Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-09-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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NEWS OF THE DAY.
-Frosts occurred in several parts of Iowa
and Illinois on the 9th instant.
Dan Rice, the Snowman, wants to be
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Sunday, the 18th of October, has been
agreed upon as day of prayer for Evangeli-
cal Sabbath Schools all over the world.
There were 578 deaths the past week in
New York-a decrease of SO from the previ-
Gus week.
- Indiana has the largest public shool fund
of any State in the Union, amounting to over
$S,OOO,OO0.
A despatch from Memphis reports the
death of thirty blacks in that city, on Sunday
last, from yellow fever.
At the recent election in Maine, the Re-
publicans carried the State by about H. ,000.
Their majority last year was 1851.
"A dispatch from New York states that
there are counterfeits of the new fifty cent
stamps in circulation, so skilfully executed as
almost to defy detection.
A man with wart on his nose has re-
covered $500 in a Baltimore court against
the brute who reminded him of that protuber-
ance by calling him "Warty."
"A young man in Griffin, Georgia, recently
attempted to borrow s4O0 at one of the banks
in that place, on $4,000 of good collaterals,
and failed in consequence Of the scarcity of
money.
A Mississippi lady cut the Governors au-
tograph out of her album, and made it do
duty as the signature of pardon for her son
in the penitentiary. They all think it good
joke in Mississippi.
- The State Republican Convention Of
Massachusetts has re-nominated Washburne
for Governor. B. F. Butler, has been work.
ing industriously for some time with the view
of securing the nomination, but the Conven-
tion threw him overheard without much cer-
emony.
The exact number of railroads in the
United States at the present time is 425;
miles of railroad, 57,323; cost 81 1853, ,423,-
s57 cost per mile, s54,116; gross receipts,
s473, 3,241 ,O55; operating expenses, 1907 1885,
eS2; net earnings, $1e5,754,373; dividends
paid, $64,41S,151.
They believe in calling things by the
right names out in Iowa. A county conven-
tion adopted this strong and somewhat sweep
ing platform recently: Whereas, we believe
that when man steals he is thief; and
whereas there are politicians of both parties
who steal therefore, Resolved, That we are
tired of being plundered; that it is a good
time for thieves to stand from under.
- An outrage was recently perpetrated in
Long Island, Huntingdon county, N. Y,
which equals, if it does not surpass anything
ever attributed to the ku-klux. A defenceless
man was set upon by gang of selfconstitu-
ted regulators ofsociety, tarred and feathered,
barbarously mutilated, exposed to the deris-
ion of creatures in the form of women, and
then, there is reason to believe, murdered,
though some think that, in his despair and
shame, he may have drowned himself. If
this outrage had been perpetrated in the South,
it would have been set down to the ku-klux,
and the Government Justify importuned to
send troops to suppress the mystical klan.
Distressing reports in regard to the yellow
fever come from Shreveport, Louisiana.
There are said to be not less than five hundred
cases at that place, and the chairman Of the
Howard Association reports that there are
hardly enough we'll people left to attend the
sick. The local authorities on the Texas and
Pacific railroad have stopped the running Of
the cars, on account of the prevalence of the
fever; the telegraph Offices have been closed
in consequence. of the illness Of the operators,
business is at stand still and communication
with the outside world is almost wholly
stopped. Shreveport is situated on the West
bank of Red River, in the northern part Of
Louisiana, about 300 miles, by land, North
west of Baton Rouge, and about thirty miles
below the "Great Raft" which is the limit of
navigation for large steamboats,. 1t is a
thriving town, and previous to its present
isolation, had daily communication by wa
ter and railway with New Orleans and all
parts of the country.
- The scheme which has been agitated for
some time to attempt the crossing Of the Ocean
by means of balloon has collapsed, as we'll
as the balloon. A large crowd of people as
sembled at the Capitoline grounds, Brooklyn,
on Wednesday of last week, to witness the in
Aation of the balloon. The process of inaa-
tion commenced at three o'clock, a. M, and
continued steadily during the day and after
noon. At ten minutes past four p. M, the bal
loon suddenly swayed to the north, ripped
half way around with great tearing sound,
and fell flat upon the ground. The immense
volume of gas which had been pumped into
it, nearly four hundred thousand feet, escaped,