Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-10
Straps and fatts,
A Richmond, Va, real estate agency has
received 1000 inquiries for farms in Virginia

who shot and killed Warren Drury, at Napo-
leon, Ohio, in December last, has been ln-
dicted for murder in the second degree.
A Fenian proclamation. which has been
posted throughout Ireland, warning lrishmen
to beware of being misled or goaded into
foolish outbreaks, but to await the signal tor
the strike for independence, is making its ap'
pearauce in England.
- Senator Ben. Hills former body servant,
Eugene w. Brodie, is an applicant for the
position of postmaster at Atlanta, ia. The
senator says the applicant is fully competent
for the place, and that he would 60 on his bond
for $4,000.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Senate providing that every passenger
coach, on every railway of the State, shall
carry saw and an axe. Such law Wig
orously enforced in every State would doubt
less be the means of saving many lives.
There are now 1,247 persons employed in
the census Office. in Washington. 669 males
and SIS famales; also SO messengers aud l6
watchmen. The monthly rent of the census
building is Sl,S3S. The number of enume
rators employed in taking the census, was
1926, under $50 supervisors.
The New York Evening Post says: Mrs
Barnwell Rhett widow of Senator Rhett, Of
South Carolina, and the widow of a former
Mayor of New Orleans, will both become in
mates of the Louise Home at Washington, es-
tablished and kept up by Mr.. Corcoran, the
Washington banker, for the benefit of South
ern gentlewomen who have been unfortunate
"A horrible case of brutality is exciting
Jacktown, Ohio, where John Cummings
placed the tongue of his eight years old boy
between hickory sapling and then nailed
the saplng to partition in the barn, beating
the little fellow at intervals for six hours
The boy had been sliding down hill in DISC
bedience to his fathers orders.
- The most destructive fire that ever visit
ed Plymouth, N. c., occurred in that town on
the night of the 3lst ultimo. Its origin is
due to the explosion of a kerosene lamp, and
from 10 o'clock P. NJ. until o'clock next
morning, the flames ragged, destroying and
damaging no less than fifty buildings in the
business centre of the place, and property
estimated at S135 900, on which there was
but little or no insurance.
On Thursday night of last week, the to.
bacco factory of ]. H. McElwee, in States.
vile, N. c., was destroyed by fire. The Amer
ican says the loss in the factory building, ma
chnery, and manufactured and leaf tobacco,
is estimated at about SIS, 900, divided among
different parties. The quantity Of leaf and
manufactured tobacco lost is estimated at
$4,000 pounds. Besides Mr.. McElwee, Col.
Julian Allen, Hoffman & Co., and others,
are losers.
"A New York letter says: "The tendency
of the government toward cheap rate of in:
terest is gradually having its effect on real
estate, which commands better prices than for
n long while, while loans on bond and mort
gage (three years to run) have been taken by
some of our savings banks as low as a. per
cent. This is something unheard of in the
present or any other generation. Nor is the
value Of the property reduced by such loans
rather, on the contrary, is it increased above
what it was rated at six months ago.
The simplest postofice in the world is in
Magellan Straits, and has been established
there for some years past. 1t consists Of q
small cask, which is chained to the rock of
the extreme cape in the straits, opposite
Terra del Fuego. Each passing ship sends
q boat to open the cask and to take letters
out and place others into it. The postofice
is selfacting therefore. 1t is under the pro-
tection of the navies of all nations, and up to
the present there is not one case to report in
which any abuse Of the privileges it affords
has taken place
= Each county in Texas has received a
donation of four leagues of land TO constitute
fund for the support of county academies
or high schools. This provision was made in
the early legislation of the State, and many
of the counties now have a fund of from
$4,000 to 100000, but the interest has never
been used except to aid in the support of
public schools, which was not the intention
of the endowment. The secretary of the
State board of education now demands that
each county establish an academy at some
central point with this fund.-
Meetings of the stockholders of the Yves.
tern Union, the American Union and the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies,
were held in New York last Thursday and
the agreement entered into by the Directors
of said companies for consolidation was rati.
fed, and the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, through Mr.. John Van Horn, Vice
President, took formal possession of the Amer
ican Union and the Atlantic and Pacific COM
panies, signs and blanks of the Western
Union Telegraph Company being substituted
for those used heretofore by the other two
companies.
The slave trade in Africa is still enor-
NOUS DR.. Livingstone estimated the traffic
for all Africa at half million yearly. Col.
Gordon puts the loss of life in the Soudan
alone at 10000 to $4,000 annually. Raouf
Pasha, who was left to carry out the work
begun by Col. Gordon for the suppression of
the slave trade, is proving its active abettor,
and the iniquity is encouraged by the Egyp-
tian Government "The sale and purchase
of human beings continues to be practiced
on large scale in the Hedgey Yemen Nubia,
Abyssinia and at various points on the coast
Men, women and children are sold as beasts
of burden"
1t is evident to every unprejudiced OBJ.
server, that great change is taking place in
the sentiment of the people of the South.
The bitterness, prejudice and hostility to the
changes wrought by the war, which were so
marked few years ago, are disappearing.
There is now very noticeable and rapidly
increasing disposition to accept the situation
as it is, and on this basis to build new
South which shall surpass in wealth, glory
and greatness the old South. The wealth
and intelligence of the South, and the men
who control the politics and business of the
South, are in the Democratic party. There
are, however, two elements in that party.
They are the liberal and progressive element