Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-09-12
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his girl, her mother, before retiring, tells her
not to ruin her health by sitting up more than
two months.
- Every one will hope that the fatal cases
of Asiatic cholera which have recently oc-
Cured in Sweden, are not the forerunners of
an epidemic, which may spread to this coun-
try. One terrible disease is more than we can
manage.
1t is reported that the Western Union
Telegraph Company has made contract with
Mr.. Edison to pay him six thousand dollars
a year, for thirty.four years, in consideration
of his giving the company all right, title and
interest in his telegraphic inventions.
"A cable despatch reports Paris a good
deal worked up over report that General
Grant has denounced Napoleon as "the enc
my of France, the betrayer of the republic
and the author of useless and fatal wars"
and said he didn't care to see any of the
Bonaparte family.
- The number of failures during the month
of August reported in this city is very large,
in consequence of the repeal of the Bankrupt
law, as many firms and individuals failed in
order to take the benefit Of its provisions.
The total liabilities are $14 4,495, ,10S, and the
assets are placed at s1,326,l72.-Ns'o York
Herald, I'd.
- Many ingenious reasons are given for the
present high price of quinine, such as large
orders from Russia, war in South America,
etc. There is one excellent way Of making 1t
cheap, and that is reformation of the tariff
so that the foreign article may come in free.
Southern and Western Congressmen-with
fever stricken constituents-shuulds see to this.
The present price is prohibition to the poor.
- The press generally halls the repeal of
the bankrupt law as the beginning of peri.
cd of restored confidence With the begin
ming of the new business year, it is confident
ly believed we have entered upon season of
reestablished good feeling, when he who sold
on credit had almost certainty that he would
be paid, and he who bought on credit did 80
with the full purpose of settling when set
tling day came.
At St. Louis, some of the leading saloons
and lunch-rooms have given their gross re-
ceipts for day, to the yellow fever sufferers
At Bonnet's, Mr.. John w. Mccullough came
in with friend and threw down $40 for two
cocktails, saying if any man went it better ne
would take another drink. Senator Arm
strong planked two tens and five for ten
drinks. Whisky at $3.50 drink and lem
onades at 81 apiece were much in demand.
The New York Times, in series of arti-
cles, has presented some startling facts in re-
lation to life insurance. 1t begins by noting
its decline By careful figuring, it makes the
assets of all the companies to be $l1 100000
less at the close of 1877 than they were at
the close of 1S76-that is, the assets at the
close of '76 we're more than S407 0,00O; at
the close cf TT they were not more than $685.
100000.
- General Sherman writes TO the superin-
tendent of school for young amateur sold
iers in Michigan, that military school is the
best possible preparation for skilled militia
or army of volunteers, and is absolutely es-
sental to government such as ours, which
will not maintain large standing army. de
adds: "The ordinary drill sets up the boy,
and makes man of better figure, better ply
sique, and consequently prolongs his life and
adds to the measure of his influence as citi-
zsn."
- The Montgomery Advertiser has full re-
turns of the late Alabama election from all
IN rtTU- Srorc -t7Cr1o~.-*-~-
majority is 1924, which is $4,000 larger
than any previous ma jority. Only six coun-
ties were against the Democrats, and in these
Independents were, for the most part, elected
to the Legislature. The two counties giving
the largest maiorities were Dallas and Mont
gomery, both Of which contained heavy ne
gro population, and went Republican in 1876
by overwhelming maiorities.
The New York papers state that the city
is full of strangers, and large hotels are do
ing better business than since the closing
months of the centennial exhibition. The
opening of the fall trade has brought in many
country merchants, the greater part coming
from the West and South. Many fugitives
from New Orleans and other Southern cities
are also arriving. There is large influx of
travellers returning from watering places and
from Europe. Many Southern families just
returning from Europe are there, afraid to 60
to their homes on account of the epidemic in
the South.
A New York special to the Baltimore
Sun says: "The holders of South Carolina
Conversion bonds, which are debarred from
the privilege of being funded into the consoli'
dated debt, are getting up petition to the
Legislature of that State, in which they de-
clare their willingness to accept compro-
mise that will give them the equivalent of
30 per cent. of their just claims in the new
consolidated obligations By this proposed
settlement, obligations amounting to S6,OOO,-
600 of principal, and for which the State is
understood to have received in cash about
s2,5OO,OO0, (although this was much less
than the amount paid by the holders of the
bonds,) can be adjusted for about sl,OOO,OOO
in the new consos."
The secretary of the treasury and the
treasurer of the United States have been con-
sidering, for some time, how the immense &C.
cumulation of new silver dollars, amount
ing now to over twelve millions of dollars,
could be put in circulation. The department
SAYS that the banks and private business firms
are clamorous for the silver dollar, but that
thus far it could not be furnished AS the re-
suit of the frequent conferences, circular has
been prepared ordering that silver dollars may
be obtained by anybody in the same manner
that fractional silver may be obtained. That
is to say that anybody, by forwarding nation
al bank currency or greenbacks to the treasu-
~ department, can have, by return express,
the same amount in silver dollars, the govern
lnent paying the transportation both ways.
The circular will 60 into immediate action.
1t is stated at the treasury department that
there need be no scarcity of one and two-dol-
lar greenbacks in the West or South. The
treasury will send to anybody all the ones
and twos required, on application, in exchange
for national bank notes or greenbacks, and,
as in the case of silver, will pay the trans