Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-25
Straps and fafts.


States last year was 63S, 1863 tons, of which
SCI, 1863 tons were imported, and only $1,000
we're of domestic production-nearly eight
times as much foreign as domestic.
- In Texas, recently, a Judge broke down
with emotion while sentencing one Longly, a
notorious desperate, to be hanged for murder.
Longly was surprised at this, and remarked,
on going back to Jail, II feel sorry for the
Judge"
Gilman, the New York forger, recently
sentenced to the penitentiary for five years, is
a nephew of Henry Ward Beecher. On the
occasion of one of Beecher's pulpit harangues,
he admitted that he had just emerged from
another "cave of gloom"
Leading Pennsylvania Republicans ad-
NIT since the result in Ohio, that the Demo
Gratis will carry Pennsylvania by several
thousand. Much depression in political cir.
cles exists in consequence of the unexpected
large majority of the Democratic ticket in
Ohio.
- The grain crop of the United States this
autumn is vast increase over that OF any
preceding year in the history of the country.
1t amounts in the two principal cereals
wheat and corn-to 325,000,0OO bushels of
the former, and 1,2S0,000,00O of the latter,
according to the estimates of the New York
Produce Exchange.
- Within few miles of the fortunate town
of Evansville, Ind, are three-legged dog,
pet hog with no eyes, a man who is about to
marry his daughter-in-law's sister, two other
men who have welded each others daugh-
ters, young man who has espoused the moth
er of his deceased wife, and several variations
of the Enoch Arden type.
- Fourteen States have yet to hold elections
this fall. Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mime
sofa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee,
Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin vote on the
sixth of November, and Georgia on the 9TH
of December. In addition, Illinois elects
county Offices on November sixth.
During the month of September, Green's
boro, N. c., shipped 3O6,sOO pounds of dried
fruit, onethird of which went to Chicago.
The balance was distributed between Phila-
delphia, New York, Baltimore, Providence
R. l., and Richmond, Va. The value Of the
dried fruit crop of Iredell county, this season,
is estimated at $4,000.
1t is related of the Rev. Samuel Mott,
who died in Franklin, Conn, aged SO, recent.
", that he preached, when past 95 years Of
age, sermon he memorized forty years be-
fore. In the evening he repeated it to the
same congregation, remembering the sermon
distinctly, but forgetting that he had deliver
ed it in the morning.
Augustus G. Bartlett, who is white,
brought suit in Chicago for divorce from
his wife, who is black. They had been mar
ried two years, and had lived together peace
ably; but he had gradually grown tired of
the notoriety that the contrast in color gave
them. His accusations against her, however,
we're found to be groundless, and the case was
decided against him.
About 25OOOO pistols have been made at
Norwich, Conn.,, this year. Orders are In
creasing, and many of the works are running
day and night. The Bridgeport cartridge
works make some 100000 cartridges day.
They have supplied Russia with 40,O0O,O0O,
Turkey with 100000, and have just got an
order for SO,OOO,OOO from Italy. The Rus
sian and Turkish inspection officers have been
working side by side at the factory.
The Ohio Legislature will contain ID
Democratic majority in the Senate and n in
the House, making AZ on joint ballot. Last
year the Republican majority was 3 in the
Senate and 10 in the House on joint bal
lot. The Labor Reformers have two mem
bers of the House from Toledo, both of Re-
publican antecedents, and Mahoning county
has Democrat elected by fusion with the
Workingmen and Greenback parties All
the others are straight out Republicans or
Democrats
Rev. E. T. Baird, late Secretary of the
Presbyterian Committee of Publication OF the
Southern General Assembly, who was indict-
ed in the Hastings Court of Richmond, Va,
for embezzlement of the funds of the COM
mittee, was put on trial on the 18th instant.
After examination of the three principal wit
nesses, Judge Guigon stated that be saw no
necessity for further proceedings, and this
opinion was coincided with by the prosecuting
attorney. The jury, therefore, without leav-
ing their seats, rendered verdict of mot
guilty" and then the accused was immediate.
Iy discharged.
After giving an account of the arrest OF
ex-Treasurer Parker in Jersey City, the New
York World says: "Ex.C Congressman l.. Cass
Carpenter, of Columbia, who fled from South
Carolina soon after the Inauguration of Gov.
Hampton, and against whom an indictment
was returned by the Grand Jury, has since
been hiding in and about New York, and it
is understood that the officers have been on
the lookout for him. 1t may be stated that
he was seen on Broadway, yesterday, (not far
behind H. H. Kimpton, ex.Financial Agent
of South Carolina,) and that probably ex-
Treasurer Parker can give some clue to his
whereabouts"
"A gigantic swindle has recently been
brought to light at Kansas City, Mo. j. R.
Ham, Edward L. Stephens and George w.
Miller were arrested there on requisition of
Governor Hubbard, of Texas, charging them
with forging land titles and issuing fraudu-
lent deeds for large tracts of land in Texas.
1t is charged that several thousand acres Of
land have been sold to innocent purchasers
by these parties, involving the interest of both
the State of Texas and the United States
1t is also charged that no less than thirteen
courthouses have been set on fire and burned,
during the last year, to destroy evidence that
could have been used against these fraudulent
land spectators.
The Nez Perces crowned their last strug-
gle with some striking instances of generosity
and humanity which make US ashamed to talk
of the superiority of civilized over savage war
fare. All along they have refused to scalp or
mutilate our dead soldiers, or to kill the
wounded who fell into their hands, though
our Indian allies have scalped their dead.
They have also released women and children.
Soldiers now relate that in Miles last fight,