Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-02
Straps aud fafts.

that for twelve days, ending January Is, the
temperature was 2.96 below the average Of
the last sixty years.
The representatives of the boot and shoe
trade and clothing trade of Boston have been
in consultation in reference to the proposed re-
peal of the bankrupt law, and have decided to
oppose it.
There is family living not far from Ma
con, Ga, in whose possession is the identical
camp chest used by Gen. Francis Marion du-
ring the Revolutionary war. It is proposed
to exhibit this chest at the Centennial.
Much distress still prevails among the Ia
boring classes in Canada. Over 1000 men,
all heads Of families, have applied for work
on the improvements of the Lachine Canal,
where only 100 men will be employed.
A young American lady, who has enjoyed
the rare privilege of taking stroll with the
poet TeEnyson, incidentally mentions in let
ter to friend that "it seriously affected the ro-
nance of the situation when he paused during
the walk to scratch his back against gate
posi-"
San Francisco now manufactures fire
crackers instead of importing them from China.
In two factories with $4,000 capital invested,
and using raw material to the amount 81 800,
fire crackers to the value of $4,000 were
turned out last year at an expense for labor of
$4,000.
- The Legislature of Maine has abolished
the death penalty, and substituted iEpris-
onment for life. Iowa has been trying the
same experiment, and it is said that the num-
Der of those who favor a return to the old
method of Furnishing extreme crimes is con-
stantly on the increase Maine is the fifth
State which has abolished the death penalty.
The London Times has reprinted its an
nual summaries Of news of the world for twen-
ty-fve years in small volume, to which it
appends note saying that the volume, con-
tanning FIVE hundred and ninety-eight pages,
was put in type by four boys with two COM
posing machines in ten days, of eight hours
each. This would make each boys work
amount to rather more than fifteen hundred
ems an hour-which all printers will acknowl-
edge would be fast work for the best compos-
itors.
The simple ruling of the postofice depart
ment deprives the public of an important pos
tai facility. 1t has been the practice, and we
suppose it sprung from precise rule Of the
department or statute, that letter not reach
ing the person addressed by one delivery
could be remailed to new address, without
additional postage. This was taking a good
deal of pains on the part of the government
for nothing, to be sure the practice might
have been unreasonable-but practice it GER
tainly has become. The department at Wash
ington now informs Postmaster Tobey, of Bos-
ton, that letter once delivered cannot be re-
mailed without another stamp.
The post Office committee has been ad-
dressed BY Mr.. Hubbard, in favor of exclu-
ding merchandise from the mails. This pro-
posed change in the postal service is suggested
and advocated by the express companies, who
find the mails dangerous rival to the bust
ness which they have quite monopolized. 1t
is probable, however, that the mails will con-
tinue to transport merchandise, but at in
creased rates Of postage. On this subject the
Postmaster. General has submitted letter
from the Superintendent of the Railway Ser
vice to the Committee on Post Offices, recon-
mending distance rate on merchandise by
mail as the only means of preventing the in
crease of large deficit in this department.
He recommends rates ranging from eight to
fifty cents per pound. He proposes to reduce
rates on transient newspapers and magazines
"A Washington letter says: "The testi-
mony of Gen. Ord before the Mexican border
committee, as to the character of the colored
troops is understood to express the opinion Of
army officers almost without exception. Gen.
Ord stated that the negro troops under his
command cannot be depended upon, that
their officers are unable to control them, and
that the white officers dare not leave. their
wives alone for fear of insult When Con-
gress provided for negro troops in the Regular
army, the expediency of the thing was then
doubted by the old army officers, andit would
not have been done except for the animosity
then felt toward the South, and the belief that
it would be distasteful to the people of that
section to have negro troops stationed among
them. Nothing could be more acceptable to
the officers of the army than to have the color
. ed troops disbanded."
President Grant and Secretary of the
Treasury Bristow, are at "loggerheads." This
fact recalls to the Chicago Tribune the attempt
made during President Lincoln's first term
to induce him to remove Secretary Chase be-
cause the latter was developing strength as
a presidential candidate. The Tribune says {:
Lincoln's reply was uniform, and to this pur-
pose: "No. The country needs Secretary
Chase in the position he now holds. He is
doing good work. He has rig ght to be a can
didate for President if he chooses. The office
belongs to the people and it is for them to fill
it. If the people conclude, on the whole, that
it is for their best interest to swap horses
I shall defer to their judgment. shall even
think that they are right, and l shall take my
hat and 60 back to Springfield content with
the popular verdict"
"A decision of considerable interest to
stockholders in National banks has been rem
dered by Judge Blatchford in the United
States Court at New York, in the case Of Ed
win L. Stanton, receiver of the First Ma
tional Bank of Washington, D. c., against
Catherine G. Wilkinson. Plaintiff was ap-
pointed receiver of the bank, which had sus-
pended, in September, 1878, and defendant
was holder of one hundred shares Of stock
of par value Of $4,000. An assessment Of
60 per cent. was made on the stock to pay
the debts and liabilities of the bank, which
assessment the defendant refused to pay, and
this suit was brought to compel payment
The defendant filed demurrer, which was dis
missed by the court, which held that individ-
ual liability of stockholders in National banks
is liability for all debts contracted by the
bank up to the amount of the par value OF
their stock; that this liability is general, and
not pro rata share of debts. If too much is
collected, the surplus can be claimed by the