Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-09-26


her could not tell for which the warrant was
intended.
- There is in Canada matron one hum
dred and eight years of age, whose declining
years are solaced by the buoyant companion
ship of her youngest boy, who still vegetables
at the venerable age of ninety-three years.
Admiral Winslow, who commanded the
Kearsage when she sank the Alabama, will re-
ceive twenty-tour thousand dollars as his share
of the prize money. Farragut received about
eighty.nine thousand dollars prize-money.
-- The Albany IN. W penitentiary has
been in operation twenty-five years, and the
commitments have exceeded twenty thousand
five hundred in that time, little less than one
thousands year by average Its income over
expenditures has been more than $4,000. an
unexampled prosperity in the history Of pris-
ons.
An exchange relates the following pain
full circumstance: "Last winter a gentleman
made an agreement with his wife to the effect
that should she kindle the fire in the morn
ings for six months be would do it for the
same length of time. She has just completed
her part of the contract when he died. 1t is
very sad affair"
- The Washington Chronicle of Saturday
says: "It has transpired that the withholding
of pardon from certain of the ku-k klux pris-
oners in the Albany penitentiary was occa-
stoned by a protest coming from the district
where the criminals were convicted and among
those who would be most endangered by their
release"
- Judge Bowling, of New York, said, in
a recent case, that great mistake pervades
the public mind in regard to dogs; that, by
law, they are as much mans property as his
horse, or anything else he owns; and, more
over, that in case of killing dog, unless in
selfprotection, the party could be made to
pay the value of the dog, the same as though
it was horse.
- The cotton manufacture of the United
States employs 1910 males above sixteen
years ofage, 66,637 females above fifteen years
of age, and 22,942 children of both sexes.
The value of material used is Sill, 1,737 ,6S6,
and the value of the production is S177 $780,
72O The annual wages paid to employees is
s3O044132, which leaves profit of only
S26,707, 1921 to the manufacturers.
"A Frenchman named Cluseret, who was
on Sheridan's staff in the late civil war, and
was engaged in the devastating raids made by
Sheridan in the Valley of Virginia, has been
condemned to death by a court martial at
Versailles for refusing to come forward and
answer charges against him for his completely
in burning buildings in Paris during the days
of fthe Commune. Cluseret escaped from France
at the time of the suppression of the COM
mune
"A Washington dispatch says Attorney
General Williams has made reply to Alex
ander H. Stephens petition for the pardon Of
all the ku-klux confined in the Albany Peni-
Tertiary. The Attorney-General denies the
allegations of Mr.. Stephens that the convic-
tion of the ku-klux was illegal, and that their
pardon would be an act of justice and friend
illness towards the South, and says that the
pardon of all of them would have no more po-
litical significance than the pardon of those
convicted of violation of other statutes.
"A Washington letter says: "Oficial
advices received here lay good foundations for
trouble between the United States and Mexi-
CO. Notwithstanding the protest of this gov
.ernment against the outrages on the Mexican
border on the life and property of citizens of
this country, and the appeals to join in some
cooperative policy to secure safer condition
of affairs on the Rio Grande, the Mexican
authorities not only are Indifferent to the rep
reservations of the government, but apparent
ly encourage these offensive operations. The
Mexicans have also broken faith on the joint
claims commission, which has been in session
here, and it is probable that all the work thus
far accomplished will amount to nothing"
1t is pretty we'll established that the fl
nal award made by the Geneva conference to
the United States for the depredations of the
Alabama, Florida, &C., is gross sum Of about
S16,0O0,0OO. The total amount of claims filed
was, in round numbers, about $24,0O0,000.
The award is to be signed and delivered to
the agent of each Government in Geneva
forthwith. The amount which is required to
be paid in coin by Great Britain to the Uni
ted States in the city of Washington is not
due till one year from the date of the award,
which disposes of the statements that the clai-
mants may get their money before December
1st. This Government, after it receives the
gross award, will be compelled to establish a
commission and pay its own claimants. This
class of claims is to be settled without regard
to any award made for or against the Govern
ment by the commission appointed under the
treaty to arbitrate class Of claims arising
between the citizens of the two countries out
side of those settled at Geneva, and which
commission sits in Washington for the next
three months.
There is charge Of murder pending in
the London courts against man for permit
ting himself to be shot. The circumstances Of
the case are extraordinary in all respects
Two young German gentlemen of respectable
family visited London and in four days man
aged to expend the sum of two thousand dol.
lars in the pursuit of pleasure. At the end OF
that time, having exhausted their money,
they came to the conclusion that there was
nothing left to them worth living for, and
agreed to die together. A few lines Of fare
we'll were written to some girls who had as
sisted in their revelries, after which they
locked their door and stripped themselves for
death. One of the young men, named Paul
May, stood up and the other shot him through
the breast As May fell to the floor, his com
panion finished his work by shooting himself
through the heart. 1t so happened that May
was not mortally wounded, but is in fair
way of recovery, and when he is convalescent
heis to be taken before the authorities tostand
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