Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-25

The United States Mint at Philadelphia
is the most important mint in the country,
besides, being the oldest. There are branch
mints at New Orleans and Carson City, but
all of the most important work is done in
Philadelphia. The dies from which the
coins are struck are made there and then
duplicates are sent to the other mints. The
position of Superintendent OF the mint
therefore is one of vast importance and re-
sponsibility. Daniel M. Fox, who was ap"
pointed on June 9th, 1885, by President
Cleveland, to the position, is Philadel-
phian and was born June 18th, 1919. The
family comes of old revolutionary stock and
his maternal grandfather served under
Washington, and at Yorktown witnessed
the surrender of CORVALLIS. After liber-
al education young Fox entered the office OF
Jacob F. Haeckley to study conveyancing,
and after remaining there for five years
started in business for himself. lie soon
became the head of one the of most substan-
tial conveyancing firms in Philadelphia.
The purchase of all the property on the
south side of Filbert street from the Schuyl-
kill to Broad street was entrusted to his
firm by the Pennsylvania Railroad. This
vast undertaking was most successfully ac-
complished notwithstanding the difficulties
the various property owners put in the way.
In 1869 Mr.. Fox became Mayor of the city
after having been defeated in 1861 and 1865,
for the same office. Previous to this he had
served two terms in councils and had been
a director of Girard College. During his
term as Mayor the old Volunteer Fire De-
partment was done away with to be sue
ceeded by the paid system. The turbu-
lent element in the old Volunteer system
resisted the change, which almost led to
riot, but the cool courage of the mayor pre-
vented this. In politics Mr.. Fox has al
ways been consistent Democrat.
THE SABBATH EvENING.-There is no
season of the day or year which gives me
such pure and exquisite pleasure as that of
summers Sabbath evening, when the
heart has been soothed and the spirit elevat-
ed by recent acts of devotion; and when
every mountain and valley, forest and riv-
er, holy tranquility reposes, as if inani-
mate nature were conscious OF the sanctlty
of the day of rest. TO an observer of feel
ing and Imagination, the contemplation OF
nature is a source of continual enjoyment;
the budding spring inspires him with hope;
the full blown summer fills him with joy;
the decaying autumn speaks to him OF his
own decay, Iike the soothing voice of a pa
rent that Invites him to repose after the la
bors of the day; and the desolating winter
gives imitation of his death, when like the
faded flowers, his body shall be whitening
in the dust, and his spirit, like the birds of
passage that follow the genial seasons in
their journey round the globe, shall have
winged his way to better and happier
region. But summers Sabbath evening
is the season of the most exalted enjoy
ment; it is then that there seems to be an
inanimate communion between earth and
heaven, and we feel as if partakers of the
pleasures of both worlds; it is then that
these confines seem to meet, and we 1eel as
eternity.-JoknK Kaor.
n9- Do you ever stop to think what tire
less letter good newspaper is? Week af-
ter week, year after year, it goes on, telling
of marriages, births, deaths, the coming and
going of the people, the business successes
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