Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-01-21


some time to come military presidents will
not be in much demand in this country.
- Ex-Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky
and manager Of the great library lottery, is
dead.
st. Louis is the -four manufacturing
centre of the United States. During 1878
her mills turned out 1894, ,79S barrels Of -four
and last year 1878, 1872 barrels.
- Both branches of the Baltimore city
council have passed resolutions denouncing
the interference of Federal authority in
Louisiana affairs
- In Stroudsburg, Penn, the heirs of a
suicide recovered judgment against life in
surance company, although the company
pleaded that the deed had been done to de-
fraud them.
In China, when the population of a
district becomes too redundant, 10000 men
are set to work to make canal through some
extensive marshes, and 1000 of them die
before the job is completed.
-- At Helena, Montana, on the night of
the 18th, mercury in the thermometers froze,
and kegs of proof whisky, placed outdoors,
froze solid. A number of Cinnamon were
also frozen to death in the vicinity.
- The Charlotte Observer says: "The
total amount of the debt of North Carolina,
including special tax bonds and interest, is
s3s,92l, ,64S00, and if all the land in the
State should be exposed at public sale, it is
believed that it would not bring that amount" I"
- The committee of conference on the part
of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian
churches, in session in Baltimore for the past
week, have adjourned after having failed to
agree upon a basis for the establishment Of
fraternal relations.
-- The jury impanelled to try the Tilton-
Beecher scandal case is composed of three
Presbyterians, two Episcopalians, two Cath
olics, one Methodist, one Baptist, one Luther
an, and two have no particular church lean
ing.
-- The Florida House of Representatives
has passed resolution requesting Messrs.
Gordon and Stephens, of Georgia, to look
after the interests of Florida until the carpet
bag senator's and representatives of Florida
find it convenient to return to Washington.
- Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, in New
York, and was sentenced to the penitentiary,
has already petitioned Governor Tilden for
pardon. The foreman of the jury who con-
victed him Of manslaughter, after two trials,
joins in the petition, on the ground that the
verdict was compromise, he and other jurors
having been in favor of acquittal.
NO less than thirty Legislatures will
be in session next week. Some of them are Sec
ond and others special sessions and it has rarely
occurred that so many have been simultane-
ously at work. The Democrats control seven
teen of them the Republicans twelve, and
Federal bayonets one. The list includes all
the States but seven, none of whose Legisla-
lures meet this winter, namely: California,
Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, New Hamp-
shire and Oregon.
- The manager of Booths Theatre, New
York, advertised on Monday for two hun
dred young men to appear in Shakspearian
pageant, and found that morning not less
than two thousand applicants, many standing
from an early hour in the cold. The majority
were genteelly dressed, and looked like clerks.
During the day armfuls of letters were re-
ceived, in which the writers begged for work
at even the pay Of supernumerary, twenty
five cents night
- To send scurrilous postal cards by mail
is dangerous thing. An old and wealthy
citizen ofNew York city INDUCED his spleen
and sent fourteen, for which he was indicted
and tried in the United States district court.
He was found guilty and sentenced to pay
a fine of S5 ,00O without Imprisonment, on the
first count of the indictment-the judge sus-
pending the sentence in the other thirteen
counts. The extreme penalty, if imposed,
would have been ten years Imprisonment and
$4,000 fine, being $4,000 in each case.
- The indications thicken that there will
be conservative sent to the United States
Senate from Florida to replace the present
carpet.bag Senator Gilbert, who, to do him
Justice, is the least offensive of his genus in
Congress. He has contented himself with
drawing his pay and giving his vote for parti-
san measures, but has not, during the whole
six years of his term, opened his mouth pro or
con against the South. The message of the
Republican Governor of Florida is a cheering
missive in these times Of partisan hate and
bitterness.
The Wilmington IN. CO. Journal says
eve understand that gentleman now resi-
ding in New York, an old ante-bell,m citizen
of Wilmington, but who shortly after the war
failed in the business he was engaged in, in
both New York and Wilmington, gave a
dinner on New Years eve, in the former city,
to his creditors. 1t was very pleasant occa-
sion, and there was full attendance, as the
gentleman is held in high estimation. At
the supper-table, each guest found under his
plate check covering the full amount of his
claim against the host, together with interest
in full to date, the whole amounting to more
than $4,000. 1t is needless to say that this
fact was highly appreciated, and that the up
right host was toasted more than once during
the happy OCCASION
- At Chester England, woman was
recently tried for killing her husband. The
testimony showed that she bore patiently
long continued provocation. At last, in a
moment of ungovernable irritation, she threw
sharpened steel at him, struck him, and "a
tally wounded him. The judge believed from
the evidence that the consequences of the act
were deeply deplored by the wife; that she
did all in her power to aid the man after
wounding him, and therefore, although the
Jury convicted, he made the following unique
address to the criminal: Call the real right
in this case was on your side; all the real
wrong on your husbands, and God forbid
that | should punish you. will be no party
to it. I will not make this Judgment even
complete. I will not allow it to be said by
anybody that you are convicted felon, fol
conviction is not complete until sentence
is passed, and mean to pass no sentence at
all. | shall merely ask you to enter into your
own recognizance to come up for judgment
if called upon and nobody in the world will