Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-23

during the season, ensure the corn crop
Wheat and oats have turned out finely, and
there is every prospect Of an unusually large
yield of cotton.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Post. Office Department will issue
new regulations for registered letters in few
days. .
The California Grangers, without the aid
of middle-men, have commenced loading YES
sells with wheat for the European market.
The Indians on the frontier Of Texas are
becoming troublesome Frequent raids on
the settlers are reported, and some fighting
has occurred between the Indians and the
United States soldiers.
During thunder storm at Bridgeport
Conn.,, last week, the house of Levi Harrison
was struck by lightning, and he, and wife
and child, we're instantly killed. They were
sitting on feather bed at the time.
- The Secretary of War has taken steps to-
ward the construction of telegraph line in
Texas connecting the various military posts
in that State, for which the last Congress ap'
propriated 100000.
Ex-Governor Foote, of Mississippi, is
making vigorous canvass against ex-Presi'
dent johnson in Tennessee. Both gentlemen
are in the field for the Senatorial succession
and the contest promises to be all exciting
one
- The total damage done to the crops in
Minnesota, by the grasshoppers, is equivalent
to the loss of about one.twelfth of the usual
crop. The devastated section extends over
about one-tenth of the area of the State, and
involves about one.thirteenth of the popula-
ton.
- During last week, three destructive fires
occurred in Chicago-one ofsuch proportions
as to be denominated a conhagration. 10
convey an idea of the loss, it is stated that
the various insurance companies lose S2,244,- )
$40. Over twenty blocks of buildings, COW
ering twenty acres of ground, were burnt.
Fighting is reported to have occurred on
the 18th instant, in the Indian Territory, thir'
ty miles west of Fort Sill, between company
of the Sixth Cavalry under command of Col.
Carpenter, and O. large body Of Comanches.
Carpenter was badly wounded and six of his
men were killed. The Indian loss is un-
known.
"A counterfeit five hundred dollar bill was
discovered in the Treasury Department last
week, having passed through the hands Of
several experienced clerks in the Treasurer's
office, who pronounced it genuine. This is
only the third counterfeit of that denomina,
ton that has yet been discovered by the Treas.
ury department.
A cable dispatch from Kissengen says
that on the 18th instant, while Prince Bis.
marck was driving in the vicinity Of that
place, he was fired at by young man, the
ball grazing his wrist and inAicting slight
wound. The would.be assassin, who is a
cooper by trade, and Jealous Catholic, was
arrested. The affair created intense excite.
ment in Berlin.
The constitutional convention Of Arkan-
sas assembled on the 18th, and was duly or.
ganized. Some excitement prevails in the
State, and Governor Baxter deemed it neces.
sary to have in readiness few companies Of
militia but as yet their services have not
been needed. A special dispatch from Little
Rock dated the 18th, says the Convention
will declare all the State Offices vacant and
order a new election.
- The exploring expedition under command
of Gen. Custer, which, a few weeks ago moved
toward the Black Hills in the extreme Indian
reservation, will, it is thought, be the means
Of opening a rich and fertile section. The
land in that locality, it is believed, teens with
gold and other precious metals, and for this
reason the Indians are expected to make a
determined resistance to the progress Of the
expedition.
In Philadelphia, on the 14th, young
man giving the name of John Raleigh, sur
rendered himself to the police authorities
stating that in 1866 he had murdered q school
companion named Liolar Sterling in Colum
bia, S. G., during drunken row. He was
then but 81 years Of age He escaped to
Texas, California, and other parts, and finally
brought up OH farm in New Jersey. Tired
of working, he concluded to give himself up
and stand trial. He will be brought to Col
umbia for trial.
49, Referring to the interview Of Senator
Gordon by an enterprising Atlanta reporter
the Senator disclaims that portion Of the re-
port wherein he is represented as claiming
intimate relations with President Grant He
says that he never claimed any intimacy with
President Grant, nor to know anything of hi:
political views or purposes from any conver
sation with him that he has never had any
communication with General Grant as te
party organizations, or the programme of the
past, present, or future.
john Mitchell, the Irish exile, now ir
New York, and during the war prominently
identified with the Confederate cause, ha'
determined to return to Ireland, with tht
view to contest the election of some constitu