Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-07
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~ milwaukee, woman DOnneC COSTS, upon
an average, about SIS, but she has the bill
made out for $50 or $40 in order to show it
to the women next door.
"A Brockport man dreamed recently
that his aunt was dead, and the dream
proved true. He tried the same game with
his mother-in-law, but it didn't work worth a
cent.
"A correspondent of the Inter- Ocean
says that the Wheeler exploring expedition
has discovered bug which all the learned
men who have seen it pronounce to be a
"Damfno Whattis,'' which has heretofore
been supposed to exist only as fossil.
-- Some ofthe leading New York hotels
rent at very high rates-Fifth Avenue, $780,
900; Windsor, s125, 900; St. Nicholas, $780,
900; Metropolitan, s105,00O; Gilsey, $685.
900; Hoffman, $4,000, and Brunswick, $685.
900.
- The Alabama conference of the Meth
odist church, lately in session at Opelika, voted
down the temperance amendment to the dis
cipline, making the drinking or selling of
liquor incompatible with membership in that
church yeas 4S, nays 56.
j. B. Smith, colored, an intimate friend
of the late Charles Sumner, has been elected
Junior warden of one of the lodges of Free
Masons in Boston. If admitted, he will be
the first colored man who has entered the
grand lodge Of Massachusetts,.
- Reliable estimates put the cotton crop
of 1874 at a little over 3,500,O0O bales.
The yield per acre is reported less than in
1878. In most of the States the weather for
ripening and gathering the top crop has been
very favorable. The reports are nearly
unanimous in stating that the proportion of
lint to seeds is large.
- From Florida comes the romantic sto-
ry of Della Jones, a full.blooded negro aged
40. She fell desperately in love with a
young white man, carpenter, and realizing
the fact that he could never be anything to
her, she turned her property into cash, (S7,,
25O) left it to him by will, and then went and
drowned herself.
- Statistics of the working of the prohib.
itory law in Maine during the past year show
that fifty thousand dollars in fines was i'm
posed and collected for violation Of the law.
There have been 276 convictions in the Su'
preme Court of rum sellers, and forty-one
commitments to Jail, larger number than in
any similar period previously. Crime has
decreased, the number of convicts being twen-
ty-fve per cent. less than ten years since.
- Red6eld, the travelling correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, writes as follows
in regard to the candidacy of Andrew John
son for United States Senator from Tennessee
"Up and down the line, among friends and
enemies alike, it is understood that this is the
old mans last fight. If he wins the term of
six years, he will hardly ever want Office
again, and if he fails, he can never get it
again. So all are coming up to the scratch
with long finger nails and blood shot eyes, and
wool will fly
- The comptroller of the currency is daily
shipping large amounts of new national bank
circulation in return for the mutilated notes
that have been redeemed. The amounts
shipped last week averaged about S800,OO0
daily. The shipments have been made each
day to about 200 banks. The total amount
of multilated currency received from the
treasurer since the passage of the act of June
Goth, last, is s41,066,S05, nearly the whole
amount of which has been issued in new
national bank notes.
- An experienced New York grocer has
adopted the cash system, and in circular just
issued to his customers, makes the following
observation can experience, both as pro-
prietor and assistant in the grocery business,
extending over number of years, warrants
me in asserting, without fear Of reasonable
contradiction, that no establishment doing a
credit business can favorably compare prices
with house working on the cash principle.
All the expenses attending the keeping OF
books, all the losses by bad debts and other
wise, must be tackled on to the dealers profit,
and as matter Of course, must be paid by
those Of his customers who pay at all.
-- The Texas newspapers take obituary
notice Of the decease at BRENNAN, Washington
county, of remarkable old gentleman at the
age of SO years. His name was DR.. Lincecum
he was a native of Georgia, and for fourteen
years he spent most of his time in studying the
habits Of the red ant, upon which insect he
wrote a pamphlet said Ito possess the interest
of novel" This fine old Texas gentleman,
at daylight every Christmas morning, for
fifty-eight years, stood in the door of his home,
barefoot and in his night.clothes, and played
the Scotch air of "Killicrankie" on fiddle
made specially for him in Paris in 1920.
- For eight years contested legacy case
has been pending in the courts Of Virginia
1t has Just been decided By the will Of
Il wealthy Virginia lady all her bonds and a
considerable amount of other property were
devised to the Baptist Theological Seminary
of South Carolina" The heirs contested this
legacy on the ground Of a misnomer, the
name Of the institution not being as described
in the will, but being the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary" The lower court sus
tanned this objection, and decided the legacy
void, because the name did not appear fully
in the will. This decision was appealed
from, and the higher court has recently re-
versed it, and declared the legacy good
The sum involved amounts to nearly eighty
thousand dollars.
-- Whilst there is great prostration in the
manufacturing establishments of the North
and West, it is learned that large share Of
prosperity is attending the manufacturing in
terests of some Of the Southern States. The
great Tredegar works at Richmond, Va,
which were badly crippled by the panic, are
again getting we'll under way, having re-
Gently received several large orders, one from
Cuba being for considerable number of rail
road cars. As consequence, the force OF
workmen at the Tredcgar is being considera'
bic augmented. Columbus, Ga, is now run.
ming $4,000 cotton and $500 wool spindles,
all the capital employed being Southern
The mills in that city are being run on full
time, and the orders are constantly in excess
Of the product In addition, Columbus has
large foundries and machine shops in success
ful oneration The SrhOfield rolling mills at