Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-10


The loss of property on the Western rivers
during the past year is set down at 81, ,39O,OOO.
This includes ice and canal boat disasters
on the Ohio river, amounting to $4,OOO,O0O.
The number of lives lost during the same
time was seventy; more than two-thirds by
explosions and burning of steamers.
The export of cheese from the United
States, as shown by a table prepared by the
bureau of statistics, has grown from 144,734
pounds in the year 1870, to 107 1864, ,666 pounds
in 1877 The total export for the period,
including both those years, has been 1852,
952,57l pounds.
A Boston lady, over sixty years of age,
has collected q million Cancelled postage
stamps, having been offered for doing 80, by
a Boston man, the three hundred dollars
necessary to obtain her admission to St.
Luke's Hospital. The stamps Eli a Saratoga
trunk, and will be sent to Europe to be used
in the manufacture of papier mache goods.
- The failures for the year in New York
city were very heavy-in all eight hundred
and seventy-four, with liabilities amounting
to nearly 6fty.two million dollars, and assets
about twenty-one millions. Manufacturers,
numbering forty-four, head the list, followed
by thirty.6ve bankers and brokers, who went
down under the heavy load of more than six
millions
There are $12,000,000 said to be still ly-
ing in the vaults of the Bank of England be-
longing to the late Confederate Government,
and it is suggested that Her Majestys Gov
ernment be induced to transfer it to some pro-
perly appointed commission in this country,
to be used in supplying artificial limbs to ex-
Confederates, and in such other manner as the
commission may determine.
"A negro was sentenced, in Floyd county,
Ga, to be hanged next September, and he
asked the Judge to appoint an earlier day:
His Honor remarked that propriety prevented
acbange. "Never mind the propriety, judge"
said the prisoner "I'm the man that's going
to be hanged, and ought to have something
to say about it,"
-Ex-Gov. Coburn, of Maine, is the largest
landowner in America. He possesses $685.
900 acres in Maine, Canada, Wisconsin, Da-
kota, Michigan and Minnesota The Boston
Herald adds to this that the Governor, who
is worth, $6,0OO,O00, and gives away $780,.
900 per annum, is besieged with beggars of
both high and low standing, and scarcely a
day passes but he receives letters asking aid
to build seminaries, churches and charitable
institutions.
There will be four eclipses during this
year-two of the sun and two of the moon.
lst, solar eclipse, February 2, visible only in
Australia; End, eclipse of the moon, Februa-
ry II, visible to all the world except Europe
and Africa Sd, total eclipse of the sun, July
29th 4th, partial eclipse of the moon, Au-
gust IL, visible to everybody who will waste
a short night to watch for it, On the 9th of
MAY, Mercury will cross the suns disc, be-
ginning at 10 a. No. and leaving at p. m.
The Official Army Register for 1878
shows that the militia of the United States
available for military duty (unorganized)
number 3,734,693. The general officers num-
Der 1877; general staff officers, LOTT; reg
mental, field and staff officers, 1,240; COM
pany officers, 4,460. Total commissioned
officers, 6,S44; total non-commissioned Of
6cers, musicians, privates, etc., 36,853, or an
aggregate of 93,697. Thirty States are re-
ported having militia organizations.
"A late Washington dispatch to the New
York Post, gives the following political in
formation from South Carolina: Advices re-
ceived from South Carolina represent that the
Republicans throug hout the State have de-
termined to revive their party organization,
and not to let the State pass hopelessly into
the hands of the Democrats. In two or
three counties last week they turned out at
local elections and elected their ticket. Their
success has encouraged the Republicans in
other counties, and meetings have been called
to perfect their organization.
- Recorder Hackett, of New York, on Fri
day, sentenced George Robinson, convicted of
stealing law books, or attempting to steal them,
from ex.Gov. Tiden He is reported as u.s.
ing the following language: George Robin
son, you have pleaded guilty of grand larceny.
You were caught in the act OF stealing law
books from the office of Mr.. Samuel j. Tilden.
Now, it was despicably mean for you to steal
from the gentleman from whom the Presiden-
cy of the United States had recently been
stolen. I sentence you to two years and SIX
months in the State prison"
Some of the calculations of profit to come
from the Eastern war have sadly miscarried.
The suspension of the Jewell Brothers, pro-
prietors of the Brooklyn City Mills, the larg-
est Touring establishment in the country, was
owing mainly to that cause. On the break
ing out of the war they bought grain very
heavily, expecting an increased demand from
abroad and an advance in prices. Instead OF
that there was falling off in prices Of TWEEN
ty to thirty cents bushel in wheat The
losses incurred then, in connection with others,
have forced the concern into suspension.
The bark Liberia, which sailed from New
York last week for Monrovia, Liberia, took
about seventy''negroes, composed principally
of families from Mississippi, North Carroll
ma, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Among them is Sherwood Capp, of Raleigh,
N. c., who was recently graduated from the
Shaw University of that city. During eight
years of study Mr.. Capp was pecuniarily sus.
tanned by two benevolent gentlemen, one OF
whom resides in Boston and the other in
Newark. The petition recently presented to
Congress by Gen. Garfield, for the extending
of governmental aid to the cause OF Liberlan
emigration, was drafted, it is said, by MIR.
Capp. :. =,
Mrs. Abraham Van Buren, wife Of the
late COL Abraham Van Buren, and daughter
of Mr. Singleton, of South Carolina, died
recently at her residence in Washington city,
in the sixty second year of her age. Col. Van
Buren, her husband, was the eldest son Of
Martin Van Buren,. During the term Of OF:
fee of President Van Buren, Mrs. Colonel
Van Buren presided with great dignity at the
White House, and is we'll remembered in that
capacity by those familiar with Washington
forty wears ago. Mrs. Van Buren, has lived
in Washington for number of years, where
she has always held hig b social position.