Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-25
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The Catholic population OF the United
States is estimated at six millions, of whom
six hundred thousand live in New York City,
three hundred thousand in Boston, and two
hundred thousand in Cincinnati.
Col. Foreacre, General Manager of the
Air Line Railroad, is very active in encour-
aging the cultivation of tobacco throughout
the section Of country tributary to his road,
and is gratuitously distributing packages of
seed among the farmers
The indianapolis Sentinel prints some
figures, purporting to come from well-in-
formed source, which shows that the first cost
of nine coffins, of various kinds, from plain TO
imitation rosewood, extra fine cloth caskets,
was $3.50, and the retail price was s7l7.50.
"A Cincinnati dispatch to the Atlanta
Constitution, dated the 18th inst, says: ut is
reliably reported in railroad circles here that
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line has pur.
chased the road from Knoxville to Maysville,
and that the long contemplated road, through
Rabun, Ca, will be built at once"
AN anchor, supposed to have belonged to
aSpanish frigate when Florida was under the
reign of the Spanish government, has been
brought to New Orleans from the Florida
coast, where it has doubtless been under water
for 12O years. The anchor measures fifteen
cred with oyster shells.
The committee on banking and currency
in the House, have instructed Mr.. Davis, of
North Carolina, to move suspension of rules
to pass Mr. O'Conner's bill authorizing ma
tional banking associations to loan money on
mortgage on real estate. Mr.. Davis is all
earnest endorser of this measure, and will
take the first opportunity to carry out the
committees Instructions
- The following is the income per day of the
principal sovereigns of Europe: Queen Vic
toria, $4,000; the Emperor of Russia, $685.
600; the Emperor Of Austria, $40, 600; the
Emperor of Germany, $4,000; the Sultan,
slS,000; the King of Italy, s6,40O, and the
King of the Belgians, s1.640. The President
of the French Republic enjoys salary of
$500 per day.
w. W. johnson, colored man residing
in Madison Parish, La, has recently re.
ceived letter from an exodusting friend in
St. Louis, who says that "black man can
make more money in the South in three
months, than he can make in St. Louis in
year," and Mr.. johnson, who is Louisiana
Republican, has no hesitation in saying that
"the South is the place for the colored peo.
pie"
A New York letter says: "The indica-
tions multiply that there is to be an immense
Irish migration this coming summer. The
steady demand for bills on Ireland, in small
amounts, shows that. Money has been sent
to bring out a great many families from the
famine districts, and according to the testi-
mony of those who are in position to know,
there is scarcely servant girl that is not con-
trihuting more or less in furtherance Of that
purpose for the benefit of her relatives. There
are many Withdrawals of saving bank depos-
its as a result of this.
AN eminent divine from New England,
travelling in Texas for his health, impaired
by arduous clerical duties, upon arriving at
one of the towns, went in search of the bar.
ber's shop for repairs and Improvements. On
entering an establishment of the kind, he OBJ
served double barreled gun leaning against
the wall. Having constitutional awe Of
firearms. he hastily asked the barber if the
gun was loaded. A half starved native, who
occupied the chair, turned round in his lath-
erbeaten face and exclaimed: "Stranger! ef
you're in an all, fired hurry, you'll find six.
shooter what is loaded in my coat tail pocket"
The Andersonville graveyard, as described
by recent visitor, is an unfrequented spot, ex-
cept for travellers from the North among
whom are many war veterans who were prs
oners in the stockade. There are 1915
graves, of which about 1000 are marked
"Unknown." There is a surrounding wall
Of solid brick, and the place is kept neat by
resident superintendent under government
paw. Part Of the stockade is still standing,
but nothing remains Of the prison, and the
site is covered by bushes. There is no trace
of the famous brook, nor any mark Of the
wells dug by the prisoners.
A Boston swindler advertised for "a lady
or gentleman to address circulars evenings at
home" and to the thousands Of persons who
responded by mail, he sent letters saying he
would pay 81 thousand for addressing en-
velopes. He added: "There are many who
answer advertisements for mere curiosity to
protect ourselves against such bore, We are
obi iged to insist upon a deposit Of 81, which
you can claim after the delivery Of the, first
1910 circulars" The pay offered was so
liberal that the dollars poured into his post
office box at the rate of 200 day; but he got
none of them, for the postmaster refused to de-
liver them.
The widow of once prominent tobacco
mist, of Petersburg, Va, has just received a
check for between three and four hundred
dollars, under circumstances somewhat re-
markable. About forty-6ve years ago, while
her husband was in business, he sold some to-
bacco to merchant in Bremen, who subse-
quently failed and died without settling his
indebtedness. A son Of that merchant, Mr..
H. Lamotte, recently advertised that he would
pay all claims against bis fathers estate, and
through Messrs Bohmer, Osterlott & Co., of
Richmond, sent the full amount of his faith
er's Indebtedness to the Petersburg merchant.
This is an instance of such rare honesty in
these latter days that it deserves to be re-
corded.
- Ex-senator Christiancy, now minister to
Peru, is seeking divorce from his wife,
and. funny as it may seem, his wife is seeking
a divorce from him. He says she is too
naughty for anything, and she says he is a
dreadfully cruel old fellow, with whom no
one can get along The positive facts are,
however, that there is difference of some
forty years in the age of this man and his
wife Mr. Christiancy is reasonably we'll off,
and therefore has wide-awake feeling that
he ought to get the divorce instead Of allow
ing his wife to do so-that would be money
in his pocket. Mrs. Christiancy is very
prompt to see this point of the case, and to
deny that she has ever given any cause for
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