Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-03
Avery D. Putnam, the victim of the car.hdok

Avery D. Putnam, the victim of the car'hdok
murderer.
- The books of Duden, Freeves & Co., New
York silk and lace merchants, have been
seized by the Custom House officials, on a
charge of having, during series of years,
carried on a systematic course of swindling
on the revenue department. Their liabilities
will reach $2,5OO,O00.
A convention of the principal circus pro-
prietors has been called to meet in Cincinnati
tomorrow for the purpose of taking measures
to suppress Barnum. They say that Barnum,
by the extravagant system of advertising his
show, has ruined the business of all the small
er exhibitions, and that combination must
be formed against him.
"A telegram from New Orleans says that
it is not Gen. Beauregard who signed the re-
cent address in New Orleans to the people of
Louisiana for reiinion of all elements favor
able to the welfare of the State and the rights
of the colored people, but a Republican poll
tician of the same name, who is no relation to
the former.
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff, her husband,
Col. Blood, and her sister, Miss Tennie Claf-
lin, have had their trial for sending obscene
publications through the mails, and been &C.
Quilted. The indictment failed on the ground
that the statute does not include daily or
weekly newspaper among the list of obscene
publications.
1t is a notable fact that as yet not one
Southern Senator or member of Congress has
returned his portion of the back pay grab. On
this one point, the Southern members of all
complexions and political stripes are unani-
nous. Many Northern members, who mod
esty decline" their pay, only resort to dodge
The amount is placed to their credit and can
be drawn twenty years hence.
The notorious H. J. Kimball, who some
years ago figured as carpet-bag politician
in Georgia, has recently filed petition in
bankruptcy in the District Court Of Massa'
chusetts. According to his own showing, his
Indebtedness amounts to four and half mil
lions of dollars, though it is alledged by some
that various items have been magni6ed or
entirely manufactured.
- The trial ofyoung Walworth, for the MUIR
der of his father, is progressing in New York.
A jury was drawn and empanelled without
the difficulty usual on similar trials in that
city. The evidence thus far shows acts of
violence on the part of the elder Walworth
toward his wife and children, and letter was
read, addressed by him to his wife, in which
the most insulting language and threats of
violence were used.
The Holly Springs South says that at no
time in the history of North Mississippi has
the caterpillar been so numerous at no time
so destructive. To compute their number
would be like computing the drops of water
in the Mississippi river and its tributaries.
They have ruined the prospects of apple
orchards outright. They are depredating on
all forest trees, especially the gum, blackjack
and young oaks. Thousands oftrees through
out the country have not single leaf on them.
What is to be the extent of their depreciation
on the crops, as the season progresses, no one
can tell. Much apprehension is felt through
| all Northern Mississippi.