Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-01-17
Straps and fafts.


and fight like tigers
Senator Hill, of Colorado, has introduced
bill to require that government bui lding
shall be constructed in every town and city
in the Union in which the postmaster draws
a salary of 1000 and over. He says this
policy would save the government 81 100000
per year in rent.
The intense cold, which has driven ev-
erybody to his fireside in all parts Of the
country north of Florida, has made the Ken
nebec river scene of great activity. Men
are gathering with teams and machinery to
cut out the annual crop. The ice houses
have a capacity for one million tons, and
to fill them will require three thousand la
borers and eight hundred horses.
A Maine man bought his daughter me-
lodeon recently. Because she could not learn
to play we'll in q week he swapped the in
strument for COW, but the latter not giving
milk enough to suit him he killed it for
beef The beef was kept too long before
he got customer to suit him and has spoil
ed on his hands. 1t isn't safe to mention
"melodeon" to him.
Returns to r. G.. Dun & Co.'s Mercan-
tile Agency indicate that the business fail
ures for the week ending last Friday in the
United States numbered 303, and in Canada
and the Provinces 80, or total of 333against
34S the previous week. The failures are oc-
curing mostly among the Western and
southern States, but an increase over the
average is noted in the New England States
and in New York City.
The construction of new railroads in the
United States during the year 1888 was less
than 60 per cent. of the new mileage OF
1SS2-only $500 miles having been built,
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9,789 miles in 1881, and 7,174 miles in 1880.
In only one year, however, was the mileage
larger-in 1871, when 1879 miles were con-
structed. There are now about l20, 900 miles
of railroad in operation in the country,
of which one-halfhas been constructed since
1871.
Mr.. McCoid, of Iowa, will press his
Presidential succession bill in the House
this session. 1t provides, in case of the
death Of the President and Vice-President,
that the duties of the Office shall Temporal
rily devolve on the Secretary of State, until
the Electoral College, which is to have four
years. existence, can assemble and elect a
new President. The suggested method of
filling a possible vacancy has at least the
merit of relegating the succession to the
body which elected the President, whose
successor is to be determined.
The Legislature of Ohio has elected the
Hon. H. B. Payne to the United States Sen
ate, and issued an order of retirement to
Senator George H. Pendleton. The defeat
of Senator Pendleton, under the circunl-
stances, is to be regretted, although nothing
damaging can be urged against his success
full rival, either on the score of ability
or personal integrity. Pendleton was the
father of the civil service measure of the
last Congress, and this doubtless had much
to do with his recent defeat. The Ohio
Democrats seem to be unfriendly to civil
reform.
SO far this season 1901 bills have been
introduced in the house of Representatives.
Of each bill $50 copies are printed, costing
five dollars. Over sixteen thousand dollars
have thus been expended in the mere mat
ter of printing. Experience shows that on
ly about one out of every hundred bills gets
through, and computing on that basis, 1t
will be seen that of the sixteen thousand
dollars, considerably over thirteen thousand
have been used in printing upwards of
twenty three-thousand bills which will new
er pass, and whose only use will be as waste
paper to some junk dealer.
Reports from Florida agree that the Sc
we're cold weather Of last week damaged the
orange trees somewhat, but none were kill
ed. Tender shoots have been nipped, which
will shorten the bloom on the trees for the
coming crop. The fruit on the trees has
been badly damaged in the northern part OF
the State. Guavas and bananas have been
killed in the greater part of the State. On
the whole the damage is not so great as was
at first feared. The weather has moderated
and the danger is apparently over. 1t will
take some days of sunny weather, how
ever. to tell how badly the orange trees are
damaged at the roots.
- The latest advices from Belleville, ILL.,,
relative to the burning of the Catholic con-
vent there, say that two more bodies were
found ON Wednesday, neither of which
have been identified. The report made
by the surviving Sisters, which is accepted
by the coroner as authentic, is as follows !:
There were siXty-three persons in the con-
vent at the time of the fire. Of these,
twenty-SiX were Sisters, twenty-five OF
whom were saved. There were thirty-tWo
boarding pupils, ten of whom were saved,
and five candidates, all saved. Total
thirty-seven saved, twenty-siX lost. The
bodies of those who could not be identified
were all buried in the same coffin.
Major John w. Daniel, author of the
platform on which the Democrats made
their successful fight in the recent Virginia
election, has written letter to the editor
of paper in Southwestern Virginia, in
which he says he has ''no doubt every prin-
ciple enunciated in the platform will be car
ried out in letter and spirit, that the dead
issues of past canvasses will be buried, and
the living issues of to-day carried to the
'front.'" Major Daniel expresses regret that
anybody got hurt in the Danville affair, but
he declares that "the sooner everybody un-
derstands that the white people of Virginia
do not intend to submit to plunder, outrage
and insult, the better it will be for all con-
cerned."
The prohibitionists of this country claim
that the outlook is favorable in many States
for the adoption of constitutional amend
ments prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic beverages. The constitu-
tional movement has been agitated in twen-
ty-One States. In Kansas it has been con-
summated; Iowa passed it through two
Legislatures and ratified it by 10000 ma
iority, but the amendment was killed by its
clerical errors. Maine has passed a cOnsti-
tutional amendment through the Legisla-
ture and it wants popular vote. In Ore
gon one Legislature has acted favorably,
and q second is to take action in the matter.
Ohio passed it through her Legislature and
lost it before the people. In Texas, West
Virginia, Nebraska, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Arkansas, it failed by only a few votes.
The New York correspondent of the
Louisville Post closes some illusions to the
functions of editorials in journals by saying
SIN Newark, for example, the Republican
journal clears annually 100000. 1t is not
because of its superior news-gathering, for
the New York papers reach Newark as soon
as they reach the upper part of New York.
1t is because the paper has identified itself
with the interests of that city. 1t has
fought battles for honesty, and stands as the