Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-29
Sfraps and fatts.

These figures are furnished by the Illinois
State Board of agriculture, and are claimed
to be accurate.
- The nearest election at hand is that of
Indiana, which occurs in April, on seven con-
stitutional amendments, one of which changes
the time for the general State election from
October to November. This amendment,
which is the only one Of Importance, will be
beaten, it is said.
After the ceremony had been performed
at Fall River wedding, former husband
of the bride presented himself He had been
away four years, and she had supposed her.
self a widow. He offered to leave her to the
new husband if she would give him her child,
and she closed the bargain on that basis.
BY legislative prohibition there is not
drop of intoxicating liquor sold in Banks
county. Georgia. As consequence, an un-
heard of reign of peace and order prevails.
Court, which used to sit full week, now dis.
patches its business and has actually adjourn
ed by dinner on the first day. The temper
ance crusade is fast sweeping over the State.
Major Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, has
been court.martialed second time for con.
duct unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
The record in the last court martial has been
sent to the judge advocate general. 1t is
not expected that the President will modify
the sentence, as he did in the case of the first
court-martial of Mai. Reno.
- Some of the planters of the Mississippi
lands held convention at Memphis lately
in the interest of cotton seed. They ascer.
tanned that the manufacturers of cotton seed
oil were realizing great returns from pressing
cotton seed. Crude oil is now worth 38c.
per gallon refined 4Sc. per gallon oil meal
SIS a ton, and oil cake, S22 to $2S.50 a ton.
They agreed to advance the price of cotton
seed about fifty per cent.
The gallows record for 1879 is large
one, showing an increase over any previous
year. The total number of hangings amount
to 101, of whom 81 were hung in the South
and At in the North. In respect to color, 55
were whites, 81 negroes, s Indians and l Chi:
naman. North Carolina and Texas lead of
with IL each, Pennsylvania boasts of 10 and
Oregon of T. Besides these, "a men were
lynched. Colorado leads with 8, Kentucky
second with 8, and California third with 6.
Of these lynchings, 36 were committed in
Northern States and Territories and SO in the
South.
"A curious libel suit is that brought by
one Myers, in indianapolis, against journal
of that city, for calling him negro. One of
the Republican papers suggests that, under
the fifteenth amendment, it is no otfense or
insult to call-a man negro, and he cannot
claim damages therefor; but Myers answers
that the negro is hated, prosecuted and ILL.
treated in Indiana, and that man who is
supposed to be guilty of having negro blood
in his veins in that State, is thereby practical
ly prohibited from ever holding Office or be-
ing treated civilly. In fine, he claims that
life, as negro in Indiana, is uncomfortable,
and sues the libeling journal for $4,000
damages.
The press of Mississippi, without excep-
tion, chronicle much prosperity throughout
that State. The Vicksburg Herald says
mississippi appears to he emerging from the
gloom of a long depression into the brightness
of a permanent prosperity. All the produc-
tions are bountiful, prices are good, old scores
are being wiped out, and all the people feel
that there is "life in the old land yet" A
planter showed his books to newspaper cor.
respondent, in which, out Of seventy-6ve
names of tenants, share workers and hire
lings, but one had failed to pay his bills and
have money ahead, and the reason he gave
for the exception was that he had dabbled in
politics last summer and lost his crop through
sheer neglect"
The New York Tribune states that the
Rev. Gustav Haferman, pastor of the German
I pfh rf ho Ior
wealthiest in Brooklyn, is in trouble, and has
been asked to resign by the trustees of the
church, the charge Icing that on several oc-
casions he kissed his cook, young girl named
Ida Stiggman. After submitting to the kiss.
ing for while, the girl reported the matter
to her mother and then to the pastors wife.
Finally, the matter reached the ears of the
trustees of the church, who cited Haferman to
appear before them, but he only sent long
letter acknowledging that he had kissed the
cook upon several occasions. He declared
that he did it out of pure Christian motives !;
he regarded her as daughter. This was not
satisfactory to the trustees, in view of the fact
that Haferman had two daughters already,
and hence a request for his resignation. Half
erman is quoted as saying that if the congre-
cation wished him to 60 away he would do SC.
- The New York Times states that another
vast road combination, has been completed
in that city. 1t consists in the purchase of
the New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago
Railroad, better known as the "old jackson
route" and its branches by the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad Company. The purchased
company runs from New Orleans, La, via
Jackson, Miss, to Cairo, where it joins the
Illinois Central line. 1t has also branch
from Durant, Miss, to Kosciusko, Miss, and
another from Grenada, Miss, to Memphis,
Tenn, and has total length of over six hun.
dred and fifty miles. The Illinois Central
with branches from Centralia, ILL.,, to Sioux
City, Iowa, and from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to
Mona, Iowa, and is over 1,100 miles in
length. The consolidated road will, conse-
quently, have a mileage of over 1,700 miles.
1t traverses Iowa eastwardly across the entire
States, and Illinois, Gin two branches Ten.
nessee and Mississippi southerly, through
their centres, passing through portions of
Kentucky and Louisiana, and extends from
Sioux City and Chicago on the north, to New
Orleans on the south, via Dubuque, Cairo,
Memphis, jackson and other important
points, forming strong rival to the new
Louisville and Nashville combination for
through Southern business.
The Philadelphia Record says an impor-
tant movement is on foot looking to the con-
vening of an Ecumenical Council or Confer
ence of Methodists from all parts of the world,
to be held in the United States some time
next year. The idea was first mooted at the.
Methodist Episcopal Conference held in Bal.