Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
Straps aud fafts.


having been published few weeks ago, a
stream of money began to flow in to her, and
the result has been still more sad. She has
lost her mind under the unexpected change
of fortune.
- The original amount appropriated for TAX
ing the last census was 50, ,000, 900, which was
estimated would be sufficient. But additional
appropriations have been since made making
the total amount SIS, SOB, ,624.61, and now $780,
600 more is asked for, but even that will not
complete the work which has been very indif-
ferently done.
- A number of cotton manufacturers of
Atlanta Ca, met there on Tuesday and Or
ganized the Southern Cotton Manufacturers
Association by the election of J. T. Hidson,
of Macon, President, and T. B. Dallas, OF
Nashville, Secretary and Treasurer. The
former is agent Of the Bibb Cotton Manufac-
turing Co., and the latter is the treasurer OF
the Nashville Cotton Mills.
- The temperance movement is about to as
sumo large proportions in Florida. At the
recent session of the Florida Conference of the
NJ E. Church South, a committee was ap-
pointed to go before the State Legislature and
represent the cause of temperance, and anoth-
er committee was appointed to prepare plan
for general temperance movement through
out the State.
- When Governor Bate, of Tennessee, was
inaugurated at. Nashville, the other day, an
eagle was let loose on the occasion, bearing
on a medal about it's neck the name of Cleve-
land, of New York, for President, and Bate,
of Tennessee, for Vice-Pfesident on the Dem
ocratic ticket for 1884. But the proud bird
was so cramped from long confinement that
it could not fly, and fell ANONYMOUSLY into
tangle Of telegraph wires.
- Some of the paper-perhaps for want OF
other matter for gossip-are again agitatlng
Grants third term project. The idea OF
bringing one Grant for a third term is all
moonshine. Grant never had less influence
in American politics than he has to-day, and
the talk of bringing him forward for another
term is the merest nonsense. The American
people have had enough of Grant and Grant
knows it.
- BY the latest figures of the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington, it is reported @ aa the corn
crop of 1882 is placed at ,635, ,OOO, 600 bushels,
and the yield Of wheat at 81, 1000, 600 bushels.
Up to 1879 the maximum yield of Indian corn
in this country (which occurred in that Year,
was .547, ,901, 900 bushels. Last years crop,
by the above estimate, exceeds that OF 1879 by
eighty-seven million bushels, and falls only
about two hundred and seven million bushels
under the crop Of 1880.
The National Republican Convention which
met in Washington lately, submitted to sub
committee to report upon the best plan for
basis of representation, but as many plans had
been submitted as there were members OH the
subcommittee, Senator Logan moved as
substitute for all new propositions that the ba-
sis of representation shall remain as hereto
fore. This motion was agreed to by vote of
81 to II, after debate occupying the greater
part of the day.
- The divorce statistics of Maine for the
past FIVE years give an unpleasant picture OF
home life in that State There have been about
twenty-four hundred divorces decreed during
the period in question, and thus nearly five
thousand persons have been released from the
bonds which we're assumed with at least nom
inal solemnity. The ratio is probably one di-
vOrce to ten marriages in Maine. The ratio
in Massachusetts in 1879 was one to twenty
one.
The business failures of the week ending
last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun Co.'S.
mere antile agency number 277, an increase
of fifteen over last week, The Eastern States
had 26, Western S6, Middle So, Southern 81,
Pacific States and territories %, Canada II,
New York city II. The failures, though very
numerous are not of much Importance. A
very large number of them are of class Incl
dent to the closing of the year, which, though
technically failures, might almost be expressed
by the words "quit business"
ON the subject of regulating railroads, the
Galveston (Texas) NerS, says: There are
twenty-one States that have laws regulating
railroads and South Carolina will make the
twenty-second. The matter Of regulation is
well understood necessity Certain Republl-
cans oppose national regulation because they
do not want it ; and certain Democrats oppose
it from preference for State authority. The
Republicans ought to inaugurate national reg
ulation of railroads as policy if the Democrats
decline. State authority is inadequate to reg
ulate Interstate tra6c.
Rev. DR.. Hicks, to whom Guiteau willed
his body, has formally transferred the re-
mains to the Surgeon General of the United
States They have really been in his posses
sion-that is, at the Armory Medical Museum
in this city-since the day after the execution,
at which time the body was taken from the
Jail at night and secretly conveyed to the
museum. The bones have been dlvested OF
flesh, but have not yet been articulated. 1t
has not yet been decided by the authorities
what course will be pursued in regard to them;
but it is pretty safe to say that they will not
be placed on exhibition.
The men who were to be chosen from
the Department of Dakota to take part in the
Greeley Arctic expedition were finally appon-
ted by Gen. Terry on the 14th instant. First
Lieutenant Earnest A. Darlington, of the 7th
Cavalry, is to be the officer in charge. He is
native of South Carolina and was appointed
to the Military Academy at West Point from
the State of Georgia. He entered the regular
army 1876 and the same year received his
commission as First Liuetenant. The four
men who are to accompany him from this
department were picked from one hundred
applicants. These men and Lieutenant Car
lington will Immediately 60 into training for
the expedition at Washington.
The New Orleans Picny,tne of Sunday, in
an editorial on the reciprocity treaty with
Mexico, has the following paragraph: "There
is an extended belief that reciprocity treaty
with Mexico means annexation. We oursel-
yes cannot see any other result. Once break
down the barriers of the custom houses and
tariffs, once permit our people to accustom
themselves to free and unrestricted inter-
course with Mexico in regard to tobacco,
machinery and sugar, and the result will be
more intimate political connections. 1t has
been argued by an able and active exponent
of this idea, thatnecessarily the interests of
the newly acquired Mexican territory which
will be carved into half a dozen States, after
annexation, will be identical with Texas,
Louisiana, Arkansas and California"
While, during the present winter, floods
and high waters have been the rule in the
South and West, drought has prevailed in
Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, from
the effects of which several.mills are now idle
and others are shutting down. The product
of the Maine saw mills has been reduced 90
OOO OOO feet and the mills on the PenObScOt