Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-01-20
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extended.
Truly, of making books there is no end.
The annual report of the librarian Of Congress
shows $4,000 copyrights during the year.
The library now numbers nearly 100000 vol
umes.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has ne
gotiated in London loan of FL ,35O, 900, and
the Philadelphia and Reading Of e2,O00,0OO.
The aggregate amount of the two loans In our
money is about $17,0OO,000.
Kentucky's bonded debt is only 1884,
394, and against this she has in cash 81 1885,
1862. The State has, therefore, money on hand
enough to pay every dollar it owes, and leave
a balance on hand of over 100000.
New York jewellers are said to be busy
preparing elegant new pins to be worn by
gentlemen this season, upon which is engraved
"Engaged," ""Married," "Don't want to, i" "No
ma'am," or something of the like, to be used
as protection during Leap year.
"A petition, signed by 23,360 Mormon wo-
men, has been presented to Congress, praying
for the admission of Utah as State, and the
abrogation of the law against polygamy. They
fear their relations will be arrested for poly
gamy without warning.
"A man never looks so helpless and insig-
ni6cant as when standing around in dry
goods store, waiting for his wife to get through
trading, and woman never looks so disconso-
late as when waiting while her husband "talks
horse" with neighbor.
The colored taxpayers of Georgia last
year returned property to the value of $685.
$685. upon which they paid $29,969 as taxes.
They own 1876, ,55S acres of land, or nearly
FIVE acres to every colored poll in the State
They own city and town property to the val
ue Of 81, ,2O9,2O2.
A. T. Stewart pays about $4,000 in
taxes on real estate in New York city. His
wholesale store is assessed at 81, ,150, 900, and
taxed $4,000; his retail store, assessed at
SS5O,0O0, pays $23,800, and he pays $4,000
tax on his house on Fifth Avenue, which is as
sessed at 100000.
There is deadlock in the Louisiana
Legislature about appointing committees:
The Democratic Speaker of the House will
not appoint until he sees how the Democrats
fare in the Senate, and Lt-Gov. Antoine re-
fuses to appoint until he sees the showing
given the Radicals in the House.
The New York &aats Zeitu,,g attacks Mr..
Blaine with great severity for his speech about
Jefferson Davis. 1t holds that no good can
be accomplished by it; that its only apparent
object was to revive the passions Of war as a
means of furthering his Presidential aspira-
tons, and concludes by roundly denouncing it
as pure demagogism.
"A white man named Miller is haranguing
the blacks of northern Alabama, and per-
suading them to apply to Congress for sepa-
rate country of their own, from which whites
shall be excluded, and which will then be-
come paradise having black lawyers and
doctors and black merchants. He proposes
to be the Moses of the movement, but wheth-
er he will dye his skin is not stated. His ha-
rangues are producing much discontentment
among the laborers.
Scene at Brooklyn wedding breakfast !:
Company all seated about the table. A pause
in the conversation. Happy husband to his
wife's little sister at the other end ofthe room.
"Well julie you have new brother now"
J"lie: eyes hut mother ssid tn papa the
other day that she was afraid you would
never amount to much, but that it seemed to
be Sarah's last chance" Intense silence for
a moment, followed by rapid play Of knives
and forks.
"A cooking school, recently started in Bos-
ton, has been successful 1t is under the man
agement of 8 company of ladies, who hire the
rooms and see that the cook teacher is COM
petent. Ten lessons of two hours each are
given to classes of two, three or four, or to a
single pupil, at preference ofthe learner: The
pupils do the cooking themselves under the
direction Of the teachers, and may, if they
wish, eat what they cook. Many of the class
es are composed of middle-aged ladies, who
are excellent housekeepers, but 60 to cooking
schools to learn to make delicacies or orna-
mental dishes, in which the teacher excels.
Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, who has
Just arrived in Washington, is reported to
speak strongly against the Ames regime in
that State. He says the time has come when
corrupt men from other States, backed by the
ignorant elements, can no longer control a
single Southern State. He believes there
was intimidation during the last political can
vass in Mississippi, but says that eff circum-
stances render intimidation excusable, that
used in his State was at least partially justi-
fed, in view Of the oppression which the peo-
pie suffered from bad State government and
ignorant and vicious rulers generally"
"A New York letter of Saturday says
'Merchants who have been selling largely to
the South within the last six and nine months,
report collections from all that quarter as very
satisfactory, except from Louisiana, where
they are rather backward. There have been
few or no failures Of late, except at New Or
leans and Montgomery, Ala, and even these
latter were of but comparatively little account.
The people generally have more money than
they have had at any time since the war, and
the indications are, therefore, the southern in
fuence will soon be favorably felt on the
early spring trade
According to DIR. Cummings, Of London,
prophet of good or evil, as opinions and tastes
differ, the year upon which we have just en-.
tered is to be distinguished by the advent of
the millennium. The Jews are to return to
Judea, the Turks are to disappear as nation,
which ought to pretty thoroughly settle the
Eastern loan question, and Christ is coming to
earth again sometime before September, 1876.
DR.. Cummings has tried his hand before as a
prophet; the day and hour upon which his
predictions were to be fulfulfled came and
went, but chaos did not come again, and the
earth kept on revolving with such serene
regularity that the impression gained ground
that the power which governed it had not fal-
len in with DR.. Cummings arrangement
Commodore Howell, chief of the bureau
of yards and docks, in his last annual report,
recommends an appropriation to erect mex
pensive wooden buildings at Port Royal, with