Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-08
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trees and buildings quite seriously.
Coinage operations at the New Orleans
mint will be suspended for three months, in
consequence of the yellow fever. ....ys
Count DeBodisco, the Russian Consul
General at New York, died last Friday night
at White Sulphur Springs, Va.
- The N. Y Star predicts that the time is
near at hand when the South will be filled up
with we'll to do Northerners.
- Westmoreland is the smallest county in
Virginia, but it was the birthplace of three
Presidents Washington, Madisonand Mon.
roe.
A mob of negroes attempted to reie:se a
prisoner at Battonville, Alachua county, Fla,
on Sunday. During the riot two negroes were
killed and another fatally wounded.
- Gen. Thomas Grimke Rhett, a native
of South Carolina, died in Baltimore county,
Maryland, on Sunday of last week, in the
9th year of his age.
- Thirty-eight new cases of yellow fever
were developed in New Orleans on Saturday,
from which deaths resulted. To that date
there have been 233 cases and go deaths.
- The case of McElwee Vs. Blackwell, the
manufacturer of Durham smoking tobacco,
which was recently decided by the patent of:
6fice in favor of Blackwell, has been ap-
pesled. .-..
A quarantine of twenty days has been es-
tablished at Wilmington, N. c., against all
persons coming from any city South Of that,
where yellow fever or other contagious or in.
fectious diseases exist.
In Cabinet one day last week, a letter
was read from the Mexican authorities by
Secretary Evarts, charging that the Ameri'
cans have been stealing cattle from Mexico.
A brief discussion ensued, but no action was
taken.
A Boston paper says that Douglass F.
Jerrold, Jr., son of the famous English writer,
is i'll at Greenville, Miss, and his wife and
three children are in such destitute circum,
stances that he has appealed to the public
for help.
"A. M. Fullis, wealthy farmer of Sscra'
mento county, California, was murdered by
some one unknown, last Friday evening, while
working in bis orchard. Robbery is the sup,
posed incentive. Fullis was native of South
Carolina. -.r... ..
-"What shall we do with our surplus
wheat crop?" is the problem now agitating
the minds of the Western farmers. This
seasons harvest is the richest known in a
long series of years, and the United States
will have 150,0OO,O00 bushels to spare for
expectation. .s,. y5.t r..
- In the county election at Memphis, on the
1st inst, the National Greenback party elected
its entire ticket of thirteen candidates, by ma
jorities ranging from four to six thousand
votes. During quarrel concerning it, Joseph
Day. colored Democrat, fred at but missed
Dick Dougherty, National. Dougherty in
return shot Day, killing him.
- Astronomers from various points met at
Denver, Colorado last Friday, for compar-
ison of their notes, and discussion Of their OBJ
servation. Professor Watson feels certain he
has discovered Vulcan southwest of the sun,
about two degrees distant. Professor Draper
succeeded in getting photograph of the spec
trum of the corona, thus proving that most
of the light of the corona is reflected from the
sun and is not due to ignited gas.
The surrender of a large number of
mountaineers in South Carolina who have
been engaged in illicit distilling, and their
release upon promises of reform, is regarded
at the Internal Revenue Bureau with much
satisfaction. Commissioner Raum has writ
ten to Collector Rrayton that the conditions
upon which the men were released shall be
strictly observed. Commissioner Raum has
also written letter to W. H. Chapman the
special revenue agent for the division com.
posed of North and South Carolina, dscoun.
tenancing acts of violence on the part of reve.
nue. officers in the enforcement of their duties,
Honest John Patterson said recently that
he believed the Administration would back
out of the position it had assumed with refer.
ence to the revenue agents imprisoned in
South Carolina He says that the President
told him that there would be no use in resis.
tance if the State Courts refused to give up
the agents, because the army could not be
used as posse comitatus, and be did not be.
lieve there could be posse raised in South
Carolina in opposition to the decision of the
State Courts. He added II told Hayes be
would yet see the necessity for troops in the
South"
Kate Southern, who murdered woman
of whom she was jealous, writes to Georgia
newspaper as follows describing her situation
in the Georgia Penitentiary: II might ex-
pect the cold embrace of rafting chain, striped
clothes, hard labor, coarse diet, and even the
lash; but not 80 in my case. am put to
light work, cutting and making convict
clothes not ironed as others, not draped in
convict stripes have good and wholesome
diet, such as my keepers have upon the fam
ily table no threats of the lash no cooking
for the convicts, and no such thing as regret.
ting I had not been hung. Please, for
the sake of humiliated and unfortunate
woman, correct the reports in circulation, SO
unjust to my dear keepers, and you will re-
ceive the thanks of one 80 injured and dis
graced."
The election in North Carolina, last
Thursday, resulted in Democratic gains
The main issue in Democratic counties resol
we'd itself in choice, for members of the
Legislature, between supporters of Vance Of
Merrimon for u. S. eenator-the election Of
Senator devolving upon the next Legislature
1t is thought the Vance men are in the major.
ity. Merrimon-al although Democrat-uill
be supported as against Vance by the Repub
licans and Independents, of which latter stripe
number were elected, among them Josiah
Turner of Orange, D. F. Caldwell of Gull
ford, and w. H. Orchard of Cabarrus. The
latter, however, claims to represent the INA
tional" ticket, whatever that may be- Gen
Leach is elected to the Senate from Davidson
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, member Of
the joint committee of Congress on the reor'
ganization of the army, has not attended any
Of the meetings of the committee, which is
holding it's sessions at White Sulphur Springs