Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-10-30
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- The colored cadets, Conyers and Nc
Clenlan, at West Point, are in trouble on ac
count of a disregard of discipline.
- The sum of $4,000 coined in twenty
dollar pieces, was delivered last week by the
chief coner to Superintendent Pollock at the
Philadelphia mint. The gold weighed over a
ton and half.
- Fisk & Hatch state, in explanation Of
current rumors respecting their condition
that they have made satisfactory arrange
ments with the banks, who are their largest
creditors, and expect to resume in few days.
- Rev. VIM. E. Munsey, the celebrated
pulpit divine, in letter published last week,
brands as malignant falsehoods the late inju-
rious reports relative to his alleged intoxica-
ted habits, which recently had wide circu-
lation in the press.
- The remnants of the Modoc band passed
through Reddins, California, on the Oath,
presenting pitiable sight. Captain Jacks
wife and Princess Mary attracted the most
attention. They were clad in deep black, tar
and ashes, for their kindred.
- The Harmony Cotton Mills, at Cohoes,
n. Y, said to be the largest of the kind in the
world, closed on Saturday night indefinitely.
1t is probable that the wooden mills will soon
follow the example. The Newburg Mills, in
the same State, have also suspended.
- The executive committee Of the Centen.
nal Board of Finance met in Philadel lphia on
the 9th, and made arrangements for the trip
of a subcommittee through the South, with
the object Of awakening interest there in the
centennial enterprise. The first place to be
visited will be Macon, Ga, during the fair.
-- The manufacturing interests of Connec-
ticut are reported in an unfortunate condi-
ton. From $4,000 to 10000 employees are
now idle. The Atlantic Mills, in Lawrence,
Mass, run only four days in the week, and
the nail mills and the Bay State Iron Works
Of Boston, have suspended.
MR. H. NJ. Stanley, the discoverer of
DR.. Livingstone, was amongst the passengers
who sailed in the African mail steamer Benin,
from Liverpool, recently, for the West Coast.
Mr. Stanley took with him large steam
launch, and is going out in the capacity of
special correspondent for the London Times.
- Missouri now claims rank second in the
farmers movement as regards the number of
oranges and their influence. Fifty agents
of the State Grange are busy organizing new
oranges at the rate of fifty week, and it is
believed that when the movement is two
years old it will number no less than two thou
sand oranges.
- The Philadelphia Press says: 1t is a
significant commentary upon the scarcity of
currency, that our manufacturing firms are in
many instances paying off their hands in gold
and silver, deducting the premium. Whoev-
er heard before ola panic in which it was al
most impossible to obtain paper money, while
specie was plenty!
- Men are walking about New York,
says an exchange, with pockets full of silver
taken in change. Astonished conductors on
street cars receive silver quarters, and ten and
FIVE cent pieces for fares. Silver does not
now command a premium over legal-tenders,
if one wants to sell silver, but if one wants to
buy it-well, inanciers must live.
- The Washington Star says: "It is more
than probable that the back pay bill will be
repealed at the next session of Congress. 1t
is said that many advocates of the bill will
vote for its repeal on the ground that it has
proved distasteful to the people irrespective of
party. 1t is thought the bill providing for
its repeal will find but few outspoken oppo-
nents"
Gen. Hooker, in the late reunion of the
army of the Cumberland, referred to the Con-
federate army, against which chad fought, in
these terms: SEARCH the world over and you
will not find the like of them. l have had
an opportunity of seeing some of the armies
of Europe since then-the French, Prussian
and Austrian-and tell you it will be down.
hill work to fight them compared with our
late foes"
- The virulence Of the yellow fever
scourge at Memphis and Shreveport does not
seem to abate with the advent of frost and
cool weather. The disease is also epidemic i'll
Bainbridge, Ga, and at Marshal and Colum.
bus, Texas. Out of about $4,000 inhabitants
of Memphis, only about 10000 now remain,
of whom it is computed that more than 1000
are sick, and at least 1000 are newly made
widows and orphans, dependent on charity.
"A Washington dispatch says that At.
torney. General Williams has received letter
from Montgomery, Ala, saying that in conse-
quence of heavy rains and the destruction of
the cotton crops by the army worm, great des-
titution exists in several counties especially
in Sumter and Marengo. In some places,
there is actual starvation, and unless help is
rendered, during the winter months, many
persons must perish for want Of food.
- Colonel Ed. Brink, himself northern
man, purchased some four years ago, tract
of 5000 acres, near Wilmington, N. c., which
he cut up into one hundred eighty.acre farms,
with view to induce immigration. The
Wilmington Star says sixty of the farms are
already occupied, and the others will doubt
less be settled this winter Colonel Brink
says it will not do to bring immigrants to the
South as mere laborers. They must under
stand that they are citizens and in possession
oe good homes. His colonists are already
erecting houses, shops, mills, &C., and will
soon have all the comforts of civilized CON-
munity.
- All deferred orders for postal cards
have now been filled, and the government
has about seven millions of them on hand
stored in 6re-proof vaults at Springfield,
Mass, whence they are distributed by the spe-
cial agent in charge, upon acquisitions approx
ed by the third assistant postmastergeneral.
The cards now supplied by the contractors,
are fully up to the standard. The total
demand for postal cards has settled down to
an average of between three hundred and sew
enty.fve thousand and four hundred thousand
per day, which is believed to indicate almost
exactly their daily consumption at the present
time
"A Lexington (Mo) paper publishes
this remarkable tale: ga physician of Lex.