Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-24
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1850, gold to the amount of $400,0O0,000.
- The Supreme Court of Virginia has pro
nounced illegal and Enable in that State, mat
rimonial alliances between whites and blacks
There is no telling how pure and spot
less is the ermine of q Judge who decides {
case in your favor.
- The prize for the best bale of cotton ex
hibited at Paris, has been awarded to Mem
phis. The same bale received a grand testi
monial, as being the best in the world.
- Special deputies have sent reports tt
Washington that they have recently captured
seven illicit stills and fixtures, and nearly
5000 gallons of mash and a quantity o
whisky, in Yadkin county, N. G.
II Hon. A. M. Waddell, Democratic candi
date for Congress in the Wilmington, N. G..
district, is seriously i'll at his residence in tha
city with congestion of the lungs.
Judah P. Benjamin, who was Secretary O
State of the Southern Confederacy, has jus
forwarded $500 from London for the benef
of the yellow fever sufferers at New Orleans
The receipts of cotton at all the United
States ports, thus far this season, are consider
ably more than double what they were up tc
this date last year.
DR.. Happoldt, of Morgantcu, N. c., who
went to Vicksburg as volunteer physician
to the yellow fever sufferers, died in that city
on the 18th instant.
The Statesville american learns that
about 500 hogs have died recently in that
portion of Iredell county, N. c., between
Granite Hill and Sherill's Ford, of cholera
A Mecklenburg farmer informs the Char.
lotte Observer that he planted his cotton for
cents, and until it sinks below that price he
cannot be made to lose any money on it.
- The 18th annual exhibition of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society, was held in
Raleigh last week. There was large atten'
dance of people, and the Fair was success in
every particular.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has just decided, in case that went up from
Charleston, that municipal corporation can
not tax the bonds which it issues. Justices
Miller and Hunt dssented.
-Sayler and Goss, Democratic candidates,
who were defeated for Congress in Ohio last
week, will contest. The majorities against
them were very small, and they claim that
they will be able to establish sufficient frauds
to reverse the result
The success of the Democrats in Indiana
will greatly advance Mr. Hendricks prospects
for the Presidential nomination. The Indiana
Legislature will have six Democratic major
ity on joint ballot, thus securing the re-elec-
ton of Mr.. VOORHEES, to the u. S. Senate.
A very careful Bridgeport man always
carries bottle Of whisky in his pocket as an
antidote for rattlesnake bites. He is now
over fifty years old and has never once died
of a rattlesnake bite, and be attributes his es-
cape to the antidote.
1t is estimated by those who are interest
ed in buying cotton at low price, that the
crop for the present year will be in the neigh
borhood of 5,500,000 bales. Should this es-
innate prove to be correct, it will be the
largest crop ever grown.
There is some apprehension that Secrest,
the convicted wifemurderer, may make his
escape from Mcdowell Jail, as letters have
been opened by the jailor, written by Secrests
friends, urging him to be Of good cheer, as
all would be right in a short time.
The summing of the deaths by yellow fe-
yer, in the entire Mississippi Valley, makes
an aggregate of1OOO0 up to the present time.
This is heavy, but there were 10000 in New
Orleans alone in 1858, and Buenos Ayres, in
1871, lost over $4,000.
With the reassembling of the United
States Supreme Court, the old complaint is re-.
newed that it is overburdened with work. 1t
is now three years behind on its docket, and
has the Credit Mobillier and Union Pacific 5
per cent. cases among the most important of
those awaiting decision at this session.
"A Virginia merchant Of undoubted hon.
or was recently refused credit in New York,
because, as he was informed, his partners
might believe in reputation, and the only
safe method with people that even seriously
discuss repudiation, under any other name,
is not to trust them.
The Lenoir Topic learns that among the
convicts at work on the Chester and Lenoir
Railroad, is one of unprepossessing ebony ap-
pearance, aged Is years, who reads Latin,
Greek, German, French and English without
difficulty, and never went to school day in
his life.
- The perambulating Italian, who travelled
around exhibiting bear, met his death a
few days ago near Weldon, N. G. The report
comes that the man was intoxicated and un-
muzzled the bear to feed him, and for some
offense only known to the beast, he attacked
his keeper and killed him.
Revenue Agent Wagner, of North Car
olina, has gone to Tennessee under orders from
the Internal Revenue bureau Col. Wagner
conducted the raids in North Carolina, which
have resulted so successfully to the govern
ment. He goes to Tennessee to advise with
Collector Woodstock in the conduct of the
raids on the moonshiners in his District.
Thomas H. Drew, one of the oldest and
most esteemed citizens of Richmond, Vir-
ginia, has just died, at the age of SO years.
As deputy United States marshal he sum-
moned, in what is now West Virginia, the ju-
rors in the celebrated Aaron Burr trial. He
was also one of the fortunate spectators who
escaped from the burning Richmond theatre
in 1911.
November 9th, Congressional elections
will be held in the following States: Ala
bama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, louisiana,
Kentuck ky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Micbi-
gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York,
New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.
w. w. Priester, of South Carolina, a
cadet in the Carolina Military Institute at
Charlotte N. c., shot and killed Tom Harley,
a colored cook in a restaurant of that city, on
Thursday night last The difficulty origina-
ted in disagreement about plate of fried
oysters, though according to the sworn state
ments of witnesses, Priester acted in selfde-