Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-16
MERE.MENTION.

The AdjutantGeneral of Texas reports
that the State has 5000 criminals at large,
1000 of whom are murderers..
Arkansas election gave about 10000 Demo
cratic majority. .'''''""Each Kentucky peni-
tentiary convict costs the State eleven cents
ay..........All but FIVE or six Of the news
papers in Tennessee oppose repudiation of the
State debt. .''.'..."H Half of Scotland is owned
by seventy persons. .'''''''''Negro jurors were
chosen in Kentucky for the first time last
week. .'..."...If the cotton crop of 1880
should reach 100000 bales, as has been
predicted, it will require $4,000 miles Of hoop
iron to tie it. t.'.'.""General Longstreet has
received his commission as minister to Tur-
key. .".'."General Grant emphatically de.
clines to be President of a Cororado Mining
Company, which evidently expected to boil
ster its stock by the use of his name. ''''"Pres-
ident Hayes and his party, on their trip to
California, we're heartily welcomed at Salt
Lake City. Leading Mormons paid their
respects. '.'.'... Along the Florida coast last
week several vessels were stranded and great
loss ensued to shipping, in consequence Of
prevailing storms. The orange crop was also
seriously injured. ."..'."Claytan Hillsman,
colored boy eleven years old, has been sen-
fenced to be banged at Monroe, Ca, on
the 29th of next month, for the murder Of
three year old child. .....'....Twelve or fifteen
Cherokee Indians will attend Trinity College,
N. c., this year at the expense of the United
States Government, not only to be instructed
in the English studies, but also agricultural
pursuits. '''.'.".Since 1860 every Presidential
candidate of the Republican party has been
Western mar, and every Presidential can
didate of the Democrats an Eastern man.
In view of the present low price of print
goods, the Fall River manufacturers are con-
sidering the propriety of reducing the wages
of their operatives ten per cent. '''''''''ln.
formation comes from Virginia that the to-
bacco crop has been injured by worms and
heavy rain. In the section around Peters
burg the crop is smaller than has been known
for many years. '''''''''sam Hill, who killed
Simmons, the seducer of his wife, in Atlanta
about two years ago, for which he was. sem
fenced to the penitentiary for life, but sub
sequently, by second jury on a trial for
lunacy, was sent to the asylum at Miledgeville,
escaped from that institution few days
ago. ..........There is talk of Grant being
made president of the Western Union Tele.
graph Company in October. .''''''TeEas,
settled as densely es New York, would con.
tain 22,OOO,0OO people. 1.-THE Queen Of
Spain was delivered of Princess OH Saturday
last. The young Princess was baptized on
Tuesday, with water brought from the river
Jordan, specially procured for the purpose.
Before the Superior Court in San Francis.
co, last Monday, I. M. Kalloch, charged with
killing Charles DeYoung, pleaded "once in
jeopardy" The plea was entered on the
ground that information charging the defen-
dant with the murder was set aside. .'.'''''''A
New York postofice clerk has been arrested
and bound over charged with purloining let
ters supposed to contain money. '''"'The an.
niverssry of the battle of North Point was
celebrated at Baltimore last Monday by vet
erans between 80 and 80 years old....... Gen.
Hunt, stationed at Atlanta, will appoint three
officers of the Fifth Artillery to attend the
competitive drill at the Kings Mountain Cen.
tennial and act as Judges. The Light Bat
terry will probably take part in the ceremonies.