Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-02-28

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two colleges, and was born a slave
- The Hon. A. H. Stephens says he wants
to die in harness, and that, if his health con-
tinues reasonably good, he will be a candi-
date for election to the Forty-sixth Congress-
"A hopeful minister says that he has no
doubt that the time will come, when the mem.
bers of church choir will behave just as we'll
as other folks.
- The last attempt against the Moffett
liquor-punch law, in Virginia, has failed, the
Supreme Court deciding that it is constitu-
tional, and the present estimate is that it will
net the State over half million year.
- Few men have died who have been so
unanimously we'll spoken of as the late Pope
Plus TX. Everybody seems to have kind
word for his memory, however much they
may have differed from him in religious be-
lief.
Italy can bring into the field at once 34O,-
900 men, and has 100000 militia for second
line and in addition to these available troops,
she has reserve of 100000. The corps of
the first line are armed with 1870 rifles and
breach-loading cannon. The estimates for
1878 amount to about GS, 100000.
kansas is young State, less than twenty
years old, and now has population of 7OO,-
900. She has property valued at 1929 ,OOO,-
600; she raised last year 6000,0 900 in farm
products; she has 2,310 miles of railroad,
233 5000 school children, 4,00S school houses
Her territory is not yet one-fourth developed.
- The vote by which the silver bill passed
in Congress has no party significance. Of the
forty eight Senators who voted for it, twenty
six are Democrats, twenty.one are Repuoll-
cans, and one (Judge Davis) independent
OF those who voted in the negative, fourteen
are Republicans and seven are Democrats.
In connection with the Pope, frequent
mention is made of the "Vatican," in which
that fuuctionary las his abode There are
1000 rooms in the Vatican, which is not
palace, but city compressed. An army 3d.
0OO strong could be lodged in it. Its actual in
habitants number but few hundred. Only
two Cardinals lodge there, Simeoni and Led
ochowski.
DR.. Linderman, director of the mints, says
il the silver bill becomes law the three mints
will probably be able to turn out S1,OOO,OOO
in the new coins during the first month after
the passage of the bill that in the second
month the number of dollars coined will prob
ably be increased to 100000, while there
after maximum rate of coinage of So, 100000
a month will probably be reached.
"A dispatch from the City of Mexico, da-
ted the 18th instant, says much disappoint-
ment is felt there because news has not been
received of the recognition Of President Dlaz
by the United States. No ministerial changes
have vet been made. The Executive and Su-
preme Court are in discord ,and in consequence
no Federal Courts are held in the States Of
Durango or chihuahua. Eight prominent
citizens of San Luis have been arrested for
conspiracy; they were implicated by letters
from Escobedo found upon their persons.
The Lerdists say that Escobedo is encouraged
by the American war party to inaugurate
revolution.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says:
"Governor Hampton, of South Carolina, has
given still further evidence of his liberality by
vetong bill which the Legislature had pass
ell, over the solid negro vote, known as the
"chain-gang bill" and providing for the EN-.
ploymcnt at hard labor. rnhlc streets and
highways, of all able bodied males sentenced
to imprisonment in the county jails. And
the fact that but 10 votes could be rallied out
of l12 in the House for the passage of the bill
over the veto, is an indication of Hampton's
influence, which it is very agreeable for the
country to see"
The FIRST official batch of statistics born
of the Mofett register, in Virginia, shows that
from the middle of September last to the lst OF
February, the people of Richmond took 1885,
66S alcoholic and 7O6,6 ,676 malt drinks Leav-
ing out the liquids purchased in large quanti-
ties for exclusive home consumption, the reg
lister would chronicle an average of 4,000,-
600 drinks per annum. Adding the register
ed and unregistered (one-thrd more) drinks,
the allowance will be 40S drinks per voter,
or seventy.6ve drinks per annum for every
man, woman and child in the city.
- The Greenback Convention at Toledo,
Ohio, last Saturday, after appointing the Ex'
ecutive Committee, adjourned sine die. The
platform is wordy, and the report Of the pro.
ceedings closed with the following: Mr.. Du-
rant, from the District of Columbia, read
dispatch from Hon. B. F. Butler, which was
withheld from the press, but which urged the
Convention to denounce the modification of
the silver bill insisted on by the gold men,
and to pass the anti-resumption resolutions.
A resolution was offered and unanimously
adopted, denouncing the silver bill just passed
in Congress as delusion, and Indignantly
condemning it as financial measure.
A dispatch from Dexter, Maine, da;ed
last Saturday, says Last EVENING". w. Bar
ron, Treasurer of Dexter Savings Bank, not
returning home as usual, search was made
for him at the Bank, when the doors of the
Savings Bank rooms were found broken open.
Barron's groans could be heard in the vault,
in which he was locked, and when entrance
was obtained to the vault, he was found lying
on the floor, cufed, gagged and a rope about
his neck. He was taken out in a senseless
condition and died at $50 o'clock this morn
ing. He had several severe wounds on his
head The robbers obtained less than hun
dred dollars, and probably murdered the
Treasurer because he refused to open the safe.
"A recent issue of the New York Journal
of Commerce contains the following in refer
ence to the silver money now in circulation,
as compared with gold: Trade dollar, 95
to 81 cents American silver, % per cent. dis
count to / discount in currency Mexican dol
lars, old and new, 80 to 943; FIVE francs, SO
to 95. The passage of the silver bill will
have the effect to appreciate all silver cur
rency. The trade dollar will mount up prob
ably above par, as it contains u grains more
silver than the monetzed dollar. The reason
that the trade dollar has been selling below
par, is not because of any want of metal about
it, but because it has not been legal tender,
and cannot be disposed of in as large quanti-
ties as desired, hence they fell below par.