Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-24
Sfraps aud fafts.

Sl,50O,000.
- The KaorviNe Whig, with William G.
Brownlow as editor, will make its appearance
on tho first of March.
- Santa Anna is living comfortably in
the city of Mexico. He is described as still
of an upright, soldierly figure, with eyes as
black as coal, and thin but not gray hair.
"A Frenchman has opened restaurant
in Thompson street, New York, where he gives
a piece of bread, plate of vegetable soup, and
a plate of vegetables to order, for FIVE cents.
- France has now but one doctor to ev-
cry twenty-four hundred inhabitants. Amer
lea has one to every eight hundred, and is
none the healthier
-- According to the Eufaula (Alabama)
Neos, the negroes of Barbour county are
collecting money to be used by negro women
in obtaining divorces from their husbands
who voted the Democratic ticket.
- When you meet with men who do not
scruple to make use ola woman's name in a
reckles and unprincipled manner, shun them !;
they are the very worst members of the COM
munity-men lost to every sense of honor and
every feeling Of humanity.
-- The Ohio State temperance convention,
which met in Columbus recently, adopted a
memorial to the general assembly for the
passage of claw disqualifying habituai
drunkards from holding Office, and for the
removal ofsuch persons now in Office"
Iowa spent last year $5,6S3,641 in
the support of her common schools. Of the
49l ,244 children in the State between five and
twenty-one years DID, 1857 ,572 are on the pub
lie school rolls; 1882 are .enrolled in the
private schools, and 131 $40 do not attend.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says: The
most popular man in South Carolina just now
seems to be Governor Chamberlain He has
recently exhibited an earnest determination
for reform, and has, so far, proved himself a
better man than his accusers thought him.
"A st. Louis woman, separated from her
husband, recently sent him long list of pro-.
positions, upon his acceptance of which she
would live with him again. Womanlike, she
indicated the only real cause of difference in
apostscript, as follows: "Your mother must
leave the house at once and forever"
- Among the humors of the election in
Worcester, the other day, was the fact that
in ward two husband and his wife were the
opposing candidates for the school committee,
Mr. Rogers having been nominated by the
"citizens" and Mrs. Rogers on the independ-
ent ticket. The wife proved stronger candi-
date than the husband, and received twice as
many votes, or thereabout.
"A man in Michigan procured divorce
from his wife, intending to marry another
woman. The latter, however, got tired of
waiting and married another man on the day
the divorce was granted. Then the fellow
hesitated whether or not to make up with his
wife again, and while he was hesitating, his
wife married another fellow. This is what
would naturally be called getting left all
round.
The text of the bill ''to regulate elec-
tions in the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and
Louisiana" introduced in Congress last week,
has at length been published. 1t is some
what after the style of the enforcement
act, and seems to have been prepared with
the view of anticipating any property or
educational qualifications of voters which
may possibly hereafter be engrafted in the
constitutions of the States named
- The committee on the District of Colum-
bia report in favor of the transfer of the entire
government the district to new department
of the government styled the "board of re-
gents" to consist of three men appointed by
the President and confirmed by the Senate.
This board shall have the entire management
Of the affairs of the district, except that the
board Of education shall be elective they shall
report their doings annually to Congress, hold
office for fixed terms, and be removed for
cause.
- One way to settle the dispute over the
cotton tax has been suggested by Mr.. Smith,
member of Congress from North Carolina
He has introduced bill which provides that
the money collected from the Southern peo.
pie as tax on their cotton product shall be
appropriated to pay the debts of the Southern
States. The secretary of the treasury and the
attorney general are directed to confer with
the creditors and agree upon compromise.
The money paid as cotton tax by the people of
the State to be devoted to the payment of the
debt of such State. If the amount is INSULT
cient to pay the whole, it is to be applied to
the debt Of the oldest date as far as it will 90.
Where there is a surplus, it shall be paid over
to the State for free school purposes.
- The cotton product of 1874, as esti-
mated by the cotton growers in their returns
to the department Of agriculture, somewhat
exceeds 100000 bales. The yield per acre
is reported less than in 1873. In most of the
States the weather for rpening and gathering
the top crop has been very favorable. The
reports are nearly unanimous in stating that
the proportion of lint to seed is large. The
percentages of last years aggregate of bales
in the principal cotton States are as follows
Virginia, 80; North Carolina, 80; South
Carolina, 50; Georgia, SO; Florida, 100; Ala
bama, s5; Mississippi, 80; Louisiana, 80;
Texas, 80; Arkansas, 60; Tennessee, 81.
This result corresponds very closely with the
indications Of the monthly statements of the
conditions made by the department during
the season, which have been printed, and show
larger crop than the reports of cotton ex-
changes.
- The success with which the expert,
ments in cotton raising have been attended
in California the past season, gives much pro-
mise of the future of the State as cotton
grower 1t is said Tulare and Fresno coun-
ties will put in market about 10000 pounds
of cotton, making the total yield in the State
foot up to about 100000 pounds, and that
the yield in Merced county the present season
will be fully one hundred pounds per acre
more than that of the most favored Southern
States. There are upwards Of one thousand
acres of land devoted to cotton growing in
that section alone. The average yield of the
county, says contemporary, will be about
three hundred pounds per acre. This year
will afford q full and sufficient test Of the ca: