Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-28
MERE.MENTION.

It is given out that ex-President Grant is
on his homeward way, and that he will reach
San Francisco about the 18th of Septem.
ber. .''..'.."A late invention is boot made of
paper. It will last as long as the leather arti.
Gle, and is said to be equally effective in rails
ing crop of corns and bunions. '''''A black
snake, four feet long, was recently killed at
Darlington, near Havre de Grace, Maryland,
with head on each end. The snake could
travel in either direction with equal facili-
.'''..'."Col w. L. Goldsmith, Comptroller
General of the State of Georgia, is to be tried
for misdemeanor in Office by court of i'm
peachment.' 1.-The drought still prevails in
Cuba, and the yellow fever in Havana. 1.-The
national debts $2,296, ,564,2 ,2O4-an increase
of $6,0S6,354 during July. y.''''''The past
six years are regarded as years of general de-
preston, yet within that period about 7,OOO,-
900 souls have been added to the population
of this country, and there have been construct
ed II, ,563 miles of railroad. '''''"'' Cheering
reports come from all parts of Tennessee in
regard to the corn crop. .''''''".The stock law
has become so popular in Mecklenburg coun.
ty, N. c., that it would require revolution
to re.establsh the old fence law. '''''''''The
last Congress made considerable headway
upon bill to grant annual pensions to the
veterans of the Mexican war. This bill did
not become law 1t will, however, without
a doubt, be passed at the next session of
Congress '''''''The Baltimore Gazette figures
up thus: "The Republican party of Mary
land consists of $4,000 negro voters, who vote
the ticket on principle, and 10000 white men
who con6ne themselves exclusively to the
task of obtaining and holding the Federal
offices in the State. '''''''''The Illinois State
Board of Agriculture places the wheat crop
of that State at 42,O41 1862 bushels, valued at
nearly s9S,OO0,OO0 The Indiana wheat crop
is placed still higher, being estimated at
550O00O0 bushels. .''''''..Ex.Gov Hubbard
of Texas, estimates that the population of that
State, under the new census, will reach three
millions, and entities the State, under the
present ratio of representation, to twenty-five
members of Congress, which exceeds that Of
any State at present, except Pennsylvania and
New York. .'''''"'"San Antonio, Texas, is af
Aicted with small pox. .''''''.''Three of the
mob, who murdered Standing, the Mormon,
in Georgia, short time ago, have been cap
tured and lodged in Whitfield (Ga.) Jail.
The Postal Guide, just issued, shows that
the number of post. Offices in the United States
has doubled since 1852, now numbering A.
O......'."A new cotton, called worm proof,
is reported in Texas, for which the discoverer
is negotiating with the agricultural depart
ment of the government at Washington for
his right which, if effected, will then be made
public. ......'...The Custer battle field is to be
made a national cemetery. '''''''''The cotton
crops of the lower Arkansas river this season,
are said to he the finest that have been known
in that country for years. '''''''''Senator M.
G.. Butler is at Newport, R. I.''''''''There
are 9S2 convicts in the Kentucky penitentia-
y.''"''Twenty-two thousand persons attend
ed services at the Methodist camp. meeting at
Ocean Grove, N. j., ON Sunday last '.''"Old
Castle Thunder, building in Richmond,
used as prison house during the war; was
destroyed by fire last Tuesday morning.