Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-08-13

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head, &c. He seized piece of broken rail
to defend himself and succeeded in making
short work of four of them, the rest taking to
their heels
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Democratic majority in Kentucky
at the recent election is stated to be $4,000.
- Three horse-thieves were lynched a few
days ago at Ozark, Arkansas.
John Leopold, who lost his wife and four
children by tie flood in Pittsburg, is insane.
- The whites carried the city election in
Vicksburg by a majority of $50. There was
no rioting nor other disturbance.
On the day Of the election in Tennessee a
fight occurred at Mason's Depot, in which
three men were killed.
Col. S. G. Faulkner, author of the famous
melody, "Arkansas Trasaler," died at Little
Rock on the 9th instant.
Second Lieutenant John Aspinwall, Of
the 9TH Cavalry, formerly stationed at York.
Vile, has been dropped from the muster-rolls
for desertion.
- The city council of Augusta Ga., have
appropriated $500 for survey Of the Savan-
nah river from that city to Anderson, S. G..
"A Dallas, Texas dispatch of the 9TH says
that the Indians have captured three mail
stages near Fort Worth, and that the passen-
gers and drivers were seal lped.
- The first bale of Georgia cotton, from
Echols county, was sold in Savannah on
Thursday last. The bale weighed 571 pounds,
was classed good ordinary, and brought 81
cents per pound.
- Memphis, Tennessee, gave Democratic
majority of $685. in q total vote of over 1O,'
900. Hostility to the civil rights bill and
mixed schools brought out the entire voting
population.
- Among the recent business failures in
New York is reported that of James Sutton
& Co., publishers of the Aldine, whose liabili'
ties are s18O,O0O. Arrangements have been
made for continuing the publication Of the
Aidine
Admiral Semmes, who commanded the
Confederate cruiser Alabama, having had
his disabilities removed by the last Congress,
is Democratic candidate for Congress in
Alabama, and there is good prospect of his
election.
"A fight occurred at small village. in
Clarke county, KY, on election day, in which
two white men were killed, two negroes NOR
tally wounded and fifteen negroes more or
less severely wounded. The fight began at
the polls.
Alexander, Dorman Il Co., cotton bro
kers, of St. Louis, NO., have been detected in
forging cotton warehouse receipts, the amount
out at the time of the detection being not less
than $4,000. Their creditors have put
them into bankruptcy.
- The Treasury Department, since the ad-
iournment of Congress, has paid out $63O,0OO
on the claims of Southern residents before
the Southern Claims Commission. This COM
mission awarded over million dollars on these
claims, but Congress appropriated only $685.
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Col. Davidson, commanding at Fort Sill,
in Indian Territory, reports that two men
we're recently killed near Elm Spring Sta
ton, and that drivers of trains are abandon
ing their wagons on the road, and that the
farmers in the Washta Valley are frightened,
and many of them are leaving their homes.
Hon. Philadelph Van Trump died last
week, in Ohio For several years he repre-
sented the Twelfth District of that State in
Congress, and was man of mark on the
Democratic side of the House. He was also
member of the committee that visited South
Carolina, in 1871, to examine into the ku-klux
outrages.
-Reports from Iowa and Kansas, represent
that the grasshoppers are doing great damage
to the crops. The territory is devastated to
the extent of 100 miles wide, from the Ne
braska line to the Arkansas river. The corn
and fruit is greatly damaged, and much suf-
feripg is apprehended. The insects came
from the northeast and are going south.
The SUBJ Committee on Postal Telegraphy
of the House Appropriation Committee have
power to sit during the recess, and will hold
session in October next for final consideration
and action. The committee will be ready to
report in the early stage of the next session,
and it is probable Congress will dispose of the
question soon after it shall have been reported
to it through the special committee having
charge of the subject.
Regarding the recent State elections in
Tennessee, a Nashville dispatch says: "The
election in Knoxville and throughout Knox
county, yesterday, was the most exciting for
many years. Horace Maynard made two
speeches during the canvass, endorsing the
Civil Rights Bill as party measure Sena-
tor Brownow WAS openly hostile to the bill,
which he termed the sum of villainies and
the ouintescence of denominations. The result
of the election was complete revolution
throughout the city and county, with sweep
ing maorites for the Conservative anti-civll
rights ticket
Aerial Phenomenon.
- John Wise, the veteran balloonist, who
has made between three and four hundred as
tensions, has always reported that the air be-
came colder as he ascended. Such also has
been the experience of all aerial navigators.
On the 1st instant, Wise made an ascension
from a large balloon in Philadelphia, expect