Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 15, 1886, Image 4

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================== pttmawus frtrartment. ? : HE WAS 'SCUSED. Down in the woods of the Chickamauga battlefield rabbits skury from one brush- heap to another, and squirrels chatter as they look down from their perches at men wandering from point to point in the open- < ings. We were skirting Thodgrass Hill j when We heard a gun go off, followed by a < series of yells and whoops. Pushing into , ine w0<xi8 a tew roas we came upon an oia i darkey seated on a log with one pant-leg < rolled up. There were four or five tiny < streams of blood running down, and it was < plain enough that some scattering shot had < struck him. j As we reached him a colored boy about ] sixteen years old came out of the brush i with a light shot gun in his hands, and the < old man looked np and said: i ^ "Julius, look heah! You has done shot ] your fadder in de leg!" "Why, pap, I dun sposed you was a rab- ] bit. I seed sunthintmoving, in de brush, I blaaed away." 1 "Zactly, Julius?I correspond. You dun i took an ole nigger weighin' 180 pounds for i a little rabbit 'bout a foot long an' jist big 'nufftomakesoupforus! Julius, Ire gwine 1 to show you de difference between a rabbit i an ydur fadder!" He had been cutting a green limb as he talked, and when he finished he took the . boy by {he collar and plyed the "bud" to him until the young man jumped two feet < high and sung out like a Salvation Army band. By and by we gently interfered to prevent further punishment, and the old man held the boy off and asked: .< "Julius, does you see me ?" "Vm foHHor " "Does you know me from a rabbit?" "Yes." "Den you start fur hum an' pick up dat hoe an' make dat cornfield ache, an de nex' time you go huntin' you holler off yer mouf befo' you shoot off yer gun! Gera'len, good mawnin', and please 'scuse dis little disropshun."?Detroit Free Press. Expressing his Feelings.?A man whoee matrimonial life had been anything bat happy in consequence of the quarrelsome habits of his wife, who thus contrived to keep him constantly in hot water with the neighbors, was at last relieved of her company by death. As the widower's means were limited, the funeral was plain, but respectable enough to satisfy any reasonable relative. The brother of the deceased lady, however, was not a reasonable man; and on the return of the mourners to the house he ridiculed the funeral, said that it was mean, undemonstrative, and so quiet that all the neighbors must have considered it niggardly. " Yes, it was rather quiet," responded the widower; "but what did you expect; did you want me to show my submission to the decree of Providence in removing my late lamented spouse by closing the funeral with a display of fire work~ ? I did think of a cheerful display of some sort, but abandoned the idea because I feared the neighbors might talk about it, and say that I was giving too much expression to my feelings." 1 Solid with the Court.?"Speaking of < arouna xown," saia a weu-Kuown atiuruey last evening, "let me tell you a little inci- i dent connected with my beginning the j practice of my profession in Buffalo. It was some years ago?never mind how j many?that I came here, and the day I 1 came toiown I had just $35 in my pocket. ; Meeting a party of jovial youngsters, we \ unloaded considerable glassware, and when , I awoke two days after I was dead broke. < The police justice was a particular friend i of mine, and so I went to his office and ask- \ ed him to lend me $10. < 'Haven't got a cent,' said he, but you ; just sit down there a few minutes. Some l sucker'll be brought in here soon. I'll fine j him $5 and you can have the money.' And he was as good as his word. In less than , half an hour-1 had my'V,'and went my ? way rejoicing."?Buffalo News. i A Remarkable Youth.?"Have you 1 any offspring ?" inquired the severe, longhaired passenger through his nose, of a 5 stranger by his side. "Oh! yes,sir,"was the polite reply, "a ] son." 1 "Ah ! indeed ? Does he use tobacco ?" 1 "Never touches it in any form." "I'm glad to hear that. Tobacco is mon- ' ofwAnoliv oinful Tlnnt? ho infillrrCk in cnirifll. I OUV/UillJ OllllUI* J-TWO 1**7 luuuigu IU ous liquors?" ! "Never tasted a drop in his life." "Excellent. Stay out nights ?" "No, sir. Never thought of going out af- ' ter supper." ' , "I am much pleased to know this, sif. ] Your son is a remarkable young man." ' "Oh! he's not a young man. He's ? two 1 months' old baby." 1 An Extravagant Woman.?Mrs. Col. i Yerger has a dreadful tongue. A few . nights ago she and her daughter retired at ] an early hour, the latter being in an ad- < joining room. Col. Yerger having gone to < the lodge, Mrs. Yerger was in a bad humor, and gave her daughter a fearful tonguelashiDg. Miss Yerger stood it for a while, < but at last she called out: "Mother, for Heaven's sake give yourself a rest. If you keep this up much longer you will not have anything left over for pa when he comes home from the lodge, i Don't be so extravagant, ma." I?