Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-02-24
Straps aud fafts.

the selectmen have advertised the almshouse
for sale.
The Tribune prints private Letter from
that country. There is actually great pres
sure among the ruling negroes to introduce
slavery over the aborigines. .....
The differences in value of real estate in
New York between 1872 and the present
time was illustrated Saturday by the sale of
seven lots, we'll located, for $26, 800, which
sold for $4,000 in 1873, and for $4,000 in
1874.
"A Frenchman who has lived in America
for some years, says: "When they build a
railroad, the first thing they do is to break
ground. This is done with great ceremony.
Then they break the stockholders. This is
done without ceremony"
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch says the
work of enlarging the Dutch Gap canal has
been nearly completed, and hereafter there
will be between eighteen and twenty-one feet
of water in the cut, so that the largest vessels
may pass through. The cutoff saves seven
miles between Richmond and the sea.
- In consequence of the exhaustion of the
appropriation for the transportation of United
States moneys, it will be necessary for all
persons forwarding legal tenders or fractional
currency to the treasury for redemption or
exchange, toprepay the charges thereon at the
government contract rate, which is 123 cents
on all sums under $500, and 25 cents per
$1,000 on all sums exceeding that amount
"A movement is gaining strength in the
West, to bring forward Judge Davis, Of the
United States Supreme Court, as a compro-
mise candidate for the Presidency, in view of
the number Of conspicuous Democrats whose
names are put forward from every quarter
The movement is participated in by promi-
nent democrats who have great faith in his
success.
Near Columbus, Mississippi, says the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger, Mr.. G. D.
H., whose father was from the vicinity of
Athens, Ga, and married in Burke county,
recently sold his farm and furnished residence
to one of his own former slaves for the hand
some sum of $4,000, cash down. In the
same neighborhood another servant purchased
part of his employers plantation, paying
$4,000 in cash for it. Such cases are rare and
should be recorded.
"A West Hill boy, says the Burlington
3 Ha,ukeye, came in to his mother the other
day with two yawning rents in his trousers.
His patient mother sat down, after admin
istering the necessary counter-irritant, to re-
pair the garment, and was shocked to hear
her darling tell his sister that "Mother was
an old devil" Harry" she cried, "what
did you say?" 81 didn't say nothing, moth
er." eyes you did, Harry You said was
a devil. What did you mean by that ?"
"Well, it's so, mother; cause my Sunday
school teacher told me that nobody but the
devil sowed tares."
German war ships are now to be named
according to certain fixed rules Armed frig-
ates are to bear the names of princes; armed
corvettes the names of principal provinces
Unarmed spar decks are to be named after the
glorious battles won by Germans; smaller YES
sells after distinguished generals, admirals and
statesmen; and fush-deck corvettes after Ger
man princesses. Gunboats will be called after
animals armored gunboats after reptiles; 9th
er gunboats after birds and small wild beasts
Transports will be named for rivers, tugs for
winds. Torpedo vessels after cavalry officers
and various corps Of troops The Emperor
will name the yachts himself
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore S,in says: Western politicians have
good deal to say about the nomination Of
Representative Landers as the initiation candi-
date for Governor Of Indiana. The hard
money Democrats are incensed because, as
they say, if another Democrat is nominated,
the certain effect would be to give the impor-
tant State to the Republicans. Yet they do
notseem willing to endorse Mr.. Landers. They
hope that the Republicans may also be split
upon the currency question, which is not i'm
possible. Leading Republicans say they
would not be surprised to see not only the
hard and soft money wings of both parties
putting up candidates in one or more of the
Western States but also four candidates for
the Presidency in the field.
The rise of the price of ice in New York,
which has been for some time impending, was
announced to 90 into effect on Monday. Sixty
cents per hundred pounds is to be hereafter
charged to private families, and forty cents to
the large cash trade, including butchers, pork
packers, restaurant keepers and others. This
is an advance of 100 per cent. on existing pri-
ces. The New York Times says it is acknowl-
edged on all hands that unless the weather
changes entirely, and continues more than
ordinarily cold during the next four weeks,
there will be little or no ice gathered in that
latitude. Already the dealers along the Pc
nobscot and other rivers in Maine are holding
>. their stocks in expectation of heavy rise,
and cannot be induced to sell except at the
highest prices.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: Senator Patterson, Of
South Carolina, reiterates his opinion that
the use of troops is necessary to secure fair
elections in the South. He says there are
troops enough in the South now, if they are
only properly used, to protect the voters
Gen. Grant, he says, thoroughly understands
the whole question !; but just as soon as he
lifts his hand hue and cry is raised, in which
Republicans of the North join, against the use
of troops. If this prejudice against protecting
the voters is allowed to prevail during the
coming canvass, he does not look for Republi-
can success in any of the States of the South
except his own. Senator Robertson, the COL
league of Mr.. Patterson, does not appear to
concur in his views He says that he does not
want any troops to be used in the South"
The House committee on appropriations
have reduced the appropriations for the inter
nal revenue service largely. The sub-commit-
tee report in favor of abolishing more than
Fifty Of the collection districts, and the esti
mates have been cut down two or three mil.
lion dollars. They provide for one collector of
internal revenue for each Of the States of
Maine, Vermont Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Vost Viro;nia South Carolina Florida I,ou.