Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-20
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- The fruit crop OF Florida Is now said not
to have been greatly injured by the cold.
- The we'll. known "Esop's Fables were
written between five and six hundred years
before the birth of Christ.
- The Executive Committee of the Worlds
Fair at New York have chosen Inwood as
the place, and the choice has been approved.
- Two Mormon elders Matthias F. Cowley
and John W. Taylor, of Salt Lake City. have
been preaching and circulating tracts in Ter
rell county, Georgia, for several weeks.
- Mr.. Vanderbilt, it is estimated, will be
worth two hundred and fifty millions if he
lives twenty years longer. His bonds and
stocks, at 4 per cent, will be doubled in
twenty years, even at four per cent. interest.
- An immense pressure is being brought to
bear upon the Ohio Legislature to secure the
passage of the local option liquor law, and
petitions signed by tens of thousands of peo-
pie are now in circulation in the State.
- 1t is officially announced that terms have
been agreed upon and preliminary papers
signed for the consolidation of the Western
Union, American Union and the Atlantic
and Pacific telegraph companies.
Thomas BuGord, who shot Justice of the
Kentucky Supreme Court, and was sentenced
to imprisonment for life and granted new tri-
al, is now being tried at Louisville. Although
only middle aged man his hair has become
as white as snow during his long confinement.
-"Uncle, what is the hardest lesson you
ever had to learn?" asked young lady of
veteran statesman known for his strong pre-
judices. THAT the. man who differs with me
not only in opinions butin principles, may be
as sincere and honest as am was the re-
ply.
During the past year, according to the
carefully prepared statistics of the New York
Bulletin, the total loss by FIRE of the United
States amounted to Sl05,0O0,0OO. That re-
liable journal prints list of 250 conAagra.
tions, in each of which the loss exceeded
$4,000, and making an aggregate of $780,
100000. This shows the necessity as we'll as
risks of the fire insurance system.
The postmaster. general recommends to
railroad companies that all mail.cars be fitted
up with saw, axes, and hatchets, so that IN
case of fire or other disasters, the inmates may
be able to cut their way out The changes
recommended should be made as soon as pos
sible, and the companies to whom so much re-
sponsiblity is delegated by the people should
do all in their power to avoid danger. 1t is
not necessary to wait until a few more scores
or hundreds of lives shall have made this
neglect too glaring to remain longer unno-
ticed.
The Census bureau furnishes the follow
ing statement of the population of towns and
cities in the Southern States having more
than 10000 and less than 10000 inhabitants
Augusta, Ca, 23,023; Galveston, Tex, 22,-
253; Norfolk, Va, 2l,966; Petersburg, Va,
21,656; San Antonio Tex, 20, O,561; Houston,
Tex, 16,f46; Wilmington. N. c., 1881 !;
Montgomery, Ala, 1914; Lynchburg, Va,
15,959; Chattanooga, Tenn, 1882; Macon,
Ga, 12,74S; Vicksburg, Miss, 1854 /;
Portsmouth, Va, 1883; Shreveport, La,
1l,Ol7; Austin, Tex, 1O,96O; Dallas Tex,
10,35S Columbia, S. G., lO,O4O.
A delegation from the colored men of
Alabama recently called upon Gen. Garfield
and addressed the President elect, setting
forth the condition of the colored people in
the South, their lack of education, &C., and
hoped that the coming administration would
do what it can towards the education of the
blacks Garfield replied that the education
of their children was the foremost duty of all
American people, and assured them that
what could be done would be. He urged
them to avoid raising the color line and not
separate themselves as a class from the mass
of citizens.
- Census returns from the Southern States
of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana
and North Carolina show the following rate of
increase of whites and blacks: Alabama
Whites, 81 per. cent; negroes, 26 per cent.
Arkansas-Whites, 64 per cent. ; negroes SO
per cent Georgia-Whites, 27 per cent. I;
negroes, 80 per cent. Louissna-Whites,
26 per cent negroes "a per cent. 1t will
thus be seen that with the exception of Ala-
bama, the negro race has been increasing
more rapidly than the whites in the Southern
States The same fact has also been shown
by the census returns of South Carolina and
Maryland.
A largely attended meeting of leading
colored citizens of Cleveland. Ohio. was
held, in which it was decided in no way to
recognize or aid the effort to secure place
in Gen. Gar6eld's Cabinet for Mr.. Bruce,
the colored senator from Mississippi. Resolu-
tons were adopted that Bruce had done moth
for his people and much for himself, and that
he is not true representative Of his class.
This action takes additional significance from
the fact that Bruce is well known in Cleveland.
He has property there, married his wife there
and makes that city his home through good
part of the summer. A counter demonstra-
ton is possible.
- Mississippi is the only State in the Union
that did not add to its railway mileage in
1880. According to the Rail,oay Age New
York built only 41.34 miles of new road.
Dakota led all of the States and other Terri
tories, with $50 miles. Texas came next
with nearly $50 miles. Ohio built 525 miles,
New Mexico (territory) 5l9 miles Iowa 445 !;
Colorado 40l; Nebraska 1856; Illinois and
Kansas each more than $40. Little Della
ware reports one mile Of new track laid dur
ing the year. Next to it comes Maine and
California, each with three miles, Rhode
Island, without trenching OH any of its neigh
bors, found room for seven miles and put
them down. The Age estimates that the
present year ten thousand miles of new track
will be laid.
1t is said that at Washington, there is
already we'll defined movement on foot to
give the Southern people their share Of the
offices coming from the President. 1t is
generally understood that this plan is being
successfully engineered by Senators Brown
and Hill of Georgia, Malone of Virginia,
&c n o,,l ~ Il, L.