Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-29
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brother than she did on him.
- Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Ste
phens, and all the ex.offcers and soldiers and
sailors of the Confederate army and navy, have
been given general invitation to attend a
national reunion of ex-Federal soldiers, soon to
be held at Caldwell, Ohio.
-- Europe has 100000 soldiers all ready
for fighting, with $4,000 cannon and 1885,
900 horses its united fleets consist of 1000
vessels, manned by $50, 900 sailors, and carry
ing $4,000 guns. The cost of these immense
armaments is $3.50, 100000 annually, three
fifths Of the amount being consecrated to the
armies.
-- Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, was
lately brought before the Frankfort police
court for playing croquet in the state house
yard A statute, which nearly everybody
had forgotten, forbids any games in the capitol
grounds, and some practical joker thought
it was too good an opportunity to be lost.
A fine of one cent was laid upon the govern
or, so as to sustain the dignity of the law.
- At party, recently, a sentimental
young lady strolled with a gentleman, on
whom she had her eye into the conservatory.
Looking up peusively into his face, she said,
with tears in her voice, "Ah, no one loves me,
Mr.. Barnesr' "Some one does! % Eyes ?" said
the lady, dropping her head and pressing his
arm ever so little. Eyes, Miss Nellie" said
the wretch, "God loves you.'
- The Texas Legislature at its last session
passed license law for trades or occupations,
and made it penal otfense for any one to pur-
sues any occupation, callingo or profession with
out having obtained license. The object OF
the law is partly for the public protection and
partly to raise a revenue Rather hard, how
ever, for a man to have to pay license IN
order that he may work at his trade. Texas
will have to learn another lesson in political
economy.
- Miss Mary Wilctts, of Richmond, Va,
refused to allow the appraisers to enter room
of her late fathers house, and after repeated
efforts to enforce the order Of chancery, two or
three officers and an axe were finally necessa-
ry, before she could be taken from her room
and brought to court. Her obstinacy was
SO extraordinary that the Judge ordered COM
mission de lunatico, before furnishing her for
contempt. The commission will probably ind
the whole story to he that when woman won't
she won't.
- Congressman L. @. c. Lamar, of Mis-
sissippi has been nominated for reelection by
his constituents, on platform opposing the
organization of parties on the color line,
and invoking the cooperation of good citizens
ofevery color and nativity to secure honest
and capable government. Throughout his
public life, as the people know, Mr.. Lamar
acts up to his own memorable words, spoken
by the bier of Sumner, "My countrymen
Know one another, and ye will love one
another"
- The indications with reference to the
approaching centennial in Philadelphia are
growing better. England, with her character,
istic energy when she once takes hold OF
an enterprise, is the first foreign country to be
gin the work ofbuilding. Japan, Sweden, and
even Morocco are preparing to erect suitable
structures, and Austria sends word that she
must have one. third more room that she orig
inaly asked for. Now that there is every
reason to believe that participation in the
great celebration will be general, Congress
will probably not hesitate to extend the neces'
sary aid to make the exhibition a grand sue.
cess.
- The extraordinary decline in the prices
has enabled our manufacturers to court trade
that few years ago they would never have
dreamed Of Prices are now 80 low, and the
American demand for goods 80 slack, that 1t
is found that some manufactures of cotton
can actually be shipped from this country to
England for sale there. The enterprise is be-
ing attempted in some quarters, and the re-
suit will be awaited with interest. Success
has attended similar enterprise with some
iron manufacturers, and prices have been
brought so nearly together on the opposite
side of the ocean as to almost stop English
exports to this country. Five years ago such
an achievement would have been thought al
together out of the question.
"A dispatch from Muscogee, Indian Terri
tory, under date ofthe 18th instant says: "Ihe
contest for principal Chief of the Cherokee
nation is getting more exciting every day.
The contestants are W. P. Ross and Onceltet-
ia. The election takes place in August.
Within the past sixty days sixteen men and
two females have been murdered in Cherokee
nation. This has been done i'll population
of less than 10000 souls, and the most of
these murders have been committed by reason
of quarrels growing out of feuds existing be-
tween the Ross and Downing parties. Jesu
Foreman, Mr.. Buckeyehead, Jack Double
tooth and Dick Fields, all prominent Down
ing men, have been shot. The last named
was shot in church at Talaquah, and was Au.
ditor Of the nation. The General Council OF
the Seminole nation is in session at Wewakkee.
1t is thought that they will reject the new con-
stitution reported by the grand council of
Okemulgee.
During the first half of the current
wear the number of mercantile failures in this
country was over $500, and the aggregate Ii
abilities of the suspended merchants are about
seventy-five millions of dollars. This would
seem to be very large amount of suspended
debts for single half year; but we are assured
it is much less than the average for the cor
responding previous half years since 1871,
and that it consequently indicates healthier
condition of trade, so far as dininution in
the number and amount of failures can. 1t
is quite evident to any one who analyzes the
subject, that many of these failures, although
set down to 1875, in reality belong to previous
wears. They have been caused by the revul'
sion of 1873, with its depression and declining
prices The unfortunate merchant, with bank
ruptcy impending, has been struggling to post
pone failure as long as possible, hoping ultl-
mately to get through-paying one debt by
making Misunderstanding up an old note with
new one-doing the best he could with his
declining market-the result being post
ponernent of the final reckoning by piling up
interest and spending capital, until the crash
became inevitable Hence the cause of most
of these failures of 1875 goes back to 1878, or