Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-22
Scraps aud fatts.

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ena. Island No. 81 has disappeared and the
inundation of sections which have hereto
fore always escaped has destroyed vast
quantities of stock and game and several
families of people.
The business failures for the week en-
ding last Friday, as reported to Il. u. DUN
&Co's. Mercantile Agency are 225 against
252 last week. The New England States
had %, Middle 81, Western 10 Southern As,
Pacific States s, New York City II ana
Canada 81.
= The State of Kansas is to have Rail-
road Commission, the appointment Of Com
missioners having been authorized by
recent act of the Legislature. The business
of the Commission is mainly to see that
laws affecting transportation are enforced.
Passenger fare is fixed at three cents per
mile.
- The gold mine in Oglethorpe county,
Ga., has been suspended. Not less than
SlOO.OOO of Northern capital has been sunk
in these mines and hardly more than $iOO
has been realized from the outlay. The
trouble seems to be that while the ore is
PLENTIFUL no plan has been discovered 10
Separate it from the sulphurets.
Mr.. John Morgan, of Conyers, Georgia,
has bale of cotton that is 30 years old, hav-
ing lain in his lot since the war. He is now
having it repacked to sell. 1t has a rich
color and is perfectly sound, covered with
good bagging. and bound with rope. He
had about one hundred bales at the close OF
the war and refused $4,000 in gold for them.
The amount of whiskey now bonded,
and for which the owners failed to get an
extension of the bonded period, is "a 2O2,
O26 gallons. Of this great quantity, IA ,319,,,
6S8 gallons will have to be taken out OF bond
this year 40, 16S, ,10S gallons in 1854 and ~
S14,23O in 18S5-unless the whiskey men
should obtain an extension of the bonded
period from the next Congress.
There are produced in the world over
100000 tons of sugar, and we consume IN
this country about 1000, 900 tons. OF this
100000 tons consumed here some SoO,0oo
is brought from other countries. AS that
$4,000 tons of sugar will have to pay one
half per cent. less duty than heretofore, SUI,
gars ought, therefore, to sell here one-half
per cent lower than they would have done
under the old tariff. But will they?
AT the annual meeting of the New Eng
land Manufacturers and Mechanics lnstl-
tute at Boston, on Wednesday, it was an
nounced that the Southern States were ta-
king lively interest in the coming eXposl-
ton, and that the most encouraging reports
had been received from North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Independent State Convention OF
Rhode Island, met on Wednesday and NOM
mated Ex-Governor VIM. Sprague as can
didate for Governor. A committee OF seven
was appointed to confer with any other Or
ganization of Democrats relative to making
up the remainder of the State ticket The
Democratic convention met last Tuesday.
No very prominent politicians were in the
Sprague convention.
- New York tradesmen have adopted an
ingenious dodge. Circulars were sent until
nobody would open them, until genius
hit on the plan of sending his ADVERTISE
ments to London and having them posted;
read missive enclosed in an envelope post
marked London with instructions to return
to"No. -, Red Lion Square" She usual
Nv finds it to be reminder Of the fine stock
at some store in Broadway.
- The mail equipment division OF the
post Office department is now engaged in
sending out new equipments for the mail
service. Two hundred thousand locks and
fifty thousand keys will be recalled and
sold for old iron. 1t has been twelve years
since the locks now in use were furnished,
and the new ones, which are OF superior
workmanship, are expected to last twenty
years.
AT the annual meeting of the stock and
bondholders of the Atlanta and Charlotte
Airline Railroad Company, held in New
York on the 14th instant, H. w. Sibley was
reelected president. The directors cleo
ted were Hiram Sibley, VIM. H. Fogg, Eu-
gene Kelly, P. P. Dickinson, Richard 1r-
Vim, Jr., H. w. Sibley, SkipWorth Wilmer,
B. r. McAlpine, Jas. H. Young, r. A. Lam
caster, James f. Grannis and Robert Sta
BILE.
What Lady Cav ,ndish wrote after the
brutal murder of Lord Frederick in Dublin,
breathes the loftiest spirit of true Christian
charity, of humanity, and patriotism. She
says: 81 pray that neither the unspeaka-
BILE greatness of my sorrow nor the terrible
WickedneSs of those men may ever blind
myself or any of the English people to the
duty of patience, justice, and sympathy in
our thoughts, words and deeds, with regard
to Ireland and its people at large"
The remains of John Howard Payne
are expected to arrive in New York this
week, where they Will be met by represen-
tatives of Mr.. Corcoran and taken to Wash
ingtOn City. They will be taken to Oak
Hill cemetery and placed in vault, where
they will remain until June 9Th, on which
day appropriate refinement ceremonies
with take place. Among the interesting
ceremonies of the occasion will be the sing
ing of "Home, Sweet, HOme," by over 100
selected voices.
-Ile new rate lOr pOStdl OTueTS, WHICH,
will 90 into effect after July next, will be
as follows: For $40, Scents; from $40 to SIS,
ten cents; between$15 and $50, fifteen cents;
between $50 and $40, twenty cents; between
$40 and $50, twenty-five cents; between $50
and $50, thirty cents; between $50 and $40,
thirty-fve cents between $40 and $50, forty
cents, between $50 and 500, forty-five cents,
no money order to exceed 500 to be issued.
A description of the proposed money orders
or postal notes for sums of s. or less is given
on the fourth page. The rate of cOmpensa-
tion to pOStmasters of the fourth class is
so adjusted that their pay, Notwithstanding
the decreased rates of postage, will be
about the same as at present.
- Hon. Thomas J. Flournoy, of Halifax
county, Virginia, one of the most distin-
guished of the old public men of that State,
died at his residence on Tuesday morning,
aged 72 years. He was brilliant lawyer
and popular orator. He was elected to
Congress in 1849, being the only Whig ever
elected from his District during the exis-
tence of that party. He was the "KnOw
Nothing" candidate for Governor of Vir-
ginia in 1855 against Henry A. Wise, and
was defeated. He was member of the
Virginia secession convention, and after
wards Colonel of cavalry in the Con-
federate army. The last time he appeared
in politics was as delegate to the st. Louis
Convention which nominated Tilden for
President.
In the Baltimore Conference of the M.
f. Church South, in session last week at
Nbo rIoutop w Va RiShon Kapnpr re-