Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-01-01
Straps and fatts.
- Ex-senator Louis T. Wigfall, is prac-

been adjudged bankrupts.
- Exclusive of the pay, clothing and ar
mament of the troops, the "Modoc war" cost
the United States the sum of S335,0097S.
- Texas papers state that the Texas cattle
crop the past year is estimated to have brought
S8,000,000 into the State.
- Fisk and Hatch, the New York bank
ers, who suspended during the recent panic,
have resumed business.
- Ringgold Young and Neil Hawkins, of
Alabama, imprisoned for ku-kluxism, have
been pardoned
-Th books of Boston firm have been
seized for alleged frauds on the revenue to the
extent of s1,500,OOO.
"A Washington correspondent says that
President Grants choice for the succession to
his office is Hamilton Fish, the present Secre-
tary of State.
Up to the present time there have been
killed in Cincinnati 415,000 hogs, against
$4,000 killed in the same period last
year.
- Mrs. Candy, the widow of General
Candy, will be granted pension of two hun
dred dollars per annum, the committees Of
Congress charged with the subject being in
favor of recommending it.
- The best New York lawyers value
their time at from $40 to $50 an hour, and
some of them havea practice of $4,000 year.
Charles O'Conner, before his retirement, it is
said, made four times that sum.
- Strikes continue on several of the wes-
tern railroads, the engineers either demanding
an increase of wages or refusing to serve at a
reduction on the prices paid previous to the
panic.
Extra work is still continued in the diff
ferent navy yards, and it would seem to be
the determination of the Secretary to have
all the war vessels of the Government put in
a sea-worthy condition.
The richest man in Baltimore
Hopkins by name-died last week. In res
pect to his memory the business houses of the
city closed during the funeral obsequies, which
took place on the 26th.
- The commissioner of agriculture is
much annoyed by persons sending money
to pay the postage on seeds, reports, &C., and
therefore gives notice that money should
never be sent to his department for any pur-
pose.
- The trial of Mayor Hall, of N. 7 York,
charged with criminal neglect Of duty while
Mayor of that city, by reason of which neg
lect he was implicated in the Tweed ring
transactions, terminated on Christmas night
by verdict of acquittsl.
H. B. Cafin & Co., and Peake, Opdyke
Il Co., prominent wholesale dry goods mer-
chants of New York, who were compelled to
ask for an extension Of time on their CONNER
cial paper, during the recent panic, are now
in condition to meet their engagements.
- Henri Rochefort, conspicuous at one
time for his attacks, through La Lanterne on
the Emperor Napoleon, and after the Franco
Prussian war convicted and transported for
his acts during his reign of the Commune,
died recently at the penal colony in New
Caledonia.
AT shooting match, Christmas day at
Riga, a village near Dayton, Ohio, two broth
ers-John and Henry Stowe quarreled about
loading a rifle. John called Henry liar,
when Henry drew revolver and shot John,
killing him instantly. Henry was then
lypched by the crowd present Cincinnati
whisky caused the mischief.
night school for practice in the
noble art of spelling has been instituted at
Berry's Station, Kentucky. When one of
the girls fails to spell word correctly the
boy who spells it gets to kiss her. Several
girls are fast forgetting all they ever knew
about spelling, while the boys are improving
with unexampled rapidity.
- A singular death occurred in New York
last week. A child had swallowed piece of
caustic, and died from the effects after hav-
ing his intestines horribly cauterized. A
physician attempted to burn the inside of
the boys throat with caustic, when the caus-
> tic slipped from the holder and was swallow
ed, causing vomiting, convulsions, exhaustion,
death.
- Colonel Frederick Deut, father of Mrs
Grant, died at the Presidents mansion on
Monday night of last week, aged eighty:eight.
His remains were taken to St. Louis for in
terment. Col. DenS was an old-time Demo-
. crat, and the tenacity with which he clung to
his cherished principles was one of the marked
features at the White House, where he had
resided for long time, as the guest of his
daughter.
- The New York Sun says that the bill
now before Congress for the repeal of the
bankrupt law vas drawn with reference to
one object only-the relief of Jay Cooke & Co.,
and possibly Tom SCOTS California and
Texas Construction Company. Eighty leading
firms of New York city have signed protest,
addressed to the United States Senate, against
the repeal of the bankrupt law, but admit
ting that the law needs amendment in many
Of its provisions.
A colored man, recently deceased, in
New Orleans, owed the city nearly 100000
in back taxes He lived in a miserable old
garret, worked like slave, and allowed him
self none of the comforts of life. He owned
real estate worth 100000 at least, and large
amount of bonds and cash. There were *rits
against him for taxes running back dozen
years, which he avoided paying by giving the
city ten per cent. on the gross amount, which
the law permitted, and then he lent the money
on mortgages for from IS to "a per cent.
"A story is told of Capt. Jack, which
seems to show that under more congenial
circumstances he might have been theologi-
an. The post chaplain having visited him
the day before his execution, the Indian
asked him if he knew all about the happy
land and the Heavenly Father. The chap
lain said he thought he did. "Well," said
Captain Jack, "you know all bout him me
give YOU ten horses you take my place to-
morrow" Desirable as horses are on the
plains, the chaplain did not encourage the
idea of an exchange.
The Congressional Directory is now
complete and ready for press. In making
ND its biographical sketches Of members the