Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-22
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- According to the census of 1870, the
county debts of the United States amounted
to S1S7 ,565, $40, the city and town debts to
S32S. $780, and the State debts to $685.
S66, ,69S-making in all the sum of sS6S, &c.,
758.
There is talk in Western Texas of es.
tablishing a new State, provided the Mexican
States Of Tamaulipas, Nueva Leon and Goa
hula can be annexed. San Antonio is the
proposed capital. The Radicals are said to
be in majority in Western Texas.
- Rev. James NJ. Henry, of Clarksville,
Pike county, No., claims to have invented
flying machine which can move through the
air at the rate Of 100 miles per hour. He
has been working forty years on the problem,
and claims to have solved it.
- The Richmond Enquirer says that Gen.
John S. Preston's address before the alumni
of the university of Virginia was, in many re-
spects, remarkable for its billiancy and its bad
taste; for its petulance and its pomposity for
its intolerance and its treason.
- The Adams Express Company have
notified Secretary Bristow that they will not
carry national bank notes after thirty days at
the present rate of 25 cents per $1,000. Rail
road robbers are becoming so numerous, that
they consider the risk too great at that rate.
The halfyearly report, up to July l, of
the New York Commissioners Of Emmigra-
tion, which was made recently, shows de-
crease of immigration during the first six
months of this year, in comparison with that
of the same period in 1874, Of 1852.
"A New Orleans man claims to have in
vented process by which cotton can be man
ufactured into silk He has gone to France to
introduce his invention to the silk manutac-
turers, and its adoption, it is predicted, will
largely increase the consumption of cotton.
- The Cotton States Congress, recently in
session at Raleigh, made sensible recon-
mendation to planters: Toraise their own pro-
visions. 1t is now we'll demonstrated that no
planter can buy his corn and meat and keep
out of the hands OF the sheriff.
- Beechers paper the Christian Union,
has lost 10000 subscribers, it is said, through
the sad conduct of the reverend editor. Few
men can run a religious family newspaper
and horrible scandal at one and the same
time successfully. Even "Life of Christ"
must suffer, under the circumstances.
"A bale of new cotton was received at
New Orleans on Wednesday Of last week,
from St. Landry Parish, La. 1t was classed
middling fair to fair, new classification, weigh
ed four hundred pounds, and was sold at twen-
ty.fve cents per pound. The first receipt OF
Louisiana cotton last year was on August 18th.
- The official report of the Beecher trial
occupies three volumes, with an aggregate of
2.750 pages, all taken down in short hand.
Four stenographers were employed on the
case with eight assistants to aid them in wri-
ting out, and two other writers to make sum-
maries and put in the fourishes.
Fred. Douglass, in a Fourth of July
address at Hilsdale, Pa, advised his race to
cultivate independence" The cultivation of
independence is we'll enough, but they should
not make it speciality. They should reserve
a mere garden.spot for independence, and de-
vote the far greater amount of the acreage to
the cultivation of corn, cotton, and cabbage.
- One of the largest manufacturing insti.
tutiops in the country-the Atlantic Cotton
Mills Of Lawrence, Observation-Disclosures re.
Gently; 1880 operatives were thrown out OF
work, and will lose at least $50, 900 in wages.
The reason, according to the Chicago Tribune,
is a surplus of manufactured goods which can
not be sold abroad.
A letter to the Baltimore american
contains the information, that the grass.hop-
.pers have made their appearance near Noun
tain View, Frederick county, Maryland, where
on one farm the writer had found them swarm
ing the wheat field, where they had destroyed
every blade of the grain, having also devoured
the clover and rye in adjacent enclosures.
- Near Atlanta, Ga, last fall, negro
built a coop, six feet by seven, into which he
put dozen partridges, the ground being first
covered with grass. During the winter they
thrived, in the spring they mated, laid eggs,
and Matched out several broods Of young, and
the negro now has about sixty young par
tridges, all doing we'll. They are tame, heal
thy, and seem to be contented.
- 1t rained at Savannah on the 5th. The
Jasper Greens, of the Georgia militia, in dan
ger of getting wet, were invited to take shell
ter at the barracks Of the United States SOL
diers. The Greens gratefully sought the
proffered cover. After the shower, the Uni
ted States Troops saluted the Georgia boys,
and the Georgia boys saluted the United
States troops And thus was the bloody
ch;lsm again closed up.
- The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, have just decided that the sale
of Intoxicating liquors by the large or small
quantity, where there is a reasonable pre-
sumption that they are to be used as bever-
age, is violation of the rule requiring the
avoidance of the appearance of evil and the
doing of harm. The Augusta conference,
ha q
Methodist church to separate themselves from
this traffic and requests pastors of the different
churches to '.judiciously yet firmly" enforce
the ruling of the bishops.
- The Postoffice Department has adopted
new design for postal cards, prepared at the
printing Department of the Treasury. On
the upper left hand corner is the monogram
US, ccross which, in scroll, are the words
postal Card" On the upper right-hand
corner is the stamp, nearly square, instead OF
elliptical, the sides of the stamp being COM
posed of fasces and the top and bottom of
band scrolls, the top one having the. legend
"U. S Postage" the lower one, Zone Cent"
In the centre of the stamp is the profile of the
Goddess of Liberty. 1t will be printed in
black upon cardboard of the EAT de Nile col
or, and will soon be ready for issue.
"a young gentleman of Baltimore, un-
mindful of the fate of Icarus, has invented
flying machine in which he proposes to cross
the ocean during the present summer. The
machine appears to bea combination ofthe bal
loon, the wind mill and steam-launch. The
voyager rides in boat containing small
steam engine, which is used for moving the
"wngs" of the balloon and steering it through