Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-19
Sttaps and fatts.


with corporeal punishment by stripes, not
exceeding thirty-nine, or by Imprisonment;
in the discretion of the jury.
- New York hotel keepers are seriously
contemplating an advance in prices. They
affirm that provisions are rising in price,
servants command higher wages, and the cost
of keeping hotel is greater than it was a
year ago.
- Experience has shown, at the Petroleum
Iron works, Ttusville, Pa, that a barrel Of
petroleum will generate heat sufficient for
making ton of iron, while ton and quar-
ter of coal would be required for the same
result.
- The manager of the crematory at Wash
ington, Pa, says he has hundred applica'
tions from persons in various parts Of the
country, who want to be incinerated when
they die. One advantage of cremation over
the ordinary funeral is that it costs only
thirty-6ve dollars.
- Since his arrival in Havana, Gen. Grant
has been enthusiastic in his praise of Florida.
According to him the peninsular will produce
within few years enough sugar, tobacco
and oranges to supply the United States and
leave something over. But the sugar and
tobacco people in Havana say that the Flori-
da soil cannot produce the finer kinds of
sugar and tobacco. The ex-Presideut, how
ever, is sure that the immigration from New
England will remedy this lack, and he de.
pends upon Yankee ingenuity to adapt the
soil to the tobacco plant, just as he hopes
that Yankee Republican management may
train the voters to appreciate third term.
- The upward movement in iron during
the past year is said to have exceeded that
of any year between 1861 and 1S65-the
"hush" period Of the iron industry. The de-
mand for iron comes from many sources,
and shows marked advance in all the vari-
ed branches of industry. The price of No. l
anthracite iron has risen from $3.50 per ton
in September, 1878, to S43 and over. The
demand for steel rails for the railroads has
been SO great that our mills have not been
able to fill the orders, and large importations
from England have been made Coincident
with the sudden rise in the price of iron,
there has been general revival of manutac-
lures throughout the country, and every form
of industry has felt the quickening pulse Of
renewed prosperity.
A Boston dispatch states that j. P. Stod
dard and D. P. Rathbone, Methodist minis
tiers, of Iowa, gave so called expose of ma
sonry in the Chambers street Church in that
city, Friday evening. They initiated a can
didate in the first degree, using the pulpit
platform as a lodge room, and claiming to
exhibit all the ritual. Friday evening a
large and excited crowd attended the church,
when Rathbone made bitter address against
Masonry, claiming it was organized in6delity.
He then proceeded to work the degree of
master Mason" amid scene of disorder
heretofore unknown in Boston church history.
A large number of the police was necessary
to keep the crowd in order. They hooted,
jeered and snowballed the preacher, and the
widest uproar prevailed. Comparative order
was restored after while, but the minister
was frequently interrupted and hooted down
before he concluded his address.
At Albany, N. Y, there was considera-
bic excitement on Friday, the 9Th instant,
among the Republicans, growing out Of the
sharp practice of the machine politicians, who,
acting in the interest of the Grant boom, call
ed ward meetings, through the Albany Ezpress,
Friday morning, to take place Friday noon,
to elect delegates to the Republican State Con-
vention. Slimly attended meetings were held,
and full Grant delegation selected. All
the voters were supplied with pink ballots,
each bearing the word "Grant" at the top.
They were printed alike, and evidently were
prepared some time in advance. There was
no opposition in any Of the seventeen wards
to any of the machine delegates. The list of
the names returned as elected does not contain
one of the prominent Republicans in Albany.
Many leading Republicans have already indi-
Gated their purpose to hold another meeting
and send their own delegates to the State
Convention. The New York Times, which
has leaning towards Grant, strongly de-
nounces this political sharp practice.
john D. Poindexter, convicted last sum-
mer in Richmond, Va, of killing G. G. Curtis,
whom he had few hours previously horse.
whipped for an alleged insult to Miss Isabella
CottreIl, his affanced, and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary, was married to that
lady on Tuesday night Of last week, at the
residence Of the ladys aunt, in the suburbs of
that city. Poindexter was removed from the
jail about o'clock, in the custody of the city
sergeant, and conducted to the residence Of
his 6ances aunt, where the ceremony was
performed by Rev. DR.. Armstrong, rector of
St. Psuls Church, of which the groom was
communicant at the time of his conviction.
The ceremony was solemnized in quiet man.
ner, no one being present but the immediate
friends and relatives of the contracting par
ties. Poindexter having exhausted every
legal remedy to secure a new trial, and being
refused executive clemency, will be removed
to ho Ctota in do fuuo fopp
months ago the admirers of Curtis erected
handsome monument over his grave in Holly.
wood. A bill is now pending in the Virginia
Legislature to exempt Poindexter from wear
ing the convict's garb whilst in prison.
"A very destructive tornado, accompanied
by heavy rain, struck Nashville, Tennessee,
about II o'clock on last Thursday night.
Great damage vas done in different parts of
the city and several casualties are reported.
The roofs of Rhea's elevator, Burne's Block
and the Edge6eld Manufacturing Company's
building, were blown away A brick wall of
the new custom-house fell with crash, from
the third story to the cellar. The Merchants
Exchange was badly damaged. Fifteen
dwellings and twenty business houses were
partially destroyed. At lilo P. NJ, the
wind was blowing forty miles an hour. Men
were blown down in the street. A man on
trestle bridge was blown from it and broke
leg. All trains were forced to lie up on &C.
count of trees and rails being blown across
the track. No estimate of the loss is made.
Rhea & Sons are the heaviest losers, the un.
roofing of their elevator exposing twenty
thousand bushels of wheat to food of rain.
A number of freight cars, which we're stand.
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