Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-28
man as Conkling in his eye when he wrote

Spite of all the fools that pride has made,
IT'S not on man useless burthen laid
Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced;
1t hurts not in itself, but as its placed;
bound;
When wrong, it itscarcely looks one inch around"
Fire In Chester.
- An extensive fire occurred in Chester
on Thursday night last, the following account
of which is furnished by correspondent of
the Columbia Register. The correspondent
says:
"About II o'clock last night the alarm of
fire was heard, and in few minutes trelnen.
dous explosion followed, shaking the very
earth at some distance like an earthquake
The fire was soon discovered by everyone to
be in the store of Cross q Hafner, on the
corner of Main and Centre streets. Although
the CINE was at work in an almost incred-
ible snort space after the alarm was given,
nevertheless the whole store was enveloped in
flames before any water could be thrown.
This was due to the explosion of powder and
kerosene in the store. The store occupied by
D. McCauly & Co., adjoining Cross & Hatfner,
was soon in flames. The whole western part
of town then seemed to be in imminent danger.
The Planters Hotel, a large wooden building,
and in close proximity to the FIRE, was already
partly enveloped in flames, as we'll the Cotton
Hotel on the opposite corner 1t was with
the greatest exertion and most strenuous eff:
forts that these hotels were finally saved.
In the meantime the fire was playing havoc
with other smaller buildings. The hotels ap.
pearing by this time to be out Of danger, at
tention was given to the fire in the opposite
direction, which was approaching very rap.
idly to the postofice, a huge wooden structure.
After considerable damage, however, the post
office was saved and the fire checked. The
store of Cross & Hafner was entirely destroy
ed insured for $4,000; loss probably about
$1,000. The store occupied by D. McCauley
& Co., as well as the large platform on which
they kept cotton, we're destroyed. There hap
pened to be only few bales of cotton on the
platform, which, however, were burned no
insurance. Loss about $4,000. The store
occupied by Margaret Watson was partly
burned and had to be torn down in order to
save the postofice; no insurance. Loss
about $500. The postofice and Planters
Hotel were badly damaged, especially the
latter; both are insured. The Cotton Ho.
tel is very badly damaged no insurance.
Loss about $1,000. A vast deal of injury
was caused by the explosion in the way of
breaking window glasses &c. The fire is
supposed to have been caused by the hands
Of an incendiary.
Another correspondent of the same paper
says:
"Messrs. D. McCauley 4 Co., cotton buy.
ers, whose office was in the rear end Of the
store, will sustain loss Of S4OO. No insu.
surance. The Cotton Hotel is damaged to
the amount of $500 or S400. Other sur
rounding buildings are damaged little.
The origin of the fire is not known, but is
believd to have caught from matches ignited
by rats
An Innovation in the Money Order System.
"A Washington dispatch of Monday de-
tails the following particulars of an iDgeni-
GUS device for the transmission of small sums
of money, to be adopted by the post Office
department:
Postmaster. General James has hit upon
plan of facilitating the transmission through
the mails at cheap rate of small sums Of
money. The new device is an improvement
upon the system of postal orders recently
adopted by the English postal authorities.
The improvement consists of three columns
of figures, one to represent dollars, the second
tens and the third units. Two denominations
of these orders are to be isssued-one for all
sums within $3.50, and the other for all
sums within S.. The S5 card has four fig
ures and a cipher in the dollar column and all
the numerals in each Of the other columns.
The postmaster selling the order will desig-
nate the amount to be drawn by punching
the figures in the respective columns The
orders will be payable to bearer, and the
postofice will not be responsible for fractional
currency, for which they are intended as
substitute. Both sets of orders are to be
printed on bank-note paper, to be finely en-
graved, and other precautions taken against
counter6eiting. 1t is expected that the de.
partment will be able to sell them at from
2 to 3 cents for $3.50 order and from 4
to cents for S. order. The Postmaster
will enter the amount Of the order in writ
ing on stub, which will be the only check
the department will need, and will con-
tain only the amount of the order, the date
of issue and the name of the Office upon
which the order is drawn. This will do
away with a great deal of clerical labor,
since the names of the remitter and payee
will not be entered at all in the records as is
done in money order transactions, nor will
any advices be issued. In order to prevent
the use of postal orders as currency, they
are to be redeemable only for three months
after date of issue. The bill introduced by
Mr. Money at the last session of Congress
providing for reduction Of the charges for
money orders and allowing an increase OF
amounts that may be sent through the mails
from $50 to 800, will be reintroduced next
winter. 1t met the approval Of the postoffice
committee last winter, but Mr.. Money did
not get chance to report it. The reduction
of charges will be about one-half, and the
passage of the bill will be coupled with meas
ures looking to the adoption Of the system ex-
planned above. In this way the two systems
will supplement each other, money orders be-
ing available as now for any purpose. and the
small orders being for service for newspaper
subscriptions and for other purposes for which
fractional currency was formerly used. The
reduction in the price Of money orders will
also make the price of safety but trifie more
than that which it will be necessary to pay
for the proposed new postal orders, with their
attendant risks.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM BLACK'S STATION.
BLACKS STATION, July 22.-The recent