Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-11-13

pect Park improvements. The rubber comb
factory at College Point, L. l., have reduced
their time to four days per week, employing
600 men. After careful consideration, the
rail and iron manufacturers doing business in
New England have decided to reduce the
wages of their employees ten per cent-reduc-
tion to commence on the first of December.
A reduction oftwenty per cent time, and ten
per cent. in wages, is announced in the Sedalia
and Missouri Railroad shops.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Cuban Excitement.
- The capture of the Virginius, an insur
gent vessel, near the coast of Jamaica, by the
Spanish vessel Tornado, is the latest Havana
excitement All the crew were captured and
taken to Santiago, where they were tried as
pirates. The principal personages, Bernabe
Verona, Pedro Cespedes, Jesus del Sol and
Gen. Ryan, were condemned to death, and
shot on the morning of the 4th instant. The
execution took place at 6 o'clock in the morn-
ing in the presence of the entire corps Of
volunteers and the force of regular infantry
and sailors from the fleet. An immense con-
course of people also witnessed the act. The
prisoners met their death with composure.
The affair has created much excitement in
the United States In New York mass
meeting of the resident Cubans was held on
Sunday, at which addresses were made, and
resolution adopted calling for means to fur
nish throughout a new expedition to the
island. The Cuban Junta announces that all
the means possible will be used to form an
expedition to set out at once to Cuba to take
revenge for the execution of the patriots seized
on the Virginius. A corps is being formed,
composed of Americans alone, to proceed to
Cuba. Already 1000 names have been put
on the roll, many of them old and we'll tried
soldiers. Gen. Queseda is forming another
expedition, and it is said three thousand
names are enrolled. A majority are Cubans
and exiles. The Cuban bureau is thronged
nearly all the time.
Death of Mrs. Robert E. Lee.
- Mrs. Mary Gusts Lee, widow of Gen.
Robert E. Lee, died in Lexington, Va, on
Wednesday morning of last week. On Sat-
urday her remains were deposited by the side
of her husbands in the memorial room of the
University Her three sons and daughter
were present, besides large concourse of
friends, and the obsequies were very imposing.
Mrs. Lee had been an invalid for several
years, and the recent death of her daag hter
bore heavily upon her declining strength.
She was the only daughter Of G. W. P. Gus
tis, of Arlington, who was the youngest child
of John Parke Gusts, a son of Mrs. Washing
ton by her first husband, and an aide-de.camp
to Gen. Washington at the siege of Yorktown.
His two youngest children, one of them the
father of Mrs. Lee, were adopted by General
Washington. G. w. P. Custis was brought
up at Mount Vernon, and remained men,
ber of Washington's family until the death of
Mrs. Washington, in 1902, when he went to
reside on the Arlington estate, near Washing
ton city, which he had inherited from his
father, and where he had erected the mansion
known as Arlington House. He was mar
ried in early life to Miss Mary Lee Fitzhugh,
of Virginia, and left an only daughter, who
became the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee. The
late Mrs. Lee was lady Of exemplary con-
duct, and unassuming and gentle character.
She was between sixty and seventy years of
age at the time of her death.
The Recent Elections.
According to the latest returns, as re-
ceived from Virginia, that State has gone
Democratic by large majority and an in
crease of 1000 over the vote of Walker (con-
servative) four years ago. The Legislature
will be conservative by two-thirds majority.
The State of New York gives Democratic
majority of $4,000. The city elects twelve
Democrats and six Republicans to the AS
sembly.
The Democratic majority in Maryland is
10000; though the city of Baltimore alone
gives a majority of 14,41O. The Senate
stands % Democrats and Republicans; and
the House 62 Democrats and % Republicans.
In the 5th Congressional District of Wis
consin, Comstock, Democrat, is elected by
200 majority. In that State the Democrats
have gained eight members in the Legisla-
ture.
In Kansas the election is close. An anti
monopoly Legislature (under the auspices of
the Grange movement has been chosen, in
which both parties are represented.
In Massachusetts, Washburn's plurality is
10000 The Democrats have eleven Sena-
tors and sixty Assemblymen.
The Legislature of New Jersey has ma
jority of twelve Republicans on joint ballot.
The latest from Minnesota indicates the
election of Davis, Republican, by five to eight
thousand. The Farmers elect State Treas
urer.
In Illinois the Farmers carry fifteen, the
Republicans ten and the Democrats two of
twenty.seven counties from which full returns
have been received.
From Mississippi nothing is officially
known, the returns coming in very slowly;
but is it generally believed that Ames (Mas-
sachusetts Republican, has carried the State
by $4,000 against Alcorn (native Republi.
oon