Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-15
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South Carolina. The stockholders will lose
every dollar they invested.
General Joe Johnston, who is now sew.
enty-seven years old, does not look over
sixty. He is as straight as an arrow, and
the only sign OF age is seen in his silky gray
hair, which flows in silvery curls almost tC
his shoulders, and in his full gray beard
Otherwise he might pass for ayoung man.
According to the United States Surgeon
Generals annual report, the death rate for
colored troops has, for the first time since
their organization, fallen below that fol
white troops. Their mortality from re-
spiratory affections-usually from pneumo-
nia-is more than four times as great as
that of white troops.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt has written a letter
to General Grant, exoneratlng him from all
blame with reference to the $3.50, 900 borrow.
ed from the millionaire on the 4th Of May
last, He also rendered to Mrs. Grant the
property transferred by the General in salts
faction of the debt. After mature delibera.
tion, Mrs. Grant peremptorily refused tc
accept the gift.
In addition to the oration of the Hon
Robert G. Winthrop to be read at the dedi'
cation of the Washington Monument, it is
now announced that the Hon. John w
Daniel, of Lynchburg, Va, has been invit,
ed by the congressional commission to de-
liver an address in the house of represen-
tatives in the ceremonies to take place there
on the 2lst of February.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday, as
reported to r. G. Dun & Co., number tor
the United States 429 and for Canada 2S-
total 457; which is far in excess of any pre-.
vious chronicle for the same period. The
increase is largely in the South and West,
where the failures are twice as numerous as
they were during ordinary weeks in 1884.
The horse that Wilkes Booth rode from
Ford's Theatre in his wild flight to Mary.
land after shooting President Lincoln event
ually came into the hands of Col. John A.
Peal, of Abingdon, Conn. Like nearly all
the actors in the great tragedy, even the
poor horse, met a violent death. He was
favorite with Colonel Peals family, and be-
coming old was allowed to roam at will.
He fell into ditch and broke his neck.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, whose name
has been prominently before the country for
the last thirty-five years as litigant in suits
to recover heavy claims from the city OF
New Orleans, died in that city last Satur-
day. She made her will three days previous
to her DEATH ;Sbut she was too weak to sign
her name and signed with cross. Her SON.
in-law, J. Y. Christmas, of Washington,
was the only relative present.
The cold weather has caused much suf-
fering among the poorer classes in most
large cities of Kansas, especially among the
colOred people, many of whom have recent
ly come from the South and are destitute.
In Topeka there are seven hundred people
receiving aid, and of these 600 are colored.
It is estimated that if the cold weather con-
tinues month longer at least 5000 people
in Shawnee county will be compelled to ask
aid of the authorities.
Developments made in the case Of the
negro burglars Charles Smith and Henry
Davis, alleged to have been lynched by a
band of masked men at Clayton, johnson
county, N. c., the day before Christmas.
prove almost tconclusively that the men were
not lynched, but succeeded in making their
escape from their guards while the guards
were drunk, and to clear their own skirts
the guards concocted the story that the pris.
oners had been wrested from them and
lynched.
The Postmaster General has notified ali
postmasters that certain sections of the postal
laws and regulations have been amended,
and prepaid letters can now be forwarded
from one postoffice to another at the request
of the party addressed, without additional
~chargo for postage. Letters and all matter
prepaid at first class rates Of postage, may
be returned to the sender without addition
ter may be forwarded upon the written
request of the party addressed without adj
ditional charge for registry fee.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Recordhas
given list of the manufacturing and min
ing industries organized in the Southern
States during the year 1884. The list shows
1866 enterprises, with an aggregate capital
of $1O6, ,269 800, divided among the fourteen
Southern States. Alabama, Kentucky and
Virginia have invested more than any OF
the other Southern States; but South Carroll
ma makes fair showing, having in the past
year formed SO new industries with capi-
tai of s2,174,Ooo. If in year of depression
and hard times the South can make such
a showing what may we not expect in
the flush times to come?
The subject of divorce is attracting the
attention of the governors of the States.
Governor Bourn, of Rhode Island, puts his
foot down, in his message, upon the Phila-
delphia and New York people, who are
temporarily abiding in that State for the
purpose of securing divorces. In ten years
1854 applications for divorce have been
made in Rhode Island, and 2,2S5 granted.
This shows too much domestic infelicity for
such small State. The governor wants the
laws amended so that none but bOna-fide
residents will be able to use the divorce
courts. Governor HOadly, of Ohio, in his
message calls attention to the increase of d.
vorces in that State, and insists upon the
amendment of the tax laws.
"A Dallas, Texas, dispatch of Saturday
says: Elders Joseph Kimley and Samuel
Whiteston, of the Mormon faith, passed
West via the Texas and Pacific Union last
night, with seventeen prOselytes, eight WO-
men, six men and three children, en- route
to the new Mormon colony near Cruises, in
the State of Sonora, Old Mexico, west of the
Sonora Railroad, near the shores of the
Gulf of California. The name of the new
colony, Elder kimley stated, is Mount st.
Young, named after the Prophet, Brigham
Young, and the establishment of which was
the result of the severe treatment the Nor
mons are receiving from the United States
authorities in Utah. Itwas learned that an
extensive proselyting movement is on foot
in Georgia and the adjoining States. The
members of the party were apparently poor
and very illiterate.
Farming has wonderfully progressed, in
this country, during the past twenty years.
The annual agricultural report shows that
from 1860 to 1880 the value of meats incret.s-
ed from three hundred million to eight hun
dred million dollars. OF corn from three
hundred and sixty million TO six hundred
and ninety-hve million dollars; of wheat
from one hundred and twenty-five million
to four hundred and thirty-seven million
dollars of hay from one hundred and fifty
two million to four hundred and nine mil
lion dollars; Of cotton from two hundred
and eleven million dollars to two hundred
and seventy-one million dollars, and other
re, IN, fhn ,hn1