* "So you won't take dot coat for seven dollars?" ^ "No, I guess not." "Veil, we shall call it six, though I lose by it." | "No, I guess not." , "Say five und a half?" "No; I'll look around a little." "Vhat peesness vhas you in, my frendt?" "I sell grindstones." "Oh, you do?" "Why?" "Oh, nothing, oxceptdot vhen I like a grindstone I look around a leedle too!" "Yes," said he to his neighbor across the fence, "the laboring men are in the right. It is time for them to rise against the tyranny of capital. Down with all tyrants I say?" "John Henry!" shrieked a shrill voice from the kitchen, "are you going to hang out that clothes line and split that wood, and draw that water, or shall I have to come out to you ?" "Ym Mi'pftndv." he answered meeklv. "I'm goingfight about it. "?-Boston Courier. A Good Democrat.?Two Irishmen: "An say, Mick, is yer brother Jem goin' ter run for the office ?" "Indade he is; and will yez be afther votin' fur him." "Is he a good Dimocrat?" "Good Dimocrat? "Why, mon, av coorse he is. I't but a month since he left Ireland."?Arkansas Travelver. ttt' It was a grim joke on the part of a condemned man, who, on the night before his execution, requested the jailor to close his grated window because he considered night air unhealthy.?Siftings. > )&*- The mule has one more leg than a ! milking stool, and he can stand on one and wave the other three around in as many 11 different directions.?Chicago Sun. '1 !>. HJiscdlflttMus Reading. EARTHQUAKES. t SCIENTIFIC TREATISE ON TIIE SUBJECT. By W. LeConte Stevens. The recent earthquake shock which did bo much damage at the South, especially in the stricken city of Charleston, S. C? is the severest that has been felt on the eastern joast of America during the' present centutury, and scarcely, if at all surpassed in violence by any on the Pacific coast of our jontinent. Its effects seem to have been felt jver nearly the whole area of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains. The intense popular interest just now excited in phenomena of this class makes it important that a brief general discussion of earthquakes be given in connection with the recital of these terrible events that will be - ? ? - i i*-1 _ii remembered tnrougnout ine nieume 01 uu whose homes have been desolated or whose friends have been exposed to peril. An earthquake is a commotion propagated through the earth's crust in all directions from source of disturbance, in waves that outcrop on the surface and are manifested in perceptible motion of the ground. They vary in intensity from gentle tremblings, requiring delicate instruments for their detection, to convulsions of terrific violence, capable of destroying the most substantial products of human labor. During the last thirty years the study of earthquakes has been developed into a branch of science to which the name seismology has been given. The first man who gave the world any reliable scientific discussion of such phenomena was Mr. Robert Mallett, of England, who visited Naples immediately after the earthquake which devastated Southern Italy in 1857. The number of investigators in recent years has been greatly multiplied. Instruments have been devised for measuring the intensity of shocks and for recording the direction and registering the time of transit. In regions where earthquakes are of frequent occurrence such seismometers are distributed at many points and kept in constant readiness. It is from systematic records from these that we derive our most important information to-day. America is fortunately not often shaken and the number of seismometers kept in readiness in our country is too small to assure us of the accurate knowledge regarding the recent shock. Earthquakes occur in all parts of the world, but are most frequent in mountainous regions, and especially those of volcanic activity. The earthquake, which was so destructive to life and property a few days ago in Greece and Italy was immediately followed by commotion in the crater of Vesuvius. It is safe to say that the same cause may give rise to both volcanoes and earthquakes, but neither of these implies the other necessarily. The Himalayas and table lands of Central Asia are subject to violent earthquakes, but almost free from volcanoes. The Alps and Pyranees are often shaken, but Include no volcanoes that are not extinct. The same is true of the American Pacific Coast range 3outh of the Columbia