Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-04

on all frst-class roads in the State at three
cents per mile, being reduction of one cent.
- The women of Wetzel county, West
Virginia, have formed vigilance committee
to prevent their husbands from visiting the
grass widows who abound in those parts.
- Texas received one hundred and twenty
thousand emigrants last year, Of which num-
Der fifty thousand were from Europe and
the rest from other States.
- The telegraph says that ten thousand
three hundred tons of silver bullion passed
through Omaha, on Thursday last, on its way
East.
- There were fewer weddings in London
the past season than ever before, and some
one wittily remarked that that city was like
heaven in one respect, there we're neither mar
rying nor giving in marriage. But we ques
tion whether angels are abundant, neverthe-
less.
- Adversely exasperates fools, defects
towards, draws out the faculties of the wise,
puts the modest to the necessity of trying their
skill, awes the opulent and makes the idle
industrious. Much may be said in favor of
adversity, but the worst Of it is it has no
friends.
The local of the Augusta Chronicle has
seen postal card, on which Mr.. John 0.
Wicter, of that city, had written six chapters
of Job and nearly seven chapters of Proverbs,
in all 5,114 words. He also wrote in circle,
the size of FIVE cent piece, the Lords Prayer,
a promissory note, the discovery of America
by Columbus, and several verses Of proverbs.
- A circular has been issued by the War
Department, fixing the standard height for
recruits in the United States army as follows:
For artillery and infantry, five feet four
inches and upwards; for cavalry, not less
than FIVE feet five inches, and not more than
FIVE feet ten inches. This regulation is not ap-
plicable to musicians or for recruits for COL
ored regiments.
"A. T. Stewards great charitable pro-
ject, home for the working women Of New
York, is likely to become an elephant on his
hands The building, which was intended as
the future home three years ago, is almost
complete, but it is thought doubtful whether it
is to be used for what it was originally design
ed. Mr. Stewards intention was to make
kind Of hotel exclusively for single and
widowed working women, where they could
live cheaply and comfortably. Since the
erection was begun, however, serious doubts
have been entertained as to whether Mr..
Stewards plan is feasible. 1t is said that his
advisers consider it impossible to establish
home such as he proposes, as it would re-
9uire superhuman efforts to enforce the reg
ulations necessary for the thousand and more
women who would occupy the building. The
structure is on fourth avenue, between Thirty
second and Thirty-third streets, and stands
on the slope from Murray Hill. Mr. Stewart
has spent nearly S3,OO0,OOO in its erection,
exclusive of what he paid for the lot.
AN idea of the business done by the
Pullman Palace Car Company may be OBJ
tanned when it is known that these magni6-
cent vehicles are now running on one hun
dred and fifty-two different lines of railroads
in the United States, that there are seven hun
dred of them in all, and that one hundred and
twenty new ones have just been completed.
Twelve millions of dollars have been invested
in the organization. Every car costs from
$4,000 to $4,000, and one of them is rum
ming on the New York and Erie broad gauge
which cost more than $4,000. About the
1st of September they will begin operations
on one of the great English roads. A system
is in progress, under this extensive organiza-
ton, by which they will sell tickets in London,
Paris, Berlin or St. Petersburg, and contract
to covey passengers to San Francisco or any
other point in the United States-including
everything, not only ocean travel and the care
of baggage but also the commissariat of the
traveller, so that he can either find his effects
at his destination, or can stop off for several
days and resume his journey.
summarized in the following: In Virginia
Governor Walker states that the public debt
amounts to s26,00OOOO. This is one-third
less than the amount previously stated, that
portion having been shifted to West Virginia,
which we believe will not assume the response
bility of it. In October last the debt Of
North Carolina was stated at s29,900045.
The debt Of Tennessee in January last was
reported at s20,966,3S3, it having been an
nounced at about S32,OOO,OOO the previous
year. The difference was in railroad bonds
that have been liquidated. In South Carolina
considerable difference of opinion exists as to
what the State debt really is, but the largest
amount reported is that by the committee of
Congress on Southern affairs, in which the
minority report gave it at S16,76S, ,306.27.
Georgia's debt on January ! was s15,961 500,
with liability to be increased if certain
projected railways should be constructed.
Florida, with similar liability, has debt
of S5,512,269. Mississippi, on January /,
1871, reported debt of 81 1,145,726. Arkan-
sas, adding to the bonded debt all prospective
and contingent liabilities, has total of $14,-
100000, according to the report of the Con-
gressional committee. In Louisiana on Jan
uary /, 1873, the debt was reported at S21,-
S02,S0O In Texas the debt was 1885, ,237
on September /, last year, The total of these
debts is little more than one hundred and
eighty millions of dollars. At the close of the
war, in 1865, these eleven States owed about
one hundred and thirty millions.
"A correspondent of the New York Her.
aid, writing from Gainesville, Ca, processes
to give the opinion of Hon. Alex. H. Stephens
on the political situation. According to the
correspondent, Mr. Stephens does not think
there is any more danger af C:esarism from
Gen. Grant in being elected the third time,
than there was in his second or first election,
especially if he continues the exercise of his
executive powers hereafter to the same limit as
heretofore that Csesarism does not consist in
who is the Executive nor how long, but in
the disregard of the checks and balances
of the constitution that there can be no Ce.
sarism while each of the three departments of
the government remains intact, and while the
reserved rights of the States are respected.
The greatest danger to the public, in the
judgement of Mr.. Stephens, is consolidation,
more familiarly known as Capitalization