Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-11-25
Straps aud fafts.
- In South America there is prolific
honey bee that has not been furnished with

" MdSSle, uauSuCer VI oeueiSou LAWS,
is about to be married to Mr.. A. j Hayes,
Cashier of Memphis bank.
- Ten thousand cases of cotton have been
shipped from Boston to Manchester, England,
and will be followed by good many thousand
cases more during the next two months.
The Charlotte Observer speaks in glow
ing terms of the races on the track at that city
last week. Forty-fve horses were in attend
ance, from various States.
- Francis E. Shober, of Salisbury, N. c.,
will be candidate for Clerk of the United
States House of Representatives, when Con-
gress assemblies.
- Mrs Haddock, wife of Judge Haddock,
of Iowa, has been admitted to practice in the
courts of that State. She is in demand as an
advocate in her husbands court, and is re-
puted to be generally successful.
- The recent fox-hunting party from
Washington, under the guidance of Judge
Settle, in Rockingham county, N. c., were out
ten days, with twenty-one men and forty-two
dogs. They treed but one fox, though they
claim to have had good deal of fun.
"A water-spout is reported to have occur
red about forty miles below Newbern, N. c.,
on the 10th instant, the column of water des-
cending on q house with such velocity as to
totally destroy the building and kill four of
~ At meeting Of the manufacturers Of
fertilizers, held in Baltimore on Friday last,
a resolution was adopted, that hereafter fer
tilzers should be sold for cash or satisfactory
ly endorsed paper, and that the barter for
cotton and other products should be abandon
ed.
"A negro being asked what he was in
Jail for, said it was for borrowing money.
But" said the questioner, "they don't put
people in Jail for borrowing money" eyes"
said the dsrkey, "but had to knock the
man down free or fo' times befo' he would
lend it to me"
- The printing of the war records, now
going on in Washington, is work of great
magnitude. A building forty by eighty feet
is required to hold these records alone.
There are three hundred and fifty cords of
records in this one building. The Confeder-
ate records are about one-sixth of the bulk of
the Union records.
- The new constitution of Alabama con-
tains provision that all banks organized in
that State must have specie basis, and all
their notes must be redeemed in silver and
gold. Suspension of specie payments is for
bidden, and bank charters are granted only
for twenty years. The loaning of the State
or municipal credit to individuals or corpora
tions is prohibited.
j. H. Camp, whose farm is two and
half miles above Rome, on the Etowah river,
Georgia, made 36 bales of cotton this season
on AZ acres, 80 acres of which made bale to
the acre. He also made SO bushels of corn
to the acre on 40 acres, and 244 bushels of
wheat to the acre. The only fertilizer he
used was barnyard, produced on his own
farm.
- The Louisiana sugar crop this year
will be larger than any year since 1861. 1t
will be up to 100000 hogsheads, an increase
of 1888 hogsheads over the product of 1874.
With the exception of 1878, when the yield
was but Sc, ,49S, the crops have been steadily
picking up since 1854 That year only TO-
3s7 hogsheads were sold. The crop of 1861
was unusually abundant, the yield being no
less than 459, 9,41O hogsheads.
- At an early stage of the approaching
session of Congress, it is understood that the
New York delegation will press, with all their
might, the recognition of the Cubans as bellig-
erents, as duty which the government can
no longer permit to remain unperformed.
Stress will be laid upon the commercial losses
which the war has already entailed upon US,
and from this stand point, backed up by
formidable array of statistics, recognition will
be urged, not as matter of sentiment, but of
self-interest rather.
- Gen. Jubal B. Early, president of the
Southern Historical Society, says that this as
sociation possesses nearly complete set of all
the reports printed by the Confederate depart
ments, including the presidents messages, re-
ports of battles, acts of the Confederate con-
gress and state governments, etc. 1t has also
full set of manuscript reports of Gen. Long
streets corps, the papers of Gen. j. E. B.
Stuart, all of Gen. Ewells reports, a full set
of papers of Gen. S. D. Lees corps and many
other valuable reports of Confederate officers,
besides number of federal official reports.
- A very distressing accident recently oc
Cured at house raising, in Jackson county,
West Virginia. As is customary on such oc.
casons, chickens had been killed by chopping
off their heads. Two little sons of the owner
of the house to be raised saw the chickens
thus guillotined, and during the day concluded
to repeat the operation. twas just at a time
when the men were lifting heavy log into
its place. The father, who was holding one
end of the log, casting his eyes toward the
little fellows, one of whom had the axe raised
to sever the neck of his brother, let 60 Of the
log to save the boy, and it fell, killing six
men, two, instantly, the others living only a
few hours. The axe fell before the father
could reach the scene, severiDg the neck OF
the son.
"A meeting of the first mortgage bond
holders of the Atlanta and Richmond Air
Line Railroad, was held in New York on
Tuesday, of last week, to hear the report of
the committee of trustees appointed to look
after the interests of the road The report
states that there are number Of litigations
in which the road has been involved, and,
that decree has been obtained in the United
States Circuit Court for the Northern Dis
trict of Georgia appointing a receiver and di-
recting the sale of the road in order to pay
the interest due on the bonds. The report
also says that all that is now necessary before
selling the road, is to obtain those portions of
it situated in North and South Carolina, and
recommends that the bondholders pay six dol
lars per bond in additional to the two dollars
already paid. Resolutions were adopted to
the effect that the report of the committee be
accepted.
- The colored cadet in the Naval Acad-
envy, Henry E. Baker, Jr., from Mississippi,
was dismissed from the academy last week by
the secretary of the navy, at the request of the
superintendent. This cadet has occasioned con-
fhoD