Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-08
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York, was destroyed by fire on Friday last.
Brigham Young is said to have sent
orders to his agents in Europe to send over
no female saints over thirty years ofage.
The total colored population of the
United States is 4,SS0,0OO, Of which 5S4, ,04O
are mulattoes.
"A Council Bluffs man notifies the Gran
gers that he will sell them cofins cheaper than
any other man in the city.
- The Edgar Stewart, which made six
successful landings at Cuba, is reported fitting
out at Baltimore for another venture.
- By the death of Mrs. VIM. Stamps, at
Wnodville, Miss, Mr.. Jefferson Davis loses
his only sister and becomes the sole surviving
member of the family.
- Commercial drummers are as bad off as
mechanics. New York alone has discharg-
ed five thousand of them. Advertising has
not decreased.
"A man in Rochester, n. Y, was recent
ly sentenced to sixty days in the penitentiary
for stealing one newspaper left at the residence
ola subscriber by a carrier.
1t has been suggested that two cent-pos-
tai cards be issued, on which the receiver Of
message might send reply without cost to
himself.
"A Cuban editor, who stated in his pa
per that Ryan and others met their death
bravely, has been fined five hundred dol
lars and sentenced to the chain gang for eigh-
teen months.
-- kossuth, the once famous Hungarian
dictator, is now very poor and is represented
as being engaged in giving lessons in German,
English and Hungarian, at whatever price
his pupils may be willing to pay.
"A young beau, at his sisters evening
party, began to sing, "Why am so Weak
and WearyY when little brother brought
, the performance to sudden close by yelling
out, "Aunt Mary says it's because you come
home so late and drunk, most every night"
- The national debt statement to the first
of January, shows an increare of the public
debt during December of SS,435,272, and an
increase since June 30th, 1878, of Sl1 1885,
6l2. Currency in the treasury, S4,277 SOL /;
coin, s91, Ats, ,109 coin certificates, S37 ,543,-
300; outstanding legal tenders, S37S, ,4Ol, ,7O2.
Louisiana, which before the war was
behind some of the other States in the pro-
duction of cotton, now surpasses every other
State. Its crop this year will be 100000
bales Of the 100000 bales raised in all the
South. To do this the State has largely
abandoned the cultivation of sugar.
- There are now three distinct estimates
of the cotton crop from sources which are en-
titled to respect They are as follows: New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, 3,5S5,OOO bales I;
Agricultural Bureau at Washington, $780,
800 bales; New York Financial Chronicle,
4,065,000 Average Of the three 3,972,933,
or about $4,000 bales below the crop of last
year.
"A car load ofsilk worms eggs, valued at
s2,OOO,OO0, arrived at Chicago recently from
China. They were purchased in Yokohomo,
by the French government, and arrived at
San Francisco, on the 18th of December
The silk worms egg is about one-quarter the
size of pins head, and the reader may gain
an idea Of the number of eggs now on their
way to Paris when he learns that on this car
there are nine and a half tons of eggs.
- The first county court which ever con-
vened in Kentucky met under an old elm
tree in Harrodsburg, in 177S. A correspon-
dent of the Danville Advocate writes Of the
tree: "This historical old monarch Of the
forest stood "a thing of beauty until few
years since, when its green boughs suddenly
began to droop and turn 'sere and yellow
The trunk was found to contain many sears
and pieces of spears, and flints and bullets
were imbedded in it,
The latest magnificent scheme for gov
ernment subsidy is proposed American dai-
ly line of transatlantic steamers. The
- =. ta1 in
New York, and copies of the prospectus
which is to be laid before Congress, are alrea-
dy floating around in Washington. 1t is pro-
posed to make three hundred and sixty five
round trips between the United States and
Liverpool. 1t is proposed that every week
two ships shall leave each of the ports of Bos-
ton, New York and Philadel phia, and one
ship from Baltimore The parties propose to
build forty-6ve ships and to issue bonds to
pay for them, endorsed by the government
The little Swiss Republic practices a
severe economy in the matter of official sala,
ries, from which a fair practical moral may
be drawn for the great republic of the United
States DR.. c. Shenck, whose election to the
presidency Of the confederation was recently
announced by cable, receives salary of three
thousand dollars, holds his position but one
year. and will not be eligible for reelection
until the expiration Of another year. The
vice president has two thousand four hundred
dollars and the seven members of the coun-
Gil, each of whom presides over an admins
trative department, also receive two thousand
four hundred dollars each. The confedera-
ton consists of twenty five cantons, the ag-
gregate population Of which in 1860 was g.
534,24O.
THE postmaster at Manassas, Va, hav-
ing resigned his position, was asked by the
department to recommend a suitable person
us his successor. Being unwilling to recon-
mend any one without testing the desire Of
the people, he ordered an..eection for the pur-
pose. The voting was without reference to
party lines, and there were very few of the
wives and daughters of the prominent citizens
of the village that did not improve the first
chance Virginia ladies ever had to exercise the
right of suffrage. The result Of the election
was very much as anticipated. larger vote
was polled than was ever cast at any Presi-
dental or State contest, and Of the 328 votes
cast, young lady by the name of Pine re-
ceived 303 to her male opponents 25.
THE immigration of 1873, judging from
the arrivals reported at New York, is not so
large as during 1872. During 1878, down to
December 20, there were 1885, II immigrants
landed at New York, the number for the cor
responding period 1872 having been 292,993,
a decrease of 26,922. The bulk of the i'm
migrants this year came from Germany and
Ireland, as usual, the former sending us 1O5,-
794, and the latter 76,0S3. England sent