Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-08-14
Straps and fatts.

to ship to Paris, France, from 0UU 10 l,UUU
barrels of beer month The same brewer,
who won prize at the Paris Exhibition, has
recently made large shipments of beer to
Australia
The entire White Sulphur Springs prop
erty in Virginia, consisting of 1000 acres of
land, was offered at auction on Friday last.
The highest bid was 100000. The commits
sioners would not accept this and the proper.
ty was withdrawn from sale.
On Friday last the State of Tennessee
voted on the proposition to compromise the
State debt at fifty cents on the dollar, with
four per cent interest. Probably not half the
average vote was polled, though the PROPOSE
tion was voted down by large majority.
- The Georgia Legislature is considering
bill (Which has passed the Senate) to prohibit
speculation in futures 1t is sought by the
bill to prevent the recovery Of money under
the illegal contract, or, in other words, to
make such contracts void in law.
- Last year, Knight of Honor died in
Memphis, land the inconsolable widow received
$4,000. Nothing would dispel the darkness
of her desolation except another knight. The
yellow fever carried him off the other day,
and $4,000 more will be paid over to this
knghtly widow. If this is kept up for sever.
al years, it may cause the 0. M. A. to set some
limit to the number of benefits one woman
shall be allowed to receive.
= The representative heir of the great Hen.
ry Clay was in Boston last week to negotiate
: the sale of the famous Clay vase, bought by
the generous contributions of the enthusiastic
Wings in 1874. About everything else has
gone for the benefit of the young spendthrft,
aud now this testimonial to his grandfather
is put on the market. The vase is. of solid
silver, two and half feet high and elaborate
ly fabricated.
- Mrs. Dorsey's property amounted to only
s25,OOO and not S250,000 Her income was
$2,25O per annum, less $492 in taxes. She
owed S5,O0O Last Spring she made bona
fde sale of the Beauvoir place to Mr.. Davis
for $500, for which he gave his notes, run
ming for one, two and three years. So Mr..
Davis has not the bonanza some people lmag-
ined, and not enough to tempt the cupidity of
any reputable lawyers at the North.
Times go by turns 1t is not so very long
ago since the commercial and industrial news
in the daily papers was but a common story
of failures and the closing of factories of va
ricus kinds. Now, one can hardly open pa
per without seeing an account of good crops,
the resumption of work in woolen and iron
mills, the revival of industries and trades Of
nearly every class, and the prospect of good
times once more-based, too, on solid toun-
/. dation.
- The Denver (Col) News states that the
Hon. D. T. Corbin, late of South Carolina,
visited that city lately, and was induced by a
sharper to invest $4,000 in "silver bricks"
which were represented to be very pure and
a great bargain. Mr. Corbin discovered,
when too late, that the bricks were Of the ba-
sest alloy, and worthless. Thus Mr.. Corbin
was as unlucky in his silver speculation as he
was in his aspirations to represent South Car
olina in the United States Senate.
Joseph Rainey, who served several years
in Congress from the first South Carolina dis
trict since the war, and who was defeated at
the last election, has been appointed special
agentofthe Treasury department by Secre.
tary Sherman, and has his headquarters in
New York. Rainey boards in New York
and has comfortable home in Connecticut.
He has been advising the colored people to
leave he;South for Kansas, but says he will
retain his residence IN South Carolina.
- The killing of the Mormon elder Stand
ing, in Whitfield county, Georgia, has de.
veioped the fact that Mormonism prevails to
a much greater extent in North Georgia than
had been supposed. Chattooga, Walker, Ca
toosa, Whitfield, Floyd, Murray, Dade, Pick
ems and Fannin counties have been favorite
fields for Mormon missionaries engaged in
the work of making proselytes, and it is re-
ported that the death of Standing will but add
to their determination to prosecute their Ia
bors Of making converts more energetically
than ever.
&C. Hylested & Co., cotton brokers, of No.
South William street, New York, sent no.
tice to the Exchange last Thursday of their
inability to meet their engagements. AS the
members of the firm were "out Of town." it
was impossible to obtain The amount of liabil-
tiles The members of the Cotton Exchange
believe that they could not be above $4,000,
and that Southern customers were the princi-
pal creditors. The failure is said to be due
to decline of about three cents per pound
since the failure of Williams Birnie & Co.,
and the fact that Messrs. Hyllested & Co.,
were ''long" on the market
A private letter from a gentleman in
Eastern Germany, dated July %, says:
"There has been no summer, but rain near
ly every day; the thermometer in my room
ranging from SO to rs. In some places har-
vesting has begun, but unless we have some
warm dry weather soon, much of the grain
must rot in the fields. On our way recently
to and from the mountains (two different
routes) observed at least half the wheat we
passed was lying fiat and tangled in the fields,
beaten down by the rain storms all will be
difficult to cut, and much must rot or sprout
before it can be secured Adding to this the
immense amount of grain and other food
crops destroyed by the inundations last month,
and it looks as if America would be called
upon to feed Germany as we'll as England
and France next winter.
This week the Northwest is laughing
with a good harvest. Every day of pleasant
weather now is worth millions of dollars to
the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Mich
igan, where spring wheat is being gathered.
Two or three more favorable days will prob
ably see the greater part of the wheat in Min
nesota safely housed The total crop of the
State will be from 45,OOO,OOO to 5O,000,000
bushels, averaging ten to fifteen bushels to the
acre in the southern part of the State, and
fifteen to twenty-five in the Park region north
of the Minnesota River. 1t is believed three
quarters of the wheat will grade as high as
No. l, which is unprecedented. By the close
of the week little grain will remain out Of
the stack, and the berry is reported hard,
bright and firm The farmers of the North