Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-05
Straps aud fafts.

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removed.
- Within the past four weeks no less than
seventeen dead infants have been picked up
by the police in the streets and alleys of New
York.
A Louisville concern, known as the Ken
lucky Cash Distributing Company, is bank
rupt. One drawing took place and another
was extensively advertised.
- Those members of the Southern canvass
ing boards and late Presidential electors who
are hanging around Washington to get some
thing, are told that "virtue is its own reward" !"
Great pecuniary distress prevails in Bel
GUM. Manufactures have stopped, workmen
are out of employment, trade is dull, and the
theatres are empty. Germany is an equal
sufferer.
- The Michigan Legislature is about put
ting an end to the marriage of cousins. A
prohibitory bill has passed one branch, and
all the cousins in love with each other in the
State are looking blue.
- The shoe manufacturers Of Lynn, Mass,
state that their business at this time is one.
third better than it was year ago. All the
shoemakers there have work, and most of the
factories are running on over time.
Pork packing statistics of the West show
an increase of 192,204 in numbers but de-
crease in average weight Of 1.73-100 pounds
Mess pork-increase 91,445 barrels Lard,
decrease 1,42-100 pounds per head. Total
packed, 5,072,339.
National bank notes issued during the
past month, aggregate nearly $2,O0O,OOO
This is the largest monthly issue for two
years. Two-thirds of the amount was re-
issued to banks that had previously retired
their circulation.
- In Alabama, farmers are preparing for
heavy crops this year, and the figures show
that the guano sales are greater than ever be-
FORE 1t is estimated that the amount sold is
twice what it has heretofore been at this sea-
son of the year. Most of it is to be used on
cotton lands.
The Legislature of Indiana has passed
law prohibiting the changing of text books
in the public schools of that State more than
once in six years. This measure is intended
to produce more systematic method of in.
struction in the schools, and to check an abuse
that has been the source of great deal of
needless expense to the taxpayers
The Insurance officers in several of the
Northern States are in trouble, in consequence
of the recent rigid investigation of the affairs
of the companies they control. Benjamin
Moves, an officer of the New Jersey Mutual
Insurance Company, of Newark, was sent to
jail one day last week in default Of $4,000
bail.
A despatch from Chicago says that Gen.
Sherman has announced it as his purpose not
to parley further with the Indians, or to delay
the intended campaign, while negotiations be-
tween Spotted Tail and the hostile Indians
are pending. Supplies are being rapidly for
warded and everything is being put in readi-
ness for vigorous campaign, which will be
opened as soon as possible.
A Washington telegram of Wednesday,
to the New York Journal of Commerce says {:
"The appointment of Ex-Governor Aiken, of
South Carolina, as Collector of Customs at
Charleston, and of Ex-Governor Porter, of
South Carolina, as United States District At
torney for that State, will probably be made
as soon as the gubernatorial contest is settled.
Both gentlemen are conservatives"
Connecticut has taken step in advance
of all other States in its legislation for women.
The acts of this years legislation place the
wife on an equality with the husband. She is
secured the absolute control of her own prop
erty during life, and on the death of either
party to the marriage contract, the survivor
inherits one.third of the real and personal es-
tate of the deceased.
The people of Georgia will vote on the
1st of May, on the final adoption of an amend
ment to the constitution of that State, already
twice passed by the Legislature, which con-
tains prohibition against any power in the
State paying or recognizing in any way as
valid, any direct bonds, gold or currency
bonds, or the States alleged guarantee or en-
dorsement of any railroad or other bonds
heretofore declared illegal, fraudulent or void.
According to the Turf Field and Farm,
the Nebraska farmers have begun the domes-
ticaton of the buffalo. The wild animals,
while young, are introduced among herds of
the tame stock only one or two at time.
Half and quarter breeds are found to be very
hardy, and in the yield of the milk the cows
raised of mixed stock give more than the
average yield of rich milk. The experiment
promises we'll, as the endurance of the wild
animals is impaired to the domestic stock.
Governor Drew, of Florida, is now on a
visit to New York. He represents affairs as
progressing finely in the Land of Flowers,
that the colored people are going to work
with better will than previous to reconstruc-
tion, and the people seem better disposed than
since 1865, which, he says, is on account of
having government of their own selection.
Governor Drew also gives hopeful view of
the agricultural and business outlook in Flor
ida, and says emigration is flowing in rapidly.
The Washington National Republican, of
Tuesday last, contains the following editorial
paragraph: "The next Democratic candidate
for the Presidency will be Southern man, if
that party thinks best to run any one in 1880.
His name is Hampton. That he will be a
formidable candidate no one will doubt.
During the last campaign his conduct won
for him the respect and confidence of all
classes, North and South. He was for four
years bitter rebel, but that is counterbal-
anced by the fact that he has been gentle
man for fifty years"
"A New York letter says: "Wall street
has lately crowded over into Pearl and Beav.
er streets and taken a hand in the cotton
market The financial operations have been
nearly all on the "bear" side, and it is owing
in great measure to their movements that
cotton has been depressed to the point where
it is. With unlimited means at command, a
defiant boldness and a sharp encounter with
every attempt to ally, coupled with increas-
ing stocks here and in Liverpool in their fa-
vor, these Wall street gentry have been ena-
bed to virtually control the cotton market
for weeks, and to amass enormous profits"