Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-25
Straps and fafts.

Gus liquors In that county, Notwithstanding the
opinion of the solicitor general that it is their
duty to do 80. The matter will be referred
to Judge Pottle for his decision.
The Baldwin locomotive works at Phila-
delphia, which have eight acres under roof,
are now employing $500 hands and turning
out two locomotives daily. There are about
twenty engines constantly under way in the
erecting shop.
- A Candalara, Nevada, dispatch says that
John G. Calhoun, nephew of the former
South Carolina Senator, has become insane
and imagines himself the Saviour. A wound
received in the war is the cause of his insan-
ity.
-Lucretia Mott, who died at Philadelphia
on Thursday, was the real organizer of the
woman's rights movement in this country in
1S47. In that year she made stirring ad-
dress at the first woman's rights convention
ever held in the United States, at Rochester,
N Y.
At no previous time in the past, has gold
been paid out so freely over the counters of
the banks in New York and other great f.
nancial centres as now. A gut of gold is
reported and scarcity Of paper money. The
cause Of this is the immense amount of pa
per money sent West to move crops, while
gold remains at the large money centres.
Our people are the greatest coffee drink
ers in the world. The total imports of coffee
into the United States for the last year from
Brazil alone, amounted to two thousand two
hundred and thirty-four millions of pounds,
valued at S313,63S,987, and we send but
little to Brazil in return. Our Southern
ports ought to monopolize this trade and
supply our interior cities direct. Why not
- The Department of Agriculture reports
that the corn crop of the United States shows
no increase over last year, but decline for
the whole country. The Atlantic States show
an increase. The Gulf States suffered from
drought in the spring and too much rain in
the summer, except Texas, which almost dou-
bles her product. In 9th er sections some
States show an increase, others decrease.
- The citizens of Rhode Island have form
ed what they call "The National Union As
sociation," the object of which is to assist in
building up at the South liberal progressive
party that will strengthen fraternal feeling
and love of the Union, favor the establish
ment and maintenance of free public schools,
and labor for the protection of the lives and
rights of all classes of citizens.
The cases of Judge Coles, late County
Judge of Pittsylvania county, Judge Boul.
din of Charlotte county, and other Virginia
County Judges indicted for not putting
negroes on their juries, came up in the Uni
ted States District Court, at Danville, Va,
on Wednesday of last week, Judge Alexan-
der Rives presiding, and the Court directed
no2e prosequi to be made in each case.
The courtroom was crowded, and the an
nouncement of the Courts order was received
with surprise and applause.
The New York Times Republican, pub
fishes statement indicating the next appor-
tionment of the tenth census. 1t shows that
the New England States will lose four Con-
gressmen, the Middle States six, on account
of decrease of population, and that the South
will gain three and the West seven. The
great increase in population has been in the
South and West, therefore. The Republican
organs all declared last spring that the South
would be shown by the census to have gone
out of sight in population and everything else
The fact that $4,000 of stock in the pro.
posed Worlds Fair in New York was taken
within three days after the opening Of the
books, is accepted by the movers of the
scheme as gratifying evidence that capital
lists are willing to invest in it on trust, par
ticularly as the site has not yet been selected.
The pressure in favor Of the Prospect Park
(Brooklyn) site seems to be gaining strength
the more it is examined so much 80 that the
uptown real estate interest have about yield
ed their position that it must be on Manhst.
tan Island or nowhere.
The New England States, except Mas
sachusetts, show a very slow rate of growth.
Maine, in fact, is receding on the average of
twenty years, and Vermont has only increas-
ed about one. half of one per cent in decade.
But Massachusetts, grows both by accretion
from immigration and by increase of native
born inhabitants. The population of this
State in 1860 was 1881 ,066; in 1870, 1857
351 an increase of Is per cent. In 1880 it was
1,783,0S6, an increase of % per cent, show
ing that the rate of growth of the population
averages about 2 per cent. year whether
times be prosperous or depressed.
Mr.. R. A. Osmer, Supreme Treasurer of
the Knights of Honor, died in the city of At
lanta, Ca, on the 18th instant, whittier he
had gone with the hope of improving his
health. He has been Supreme Treasurer of
the order for four years, and by his strict in
tegrity and faithful performance of his duties,
as we'll as his gentlemanly and honorable
course in all his official relations, he has great
ly endeared himself to the members of the
order throughout the country. Mr.. Osmer
was an active and usefnl citizen at his home
in jamestown, N. Y, and was Presidential
elector in his district in the recent election.
A New York letter says: Gov. Cornell,
in his next annual message, will earnestly
second the proposition that ex-Presidents
should have seats as senators at large in
the United States Senate. Senator Conkling
is understood to be unqualifedly committed
to it, and the Governors views on the SUBJ
iect will doubtless emphasize those of the
fsvo7iis f0Pis a aafstiQq sas il coming ta Rs
public opinion is formed, but there is very
marked division of sentiment on the point
whether we should take care Of our exPresi-
dents by making them senators, or by placing
at their disposal an annual income.
A question of interest to physicians is
before Baltimore court. DR.. Thos Shearer,
practitioner in good standing, attended
woman who had been hurt by falling down
stairs He said that she was suffering solely
from heart disease, and treated her accord
ingly, but without helping her. Then she
was placed in other doctors hands, and they
found that she had spinal injury, of which
she was speedily cured. DR.. Shearer sent in
q hill for 500 and she refused to nav. There