Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-12


- Reports from all parts of the West contin:
lie to indicate better times, livelier trade and
general feeling ofbuoyancy among all ranks
of business men.
Judge Jere. Black, of Pennsylvania, is
credited with the remark that the two great
est caamities which ever befell the human
race, were the fall of Adam and the landing
of the Puritan pilgrims. ..
- The rapid increase in the use of postal
cards, is shown by the fact that the contract
to be awarded for them this year will amount
to nearly Sl,400,000. The number of pos
tai cards used during the last fiscal year was
53,000,000. ',t
- Some idea of the financial struggle which
has been taking place in New York, may be
gained from the following facts: During the
month of March there were twenty-seven fail
ures with total liabilities of s5,S12,696. The
total assets were $9S4,S32, equal to nearly II
per cent. In several instances there were no
assets whatever. ...
john F. Chamberlain, New York gam
bier, who some months ago went into bank
ruptcy, with liabilities amounting to over
$4,000, has arranged with his creditors to
pay them one cent on the dollar. Included
in the claims is one of S27, 1000 to the estate
of A. T. Stewart, and another of S14, 900 to
Jay Gould.
While at Washington, Governor Hampton
dined with President Hayes, Gen. Gordon
and some four or FIVE Northern Generals. Be-
fore sitting down to the table, General Gordon
proposed that each one should give the date
y - ho
late war and whoever had the oldest commission
should preside at the table. 1t was readily
agreed to, and upon the dates being given, it
was found that Hampton ranked the whole Of
them, Hayes included-so he presided at the
head of the table.
"A New York letter says: "The represen-
tatives of the various steamship and railroad
companies engaged in the Southern trade,
have forwarded request to the various
companies of Boston, Philadelphia and Balti-
more in the same business, to appoint COM
mittee to superintend the fixing and maintain
ing of all rates of freight from their respec-
tive ports to the South and Southwest, and
that such rates shall be adhered to without
rebate or commission
The Modoc Indians, now numbering fifty
four males and sixty-three females, are loca-
ted on very fertile tract, containing four
thousand acres, in the northeast corner of the
Shawnee reserve, Indian Territory. They
have engaged energetically in labor during
the past year, and, as result, have large
and valuable crop on their farm. The gov
ernment has expended 1882 for their school
ing for ten months, which is under the super
vision of the Society of Friends.
The New York Sun says: "Twenty.three
States have Democratic Governors. There
is Democratic majority in the House. The
Senate is nearly equally divided, and in two
years will be controlled by the Democrats.
There is white majority of more than mil
lion Democrats in the United States, and
an absolute majority of quarter of million.
A Republican who was not elected President
holds the office through fraud. A hundred
thousand Repub blcans hold the minor Federal
officers through the same fraud. This is the
political situation in nutshell, and it is we'll
to remember the leading facts.
"A Washington telegram relates that at
the interview between Hayes and Hampton,
the former called the latter's attention to the
very large Democratic vote in Edge6eld
county, as compared with former years, and
said to the Governor: "This is hardly to be
accounted for by an increase of population"
and asked him how he could account for it.
Hampton replied, "You forget, sir, that at
ten polling places in this county large num-
ber of soldiers were stationed, and under
stood that they all voted for me-" This
amused Mr.. Hayes, who laughed very hear
tily and said, "Well, if the soldiers have got
to going for you, it ought to settle the case"
The Medical Press mentions case in re-
gard to the management of kerosene lamps,
which it behooves those using this kind Of
light to notice. A merchant returned home
about o'clock at night, and found his wife
lying on the bed groaning heavily and un-
conscious. She was waiting his return, and
at last, tired out, laid herself on the bed, af-
ter turning down the wick of lighted kero-
sene lamp as low as possible without extin.
gushing it. In this position of the wick, if
the oil is bad, vapor, mixed with an innu.
merable quantity of specks of SCOT, diffuses it.
self through the apartment, and 80 covers the
eyes, nose and respiratory organs, that on
falling asleep one runs the risk of suffocation.
1t is always advisable, therefore, in the use Of
kerosene lamps, to allow the wick to burn
brightly or to extinguish it entirely.
"A New York despatch says gentlemen
fully in the confidence of Gov. Tilden, and
fresh from an interview with him, aver that the
institution Of legal proceedings to oust Presi-
dent Hayes has been strongly advocated by
David Dudley Field and freely discussed by
friends of Mr.. Tilden, but that Mr.. Tilden
himself never seriously thought of such
thing. Mr.. Tiden said that he had never
directly or indirectly advised such proceed
ing or encouraged it. Mr.. Field urged that
evidence is certainly attainable by the over
throw ofthe Chamberlain and Packard Gov
ernments, which would establish Tiden's
claim beyond doubt before any judicial tribu-
nal. Mr.. Tilden, however, steadily discounte.
nances the idea, and ofcourse nothing will be
done against his protest. He says in so many
words that any attempt to question Hayes
right in view of the present situation, would
be an assault upon the tranquility Of the
country.
The members of the forty-fourth Con-
gress, voted themselves the franking privilege
Just before adjourning, and from now until the
first of next December tons of matter in the
shape of public documents will be forwarded
from Washington to all parts of the country.
They went further and very properly restored
to the executive departments, the right to
transmit official communications through the
mails free. No frank will be used, but every
letter or package, to pass free, must bear over
the words, "Ofhcial Business an endorse
ment showing the name of the bureau and
department from which transmitted. In ad-
ditioD to this endorsement, the penalty for un-
lawfully using such envelopes must be stated