Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-01
. KERE.MENTION.

A bill is now pending before Congress to
pay $150,OOO to the heirs Of the Lee estate
for the Arlington Home that has been con-
verted into National Cemetery. Ac-
corling to Gen. George B. Mcclellan the
cause of the present unparalleled flood in
the Ohio Valley is due to the reckless g eut- y
ting of timber on mountain sides. ''''l 1t is
estimated that in the two Carolinas, Geor-
gia and Louisiana, total population OF
about 100000 people white and colored,
are dependent upon the cultivation OF
rice. ....''.'.G General Fitzhugh Lee has rented
farm near Alexandria, Va, where ne will
make his future home. '''''''''The President
has approved the Act of Congress providing
for the erection of a monument to the mem
Ory of Baron DeKalb. '''''''''A bill making
it criminal offence to deal in futures has
passed the Alabama Senate. "A petit
tion has been presented to the House OF
Representatives for the establishment OF a
mail route from Gastonia, n. c., to River
side, S. .Baughman Bros, stationers
and printers of Richmond, Va, made an
assignment last Friday. Liabilities $90,-
600; nominal assets, $92, 900. .'''''''''Alfred G..
Inman, of Emanuel county, Ga, suspected
of having murdered his wife, was lynched
after attending her funeral. ''''.'''F Friends of
victims of the Newhall House fire are sueing
the proprietor for. damages. AN alarm
of fire in charity school in New York on
Tuesday of last week, caused panic among
the children, and in attempting to rush
from the building fifteen Of them were
trampled to death. .:..'."""Neal and Croft, the
Kentucky murderers, whose trial created
considerable excitement, have been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Twenty
persons were killed by the State militia last
fall while attempting tolynch them..'....Ihe me
GO,rier-Jomndl publishes a list OF about 6OO
sufferers by the flood in Louisville, their ag-
gregate loss amounting to 1867 800. .''''''''The
glory of Bogardus, the famous shot, is gone.
DIR. Carver defeated him in pigeon shooting
for 81, 900 a side at Louisville on Thursday.
The winner killed S3 and the loser 81 of
100 BIRDS ......"Ohio penitentiaries paid to
that State last year profit of $16, 600. 1.-The
case of ex-Treasurer Polk was called In the
criminal court at Nashville last Monday,
but was continued, owing to the illness OF
the prisoner.
New POSTAL LREGULATIONS.-The post
Office department has amended section 373
of the postal laws and regulations so that
"free county newspapers may be forwarded
to any other Office in the county where
printed and published, without additional
charge, but in order to forward such papers
outside of the county it should be accom-
panied with postage sufficient to pay the
ltttCS GllC1COL. NAASA eS A>S otssi
subscriber to newspaper removes from the
delivery of post-office the postmaster
should advise him that 1t is his duty to
notify the publisher of his change of resi-
dence. Postmasters should, in the absence
of instructions, except in case of free county
newspapers forwarded to an office within
the county, notify the publisher that the
paper is not called for. POstmasters are to
understand by these amendments that here
after no matter can be forwarded in the
mails after it reaches its original address
without a new prepayment of postage, eX-
cept letters which have one full rate paid
thereon, namely, three cents, and newspa-
pers and other periodicals which are to be
Forwarded to subscribers from one pOstOtfice
to another which is in the same county
where the paper to be forwarded is publish
ed and in whole or in part printed. Where
matter of the second, third or fourth class
has been inadvertently forwarded without
the payment of the additional postage re-
quired, it is to be rated up with only the
amount due, there being no double postage
charged in such cases. When a request is
made to postmaster to have letters for
warded to new address, drop letters fully
prepaid, bearing the card of the writer,
should bel Immediately returned to the wri-
ter, giving also information OF the chang
ed address. The above rules also are OBJ
ligatory upon postmasters. No newspaper
or postal card is to be forwardeded after it
has reached it's original address, but goes di-
rect to- the dead letter office. <s.4.- --.-