Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-24
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auguration of President elect Garfield has
been accepted by the Legislature of Tennes-
see, and nearly every member of that body
will leave Nashville on the night of March
q for Washington.
- Gen. Garfield made statement last week
that he has made no pledge in reference to
an appointment in his Cabinet to anybody in
the whole country. He has thousands Of ap'
pications for office which he has filed for RET
erence at the proper time.
- To make shoe pegs enough for American
use, there are consumed annually lOO,OOO
cords of timber, and to make lucifer matches
100000 cubic feet of the best pine timber are
required every year. Lasts and boot trees
take 100000 cords of birch, beech and ma
pie, and the handles of tools 100000 more.
The Governors of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia and Ten
nessee, united in nominating Senator Wade
Hampton as suitable orator for the South
ern States of the "Old Thirteen" and Tennes-
see at the celebration of the Cowpens Gen.
tennial. Senator Hampton has accepted the
appointment.
Grants name, and all the appliances thus
far used to induce subscriptions to the pro-
posed worlds fair in New York, appear to be
insufficient to secure "the needful." Only
one third of the 100000 required for a
legal beginning has thus far been obtained.
At least S4,OOO,000, it is said, will be re-
quired for the buildings alone.
- The Supreme Treasurer of the Knights
of Honor reports $355,79S9l received for
the Widows and Orphans benefit fund from
December 9Th, 1880, to February lst, 1881.
Amount disbursed s25S,255; balance SUBJ
ject to forty. FIVE $4,000 benefits yet unpaid.
S97, ,543 9l There is balance of S6,973.65
in the general fund.
The Oregon system of liquor licenses is
being urged for trial in Boston. Under it
the buyer, not the seller, is obliged to pro-
cure license. Objection is made to the
plan on account of the great number of licen.
ses that would have to be issued and looked
after, while friends of the measure think it
would debar from the saloons many chronic
drinkers, who have not the money and respec-
liability requisite to secure license.
Read what the New York Herald says
"By all means advertise. Change often, and
when your business admits Of it, make differ
ent features of it prominent in their turn
this week one thing, next week another-and
then something else. Let your advertise
ments have something of dash in them,
without great exaggeration. Hundreds of
fortunes have been made by advertising,
and yet as an art it is but imperfectly under
stood"
An evidence of the prosperity that has
come to the country during the past twelve
months is given in the report to the New
York Legislature by the superintendent of
banking, which shows that in that State
alone, during the past year, the people who
patronze savings bank have added $40, ,OOO,-
900 to their deposits. The decrease in deposits
in 1878 was S13,74S,418, while the increase
in 1879 was S20,1S3, ,S62-less than half the
increase Of the year just closed.
According to the report of the National
Agricultural Bureau, the average yield of
cotton is one bale to two acres and half.
The greatest average yield is in Arkansas and
Louisiana, one bale to an acre and three
quarters; in Tennessee one; Mississippi a
bale to father more than two acres ; in North
Carolina bale to two acres South Carolina
bale to two and half acres; Texas bale
to two and three.quarter acres, and in Geor-
gia bale to three and half acres"
At the municipal elections in Pennsyl-
vania, on Tuesday of last week, the Reform
ers defeated the straight Republican and
machine Democratic tickets, by majorities
ranging from 5000 to 10000. In Philadel
phia, an Independent Democrat was elected
by majority of 5,53S. Pttsburg elected
Democratic mayor; Reading elected Re-
publican mayor, and the remainder of the
Democratic ticket Erie City elected Dem
ocratic mayor; Harrisburg elected Repub-
]ican mayor, and the Wilkesbarre district
elected Democratic State senator.
- We are told that Gen. Garfield contem.
plates Incorporating in his inaugural special
mention of the South as section. 1t is
believed that he will advert to the education
al statistics of the South as obtained in the
census of 1880, and take the ground that the
social political and economic condition of that
section would be materially enhanced by the
removal of the dense ignorance which pre-
walls, particularly among the blacks. If he
does this, it may naturally be expected that
he will make some practical suggestion on the
subject.
BY bill which has been introduced in
the Wisconsin Legislature, voting on the part
of women is made compulsory. Any woman
who fails or neglects to vote and cannot pro.
duce doctors certificate to, prove that, by
reason of age, in6rmity or sickness, she was
unable to 60 to the polls, is to be subject to a
fine of S100 or imprisonment for three
months ; and any man guilty Of intimidating
controlling or wilfuly obstructing any wo-
man in voting, or of insulting any woman in
going to or returning from the polls, is to be
fined not less than $4,000 or imprisoned not
more than two years, or both. If this bill
passes the women are to have voice in its
ratification or rejection.
Work is steadily progressing on the tun-
mel under the Hudson River at New York
The secretary of the company is out with
statement to the effect that at present there
are fully two hundred persons employed, in
cluding masons, eng ineers and men on the
surface. The space where the recent accident
occurred has now been made into working
chamber forty.four feet long by twenty. FIVE
feet wide, and thirty feet high, enclosed in a
permanent brick wall three feet thick. The
men enter this chamber through an iron tube
passing through the roof of the caisson. The
heading of the north tunnel is now out about
three hundred feet under the river, and the
south tunnel is about two hundred and seven
ty feet. The work in the former is proceed
ing at the rate of FIVE feet pers day. The
men are divided into three gangs. working
eight hours each Operations will begin on
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