Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-04-10
Sfraps aud fafts.

be sent to any part of the United States for
25 cents. A new company has been formed
with Mayor Reed, of Bath, Maine, as Presi-
dent.
- The responsibility for the recent Alston
murder in Atlanta is shared by many, among
these Policemen w. H. Smith, who has been
discharged from his position on the Atlanta
force for not preventing it when he might
have done so.
- Reports from almost every point of the
wheat-growing region of the West and North
west, show the winter wheat crop to be unusu-
ally good, its present fine condition being at
tributed to the heavy SHOWS of the past season,
which afforded complete protection.
The Memphis Appeal says that Memphis
was never better governed than she is now ;
was never in better sanitary condition new
er had better outlook, and never saw the
time when her people should be more cheerful
as to the future.
The whole number of State convicts in the
whole United States employed in mechanical
industries is IL, 1856, out of State prison pop
ulation of 9,197, and they earn on the aver.
age forty cents per day. At So per day, the
average price for labor outside of prisons,
these men would earn $S,122,376.
- The sugar-cane crop of Louisiana will
amount this season to 225,000 hogsheads, or
150,000,000 pounds, worth S14, 900, and
the yield of molasses to 100000 barrels, worth
$3,O0O,0OO. Last year the production Of su.
gar was less than 150,000,000, pounds, and
that of molasses in proportion.
- Enough money has been invested in gov
ernment bonds for the benefit of the widow
of Lieut.. Hiram H. Benner, the yellow fever
hero, to give her an annual income of six
hundred dollars. Besides this income she has
been presented with cosy house at Elgin,
Illinois.
"A queer proposition is before the Legisla-
ture Of Illinois for constitutional amend
ment, providing that sessions of the General
Assembly for the purpose of law-making shall
be held but once in six years, but that the
biennial session shall be continued for the
purpose Of making the regular appropriation
and tax levies.
A number of leading society ladies ofNew
York have undertaken an important work,
with the view of improving the usefulness of
the public school system of that city. They
think it is high time that plain sewing should
be taught in those institutions, so that young
girls, when they leave them, may be enabled
to earn their own living
Ayers Jones, the mountaineer accused OF
the murder, two years ago, of 1t. Mcintyre,
at the head of his troop in the Georgia noun
tains, has at last been captured. McIntyres
murder created great sensation in Georgia,
and the authorities have been working it up
ever since its occurrence. Jones is desper-
ate man who deied the officers and eluded ar
rest for a long time.
"A French surgeon has performed a re-
markable feat in the art of the transportation
of teeth He extracted an incisor projecting
under the tongue) in the lower jaw of a young
woman at 26, and planted it in the upper jaw
in place ola decayed tooth just removed. In
few weeks the tooth was firmly fixed. This
successful experiment opens up new field
for dentists.
-Buford, the assassin of Judge Elliot, is
now trying to work the insanity dodge. His
local paper, the Midway, (Ky,) Clipper says {:
"We do not offer any palliation for the awful
crime he has committed, nor do we for mo-
ment plead his utter ruin as any excuse for
the terrible, damning sin of murder, and that
of an unofending Judicial officer who was not
at all responsible for his losses, but we do
claim and honestly believe that constantly
brooding over these things for six long years
unsettled mind already strangely geared."
- Opposition is developing in New York
to the proposal that the worlds fair should
be held in Central Park. The assurance of
the executive committee that it would in no
wise interfere with the park as a pleasure
ground, is received by the general public with
incredulity, and petitions accordingly are in
circulation asking that the common council
withhold its consent from the application. A
delegation of property-holders have also had
an informal conference with the commissioner
of public parks to demonstrate against the
proposition.
Spanking has varied uses. A child at
Fort Wayne, Indiana, had the misfortune 10
suck kernel of corn in its windpipe. The
doctor was sent for in haste, and announced
that it would be necessary to perform the
operation of trachetomy to save the child's
life. The Hoosier mother, familiar with a
practice of domestic surgery of different
sort, and not pleased with the idea of having
the chid's windpipe cut open, seized the suf:
ferer by one leg, and holding him up, head
downward, administered sundry resounding
spanks. There was sound not unlike the
report Of a popgun, and the kernel of corn
was elected with great force. The child was
at once relieved, and recovered, of course.
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the wife of Jerome Bonaparte, King of West
phalia and brother of Napoleon Bonaparte,
died at her home in Baltimore, on last Fri
day afternoon, at the advanced age of ninety
four years. She was married to Jerome Bon
aparte in Baltimore in December, 1903, but
Napoleon Bonaparte refused to recognize the
validity of the marriage and gave orders,
when informed of the fact, that the young
wife should not be permitted to set foot on
the soil of France. Jerome Bonaparte re-
turned to France where the marriage was de-
clared null and void, and he subsequently
married Princess Frederika Catherine, of
Wurtemburg.
"A Washington letter says As great
many inquiries are daily addressed here from
all parts of the country inquiring as to the ar
rangements for the payment of pension ar
rears, it is we'll to repeat, what has already
been stated by the Commissioner of Pensions,
that no attorney or claim agent will be recog-
nized by the Department. The Commission
er of Pensions states that he hopes to begin
the payment of the claims in about ten days
or two weeks. As fast as the claims are ex-
amined and approved, they will be paid by
check to the order of the pensioner, and sent