River. Non volcanic basins, such as the valley of the Mississippi and the basin of the Baltic Sea, have been roughly shaken. Earthquakes are more frequent in Russia, which consists mostly of a low plain free from mountains. Mr. Mallett collected a catalogue of be tween 6,000 ana 7,000 eartnquaKes recorueu between the periods B. C. 1606 and A. D. 1850. This is obviously a mere fraction of the number that occurred between those dates. Since 1850 the number of earthquakes recorded has greatly increased, though there is no reason to believe that there is any increase in actual frequency of shocks. By the use of seismometers in [taly, Japan and elsewhere it has been proved that in such regions scarcely a day passes without a noticeable earth tremor. Probably not a moment elapses without an earthquake in some part of the world. The surface is continually in a quiver, but fortunately such gigantic agues as those that throw down cities are comparatively rare. No one cause can be properly announced is fully accounting for al# earthquakes. By Tar the most frequent is the breaking of the earth's crust under the same surface contraction that squeezes out lava from volcanoes and folds the regions of weakness into mountain ranges. The earth continues today to give out into space the heat which was locked in its interior during the early stages of its planetary history. The rate is now slow, but even though almost infinitesimal, it involves contraction. The settling nf the crust upon a diminishing interior necessitates bending of the strata, and the rock is put into a condition of gradually increasing strain, until at some point it suddenly yields with a violent concussion. A fissure is produced, one side of which may slide past the other, producing a "fault" and giving a strong impulse to the adjacent rock. All rock is more or less elastic, and the impulse is propagated in all directions as an earth wave. The violence of an observed earthquake shock may therefore depend upon the following conditions: 1. The degree of strain preceding the concussion. 2. The extent of rock that yields. S. The nature of the rock transmitting1 the impulse. 4. The distance of the observer from the starting point of the earth's wave. Faults have been frequently found where the one wall has slipped past the other, not merely several feet, but several thousands of feet. One or more such are found in the Appalachian mountain chain near the Atlantic coast. It is not unlikely that some relation may be traced between the recent earthquake and the Appalachian line of weakness. Although the production of an underground fissure may be suddeu it is never instantaneous. A slight tremor is first felt; this quickly rises to a maximum and then dies out more slowly, the entire shock lasting from ten seconds to two minutes or more. Usually this is followed by several more shocks. At first they may be separated by a few minutes or a few hours, the first being nearly always the most violent. The intervals become greater with diminishing intensity until quiet is restored. Many persons in New York and Brooklyn felt two or three shocks on the night of August 31st. At Washington the first was timed by Prof. Newcomb as occurring at 9h. 33.20s ; the second about 9h. 54m. 30s., and quiet was not restored until 9h. 54ra. The timing in various parts of the country presents variations that are more apparent than real, because there is not yet uniformity in the adoption of the standard time throughout the United States. It should be remembered also that by standard time when it is 10 o'clock in New York or Washington, it is only 9 o'clock in St. Louis or Chicago. Earthquakes, especially occurring in volcanic regions, are often not limited to two or three shocks in quick succession, but come in periods or groups. During the twenty-four hours following the destruction of Lima, 1746, as many as 200 shocks were counted, and within the next four months 250 more were felt. At San Salvador, in Central America, in the neighborhood of Lake Hopango, more than 500 earthquake shocks were felt within the last ten days of 1879. The water of the lake was thrown into commotion, the ground was broken into a net work of cracks, and in January, 1880, a new volcano arose in the center of the lake. These earthquakes were obviously products of volcanic energy. After the New Zealand earthquake of 1848, the shocks continued for nearly five months, and during much of the time at the rate of at least 1,000 shocks per day. By comparison with this, the afflicted people of Charleston may call themselves blessed, even though the earth shocks did not cease there until twelve hours after the first one had passed. In 1797 an earthquake occurred in the Andes, its focus being almost under the village of Riobaraba. The ground was shattered in many places; the bodies of men were thrown upward fully one hundred feet into the air and found afterward on a hill across a small river. Graves are said to have been rent open and corpses hurled out of them. Despite such violence the extent of swing imposed upon the ground by an earth wave is seldom more than a few inches. By the use of seismometers in Japan the verticomponent has been found rarely to exceed onefiftieth of an inch, and when the horizontal component exceeds a fourth of an inch buildings begin to be shattered. This limit was evidently considerably exceeded at Charleston. In New York chandeliers and doors were made to swing through considerable arcs, but the extent of swing depends more on the violence than the amplitude of the initial impulse. Japan is continually shaken by earthquakes, and from observations on seismometers in that country the following results have been deduced: 1. Different earthquakes across the same country may travel with different velocities, varying from a few hundred feet to two miles or more per second. 2. The same earthquake travels more rapidly near its focus than across regions remote from it. 3. The greater the intensity of the shock, the greater is the velocity of transmission. Earthquakes have been artificially produced by the explosion of gunpowder or dynamite underground. The rate of.transit for shocks produced by gunpowder was found by Mr. Mallett to be 725 feet per second in sand, and 1,665 in granite. Dynamite explosions are more sudden and violent than those of gunpowder. An explosion of 50,000 pounds of dynamite was effected at Hallet's Point in 1876. Through the country the rate of transit of the shock varied from 5,000 to 8,000 feet per second. About 300,000 pounds of dynamite were exploded at Flood Rock in October of last year. The rate through the same country varied from 5,000 to 20,000 feet per second, or say from one to four miles per second being fastest where the ground is hard rock and slowest where it is sandy. The effect of an earthquake shock is usually far more disastrous on beds of sand or clay than on soli? rock. The recent shock has been most violent in regions of alluvial deposit. Charleston and Savannah are built on beds of low, flat, sandy country, hundreds of miles away from the rocky regions of the Alleghanies. Most, if not all of the cities that have been destroyed by earthquakes have been situated on soft ground. In 1755 the most disastrous earthquake on record passed under Lisbon. The lower part of the city, built on clay, was utterly destroyed. All of the buildings in the upper part, resting on a foundation of basaltic rock and hard limestone, escaped entirely. In soft ground a violent earthquake always produces cracks, which often close just after the passage of the wave. In many places they are left as open chasms of great size. In an earthquake that occurred in Tn^tfto In 1CQO Vtnmon Koinrvo urorn IIIC AUUiCO 1U JUt/A iiuiuau wviugu Iiviv swallowed up by fissures that closed over them. Some were caught as if in a trap and gripped thus until death ended their sufferings. Many of the greatest earthquakes hitherto recorded have started from foci under the sea near the coast. In such cases a great wave is produced over the point of disturbance and spreads out, followed,1 of course, by others from the same point. If due to the faulting of sea bottom we may easily understand how the sudden uplift of one wall through hundreds of feet would be a cause capable of producing a wave many times higher than any that have swept the shore under the action of the wind. The destructive effect often exceeds that of the earth wave. Many instances have been recorded of ships being lifted up and stranded far inland. The sea wave that followed the earthquake of Lisbon reached the shore an hour after the lower part of the city had had been destroyed. By the falling of houses 30,000 people had been killed. An equal number perished before the series of great waves had exhausted their great energy, making 60,000 victims in a single city. The height of such waves has been estimated, on good data, as much more than one hundred feet. From the fact that no sea wave has swept up the Savannah river, and the rumors of flooding at Charleston have not been confirmed. it mav be concluded that the focus of the recent earthquake is not under the sea idrthe neighborhood of the worst shaken cities. Sea waves produced by earthquakes near the south American coast, have made the entire passage of the Pacific ocean with energy enough to make a circuit of the globe except for the intervening continents. By comparison of records covering long periods of time, earthquakes