Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-12
Straps aud fafts.

valued at s15,OOO,OO per annum.
- Eight hundred and seyenty.three children
and adults died of dipththeria in San Fran
cisco during the year ending in May.
1t is said that there are more Cinnamon
in California than can now find profitable en-
ployment. y.-..s-
= John P. Quarles, an intelligent colored
citizen of Georgia, has been appointed Consul
to Malaga, Spain.
- Chief Justice Waite, Edwards Pierrepont,
ex.Gov Mlden and Secretary Evarts,a all grad
uated in the same class forty years ago.
According to statistical reports, the de-
struction of sheep by dogs is greater in North
Carolina than in any other State. ..
-Chinamen about to testify in court swear
not on the Bible, but on chicken. There is
some sense in this, for boarding house spring
chickens are as old as the Pentateuch.
Gen. Sherman makes prediction that
the President who takes his seat in 1851 will
be man who fought on the Confederate side,
who was young enough to see that he was in
error, and has acknowledged it.
Silistria, before which the Russians are
said to be in force, is a famous fortress. The
Russians failed to take it in 1773 and 1909:
They took it in 1929. In 1854 they failed
again to reduce it. Its surrender in 1879 ls
said to have been due to treachery and gold.
About half dozen murders have occur
red in Pennsylvania since the wholesale hang
ing of Molly Maguires. Some of the latter
murders we're perpetrated by members Of the
infamous organization in question, and some
were not.
Geo. Francis Train says no one need be
"surprised that nation besotted in ignorance,
stupe6ed with superstition, soaked in alcohol,
stepped in tobacco and gorged with meat,
should come to disgraceful end in the deliri-
um tremens of the Presidential fraud r
Mr.. Alex. II. Stephens is looking we'll /;
he presides at his table punctually and takes
plenty of exercise in his new rolling chair.
For the war in Europe he appears to care
nothing. II hate all wars" he says, "and
will be satisfied if dogs who will fight, keep
away from my door,"
Texas has Fifty wheat producing counties,
one-6fth of which, if fully cultivated, would
produce 100000 bushels Of grain. 1t has
also 69l2OOOO cotton yielding acres, which,
if taxed to the extent of their productiveness,
would yield 100000 bales-more than the
entire product of the world.
"A Washington dispatch says Democrat
ic member of Congress from the Southwest,
saws that there is good deal of correspon-
dence going on with view to selecting COM
petent man from the South for the speaker
Ship. The candidates talked of are John II.
Reagan of Texas, Randolph Tucker of Vir-
ginia, Randall Gibson of Louisiana, and Col.
Blackburn of Kentucky.
Judge Bradley is a bit of wag, if we
may credit the following, from the Saint Louis
Democrat A day or two ago foreign born
citizen desired to be excused from jury duty
because he did not understand the English
language. The way he put it was thus:
"Shoo ye, you oxkoose me Won this choory; l
ton't onterstood good English" "Never
mind" said the Judge, 'you will hear very
little of that here"
"A personal friend of Jefferson Davis, who
has lately arrived in Washington, says that
Mr.. Davis is busily engaged in the completion
of his work on the war. 1t will be put to
press in the fall. Mr.. Davis will criticise very
severely the policy and plans of Gen. Joseph
f. Johnston as a Confederate chieftain, and
will charge on him the full responsibility for
the non pursuit of the Federal forces into
Washington on the occasion ofthe first battle
of Bull Run in July, 1861.
- Mr.. Robson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, is
one of the bitterest of the opponents of the
present administration. He is said to be out
spoken in his deuunciations of the President,
dec airing that, had he known the kind ofSec-
retary of the Navy that would succeed him,
Mr.. HAYES never would have been President
Mr.. Robson seems to be of the opinion that
Donald Cameron and himself prevailed upon
General Grant to use troops in Florida, South
Carolina and Louisiana, which resulted IN
bringing about the defeat of Mr.. Tilden.
The election in Ohio this year will be for
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, judge of the
Supreme Court clerk of the Supreme Court,
attorney. general treasurer, school commits
soner, and member of the board of public
works. The Democratic Convention will be
held on July rs, and the Republican Conven-
ton one week later. In addition to State off,
GERS, members of the legislature are to be
chosen, upon whom will devolve the election
of a United States Senator to succeed Hon.
Stanley Matthews.
Virginia Republicans, in position to
know, say that it has been fully determined
that the Republican organization shall take
no part in the ensuing political campaign in
that State. The Republicans will make no
nominations of their own, nor are they dis
posed to give any support to an independent
conservative ticket in case such is put into
the field. 1t is understood that this determi-
nation meets the full approval of the Presi-
dent, who regards such negative course as the
speediest method of breaking up the color
line
- The New York Sun says: "The rate of
interest for money on bond and mortgage of
real estate may now be regarded as fixed at b
per cent. per annum and under. The great
savings banks make it 6 per cent. on all loans
without exception. The Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company makes it per cent to bor-
rowers whose security may be reckoned as
ample. Private capitalists are offering to
take FIVE per cent. from men in whom they
have confidence, and on property which suits
them. This reduction is a necessary conse-
quence of the dullness oftrade and the scarci.
ty of profitable investments.
Georgia cotton manufacturing seems al
WAYS prosperous. There are now in operation
in Columbus, as we learn from the Enquirer,
eight cotton mills, one woolen and one bag
ging factory, four Touring and grist establish
ments, two foundries, plow mandatory,
steam engine and boiler works, and a number
of minor industries, among which may be
counted steamboat building. The amount
invested in manufacturing far exceeds that of
any other town in the South, and is increasing
year by year. The cotton and wooden mills