Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-03-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
"A. B. Hart, Governor of Flor da, after a
lingering illness, died at Jacksonville on the
| 18th instant.
- The machine shops of the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad, at St. Louis, were burned
last Saturday. Loss 100000.
- The Mayor Of Cleveland, Ohio, has issued
proclamation against disorderly assemblages,
which has for its object the suppression of
praying on the streets by females.
A bill is before the Massachusetts Legis-
lature to establish separate State prison for
females, with room for FIVE hundred. The
cost is not to exceed 100000.
- The Alabama river is flooded. The
freshet is equal to the disastrous overflow of
that river in 1872, which inflicted heavy
damage to property.
The workshops of the Tucker Manufac.
turing Company, at the penitentiary near
Boston were burned last Saturday. The fire
occurred while the prisoners were at dinner.
Loss 100000.
- The steeple 1SO feet high, of the Metho-
dist church at Danville, Va, was blown down
by heavy wind on the 9th instant. The
roof of the church building was crushed in,
and the loss is estimated at $4,000.
A colored mail carrier in Virginia has
been detected in robbing the mails. Over
s150,OOO in checks and drafts was found on
his person, which he had purloined since the
first of February.
The flIibuster steamer Edgar Stepart,
which has made more than one successful
voyage from American ports to- Cuba, was
seized at Baltimore last Friday, by order of
the government authorities at Washington.
- James Sylvester, trapeze performer, at
34th street opera house, New York, while
performing on the trapeze, missed his calcu-
lation, and not catching the rope, fell to the
floor, receiving injuries from which he died
in few moments.
Two sons of the Siamese twins have gone
to Philadelphia for the bodies of their par
ents. They disavow any intention to make
speculation by exhibiting the remains, and
state further that no money considerations
induced them to consent to the autopsy.
- The number of totally disabled pension
ers on the rolls of the pension Office is 691,
who are receiving S31.25 per month each.
The committee on pensions of the House
recommend that the pension shall be increas-
to $50 per month.
The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. The Montgomery Aduer-
tiser learns that fifteen thousand tickets for
negro emigrants have been taken up on the
roads leading southwark and westward from
that city.
In the case of the Grant parish, (Louia.
ana) prisoners recently on trial for alleged
ku-klux ofenses, the jury failed to agree. 1t
is said that all of the jury, except one, were
in favor of acquittal. Bail was refused the
prisoners in number. Eighty or more,
against whom charges had been preferred,
made their escape before being arrested.
The democratic convention Of Oregon, at
Portland, has nominated Governor Grover
for reelection, Chadwick for reelection as Sec
retary of State, and G. A. Ladow for Rep
resentative in Congress. The platform favors
Oregon river and harbor Improvements, the
Salt Lake and Portland railroad, and ex-
presses sympathy with the movement of the
Patrons of Husbandry.
The people of the Territory of New Mex
leo are anxious to be admitted into the Union
as State. The Territory has population
of 100000. The bulk of the population are
native Mexcans and their descendants, only
about 10000 of the people being of American
or European descent The Spanish language
is principally spoken and the proceedings in
the Territorial legislature are recorded in
Spanish