Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-25
MERE.MENTION.

It is asserted that Col. Sam Garter, Jr, OF
Murray county, Georgia, will, this season,
gather two hundred bales of cotton from two
hundred acres of land. '''.''The new mayor
of New Orleans is named Shakespeare. ''''"lt
is now reported that Justice Clifford, of the
United States Supreme Court, has so far lost
his powers that he cannot write his name, and
does not recognize his friends ''''''Thursday
last, two Mormon elders left Chattanooga,
Tenn, for Almaso, Colorado, with fifty con-
verts. During three years past four hundred
converts from North Georgia have emigrated
to that locality. .'...'".It is said that the fast
mail train on the Atlanta Airline Road,
will make the trip between Atlanta and
Charlotte in nine hours '.'''''"It appears that
47S, 1000 persons born in foreign countries are
residents of New York City, while 727, 900
of the inhabitants are natives. ''""On Octo-
Der 20, the date on which the superintendent
prepared his report, there were 1885 convicts
in the Georgia Penitentiary'''''''''The elec'
ton for U. S. Senator by the Legislature Of
Georgia, resulted in the choice of Joseph E.
Brown, by a majority of 80 over A. R. Law
ton.":"."The Minnesota Insane Asylum
was burned a few days ago, and about twenty
lives were lost by the burning. ''''''"G Gov
ernor Williams, of Indiana, familiarl y known
as "Blue Jeans" Williams, died at Indi-
annapolis last Saturday, after protracted
Illness ..'...'"The death of Col. E. L. Drake,
the man who discovered the immense depos-
its of petroleum in Pennsylvania, has just
been announced. Like most pioneers, and
especially like Col. Sutter, the California gold
discoverer, he did not profit much by it him.
self...."."F Fifteen States elected Governors
on the End instant Of these six are Demo
cratic and nine Radical. ......."Mrs. Lacey, a
widow lady in Savannah, over ninety years
of age, is cutting new set Of teeth..........A
kentucky woman, SO years old, walked three
miles to attend circus, and saved fifty cents
by crawling under the canvas. '''''''' bout
nine hundred manned Confederate soldiers in
Georgia have been supplied with legs and
arms, sometimes both, or their equivalent in
cash, at a cost of s69,S7O. .''''..'St. Louis,
after much agitation of the subject, secures
new census. This is now completed, and the
population is shown to be 33S,850. The first
census, which was declared by the citizens de.
fective, showed $4,000 population.......Pro'
fessor Grimmer predicts that during the next
seven years there will be universal mortality.
Asia is to be depopulated, Europe become al
most DESERT and America lose Is 100000 in
habitants. Great tempests and inundations
are promised. ."....."General Grant has rent
ed the residence of ex-U. S. Senator Chafee,
New York, and will hereafter make his home
there '..'...'There is marked increase in
the Louisiana sugar crop as compared with
the crop Of last year. '''''''''It is estimated
that President Hayes has saved 100000 of
his salary. .'''''''''It is said that the commits
sioner of internal revenue, in his forthcoming
annual report, will recommend the abolition
of the stamp duty on matches, bank checks,
and proprietary medicines. 1t is understood
that the recommendation will be concurred
in by the Secretary of the Treasury. ''''"Gen.
Lee said to lady, who, on taking her sons
to Westinghouse University, spoke very
bitterly of the Northern people: "Madam,
do not train up your children in hostility to
the government of the United States. Re-
member we are one country now. Pray dis.
miss from your mind all sectional feeling,
and bring them up to be, above all, Ameri-
cans. ."'.''''''A marriage license was returned
to the county clerk at Onawa, Iowa, with a
request that the fee paid for it be sent back.
The writer explained that the girl had eloped
with another fellow. .'..'''...The Lynchburg,
Va, Advance says that Northern drummers
report that it is very difficult to sell goods
South since the election, in consequence Of
Southern merchants being indisposed at
present to deal with Northern manufactu-
rers. ......."On Wednesday of last week, a
heavy snow storm commenced at Little Rock,
Arkansas, at 8 o'clock in the morning, and
continued without intermission until five in
the afternoon. This is something unusual in
that latitude. .''.'...'.The colored immigration
fever is encroaching upon Southwest Georgia
The Albany Ne,ps and advertiser says: "An
emigration meeting was recently held by the
colored people Of Georgia and Alabama, on
the Montgomery Fair Grounds, at which the
attendance was estimated at between four and
five thousand. A determination to move
somewhere seemed to actuste all, while Kan
sas, Colorado and Liberia were the favorite
places The majority favored settlement in
the young African Republic"