Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-23
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- Insurance people estimate the amount O
property annually burned up in the United
States at $2,OOO,00O,OO0. Two thirds of this
is put to the account of the incendiary.
Gov. Bradley, of Nevada, in bis message
recommends legislative control of railroad
fares and freights, and the use Of all constitu
tional powers to exclude the Chinese from tht
State.
- The largest sum expended in this country
for each enrolled scholar is to be credited tt
the Cherokees of Indian Territory. Each pu
pill in their schools is educated at an annua
cost of $685. The smallest sum per capita
80 cents-ispaid by Alabama.
Seven members of the present Congress!
have died since the beginning of the session
viz. Quinn of New York, Welsh Of Nebras
ka, Leonard of Louisiana, Williams of Michi
gan, Douglas of Virginia, Hartridge of Geor
gia, and Schleicher of Texas. .,
The Senate of Alabama has adopted
resolution looking to the expediency Of pro
viding by law for the election Of electors fol
President and Vice. President by the Genera
Assembly, until the acts Of Congress author
izing interference by Federal authority are
repealed. ...
In Washington on Friday last, Mrs. Wells
and Mrs. Williams, of Utah, addressed the
House judiciary committee, praying that the
recent decision Of the Supreme Court might
not be enforced on those now living in polyga'
my, on the ground that if the husbands are
compelled to surrender all but one wife, those
abandoned, with their children, will be driven
to destitution. No action was taken.
- Mr.. Westwood, of Mount Auburn, Ohio
was worth S65, 900 when his first wife died
Her industry and management had been, to a
great extent, the cause Of his prosperity, and
he gratefully spent s., 400 in putting monu'
ment over her grave. Hesoon married again
and his second wife rapidly wasted his for
tune until he had no property left except the
monument. According to the new Mrs. West
woods advice, he had it removed to marble
yard, effaced the inscription, and offered itfor
sale at half its original cost.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday says
the Senate has passed the important bill for
the payment Of arrears of pensions The
bill now only awaits the Presidents sigma
ture to become a law. 1t is of the highest
Importance to all pensioners, and the estimate
is that it will take twenty millions Of dollars
out of the treasury. The bill passed the
Senate by vote of A to 4. Those who
voted in the negative were Messrs. Hereford
and Davis, of West Virginia, McCreery, Of
Kentucky, and Salisbury, of Delaware.
Representative Singleton, of Mississippi,
has introduced bill in the House, to provide
for the payment of claims of the Southern
mail contractors, which authorizes the pay.
ment Of fifty per cent. on all such claims as
have been audited, and whatever balance re.
mains out of the amount appropriated for
the purpose-namely, $375,000, after such
payments-shall be held for one year, to meet
claims which may hereafter be audited. The
balance remaining, to be divided among the
claimants.
- Apropos of the failure of Louisiana to pay
the interest ON her consolidated debt, N. Y,
letter says: "The failure to meet the interest
on the consols has added to the general disgust
against nearly allSouthern securities, and it
is noted fact that out of the $10,000,00O
miscellaneous bonds that have been taken by
investors since the year opened, scarcely $780,
900 Southern can be counted up, and these
have been confined more to the low priced
Carolinas, as speculation chiefly, than to
what are still hoped to be trustworthy bonds
of the several States
- There is now being formed in Lynn, Mass,
a company of shoemakers, who propose to
send committee through the Southern States
to find good location in which to start a
large shoe factory. The company will consist
families. They will each have small capital
to work upon, and their place oflocation will
be where they receive the most encourage
ment. The committee will first 60 to Texas,
and from there through the Southern States.
- The twenty.ninth annual auction sale Of
pews at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, took
place Tuesday evening, and realized $40, ,721,
Including the assessed rental of the pews, which
amounted to s12,743. The aggregate of pre-
miums was S17, ,978, an increase of $4,000 over
last year, but $4,000 less than 1877. Mr.. H.
B. Claflin paid $500 for first choice, and H.
w. Sage the same figure for second choice.
At the close of the sale but ten pews remained
for rental. Mr.. Beecher stated that the rem
tai of pews for the last twenty-five years ag-
gregated 100000, and the losses had only
been $6,500. A condition of rental is that
holders must occupy their pews at least ten
minutes before the beginning of service, or
they will be assigned to strangers.
The Democratic members of the Senate
held caucus last Thursday morning, with a
view to determining what course of action
should be adopted in regard to the resolu-
tions recently submitted by Mr.. Edmunds,
which in substance declare that the three last
constitutional amendments were duly ratified |;
that laws already enacted for their enforce
ment should be faithfully executed, and that
Congress should further provide for their en-
forcement by additional legislation. After
some discussion the subject was referred to a
committee of seven, headed by Judge Thur
man, to report to future meeting Of the
caucus The caucus also appointed COM
mittee of three, with Senator Morgan as
chairman, to report what further action, if
any, should be taken to secure the repeal of
both sections of the revised statutes which
prescribes oaths for jurors in D. S. Courts.
Some very peculiar incidents are told of
the late storms in the West. On the New
York Central road, at the western end, 26
feet of snow held it's own against the trains
for FIVE days. A train, made up Of SNOW
plough, eight locomotives, and dozen pas
senger cars, charged it. The snow-plough
struck an unyielding mass of ice. Five en-
gines went over and were completely wrecked !;
one engineer was killed. Six powerful Penn
sylvania railroad mountain engines charged a
mass of ice in the Allegheny ranges, but ma
ture triumphed. A force Of 1900 laborers
was brought up from the region of Altoona,