Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-14
Straps and fafts.

A Charlestown, West Virginia, dispatch
says that the U. S. Court now in session there
has 181 indictments against moonshiners be-
fore it. 1t is likely there will be three OF
four hundred before the close of the session.
The New Orleans papers announce that
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is seriously i'll, and that
her husband is fearfully Frustrated by anx'
iety and care for his wife, coupled with the
recent death of his son, Jefferson Davis, Jr.
- Mr.. Red6eld, of the Cincinnati CONNER.
cial, who has kept close track of South Caro-
lin politics, writes from Columbia that "there
is sensible diminution of bitterness between
the races. The contrast is so great, when |
remember the campaign here two years ago.
that I cannot write without mentioning it
again and again"
- Electricity is making rapid strides to sup
plant even steam. The use of steam saws in
telling standing trees has been introduced
within few years, but now, by connecting
with platinum wire the two poles of a gal.
vanic battery, the wire becomes instantly red
hot, and in few minutes burns its way
through the largest tree.
- The Washington Star says: After the
1st of January next, as an aid to the resump-
tion of specie payments, it is very likely that
the Treasury department will send, to parties
desiring it, the standard silver dollar in guam
titles of 1000 and upward, free of transpor'
tation, in exchange for like sums of green
backs deposited with depositary banks.
- The Russian Invahde puts the number of
troops engaged in actual fighting during the
last war with Turkey, at $4,000 infantry,
$4,000 cavalry, or $4,000 men, with 1888
field guns The artillery used 204, 1923 charg.
es, and the infantry and cavalry 10,057 ,764
cartridges. The Turks are reported to have
lost altogether nearly 100000 killed and
wounded.
- - Ben Butler, according to Western news:
paper, was once engaged to young lady OF
Waterville, Me-, and to break of the match,
which for some reason displeased him, hit
upon the notable expedient Of going upon a
feigned spree and jamming an inoffensive cit
izen's hat over his eyes. The reckless inc.
briate was promptly arrested and fined the
girl wrote letter repudiating him her faith
er threatened to kick him out of doors if ever
he ventured near the house, and the willy
young man chuckled greatly at the success
of his innocent stratagem.
- The power of the national banks to issue
small bills, below SIS in amount, has always
been limited to one-sixth of their circulation,
and never has approached that figure, as
bank officers do not like to do so much sign
ing. Even this authority expires with the
resumption of specie payments, so that after
January l, the national banks issue no more
notes below S., and it is said to be the inten.
tion of Secretary Sherman to make room for
silver dollars by Withdrawing some of the 81
and 50 greenback, of which the usual circu-
lation is about S5O,00O,0OO.
On last Thursday night the body of the
late A. T. Stewart was stolen from the family
vault in St. Marks church-yard, New York
city. The burial casket was left in the vault,
and the supposition is that the body was
stolen in the hope of large reward being
offered for its recovery; in which expects.
ton, if such was the object, the vandal
thieves were not mistaken, as Mrs. Stewart
has offered reward of $4,000 for the re-
covery of the body and the conviction of the
thieves. She also offers to pay proportion
te sum for the recovery of the body.
The year 1878 will be a memorable one
in the annals of human misery. Famine and
pestilence have done their own work in some
of the most populous regions inhabited by
mankind India and China have been de-
vastated by both. War has added its terrors
to scourge and starvation. The yellow fever,
which has afflicted the South is mild by com.
parison with the outbreak of cholera, small
pox and malignant fever now carrying death
into all parts of the Empire of Morocco.
Such wide spread miseries rarely manifest
themselves.
- Mr. Moody is laboring in Baltimore.
Chief among the evils in the churches, he said
in sermon last week, are church choirs-
ungodly men and women who often have
good voices, and often drunken organists. Mr..
Moody denounced the methods employed in
raising money by church fairs. Lotteries,
voting and rafles were encouraged. The
young men now, instead of going to low
gambling den, could 60 to Gods Church and
gamble Actually, at one church fair, the
sum of twenty. FIVE cents was charged for the
privilege of kissing the handsomest young
woman in the church-presumably to help
the work of God.
Of the State Legislatures that we're elect
ed on the 9th instant, seventeen will, this
winter, choose United States Senator'S. Be-
sides these there are seven States which had
already chosen their new Senators, where the
Legislatures have already been elected. Of
the States which will send new Senators to
take their seats on or after 4th of next March,
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Or
egon, Ohio and South Carolina will exchange
Republicans for Democrats Colorado, Him
ois, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
York, Vermont and Wisconsin, Republican,
and Indiana, Georgia, and Kentucky, Loui-
siaua, Maryland, Missouri and North Carroll
ma, Democratic, will make no change in the
politics of their Senators. Ofthe thirty eight
States, twenty.four have now Democratic
Governors and only fourteen Republican.
- The United States Senate consists now of
thirty nine Republicans thirty.six Democrats,
and one dependent-David Davis, of Illi-
nois. This makes total of seventy-six SEN
ators Three Democrats have been elected to
succeed Sargent of California, Mitchell of
Oregon, and Matthews Of Ohio. Dorsey Of
Arkansas, Spencer Of Alabama, Connover Of
Florida, and Patterson of South Carolina,
will certainly be replaced by Democrats
These changes, if none others occurred, would
leave the next Senate with thirty-two Repub-
lcans, forty-three Democrats and one lnde-
pendent. Connecticut has elected Repub-
lican in the place of Senator Barnum; Penn
sylvania has gone Republican, which means
that Senator Don Cameron will be reelected.
No other changes are probable, and the next
Senate should therefore stand; Democrats
AZ, Republicans 33, and Independent l.
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