Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-08
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over 1879 of s49, ,696, 1892.
j. B. Walters, of the Richmond Whig
has been indicted by the Henrico county
grand jury for acting as second in the Elan
Smith duel. No other persons connected
with the affair were indicted.
- If there has been one good thing about
the Hayes administration, it was his early
Southern policy, and now he tells the country
that this was not his that he borrowed it
from President Woolsey, of Yale.
- 1t is estimated t}at the Democratic con-
vention left near half million dollars in
Cincinnati Over 100000 was spent for
board. Seventy-six thousand kegs of beer
were consumed during the week.
- The question is asked sometimes as to
the pay of members of Congress. Both Sena-
tors and members of the House receive S., 900
per annum. The Vice-President, and Speak
er Of the House, receive each Sc, 900 annually.
- On Friday last, at Rolling Fork, Miss,
Kirk Williams was hanged for the murder of
man named Plessner. About $4,000 per-
sons were present. Williams made short
speech warning his friends of his fate and
asking them to pray for him.
The following are the full census returns
of the cities named New York, 1,209, SCI /;
Philadelphia, 47,452; Boston, $4,000 i;
Baltimore, 100000; Brooklyn, 554 4,693; Chi
eago, ATT 800 Cincinnati, 246, 153 St. Louis,
$4,000; San Francisco, 1880; New Or
leans, 2O7,32S.
- In Boston, on the night of the 29th ulti.
mo, fac simile of the celebrated Eutaw flag
was presented to President John H. Hall, of
the Boston Light Infantry Veterans, on be-.
half of the Washington Light Infantry, of
Charleston, S. G. Appropriate addresses were
made on the occasion.
Atlanta, Ga, celebrated the Fourth of
July last Saturday in the grandest style since
the war. The number of visitors is estimated
at 10000. There was procession of military,
firemen and vans, representing business in
dustries Senator Joseph E. Brown and 9th.
ers spoke in the City Hall Park to an i'm
mense gathering. There was magnificent
display of fireworks at night, and hundreds
of people we're on the streets.
A Georgia man rugged himself up as a
bear to have some fun and he got it. for the
inhabitants turned out with dogs and ran
him four miles over stumpy country before
he could make them understand that he
wasn't bear And then they talked of tar
ring and feathering him for alarming the
women folks in the neighborhood, and finally
gave him three days to leave the county.
He won't play bear any more.
Gen. Hancock was madea full Major Gen.
eral in July 1885, The pay of that Office is
$500 for the first FIVE years, and an addition
of 10 per cent on the original amount upon
the completion of each term of five years.
In July, 1871, his pay was increased to
SS,25O in July, 1876, to $4,000; and if he
retains his position to July of next year, it
will be advanced to $3.50. This is exclusive
of all allowances attached to the position.
He draws about $4,000 year.
- The Cincinnati Commercial says: We
happened to pick up the figures of the expen-
ses of the Presidential candidates in the Gin
cinnati convention. Gen. Hancock's friends
spent less than one thousand dollars. On
other Presidential candidates were spent for
rent refreshments, music, transportation,
hotel bills, pamphlets, etc., the several sums
of $4,000, $4,000, $4,000 and $4,000. The
Cincinnati expenses of Tammany were s15,-
000
Nebraska's population, so the census shows,
will run up to fully 100000, an increase Of
800 per cent. over the census of 1870. On
the appointment of one Congressman to every
175,000 people, this will give Nebraska three
members gain of TWO Kansas is likely to
gain two also, and Texas four. Of the
Eastern States, Pennsylvania is the only one
that has any chance Of increasing its repre-.
sentation in Congress. Ohio and Indiana
~ 1c
not certain of keeping its present representa-
ton.
"A Murderer has at last been hung in
Texas His name was English Carter, and
he was convicted Of the murder of w. K.
Spaulding, on the oath of last July, near the
town of Dodge He met his fate firmly, and
told the minister in attendance that he would
see him at another time, which was equiv
ocal, to say the least. The execution took
place shortly after 2 o'clock. The town was
crowded with people. The murder was OF
the most cold blooded type. Carter rode up to
Spaulding's house, protesting friendship, and
in leaving shot him down at his front gate.
The hanging of Carter gives general satisfac-
ton, even in Texas.
The Washington Star has been endeav-
gard to Gen. Hancock's connection with the
execution of Mrs. Surratt. but cannot get
anything out of them. The reporter who
talked with Prof Tonry, who married Mrs.
Surratt's daughter, however, says: From the
tenor of the talk from beginning to end, it
was very evident that the family have more
or less feeling against every person having a
direct or indirect agency in the execution OF
their mother, whatever part such person play
ed in the tragedy. Gen. Hancock's offend
ing appears to have been his supposed neg
lect or alleged refusal to plead for executive
clemency."
- A dispatch of the 50th June, from Ma
con, Ca, says: About IL o'clock last night,
meteor as large as BARREL starting from
the zenith, plunged down the northeastern
sky, and exploded near here with report
that reverberated for thirty seconds and
shook the earth even at this pont The
meteor was about FIVE seconds in falling, dur
ing which time the city was lit up as though
by powerful electric light. Much excite
ment prevailed in the negro quarter, where
the inhabitants rushed into their houses and
closed the doors, filling the air with screams
and prayers. The time between the disap-
pearance of the phenomenon and the report
was about three minutes. This would make
the distance from Macon about forty miles.
Mr.. English, the Democratic candidate
for Vice-President, owns, it is said, two or
three hundred dwellings and business blocks
in Indianapolis. He is erecting an opera
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