Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-12-10
Straps aud fatts.


- Texas is to have convention to frame a
new constitution.
- Henry Clews and Company have been
adjudged bankrupts.
- The cotton mills at the North are COM
mencing to run on full time.
- 1t is reported that Judge Swayne will
soon retire from the Supreme Court Bench.
-- The Arkansas State Senate has adopted
a amemorial to Congress, asking repeal Of the
tax on leaf tobacco.
-Quartermaster Meigs' report states that
railroad companies, principally in the South,
owe the government seven and half million
dollars.
- Tuesday of last week was the coolest
day of the season throughout the East, the
thermometer registering from three degrees
below zero to seven degrees above.
~ Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, fell
dead, of heart disease, on Monday of last
week, while transacting public business in the
City Hall.
1t is stated that there are at present one
hundred and sixty Chinese students in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts,. Each is allow
ed $500 per annum by his emperor.
-- An epidemic, similar to the black iux
which follows cholera, has broken out in AL
exaudria, sixty miles east Of Nashville, Tenn.
Several persons have died of the disease, and
the inhabitants are flying, terror-stricken.
Lieutenant Governor Smith and former
Secretary of State Wheeler, Of Arkansas, are
reported to have gone to Washington for the
purpose of presenting the claims of the former
for the gubernatorial chair before Congress.
- The smallpox is rapidly spreading in
New York City. Sixty.fve cases were re.
ported last week, and many others are believed
not to have been reported. The smallpox
Asylum at Blackwell's Island is crowded with
patients.
Notwithstanding all that has been said
and written against it, the use Of horse and
mule flesh for food is rapidly spreading in
Paris, it being the chief diet of the poor, who
can't afford to pay the high prices demand
ed for beef
- To show how love levels all inequalities
of station, Paris records recent wedding
wherein the bridegroom was three feet four
inches in height, and the bride six feet and a
half Which manfestly cannot be regarded
as marriage Of convenience"
-- The balance of trade seems to be u
little against the business of journalism just
now. Rowell's Newspaper Reporter" for
the current week chronicles the death of sixty
nine newspapers, and announces the publica-
ton of only nineteen new candidates for
public favor
- Robinson Crusoe's Island, in the South
Pacific Ocean, is now peopled by German
colony of about seventy souls, who landed
upon its shore in 1862. On their arrival
they found large hocks of goats, thirty half
wild horses, about sixty asses, and number
of other domestic animals. They brought
with them COWS, hogs, fowls, farming utensils,
small boats and fishing tackel.
- Jennie June's last New York letter
contains an abundance Of seasonable gossip
from the Metropolis Business is brighten
ing under the influence of Thanksgiving and
the approach of the holidays, and in a solid
and substantial direction. Leading jewellers
and slversmiths declare that there has rarely
been such demand for fine jewelry and solid
silverware as now. Diamonds, especially,
can hardly be obtained in sufficient quantities.
Six years ago the cultivation Of tobacco
in North Carolina was confined to few coun-
ties on her northern border, but since that
time the area of cultivation has extended
rapidly, and now embraces large portion OF
the State, the crop having become a leading
industry. That the soil and climate of part
of the State furnish the natural requisites for
the production of tobacco is evidenced in the
fact that the crop grown there is unsurpassed
for manufacturing purposes.
1t has been estimated that of IL, ,000,-
900 women in America, II, 100000 wear cali.
CO dresses, more or less; that the spirit OF
economy, has during the past year, induced
them to forego one dress piecefrom theiru usual
outlay that the average calico dress contains
eleven yards, and that consequently there has
been a loss to the trade by this retrenchment
of 12l, 100000 yards This is nearly the en-.
tire product of all the mills of Massachusetts
for a year.
-- The representatives of the United
States to the two principal countries Inhabited
and governed entirely by the colored race,
are themselves colored men, and both these
colored diplomatists are at present sojourn-
ing in this country on leave of absence from
their posts. They are Ebenezer D. Bas-
sett former resident of Philadelphia, who
has been minister resident and consul gener-
al to Hayti since 1869, and James Mil
ton Turner, of St. Louis, who has been
minister resident and consul general to Libe-
ria since February, 1871. Mr.. Turner has
had quite checkered career, having been a
slave in St. Louis county, No, before the
war.
-- Decidedly the finest turnouts in Wash
ington, says correspondent, are those of Presl-
dent Grant and Postmaster-General Jewell.
The former consists of four blooded bay horses,
which are generally driven to landaulet, the
harness being silver-mounted, and their ap-
pearance on the street always attracts con-
siderable attention, from the fact they are
always driven in fine, mastery style, and are
50 beautifully matched. The turnout of Post
master General Jewell is generally considered
bv connoiseurs to be the finest in the city.
He drives in his landau two magnificent
blacks that can make their mile easily inside
of 250 and their style of action always
makes them noticeable. Mr.. W. w. Corco-
ran, the wealthy banker, and George Ban
croft, also drive splendid teams.
"A dispatch from Memphis, dated De-
cember 2, says: "The Cotton Exchange crop
report for November was issued this morning
and gives the following summary derived from
one hundred and seven responses from West
Tennessee, North Mississippi and Arkansas,
north of the Arkansas river. Sixty-four
report damages by frost at three and half
per cent; due exertlons are being made to
save the CROP The average at the closing of
the cotton picking season last year was Janu-