Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-12-05
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covered with snow.
- The Potomac River was frozen over, at
Washington, last week.
- Judge Bond had not arrived in Colum-
bia on Tuesday.
- One of the topics which seem sure to
come up during the next session of Congress
is postal telegraphy.
One million eight hundred thousand
dollars has been paid for the government prin-
ting during the past year.
"A sister of the Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon is
creating furore by her preaching to the low
er classes in Cambridgeshire, England.
-- Nine bodies have been recovered from
the ruins of the Boston fire, and FIVE of them
identified.
- The Erie Railway is said to earn nearly
five hundred thousand dollars week, gross
receipts.
- Jerusalem has been lighted with gas,
and it is proposed to run street cars up the
slopes of Mount Zion.
- The rates of insurance have been ad-
vanced twenty to forty per cent. by the New
York Board Of Underwriters.
-A An English lord is shooting prairie dogs
in Kansas, under the impression that they are
grizzly bears .-
- The New Orleans Picayune reports
that the recent cold spell has done great dam
age to the sugar crop.
- The celebrated Marye's Heights, near
Fredericksburg, Virginia, is offered for sale.
The farm contains two hundred and eighty
acres, and was the scene of one or more bloody
battles during the last war.
- The heirs of an Illinoisian, who fatally
fractured his skull by falling out of his wagon
while intoxicated, have recovered 81, 900 dam
ages from the bar-keeper who sold him the IL
quor.
- Hon. Charles Francis Adams is repor-
ted as stating that the result of the Presiden-
tial election would not have been different
had he, instead of Mr.. Greeley, been selected
as the opponent of the present Executive.
The cultivation of the white poppy, for
the production of opium, is said to be meeting
with marked success in Tennessee. The plants
are larger and more vigorous, and the capsules
from two to ten times as large as those from
the imported seed.
- Treasurer Cardozo took formal possess
sion of his otice on Saturday last, having
filed his official bond for 100000, with r. c.
Shiver, G. H. Baldwin, G. NJ. Wilder, j. H.
Rsiuey, ]. L. Neagle, Israel Smith, William
Smith, Hardy Solomon, w. ]. McKinlay, A.
@. Jones and c. c. Mckinley as sureties.
Rev. VIM. Watkins Hicks, formerly of
this State, and other learned parties, are in
vestigating the subject of Spiritualism, and
the recent wonderful manifestations in the vi
cinity of Macon, Ga. Mr.. Hicks says he is
confident of a successful solution of the prob
lem, and the development of even greater
wonders
- The Chief Engineer of the Army, in
his report to the Secretary of War, asks for
appropriations in the following sums for the
repairs of and strengthening sea coast defen-
ces in the south: Fort Moultrie, $4,000; Fort
Sumter, $4,000; Fort johnson, $4,000;
Castle Pinckney, $500.
- No indictments were found at the last
term ofthe St. Johns County, Fla., Circuit
Court. The grand jury presented: "Afser
three days Of careful investigation we fail to
find that single violation of law has occur
red in our county since the last term of Court,
more than year ago.
A special dispatch to the Savannah
advertiser, under date of the 26th ultimo,
says: can act to regulate the method of selec-
ting jurors for the United States Courts is pre-
pairing in the Department of Justice. 1t will
deprive the United States Marshals of pow
er they have greatly abused in the South"
- A dispatch from Washington says: "It
is the determination of the President to strictly
enforce the rules of the Treasury Department.
as we'll as the rules ofall the other Depart
ments Of the government against government
officials holding State Offices and those gen.
tlemen in the South who draw salaries from
the general government and from the States
to which they are assigned, either as members
of legislatures, county officers, &c. They must
prepare to resign one or the other
- One of the most touching instances Of
gratitude is alleged to have occurred at Lock
Haven the other day. A little boy, the child
of wealthy mother, tumbled into the river.
He was rescued by workingman and restor
ed to his parent. The woman gave the man
three cent postage stamp, and said she
would be glad to have him come up to her
house and sit out in the entry and hear her
play the piano. He went away with tears in
his eyes, He said he wasn't used to such
overwhelming kindness.
- The government gets compensated in
an unexpected way for the losses it suffered in
the injury done by fire to the new Boston
Postof6ce and sub-treasury building. The
sale of stamps in Boston for four days of last
week was in excess of the sale of any whole
month previous, and it is estimated that the
destruction of postage and revenue stamps in
the burned district-which, of course, was all
gain to the government-wil exceed all the
government losses by the fire.
-- In relation to the tax levy, the Colum-
bia correspondent of the Charleston Ne,os
says: 81 learn from good authority that the
plan now favored by the members Of the new
administration contemplates the authorization
by the Legislature of tax of thirteen mills.
This will include six mills to pay the expenses
of the current fiscal year, two mills for the
support of the public schools, and FIVE mills
to pay deficiencies" No one talks of making
any provision for the payment of the interest
on the State bonds until all doubts have been
cleared away as to their proper amount and
status"
- While some colored men were digging
post hole in the marble yard of William A.
Nicholson, last week, they discovered depos.
it of bogus Mexican dollars, which had evil
dently lain there for many years, for the roots
of an oak tree, standing many feet from the
spot, where interviewer among the spurious
coin. They pretended to represent Mexican
dollars, dated 1893, but were badly executed,
both in metal and the impress of the die. We