Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-20
Straps aud fafts.

ly dropped from the roll ofPlymouth Church,
the cause assigned being that her recent con-
fession of adultery with Henry Ward Beecher
is slander on her pastor.
According to the report of their State
Agricultural Bureau, the Tennesseeans are
counting on yield of at least 100000
bushels of wheat this year. Oats, grass, corn,
cotton and apples are also looking very we'll
in that State, and tobacco is the only crop
that isn't up to the mark.
- Colonel Wild, a Swiss artillery officer
serving in the Russian army of the Caucasus,
in letter published in Zurich paper, says
that the Russians have lost more men by war
typhus since the conclusion of peace than
they lost by battle throughout the entire
campaign in Asia Minor.
Rockwell, a notorious Mormon, has just
died at Salt Lake City He was under in
dictment for participation in the murder of
the Aiken immigrants in 1857. There is a
suspicion that he was foully dealt with by
some of his old associates in crime, who fear.
ed confession on his part.
- The laborng men in some parts of Mis-
souri, have set their faces against labor saving
machinery of all kinds, and openly threaten
that if the selfbinding machines are put into
the field by farmers they will burn them, and
that the grain stacks of all farmers who en-
ploy the machines will be burned also.
- The investigation under the Potter reso-
luton is progressing in Washington. A num-
Der of witnesses have been examined as to
the election in Louisiana, their testimony 60
ing to confirm the fact already patent to every
body-but for which there is now no redress
that fraud was perpetrated in the counting of
the vote Of that State.
Paris critics claim that the new two-man-
ual pianos recently exhibited in Paris will
supercede those now in use. In the two-man-
ual instrument two grand pianos are placed
one over other, and in the top piano the man
uals are reversed, the bass notes being where
the trebles usually are, and vice versu. Thus
the performer can play without crossing his
hands, and can play bass or treble, as the case
may be, on two pianos simultaneously.
Another desperate fight occurred between
white and colored miners, at Coal Creek, near
Covington, Indiana, last Saturday, resulting
in the killing of one negro and wounding
two others; also in the wounding of two
whites. The negroes made an attack with
rifles, firing upon the whites wherever they
could find them. They also attempted to
burn the buildings in which white men took
refuge. About fifty arrests have been made,
mostly negro miners.
"A Camel ranch is owned by D. Mather,
of Bastrop, Texas. He claims that camels
are no more trouble to raise than horses or
cattle. The colts for three or four days are
rather tender and require close attention, but
after that they take their chances with the
herd. They are extremely docile, and as the
females give birth to colt every year they
are profitable, the animals selling, when rear
ed, at from 5000 to $500 each. Mr.. Math-
er says we'll broken camel will travel more
than one hundred miles day.
- An odd affair is reported from Hartford,
Conn. The wife of worthy clergyman
thought her pretty servant girl was becoming
too afectionate toward the owner of the tene-
ment where they lived, widower, who occu-
pied rooms in the same building, and, in a
fit of indignation, said "Pack up your
things and leave the house." The girl left,
but returned in the afternoon and said, II am
Mrs. nV" paoh op- yvu, things and
= leave my house." She had married the land.
lord, and the order was enforced.
William Cullen Bryant, one of the great
est of American poets and forty years editor
ofthe New York Post, is dead. He was born
in Massachusetts, in 1874, and was, therefore,
nearly, or quite, 81 years of age. He was a
man Of genius, and many of his productions
are fine specimens of natural, graceful, simple,
pure English. He has long taken rank
among our foremost poets. Not equal to Long
fellow or Poe, and, possibly to two or three
others, his productions shed, however, pecu-
liar glory upon American letters.
Some of the leading Democrats of the
country, among whom are Gov Hampton
and Alexander Stephens, of Georgia, doubt
that there is sound policy in the investigation
Of the Presidential frauds. They think that
the agitation of the facts already known,
through the press and on the stump, would
have been all the capital the Democrats needed.
To this opinion other prominent Democrats
dissent, and say that to give proper promi-
nence to the subject, thorough investigation
must be made as the great issue upon which
the Democracy will fight the next campaign.
The Macon (Ga) Messenger says it has
reliable information that the Russian govern
ment has offered to purchase from the Geor.
ga Central Railroad and Banking Company
their new and elegant ocean steamships, the
City of Macon and the City of Savannah.
The authorities of the road have replied to
the offer saying that the road was willing to
dispose of the steamers, naming the value
placed on them, and there the matter rests
for the present. These steamers are now
making regular trips between Savannah and
New York.
The United States consul at Canton,
China, reports that a terrible tornado passed
over that city on the 18th Of April, causing
great destruction of life and property. 1t
came from the sea in the shape of water
spout, passing through the crowded part of
the city. The track left by the tornado was
600 feet wide. Many houses were destroyed
in the foreign settlement, but no lives were
lost. In the native city, 10000 persons were
killed. II required several weeks to remove
the dead bodies from the narrow streets. The
weather was very hot and the decomposing
bodies caused many to fear the outbreak of a
pestilence.
- Miss Emma Bartlett, dealer in saddles and
brides, died in New York on last Thursday.
She commenced business with a capital of
s175 and died the manager ola mandatory
giving employment to 100 hands. Some
years ago she travelled over the country sell
ing her wares, and it is told of her that du-
ring one visit to Chicago, she entered into a
drinking bout with five men who called
to provoke her, made them tipsy, and sold
them $4,000 worth of brides. Miss Bartlett
never weighed more than 81 pounds was in