Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-30
Sttaps aud fatts.
The gold mines of Georgia are said to pro-
duce not less than 100000 bullion per an

negligence and cannot recover.
Virginia is preparing to present claim
of $4,000, and Maryland claim Of $780,
600, with eighty years interest, for money
advanced to aid in the original building of
the Federal capitol. ...... .....
Thomas Massey got out of bed in Milwau-
kee on an intensely cold morning to build q
fire, instead of making his wife do it, and was
found an hour afterward frozen nearly to death
in the yard, where he had gone for wood.
The report OF the Howard Association of
New Orleans shows $3.50, 900 expended more
than $4,000 cases of fever cared for and co.
900 destitute persons relieved. Most of this
immense labor was performed without pay.
The Baltimore Gazette says that two great
political truths have been unearthed in this
country within the past ten years, viz: Thai
ex.rebels who vote the Republican ticket can
get Office and honor from the Federal govern
ment and negroes who vote the Democratic
ticket get plenty to eat. ... ....... . ..-
"A Richmond dispatch of Friday says that
on that day, East Hanover Presbytery, by q
vote of Is to 6, removed the sentence of sus-
pension from DR.. E. T. Baird, late secretary
of the Presbyterian Board Of publication, who
was suspended last year for alleged irregular
tiles in connection with ths funds Of the con.
Germ, and restored him to the office, of the
Gospel ministry. = .aa ...-... ...
- In the U. S. Circuit Court at Jacksonville,
Florida, last Friday, Judge Settle sentenced
the Brevard County Canvassing Board, con-
victed of making false return of election.
Lee, the County Clerk, was sentenced to three
years, and Wright and Jones, Sheriff and JUS
tice respectively, to one year each in the Al
bany penitentiary Lee is also State Sena-
tor from Brevard county. All other election
cases were continued to the May term of Court.
-Zebulon B. Vance, North Carolina Hon.
D. w. VOORHEES,, Indiana; Hon. Wilkinson
Call, Florida General James Shields, (short
term and Col George G. Vest. (long term)
Missouri, Democrats Hon. j. Donald Cam
eron, Pennsylvania; Gen. John A. Logan,
Illinois Orville H. Platt, Connecticut Hon.
Roscoe Conkling, New York; Hon. Matt h.
Carpenter, Wisconsin, Republicans; have
been formally announced in their several
State Legislatures as duly elected to the Uni
ted States Senate.
- The annual circular of Dun, Barlow 4
Co., states that the failures in the United
States in the year 1878 we're 10,47S, with lia-
bilties equal to $2340O0,00O. This is an in
crease of 1,571 in failures and $49,0OO,O00 in
liabilities over the previous year, and the ag-
gregate of liabilities is even greater than it was
in 1873. One chief cause for this excess was
the fact that the bankrupt law went out OF
operation August last, and great many per-
sons and firms failed in the early part OF the
past year only to avail themselves of its
provisions. .......,
= In the Forty-Sixth Congress which begins
on the fourth of next March, the Republi-
can side of the Senate will be mentally and
morally, as we'll as numerically, weaker than
it has been for score of years, while the
Democratic side will be stronger in the same
proportion than it has been since the day when
the Democracy fell into the arms of secession.
Thurman, Bayard, Wallace, Herman, Pendle-
ton, VOORHEES,, Mcdonald, Hampton, Hill,
Gordon and Vance, will find only an Edmunds
as the peer of any of them in the heavy artil-
lery of debate, and Blaine the only foeman tit
to cope with them in the use of the lighter
and keener weapons of parliamentary warfare.
Philadelphia Times.
While the woman. suffrage convention was
recently in session, President Hays perpetrated
rich Joke on committee of the convention.
They called on him and presented resolutions
adopted at the convention, following up with
an argument in their favor. The President lis
tened attentively until they finished, and then
asked them if they would not like to see Mrs
Hayes. They assented, and the President
asked Mrs. Hayes to show them the White
Il fo1,S fha IoHi to ho
nursery, kitchen and through all the cham.
bers, pointing out the improved methods OF
housekeeping, and asking their opinions upon
domestic subjects The ladies expressed graf
ifcation at Mrs. Hayes kindness, but carried
off an impression that they had been triHed
with. Information about housekeeping was
not what they we're after. .....
The largest locomotive ever made in this
country was sent out from Philadelp phia the
other day to takeits place on long and heavy
grade in the Rocky Mountains upon the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. It has
eight driving wheels, each only AZ inches in
diameter !; the cylinders measure 70 by ~
inches, and the boiler is So inches in diameter.
1t has 213 tubes, each over II feet long, and
the fire box is 10 feet long. The weight Of
the engine is $4,000 pounds, and the great
weight and size of the boiler and the small
driving wheels form tremendous power.
The eli ght driving wheels are merely to dis
tribute the weight, for if the weight rested on
but four, no track ever laid could withstand
the pressure. The weight is so great that the
western railroads over which it must pass will
not permit it to 90 over bridges, so it will
howe to ha ta ben IN nieces and carried over
in sections.
A Richmond Va, letter says: A strange
story is told here to the effect that the parson-
age occupied by the Rev. Moses D. Hoge of
the Presbyterian Church, and situated On the
corner of Main and 9th street, is haunted.
DR.. Hoge, it is stated, has the utmost difficult
ty in keeping servants. They come and stay
one month and see the mysterious apparition
and hear the human Sigh, and then they leave,
nor do they wait long for wages The house
was built and occupied for years by Maj. Glib
bon, distinguished officer in the Colonial ar
nv. After the revolutionary war he lived
there in handsome style. About the hour Of
midnight figure robed in white walks with
solemn step through the hall and vanishes
noiselessly. It is said by those who claim to
have seen it, to be the figure Of lady. And
that as the figure sweeps by deep drawn
sigh is heard, which proceeds from the back
parlor in the house. Such is the strange tale
which the affrighted servants tell. It's strange
that servants come there from distance who
have never heard of the traditions Of the
house, and upon the first night see the same
figure. They all tell the same story. The fig