Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-17
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railroad to connect Milton, n c., with Suth-
erlin, Va, was commenced on the 9th instant.
= Tim Hurley has made an application to
the City Council of Charleston for the use of
the Almhouse, in that city, for the purpose of
establishing cotton factory, for the manu-
facture of cloths, etc.
On Thursday last, there was grand cele-
bration in Philadelphia, at the opening of the
permanent exhibition building. Fifty thous-
and persons were present, among whom were
President Hayes, Ex-President Grant and
several members of the Cabinet.
Southwest Texas is filled with flourish
ing German population. 1t is said that the
inhabitants of the State have doubled their
numbers since 1870; that they now number
100000, and that, if census were taken,
they would be entitled to an increase of ten
votes in the Electoral College.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, says
that there is more nutritious food on an acre
of water we'll stocked with fish, than in the
best wheat-growing farm in the State. The
Ex-Governor has held the plow, fguratively
speaking, for some years, and is one Of the
Fish Commissioners of that State, and so he
doubtless knows whereof he speaks.
The Southern Baptist Convention met at
New Orleans on Thursday last. The follow
ing officers were elected James P. Boyce, D..
D., of Kentucky, president; James G. Fur
man, D. D., offs. c., T. G. Jones, D. D., of
Tennessee, w. G. Crane, D. D., of Texas, and
T.. J. Evans, of Virginia, vice-presidents; w.
E. Tanner, of Virginia, and O. F. Gregory, of
Alabama, secretaries.
Says the Salisbury, N. c., Watchman: w.
A. Posten was tried this week before His Honor
Judge Kerr, for abusing and mistreating his
wife. Mr.. Posten is worth about $4,000.
His Honor let Posten off very light, only
fning him $500, and imprisoning him for 6
months, and making him give $1,000 bond
for his good behavior for II months, at the
end of which time he is to show to the Court
that he has faithfully kept said bond.
In 1862, aged 70, Mr.. Irving Stallings,
ofFranklin, N. c., was found dead in his field,
sitting by tree. There we're no signs of vio-
lence and no murder was suspected. Four
of his own negroes murdered him by smoth-
ering, bed quilt having been used for the
purpose He was robbed of $500. The MUIR
derers are living, and the truth has come to
light through feud that now exists among
them.
There are in the United States 749 daily
newspapers, 60 tri-weekly, 112 semi-weekly,
6,272 weekly, and 11S semi-monthly, 724
monthly, so quarterly, and ID bi-monthly Pc
riodicals; the total being S,119. In proper
tion to the population, according to the last
national census, the far away State of Ne
braska has the greatest number of periodicals,
and Alabama the least the former having
one to every 1,07S inhabitants, and the latter
one to every 10000.
A correspondent writes to the Raleigh, N.
c., Observer, concerning Yancey county, as fol-
lows: The mica business is the biggest thing
in Yancey. Thousands of dollars worth of
mica are sent to market every year. Mr.. u.
D. Ray owns perhaps the most valuable mi
ca mine in the world. Money is plenty in
Yancey, but Lord have mercy on the poor
fool of stranger who tries to get any of it.
People in Yancey seldom die. | know a
family in that county of twelve, the youngest
of whom is 72 years of age-all living.
The river Danube, for the last six hun
dred miles of its course, varies in width from
not more than six hundred feet at the Iron
Gates of the Carpathian Mountains, to about
three miles at the broadest part of its lower
waters. As modern artillery can throw mis-
siles from one bank to the other with the ut
most ease one can readily understand the
character of the many "bombardments" which
are reported at various places on the river.
These amount, thus far, to nothing more than
noisy artillery duels that have but little more
bearing on the movements and plans of the
armies, than the thunder that attends a sum-
mer's shower.
Speaking of progress on the Spartanburg
and Ashevlle Railroad, the Charlotte o.
server says: Mr. R. Y. McAden, one of the
largest stockholders in the Spartanburg and
Asheville Railroad, recently returned from a
visit to the point where the convicts are at
work grading the road. He states that the
work is progressing with rapidity. They
have about one hundred and twenty-five con-
victs from the penitentiary at work, with 9th
ers hired from several counties. He states
that the experiment of working convict labor
is daily growing more satisfactory, and that
barring the expense Of guarding them, they
are preferable to hired labor. By the 10th
of June, trains will be running within fifteen
miles of Henderson.
The timber lands of the South will, within
the next ten years, become valuable prop
erty. 1t is estimated that the lower peninsu-
la Of Michigan, once called the timber re-
serve of the continent, will be denuded in ten
years. The destruction of the forests all over
the North is terrible; and James Little, Of
Montreal, well known as an authority in these
matters, has recently published a declaration
that in Canada, "the whole Ottaway Valley
could not, to-day, furnish as much pine as
would supply the present consumption of
sawed lumber in the United States for ten
months" The young men of to-day will see
the forest lands of the South become as rich a
possession as the cotton lands; and they may
possibly see lumber become as much of an in
dustry in the Rocky Mountains gold mining.
Movements in Europe are cautious and
deliberate. A trial of strength on a large
scale is not thought likely for some time yet.
The lowlands of Roumania and the Dorbrudia
are still too wet for extensive military move
ments and the latter region has but single
road, which leads from point opposite Galatz
to Kustendje, on the Black Sea. Hence the
attempt TO CROSS tne Danuoe Is aI present re-
stricted to that part of the river which the
Turks hold in force and can best defend. In
Asia, things are more lively, and the Russian
military plan is already developed with toler-
able clearness. Erzeroum, the capital, is the
objective point, toward which the three divis-
ions of the invading army are rapidly con-
verging. Bardiz, where the kilograms locate
the Turkish General, Moukhtar Pasha, is
about thirty miles southwest of Kars and on
the direct road to Erzeroum.