Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-09-04

OOO,OOO acres OF government land nave Oeen
taken up or sold to settlers. 1t is estimated
that about half million people have settled
on these lands.
In Montague, Texas, last Friday, Charles
Harris was executed in the presence of five
thousand persons, for the murder Of his broth
his own confession. He was firm to the last,
and the drop fell while the assemblage sang
"Sweet Bye and-Bye."
= Thus far at Memphis, 23S negroes have
had yellow fever Of these but "a died.
There have been 293 white cases. and of these
115 died. The deduction from this would
seem to be that negroes can take the disease
very readily, but it is not by great deal as
fatal as among the whites.
- 1t is difficult to believe that multitude
of people, equal in number to one-fourth the
population OF the United States, have recent
ly been destroyed by famine in China. Yet
such is the statement that comes on the au-
thority of Mr. Forrest, the English consul at
Tientsin. Nor has the terrible visitation yet
passed away.
Ex-senator Corbin, of South Carolina,
has returned to Washington from Colorado.
He pronounces the story without foundation
that while he was Visiting in Denver, SIC, 900
worth of bogus gold bricks were palmed off
upon him. No transaction of the kind was
attempted, and nothing occurred upon which
to found such story.
The commissioner Of internal revenue re-
ports that the tax on matches produced a rev.
enue during the last fiscal year of three and
quarter million dollars-an increase over
any previous year. From 6veeights to three
fourths of the price of matches is due to the
tax. We import no matches now, but are
exporting them to large extent.
Some person, with plenty of spare time on
hand, has made the following calculation as
to the weight and bulk in bullion of the ma
tional debt: Two billions two hundred mil
lions of silver dollars weigh 13, 10000 pounds
avoirdupois, or $500 tons. To transport it
by railway would require 100 freight trains
of II cars each. 1t would fill 100 rooms 10
feet wide, 20 feet long and 10 feet high.
Competition between the Piedmont Air.
Line and Seaboard Airline, being the two
chief routes to the North, is becoming very
interesting. Its first result was to reduce the
fare from Charlotte to New York and return
to S28. Then came the free excursion prop
acknowledging to take merchants to Balti-
more for 81, which is really nothing more
than their meals and state rooms on the boats
would cost Thus far there has been no cut
ting of freight rates, but the busy season has
hardly commenced.
Col. Tom. Buford, the murderer Of Judge
Elliott, of Kentucky, is still in the Louisville
Jail, awaiting the time when he will be allow
ed new trial, or ordered 20 be sent to the
penitentiary at Frankfort, there to spend the
remainder of his life Buford thinks that in
course of time the public feeling against him
will die away, and that people will begin to
look at his side of the case. 81 have killed
Elliott, and after while people will begin to
inquire why killed him. They will investi'
gate the matter, and will discover how shame
fully have been cheated"
"A welIknown statistician of Philadelphia
asserts that fully 10000 more people are en-
ployed in Philadelphia to-day than on Sep
tember 1st of last year. This opinion he ba-
ses upon an investigation into the condition
of Philadelphias industries, extending over
period of several weeks. Every business in
the city, he says, with scarcely an exception,
is feeling the effects of the trade revival, and,
according to present prospects, there is in
store for both employers and employees q
tide of prosperity such as has not been expe.
rienced for many long year.
Mr.. j. w. Edwards, large planter in
the canebrake region of Alabama, says, in a
letter to the Selma Times, that the common
notion that it takes boil of cotton six weeks
to mature after. the bloom drops from the
stalk, is an error. He says that from the
latter part of June to the 18th or 10th of July,
it takes boil of cotton thirty days to become
fully grown after the bloom drops from the
stalk, and from then on to the 18th of Sep
tember, It only takes from twenty to twenty
FIVE days for boil of cotton to get grown
from the time the bloom drops
"A Western gentleman brought his little
girl into the Highlands Of the Hudson, where,
for the first time in her life, she saw noun
tains. They were sitting On the piazza of the
West Point Hotel, looking on the beautiful
mountain and river view. The little girl had
been standing reverently, with her hat in
hand, for some minutes now at the
river, now at the mountains, now at the
clouds-when, with a sudden inspiration, she
waved her hat above her head and cried out,
"Hurrah for God!" 1t was an act of gen.
uine worship; true answer to David's call
on every soul to make joyful noise unto the
Lord.
- The Courier Journal presents the Barks-
dale version of the Yazoo tragedy, which puts
better face upon it, but adds that mo amount
of facts now given can destroy the effects of
the bad impression made at the time Of the
tragedy The entire South has been incalcu-
labIy injured, and the lesson of Yazoo is that
personal wrongs should be borne with all pos
sible patience by Southern men. Every dis
turbance in Southern State, no matter what
its origin, is of the greatest value to the cor
rupt minority now in power" So, it would
appear that the Devil, as well as Providence,
fights on the side of the Republicans. But
we shall see what we shall see. Sometimes a
man is lifted up that his fall may be the more
calamitous.
Ex-senator Dorsey writes from Arkansas
that the Republican party in that State is
now in the process of reorganization, with the
object of entering energetically into the presi-
Dental canvass of next year. He has be-
gun the publication of newspaper at Little
Rock, and in his prospectus says that his OBJ
ject is to again place Arkansas under the rule
of the Republican party, and to make Gen.
Grant once more President of the United
States The ex-senator sends the further
news that he will have solid Grant delega-
ton from Arkansas in the next Republican
national convention, and with the Democracy
divided and quarreling, as they now are in
that State. he has no doubt about Grant car.