Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-07
NEWS 0E THE DAY.

| - The railroad from Marshall to Dallas,
Texas-190 miles-has just been completed.
Vice President Wilson is said to be re-
covering from his illness.
Three deaths from cholera are reported
as having occurred at Ringgold, Georgia,
last Friday.
"A fire in Boston, on the 1st instant, de-
stroyed property to the amount of near half
a million of dollars.
The State Grange Of Kansas has passed
resolutions deprecating the prominence given
to horse racing at State and county fairs.
- The Charlotte Observer says that regu-
lar daily mail will be established on the Air
Line railroad at an early day.
IL is stated as fact that there are more
youths in the South receiving military edu'
cation at this time than there are in the North.
Col. r. Barnwell Rhett is in Huntsville,
Ala, the guest of his friend, ex-senator G. G.
Clay.
- Fire in Singers sewing machine buildings,
Chicago, Sunday night involves a loss Of
100000.
"A fire in Portland, Maine, on the End in
stant, destroyed property to the value of ST.
100000. The loss is, in proportion, greater
than by the Boston or Chicago fires.
Gen. Sidney Sherman, the last cavalry
commander of San Jacinto, died in Calves
ton, Texas on Friday night, and was buried
with military honors.
"A dispatch from Gov Kellogg to Attor-
ney-General Williams says they collected in
June from the city Of New Orleans alone one
million one hundred thousand dollars.
The cotton caterpillar has made its ap-
pearance in the section of Jackson, Mississip-
pi. The crop is several weeks later than
usual, and the presence of the worm earlier.
ALL the claims presented to the Southern
Claims Commission at Washington have been
numbered and registered. They number 22,-
295 and their aggregate amount sums up $685.
100000.
Twenty employees of the Pittsburg and
Chicago railroad have been arrested, charged
with stealing freight from the trains. A large
amount of property was found in their pos
session.
- The cholera is in Carmie, Illinois, where
fourteen deaths occurred last week; and in
Jonesboro, Tennessee, the citizens are panic
stricken, fourteen deaths having occurred
there on Friday last.
The winter wheat crop of Kansas and
Missouri has been very large and excellent in
quality. Minnesota will yield 100000 BUSH
els, and Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin, will
equal last years crop.
- The farmers of California are inclined to
hold the new crop of wheat for higher prices.
Only nine ships with wheat cleared San Fran
cisco last week, against fourteen the same
time last year.
twenty-five Chinese females, brought to
San Francisco from Hong Kong, were sold at
auction Immediately after their arrival, on
the 3Oth ultimo. The young girls brought
as high as $3.50 each, and the middle-aged
and old women from 500 to 200 each.
The Menonites, religious sect Of Prussia,
whose tenets forbid military service, have de-
termined to emimgrate to America, to escape
conscription. They number 10000, and will
settle along the line of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
Near Cumberland, Nd, OH the 1st, a
freight train ran into gravel train, killing
one and hurting three; and on the same day,
near Ttusville, Pa, a freight and oil train COL
lided, killing three person. Fifteen cars were
burned, with the bodies of the persons killed.
1t is stated that unofficial advices have
been received at the war department that the
court has found all the Modoc Indians on
trial guilty of murder, and ordered all OF
them to be shot. General Davis is said to be
only waiting the endorsement of the verdict
to carry out the sentence.
At Sing Sing prison on Monday, while
transfer of prisoners was being made, the no.
torious Yves Allen unlocked the door Of his
cell, and armed with large knife, defed any
one to approach him. When the attempt
was made to arrest him, he pointed at can
containing nitro.glycerine, and threatened to
blow it up if he was interfered with. The
warden deeming discretion the better part OF
valor left him alone in possession of the dead
ly instrument.
sa| According to statistics derived from the
archives of the Indian bureau, it appears that
there are three hundred thousand Indians re-
naming within the limits of the United States,
Exclusive of 10000 in the new Territory OF
Alaska,) who, upon the important question OF
subsistence, may be divided into selfsupport-
ing tribes, 10000; partly supported by the
government, $4,000; entirely supported by
the government, $1,000; living by hunting
and marauding, $4,000. In Mexico there are
100000 of Indians, in Central America
100000, in South America their number is
probably not far from 100000, who are
mostly civilized and convertedto Christianity
In the scale of civilization the little remnant
of our own Indians is thus classified: Civil
lied, $4,000, semicivilized 125,OOO, wholly
savage $4,000. There are one or two lessons
here, in learning which the philosophical stu.
dent of history does not need to have assist
ance. It's seen that in the Anglo American
part of the continent there was no amalgama'
ton, and civilization is healthy, progressive
strong in the Spanish American part, on
the contrary, where conquest was followed by
amalgamation, the decrease Of the native
tribes is not so great, but social and political
chaos reign.