had reached the height of $40 feet
and ten inches, an altitude greater by five
feet and ten inches than that of the Cologne
Cathedral, which, until now, has been the
the loftiest structure in the world.
- General Joe Johnston, who is seventy
seven years old, does not look over sixty.
He is straight as an arrow, and the only
sign of age is seen in his silky gray hair,
which flows in silvery curls almost to his
shoulders, and in his full gray beard.
What will be done with all the idle
money? The New York banks hold nearly
thirty-five millions more than legal reserve,
England, and twenty millions additional
are expected during the next ten weeks.
Hon. David B. Hill is the Lieutenant
Governor of New York State, and will sue
ceed Governor Cleveland for the unexpired
term, which is one year. Mr.. Hill belongs
in Elmira, but was born in Havana, VT,
August %, 1874. He was mayor of Elmira.
1t may be an item of importance to some
persons that of the Ill 900 Federal officials,
only $1,000 come under the civil service
rules, and of the whole list over $4,000 are
postmasters. President Cleveland will have
$4,000 Offices to fill without interfering or
infringing upon civil service rules at all.
= The farmers in this country are prosper
ing. They are not only feeding the world,
but putting money in their purses. In 1860
the number of farms was 2,044 OF. In 1880
it was 4,OOS.9O7. In 1850 our farms were
worth three thousand millions of dollars.
In 1880 they were worth over ten thousand
millions of dollars.
- The effect of cocaine, the new anesthet-
ic, upon the eye is to produce insensibility
to pain. A drop is put on the eye-ball, and
within a short time the surgeon is able to
perform, without hurting the patient, what
would otherwise be the most agonizing ope-
ration. The drug has been "cornered," and
the small quantity in the country is held
at $4,000 per pound.
The business failures throughout the
country occurring during the week ending
last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.,
of the Mercantile Agency, number for the
United States 211, and for Canada 25, total
1885, This is an increase of twenty as COM
pared with the preceding week. The pre-
vious weeks total was PIG. More than half
the failures last week occurred in the West
ern and Southern States.
AT the Democratic mass meeting in Sa-
vannah, Ga, last Friday night, among the
resolutions adopted was the following:
That we will welcome the day when there
shall be no ''Solid South" and no "Solid
North," but "a Solid Union," as it was
eighty years ago, and when all American
ed, shall stand equal before the law, and be
covered and protected by our country's flag.
- The removal of the 2-cent tax from pat
ent medicine is productive of no good to the
people of the United States. The only per-
sons who are benefited by the reduction are
the patent medicine men, and they are en-
joying the benefit with a vengeance. One
prominent medicine alone makes S170, 600 a
year out of the decrease in the tax, another
derives 100000 additional from the same
source. In the meantime there is no reduc-
tion in the price of the medicines, and the
poor deluded people have to pay as much
as ever for them.
Ex-Governor St. John, the Presidential
candidate on the Prohibition ticket, was in
terviewed at his home in Olothe, Kansas,
by newspaper reporter the other day.
The Ex-Governor declared most emphati-
cally that he held no relations whatever
with any political party in the campaign
other than the Prohibition party; that he had
made the fight strictly upon the principle
which he represented, and stated his inten-
tion of taking the field again after few
weeks rest and continue active efforts in
behalf of national constitutional prohibi-
tion which he felt assured would be ulti-
mately established.
The only vote probably cast for Mrs. Bel
va Lockwood in Indiana was cast at the
sixth ward polls in Vincennes, Tuesday, by
Mrs. DR.. Mason. Mrs. Mason is an old and
respected citizen at Vincennes, and, deter
mined to vote for Mrs. Lockwood, she
walked up to the sixth ward polls Tuesday.
The crowd standing around made way for
her. When one of the challengers asked
what she wanted, she replied: 81 want to
VOTE" Republicans and Democrats smiled
knowingly. The Inspector looked inquisi-
tive, and Mrs. Mason politely handed him
her ballot, on which was written, "For Pres
ident, Mrs Belva Lockwood" The Inspec-
tor courteously took the ballot and Mrs.
Mason withdrew much gratified. The vote
was counted.
Mrs. James K. Polk, who is now eighty
one years of age, recently speaking of the
time when she was lady of the White
House, said that she enjoyed that period of
her life, and looked back upon it after for
ty years with pleasure. She is fond of re-
calling incidents of Mr.. Polk's administra-
ton, and is proud of his career. She says
she regards the annexation of Texas and
the results following the Mexican war, that
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