Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-03
Straps aud fafts.

menced movement looking to the organlza'
ton of a cotton manufacturing company.
The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, will re-
quire the election of three bishops by the
General Conference, which meets at Atlanta,
Georgia, next May.
The late address of the sugar planters
association of Louisiana, shows that in 1862
the State produced A per cent. of all the
sugar consumed in the United States, while
that proportion is now reduced to IL per cent.
- Sitting Bull has put on his war paint.
He has crossed over from the Canada line
with large force ofSioux and Nez Perces,
and now look out for warm work. He ap-
pears implacable, and trouble is ahead.
- In the vicinity of Rio Grande City, Texas,
there has been no rain since April, with the
exception of one slight shower. In conse-
quence, there is no pasturage, and the suffer-
ing stock is only kept alive by feeding on the
prickly pear from which the thorns are first
cut.
- The culture of coffee in Southern Cali
fornia is becoming profitable. The plant,
it is stated, grows as vigorously as in the
coffee countries of South America, and
yields bean of strong aromatic flavor.
The central and southern portions of the
State are the regions peculiarly favorable.
B. E; Smith, surviving partner Of tn the
banking house of Bartlett & Smith, of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, has brought suit against prom
inent gamblers of that city to recover about
hundred thousand dollars, alleged to have
been lost at play by attaches of the bank in
question. Eminent legal talent has been en-
gagged by both parties.
The Missouri Republican admits that pos
sibly things may change hereafter, but as they
stand now, Mr. Hayes, only nine months after
his inauguration, is forced to look for his
friends among his political enemies. His ad-
ministration would collapse at once, but for
the Democratic support which strange COM
bination of circumstances has given it.
Among the difficulties of editors, q con-
temporary states the case as follows: "The
truth is, an editor cannot step without tread
ing on somebody's toes. If he expresses
opinions fearlessly and frankly, be is arro-
CANT and presumptuous. If he states facts
without comment, he dare not avow his SEN
timents." Yet there are many persons en-
vious of an editors privileges.
The government of Virginia is highly
pleased with the operation of the Moffett bell
punch in that State. A bill for its introduc'
ton into Tennessee is now pending in the
Legislature at Nashville, and the New Or
leans Democrat clamors for its adoption in
Louisiana. 1t seems to furnish an easy and
effective mode of raising revenue, and its sue
cess in Virginia will raise up advocates of it
in most Southern States
In December 1872, 1874 and 1875, there
was warm weather. In 1874 some persons pro-
nounced it the most pleasant fall and winter,
up to December 81, they ever knew. Decem-
ber %, 1875, it was warm, and at 11.4O, p. M,
there was an earthquake. December %, 1875,
it was warm, and there was so much warm
weather that the people supposed there was
some connection between it and the earth
quake. A German proverb says warm win
ter makes full grave-yards
-Advices from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, state that owing to the terri
Bile embargo of mud prevailing in every city,
town and country road, consequent on the
opening of the winter, all commercial opera
tions Of any magnitude are suspended. The
farmers are unable to traverse the roads, and
cattle, hogs. grain and produce are thereby
kept from market Corn has sprouted in the
ear, and unless cold weather sets in, vast
amounts of corn will be ruined. As yet but
little snow has fallen in the Northwest.
- Judge Raynor, the Solicitor of the Treas
ury, having revived the efforts to collect the
assets of the Confederacy now in the Bank Of
England, the subject was recently referred by
Secretary Sherman to the Secretary of State
and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for their opinion. Both have reported ad-
versely, on the ground that while the British
Government is willing to recognize the
United States as the executor of the Confed-
eracy, it claims that before paying the assets,
the liabilities due British subjects must be
liquidated As the liabilities are considera.
bly, in excess of the assets nothing, more will
be attempted in the matter.
- The total number of licensed saloons or
drinking places in the United States for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1877, was 1885,
59S, or, calculating from population of 49,
100000, one for every 280 persons. The
total number of wholesale liquor dealers is
1904; brewers, 2,758; rectiGers, 1880 dis.
tillers, 1892 In the District of Columbia
there are more saloons than there are in Colo
RADIO, Dakota, Delaware, Florida, Idaho,
Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Wash
ipgton Territory, West Virginia, or Wyo-
ming. There are nearly three times as many
saloon. keepers in the District of Columbia as
in twothirds of the States and Territories
named.
Last year Texas led off as cotton pro-
ducing State with 100000 bales; Mississippi
came next on the list with $4,000 bales, fol-
lowed by Arkansas with 100000 bales. Be-
fore the war Mississippi produced vastly more
cotton than any of her sisters, and the yearly
increase of her yield was immense. To the
destruction of the levees on the Mississippi
river and its tributaries during the war, we
may directly trace surrender of the grandest
and most productive region in the world to
the forest and food. But the Aberdeen Er
aminer says that it cannot long be abandoned
to the reptiles and wild beasts. When again
reclaimed, Mississippi will make fully half the
cotton crop of the United States.
- The Washington Union thinks the time
has come for the admission of civilized In-
dians to the privilege of citizenship under
carefully guarded conditions, and argues that
it is contrary to the genius of our institutions
to keep any portion of the inhabitants Of the
republic disfranchised after they become
qualified by their intelligence for enjoying
the privileges of citizens. 1t is a we'll known
fact that hundreds of Indians do possess such
qualifications, and therefore there is great
deal of equity in the proposition of the Sem
ate bill to admit such, and such alone to the