Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-22
Straps and fafts,

- Chastine Cox, negro, was hanged in New
York at S3S A. NJ, last Friday, for the MUIR
der of white lady whose bed chamber he
burglsriously entered.
- The first bale of new cotton was received
at Galveston, Texas, on the 18th. 1t classed
strict middling and was sold in New Orleans
on the 18th for 16 cents per pound. 1t was
forwarded to Fall River, Mass.
- Vermont is still on the decline At the
last census she showed loss of population,
and at this the loss is so marked that she
will have to give up one of her Congress
men and come down to two. Nor is she
the only New England State that will suffer.
- The New York Sun, in its estimate Of
the November election, gives Hancock the
solid South, together with Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
California and Oregon. PAL votes in all, leav-
ing only l2S for Garfield.
In Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th instant,
Judge Woods decided in the habeas corpus
case of revenue officers charged with the
murder of William Jones, an alleged illicit
distiler, near Atlanta, that the United
States had jurisdiction, and ordered the case
to be transferred from the State courts.
According to criminal who has applied
in Pennsylvania for pardon, there is horse
thieves union in the United States, extend
ing as far South as Georgia and as far West
as Indiana. Why not include Texas, whore
they punish man more surely and severely
for stealing horse than for wantonly murder
ing fellow-being?
t. Hua
90 from New Orleans to New York, making
nine changes, and many of these changes
necessitated long walk from depot to depot
In 1869 it took four days, with two or three
changes; in 1878 three and half days, one
change; in 1878 three days, one change !;
and now, in 1880, a man can 60 in sixty
hours and forty-6ve minutes, one change.
- Matthew Lynch, who was killed last
week in New Mexico by a falling tree, left
an estate of over $40000OO. He was q
Philadelphian, a Roman Catholic, and a
bachelor, who fought through the civil war
and at its close went out to New Mexico with
small capital, which he used in purchasing
a canal, supplying the mines of Elizabeth
town with water This started him on the
road to wealth, and later he discovered the
Aztec mines, which yielded 100000 month
His heirs are two brothers and one sister,
- According to the present estimate under
the new census the Southern States will lose
thirteen Representatives in Congress and
may possibly gain three-two in Texas and
one in Missouri The Northern States will
probably lose eight members and gain eigh.
teen-the gains going to Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and
. California. Eleven Democratic States will
probably lose thirteen Representatives, and
four Republican States lose five Representa-
tives, and seven Republican States gain eigh-
teen, while three doubtful States lose four
Representatives.
- 1t is authoritively stated that General
U. S. Grant will return to Galena, Illinois,
before the 1st of August, settle up his
affairs and go to New York. where position
is open for his acceptance The General has
been rendered the presidency Of the American
branch of the De Lessep's Canal Company
at salary of $4,000 a year. This he has
refused on the grounds that the enterprise
would not prove financial success during the
lives of those now interested in the scheme,
and he could not lend his name to an under
taking in which his friends were likely to
embark and receive no returnsl from, if they
do not entirely lose their investment.
- Cotton factories certainly pay in the
South. The gross earnings of the Augusta
Factory for the year ending June 18th, 1880,
were $157, ALPS. 1t paid dividend of
ten per cent. The owners of the Piedmont
Cotton Factory at Greenville, S. c., are so
we'll pleased that they are about duplicating
the concern, and will make the largest facto-
ry in the South. They have begun the
work of en!arging, and already fifty new
buildings to be used by the operatives, have
been erected. The secret of all this is ex
planned when we learn that thirty per cent.
was netted for the year on the stock sub
scribed. These figures and facts are full Of
encouragement.
- This story is told as having occurred at
picnic near Asheville, short time ago, and
the moral of it will readily appear. A
young lady, a charming, gushing young
creature, full of fun, who had been leaning
against tree, surrounded by lot of the
North Carolina Press Association, suddenly
trembled, and hitched around, and then
finally said: "Is any Of you sluggard p
she, turning to young lady friend, "Jane,
you will have to reach down my back and
catch that ant" The young fellows went
away, and when one of them repeated the
quotation, "Go for the ant, thou sluggard,"
the rest all said, "By shimi-ny ish dot So"
- The Mississippi State Board of Health
has passed an order, in view of the bark
Excelsior's arriving in New Orleans from
Rio, infected with yellow fever, that no rail-
road cars shall be allowed to enter Missis.
sppi, and no steamboat or water craft shall
be allowed to land at any point in that State,
unless they have undergone examination by
an officer of the National Board of Health.
Persons from New Orleans must have certif-
Gates that they have not been exposed to infec-
ton. The local board of health of Memphis
have also adopted an order of the State board
which prohibits the importation into Ten
nessee of certain articles shipped from New
Orleans. Officers will be stationed on the
railroad lines leading into Memphis and will
rigidly enforce the order
A dispatch from Wytheville, Va, to
the Philadel phia Times, says: "Mrs. Sarah
Collins, dissolute white widow, died here
on Friday afternoon, after brief illness,
and was buried Saturday. Just after her
death strong disagreeble smell rendered
the room untenable, and during the deodori.
zation -four barrel was discovered contain
ing the festered remains of FIVE small chill
dren murdered by the deceased. The re-
mains were past recognition, but hanging
from the skulls were long straight locks of
blonde hair, proving them to have been white