Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-02-22
] Scraps aud fafts.

- President Grant has commenced ALREADY
to pack up his papers and private effects pre-
paratory to leaving the White House, where
he has reigned supreme for eight years.
1t has been decided by the Courts that il
a partner of dissolved firm neglects to give
notice, through the local newspaper, of q dis
solution of partnership, he is equally liable
with his late partner for all debts contracted
after dissolution. an
Ellison q Co. 3 cotton circular Liverpool
for the new year anticipates yield of cotton
from the crop now being marketed off, i 176. 900
bales of 400 pounds each, deficiency, a:
compared with the probable requirements, oi
496, 900 bales.
= Secretary Fish is the only member of the
Cabinet who has served uninterruptedly dur
ing the whole eight years of President Granite
term. He has had four secretaries of the
treasury, three postmssters.general, i've attor'
neys.general, four secretaries Of war, two Sec
retaries of the navy, and three secretaries Of
the interior. ..........-..
= The late Signor Blitz, the magician, once
said to Daniel Webster in Washington "Give
me 100000 Treasury notes to count and
watch closely, and you will find only S75,0 600
when return them" "Signor," responded
Webster, "there is no chance; there are here
better magicians than you they would not
leave $50, 1000 after their counting.
- The incoming United States Senate will
be nearly evenly divided between the two
parties. Last year there were forty-four Re
publicans and twenty.nine Democrats. The
new Senate will contain thirty-nine Repub.
licans and thirty-6ve Democrats. with three
contested seats, two from Louisiana and one
from South Carolina. The House will be
Democratic from three to eleven majority.
"A handbook was presented at the Spring.
field (Mass.) Institution for Savings, one day
last week, which had not been seen by the
bank officials since the original deposit was
made, thirty.two years ago. The amount OF
the deposit was $500, while the interest alone
has amounted to $3.50. During all this
time the owner of the book had never entered
the bank or asked question as to her prop
erty, which she now comes to claim.
The mints of the United States are likely
to be kept pretty busy for the next few years.
About $21 100000 of the $4,000, 900 of sub
sidiary silver coin authorized by law still re-
mains to be coined and will occupy the mints
a year longer. Then it will be necessary to
coin gold as rapidly as possible in preparation
for resumption, and if silver dollars should be
authorized and made legal tender, even for
small amounts, that will put additional labor
upon them. 1t will take US some time to get
on hard money basis.
The report of q New England accident
insurance company for 1875, shows that "429
of its patrons were hurt with blunt tools, and
only 146 with edged tools. When it was evi.
dently necessary to be careful there was great
deal more of care. Ten people were drowned
by bathing or boating, and only one was
drowned by shipwreck. Horses and carriages
injured 235 people, and railroads $50. Of the
horse accidents, one in forty-two was fatal OF
the railroad, one in thirty-two. There were
III people hurt by machinery-two fatally,
ratio of one to fifty-nine."
The Council of the London Botanical Gar.
deus are debating whether they shall let eve
rybody smoke all over them. At present the
weed is forbidden, but the Prince of Wales
not being gentleman enough to mind the pro-
hibition, the Council don't know whether to
let him alone violate it, and so be called snob-
bish, or to enforce it against him, and so lose
his patronage. Whites Club undertook to
remind this parsonage of the restriction of the
privilege of smoking to certain rooms, and he
withdrew in high dudgeon, and the Marlboro
Club was started with the membership of his
own choosing.
A young lady bet young man kiss
that Tilden would be elected-he to pay if
Tilden won, and she to pay if Hayes was
elected. On the morning of the 9Th of No.
vember he called and paid the debt; on the
9th he called and took it back. That even
ing she paid the debt Next morning she
took it back and he paid then she paid and
he paid, and so they have been kept busy by
the contradictory dispatches ever since, and
both declare their willingness and ability to
hold out until Congress decides the question.
They don't like the Compromise bill.
The New York Sun says: "The investi-
cations of Judge Abbott's committee in South
Carolina have proved the existence of col
ored organization known variously as the Un-
ion League, the Laboring Union and the
Brotherhood, the members of which were
bound by oath to vote the Republican ticket.
The functions of this league were to bulldoze
negroes who confessed Democratic proclivities,
to circulate Republican campaign arguments
in the form of brickbats and razors, and to
spread the story, started by Chamberlain 8
agents, that the United States troops had been
sent to South Carolina with orders to murder
every colored man who should vote for Tilden
and Hampton"
A very peculiar feature in life insurance
business has been brought out by the testimo-
ny in the case of the insolvent Continental
Life Insurance Company of New York. A
man by the name of Hammond testifes that
he was employed as an agent on a salary Of
$4,000 year, to travel in the South and
West and "freeze out" policy-holders. He
represented that the company was insolvent,
and by creating panic among the policy
holders, bought up the policies for twenty-five
cents on the dollar, or thereabouts. This ef-
fected an enormous saving to the company on
policies nearly due, and was done for that
purpose. Mr.. Hammond says that risks
amounting to 100000 in California we're ex-
tinguished by this process, and policies out
standing to the amount of $2,OOO,OOO were
brought down to 100000 in two years.
The following extract from the speech Of
Hon. Mat. Carpenter, one Of the counsel for
the democrats before the electoral commission,
is worth reading. He says: ITO relieve some
little anxiety that exists in some parts of the
country, let me occupy one moment in stating
for whom appear here. desire to say in
the first place that do not appear for Sam
uel j. Tilden. He is gentleman whose &C.
quaintance I have not the honor of, with
whom l have no sympathy, against whom l
voted on the 7th of November last, and if
this tribunal could order new trial should
vote against him again, believing as I do that