Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-22

LacnmenC OF American troops were at nauu
Says the Chicago Tribune: eff there had
been one of the present generation Of Chicago
girls on hand with piano, we venture to say
that the man-ofwar would have struck her
colors at once"
- The cold weather they have been hav-
ing on the Pacific coast is without known
precedent In the Bonanza mines, which
are so intolerably hot, water froze six hun
dred feet below the surface. In private
houses water-pipes burst, even when the fires
were all burning by which the place could
be warmed. Out of doors all but spirit ther-
mometers quit work as beneath their notice.
The mercury fell even lover than the mining
stocks. Telegraph wires snapped by the con-
traction in the cold, and all communication
was for while broken up on that account.
= Among the provisions Of CALIFORNIA; new
Constitution, those concerning the prosecution
of persons accused of crime are now exciting
most discussion in that State. The chief func-
ton of grand juries will not be the making of
indictments, but prosecution may directly
follow information after the preliminary ex-
animation and commitment of magistrate.
In cases below felony, the trial by jury may
be waived by the consent of both parties,
or the jury may consist Of any number less
than twelve mutually agreed upon but no
man, if he so chooses, can be tried any other
way than before an old fashioned jury.
- Bob Ingersol once defended man who
had shot another. The plea was self defence.
Ingersol kept the wife and children out of
court, and then he pictured to the jury the
happy home, the waiting wife, the children
swinging on the gate, expecting their father,
"and gentlemen of the jury, you who are
yourselves husbands and fathers, won't you
let him 60 homer" The foreman, big farm
err was so carried away that, thinking the
question addressed personally to him. and de-
manding answer, exclaimed in choking
voice: "Yes, Bob, we'll let him 60 home"
Ingersoll had not half completed his argu-
ment, but he knew that was the supreme mo-
ment, and sat down. The man went home,
and the next day the jury discovered he was
an old bachelor.
= Mrs. Latham, of Lynchburg, Va, having
discovered that her husband was Republi.
can, sued for divorce on that ground. The
Corporation Court of Lyncbburg decreed the
divorce but it was carried to the Court of
Appeals, where it was overruled. Judge An
derson of that court dissented from the ma.
jority, and held that being Republican was
just cause for woman to apply for divorce.
This remarkable Judge descants upon the
matter as follows: "The shock and morti6-
cation of Mrs. Latham was to find that her
husband had not been true to her; that he had
deserted his friends and had gone over to the
enemy, and had joined him in waging upon
them war more cruel than war of arms.
1t was per6dy, the moral taint of which she
felt attached to him, and which would likely
exclude him from the best society of the State"
Some of the skeptics have not hesitated
to ventilate their suspicion that the latest SEN
sation concerning Edison's electric light is no
more nor less than a scheme to force down
gas stocks for the purpose of speculation. If
this is the fact, it has failed in this country /;
but in England such stocks were unfavorably
affected for a few days, although they have
now recovered. In the meantime the report.
ers have withdrawn from Menlo Park, and
Edison appears to have accomplished no more
than when it was announced more than a
year ago that he had perfected the light for
domestic use. If he has had as many as eigh-
ty of his horse shoe lamps burning at once,
there is nothing to boast of, for he employs
an engine of eighty-horse power; and at the
proportion of one-horse power to lamp, the
grand illumination by the carbons and the
yoltaic arc can be maintained at no greater
cost than the very much inferior lighting by
Edson's system.
There are no end of bigamies, and proba-
bly, there never will be any end until all wo-
men are endowed with desire to know some
thing about the men they marry. But while
there are bigamies and bigamists, it has been
left to New York man to carry on the bust
ness with just little more than ordinary i'm,
pudence. He married one wife in 1858 and
another in 1878, and lived with both until
few days ago. He maintained these wives in
separate houses at no great distance from each
other, one being at Woodlawn and the other
at Yonkers. With rascally GOODNESS he was
in the habit of taking the daughter of his first
wife to visit his second wife, the girl being
under pledge not to betray him. To his sec.
ond wife he accounted for his visits to his
first wife by calling the latter his mother, and
he might have kept up this delicate lodging
between wives almost indefinitely if an incon.
siderate brother.in. law had not exposed him.
He is now in Jail, and so far as that particu-
lar man is concerned, young women with a
reckless anxiety to marry, may feel secure.
There are, however, a plenty of others just
like him all over the country-a supply, in
fact, very much in excess of the demand.
The proposition started long ago to hold a
"world's fair" in New York in 1883 is taking
shape. A crowded meeting of influential
citizens of that city was held at Chickering
Hall on Wednesday evening. Mr.. Hugh T.
Jewett, ex-president and receiver of the Erie
Railroad, was called to the chair, and made
an address on the subject of International ex-
hibitions in general and in particular. Gen.
Hawley, of Connecticut, who was so promi-
nently identified with the Philadelphia exhi-
bition, also made speech So did Senator
Window, of Minnesota, and Gen. Hooker, Of
Mississippi, both of whom pledged the hearty
co. operation Of the sections from which they
came Finally, it was resolved that the pro-
posed fair should be held in the year already
named; that it should be national as to the
entire United States, and widely information.
al, so as to include the peoples of all the
earth that if it could not be called the cente-
nary of the Declaration Of American 1nde-
pendence, it mig ght still be called the cente-
nary of the close of the war of the Revolu
ton, and tlat the government of the United
States should be requested to give "the grand
exposition national sanction commensu-
rate with its Importance.
- The Evansville (Ind.) Journal, after pay
ing tribute to the gratitude displayed by
the Southern people in contributing to the