Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-11

OupTetne SOuTL.
Regulations have been issued from the
Post Office Department by which gold and
silver coin may be sent through the mails as
fourth class matter, at one cent per ounce.
The oldest post office in the country is
that at jamestown, Virginia, where letters
have been delivered in some form or other for
two hundred and eighty-three years.
"A Tobacco Dealers Protective Associa-
tion has been formed in New York, and it is
reported that general advance in the prices
of all kinds of tobacco will soon be made.
- According to Ben. Butler, there are at
least 10000 men in Massachusetts, who are
disfranchised because they can neither read
nor write.
- The Cincinnati Commercial Republican,
expresses the opinion that the nomination of
Grant at Chicago will render the Democratic
nomination at Cincinnati equivalent to elec-
tion.
- The Post Office Department has issued
orders forbidding the reception of mutilated
fractional currency at the post Offices Of the
country. This prohibition includes all coins
which have holes in them.
Judge Key says the Post Office Depart
nent has not adopted the double postal card
because the device is patented, which could
not be used except by purchase, which the
law prohibits.
- Democratic members Of Congress now
begin to fear that it will be the last of June
before an adjournment can be secured. None.
of the large appropriation bills have been
acted on in the House.
Scales, of North Carolina ; Cox, of New
York; Atkins, Of Tennessee; Step phens, Of
Georgia; and Singleton, of Mississippi, are the
only Democratic members of this Congress
who were in the House of Representatives be-
fore the war.
The first passenger train on the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, through to Chattanooga,
left Cincinnati on Monday morning last, and
made the run through in twelve hours and
fifteen minutes. The schedule time is twelve
hours.
Brandreth, the patent pill man, recently
deceased, left an estate valued at 100000
to be divided among his seven daughters and
six sons. His vast success has engendered
horde of imitators, whose pecuniary profits
depend altogether upon the extent to which
they advertise He spent million at it.
Queen Victoria is the richest and stin-
giest sovereign in the world. The amount Of
human wretchedness engendered during her
~eign among her subjects is incalculable. The
amount of her subscriptions for its relief may
be reckoned without difficulty. She is a good
wife and mother, but not generous Queen.
- The trial of Virgil Gully for the murder
of ex State Senator John P Gilmer, one Of
the victims of the Chisolm massacre, was to
have commenced at Dekalb, Miss, on Mon
day last. District Attorney Ford conducts
the prosecution, assisted by Judge Ware,
United States District Attorney for the South.
ern District of Mississippi.
DR.. Lyman Abbott says: GAS you 90 to
Capitol Hill, along Pennsylvania Avenue,
you come to liquor shop with sign extend
ing out over the sidewalk. On it are the
words: "The last chance" The worthy Doc
tor should have read what the sign had on it
as you 90 from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania
Avenue. 1t is "The First Chance" The
proprietor had the wit to take all the chances.
General Robert, Toombs is an intimate
friend of Alexander 81. Stephens, and the two
talk over public affairs together for-heurs at a
time. "a correspondent who visited General
Toombs in his Georgia home, describes him as
"a a iHsaah worn out with years and passionate
existence, but gloryfying in the fact that he
is not citizen of the United States; that his
political disabilities have not been removed,
and that be is the only and unrepentant rebel"
The Westminster Revie,o reckons the pub
lie debts of the world at the present time at
S24,000,000,000 The railway Indebtedness
has been estimated at S6,000,000,0 900, and
municipal debts at S. 5,OO0,O 100000, thus bring
ing the public Indebtedness of the world up
to the vast sum of S35 600, 100000 1t is not
expected that this will ever be paid, but it
constitutes an annual lien on the industry of
the world of $l,700,000,O00.
A Chicago firm of clothiers offer prize
of one dollar for every male child born in
that city during next November and Decem-
Der, and will increase the amount if allowed
to name the baby. eff we were in the dry
goods trade" they say in their advertisement,
I'VE could afford to make this prize Eve dol
lars for girls. We take right smart interest
in the increase Of the male sex, and this offer
will cost US thousands of dollars, but we ex-
pect to get recompense IN future trade"
The Danville News says it is generally
understood that the proposed extension of the
Virginia Midland Railroad, from Danville to
Charlotte, will be at once commenced under
favorable auspices, and adds: "It is said by
some that the capital has been secured, and
that the section through which it will pass will
not be called upon for any means to aid in
the building of the line, but that the Balti.
more and Ohio Road, and the city of Balti
more, together with the Air Line Road from
Charlotte to Atlanta, will provide all the
means necessary for the work"
The Senate, in executive session one day
last week, rejected, almost unanimously, the
nomination of John Mcneil as United States
marshal for the eastern district of Missouri.
The reason for his rejection was that during
the late war O'Neil, while in command of
Federal troops near Palmyra, NO., in 1862,
ordered the execution of seven private citi.
zens of that neighborhood, and did execute
six of them without trial, on account of the
disappearance of certain Union man whom
Mcneil asserted had been made way with by
local bushwhackers.
- Three thousand residents of Houston,
Texas, turned out on a recent Sunday to at
tend baptism in the Buffalo bayou. AS the
clergyman plunged the irst young woman
under the water, the great crowds that lined
the banks, as though occupants Of the tiers
of seats at circus, burst into loud and pro-
longed "ouch." It sounded as though the
5000 spectators had given one concerted
shiver. The preacher stood on the bank and
held his hands aloft When silence was sc.