Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Governor Davis has been re-no1ninated by
the Texas Republicans
Two cases of yellow fever are reported at
Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. Louis E. Grouse, of Augusta, has
written on the back of postal card, 3,016
legible words. 60
California elects Legislature on the Sd
of September, Maine elects a Governor,
Legislature, etc., on the 9th.
In Waco, Texas, good ponies are selling
at prices ranging from ten dollars to twenty
five dollars
The number of Farmers Oranges now is
said to be five thousand one hundred and
forty-seven.
Judge Thomas A. R. Nelson, late of the
Supreme Court of Tennessee, died at Knox
vile, from cholera, on Friday last, after an
illness Of two days.
Rev Gardner Spring, pastor of the Fifth
avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, died
in that city on Monday of last week, in the
eighty-ninth year of his age.
Ex-President johnson, it is stated, is
again candidate for governor of Tennessee,
and has aspirations for the United States
Senate.
The question of taxing church property
is now widely discussed. Ohio loses $47O,-
900 in taxes yearly because $25,554,725 Of
church property is exempt from taxation.
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire
has just decided at Concord that railroad
companies have no right to grant to any party
or parties exclusive privilege to carry express
matter over their lines.
The New York Times is authority for the
statement that the next Congress will be
asked to assume the entire State Indebtedness
of the Southern States, and that Northern
Congressman of prominence have already
promised their support to the measure.
Mr.. Hoe, ofNew York, has just perfected
printing press in England, which is the most
complete thing of the kind ever constructed.
One of the presses is already at work in a
London newspaper office, and ten are to be
built at once for the Daily Telegraph, The
press feeds itself, only takes two men and a
boy to run it, and prints $4,000 complete news
papers per hour.
A few days ago, 100000 in gold coin
arrived at the sub-treasury in New York
from California. 1t wayforwarded by Adams
Express Company from the sub.treasury in
San Francisco The weight of this coin was
about four tons. 1t was packed in twelve
strong iron chests, each about two feet and a
half in length by sixteen inches in breadth
and depth.
The Treasury Department has just issued
an order which, it is thought, will considera'
bly, affect the gold market. The mint at Phil
adelphia is instructed to run its full capacity
in coming gold and silver alone. The same
order has been telegraphed to the mint direct
ors at Carson City and San Francisco, with the
injunction that the force may be worked extra
hours. The monthly addition to the new coin
of the country will be s3,OOO,O0O throughout
the year.
The colored Republicans of Ohio are dis,
satisfied with their share in the honors Of the
party, and have issued call for convention
in which they recite their grievances. They
say that a sufficiently comprehensive civil
rights bill does not exist; that they do not
receive, as they ought, the same treatment as
white men from public institutions and com
mon carriers: that the right Of voting ought
to carry with it the right of being voted for
These and many other things they intend to
discuss at the proposed convention.
"A bale of cotton was sold in Covington
Ga., recently, for fifteen cents pound, which
was picked, ginned and packed in the fall Of
1868. The rope and bagging was of Confed
crate manufacture and presented novel ap
pearance. The owner had been offered forty