Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-05-11
MERE.MENTION.

Two members Of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature have been expelled for accepting bribes
to aid the passage of bill. '''''''''On the End
instant, the Democrats elected the Mayor and
majority of the City Council Of New Or.
leans-the first Democratic success since
1868. '''''''''Horatio Seymour has written a
letter declining to accept the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency in the event it
is rendered to him. ''''''..'Large quantities Of
arms are being shipped from New York to
Mexico and Havana. 1.-THE Eagle and
Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Colum-
bus, Georgia, broke dirt on the End instant
for the third cotton mill under their proprie-
torship. 1t will be the largest mill in the
south-2O,OOO spindles and $50 looms and
is to be completed by November. ''''''''On
the 1st instant, at Versailles, Kentucky, a fire
destroyed a bonded warehouse containing
1900 barrels of whisky, valued at $4,000
and insured for S33,0OO.''''''The national
debt has decreased nearly three millions of
dollars since the last report was made''''"The
Governor of Ohio has called out the militia
to suppress mobs in the mining districts of
that State. '''''''''Sunday night of last week
was the coldest, on an average over the Uni
ted States, ever known at this season. Snow
fell at several places in the North. .'''''''''The
United States Supreme Court has decided that
the Hot Springs property, in Arkansas, be-
longs to the United States. .'''''.''A fight oc-
Cured on Wednesday Of last week between
six Indians and four soldiers of the garrison
at Fort Hart, beyond Omaha. Sergeant
Dougherty, of the Fourth Infantry, was kill,
ed, and both parties retreated.
1t is said that Brownlow, being tired of his
obscurity, proposes to get out Of it by running
for Congress in the only Tennessee district
that is represented by Republican. ''''"Miss
Laura Spence, of Camilla, Ga, is six feet
two-and-a.halfi inches high, we'll. formed, grace
full, intelligent and handsome. ''''''All North
Georgia is alive with green wheat6elds, and
the prospect for a fine crop was never more
fattering, the farmers say.'''''''''The Texas
wheat crop for 1876 is estimated at 12,OOO,-
COO bushels. 1.-THE municipal election in
Indianapolis, Indiana, went Democratic by
1000 majority. After minor disturbances
during the day, serious fight occurred, in
which one negro was killed and two probably
mortally wounded ''''''"Reports from sever.
al counties in Georgia represent the wheat
crop as unusually promising. The fruit crop
of northeast Georgia will also be abundant.
There are conflicting statements from Mex
leo. One represents the insurrection as almost
at an end, while the other declares the govern.
ment as rapidly going to pieces. 1.-The Chi
nese quarters in the town of Antioch, Cali
fornia, we're burnt few nights ago, since
which time public meetings in San Francisco
endorse the burning and threaten something
similar in that city, unless Congress stops the
influx of Chinese immigration. '''''''At War
saw, KY, Benjamin French and wife, in jail
for poisoning an old and wealthy colored man
naHed Jacob Jones, were taken from Jail by
nasked men and hung