have been found to be very slightly more frequent in winter than in summer, and at times when the relative position of the sun and moon is such as to produce the highest tides. But no intimate relation between earthquakes and the minor fluctuations of the weather has been established on any basis of careful observation. At certain points the earth's crust may be in a condition of strain, almost at the critical point of rupture. A prolonged depression of the temperature tends to increase the contraction, and an earthquake may possibly be thus determined. The moon's attraction may likewise increase the strain very slightly. But beyond this the weather prophet of earthquakes is left to nothing better than conjecture. In volcanic regions the escape of soluble gases through minute cracks in the ground may serve as an indication of subterranean disturbance by altering the taste of mineral springs. This has sometimes excited lucky conjectures of approaching earthquakes as the forerunners of a volcanic eruption. Rumbling in the ground is not infrequently a very brief forerunner. But such signs are very unreliable, and no method of predicting an earthquake has yet been discovered. Immediately after a shock there are always claimants for the honor of having guessed its approach , but invariably they are unable to give any definite ground upon which the relation between cause and effect can be traced. Stories about peculiar conditions of the air, or of the human system, or about the terror displayed by animals, as premonitors of earthquakes are exclusively the produtcts of superstition. SOME EARTHQUAKE FACTS. That the United States is not exempt from earthquake shocks is shown by the fact that for ten years?from 1873 to 1883?three hundred and sixty-three notable shocks occurred throughout the country, the larger number, however, being in the north-western States and on the Pacific coast. There have been also several notable earthquakes in this country. Excepting perhaps, that of the 31st ultimo, the earthquake of November 18,1775, was the mosl severe of any occurring in the Eastern and Middle States. It was believed to have been promulgated from the same centre as that of the one that destroyed Lisbon about thirty days before. It began in Massachusetts with a roaring noise like that of thun der, which continued for a minute. Ther followed a shock with a long, rolling swell like that of an immense sea-wave, and mer everywhere in the fields ran to trees and fences to keep from falling. After severa | small shocks there came a quick horizontal tremor, with sudden'jerks and wrenches but it died away after two minutes, butnu merous shocks followed during the nexl month. In Boston, chimneys were throwr down, fish in the harbor killed, and new springs opened. Nine hours afterward ? tidal wave, twenty feet high, that had urn doubtedly originated at the source of the earthquake, reached the harbor of St. Martin's in the West Indies. In 1811 occurred the famous earthquake of New Madrid in Missouri, in the vallej of the Mississippi river. Humboldt re marks that it presents one of the few exam pies of the incessant quaking of the ground for several successive months from any vol cano. Over an extent of country stretching for 300 miles southward from the mouth o the Ohio river the gr^nd rose and sank in great undulatious, and lakes sank anc were again drained. The surface burs* open in fissures that generally tended N. E and S. W., and were sometimes more thar half a mile long; from these fissures rauc and water were often thrown as high a; tops of the . trees. During the continuance of these convulsions the inhabitants dis tinguished two classes of movements, the vertical and the horizontal; the latter were regarded as far more desolating than the former. The disturbances continued ove what has since been called "the sunk coun try" until March, 20, 1812, when they ceas ed coincidentally with the great earthquaki of Carracas, the capital of Venezuela, des troying the greater part of that city an< many thousand human lives. On October 19, 1870, there was a notabli shock in the Eastern and Middle States The source of this disturbance has beei traced with some probability to the volcan ic region 50 to 100 miles N. E. of Quebec from this region the shock spread to St John's, New Brunswick, and thence wa felt westward to Chicago and southward t< New York. The velocity of the wave shocl was about 14,000 feet per second. The oc currence of the shock felt at Quebec was tel egraphed to Montreal by the operators o the Montreal telegraph company in time t< call the attention of those at the latter citj to the phenomena about 30 seconds befori the shock reached them. In California, the earthquake of 