Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-20

Regiment Infantry, 94th Regimentof Infant
ry, 2lst Regiment S1st Regiment and 60th
Regiment Of Rifles, q detachment Of Royal
Engineers anda battery Of Royal Artillery.
There is much hustle and exeitementat each
of the headquarters Of these regiments.J The
following is the competition Of the English
forces in South Africa.: The Sd; 4th,i 18th,
9th, both battallions Of the S0th and SSth,
Goth and 99th Regiments;pin all nine obattal-
lions; or 1850 officers and men, rInhthese
forces, iii the ranks there are 4,5l8 English
men, 3s5 Trishmen and 3o1 Seotchmea. Of
the officers, i4S are Irish and l7S English.f%
~imap ID tiii4eiliI> - sifi :-1--ldi.-rlaii 81
mui nii4ud dMERE,MENTION.uI bad ,a1a,
dMr. Christiancy, Senator from. Michigan,
has resigned. .. zack Chandler has been. nom+
inated. .iby the Republican, members Of the
Michigan legislature to succeed him. .''.."tEx-
Governor Pinchback has been appointed rev.
enue agent ttor the Louisiana district.''''iThe
fact has comeyto light from official linsesti.
CATION that the Indians are not decreasingein
numbers, baf, to,ithe contrary, afe steadily
increasing. 1.-The census shows q total of
10000. .........'Thomas S. Drew. elected Cow
ernor of Arkansas in 1884, and again in
1850, died recently in Texas:s' Among the
members,of the Delaware Legislature, there is
not lawyer In the Nrth Carolina legisla::
ture thereis not sufficient! number to make
up Judiciary committee entirely Of law.
yers ""'.rii,James. Calhoun, a. brother of Jno.
c. Calhoun,yis living near .Hawkinsville,
Georgia.r''..''W. b. Fleming has been elect.
ed to- Cohgressi from. Georgia. toisuppiy 1.-THE
aacancy occasidedqby the deathrof Hon.
Observation-Disclosures no opposition and
the vote was quite small. '.'.'..'' One hundred
and Sia students are I'M attendance, at David
son, College, N. C.':';.,'iiAi revolntionlhas
broken ouuin Hayti, and negro disturbances
of am alarming character have occurred in
the IslandI Of ST. Vincent. 'i,..r.. Steamships
for Europe usually carry t30, 900 9aettass
eabh trip. .ysHfr Paris last year. copsdnaed
II ,319 horses for food, i being somao 700 more
than ipul877 7ll;iiArksnsas ipsawhd.grare
vines to France. land France ships Wild grape
wineto Arkansas, as. Officials ofthe treas,
urys ysdenJ tbsS there is 'iany such amoantiof
bogus coin,inc circulation as 1879, ,OaQ. aThey
belisae that 900 exceeds the ,actnalsuutais
>. The salary Of Gen. Longstreet, asi ipostmasi
tel at Gainesville, Ga, ,aish$1s1 1Oett'--J Japan
is now manufacturing fbootsifof 'ssis inethe
United States from leather ,b1oughts from
American portss1'ii''sOn Friday ,hst;9senat
tor Brace, coloed, of mississippi; @ss called
to the chair i'd the Senate Chamber, andiprea
sided overpthe Senate a'pertidnhef the after-
noon, being the frst timeu iii the histofy'of
che government thatoa eolored man hss"ocl
cupied the 'chairI""td' ~Gapt Geogs Prince,
of Bath, Maine, hasf BEEN sentenced to ten
years in rthef penitentiary for obtaining peat
sion money on false pretenses. He had! bsen
guilty of f,one thousand forgerssr."i'''aHon.
Horatio @. Burchard,' member sos Congress
from Illinois, has been appointed Directorof
the; lot is7 Phiiadelphia, inhpaaese Of DR..
Ldnderman, deceased, ,'..' 's,'sT Theeteportsfrom
the plague in Russia say that it has not in
creased and energetic measures have been
adopted for its suppressioh' '''e"''nAf'bill has
been introduced into egislature of sthslfs-
land1of Jamaica IN nswhichitbe cas- ai iaine'tails
is the punishment allotted fol- nearly every
serious offence, including, libel. .'ss's.'CAat
lotte, N. c., has received 81, ,559' baiestef
cotton, against 10000 al, the same time laa
year"'.."' Jefferson Davis has declined ain
invitation to deliver the annual 1addfesssat
the Commencement of the Mississippi Uui-
versity, becalse OF the ptecarious eonditionof
his health WjdW9i Boyce, ESQ., pre-.
vious to and during the o~ar,a naemberrof
Congress from this State, Is praoticing"lawiA
Washington. s'''''The average salary offcler.
gymen in the United states is ionly $5O0'a
wear. iIIii =, s1ohj ,:slnrh !n"rt 1od 2uos91
i The Washington Post says Il, Will support
John sherman,; Secretary Of thsS Treasury,
for the Presidency, provided he viii honestly
state how he made half u million off dollats,
after" having entered the Treasury a'ipoSr
man! ..':'!F Fresh Ansrican oysters 'a4ep among
the delicaciey ofsted for sale in a+is ..sIiyA
gentleman in Dayton, Ohio who iten sysats
ago became guardian Of his1 granddaughter,
and took charge Of tie estate Of S2O;0e0 leit
her by father, has just surrendered if,lincrsas-
ed to $4,000, upon her 'attaihing her ma
jority. This case Is 'ad exception W the gen.
erar rule. 3D. ::a..Ths New Y ok Senate has
passed = Bili furnishing graye robbers With
five years imPrisonment The legislatures'of
Indiana and phi9 have similar measpl4e t4s VI up
der 'consideration.:;::: 1.-THE body Of 3 Ra.
man was recently discovered in a sost siyr
tory at Atlanta, Ga..oi .;i:"!~s'''''~ '*'H'H mt