Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

- The rainy season on the Pacific coast has
never been known to be so severe as it is this
year.
Miss Rose Poe, the last surviving sister
of the late Edgar Allen Poe, died in Balti-
more last week, aged lightweight
james Denning, charged with enbezzling
six thousand dollars from the Atlanta, Geor-
gia, post-offce, was arrested at St. Louis, NO.,
last week, and has been returned to Atlanta.
C. f. Smith, who erected for the late
Prof. Morse, the first line of telegraph poles
in this country, between Washington and Bal
timore, in 1914, died recently at his residence
in New6eld, Maine, at an advanced age.
The Secretary of War has ordered that
the army pursue and punish Indians guilty
of committing depredations, even if the In
dians have to be pursued into their reserva'
tions.
On Thursday terrible water.spout burst
in the mountains near Eureka, Nevada,
sweeping through the town, killing twenty
persons and causing great destruction to
property.
- Reports from all parts of Minnesota,
show that the grasshoppers have destroyed a
million and half bushels of wheat in that
State, and it is probable half million BUSH
els more will yet be destroyed.
1t is stated that the distinguished Con-
federate General to whom the President will
tender the Russian mission, is Gen. Nancy, Of
Tennessee, who led the 1st Tennessee regiment
to the field, and whose service during the war
was chiefly in West Virginia.
- Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has been visited
by an unprecedented fall of rain, flooding the
houses, and causing great destruction to life
and property. Sixteen dead bodies have been
recovered, and it is supposed that not less
than fifty lives were lost.
For some time past the numbers Of people
leaving America for Europe have outnumber-
ed the immigrants arriving on our shores.
This is attributed to the dullness Of the times,
and the great inducements offered by steam
ship companies in the way of reduced rates
from this side.
"A dispatch from Ell Rito creek, New
Mexico, says that twenty-one persons-six
Americans and fifteen Mexicans have been
killed by the Indians between Fort Bascom
and Ration Mountains up to the 18th of
July. A company of the 9th Cavalry has
been ordered form Fort Union to the scene
of the outrages.
"A dangerous counterfeit five dollar note
ha r;ug appeared upon the Traders National
Bank of Chicago, the Treasury Department
offers one-half per cent. premium for all gen
uine notes of that bank, with the view of dri-
wing from circulation all bills of that denom-
ination issued by the bank, and thus thwart-
ing the counterfetors.
An attempt was made on Thursday even-
ing, by mob Of negroes, at Austin, Miss, to
lynch George r. Smith, who few days ago
killed a negro; and but for the prompt action
of the sheriff, who agreed to put Smith IN
Jail, he would have been hung. Since then,
the negroes have been guarding the jail but
the authorities, fearing they may renew the
attempt to lynch Smith, have asked for troops
to protect the Jail.
- Official dispatches from Custar's expedi-
ton say the command is in excellent con-
dition Plenty of good grazing and water
has been found on the route. No Indians
were seen, except small party two or three
days ago. The correspondence upon Indian
matters between the Interior and War De-
partments and Generals Sherman and sherl-
dan shows that perfect harmony exists IN all
official quarters relative to the subject of deal
ing with hostile Indians.
- Professor Donaldson, accompanied by
several representatives of the press, made a
balloon ascension from Barnum's Hippo
drome in New York last Thursday afternoon.
At 5 o'clock next morning they landed at
Germantown near Hudson, 104 miles from
New York, from which place they again as
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