Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-20

claimed by the holders of the special tax
bonds, as having been used for other purposes,
when the same had been collected by law for
the payment of the interest on said bonds.
This is portion of the public debt said to
have been created by fraud, and the payment
of it will be resisted until the matter is decided
by the highest legal tribunal in the Union.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
- Railroad trains in Wisconsin are already
beginning to be blockaded by snow drifts.
Hogs, at St. Louis, are quoted at 81 to A.
cents per pound, gross.
Hon. S. S. Mallory, at one time Secretary
of the Confederate Navy Department, died at
Pensacola, Fla, on Sunday Of last week.
Rats have attained market value in
Augusta, since the importation Of Chinese
laborers.
The planters of Louisiana have been re-
ducing the pay of their hands from sl8 and
$40 per month to SIS.
Judge Cadwalader has appointed the 26th
for the hearing of the petition to declare Jay
Cooke & Co., bankrupts.
The immediate cause Of the death Of Mrs.
Gen. Lee was paralysis. She was attended
at her death.bed by all her children.
The Atlanta Herald reports that over
eight hundred mechanics are now out of work
in that city.
Richmond (Augusta) factory goods have
been reduced in price. They are now quoted
as follows: Richmond factory stripes, 12! ;
Richmond factory osnaburgs, III.
The Arkansas Legislature stands as fol-
lows: Senate, fifteen Republicans and eleven
Democrats; House, twenty-seven Republicans
and ffty-fve Democrats.
- The Richmond and Petersburg, the Pc
tersburg and Weldon, and the Richmond and
Danville, and Piedmont Air Line Railroads,
have paid their November interest.
The committee on teachers of the public
schools of New York city, have submitted q
report in favor of the restoration Of corporeal
punishment in the male schools.
A boiler explosion occurred in New York
city on the 18th by which two passing females
on the street were instantly killed. The
parties having charge of the engine have
been held in $4,000 bail.
- Depositors in the First National Bank of
Washington will receive thirty per cent. Of
their deposits. Out of $4,000 deposited by
Andrew johnson, he has received nearly
$4,000.
- From the complete election returns in
Illinois, it appears that the Farmers have
carried 81 counties, the Republicans IA, the
Democrats 18, and in 13 there we're no party
issues.
Il From the goth of August to the 18th of
October, there were 734 deaths from yellow
fever in shreveport-634 whites and 100
blacks. In Memphis the number of deaths
from yellow fever from September IA to o.
tober 30th was 1850.
- The discharged laborers in Philadelphia
are clamoring for help. They have appealed
to Mayor stokely for aid. He refers them
to the city councils. tits estimated that over
thirty thousand operatives in that city are
now deprived of employment
II. T. Brooks, late President of the Mer-
chants National Bank of Petersburg, Va, a
suspended institution, has been arrested and
held to bail on charge of embezzling one
hundred thousand dollars in money and cred
its of the bank.
- Thejury in the case of Gasaway B. Lamar,
of Savannah, Ca, against Charles A. Dana,
to recover one hundred thousand dollars for
illegal imprisonment in 1865, while Dana was
Assistant Secretary of War, gave a verdict
for the defendant, by instructions of the judge.
Judge j. G.. Underwood, of the United
States District Court, was assaulted in Rich
mond, last week, by W. N. McVeign, the
former owner of the property in Alexandria,
purchased under the con6scation act by Un-
derwood. A few blows we're administered by
McVeign, with no resistance whatever on the
part of Underwood. McVeign was recogn-
zed to answer for the assault.
- The President is reported to have said
that in his forthcoming message, he will
again recommend legislation on Utah affairs
in order to afford relief in judicial matters
in that Territory from present embarrassment.
He also purposes to submit plan, not yet
fully matured, rendering the currency more
flexible, and preventing it, if possible, from
being used, as recently, for gambling purpo-
SeS.
- The "shrinkage" in prices continues, espe-
cally in the large cities, and in the line of
luxuries In New York city almost every line
of goods or article of consumption is marked
down from ten to fifty per cent. For the first
time in many years the shops on the "dollar
side" of Broadway offer five cent cigars for
sale; and this is an illustration of the way
the hard times are operating in all kinds of
trade.
- The ghost of Mrs. Surratt will not down.
Ex.President johnson has just published a
lengthy letter in answer to Judge Holt's al
legations that Mr. johnson disregarded the
recommendations of majority of the court
for communication in Mrs. Surratts case. Mr..
johnson says he never saw the recommends
ton; on the contrary, Judge Holt argued
that the question ought not to be considered,
and urged the early execution. Mr.. johnson
complains that Holt withheld the allegations
intended to damage him until the witnesses
we're dead.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Tax Levy.