Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-16
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having been removed to Iredell, and comes
off in February next, it was thoughtit might
benefit his health by a change of prisons
hence his removal to Statesville.
The commercial position ofNew Orleans
is threatened by the course of the Atchafa-
va river which has been developed from
creek to river from forty to fifty feet deep
by the freshets in the Mississippi in the last
twenty years. It now threatens to cut a
new bed and leave New Orleans away from
deep water, as Vicksburg has been left.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Evans
has declined to revoke his ruling that when
q liquor dealer ships distilled spirits ''collect
on delivery" he must have license in the
town to which the spirits are sent. The
commissioner has, however, consented to let
the matter remain in allegiance until the
courts have passed upon similar question
in case now pending.
The business failures occurring through
out the country III the seven days ending
last Friday, as reportrd to R. G. Dun q Co.
number for the United States 1876 and for
Canada "a, or total of 220, as against III
the previous week. The figures are almost
Identical. The failures are below the aver
age in western New England and the Pacit-
ic States, but correspondingly increased in
the Middle and Southern States and New
York City.
The tobacco dealers throughout the north
and west have become greatly alarmed over
the appearance among their stock of lit
tie bug which they call the tobacco weevil
that is causing ruin in their business. The
bug is about half the size of fly and has
sharp pointed head, hard she'll back, small
wings and dark brown color. 1t feeds and
thriVes on tobacco, especially on cigarettes
and fine cut for chewing, while it has been
&lx,l in
The New Orleans Picay,uae estimates
that unfavorable weather has reduced the
cotton crop to 100000 bales or less. 1t
adds: "There are no indications pointing
to renewed activity in the goods trade,
and until that comes manufacturersar are likely
to purchase sparingly. In the meantime
the financial position is such that planters
will be unable to hold back their crops, and
the product will of necessity be sold rapid.
ly at current rates whatever they may be-"
= The reunion of the Mexican veterans
took place in st. Louis on Wednesday OF
last week, the session continuing three days.
About two hundred delegates from differ
ent States were in attendance. In the ab-
sence of President James w. Denver, Cen
eral w. D. Manson, of Indiana, First Vice.
President, called the reunion to order and
an address of welcome was delivered Dy
J. G.. McGinnes, of st. Louis, and was re-
piled to by acting President Manson.
Information has been received from coun-
ties around Petersburg Va, to the effect that
the streams and wells are fast drying up.
Considerable difficulty is experienced in
some sections to get water for the cattle.
The farmers claim that the corn and tobac-
co crops are damaged to the extent OF one
third, while others say one-half. In some
of the counties the tobacco is being cut down
and the ground is being sown with wheat:
The damage done to the peanut crop is said
to be immense.
"A terrible tragedy was prevented at
Erie, Pa, on Friday through the interfer-
ence of the authorities. Leo Schreck and
his wife and John Flick had $1l9 deposited
in the Erie county savings bank, at Erie,
and when the institution suspended, the loss
of the money drove them insane. Think
ing afterwards, in their insanity, that they
had committed some great sin, they inflicted
self fagelstiens On Friday tWe Officers oo-
in their back yard. The house was entered,
when it was found they intended to en-
act the death of Christ and cruelty Flick,
which was to be followed by the killing OF
their children, to represent Herod' sslaughter
of the innocents. They are now in custody.
Matt O'Reardon, the famous pianist,
whose extraordinary performances on that
ly every town and city in the South, died
from the effects of dissipation in the City
Hospital at Louisville, KY, one day last
week. He originated the idea OF toning or
dinary glass tunblers to the harmonic scale
by graduating them with water, and arrang-
ing them in convenient position would play
Yankee Doodle on them with his left hand
and Dixie on the piano with his right hand.
He was the reputed author of many popu-
lar songs of the day-among them my
Dream of Love is O'er," Gathering Shells
by the Seashore," "Only an Ivy Leaf"
''Marriage Bels'; and many others that
have been sung all over the world.
Whatever may be said for or against
prohibition and the sale of liquor, there can
be no doubt but that the prohition people
have made great progress within the last few
years, and especially in the South. In
Georgia there are 80 prohibition counties;
in West Virginia there are 43 out of "a ;
Tennessee prohibits the sale of liquor with
in four miles of any school house; Maryland
has strong law restricting the sale; Arkan-
stringent liquor laws Texas came within
four votes Of two-thirds majority In the
Legislature for a prohibition amendment
to the Constitution; Missouri has high
license law, and in South Carolina liquor
cannot be sold legally except in incorporated
towns, and large number of the towns
have voted against the license.
In New York, last Friday, the Board of
Managers of the Cotton Exchange prepared
a series of rules for the inspection of cotton,
on which the members will vote on the
Goth instant. The rules provide for the ap-
pointment of an inspector who shall have
direct charge Of the department. Members
of the Exchange wishing to have cotton
inspected must notify the inspector, who
will take charge of the sampling, class mark
ing, &C., and turn the samples over to the
Classification Committee, and on its certiti-
cate of grade cause the warehouse men to
issue receipt for the number of bales, grade
and weight. The warehouse men will be
under bonds to deliver the identical bales
called for in the receipt. 1t is claimed that
under this system parties not experts in
cotton can purchase and hold it safely, as
thew have absolute certainness of being
able to redeliver it as of the same grade as
received, and that loans can be made more
freely and with greater safety by banks,
trust companies and parties not in the cot
ton business.
On the subject of department clerkships,
a Washington dispatch says: good many
persons imagine that if they can pass civil
service examination they will step at once
into place in some one of the departments
of the Government. AS a matter Of fact,
thew may have to wait many months. Some
of those who have recently been appointed
passed the necessary examinations over
wear ago. A short time ago, when Secreta-
nv Lincoln wanted clerk in the one thou
sand-dollar class, he selected from the list
certified by the Civil Service Commission
resident of California. Notice of the ap-
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