Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-20

the political disabilities from the following
prominent southerners: Hon. j. w. H. Un-
derwood, Hon. L. J. Gartrell, Hon. Alfred
Iverson, Gen. Layfayette McLaws, Hon. NJ.
J. Crawford, Hon. B. c. Yancey and General
Goode Bryan.
"A careful estimate has been made of
the area Of the timber lands of Pennsylvania,
and the average yield of lumber per acre, and
the alarming conclusion is reached that three
years stocking, at the rate of FIVE hundred
million feet per year, would entirely exhaust
all the pine lumber now standing.
- Francis Warden, the second partner in
the New York dry goods firm of A. T. Stew
art & Co., died in Paris, on the 9th ult., at
the age of sixty-two years. He had managed
the European business of the firm for nearly
thirty years, and is reported to have died
worth ten million dollars.
A bill has been introduced, and conf
mttee of the House of delegates of Virginia.
have reported "a bill to protect farmers and
others from embezzlement by commission
merchants and Others" Per contra, some
body else has introduced a bill to protect
commission merchants and others who may
make advances to farmers.
George T. Downing, Sella Martin,
Robert ROWS and many other prominent men
of Washington, have organized, or are about
doing so, society to work in opposition to
the old COLONIZATION Society,"" The object
is to encourage immigration from Africa,
rather than emigration to that country.
Meetings are held, and the subject discussed
in. all its important bearings.
"A New England paper relates the fol-
lowing: "a couple of girls put a bull-frog in
a hired mans bed to see if they could not get
him to talk. Daniel threw the frog out the
window and never said word Soon after he
put a halfbushel of chestnut burrsin the girls
bed, and about the time he thought they would
make the least shadow, Daniel went to the
door and ratified it furiously, Out went the
candle, and in went the girls; but they didn't
stick, though the burrs did. Calling to them
he begged them to be quiet, for he onl ly wanted
to know if they had seen anything Of that
pesky bull-frog. He'd gin tew dollars tew
find it."
- If there is anything needed to convince
the skeptical that cotton manufacturing in
the South is gold mine for those engaged in
it, the report of the Eagle and Phoenix Com
pany, of Columbus, at the annual meeting of
stockholders, will be sufficient The report
states that the net earnings or profit of the
company for the past year amount to $751;
406.01. The undivided profits of the compa-
ny amount to 1927, 1852, or twenty.four per
cent. of the capital stock. According to this
statement the stockholders, when the profits
are finally divided, will have received back
almost their entire investment. 1t is won
derful record, and ought to stimulate the rapid
growth of similar enterprises everywhere in
the South.
The United States Government has
finally come to the conclusion that there does
exist laws by which the 'sawdust swindlers"
can be reached. These pests to society have
piled their nefarious calling for upward of a
year in open defiance of law. Their scheme
is to advertise to supply counterfeit money,
and then, when the dupe was caught who was
foolish enough to send his money for some of
the "queer," the scoundrels sent back pack
ages of sawdust, thus evading the law regard
ing counterfeit money. Assistant United
States District Attorney Denike has finally
brought fellow up for trial under the law of
1872, which makes it a penal offense Ito de-.
wise schemes to defraud by opening correspon-
dence through the United States mails"
- Among the bills which passed the lower
House Of Congress last week, was one that
will sound strange to the country at this day.
1t was literally payment for runaway negro
during the war. While the Twenty. seventh
Wisconsin regiment, Col. W. L. Utley, was in
Kentucky, young negro belonging to Chief
Justice Robertson, of that State, ran away
and took refuge in the Colonels camp, Judge
Robertson demanded his property, but Colo
mel Utley responded that "he didn't enlist to
catch negroes" Robertson thereupon brought
suit and got judgment against Utley. The
statutes of Congress step in and hold the off.
Ger harmless, but only by the assumption Of
the liability. Hence, the House, on Saturday.
passed bill to pay 5000 for Judge Robert.
sons little negro.
- Great complaints are current in Geor-
gia at the scarcity of wood. The immense
forests that formerly stood in this region are
no longer in existence, and the country is al.
most entirely stripped, the only growth consis
ting of small four-years old trees. Around
Atlanta the view resembles that of a Western
prairie. The pine forests of the lower shelf Of
Georgia, it is stated, will hold out for some
time longer, but they will finally be consumed
by the many saw mills now being erected
along the southern coast. The dry soil Of
Georgia, it is predicted, will, before long, be
baked into rough pottery, if no trees are left
to shelter the ground and attract moisture
1t is, therefore, proposed that the Legislature
should pass laws to protect growing trees, and
also to offer inducements to plant and real
them.
- According 10 the Army Register fol
1873, now being distributed by the Adjutant
General, the commissioned portion of Uncle
Sans army consists of IL general officers, II
adiutant generals, s inspector generals, 1(
Judge advocates, / chief signal officer, 6e
quartermasters, 26 commissaries, 1853 medica
officers, 81 paymasters, 103 engineers, 81 ord
nance officers, 80 post chaplains, 425 cavalry
officers, 274 artillery officers, SS1 infantry
officers, professors, 293 cadets and 297 9th
GERS retired from active service, making
total of 2720. The number of enlisted mel
is 10000 Con paper) with an allowance O.
375 hospital stewards, 8 veterinary surgeons
GA superintendents of national cemeteries anc
1873 Indian scouts, with master wagoners auc
wagoners ad Hbitum Of the 2132 officers or
the active list only 666, or less than one-third
are graduates of West Point
- The Boston Globe gives some interesting
statistics of the sewing machine trade. l
says: "It is estimated that the profits tor tn
last ten years on the sewing machines manu-
factured in this country amount to s20O,0O0,
600, and the estimated profits in 1871, $40,