Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-15
Straps and fafts,

sually promising.
Over 1000 persons hold ten.elevenths of
the registered national debt; the other elev-
enth is held byW. Fl. Vanderbilt.
"A mail rider and his horse, in Meriwether
county, Ca, were both struck by lightning
and killed. ast Friday.
One division of thirteen clerks in the
treasury department have contributed $500
to the Republican campaign fund, an as
sessment of 2 per cent. on their salaries.
Gertrude, one of the Hood orphans, adopt
ed by Mr. and Mrs. NJ. Joseph. of Columbus
Ca, died on the 5th instant at Warm Springs,
Meriwether county.
Col. Pelton, nephew Of Ex-Governor Til.
den, and who gained some notoriety by his
connection with the Presidential campaign OF
1876, died in New York last Thursday morn
ing.
Mccormick & Co.'S, elevator, containing
5O,OOO bushels of oats, 10000 bushels of corn
and 1000 bushels of wheat was burned last
Saturday night. The fire was probably the
work of an incendiary, The loss is fully
$4,000.
New Orleans once ranked among the
largest cities of the country. 1t still grows,
but has already dropped from the fourth or
fifth place to the ninth. Its census just COM
pleted, shows total population Of 2l5,239,
against 1877, ,911 ten years ago.
Gen. Walker, the superintendent of the
census, SAYS that sufficient returns have been
received to indicate the total population Of
the country, which, he thinks, is about 49,
100000, which is an increase of 100000
since 1870.
Sacred concerts are given at Long Branch
anu Coney Island every Sunday night. A sa.
cred concert consists of twenty per centum Of
oratorios played in waltz and polka time,
twenty per centum of "prayers" from operas,
twenty per centum Of sentiment, and forty
per centum of "Pinsfore" and "Shoo fly"
- The meteor which astonished Macon
few nights ago was found embedded in the
forks of a tree several miles from town. 1t
seems to have fallen with great force, burylng
itself so deep in the tree that it had to be cut
out with an axe The meteor is about the
size of a mans head, and is an amalgamation
of iron and stone.
An authority on horsemanship says that
it is folly for a lady to put herself into stays
so tight that her figure is not flexible while
she is on horseb back A stuffed doll he says,
should never be put on horse, nor any
woman who is not so loosely dressed that she
can lace her own boots an1 put up her own
back hair. While the lady is OH horseback
the circulation of her blood should never be
impeded.
Many people are under the impression
that England stands at the head of all the
Continental nations as regards the number
of periodical publications. Such is not the
case. Germany heads the list with 3,778 !;
England follows with $685. and France
comes next with 2,0O0 There is then fall
ing off, America boasts of 9,l29, being more
than the three nations above named put to-
gether
- Owen Buck, of Oceanica, Nd, had a
vicious, kicking horse, which he was anxious
to sell. While trying to make a bargain
with a probable purchaser, he remarked
"That horse is so gentle that my little girl
could 90 up behind him and twist his tail,
and he wouldn't raise a hoof." The girl
overheard this lie, took, it for the truth, tried
the experiment on being left alone with the
horse and was killed by a kick.
- The Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D. ILL., D.,
of Staunton, Va, died at Saratoga, N. T.,
on the afternoon of the 9Th instant, aged II.
Dr. Sears had long been prominent in edu.
cational matters, was the author OF several
books on educational subjects, and was tor
many years president of Brown University at
Providence When George Peabody gave
the fund to provide education in the South.
Dr. Sears was made its manager with an
advisory board of trustees. He then went
to live in Virginia: He went to Saratoga
about month ago for his health.
On Tuesday evening of last week, Glenn
Etis. negro, shot and killed Joseph H: Estis,
white, young farmer near Cascade Village
in Pittsylvania county, Va. The alteration
grew out of an alleged assault by the deceased
upon female relative of Glenn on last Satur
day evening The girl was getting vegetables
in the garden of the deceased against his
prohibition and he farcibly elected her. In
their rencontre on Tuesday Glenn attacked the
deceased with shot gun on his own premises
and killed him. After receiving the fatal
shot Joseph H. Estis shot his assailant with
pistol, wodnding him seriously in the leg.
Glenn was arrested, is now in custody and
will be lawfully tried He was formerly
owned and brought up by the father of the
deceased.
Mr.. Stodard, second mate of the brigan-
tine Fortunate, which arrived at Halifax, N.
S.. on the 18th instant, reports that one night
while passing along the coast of Florida, on
a recent voyage, 4 singular phenomenon ap-
peared just after dark. Two columns of
fire were seen, seemingly about mile away.
They were about fifty yards apart and rose
to the height of nearly 500 feet when they
arched towards each other, but did not meet.
They burned with steady, dull red color,
and did not emit any sparks, but at the arch
ing portions emitted tremulous rays or pen
cillings of light similar to the aurora borealis.
They appered in sight all night and gradually
faded away as daylight came. The weather
was beautifully clar and not cloud was Wis
ible during the entire night. On the follow
ing day there was a tremendous thunder
storm, accompanied by gale of wind, but no
rain.
- Atlanta, Ca, enjoyed last week, for the
first time, the novelty of a colored juryman
in the Superior Court of Fulton county, and
so peculiar was the sensation that the news
agent sent the following dispatch to the Asso-
ciated Press, under date Of the 7th instant:
To-day in the Superior Court the first negro
Juror was called. He served with eleven
wel-known white citizens, was made foreman
of the Jury, and brought in verdict of guilty
against colored man charged with burglary.
In the next case he was refused by Asa Gum,
coored, charged with murder, who said he
wanted no nipper to try him for his life The