185! destroyed one of the southern missions That of March 20,1872, was the most sever that has occurred there during many years special damage was done in San Francisci by the cracking of the walls of the fin< public buildings. In Nevada, the mininj regions, suffered in 1871 by the destructioi of Lone Pine and other settlements. Ii Mexico a disastrous earthquake occurre< June 19,1858. It extended throughout thi valley of Mexico, demolishing th&aqueduc that supplies the city with water; it wa felt in most of the surrounding provinces where it also did great damage, and was ii some places recorded as being the most se vere ever experienced there. The city of Charleston, the principal sea of the recent earthquake, stands upon a fla tongue of land which extends southeastwan between Ashley and Cooper rivers, forminj a peninsula, terminating in a narrow fori at the south and gradually widening to th< north. The rivers where they join form i conspicuous harbor, which extends south east about seven miles, where it joins th< Atlantic ocean. The harbor is completely landlocked except at its entrance, which i about one mile wide, and has a depth o water of eighteen feet. The portion of thi city near the river fronts is made land ; 01 the south particularly large tracts havi been reclaimed from the river flats. Th< natural soil of the city proper is a sand rest ingonan alluvial formation deposited by the rivers. Charleston has had a libera share of earthquakes since the middle of thi eighteenth century. The earliest histori cal record shows that the town was slightly skaken by an earthquake May 19, 1754 This was followed April 4, 1799, by a vio lent shock, accompanied by a rumbling sound and a high wind. A slight shoe! was felt September 10,1811. Two month! later there were violent and repeatec shocks. Six of them were distinctly felt Slight shocks were felt January 24 and Feb ruary 4, 1812. There were shocks accom panied by a loud rumbling and hissinj sound February 7, 1843. The most violen earthquake of that series occurred Decern ber 19,1857, when houses and other build ings were slightly shaken up. These dis turbances did not differ materially frou the shocks felt in Suramervilleand Charles ton on the 31st ultimo, when gate bells wer< rurfg, crockery was broken, and small ar tides knocked about generally. There have been also many tidal wave at Charleston, some of which were very de structive. The Cranberry Ores.?In a recent ad dress, Col. C. A. Nimson, superintendent o the Cranberry iron mines, said: "By shaft ing, boring, tunneling and surface mining we have now developed the Cranberry iroi ore deposits, 500 feet wide, 280 feet high ant 1,500 feet long. From, the experience o mining 40,000 tons of ore, we find that ' cubic feet of ore in a place will make a ton showing that there is now developed in thi deposit over twenty million tons, while thi indications through the valley show tha the ore runs much deeper than the lowes present working. These indications ant /lAmrtnntrf cropping (Junuuue LUIUU^U lug wwpau; r property for over 5,000 feet to where thej are again developed. To mine and trans port this ore now developed to Johnson Cit; will cost over fifty million dollars in labor, a least two-thirds of which will, through thi necessity of this labor, flowas naturally int< the pockets of the farmers, merchants an< meehauics of East Tennessee and "Westeri North Carolina as water runs down hill while it will require, on the other hand, th? most careful nursing and jealous guardinj on the part of the management to make i ordinarily remunerative to the men whi have ventured their money to develop it.' * The Commerce of Charleston.?Thi I News and Courier of September 1 devote | most of its space to a review of the trade o j the three cities of South Carolina during th< past year. Charleston leads the list with i total business during the past year of ove $36,000,000. There has been a general in crease in almost every businesss. While i has been a year of general depressior throughout the entire country, we see nc reason why Charleston should not be wel j satisfied with, her showing, as seen from the report in Wednesday's paper. Columbia Greenville and Spartanburg all make gooc I showings, far better than we would think without making a thorough investigation, While just at present the outlook in some branches of business does not seem encouraging, yet our people should not despair, bul exert every effort and energy to make the next step one onward and upward on the road which leads to general prosperity. : A TIMING STORY. IN our next issue, SEPTEMBER 22NI), will be commenced a new and powerful illustrated Serial Story, entitled FIVE MILLION POUNDS, ; By the gifted young author, Mr. T. Wemyss Reid. Mr. Reid is one of the most popular story writers of the day, and his new Serial, FIVE 1 MILLION POUNDS, is pronounced the most in[ tensely thrilling and interesting of any that has [ yet appeared from his pen. I The first chapter opens with a Thrilling Episode, ' Which at once engages the reader's sympathies, . and while the interest of the reader is enchained I r in the first lines, every chapter will hold il i through to the end. The reader's interest it " not allowed to flag for one moment throughoul k ' the serial. 