Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-12-09
Straps aud fafts.

thing OF the past. Hungarian steel rollers
are used, and FIVE sets are used to finish the
-four, each set running closer than the pre-
ceding. 1t is bolted through coarse CLOTH
- The government owns 1862, ,231 ,727 acres
of unsurveyed lands. About Is, ,000, 900 acres
were sold during the last fiscal year, and the
total lands surveyed fyom the commence
ment of the survey is 752,557, 1876 acres.
The receipts for the last year were $2,290,l72'
- Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, of Massachu-
sets has been suggested as orator and James
es Barron Hope,e ditor of the Norfolk (Va.)
Landmark, has been mentioned as poet, 70.
the Yorktown centennial celebration next DC.
tober. Both are good suggestions.
- The news from Ireland is becoming more
exciting every day. The Land Leaguers are
determined to have all existing land laws re-
repealed and the whole system remodeled,
while the British ministry is equally deter.
mined to have its own chosen way of settling
matters.
The erroneous statement has often been
made that the South gained thirty-fve Con
gressmen by the enfranchisement of the ne.
groes. The fact is the South gained only
nine Congressman by making the negroes
free, since when they were slaves, five negroes
were counted as three whites in ascertaining
our federal representation.
Gen. Walker, superintendent, of the CEN
sus, is endeavering to have made census
of all the Indians in the jurisdiction of the
United States Government but they are re-
luctant to give the names of themselves or fam
lies and the census agents are experiencing
great trouble among them to get proper sta
tistics.
- The year 1881 promises some points of in
terest to astronomers. To say nothing of sun
dry comets, there will be two eclipses of the
sun and two of the moon during the year,
and on November 9th there will be transit
of Mercury. The planet Saturn will also be
so improved in position that a fair study of
the rings can be made.
- At the last election in Kansas, the people
adopted an amendment to the constitution
forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale
Of Intoxicating liquors in that State, except
for medicinal and scientific purposes. The
total vote was l65, 5,9l1, and out of this mum.
Der 81 l,7S4 votes were cast in favor of the
amendment, giving to the prohibitionsts a
majority of S4,037.
"A sewing machine company in Philadel-
phia has imprisoned poor but respectable
woman, the mother of FIVE small children, for
a debt of fifteen dollars. She was confined
in Moyamensing prison among common fel-
ons. Such an outrage is legalized in North
ern State, but should anything approximating
this shameful act be perpetrated in the South,
we should be denounced as barbarians, and
we would deserve it.
The Hon. George B. Robinson, Lieu
tenant Governor elect of Colorado, was shot
and mortally wounded on the night of the
9th ult, by party of miners engaged at
work in mine of which it seems that this
gentleman was the controlling manager. The
miners had made demand which was not
complied with. The majority of them are
said to be from the coal districts of Pennsyl-
vania, and to belong to a secret organization
similar to the Molly McGuires.
At Farmland, Indiana, on Tuesday night
of last week, VIM. Barres, who had all day
been drinking and quarreling with every one
he met, especially with his family, took up a
double barreled shot gun, and while his wife
was sitting with her babe in her arms, shot
He was arrested and taken to Winchester.
He SAYS the shot was accidental. He came
near shooting her once before, when he was
drunk, with the same weapon.
i Isaac w. Sprague, "the living skeleton, I"
is now thirty.nine years old. He was born in
Massachusetts,, and was until twelve years
old healthy boy. The disease of muscular
wasting then came on gradually, and after a
few years he was compelled to leave the shoe
makers bench, where he was working with
his father, and seek another mode of earning
his living. He engaged himself with show.
man. When 26 years old he married, and has
now three fine healthy boys. His height is
FIVE feet nine inches, and his weight forty-six
pounds.
"A certain Mrs. Reimenschneider, with
numerous aliases, of New York, has resorted
to method of putting money in her purse
that has hitherto supposed to have been the
exclusive prerogative of the lords of creation.
Within comparatively brief period, Mrs. r.
has united herself in the holy bonds of mat
rimony no fewer than fourteen times. and it
is possible that the number of her spouses
may reach nineteen. In each instance the
victim was robbed of all his spare cash. The
enterprising polygamist has at last fallen into
the meshes Of the law, and Jersey justice is to
be meted out to her at Newark.
"A curious phenomenon occurred at Nash.
vile, Tenn, one day last week. The temper
ature ran up rapidly from freezing point to
forty-four degrees Fahrenheit. Black clouds
lowered until they seemed to evelop the city,
when suddenly ball Of fire, which brightly
illuminated the city, seemed to pass over the
house tops, ending with an explosion. An.
other explosion of lightning followed immedi
atey after with the same effect. In both in
stances the unfinished spire of the new McKen-
dree Church was struck, filing it with so much
smoke as to cause the calling out of the fire
department.
General George B. Crittenden died in
Danville, KY, Sunday, aged sixtynine years.
He was the eldest son of John j. Crittenden.
He graduated at West Point and spent many
wears in the United States army. While a
volunteer in the Texan war Of independence,
he was taken prisoner at the battle Of
Mier and marched on foot to the city of Mex.
leo. Through the exertions of Mr.. Webster
and General Waddy Thompson, he was re-
leased. He afterwards took part in the war
between the United States and Mexico, and
was with the army when it entered the CAPT
tai of the latter country. He served the
Confederate army as brigade commander
throughout the war.
- The Southern papers are unable to ascer-
tain ANYTHING about the celored exodus