Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-27
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was the SenQlng out last week OF OUU kegs Ol
horse shoes for the use of certain London,
Liverpool and Cork omnibus lines.
Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of the North
ern Pacific Railway, says that if Senator Win
dom will send on two thousand colored men,
he will put them at work during the summer,
and thus help to carry out the Senator's col
onzation sham.
- The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says: !:
mayor Meyer has received an offer to take
the whole Of the $4,000 City of Augusta 7
per cent. bonds, issued last year, remaining in
the hands of the mayor and finance commit
tee, at par. This offer the mayor declined,
as he holds the bonds at higher figure.
"A D. Langstaff, president of the Howard
Association, tells the Louisville Courier. Jour-
nal correspondent that as far as he can learn,
every vestige of the yellow fever disappeared
from Memphis, Holly Springs, Grenada and
all of the towns afflicted during the summer,
as early as December. He has gone over the
ground and made careful inquiries.
- The Illinois Senate has passed bill pro.
hibiting insurance companies from publish
ing anything as assets not available to pay
debts. A great many things that look we'll
one knows better how to obtain money under
such false pretenses than the class at whom
the bill is aimed.
- The Chicago Times says there are now
seventy thousand pending applications for in
valid pensions, all of which if granted, will
date back to the close of the war. New ap-
plications are pouring in at the rate of
thousand day. Everybody who served in
the war is beginning to feel variety Of aches
and pains, the origin of which, upon recol,
lection, he can trace back to his service for
his country.
Right Rev. F. NJ Whittle, D. D., bishop
of the diocese of Virginia, has written letter
to the clergy and vestries of the several
churches in his diocese, forbidding the use OF
flowers on Easter or upon any other occasion
in the churches. The use of fruits and veget-
ables upon Thanksgiving Day is also forbid
den. In the same letter, the bishop prohibits
the use of altar-cloths except of one color-in
other words, he inhibits the practice of chang
ing the altar-cloths at the different ecclesias'
tical seasons.
When the issue of fractional currency was
stopped, it was estimated that the amount
outstanding was $45,O0O,000. A commission
appointed by Secretary Sherman, estimated
that of this amount about SS0O0,000 would
never be presented for redemption, having
been destroyed or lost. 1t now appears that
this estimate was too small There is still
outstanding about 100000 fractional pa.
per currency, of which amount about $4,000,
900 is in Scent and Scent notes. 1t is now
estimated that there will ultimately be re-
desmed only S4,000,000, leaving Sl2OOO,OOO
as profit to the government.
The demand for United States 4 per cents
at New York has fallen off somewhat, but the
subscriptions in other parts Of the country
continue large, and the total last week was
$26,643,900 The subscriptions in the three
weeks before footed up over sl09, 900, 900, or
more than S36,0O0,000 week. This fall be.
low the weekly average may be but tempo
rary, as the amounts vary very much from
week to week. The subscriptions during one
of the three weeks mentioned, for instance,
ran up to over s54,OOO,0OO The delivery of
4 per cents is somewhat embarrassed by the
inability of the bureau of engraving and print
ing to keep up with the demand.
Hon. Horatio G.. Burchard, who was
recently appointed Director of the United
States Mint, has been member of Congress
from Illinois for ten years past, and for SIX
years of this time he has been member Of the
Committee on Ways and Means. He was
born in Marshall, Oneida county, n. Y, in
1926; was graduated at Hamilton College in
1850; has practiced law and been engaged in
mercantile business. He lives in Freeport,
III. His appointment meets the approval
of the friends of a bi.metallic standard, as
Mr.. Burchards views are in opposition of the
late Director of the Mint, Mr.. Linderman,
who was supporter of the single gold stand
ard.
A correspondent of the Savannah News
relates a horrible story about Senator Blaine.
He says that some thirty years ago Blaine
was teaching school in Kentucky and was "a
fiery Bourbon Democrat" On one occasion
Cassius M. Clay made himselfa candidate for
office on an abolition platform and was billed
for speech at Frankfort Young Blaine
declared he would reply to him, and gen.
tleman now living loaned him ten dollars to
pay his expenses History doesn't say wheth-
he answered Clay or not, but the party who
loaned the money, says he still has the plum
ed knights promissory note. AS it is
Southern claim, there is no use in carrying
the case to Congress.
The national association of the veterans
of the Mexican war met at Baltimore last
Saturday, Gen. Denver, of Ohio, presiding.
Among the delegates present were Gen. H.
Gates Gibson, United States army; Hon.
JOS Shields, of Missouri Hon. j. j. Martin,
of Alabama; Hon. Robt. Klatz and Gen.
Biles, of Pennsylvania Gen. John S. Will
liams, of Kentucky; Gen. j. T. Bartolow, OF
Maryland Col. Edward Cantwell and Maj.
JAS Reilley, of North Carolina Maj. Mill.
gan of Virginia, and COL VIM. L. Tidball
and Col. Geo. w. Leonard, of New York.
The only business transacted was the appoint.
ment of a committee to visit Washington and
press upon Congress the equity Of their claims
to be placed upon the pension list There
were about one hundred veterans present.
- The New York Herald publishes lengthy
letter from Brazil, giving frightful picture of
drought, famine and pestilence raging in the
northern portion of that country for more
than year past. 1t is said to be the greatest
calamity in 200 years. Half million people
have been swept away by starvation and dis.
ease. Small pox and black plague have car
ried off their victims in appalling numbers,
and thousands of bodies are rotting in open
trenches. At Lagoa Funda, thousands of other
corpses have been torn and devoured by wild
animals. The starving peasants ate their own
offspring In some places, including the city
of Cerca, the country has been depopulated.
There have been terrible struggles for life by
children abandoned and young souls sold for