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I also have two CANTON REAPERS, which I offer at reduced prices. I keep in stock THOMAS HARROWS for cultivating cotton. Also, the celebrated IRON ACE HORSE HOE AND CULTIVATOR, RANDALL HARROWS, CARDWELL SEPARATORS, HAY CUTTERS and WHEELBARROWS. Also, a large stock i of ! Window Sash and Blinds and Panel Doors, A f imnrino'lv low nrices. T. S. JEFFERYS. BRADFIELUS _ An infallible specific for j all the diseases peculiar to | women, such as painful or | suppressed Menstruation, Fallingof the Womb, Leuj corrhoea or Whites, etc. FEMALE _ CHANGE OF LIFE. If taken during this critical period, great suffering > and danger can be entirely j avoided. i I REGULATOR! ! Send for a book containing valuable informs- ' tion for women. It will be mailed free to applicants. Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. 5 August 11 32 ly "*" 1 FIRE ! FIRE ! ! FIRE!!! j rpiIE TAYLOR <fe COX Steam Fire Extin- 1 JL guisher for Cotton Gins is the best protection against loss by fire. Beats insurance. INSTANTANEOUS, CHEAP, EFFECTUAL and RELIABLE. Send for circulars and full particulars. AGENTS WANTED. Good pay given. J. N. SUTHERLAND, Belton, S. C. ra* KAIV FII.INft MACHINE. THE TAYLOR GIN SAW FILER is one of the best made. Anybody can file Gin Saws . with it. Requires no practice. Does its work as it should be clone and ten times faster than by hand. Every Machine warranted. PRICE ?12. c Pays for itself every season. Order from ? J. N. SUTHERLAND, Belton, S. C. 1 IF YOU WA\T TO BUY ? AN Engine, Boiler, Wood-Working Machine- J ry of any kind; Saw Mill, Machino Tools or , Machinery of any kind for wood or iron work- . ing, do not fail to consult the undersigned, who has for sale all kinds of Engines and Boilers and ? Wood and Iron Working Machinery, both new and secondhand, at prices that simply defy competition. Let me know your wants and prices will be named. If you want to sell Engine, Boiler or Machinery of anv kind, describe it and address J. N. SUTHERLAND, Belton, S. C. July 28 .'!<) 4m* LAND FOR SALE. I OFFER for sale my PLANTATION in York g county, S. C., lying on the waters of Catawba i River and Mill Creek, one mile from Boyd's Ferry, and adjoining lands of "Graham's Quarter," B. F. Boyd and others, containing 310 acres. Of this tract fifty acres are fine BOT- 5 TOM LAND, one hundre'd acres in timber, and "J the balance in a good state of cultivation, and i sufficient for a four-horse farm. On the premises q is a comfortable DWELLING HOUSE and nec- ? essary outbuildings. For further particulars j apply to the undersigned, on the premises, oracldress at Zeno, York county, S. C. S.S.SMITH. 11 August 20 34 tf COMMERCIAL""HOTEL, ] BLACK'S, m, C., o JAMES RAINES, Proprietor. $ . t "VTEWLY FURNISHED. Polite and attentive 3 ' ^ onofonta ftomnlo PnntYw TonvAniflnf. RAJI sonable Rates. 1 ' " "MOORE COUNTY GRIT" j The bent Millstone in the World for Table Meal. . Samples of meal aent on application. Send for prices on . Portable Corn Slills, Upper and Under Runners and Mill- li stones. We are agents fur KnffinCM, Boilers, Snw .Hills, C'otton (sins, Planers. Shafting, Pull-vs. 4c.. also for Roller-Hill Outfits which save JOtr f.",cents O for the miller in every bnrrel of flour he makes. y Write stating what yon want and terms von wish to buv on. Give references. Address, North Carolina Hillstone Co., Parkewood, Moore Co., N. C. June 23 25 6ms t: s APPLICATION FOR CHARTER. 8 NOTICE is hereby given that at the next ses- a sion of the Legislature of South Carolina, t application will be made for the re-charter of v WRIGHT'S FERRY, on Catawba river. t August 18 33 3m CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to s Real Estate. For sale at.the ENQUIRER OFFICE. c July 7 27 tf a DFIIVGr COMPANY, IRON ORE PAINT &?|hPL And Cement. 1^2 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. pgr Send for Circularaml Price IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. 9 ly F. HAPPERFIELD. __ . FRESH GROCERIES. |\/?