Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-20
Seraps aud fafts.

A few cases of yellow fever have ap.
peared at Fernandina, Florida. -
WIN. Pope Hull, prominent lawyer Of
Augusta, Ga, died suddenly of Bright's kid
ney disease, in New York last Thursday night.
= In the Maine election, last week, the Re-
publicans carried the State by about $500
against 14,9l1 last year.
The people of Winchester, Illinois, hang
ed Andrew Richards, colored, for assaulting
a white woman on Sunday of last week.
- The Presidents official duties and pre-
vious engagements would not allow him to
extend his trip further South than Chattanoo.
ga, Tenn.
Senator Ransom is quoted as having re-
Gently said in Washington that the Democrats
will not attempt to organize the Senate by
seeking the aid of disafected Republicans.
Mayor Parsons, of Burlington, Iowa, has
decamped, leaving heavy deficit in the school
fund, and victimizing the Merchants National
Bank to the amount of $4,000.
AT Opelika, Ala, Friday morning, Ernest
Doughty, aged 13, was run over by railway
train, and his head and body were separated
by the wheels.
-Quiuine is now 80 high in price in Europe
that doctors are using instead the liquid solu.
ton of strychnine, and find it nearly as efti-
cacious and much cheaper.
The cotton seed oil trade has increased
greatly of late years. The article is largely
shipped to Europe, whence it is reshipped to
this country in the guise of "pure olive oil"
A colonization convention of 1000 or
5000 colored people was lately held in Cor
inth, Miss. The African scheme was not
favored, but New Mexico, Arizona, and
northern Texas were considered.
Captain John Avis, the executioner of old
John Brown, struck Captain johnson with a
stone, during fight at Orkney Spring, Va,
on Friday Of last week. Johnston died on
the Sunday following. -.
A Brownsville dispatch says: Two Of the
Rio Grande City raiders and one of the re-.
leased prisoners here, have been turned over
to the United States authorities by the Mex
ican Government.
John Taylor, President of the Twelve
Mormon Apostles and acting President of
the Mormon church, will retain that position
until a new President is elected. He was shot
al NduVOU dG Iuo Giu1c OOSepu Woo MIA
ed, and is bitter Mormon.
There are further cases of intimidation by
the striking miners reported in Pennsylvania.
All attempts to effect compromise with
striking miners have failed. The operators
announce that nothing further will be done
by them to urge resumption.
The proprietor of bar.room in San An
tonic, Texas, when his slate gets full, shuts up
his establishment and goes out to collect the
dues. Those who refuse to pay he whips, and
the fact is so we'll understood that he has lit
tie trouble in settling his accounts.
The commissioners of the Freedman's
Bank have agreed to pay dividend of ten
per cent, and suggest an organized move
ment to induce Congress to authorize the
purchase of certain property to enable them
to pay twenty per cent.
- Congress, in allowing postmasters at small
points to get their salaries out of DO per
cent. commission on their sales Of postage
stamps, has built up large and profitable
industry by means of which business houses
can now buy their three.cent stamps at the
rate of forty for dollar.
"A Scranton business house, which was
asked by miners committee to contribute to
their relief fund, generously offered to assign
to the fund $4,000 in accounts due them by
miners, which accounts they have been for
years unable to collect. The subscription was
declined with thanks.
A bridegroom in Payton, Iowa, refused
to provide refreshments for serenading par
ty, whereupon they pulled him out of bed and
carried him through the village astride rail.
The bride hurriedly dressed herself, aroused
sheriff, and effected the rescue Of her hus-
band as we'll as the arrest of several of the
mob.
One of the school board inspectors asked
a small pupil of what the surface of the
earth consists, and vas promptly answered,
Land and water" He varied the question
slightly that the fact might be impressed on
the boys mind, and asked, "What then do
land and water make?"-to which came the
immediate response, "Mud."
- The New York Commercial and Financial
Chronicles statement, shows the total cotton
crop of 1876 and 1877 to be 4,4S5,423 bales,
while the exports are 3,049. .497, and spinners'
takings 1,435, ,418, leaving the stock on hand
at the close of the year 1858 bales. The
crop of 1s75-'76 was 1865, 1888 bales. The
crop of1S76 and 1877 is 184, 1865 bales short of
last year.
Two brothers named Mitchell, confined
in the San Bernardno (Cal.) Jail, recently es-
capped by presenting wooden revolver at the
jailor's head while he sat at supper, and so
terrifying him that he gave them the prison
keys and suffered himself to be bound hand
and foot. The revolver was whitfield out of
pine stick, and stained walnut color. Sheet
zinc was rolled up and fastened on to repre-
sent the cylinders and chambers.
- In the State Republican convention of
Wisconsin, last week, a resolution referring to
the South, after preamble indicating that
the Wisconsin Republicans consider the peo-
pie of that section still in state of pupil
age, concludes: "We shall rejoice if the South
ern policy of the President produces the
hoped for results of order and peace, but if
these results shall not follow this experiment,
We demand that other measures be adopted,
which shall secure to all citizens, without
distinction of race or color, the fullest enjoy
ment of their constitutional rights"
At Marietta, Ohio, the President called
the attention of the reporter to an omission in
the telegraphic report of Mr.. Keys speech,
which he said he was very sorry to see. Mr..
Key, when in the East, had made use of the
phrase, "Erring Southern brethren" thereby
drawing upon himself the hostility of the
Southern press. At Marietta he repeated
the word "erring," but it was not so reported
by the Associated Press dispatch. The Pres
ident seemed to wish the country to know
that Mr.. Key had not changed base in conse-
auence of criticisms of the South.