Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-05
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ton, peas, corn, and potatoes, oug ght to be the
richest country in the world, and with mod
ifed agricultural system, it will soon be 80.
- 1t is said that the horses and carriages
owned and used by the people spending the
summer in Newport are worth at low estl-
mate 100000.
- Sixty railroads, with thirteen hundred
cars, were supplied with more than three
thousand Bibles by the American Bible So
ciety during the past year.
- From all quarters of Mississippi, the
crop reports continue good. In many neigh
borhoods the corn crop is now entirely safe; /;
on all sides the cotton is reported as healthy,
but backward.
- The New Bedford Standard says that
"the Wamsutta Mills corporation, owing to
the depression in trade caused by the extreme
low price of goods, has decided to close all the
mills for the month of August, or until busi-
ness warrants starting again"
- A Dutchman's definition of the game of
keno: dat ish Won leedle game all dc fellers
sets round NIT der dables, and put puttons on
pasteboard cards nit 6ggers OH dem, and
den by-and-by von feller he says, Geeno, and
den all dem uder fellers say "Oh, hell"
- The publication of the rebellion re-
cords, ordered by the last Congress, will prove
to be very costly. Five ocatavo volumes
have already been prepared for publication
each volume consisting of about eight hum
dred pages. The entire work, it is estimated,
will require one hundred volumes.
- The Missouri Constitutional Conven-
ton on Wednesday adopted an iron.clad oath
for parties who have been elected to office in
that State, which, uttered truthfully, will de-
stroy the use of money for election purposes,
and send every man to the official bat on his
own merits.
The reports from all sections Of the
country give very discouraging account Of
the crops. While the cotton region in the
South is suffering from protracted drought,
the grain fields of the West are wel.nigh de-
luged with rains and floods. The crop pros
pect, which two months ago was so promising,
is now dismal enough.
-"Amen! amen p shouted Cedar Rap
ids parson, at the elegant remarks ofa stranger
at the camp.meeting. Suddenly the parson turn
ed his eyes on the man, andjumping, up scream
ed, Catch him, brother, catch him !! He's the
three card monte man that got my last
months salary" This is the fact, and the
monte man is now in Jail at Cedar Rapids.
- The Macon Telegraph, of the 18th ult,
says: 1--WE received despatch from Albany
last night, stating that "Welch, Cook q Ba-
con received the first bale Of new cotton to-
day from Prmus Jones, of Baker county"
This is the first Georgia bale received this
year, and much earlier than the earliest OF
last year.
- In the vicinity of Montgomery, Ala,
the drought is playing havoc with corn and
cotton. In some places there has been no
rain since May, and the crops are an utter
failure. In the greater part OF the cotton
belt no rain has fallen in from four to SIX
weeks, and the thermometer is ranging from
81 to 9S 1t is estimated the crop has been
cut off from twenty-five to thirty'three per
cent.
Attorney General Pierrepont has replied
in response to the question whether ne had re-
Gently received any accounts of ku-kluxlnng
outrages, that he had received none since ne
had occupied his present position The num-
ber of applications for pardon is not so large
as heretofore, the circular issued several
months ago by the Attorney General on that
subject being more rigid in its requirements
than the former course.
- The Ogethorpe, Georgia, Echo, says
"At the surrender Mr.. James NJ. Smith, OF
this county, was left like the great mass Of
our people, with very slender means in hand.
He went to work with a WILL and, this year,
from eighteen acres in wheat he harvested 40
bushels had two acres in oats and harvested
l25 bushels; has 1900 acres in cotton, from
which he expects to realize 800 bales cotton
1000 acres in corn, from which he expects to
obtain 10000 bushels corn and at least 3O,-
600 bundles fodder. The whole crop will
not aggregate him less than $4,000"
-C Col. Blanton Duncan has, as attorney
for the cket.holders, made demand on the
managers of the Louisville lottery for the bal
ance ofsixty-two per cent of the prizes un-
paid, declaring that the consent Of the ticket
holders was not given to the reduction of the
amount of the prizes. He has also renewed
his application, previously unnoticed, for an
official list of the prizes drawn and the unsold
numbers, also of the approximates, and states
in his letter that the office has issued at least
two lists, both purporting to be official, which
do not accord with each other.
- Recent statistics show that the Southern
States have 1877 mills, 10,447 looms, 497,627
spndles, and last year consumed 5S.99o,ol9
pounds, or about LAT 49l bales Of 400 pounds
each. Georgia has AZ of the mills, running
1884 looms and 1S9,330 spindles, and con-
sumed 1S,522,S99 pounds or 46,307 bales.
The next State to Georgia in consumption is
South Carolina, which consumes 7,l34,55S
pounds, and the next is Alabama, with g.
49O, ,79O. followed closely by Tennessee, with
6,276,153, and North Carolina, 6,032, 1913 /;
Virginia, 5,434,025 pounds, and the rest are
under 100000 except Missouri, which takes
3,481,373 pounds.
- In conversation with reporter of the
Fond du Lac Ne,os. ex-senator Carpenter, OF
Wisconsin, said "In my opinion, Gen. Grant
will be the candidate of the Republican party
for third term. l can see no possible way
of avoiding it, He will undoubtedly be the
candidate of the Republicans next year on a
hard money platform. This situation affords
him the exact pretext he wanted, and to
which he referred when he wrote his third
term letter as circumstances not likely to oc-
cur I think Judge David Davis, of the
United States Supreme Court, will be the
Democratic candidate on greenback plat
form, and that greenbacks will VIM
- The Galveston (Texas) Neus says no
one who has been in the habit of visiting the
different wharves in that harbor for any length
of time can have helped noticing in the past
the immense quantities ofgrain imported from
the Western States by way of New Orleans
Thousands and tens of thousands of dollars
were annually drawn from the inhabitants OF
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