Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-14
Sfraps aud fafts.

fora better business year than that of the
departed 1874.
The statistics show that last year a
smaller number of immigrants arrived at New
York than in any year since 1862.
- The United States House of Represen-
tatives has appropriated $4,000 for repairing
Fort Moultrie.
"A youthful murderer-a negro boy aged
13-was found guilty of manslaug hter in the
Superior Court at Raleigh, on Friday last.
-- The Charlotte Observer learns that Har-
vey Groner, who lived near South Point, Gas
ton county, committed suicide few days ago,
by hanging
Arrangements are being made for the
commencement of Masonic temple in Raj
eigh, which is to be erected on magnificent
scale.
The sale of pews at Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, (Beecher's church) recently, re-
allied $4,000 against $4,000 last year.
The highest price paid for pew was $780,
- The merchants who begin the year by
increasing their advertisements will be the
happiest next Christmas. you would reap
literally, you must SOW literally.
Since the first of September last the
cotton factories at Columbus, Ga, consumed
4,1e0 bales of cotton, against 1,345 bales tor
same months in 1878.
"A monster cheese, weighing fourteen
tons, and measuring thirteen feet in dame
ter and eleven in height, is to be made IN
Ohio and exhibited at the Philadelphia GEN.
tennial.
Col. Burton N. Harrison, who was pri-
vate secretary to President Davis during the
greater part of his administration, has been ap.
pointed secretary of the mayor of New York
city by Mayor Wickham.
% can't say as he went to Heaven"
remarked Fort Scott citizen of a deceased
townsman, "but be paid bill of eleven years
standing only the day before he died, and
you can judge for yourself"
- The report going the rounds of the press
that Jefferson Davis is i'll has no foundation
in fact. He is in as good health now as at
any time for several years, and appears on
the streets CT Memphis almost daily.
- The Mississippi papers represent the ne
gro race to be in worse condition than ever
before. Thousands are without supplies of
any kind, without necessary clothing, without
money and without credit, and those com
ing from Georgia and Alabama are also In
a condition of great destitution.
- The warden of the Oregon penitentiary
has discharged the prison doctor and detailed
one of the convicts, who is an educated
physician, to perform the duties The warden
claims that thereby he saves $500 year
to the State, and besides is sure that the
physician will always "be within reach when
needed"
"A soldier of cavalry regiment was
brought up for stealing his comrades liquor
ration. He was an Irishman, and his defense
was unique: "I'd be sorry in dade, surr, to
be called thief! I put the liquor in the
same bottle, and mine was at the bottom !;
and sure, I was obliged to drink his to get out
me own p
-- In drinking saloon in Cincinnati re-
Gently, German made wager of $40 that
he could drink ten glasses of beer and three
bottles of wine within period of ten minutes.
He gulped down the stated amount Of beer
and then attacked the wine. AS he was en-
gagged in forcing down his throat the last glass
of the third bottle of wine, he fell senseless to
the floor. At last accounts he was not ex-
pected to survive.
- Over sixty different nations, including
Japan, now burn American kerosene, and the
extremely small price has given such an i'm.
petus to its adoption as an illuminator all
over the world, that it must prove highly
beneficial to the producing interest in fu-
ture years. Germany, in 1873, cousmed o.
116,773 gallons, at cost OF 81, ,469,lol !;
Belgium, 22,Gl6,550 gallons, costing 3d..
127,4OS; England, 100000 worth, and
Ireland about S4,341, ,765 worth.
"A correspondent has figured out for
the Philadelphia Ledger the interesting fact
that the total amount Of State, county, city
and town taxes collected in the United States
in 1870 was $3.50, ,591 900, which was almost
81 head for the entire population. The total
amount oftaxes collected in 1860 was S94,
$4,000 which was about So head for the
entire population. 1t cost, therefore, more
than twice as much to take care of man in
his State, county and municipal relations in
1870 as it did ten years before. The net or
dinary expenditures of the federal government
in 1870 were l64,42l 900 which was 81. 80 a
head for the entire population. In 1860 they
were s6OO00,000, which was s1.94 head.
The Washington Republican, Grants
reputed organ, says: "Various rumors are
aAoat regarding a change of policy on the
part of this government in its relations with
Spain. The simple truth is that while the
administration recognizes the changed con-
dtion of affairs in that country, and the fact
that a republic no longer exists there to en-
lists American sympathy, the instructions to
Minister Gushing were, from the outset, so
pointedly urgent as regards the Virginius
case that they require no alteration, even
under the present circumstances, when we are
called upon to deal with a monarchy. In
the future, however, any new development
that may arise may become the occasion OF
more determined action"
Sufficient data has been obtained to
warrant the statement that the sugar yield In
Louisiana the past season was 14OOOO hogs
heads, worth in round numbers SlOO hogs
head, and 100000 barrels of molasses, worth
s24 barrel, making total of S2S,SOO,OOO.
In the Parish Of Ascension, upon sixteen acres
of ground, worked by two negroes, $4,000
pounds of white sugar and 100 barrels of mo-
iasses, bringing SS,4OO, were produced. A
Scotch planter, Mr.. Burnsides, working in the
same parish lands formerly belonging to Gen.
Wade Hampton and Senator Preston, made
5000 hogsheads of sugar and 5000 barrels of
molasses, yielding in all s692,0OO, on an in.
vestment of sl4O0OO. He worked about 800
hands.
The Petersburg (Va.) Inder says: "A
very curious sale will probably be consum-
mated from the steps of the Court House this
morning. The Mayor has ordered that