Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-23

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joyed practice sufficient to give him COM
Portable livelihood From the earliest mo-
ment Judge Cooke embraced the new faith,
and has been a constant and unfinching Re
publican at all times and under all circum-
stances. His capacity, character and expe-
rience is unquestioned, and we predict ca
reer honorable to himself and honorable to
the State"
The Time for Tax.Paying Extended.
The following is the full text Of the law
recently passed by the Legislature, providing
for the extension of the time for the payment
and collection of taxes for the fiscal year COM
mencing November 1st, 1872:
"Whereas delay in the levy of certain taxes
to meet appropriations for the fiscal year com:
mencing November l, 1872, has continued
beyond the time prescribed by law for the
commencement of the collection Of the same,
and the time for the payment of said taxes
before penalties must attach is now unavoid-
ably and unusually limited; therefore,
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority Of the same:
Section /. That if any of the duties re-
quired to be performed in an act entitled can
act providing for assessment and taxation of
property" or in any act or amendment there
to, on or before certain day, by any officer
or person therein named, cannot for want of
proper time be so performed, in the payment
or collection of taxes, to be levied to meet ap-
preparations for the fiscal year commencing
November /, 1872, the Comptroller General,
with the approval of the Governor, may ex-
tend the time as long as may be necessary
therefor"
The Greedy Office Holders.
- Under date of the 18th instant the Pres
ident has issued an order to 60 into effect on
and after the 4th of March, 1873, prohibiting
office holders from accepting or holding office
under State or Territorial Government or un-
der the charter or ordinances of any municip-
al corporation, the acceptance or. holding of
such office to be construed as resignation by
such Federal officer of his commission or ap-
pointment in the service Of the United States.
The order provides that the offices Of Justi'
tices of the Peace, of Notaries Public and Of
Commissioners to take the acknowledgment Of
deeds of bail, or to administer oaths, shall not
be deemed within its purview and are excep-
ted from its operation, and may be held by
Federal officers. The appointment Of deputy
marshal of the United States may be confer
red upon sherifs or deputy sheriffs and dep
uty postmasters, the emoluments Of whose Of
fee do not exceed six hundred dollars per
annum, are also excepted from the operation
of the order, and they may accept and hold
appointments under State, Territorial or mu-
nicipal authority, provided the same be found
not to interfere with the discharge of their
duties as postmaster.
Heads of Departments, and other officers Of
the government who have the appointment Of
subordinate officers, are required to take no
tice of the order, and to see to the enforcement
of its provisions and terms within the sphere
of their respective Departments or Offices, and
as relates to the several persons holding ap-
pointments under them respectively.
The Severe Winter.
- Accounts from the extreme West rep
resent this as being the coldest winter known
for many years. The loss of life to brute and
human creation, and the destruction of prop
erty as one of the results of the severe weather,
are unprecedented. Commerce is greatly i'm
peded, and communication by water and rail
almost entirely suspended. Especially has
this been the case in Iowa and Minnesota and
other western States Snow drifts from 800
to 1000 feet in length, and from FIVE to fifteen
feet in depth, cover all the railroads. Num-
bers of persons have been frozen to death, and
the fatality has been great among horses, hogs
and cattle.
A St. Paul dispatch says the great storm
of the past week resulted in great many fatal
casualties in Minnesota. 1t was entirely un-
precedented in its severity, and was so blind
ing that persons perished within few rods OF
succor if they had known in what direction to
go. Two brothers, who were on the road
with wagons, were frozen to death ten miles
from St. Paul, and numerous other fatal
cases are reported.
Friday was the coldest day of the winter in
Memphis, the thermometer indicating eight
degrees below zero The cold weather which
has visited the northern States is followed by
disastrous floods, entirely stopping travel on
many of the railroads. In the rivers in Penn
sylvania the recent floods we're the greatest
ever known, destroying great amount Of
property, and inaicting heavy losses upon the
people.
Heavy Purchase.
Some months ago several capitalists OF
New York conceived the idea of purchasing
Samana bay and peninsula for which the
United States Government attempted to ne
gotiate. After the failure of Grants scheme
foIthe acquisition Of Samana,a a correspondence
took place between the capitalists and the
Dominican government for the realization of
their design. A company was formed, and
after several meetings it was resolved to send
special steamer with three commissioners,
bearing the amount of the purchase money
twenty millions of dollars, in gold, to consum-
mate the transaction, and the steamer Tybee
was chartered for the purpose. On the 10Th
of December convention was held, the com.
missioners representing the company, and
President Baez and Cabral the Dominican
Government. After full deliberation, sat-
isfactory result was arrived at and the pur-