Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-01-12
Straps aud fatts.

States in 1881 was 1852, representing liabili-
ties of over SS1 100000, being an increase
over the year preceding, when there were but
3,735 failures and liabilities S65, 600, 600.
- The freight and passenger earnings on the
main line of the Richmond and Danville Rail
road for the third week in December were
S11, 900 over the earnings for the correspond
ing week of the previous year, an increase OF
60 per cent.
Before retiring from the postoffice depart
ment, Mr., James, late Postmaster General,
addressed a communication to the President,
in which he declares that a great part of the
bonds for postal contracts are worthless and
recommends early action by Congress in the
matter.
- The coming Jay Gould halls from Maine,
according to Chicago paper. He is an enter
prising young man who bought up all the
pews in church and then created a corner
by getting up a religious excitement, during
which he closed out his investment at profit
of $500.
Any given anniversary falls upon any CIV
en- day in the week at intervals of II, 6, 5 and
years. Christmas fell on Sunday last year,
being the first time since 1870. 1t will fall on
Sunday again in 1887, then in 1892, and then
in 1898, after which the series of intervals will
begin again.
"A petition is in circulation in Richmond,
Va, asking the city to appropriate SO, 600 to
purchase lot and erect an Industrial lnStl-
tute where the industries of the State may
have fair representation, and in which young
mechanics may receive higher instruction III
their respective callings This is a good move
and should be encouraged.
- Kansas is trying the experiment of cotton
production. One planter ginned and shipped
100 bales last year, and it is reported of excel
lent quality. This fact, and the presence of
thousands of negroes who were raised in the
cotton fields, it is thought, will stimulate the
effort in that State and carry the production
to surprising success.
- The present year has ffty-three Sundays
Ordinarily there are but ffty-two Sundays in
year, there being only fifty-two weeks. We
have had, during this nineteenth century,
fourteen years with fifty-three Sunday each,
and there are to be four more, including the
present year, making total of eighteen.
They are the years which begin on Sundays, and
the leap years which begin on Saturday.
- General Grant says he is satisfied that the
court-martial which convicted General Fitz
John Porter nineteen years ago on charge OF
disobedience of orders at the second battle of
Bull Run did him great injustice, and will in
terest himself in having General Porter re-
stored to his former rank in the army. The
attempt has been made before, but the Repub-
lican politicians threw their weight against it
and defeated it.
"A Georgia paper reports the audacious at
tempt, in Monroe county, of that State, on the
part of gigantic eagle, to carry off child
two years of age. The eagle measured seven
feet and four inches from tip to tip, and
weighed seventeen and one half pounds. Mr..
Alternately, the father of the child, says the
eagles strength was prodigious, and he would
have readily carried off the little boy, had it
not been that Mr.. A. was fortunately armed
with a gun.
- In view of the proofs afforded in Atlanta,
the Chicago Times is now convinced there can
be no further question that the South is
pre-eminently the best seat of manufacturing
enterprise in thc United States, and it says
that with everything in it's favor in the way OF
fuel, ores raw material and transportation,
there is sure to be attracted Southwark an i'm
migration of the industrial classes of the North
which will satisfactorily solve the remaining
problem of cheap labor.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, who managed the
subscription funds for the wife and mother of
President Garfield has made the following
statement The total amount received to date
is 1851, ,S91.72 Of this sum the United States
Trust Company, with whom the money was
deposited, has paid 1851, ,070.75 for $311, 900
United States per cent. registered bonds,
leaving a cash balance in their hands of $780,
81. The fund created for General Garfield's
mother amounted to S1120.25, all of which has
been paid to her.
- Says the Boston Herald: A Southern pa
per remarks upon the dangerous amount of
leisure" which Mr.. Blaine has upon his hands.
Dangerous is word well chosen. Who is it
that finds some mischief still for idle hands to
do? But, between watching the New Admin
iStration, capturing the South from rival stall
warts, protecting his friends in office and
managing that ''private business" which so
much needs his attention, we fancy Satan will
have a small chance to use the eX-Premier un-
less his majesty can utilize some of those
lines of activity, as we should think he might.
= Lots of interesting facts are developed by
the census returns Everybody knows that
Texas is the largest State in the Union and
Rhode Island the smallest, but few people
would have thought that the disparity between
them is so great that they stand to each other
almost in the relation of $50 to l. Yet the
official figures show that the Lone Star State
has all area 262, ,290 square miles, while Little
Rhody'' has but 1855 Out in Nevada there
is single county-Nye by name--which is
more than twenty times the size of the little
New England State, while the smallest county
in the whole country-New York-haS the
largest population.
- The superintendent of the railway mail
service has issued a circular under date of last
Friday to division superintendent in which
he says: "In view of the prevalence of small
pox throughout the country at the present
time, you are instructed in every case when
report is made to you in regard to the matter
with request that mail communication be
suspended between the infected locality and
others, to take necessary action at once with
out waiting to consult this Office, but report
your action Immediately to this Office. This
is necessary in order that the department shall
not in any way be responsible for circulating
any contagious disease"
- The oldest and the richest convict in the
Ohio penitentiary is one Horace Brooks who is
now IA years of age, and has been within the
walls of the prison 81 years. He owned farm
in the suburbs of Cleveland away back in 1850
through which railway passed. One time
the cars ran over some sheep, for which the
company refused to pay damages. To avenge
this wrong Brooks obstructed the track and
threw off passenger train, in which five per-
sons were killed He was arrested, tried for
murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
life. At the time of his conviction he was
very rich, and now his wealth is enormous, his
farm having since become the city of Cleve-
land
- The following Little Rock dispatch, of
Saturday may solve the problem of the colored
exodus to Arkansas: s'The colored Republi-
cans of Arkansas have taken the initiatory
steps toward perfecting thorough organiza-
tion throughout the State. A largely attend
ed meeting here yesterday adopted resolution
urging immediate action in shaping the poll
cy of the State for the good of the whole peo-