Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-11-27
Sfraps and fatts,

In Southwestern Virginia, chestnuts are
selling at 25 cents a bushel.
- The cotton crop in Tennessee, this year,
is the largest since the war, and the yield is
said to be remarkably fine.
- The farmers of the Northwest have made
from s7O,OO0,0O0 to $1OO,0OO,OOO by the
rise in the price of grain this season.
- A large gray fox was run over and killed
by locomotive near Richmond, Va, few
days ago.
- An exchange advertises church pew for
sale which commands beautiful view of
nearly the whole congregation"
One day last week, between Elmira and
New York, there were sixty miles of EASTERN
bound freight cars, heavily laden, in motion
at one time.
- The Rome (Ga.) Tribune says that it is
impossible to get cars enough to haul iron
from Georgia and Alabama to fill Northern
and Eastern orders.
- Congress cut down the appropriations for
the navy to $13,000,000 and large defcien-
cy was expected, but Secretary Thompson
has managed so we'll that he will turn over
into the treasury an unexpended balance Of
S1,5OO,OO0.
- The New Orleans Times says that the
new constitution of Louisiana and the vote
on the constitutional convention declaring
that the colored people shall be protected in
their rights, have stopped the exodus of col
ored men from the State.
- bitches are dug alongside the Iron
Mountain and Southern Railroad, three feet
wide and two deep, by means of an enormous
plough which is drawn by locomotive.
This machine does the work of thousand
men.
1t is intimated in official circles that
Secretary Sherman is seriously thinking of
recommending in his forthcoming report that
Congress pass legislation looking toward the
gradual and permanent retirement of the
outstanding s346,OOO,0OO legal tender notes.
- The distance from Paris to Marseilles is
600 miles, and by recent arrangement q
train of the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean
Railway, makes this long journey in fifteen
hours, an average continuous speed Of forty
miles per hour.
The public feeling in favor of the regula
tion of railroads by the State is growing in
Texas, and the Austin iTexas) Review as
serts that the next Legislature will probably
make it a misdemeanor or felony for any one
not employed by railroad to accept a free
pass.
"A dispatch from Petersburg, Va, says
that the drought which has prevailed to such
an alarming extent in that section Of the
State during the past three months is causing
great anxiety and uneasiness. Wells and
streams are drying up, and in some adjacent
counties people are compelled to travel miles
in vehicles in search Of water for family USE
Simon Burlingame has taken fifth wife
to his home at Ripon, Wis. Three of her
predecessors died at yearly intervals and were
buried side by side, with tombstones 10
match. The fourth fed, aHrighted by the
first attack of illness, and would not return,
thus giving her husband legal ground for di-
vorce The fifth is as yet undismayed.
- A dispatch from Concha, Texas, to the
Galveston Ne,os, dated November 13, says
that William Bailey, of Greenville, S. c.,
was shot and instantly killed there, on the
night before, by R. W. Stowe, gambler.
Stowe claimed that the killing was accidental,
but he was arrested and lodged in Jail to
await an examination.
- 1t will require at least 100000 to COM
ply with recent act of the Georgia Legis-
lature appropriating $50 to $50 to every
soldier of that State who lost an arm or a
leg during the late war. The total amount
paid out thus far is over $4,000 to 320 ex-
soldiers, and they are applying at the rate of
thirty a day.
The Mississippi Senate, elected on the 4th
instant, will consist of 33 Democrats, Green
hackers and Republican the house of Rep
resentatives contains 70 Democrats, 10 Green
hackers, Republicans and Independents.
There are several colored members of the
House, and with one exception they are Dem
ocrats. Yazoo county elected colored Dem
Ocrat
The Norfolk Ledger says: 1t is now es.
timated that the Post Office Department at
Washington controls directly, or indirectly,
the votes of quite 100000 men, employed in
the various States in the Union, as postmas.
tiers, assistants, clerks runners, etc., and this
powerful influence is most vigorously used by
the First and Second Assistant Postmaster
Generals for the benefit of the Republican
party.
The following commercial papers, &C., by
recent rulings of the Post Office Department,
are admitted into the mails as fourth-class
matter, that is, at one cent per ounce in un.
sealed envelopes: Printed papers of legal
procedure filled out in writing, deeds, way
bills or bills of lading, bills, invoices, bank
notices and the various documents of insu-
rance companies. Anything added to the
above in the nature Of personal correspond
ence subjects it to letter postage. Bills which
are receipted, or have any credits Oh them
which give them money value, and state
ments of account, are also subject to letter
rates.
- Indiana has a larger school fund than
any other State. 1t now amounts to consid-
erably more than $9,0O0,00O. This is all loan.
ed-nearly half of it to the State, drawing
per cent interest, and the remainder to indi-
vidual borrowers at per cent, the latter Sc,
cured upon lands valued, without the improve.
ments, at twice the amount loaned. No one
loan exceeds 1000. The fund is constantly
being increased from $4,000 to $50, 900, year.
ly, by the fines and forfeitures under the pen
al laws of the State. In addition to this per.
manent fund, the school property of the State
was valued last year at S11 ,536,647.39. This
year Professor Smart, Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, estimates that it will amount
to s12000,000.
One of the freaks of the cotton move
ment is that the staple is higher in New York
than at Liverpool. This is owing to the
mania for speculation at New York. AS a