Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-19


$500 value in property from taxation apply
to all kinds of property; to render Federal
and State officers ineligible to seats in the
Legislature to provide for biennial instead
of annual sessions of the General Assembly.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
One day last week nine hundred and fifty
one persons sailed from New York for Europe.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, and
Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, have Joined
the church.
- Cholera is ravaging the cities of Canton
and Jackson, Miss, and business is suspended
there in consequence.
- The Manassas Gazette says the graves Of
the Confederate dead there have been sadly
neglected. They look forlorn and forgotten.
1t is said that fully fifteen thousand per.
sons have visited the murderer Stokes since
his confinement in the Tombs. He has been
quite cheerful snce,a new trial has been gran
ted him, and feels confident of acquittal.
At the examination at the United States
Military Academy at West Point, which ter
minated on the 9th instant, sc out of 149
applicants were admitted. None of the sue
cessful applicants were from South Carolina,
except Mr.. Thomas Sims, of Rock Hill.
"A youth in Alexandria, Virginia, is ma
king arrangements to proceed to Boston, for
the purpose of starting from Bunker Hill on
tour through the Northern States, carrying
the Confederate flag uDfurled. A silly pro-
ject, to say the least.
- Cholera is reported by the latest kilograms
to be on the increase in Nashville and Mem
phis. In the former city % deaths occurred
last Monday-an increase of II over the day
previous-and in the latter city 1S deaths oc-
Cured on Friday.
- During the recent excursion of the exam
lining board of the Treasury Department
through the South, Collector Of Customs
was found who could neither read nor write,
and who was previously convicted Of an in
famous crime.
"A San Francisco dispatch says photo
graphs have been taken of Captain Jack and
the whole of his band of warriors. General
Davis has sent party of men to hunt for and
arrest persons guilty of the massacre Of Mo.
doc prisoners.
- The Augusta Chronicle reports that seven
cases of cholera have appeared at Gallatin,
Tennessee, four of which proved fatal. The
Chancery Court, which met on Monday, ad-
journed Wednesday on account of the alarm
produced.
- Caterpillars have appeared in the vicini-
ty of Memphis, and there and in the adjacent
counties, are destroying the cotton. In North
Mississippi they are doing more harm than
was ever known before. Owing to the inces-
SAINT rains, grass and weeds are also damaging
the cotton crop
- England is making preparations to pay
to the United States Government the amount
of the Geneva award, which amounts to $751;
100000, and is to be paid in coin at Wash
ington. This amount gold will weigh twen-
ty-three tons, and the most serious question
presented is the manner of transporting it to
the United States with safety.
AT meeting of the bar of New York,
held in that city last week, a committee of FIVE
was appointed to consider the expediency Of
petitioning Congress for repeal of the bank
rupt act, or for such amendments of the same
as shall render its interpretations less onerous
to the commercial and other interests of the
community.
The Legislature of New York has passed
a law empowering magistrates or justices Of
the peace with authority to commit thieves
and pickpockets to the penitentiary. This
does away with the tedious proceedings in the
higher courts, and general departure of
those coming under the operations Of the law
has already commenced for points where leg
islation is less stringent,
Gen. Butler has announced himself a can.
didate for the Governorship of Massachusetts,
and entered upon the canvass. The salary
grab being first on the minds of the people Of
the Bay state-it having slightly touched
their pockets-the General is kept quite busy
defending his action thereon. He denies
being the author of the bill, as has been al
legged, but defends the act, and cites three
precedents.
The United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia has ordered that
no constructive travelling expenses shall be
allowed to assignees in any case in bankruptcy;
nor any travelling expenses in any case, when
the order desired could be obtained by mail,
and in no case where the assets coming to the
control of the assignee do not exceed the .ex-
emption allowed the bankrupt, shall the al
lowance, over and above the original deposit
of fifty dollars, exceed twenty dollars to the
register, fifteen dollars to the assignee and ten
dollars to the clerk, and expenses actually and
necessarily incurred.
The Rise in Cotton.