Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-15

Only eight cents in addition to the reg
ular postage, will hereafter be charged on
registered letters sent through the post office,
instead of fifteen cents, as heretofore.
Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, has de.
clined the present Of fine pair of horses and
Il carriage which his admiring friend desired
to present him.
-- The culture of the sugar-cane, which
has to great extent been abandoned on the
low lands Of Louisiana, will in the future be
largely prosecuted on the pine lands of Mis-
sissippi and Alabama.
The corn crop this year of Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Ohio and Tennessee, is 241 100000 bushels
below that of 1872. The potato crop in the
same States shows loss Of Is, 100000, BUSH
els
- The New York Tribune says: "The
new year opens with an ease of money that
threatens active stock speculations and a rise
in prices. Sixty or seventy millions will be
liberated for investment within the fortnight
from coupons and dividends. The government
initiation seems sure to bring out the whole
forty-four millions, and the tendencies are all
toward expansion"
The Havana papers, as might naturally
be expected, wax exceeding wroth over the
sinking of the Virginius, which they assume to
have been deliberate contrivance on the
part of our government to avoid the possibili-
ty of having to surrender the vessel again into
the hands other Spanish captors, in the event
Of her proving, upon judicial investigation,
not entitled to an American registry.
- Gen. Sherman, when before the militia
ry committe the other day, was asked what he
thought of colored troops, and to this ques-
tion replied, that he would not say that
he preferred colored to white troops, but
he could not withhold his testimony to the
fact that the two regiments Of colored troops
now in the service had fulfilled all the mill
tary duties required of them, and had proven
their valor in many frontier engagement.
"A secret organization exists in Cuba
not less terrible than the famous Thugs of
India. A few days ago, five dead bodies
were found in the streets of Havana, each
with stab through the heart. Scarcely a
morning passes that the ghastly traces of this
secret body are not discovered. 1t is a terrible,
significant fact that in every instance the
a Spaniard who was known to have been
cons picuous in the horrible outrages that had
been perpetrated upon the families of Cuban
sympathizers and members of the Masonic
fraternity.
- Considerable merriment was created
among Congressman in the House of Repre-
sentatives several days ago, by William
Crutchfeld, of Tennessee, who asked leave to
offer an amendment to the Supplemental Civil
Rights Bill, providing penalty against any
woman who refused any offer of marriage on
account of race, color or previous condition of
servitude. Crutchfield is Republican, and
though he offered this amendment purely in
lest, he knows we'll enough that were such an
amendment necessary to the success OF the
Republicans, his party would not hesitate to
adoptit.
- Large numbers of wild horses abound on
the prairies between the Arkansas and Smoky
Hill Rivers They are of all sizes and COL
ors, and the widest of wild animals. They
usually roam in bands of from six to twenty,
and will run at sight Of man two miles away.
A great many domestic horses as we'll as mules,
which have strayed away from their owners,
have taken up with the wild ones. After
running with them for a while they become as
wild as their untamed companions Various
methods have been adopted to capture these
aboriginal horses, but they have generally
proved fruitless. A scrubby colt or a broken
down mule is as general thing, the only re-
ward for all the time, labor and expense Of
such schemes.
- Some of the reports that have leaked
out about an autographic telegraph just pat.
ented in Washington, but withheld from pub
licty until patented in other countries, init
mate an improvement that must be very con-
venient, and sometimes exceedingly so; and
may lead to radical changes in telegraphing.
The principel is apparently analogous to that
discovered by Mr.. Bakewell, in England,
several years ago, and that has been employed
with imperfect success in France-perhaps
elsewhere. At each station cylinder is at
tached to the transmitting and receiving in
strument. The manuscript to be sent is
wrapped around one and is instantly duplica-
ted on the other, no matter how distant. The
process is almost equivalent to photography,
and is instantaneous. 1t is perceptible at a
glance that the long dispatches now sent at
so much cost could be forwarded by this
nsas cheaply as the shortest, as they would
occupy no more time nor any more labor.
The Swedes and Germans of Wisconsin
have funny way of disposing of widows and
widowers, if the Green Bay advocate may be
credited. 1t states that there were eleven wild
dows and twelve widowers residing in Hol-
landtown, in that county, and it was deter
mined by the community that eleven of these
widowers should marry the disconsolate wild
dows. In order that it should be fairly done
and no one permitted to take his first choice,
to the disadvantage of his fellows, commit
tee was appointed, and the names Of the wild
ows we're placed in one box, and those of
the widowers in another. At P. NJ, of
the 9th of December, the drawing took place,
and all the parties we're disposed of but one
man, who although doubtless the happiest
man in seven counties, over the narrow
escape which he had, yet the committee are
casting about for some means to supply him
with partner, advertising that if there are
any widows in the neighboring towns who
would like to take him, "application can be
made to the president"
- 1t has been reported that the Wall street
leaders were pretty much all seriously crippled
by the panic, but this report is now denied.
1t is stated now that Cornelius Vanderbilt,
from whose estate the newspapers have sub
stracted from s5,OOO,0O0 to s10000,0OO by
the crash, has, on the contrary, kept all he had
of his $50,000 900, and bought stocks at so
low rate, when they were down, that he will,
by June be worth S60,000.000. He expects
to increase his pile to round hundred mil
lions in FIVE years. Daniel Drew has been
set down as bankrupt by the panic, but he
has not lost money enough to hurt him. He