Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-21
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has reached s44 800.
- The wife of E. S. Stokes, murderer Of
Fisk, has procured divorce.
- Both houses of the Arkansas legislature
have passed bill calling constitutional
convention on the 18th of July.
- There are 140 newspapers printed in
Texas, of which 10 have been started since
the war.
- In England man who spent all his
money in dram shop, leaving his wife to
starve to death, has just been convicted of
manslaughter.
- The whole number of postal cards fur
nished post Offices throughout the United
States for the year ending on the 18th of this
month, was 113, 100000.
- The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
states that the receipts from internal revenue
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1874, will
reach sl00,000,000 without doubt.
- The mayor of Cincinnati has issued or
ders to captains of police to prevent temper
ance women from praying in the streets here
after.
- Messrs. Brooks and Baxter, who have
been contending for the governorship of Ar
kansas, are members of and pewholders in
the same Methodist Church in Little Rock.
- A Missouri jury, in the case of a man
found with ten bullets in his head, decided
that "he had been shot, or met with some bad
accident in some manner not just now known" ;"
- Postmaster Jones, of New York city is
n defaulter to the amount Of $5OO,O0O, and
the Government has commenced suit against
his bondsmen.
-- Maj General George Hartsuff, U. S.
A., whose name is familiar to all the paroled
men of the Army of Northern Virginia, died
in New York last Friday.
- General O. O. Howard, who has been
on trial for some time on charges against him
in connection with his management of the
Freedmen's Bureau, has been acquitted on
every one of the charges brought against him.
George Wilson, of Adrian, Michigan,
has colt three years old that prefers tobacco
to oats, and exhibits great distress if it is not
supplied every day with certain quantity Of
fne-cut or plug
Two gamblers, who had murdered a
Young Tennesseean named Elliott, after enti.
cling him into their den and robbing him at
Shreveport, Louisiana, we're lynched In the
courthouse yard on Monday last by the ex-
asperated citizens.
- While recently in Washington, Gen.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, paid visit of res
pect to President Grant. Gen. Toombs re-
mained more than an hour, and expresses him
self much pleased with the cordial manner in
which he was received. The conversation
was on past and present topics.
"A letter from West Point in reference
to the graduating Glass; says that the colored
cadet, Smith, who has been out of the news
papers for some time. "is doing very we'll in
his studies, and will leave quite number of
his white classmates to attend to the safe
keeping of the last class members"
- The manufacturing business, formerly
owned by the Spragues, is going on success
fully under assignment to Zachariah Chafee.
All of the mills are running, and the thous-
sands of workmen are made happy by employ
ment. The cotton and woollen mills of Rhode
Island are generally running on full time and
with their usual number of operatives.
-- Recently, the parents of a boy, five
years of age, living in Davenport, Iowa, cele.
brated his BIRTH and drank his health in
punch and other intoxicating drinks. They
left cup of whisky, and in the morning the
child arose before the parents, drank the
whisky, and died in few hours in great
agony.
- In an address by Gen. Wilcox, at the
recent annual reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac at Harrisburg, Penn,
he suggested, among other things, that an in
vitation be extended to the late Confederate
corps Uongstreet's) which he had most fire.
uuently encountered, to come up next year
and have patriotic time of it, and to bury
the hatchet together and forever.
"A Washington letter says: "It seems
now to he understood that at the decoration
ceremonies at Arlington this year more
tolerant policy will be adopted than upon
former occasions, and that the graves of the
Confederate soldiers will be decorated. 1t is
understood, too, that the tone of all the exer-
cises on the occasion will be broad and libe
raj toward the opinions and motives of the
soldiers of the Lost Cause"
"A reservoir above Williamsburg, Mass,
broke on Saturday morning last, freeing
large volume of water, which carried away
nearly every dwelling house in its course.
One hundred and twenty lives have been lost
twenty-six lives are known to have been lost,
and the damage to property, including seve-
raj large manufacturing establishments, is
estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The reservoir was constructed twelve years
ago to afford a reliable supply of water for
the various factories on Mill river.
- The lawyers of Indianapolis are tortur-
ing their brains over an extraordinary prob
lem. Some years ago lady of that city was
married, and four months thereafter separated
from her husband, was divorced and remar-
ried in a month, and four months thereafter
gave birth to child by her first husband.
Quite recently the second husband procured
divorce, and the custody of the child was
awarded to him. Now comes the first hus-
band and claims the child Who is entitled
to its possession
There is danger of railroad rebellion
in Wisconsin. The railroad officials claim
that it will be impossible for them to comply
with the law passed by the last Legislature, as
it would compel them to operate their roads
at loss They proposed to contest the con-
stitutionality of the law in the courts. On
the other hand, Gov. Taylor has issued a
proclamation warning the railroads that the
law must be enforced, and the result is that
the railroad officials are threatening to haul
off trains. If they should carry this threat
into execution, the consequences would be
serious.
- Dueling is now a costly luxury in
Italy A recent law fixes this tariff: A
challenge S100 fine, hostile meeting $500 fine
and years disfranchisement, fatal duel five
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