Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-29
Straps aud fafts.

- An undertaken in Berrien county, Mlchl-
gan, is testing in the court his right to disin-
ter body in order to recover the unpaid-for
coffin.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, at.
tributes the destruction of the pure agricultur.
al fair system to horse racing, three card
monte, and prize candy.
-Ex.Gov. Chamberlain, of South Carroll
ma, was recently admitted to practice in the
United States Courts for the Eastern District
of the State of Georgia.
- The Philadelphia Bulletin, Republican,
complains that the colored voters of that city
generally supported the Democratic candl:
dates at the last election, and thereby caused
the defeat of the Republican ticket.
- The same vote that elected Mr.. W. II.
Sims to the Office of Lieutenant Governor of
Mississippi by nearly 100000 majority, abol-
ished the office to which he was elected. 10
Mr.. S. this is the most barren victory ever
won.
- Madame Bonaparte, of Baltimore, now
over ninety years Of age, has become very
feeble and does not venture out of doors.
There are apprehensions that her romantic
and most eventful career is fast approaching
its close.
- The Illinois State Board Of Agriculture
reports that the corn crop in that State, this
year, is 3O1 ,646,473 bushels. At thirty cents
a bushel, which is low average, the crop
brings to the farmers $50, ,493,94l. The acre
age planted was 1896, All, the average pro.
duct, per acre, being over 33 bushels.
Gen. Ben. Butler proposes to know wheth-
er or not the rights and privileges of mem
Der of the House of Representative have been
violated by the incarceration Of Robert Smal!s,
colored NJ. c., in South Carolina. The Phil
adelphia Times ironically remarks that the
General can see how very disastrous it might
be if it is made possible to throw into Jail eve
ry Congressman who has ever received bride.
Says the Piedmont Press: Two men,
Bruce Yount and AL Kale, were disputing
last week near Catawba about pistol being
loaded, when the former to prove that it was
not, held up his hand and pulled the trigger
but to his surprise it 6red-the ball passing
through his hand and through the neck OF
the latter. Both feel fully satisfied now, and
have no doubt as to its being loaded.
"A Washington dispatch says that strong
efforts are being made by the more Radical
Republicans of South Carolina, to have the
President withdraw the nomination of Nor
throp as District Attorney for that State. 1t
is stated, on most excellent authority that the
action of Senator Patterson in the Butler
Corbin contest is in accordance with his views
expressed long before his trouble came upon
him.
During the last FIVE years, West Point has
had 522 cadets Of these only IL were the
sons of rich men 465 we're in moderate cir
cumstances So very much reduced in worldly
gear, and 10 INDECENT. The sons of farmers
numbered SO; merchants, 81; army officers,
80; mechanics, "A physicians, 40; civil off,
GERS, 16; editors, 5 bankers and brokers, II /;
clerk ks, l3; manufacturers, 12; Congressman,
2; and politician, 1. The sons of stablemen,
nurserymen, tanners, spectators and under
takers numbered 2 each, as did laborers,
Judges, inventors real estate agents and artists.
The Chicago Times publishes list of
fifteen banks and eighteen insurance compa.
nes which have burst in Chicago within q
few years, and which, it declares, "were
proved, by an examination of their remains,
to have been little better than swindles." !"
Among the banks it mentions the Franklin,
which could not pay 10 per cent. the Bank
of Chicago, with liabilities about one.third of
million, and assets nothing; the State street
Savings Bank, with liabilities $4,000 and
assets 5000, and so on through the list. The
insurance companies make no better show,
the highest dividend mentioned being 16 per
cent, the lowest O.
Although the Rev. DR.. E. T. Baird has
been legally acquitted, and the statement
made that he was not guilty of intentional
misconduct" the Southern Presbyterian Pub
lication Board has not recovered any of the
money which he "unintentionally got rid of.
Nor has explanation been made as to whether
it was "unintentionally". that the reverend
gentleman fled and concealed himself Meth
er has light been shed on the muddled ques-
ton of how and why he was allowed to mix
up his own money matters with those of the
board, without any of the rest of the board
having so much as suspicion that anything
was wrong.
- The attempt to break the will of the dead
Vanderbilt will probably not succeed, as it
will not be easy to show that he was not of
sound disposing mind when he made the will
but the developments in the trial place the
favorite SOD, William H. Vanderbilt (who
gets ninety-6ve million of the hundred mil
lion Left in particularly unpleasant attitude.
According to the testimony, he not only play
ed part of disgusting servility towards his
father, but, in order to further advance his
purposes, be allowed his mother to be consgn-
ed to a lunatic asylum, and, it is alleged,
contrived to have proAigate woman, tool of
his own, installed in her place to secure con-
troll over his father and prompt the bequeathal
of the immense fortune to this particular son.
"A disturbance occurred last week among
the miners near Deadwood, Dakota, in which
the civil authorities we're powerless to COM
mand order, when Company G, of the Sew
enth Cavalry were ordered to the scene. The
miners entrenched themselves in a mine,
while the soldiers supported the sheriff and
his posse. No violence ensued, as the miners
would not attack the soldiers, nor were the
soldiers inclined to fire on the miners. FL
nally little neat strategy was resorted to.
A quantity of birthstone was procured and
set fire to in the mine in which the miners
were entrenched, all but two Of the apertures
of the mine being closed. This had the eff.
feet of running the miners out, and in a
short while the last one emerged and all sur
rendered.
Washington letter "The President and
Mrs. Hayes decline all invitations to the
theatre and places of amusement. Managers
feel that they have lost good advertisements,
since they can no longer notify the public
that the President and family will occupy a
private box during the performance on GER
tain evenings. Mr.. and Mrs: Hayes are very