Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-19


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Hampton Tax Receipts. ,, ~
- The Columbia Register of recent date
furnishes the subjoined information in re-
gard to receipts given by the special agents
for the ten per cent. contribution, which may
prove of value to some of our readers
The receipts issued by the special agents
for the collection of the ten per cent. contri-
button on account of taxes, are made receiva-
BILE for taxes the present year, and the act
authorizing the same does not specify that
they are only receivable from those persons
who paid the contribution. The receipts are
made negotiable by this action of the Legis.
lature, and any person having possession of
them can tender the same in payment of taxes.
Doubtless, many of these receipts are lost or
mislaid by the contributors, who did not so
much regard their value, as they we're anxious
to sustain the Hampton government, and made
their contributions as free.will offering upon
the altar of patriotism. In order to meet
such cases, we are informed, the Comptrol-
Ter General has issued instructions by which
the County Treasurers will be required to
ing to have mislaid their receipts, and which
will ultimately secure the proper parties q
credit for the amount paid. This arrange.
ment will serve as check upon improper
persons receiving credit therefor. The books
of the special agents are in the hands of the
Comptroller General, and the memorandum
list (whcn received from County Treasurer)
will be compared with the original entry, so
that every person will receive the full benefit
of his patriotic action. We make this state
ment because it has come to our knowledge
that tax payers in some counties are perplex-
ed about the loss of receipts. . .....
The Improper Sale Of Stamps. .
- The custom of quite a number of post.
masters of the fourth class, who speculate
in postage stamps, is attracting the attention
of the post-oftice department, and the secret
agents of the department are engaged in the
work of overhauling those guilty of the ques'
tionable mode of dealing. The New York
Sun exposes these trasactions as follows:
These Irregularities have been discovered
exclusively in Offices of the fourth class, in
which, in lieu Of salary, the postmaster is
allowed 80 per cent. on the first one hundred
dollars worth ofstamps sold, and 30 per cent.
Oh the next three hundred dollars worth, and
40 per cent. on the next six hundred dollars
worth. Some publishers and jewellers went so
far as to send special circulars to postmasters,
Offering to take payment for their goods in
postage stamps. The bait is snapped at, and
only such of the postnasters as by their own
blunders send misdirected or non directed
packages Of stamps in registered envelopes
requiring the packages to be opened, are de-
tected. Hence only few of their many
transactions ever come to the knowledge of
the authorities. In order to escape detection,
the postmasters frequently send remittances
of stamps by express. Many Of the rural
postmasters are storekeepers, and arrange.
ments are made by them with the mercan-
tile houses from which they purchase goods
to accept either whole or part payment in
postage stamps. The result Of all this is
shown in comparison Of the post office re-
ports. Sales Of stamps 10 some little cross
road Offices have literally swelled from fifty
or hundred dollars year to several thou
sand dollars. The increase Of sales in small
Offices, distributed throughout the Southern
and Western States, perceptibly decreases
the sales in the Offices of the large cities.
The government loses the amount fthe com.
mission paid to the country postmasters.
The Cotton Prospect.
- The Department of Agriculture pub
fishes the following information as to the con-
dition of the cotton crop, from returns receiv-
ed during the month Of July:
Returns from $50 counties, producing six
tenths ofthe cotton of the United States. Sew
enty.three counties of Georgia are represented.
The average condition of the whole area is 93
40 per cent, per cent. less than the July
average of last year. 1t is less by Z per cent.
than the average for 1876. but better than the
condition for 1873 or 1874. Only Louisiana
gives higher average than in July of last
year. The State averages are as follows !:
North Carolina 8S; South Carolina 81 Geor.
eia 80 Florida 95; Alabama "a; Mississippi
90; Louisiana 1902; Texas 81; Arkansas "a /;
Tennessee 96. The crop is from one to two
weeks late in the more northern belt. Nights
have been too cold, and in many sections an
excess of rain has retarded cultivation, rem.
dering the fields grassy and the plant unthrifty.
The rains have been general and long contin-
ued in Texas, but fine weather is producing a
rapid Improvement. An overflow Of the Ar.
kansas river has drowned out 60 900 acres OF
cotton. The low lands in Tennessee have
been destructively inundated. While here
the losses have been mainly owing to rains,
there are localities east of the Mississippi that
have suffered from drought. Insects have as
vet done little damage. The cut worm is re-.
ported troublesome in Florida. Lice are
abundant whenever the plant has become un'
thrifty from cold nights and excessive mois'
ture. Grass worms are doing some damage,
mainly in Texas, and the cotton caterpillar
is reported in Harden. Atascosa, Bazoria.
Uvalde, Jasper and Victoria counties, in
Texas. Cotton blooms in the Gulf States were
reported at several points on the 18th and 10th
of June. Labor is gradually becoming more
efficient A great improvement in the morale
and efficiency is reported in Louisiana.
A Deserving Woman.
- The Charleston News and Courier pub
fishes the subjoined letter to Col. D. Wyatt
Aiken, from lady residing on the lower coast
of South Carolina:
1 am living on single acre of land, which
1 expect to buy ifI can ever raise the money /;
price $50. This acre I have had plowed, for
which paid, and with wheelbarrow, chip
manure and rotted pine straw, myself have
made so many Irish potatoes that after grab
bling for six weeks to supply my table, where
I and nine children sit regularly, l have in
the past few days dug over three barrels. |
have corn taller than my head. early COW
peas, tomatoes turning. okra in bloom, and
over one hundred heads of beautiful young
cabbage, some squashes and cucumbers de-.