Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-26
Sfraps aud fafts.

Wade Hampton the other.
1t was German editor who said that in
the United States thieves are so scarce that
they have to offer reward for them.
Before the war, the States of Mississippi
and Alabama were the largest cotton produ-
cling regions of the South but neither one ev-
er exceeded the 650,000 bales produced by
Texas last year.
An old colored preacher was lecturing
youth of his fold about the sin of dancing,
when the latter protested that the Bible plain.
" said, There is time to dance yes. dar
am time to Dance said the dark divine,
'and it's when boy gifts whippin' for gwine
to BALL.
"A bed of yellowish colored paint, covering
an area of at least two acres, and having
thickness of four feet, has been discovered
near Cullman, Ala. The paint is found to be
superior to ochre, as it can be worked without
adding white lead, and cannot be surpassed
for water colors.
From all causes, one passenger out OF 81
100000 who have travelled by rail in Great
Britain was killed in 1876, and one out OF ev-
ery 28O,OOO was wounded. In the United
States about 1886, ,250000 railroad passengers
are carried annually, and of this number a.
bout one in every 100000 was killed, and
one in 100000 injured.
"A circular has been issued from the head
quarters ofthe Airline Railroad Company,
at Atlanta, Ca, announcing that the road is
henceforth to be known as the Atlanta and
Charlotte Airline railroad, instead of the
Atlanta and Richmond Airline Railway. 1t
further announces that H. w. Sibley, of New
York, is president of the new company, and
that Col. j. G.. Foreacre, of Atlanta, is gener-
al manager.
"A sad story is related of a lady at party
in London, whose dress and form were fault.
less. Just before dinner an admirer offered
her a flower from his buttonhole, which she
fastened to her dress with pin. As they went
down to dinner, the gentleman thought he
heard noise as though of wind escaping from
bellows. The lady had soon lost her fair
proportions, and the tightly fitting dress was
almost baggy. It appears that the latest fash
ion for thin ladies' dresses is an alright lin
ing blown out to the proper size. The pin put
to keep the flower in had penetrated the air
tight lining and caused grand collapse.
Rhode Island has 2,019 manufacturing
establishments, with an invested capital OF
nearly $5O,OOO,0O0, and employing 56,45O
hands, to whom are paid in wages yearly the
sum of S23, ,707 ,513, or an average Of about
S42O each. The raw material used is valued
at S76,715,970, and the value of products
yearly is sl26, ,659,S75. There has been large
increase during the past year in the number
of establishments engaged in manufacturing,
and in the results of their business. There are
one hundred and thirty-fve cotton factories,
with capital of $24,034, ,209, 22,574 hands,
and yielding goods worth S3S,927 $3.50.
Many country merchants are in the habit
of making their remittances in postage stamps,
much to the annoyance of wholesale dealers,
who cannot readily dispose of them. This
custom reveals the secrets of the desire for un-
salared postmasterships. The per centsge al
lowed for the sale of stamps is large, 80 that
by dividing, the postmaster makes neat sum,
and the merchant gains goodly discount
On sale of $50 worth of stamps the postmas-
ter receives from 30 to 60 per cent. and if he
gives the country merchant one-thlrd OF his
profit, the latter gets his $50 worth Of goods
for $40 by paying for them in stamps, and the
postmaster coolly pockets $40. This proce.
dure is against the rules Of the department,
and efforts are being made to ferret out the
transactions.
The following story is told in Washing
ton as showing where ex-Vice. President Ham
lin stands on the conciliatory policy Of Presl-
dent Hayes: Just before Hamlin left Wash
ington to 60 home, he told the President he
did not like his policy that the Southern
Democrats were just as much the enemy OF
the negro as they ever were. "But, Senator"
said the President, "you must make exceptions
to your rule. I have seen good deal of Cor
don, Lamar, Hill, and others, lately, and l
like them very much" eyes, I know" re-
piled Hamlin, "but I'll be id, Mr.. Presi-
dent, if it's any credit to you" The President
smiled good naturedly at Hamlin's frankness,
and as he babe him goodbye he remarked
that he chopped he'd find the President in
better company when be returned to Wash
ington."
The Attorney General decides that South
ern mail contractors must be paid up to the
time that their States respectively seeded or
passed the resolution ofsecession. Under this
ruling the Sixth Auditor has issued a circular
of instruction to these claimants, that they
must put in their claims in detail, giving the
number of days of actual service rendered, and
that they must prove that they have never re-
ceived any money from the rebel government
for this service. In such claim they must
give two responsible and reliable securities in
reference to this one allegation. The circular
further provides that after all the claims are
in and properly adjusted, the money will be
paid, and if it is found that the 1915, 900 ap.
propriated for this purpose is insufficient, it
will be paid pro rata to the claimants. twill
takesuch length oftime to get all these claims
in and properly adjust them, that this and the
ensuing administrations cannot accomplish 1t.
The Secretary of the Treasury will ask further
legislation on the subject.
"A New York letter says: ut would not be
surprising if in the course of few days call
should be issued for mass-meeting of all who
are in "favor of maintaining the integrity and
indivisibility the Republican party" l am
credbly informed that movement of the
kind is really on foot, but that the inspiration
of it comes from without rather than from
within. That is to say, the friends of Wen
dell Phillips, Senator Blaine and other gentle
men of that way of thinking, are quietly mott
flying their friends here that the time is ripe
for little plain speaking on the part of the
Republican masses, with reference to the
Presidents Southern policy, and that some
such movement in the leading city Of the
country, if vigorously followed up, would i'm
mensely strengthen the Republican cause at
the approaching session of Congress- Some
correspondence, I am further informed, has
been passing on the subject between certain
nronoinent noliticians at the West and persons