Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-02-11
Straps aud fatts.

Gently at Brownsville, Tennessee. He was
born in Mecklenburg county, N. G.
The new postal arrangements with Cana.
da provide for the full prepayment of postage
on all mail matter, at the domestic rates of
the country from which sent, and the country
of destination will deliver free Of charge.
The Granite and Crescent Mills, and
the Merchants Mill, at Fall River, Massa-
chusetts, stopped work last week. The Wea-
ver's Union, Of that place, has decided to send
one thousand weavers back to England.
The young man who resolved to COM
NIT suicide because his sweetheart married an
undertaken, owes his life to the second sober
thought, that he might be furnishing his ri
val a job.
- Recently the local paper at Grass
Valley said: The prettiest girl in Grass Val
ley doesn't carry herself straight enough when
promenading For week after, all the
Grass Valley girls stalked about like so
many bean poles and every girl said. "That
horrid paper! Ma, don't I walk straight {"
-- The coinage of silver under the act
which promises resumption of specie payments
in 1879 has already actively commenced.
Last month the Philadelphia mint turned out
722,3O0 half dollars, 300 quarters and 550,300
dimes-in all 1,272,9OO coins, not to mention
100000 pewter fve-cent pieces and 1,1SO,00O
minute bits of copper called cents.
-- The tendency of improvements in
telegraphy is towards cheapness and rapidity
of transmitting messages. At a recent trial Of
an instrument which quadruples the capacity
Of each wire, 302 business messages, averaging
ten words each, were transmitted in ninety
minutes over a single wire, four operators
working at each end thereof. The old in
strument sent from sixty to eighty words per
minute.
- Petroleum is so abundant in the Penn
sylvania oil region that the more wells man
has the poorer he is likely to be. Wells that
would once have brought S250,000 are slow
at $4,000 and one man at Titusville, who
lately had an income Of 100000 is now hard
ly worth his hat. The exceeding superabun-
dance of the oil renders it almost valueless,
as it has declined from S6 to so cents per bar
rel.
The statement that Mr. johnson gave
"pledges" as to his future political action to
the squad of Republicans who voted for him,
is reduced to the fact that he assured them he
would not be governed in his action by mere
partisanship. On entering the Senate, Mr..
johnson will find there twelve senators who
voted "yea" on the impeachment occasion
Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Conkling, Cragin
Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Howe, the
two Morrills, Morton and Sherman.
-- Senator elect Christiancy, of Michigan,
seems to stand upon sound platform. In a
recent letter he says: "The manner of my
election leaves me at liberty to support or op-
pose measures upon their merits, according to
my conviction Of right, and with reference to
the interests of the whole country, rather than
for any partisan ends, and I propose to avail
myselfof that liberty on all proper occasions" !"
This is in pleasing contrast with the policy
pursued by his predecessor, Mr.. Chandler.
- The commissioner of internal revenue
has written to the United States district attor-
ney at Richmond, advising him that the pro-
ceedings against drawers of unstamped checks,
seized in the recent raid upon the banks of
that city, may be dismissed upon the defen-
dants paying costs. A large number of de-
PENDANTS have availed themselves of the op-
portunity of compromise thus afforded. The
costs in each case amount to twelve or thir-
teen dollars.
The House judiciary committee have
agreed to report favorably the bill recommen.
ded by Gen. Butler in relation to telegraph
lines. Should the bill become law, it will
be an important one. 1t constitutes all tele-
graph lines post-routes, and authorizes the
Postmaster General to advertise for proposals
for the transaction of governmental business,
so far as practicable, by telegraph, under the
same limitations and with the same authority
as for the Transmission of mails over post
roads. 1t prohibits any telegraph company
from being engaged in the collection or pur-
chase Of commercial or other news, prohibits
any discrimination whatever in the charges
for press or commercial news or private tele'
grams, and compels telegraph companies to
forward, at the usual rates, the messages of
other companies, and no preference shall be
given by one company to another.
"A Boston merchant" suggests through
the New York Tribune, that General Grant
probably regrets the resignation of his military
position, and would gladly return to it. To
meet the Presidents wishes, and at the same
time restore peace and prosperity to the coun,
try, the writer proposes that President Grant
shall at once resign the Presidency with the
understanding that Congress shall create the
office of Field-marshal, with large salary for
life, and Mr. Vice-President Wilson shall ap.
point Gen. Grant to that position. Ifthere be
anything in this-if it be an inkling in any
degree Of the Presidents preferences-never
theess it is not to be supposed he would resign
his present post before Congress had created
the new Office of 6eld-marshal-Mr. Wilson
giving pledges, which he could not disregard
that he would carry out the understanding
- Parties in the next Senate of the Uni
ted States will be much more evenly balanced
than is generally supposed, and it is safe to
say that had there been a half dozen more
States to elect Senators, the opposition would
have secured clear majority in the Senate
On the Sd of March next the terms Of twenty
five Senators will expire. Of these seventeen
are administration and eight opposition
twenty-five States have elected Senators, and
in three-Minnesota Florida, and West Vir'
ginia-a result has not yet been reached. OF
the new Senators fifteen are safely to be placed
in the opposition, and to these may be added
those whom West Virginia and Florida will
elect. This, with the sixteen opposition mem
bers holding over, gives the anti-administra'
ton party total of thirty-three members
and leaves the administration with only forty
one, giving them the successor of Senator Ram
sey in Minnesota, and counting the vacant
seat for Louisiana in their favor.
- The St. Louis Republican enters a vigo
rous protest against the prejudice which exists
in society against sold maids" and places ii
among the popular and pernicious delusions
which seem to have gained 6rmer foothold