Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-06-01
Straps aud fafts.


DR.. Charles j. Fox, prominent citizen
of Charlotte, N. c., died on the morning Of
the 2Sth ultimo, aged about 65 years.
w. w. Jenkins, son of the State Treasu-
rer, has been appointed postmaster at Char.
lotte, N. G.
The 101st anniversary of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence, was duly and
appropriately celebrated in Charlotte, N. c.,
on the goth ultimo.
H. A. London, of Pittsboro, N. c., has sent
to the Centennial $40 pennyweights of gold,
recently taken from his celebrated mine in
Chatham county.
Gen. D. H. Hills name is brought prom
inently forward as the Democratic candidate
for Superintendent of Public Instruction in
North Carolina.
- 1t has been decided in Iowa, that man
who elopes with another mans wife, can be
tried for the ofense of receiving stolen prop
erty.
At sale of short horn Durhams, near
Chicago last week, herd of sixty-fve we're
sold and realized total of over $4,000. The
average price for COWS was $l,136, and for
bulls 1914.
Twenty United States prisoners, recently
convicted in North Carolina Of whisky frauds,
were received at the Albany penitentiary on
Thursday last, and assigned to their several
tasks.
Two years ago. H. w. Edmunds, paying
teller of the Second National Bank Of Bos.
ton, was discharged because he could not &C.
count for $4,000. The missing money was
found last Thursday, in the crevice Of safe
into which it had slipped.
In Mecklenburg N G. Superior Court, last
week, W. H. H. Houston, indicted in two cases
for forgery, submitted and was found guilty in
both. Sentence of ten years at hard labor in
the penitentiary, was pronounced in one case,
and judgment suspended in the other.
"A member of the Ways and Means Com
miteee is authority for the statement that the
committee will recommend the adoption Of
the bill to repeal the bank-check stamp tax,
which would cut off 81 100000 from the rev.
enue.
- The senate committe on banking and
currency, have agreed upon Randalls bill,
authorizing the further issue Of silver coin.
1t provides for the issue of S20000000 of
silver coins, and also for the purchase of sill
yer bullion not exceeding, at one time, 81 ,OOO,-
900.
Rev. Thomas L. DeVaux, editor of the
N. G. Presbyterian, died in Wilmington on
the 23rd ultimo. Mr.. DeVaux was native
of South Carolina, where he first officiated as
minister of the Presbyterian Church. He
edited the Presbyterian nearl y four years pre-
vious to his death.
Estimating the strength Of the Republican
candidates for the Presidency, the Cincinnati
Commercial says: eve think it settled that
Bristow will have the largest vote on the first
ballot, and that he will be rapidly reinforced
from Tennessee, Ohio and New York, acquir-
ing preponderence and momentum that will
give him the nomination"
"A Chicago woman applied for divorce on
the ground that her husband kept secret from
her before marriage the fact that he had lost
all his toes from one foot. The plea was con-
sidered insufficient, as it appears she took the
man for better or worse, and had right to
examine his toes before the contract was
completed
The Southern Presbyterian furnishes some
instructive figures showing the comparative
it appears that the country pays S7O,OOO,OOO
annually for dogs, $61O,O00,0OO for tobacco,
and s2,200,000,0O0 for intoxicating liquors.
The figures are given for the purpose of con-
trasting the respective items with the sum an
nually paid salaries to ministers of the Gospel,
which is given at S6,OOO,00O only.
The national debt was said to be ma
tional blessing but it has been reserved for
Massachusetts pastor to explain how the
debt on his church is blessing-and not in
disguise, either. He says: "We have debt
on our church. /: has been there for long
time. 1t will doubtless be there for a long
time to come Wien we are asked to con-
tribute to any object, we refer to the debt. 1t
has thus saved US a. great deal of money
more than the debt itself, many times over. u
Hon. Thomas L. Jones, of Kentucky, has
I introduced bill in the House to charter a
railroad from Charleston, S. c., to Chicago
The proposed road passes through the middle
of Kentucky. The bill provides that the
Government is to guarantee the bonds Of the
company, payable in fifty years, to the amount
of $4,000 per mile, the principal and interest
Cat per cent? payable in gold. The bill
will not come up for passage until the next
session Of Congress.
"A letter from z. Mott, one of a company
of Cincinnatians who left for the Black Hills
some time ago, dated at Kearney Junction
May 21st, states that the Indians are on the
war path, killing miners at fearful rate
He says out of forty-two men at Dearwood
twenty-seven have been killed by savages and
five other men were killed and ped within
three miles of Custer City. There is plenty
of gold, he says, northwest Of Custer City
but it is impossible to get at it on account o1
the Indians.
"A noticeable feature of the steamship de
partures from New York is the large number
of passengers going out, especially in the
steerage The applications for passage, weeks
ahead, are 80 numerous at some Of the compa
MES Offices, ,thatthey may have to take into con
sderation the expediency of putting on the
extra steamers which were withdrawn early in
the season, in consequence Of falling off in
business. This is altogether contrary to the
anticipations touching the volume of this
summers travel to Europe, which generally
prevailed awhile ago.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company
has begun the work of laying the telegraph
wires under ground in New York City, as an
experiment. Iron pipes to hold one hundred
and twenty-five wires are being laid between
the Cotton Exchange, the telegraph compa
ny's buildings and other points. Pneumatic
tubes of brass, for the transmission of written
messages by the air blast, are also being laid
If these experiments should demonstrate the
practicability of carving the wires under