Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

An incendiary fire in Norfolk, Virginia,
on Saturday morning, destroyed property to
the amount of s150,0O0.
1t may be interesting to know that cloth,
saturated with chloroform, applied to the
wound, is a sure cure for snake bite.
- Dispatches from central and eastern Tex
as give favorable accounts of the growing
crops. In Mississippi and Louisiana the crop
is reported as doing we'll. From Arkansas
the reports are also encouraging
"A gang of disguised robbers threw train
off the track of the Chicago and Rock Island
Pacific railroad on the night of the 2lst near
Adair, and robbed the express safe. The
engineer of the train was killed.
- The value of -four and wheat shipments
from California to the eastern States and
foreign ports for the year ending June 10th,
was 9,25O,OOO. The value at the end of
the wheat crop last year was $25,OOO,OOO.
"A. T. Stewart, the New York dry goods
merchant, is on a visit to Europe. Before
leaving, he made his will. The value of his
real estate alone foots up to the extraordina-
ry sum of one hundred millions.
- The Postmaster General has awarded the
contract for a mail between Charleston and
Havana, via Key West. The contractors will
establish line of steamers between these
points.
Late advices from Massachusetts, repre-
sent that the anti. Butler portion of the Re-
publican party is formidable and his pros
poets of either receiving the nomination or
being elected are growing weaker.
- The New York World says: "Henry A.
Wise, who hung John Brown, has written an
other letter declaring himself a Republican
and endorsing Grant" And the man under
whom Wirz was subordinate is an appointee
of Grant. So we 60.
A farmer living near Mount Vernon,
Kentucky, attempted to wreck train on the
Ohio and Mississippi railroad last Saturday,
giving as his reason therefor that sparks from
the engine had burned his fence. He was ar
rested and put in Jail.
- The New Orleans Picayune, which, at
the beginning of the movement, favored the
uni6cation scheme, now pronounces it fail.
ure, ascribing the failure to the universal al
legiance of the colored people to the Repub-
lican party. The opposition to the present
State government is more demoralized and
weaker than ever before.
At farmers meeting in Kansas, the 9th
er day, the following preamble and resolution
were adopted in reference to the Congression-
al "back pay grab" "Whereas, D. P. Lowe,
our Congressman, supported the bill; Res0lu-.
ed, That we demand that he resign his seat
in Congress, and that his place be filled by an
honest man instead of thief"
On Monday morning last, an engineer on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad losing con-
troll of his engine on down-grade, forty-fve
miles west of Cumberland, his train dashed
away at speed of forty miles an hour. 1t
struck a freight train and demolished twenty
cars loaded with cotton, corn and tobacco,
scattering the contents of the cars all over the
track The engineer and two passengers
were killed, and several others were seriously
wounded
1t is remarkable fact that while outside
of the United States there are about sixty
thousand miles of railroad in the entire world,
there are in the United States alone nearly
seventy thousand miles. If anything could
illustrate the magnificent extent Of the Amer.
lean Republic and the vast strides it is
making toward complete development of its
domain, this fact would seem to do it. The
earnings of the railroads in five States alone,
were last year $26O,OO0,00O.
The speculation in cotton in New York
has had the undesirable effect of bringing that
article in considerable quantities back from
England to enable spectators to meet their
engagements. The steamship City of Chester,
of the Inman line, that arrived at New York
on Sunday last, brought some $50 bales
American cotton from Liverpool. 1t is un-
derstood that the cotton was imported for
some party in the "short interest" and is to be
delivered on July contracts. About 1900
bales, in addition to the above, are about leav.
ing England for New York.