Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-28
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Eminent physicians of New York make
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year .'''''' Hon.
Robert L. Taylor, Democrat, ofthe first Ten
nessee District, will be the youngest member OF
the fortyrsixth Congress, being just of Consti.
tutioual age-twenty five years. ia Wash
ington paper speaks of an increase in Hon.
A. H. Stephens weight as "another Demo
cratic gain. ."''''.''"In Collin county, Texas,
corn is selling at 10 cents per bushel' The
City Bank of Atlanta, Ga, has suspended.
The stock holders lose their entire invest.
ment. '..'..'.The national House of Represen-
tatives is composed of 293 members. In the
last house there were 2O9 lawyers. In the
Senate, the proportion of lawyers was equal.
ly as great Tennessee hogs are. selling
in .Asheville, North Carolina, ATT A cents,
gross, per pound Before this years po.
litical contests are fairly over, those of 1879
have been begun. The Kentucky Democrat:
ic State Convention has been called to meet
at Louisville, May l, 1S79."::'".'::::':' Chicago
has in her warehouses $4,000 barrels Of -four,
100000 bushels of grain, $4,000 barrels
of pork, $4,000 tierces of lard and $780,.
900 pounds of meats. ''.:'''"Gen. Gordon has
been reelected to the United States Senate
by the Georgia Legislature, receiving, all but
Eve votes Id the two houses. '''.''..'The Commits
sion of physicians, appointed by some, Wash.
iugton authority, to inquire into the causes Of
yellow fever at certain points, say that the
only preventive is strict quarantine. Disin.
fectants, they say, do no good. '''''''' Because
it didn't pay, the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad took of, last Sunday, its
recently added night passenger train.n'"'At
torney. General Turner, ofthe Memphis Grim.
inal Court, who was elected last August on
the National ticket, has appointed Frank
Cassels (colored) as Assistant Attorney Gen
eral. .'..'..."Dr. Carver the wonderful marks
man, has been astonishing people of Augusta,
Ga., By his skill with the rifle From Angus
ia he goes to Aiken, S. C.''''.'''For the fiscal
year just closed, the colored people Of Geor.
gia returned taxable property reaching an ag-
gregate value of $5,43O, ,S44. :''''I'|':.As -: re-
suit of the effects of the prohibition law in
Maine, it is stated that while the consump-
ton of liquor has been largely checked, the
consumption of opium has greatly increased.
Walter Fl. Lynch, an express messenger
between Yemassee and Augusta, has been COM
mitted to the Augusta Jail, charged with ta-
king $4,000 package of money which had
been started to Augusta per express by G. W.
Williams d Co., of Charleston. .''''''''One
day last week, the Governor of Pennsylva-
MIA issued FIVE death warrants. All the exc
cutiops are to be on the 18th day of Decem-
ber.'''.."..The prices Of some articles are
eighteen per cent. lower than before the war.
Corn has not been 80 low since 1845, except
ing in 1861; cotton not so low in twenty
three years, and mess pork since 1874. "A
Washington dispatch says in his forthcoming
message, the President will make the alleged
outrages and violations of law in the South
during the late Congressional elections a
prominent topic of comment, aid present the
subject to Congress for such action as the cir
cumstances demand. .'...'''''The Howard Asso.
citation of New Orleans, is unable to pay it's
debts by $4,000, and is appealing for aid.
Thomas H. Powers of the drug manufactu-
ring house of Powers & Weightman, of Phil
adelphia, died in that city on Wednesday of
last week. .'......"The forthcoming naval re-
port of the Secretary, will show that our ma
Wy is we'll adapted to peace establishment,
and that even in case of foreign war, nine
ty vessels for hostile purposes could at once
be supplied. ..