Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-09
Scraps and fatts.


havingcustomerS as far away as Japan. Calves
are hired from the farmers who report that in
oculation benefits rather than Injuries the ami
mails, and business is very brisk this winter.
In the fifteen years since the war the South
has raised II, ,000, 600 bales more OF cotton than
she did during the last fifteen years of slavery
This addition is worth about 5000, ,O0O, 600
almost enough to compensate them for the loss
of their slaves.
Small pox, of a malignant type, has broken
out in Brunswick county, Va. In several in
stances the disease has proved fatal. The
churches and school houses have been closed,
and county hospital has been established.
When first discovered the disease was thought
to be chicken pox. -.aA.
- Mr.. Warner of Tennessee, has introduced
bill in Congress to reduce the salaries of the
heads of departments. The bill fixes salaries
as follows: President $4,000: members of
Congress, S4 900 heads of departments, 81 600;
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, S9, 500, and Associate Justices, $4,000
each.
- Says the Atlanta Constitution: eff any
body doubts that the republican-independe
coalition is not to be thoroughly organized,
he is making mistake. An advisory" eau
Gus may not make as much racket as a con-
vention, but it is quite as effective. The
organized liberal democrats will have to meet
an organized coalition of republicans and in
dependents at the polls"
Representative Mckinley, Chairman of the
subcommittee Son the Death of President
Garfield, " has received communication from
ex-Secretary Blaine, saying that he will be pre-
pared to deliver the eulogy in accordance with
the request of the committee, either on Feb
ruary 25 or 27. Mr.. Mckinley says it is quite
probable that the latter date will be decided
upon. g..
A span of Mayo's bridge across the James
at Richmond, Va, connecting the city with the
suburb of Manchester, fell in about O'Clock
Saturday afternoon while stage loaded with
passengers was crossing. The span fell thirty
feet and settled on the bottom of the river
without careening. The force of the curren:
upset the stage, but the passengers were
rescued alive, although most of them were
more or less injured.
- The Atlanta Cotton Exposition cost about
S250,O00. It's receipts from all sources were
about $240, goo, and the building is still to be
sold, which will probably cover all the eXpen
seS. Thus this revelation of the resources
of the South, this education of the people in
the knowledge of their own wealth and power
and this grand advertisement to Atlanta and
spur to its business, cost absolutely nothing
It shows what brains and public spirit can do
The past year developed more extravaganza
on the part of the people of the United States
with respect to the luXuries Of life and orna
ments for personal or household adornment
than was ever seen before, and it looks as il
the present year would show still greater
excess. The imports of silk goods during thu
month of January were nearly half a million
dollars greater than they were in January {
year ago, and more than double the imports O.
January, 1879.
Cabbages and potatoes are arriving at New
York daily from Europe. One steamer arriv
ing Monday had 1000 tons of potatoes from
Ireland and Scotland, and vessels with 13, ,0O(
tons of English, Irish and Scotch potatoes art
now due at that port. The steamer Geyser
from Copenhagen, also arrived at New Yorl
Monday with several thousand heads of cab
bage in fair condition. The custom house du
ty is ten cents bushel on potatoes, but ever
at this they can be sold cheaper than the Amer
lean product, on account of the scarcity of tht
latter. '-...t.
The great Barnum is in an ecstacy of de-
light over the birth of baby elephant, which
he values at $500, 600. The affair occurred or
Thursday at Bridgeport, the winter quarters
of his menagerie The mother, named Queen
The baby, a well-formed, strong and active fe
male, has rough, blush hide, coated will
coarse hair an inch long Its weight is one
hundred pounds. 1t is two and half feet I
height and three feet long. Its little trunk is
seven inches long. The big mother exhibits
great fondneSs for her offspring, which was
sucking between her fore legs within an houl
after its birth. Mr.. Barnum offers one thou
sand dollars week for an insurance on it's lift
for ffty-two weeks.
- The joint conference committee in charge
of the celebration of the discovery of the moutl
of the Mississippi River by LaSalle, two hun
dred years ago, have completed their pro
gramme, as follows: Owing to the fact that
the 9th of April falls on Easter Sunday, the
10th and 18th were set apart for the occasion
The exercises on the 10th are to consist of an
address of welcome by Rev. B. NJ. Holmer
d. D., OratiOns by Hon. Frank Parkman, E.
B. Washburne and George H. Pendleton and q
grand military parade; On the 18th an excur
sion to the jettieS will be taken and all points
of interest in connection with the LaSalle dis
covery will be visited. The place where he
erected the shaft will be marked to form a
site for statue at some future day.
- The escape of Col. Tom Buford from the
gallows after his deliberate murder of Judge
Elliott has been condemned in the Kentucky
Legislature, and formal expression of dis
sent with the verdict was all but secured. A
resolution to erect a monument to Elliott was
introduced, and the preamble asserted that he
had been ''ShOt down and murdered in the
sight of the capitol by the ruthless hand of an
assassin, who escaped just punishment under
the guise ofthe recently popular plea of insan-
ity." In the spirited debate which followed
the jury and their verdict found no defender,
and it was conceded that the murderer had
been saved by the wealth and popularity of his
family, but it was supposed that the clause
would bea reflection on Judge Jackson, who
had presided at the trial, and it was stricken
out.
The Washington Post says that since Mr..
Tilden was cheated out of the Presidency, to
which he was elected, a great many men who
assisted in the Infamous fraud have gone in
IN ignoble way to their long home. Zack
Chandler died miserably in Chicago hotel
Senator Morgan shufled off his unfragrant
coil before he could derive any benefit from
the fraud Gen. Garfield, who was pretty deep
i'll the Electoral swindle, died from the blow
of an assassin, and the other day Mr.. Slough
ton-'Clerical Error Stoughton- passed away
almost without sigh. And yet the feeble
old man at Grammercy Park, who doesn't look
as though he had days life in him, is still
as bright as clipper to an extent, indeed,
that some of the gossips say he has his eye
firmly fixed on the term which begins in 'S4
and ends 'SS, and which would leave him, even
if he should live to see the end of it, almost,
a nonagenarian.
The Washington Republican publishes in
terviews with the jurors in the Guiteau case,
but they revealed nothing specially interesting.
Foreman Hamlin was outspoken in his praise
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