~Y full stock of Groceries consists of the best 1YA goods that can be bought, and will bo soldus low as any other house will sell you. HARDWARE. A full supply ot Hardware, including Plow fixtures and all other articles in that line required in agricultural operations. BOOTS AND SHOES. A large lot of all grades. Call and examine hem before buying. I will take pleasure in ihowing them and can save you money. ( TOBACCO AND CIGARS. A full lineof Chewing and Smoking Tobaccos, Snuff and Cigars. MARBLE YARD. Special attention given to all kinds of Monumental and Tomb Stone Work. Prices are lower than ever before. I can certainly sell you work cheaper than any traveling agent can, fori will wo you the commissions paid to them. Call ind see specimens of work and ascertain prices. F. HAPPERFIELD. C. & L. NAEROW GAUGE BAILEOAD. jm ^ SCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. CM taking ett'ect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, July 4,1886 : GOING SOUTH. Leave Lenoir 7.30 A. M. Arrive at Hickory, 8.34 A. M. Leave Newton 9.12 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 10.04 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 10.55 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 11.10 A. M. Leave Gastonia 11.20 A. M. Arrive at Clover, 11.56 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 12.30 P. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.40 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville,* 1.02 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,* 1.35 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, ." 4.50 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.20 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 5.40 P. M. Leave Yorkville 5.45 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 6.15 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia 6.52 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 7.10 P.,M. Arrive at Dallas, 7.25 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 8.10 P. M. Arrive at Newton, 9.02 P. M. Leave Hickory, 9.40 P. M. Arrive at Lenoir, 10.48 A. M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent, 7/SS- The Accommodation Train arrives in Yorkville at 5.25 and leaves at 6 o'clock P. M.,t on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, going South. Going North, this train arrives at Yorkville on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at 10.38 A. M., and leaves at 10.55. July 21 29 tf 1886. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886. Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables A RE still on a boom, and the year 1886 finds me with some of the finest Vehicles ever shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and jurpasssed by none. Everything will be kept in the best stylo. Give me* a trial and be conin nr?pH Cincinnati and Colnmbus Buggies Of every description will be kept. Spring Wagons, Phretons, Ac., of the best make, always on hand. * FOR FUNERALS I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence Coach, which will be sent to any part ef the county at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. I have a Juinpseat Phajton and some Buggies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold soon to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where they will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. July 7 27 tf THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of York. WHEREAS ULYSES ADKINS has applied to me for Letters of Administration on all ind singular the goods and chattels, rights and iredits of JOHN BARRON, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all ind singular the kindred and creditors of the mid deceased, to be and appear before me, at our lext Probate Court for the said county, to be lolden at York Court House, on THURSDAY, ;he'23RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D., 1886, it 11 o'clock, A. M., to shew cause, if any, why he said Administration should not be granted, iiven under my hand and seal, this 6th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and in the 111th year of American Independence. J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, Judge of Probate. September 8 38 2t rHE^TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York County. ITfTHEREAS JOHN D. HAMILTON hasap\f plied to me for Letters of Administration, m all and singular the goods and chattels, rights tnd credits of W. KENNEDY HAMILTON, ate of the county aforesaid, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all ind singular the kindred and creditors of the mid deceased, to be and appear before me, at our lext Probate Court for tne said county, to be lolden at York Court House on WEDNESDAY, he 22ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1886, at 11 ('clock A. M., to shew cause, if any, why the laid Administration should not be granted. 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