Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-21
Straps and fafts.

with the account on the treasury book.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, has grown since
the war from aclump of white washed ware
houses and shanties to city of 25 900 inhab-
itants from a tax roll of 81 300 900 to one of
s., 200, 900, and has developed her industries
from capital of 100000 to a capital of So
100000.
The Spanish authorities endesvor to con-
ceal the truth about the cholera scourge.
rible malady has not been checked. The
boards of health in American cities have
received an early warning of the danger of
an invasion of this country by the Asiatic
monster.
President Cleveland was visited several
days ago by an Ohio Congressman who
wore straw hat. To the Presidents remark
that he had invested early, he replied: II
didn't want to be considered too slow in MAX
ing the necessary change" The President
is said to have acknowledged the point by
a faint smile.
The business failures throughout the
country during the week ending last Friday,
as reported to Dun & Co., number for the
a total of 229 against 24s the previous week.
The failures are pretty evenly divided be-
tween the different sections of the country.
The seventeen year and the thirteen
year locusts are booked to appear this sea-
son according to the government enthono-
logist. They will soon be here, to remain
until July. This is said to be the first time
in POI years the two broods appear in con-
junction. Farmers must look out for this
double pest.
The Washington, d. c., Graphic thinks
that if one-fourth of the Offices throughout
the country are filled by Democrats during
ll IS T., oIor 11c o1r oIcfY
ton, it will indeed be rapid work. On the
basis of 114,OOO Offices, in round numbers, it
means g, 500 appointments of all sorts, which
are 2,375 month, 54S a week, 81 day OF
eight hours, eleven an hour, or one every
five minutes excluding Sundays.
The New Orleans Picayaoae has COM
menced printing on paper made from ba-
gasse-the refuse sugar cane after the juice
has been pressed out. 1t is thought that it
will be an excellent substitute for old rags
Should the experiment prove successful the
price of white paper will be materially re-
duced, and the large sugar growers will lind
away as useless.
There have been many greater masters
of war than Grant among his contempora-
ries, says the London Telegraph, and the
tremendous American struggle itself de-
veloped more than one leader who was
technically his superior. He had close ri
walls on his own side, and on the other there
arose directly above him the chivalrous fig
ure of Robert E. Lee.
A farmer in Maryland was missing and
his friends became alarmed. Search was
instituted. He was found stretched out on
top of hay pile in a barn, where he had
taken solid nap of ninety hours duration.
They had to shake him pretty hard to wake
b;v,, uo cold 70 fhonuhf ho had haan
asleep an hour or so. He does not drink,
says he will never more 90 to sleep outside
of his own house and insists upon his wife
seeing that he is walked up every morning.
Sea going men say there never was the
like of the icebergs so far from the North
ern seas now floating in the Atlantic. The
steamer Critic, arrived in New York from
England, Wednesday, ran for sixty hours
along field Of packed ice trying to find an
opening. The ice extended as far as the
eye could reach in northwest and south
west direction, and was composed of ice
bergs of enormous size. Old sailors say there
is no record or tradition of such quantities
of ice so far from the polar regions.
Senator Sherman will soon visit the
South. Fearful, perhaps, that his bloody
shirt record would prejudice him in the
minds of Southern people, he has written a
letter to prominent Tennessesan, in which
he "hopes to remove prejudice and relieve
the apprehensions of a large number of
Southern people that Republicans like my
self do not have the same hearty desire to
promote their interests and prosperity as
fully as we do the interests and prosperity of
our own State and section"
- Secretary Manning has directed that the
issue of one and two dollar notes be dis
continued for the present. 1t is said by
some that this action has been taken for the
purpose of forcing the subsidiary coins
into circulation, but this is denied at the
treasury department. 1t is stated that the
discontinuance became necessary by reason
of the excessive issue of these notes of late,
and because they are coming back to the
treasury for redemption in about as good
condition as when first issued, which adds
a very considerable item to the expense ac-
count of the department.. The order of the
Secretary is simply in the line of economy.
"A Washington letter to the New York
Sun says: democratic senators and repre-
sentatives cannot be accused of neglecting
their household. The telegraph makes
daily reports of the success achieved by
them in providing places for sons, brothers,
nephews and other kindred. Senator Black
burns brother was appointed collector of
internal revenue in the Ashland district On
Wednesday. A son of Senator Vest was
put in the consular service. So was son
of Senator Pugh. Senator Butler, who
urged the appointment of Morgan as consul
to Melbourne, has son in the consulate at
Liverpool, and brother librarian to the
house of representatives"
- On the subject of color-blindneSs a cor
respondent writes to the Pal Mall Gazette:
GA very large proportion of so-called color
blindness is, am convinced, due to ignO-
rance, and, in confirmation of this opin-
ion, there is the undoubted fact that it is
rarely found in examination of female cam
didates. If color-b blindness is an organic
defect of the visual apparatus surely it ought
to exist in somewhere about the same ratio
in the male and female. don't for a mo-
ment deny the existence of genuine color
blindess, but do contend that the genuine
defect is a rare one. My suggestion is that
instruction in colors and their names ought
to form distinct item in the curriculum of
all elementary shools."
The second trial of the case of Lewis
Rosenweig against the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway for Sl00,000 for
damages to his person by being elected
from limited express train, near Cleveland,
a year ago, began at Erie, Pa, on Monday
Oflast week. Col. Rodgers, the Lake Shores
encouragement, startled the court with
motion to compel Rosenweig to be put un-
der the influence of an9esthetics for the
sake of making experimental tests of the
alleged paralysis of the plaintiffs lower
limbs. Rosenweig offered to submit, but
his family physician demurred, and testi-
fed that he would not be responsible for
his patients life if he were chloroformed.
The court ruled that the motion was pre-
posterous, and ordered that the case 90 on.