Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-02-12
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try $4,000 by the time he is fit to take his
place on the active list.
- Virginia has larger proportion of hel
population at college than any other State in
the Union.
1t is now officially announced that there
are between 1000 and 10000 oranges in the
country, and they number nearly 100000
men.
- There is nothing like good definition
as the teacher thought when he explained the
meaning of "old maid" as woman who had
been made very long time.
"A Washington letter calls attention to
the noteworthy fact that not dollar has ever
been missing from the department of the
comptroller of the currency where women
exclusively are employed as clerks.
The sales of postage stamps during
January were 100000 stamps in excess of
the sales in any previous month, but do not
include the stamps for government use and
stamped envelopes or wrappers That is $780,
900, or $2,520,000 in year. Members of
Congress had to buy large number of them,
of course.
- The Richmond Enquirer says that hun
dreds of well-to-do English families are pre-
pairing to emigrate to Virginia in the spring.
Land has already been purchased by English
men in Amelia County to the extent OF
100000, and settlers are we'll pleased to own
their farms instead of renting land at home
for $25 an acre.
"A demure citizen of Portland was walk
ing down town one morning last week, when a
stranger asked him "Do you know where
the post Office is?' eyes," answered the Port
lander, affably, and walked on without further
parley. After proceeding for about ten steps
he looked back, and inquired in turn: "Why
did you want to knoww "No," replied the
victim, with great earnestness; and then, the
account having been balanced, the two shook
hands gravely, and walked off toward hotel.
THE Western grangers are said to have
adopted line of policy which may make can
didates for political preferment, mind their
p's and as. They make it point to embody
the leading questions of the day in letters to
the candidates for public Office, and to the
members of Congress as new questions arise,
requesting definite statements of their views.
The only trouble is that the candidates may
blow hot before the election and very cold
after it.
- The Illinois Legislature has attempted
novel experiment in the way of controlling
operations in the grain trade of the State.
Fines ranging from $40 to $1,000, and i'm
prisonment in the county jail for year, may
be visited upon any one who sells for future
delivery stock or produce which he does not
own at the time. The same fate awaits any
one who gets up "corner," or even tries to
do it, or agitates the market with false rumors
for the purpose of speculation. This will
make it lively for the Chicago dealers, provi-
ded the provisions of the law can be enforced.
- The New York Commercial Advertiser
presents picture of the way in which nearly
half the population in that city live, that
would hardly seem to invite immigration to
the metropolis. 1t confesses that the over
crowding system of tenement houses is carried
to greater excess in New York than any other
Christian city in the world, and a table of
comparative statistics proves the fact. The
population of the Strand, in London, num-
bers 307 to the square acre, and of East Lon
don, the next most crowded, 266 !; yet in New
York it is 1928 to the acre in one ward, 311 in
another, 275 in third and 289 in fourth.
Sometimes as many as $50 families occupy
single building, and all the living is done by
each family in rooms that are mere filthy and
sitting dens.
- In the new banking bill, which is now
pending before the lower house of Congress,
there is an important provision looking to
the resumption Of specie payment. 1t re-
quires the Secretary of the Treasury to retire
and destroy s2,O00,000 of greeubacks on the
first day of every month, and issue in their
place like amount of new notes, containing
on their faces promise that they shall be
redeemed in gold at the expiration of two
years from the date of their issue. The Sec-
retary is also required to retain in the treas
ury all gold not required to meet the coin
liabilities of the Government. This seems to
have been inserted as a requirement Of the
"hard money" element. Another amend
ment to the bill agreed upon is provision
requiring banks without circulation to deposit
in the treasury $4,000 in bonds, instead of
,ne.third of the amount of ftheir capital, as now
required. The bill will likely pass.
- The crusade of the Ohio women against
the liquor dealers goes vigorously on. In all
the Ohio villages the ladies are zealously be-
sieging the saloon keepers with prayer meet
ings. They are making the rounds of the
saloons daily, and at each one they present
the pledge to the proprietors to quit the sale
of intoxicating liquors. 1t is said that the
roughest men find it sometimes. impossible to
restrain tears as the ladies kneel on the flags
in the cold or storm, and they frequently
yield to their entreaties. In one place the
dealers were determined to hold out. Ac-
cordingly picket of ladies watched the sa-
looms and Immediately surrounded the doors
when any man tried to enter for drink.
One of the saloon keepers has sold his stock
to an active promoter OF the crusade and ne
will move West. At New Lexington, Perry
county, the war is vigorously prosecuted by
about one hundred ladies and one hundred
and fifty men. Immense temperance meet
ings are being held, at which one of the
speakers is an ex-colonel, who rehearses the
story of his downward career as drunkard.
The praying band of sisters is seventy-fve
strong, and they 60 the rounds every day. A
saloon-keeper there has issued posters warning
the women not to obstruct his legitimate busi-
ness, but they are not at all terrified at his
warning. In most of the villages the ladies
have seven or eight leaders, each commanding
band of twenty to forty, and divide the time
regularly. Ifthe saloons will not close under
regular agreement, they purpose to keep a
permanent guard from this time on until the
people get accustomed to do without saloons.
Their success thus far has been only average,
the record showing that the consumption of
liquor has decreased two-thirds.
THE facts of the courtship and marriage
of the late Siamese twins are thus related by
q correspondent who visited Mount Airy soon