Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-18
Straps aud fafts.

Of the bank, is causing scarcity of farm labor
in that section.
Thomas DeJarnette, the young man who
murdered his sister two years ago, in Danvile,
Va, and was recently discharged from the In
sane Asylum, at Raleigh, N. c., has enlisted
in the United States army, and will be sent to
the frontier
1t is reported that the physicians who at
tended President Garfield have all accepted
the reduced amounts allowed them for services,
although some of them asserted that they
would not accept less than the original exhor-
bitant demands.
: Petitions are pouring into the Massachu-
setts Legislature from all parts of the State,
signed by Woman's Suffragists requesting a
law allowing women to vote in municipal elec-
tions in accordance with the recommendation
in Governor Buffers message.
- The Rutland (Vermont) Herald took a
hand the other day in lecturing the South on
it's lawlessness, but was effectually sat on by
the Boston Post, which soberly informed the
pious Vermont organ that no Southern State
of equal population could show record as
black and monstrous as that of Vermont.
- On December 2S, a bag containing over
$4,000 in gold was forwarded by express
from Savannah to Knoxville and was lost on
Southern Express Company, has just returned
to Atlanta, having recovered the bag of money,
which it is alleged had been stolen by an eX-
press messenger, and hidden in tunnel.
- The ofice-seekers are giving Governor
Cleveland, of New York, no little trouble.
There are more applicants than offices-many
more-and whenever the Governor makes an
appointment he disappoints a score or two
who felt, each Que of them, that he was en-
titled to the place. The disappointed then
set howl that the new Governor is failure,
and the bowling throng is increasing right
along.
The business failures of the seven days
ending last Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun
& Co.'S Mercantile Agency number 262-an IN
crease of 3S as compared with last week.
Their geographical distribution is as follows
Eastern States 2S, Western ", Southern 60,
Midland AZ, Pacific "a, Canada II, New York
city 20; total 262. A large increase in failures
in every section of the country is apparent,
especially at the West and South.
On Wednesday morning of last week, a
large hotel in Milwaukee, Wis, was burned.
Many of the guests perished in the flames and
others were killed by jumping from the upper
stories, covering the side walks with their
lifeless bodies. The eighty-siX employers
lodged in the sixth story, and most of them
were burned. There were over hundred
guests in the hotel at the breaking out OF the
fire.
The record of losses by fire during the
year 1882 is a frightful one. According to
the summary made on Tuesday by the New
York Bulletin, it appears that by one hun
dred and ifty-two fires last year property OF the
estimated aggregate value of S34, ,25O,OOO was
annihiated. BY the smaller fires of the year
in additional wastage of at least 500, ,OOO,OOO
was caused-making the years aSh-heap cost
the United States and Canada 500, ,25O, 600.
"A very strongly worded remonstrance has
been presented to Congress against the pas
sage of any bankrupt act 1t is signed by
some twelve hundred firms and individuals
doing business in New York, many of whom
are among the largest and most respected
mercantile houses. 1t alleges that no bank
rupt act is necessary to secure the discharge
of an honest but unfortunate debtor, while
those which have been passed have been
temptation to fraud.
-Ex-Gov. Hendricks has written letter on
the political situation in which, after insist
ing the Democrats must reap the fruits OF the
recent victories, he very plainly expresses his
disapprobatlon of civil cervice reform leglsla-
tion as proposed in the Pendleton bill. He
thinks that ssfrauds will become more secure
and reform more difficult when the office-hol-
ding class is made permanent by law" and
says he 'swill have faith'' in the appointment
ssof examiners after the manner Of the school
system" when he sees It's fruits.
Thirty-fve years ago, at Cranberry Forge,
George w. Dugger drew set Of wagon tires
weighing $50 pounds. The wagon for which
these tires were made was an eight horse. Its
hind wheels were seven and half feet high,
and the tire for them eleven and half feet
long. This wagon was used for hauling goods
from Baltimore, Md, to Washington County,
East Tennessee. The same mine that furnish
ed the ore that made the tire that ironed the
wagon that hauled the goods from Baltimore,
has caused to he built railroad worth one
million dollars.
"A New York letter says: A well-known
dry goods house goes out of business January
l, having, after two years of trial, found the
jobbing trade unremunerative. The fact is
a few large firms are gradually absorbing all
the business, and no moderate house can live
and compete with the peculiar methods and
the gigantic capital of the great concerns.
1t is so in the boot and shoe and grocery
trades; a few houses do all the business, and
the small-sized firms, of which there were so
many ten years ago, are gradually passing out
of existence. Capitalization in business seems
to be the tendency of the times.
Of the twenty-six new or reelected Sena-
tors whose term begins on the 4th of March
next, ten have already been chosen. These
are Morgan, of Alabama Beck, Kentucky ;
Lamar, Mississippi ;Anthony, Rhode Island and
Butler, South Carolina, have been reelected
Randall L. Gibson has been chosen to succeed
Kellogg, of Louisiana Jas. F. Wilson to sue
ceed McDill, of Iowa James n. Dolph to Sue
ceed Grover, of Oregon Riddleberger to sue
ceed Johnson, of Virginia, and Ex-Governor
COlquitt to succeed Barrow, now serving the
fragment of HIPS term from Georgia. Mr..
Frye has received the Republican caucus nom-
ination in Maine. Mr.. Window in Minnesota,
Gov. NJ. Cullum in Illinois, and Senator Ran
som the Democratic caucus nomination in
North Carolina
The Nashville American thus discourseth
upon "the hope of the new South: :" The
South is a new field. We have found that we
can manufacture as well as our neighbOrs
We have found that, in our cotton, if we on
ly manufacture it ourselves, there is an i'm
nenSe wealth that we not only have the cot
ton but other immense resources. We have iron
and coal, we have valuable timber, we have
great advantages in water power; indeed we
have found that immense resources and that
the road to wealth is in the workshop, the fac
tory, the foundry, the iron and coal beds.
This is new discovery and it is making us a
new South. To-day the new South has more
promise-a better outloOk-than any other
portion of the United States. What we need
is live men in business affairs and wise men
in making laws
- There is a good opportunity to prevent
the piling-up of more silver dollars IN the
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