Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-10-21
Straps aud fatts.

ted last week. In 1870 the present site of
the city was sold at So per acre.
- A bill will be introduced in the next
Legislature of Georgia, fixing the license for
retailing liquor in Screven county, at $4,000
per aDnum.
- Aiken Moore, one of the men charged
with killing Alexander Bryce in Oconee
county, more than year ago, but who was
tried and acquitted, has been recently killed
in an afray in Clayton county, Georgia.
- 1t having been noticed that young ladies
who act as bridesmaid soon get married, the
desire to ofhciate in that capacity has led to
increasing the number, until now fashion al.
lows sixteen to stand up with one couple.
- In the case of DeJarnette, convicted of
the murder Of his sister and sentenced to be
hanged on the 29th inst, at Danville, Va,
the Supreme Court of Appeals has awarded
a writ Of error and supercedeas, and will
hear the case at Richmond in December next.
DR.. Tanner has at last met his match, and
more than his match. A calf in Holt county,
Missouri, got entapgled in pile of rails, and
remained in that position for period of
forty one days, without food or water. 1t
came out all right.
- Seventeen Mormon elders arrived at St.
Louis last Saturday direct from Utah, and
left the same morning for Tennessee, Georgia,
Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia,
whittier they 60 to make converts to the
Mormon faith, and secure Mormon emigrants
to Colorado.
A prize was offered for the mother who
presented the greatest number of her OWL
children at the Indiana State Fair. Mrs
Smith and Mrs. Line were each accompan.
led to the fair by nine, but Mrs. Line gave
birth to tenth on the grounds, and so took
the prize.
"A bright little boy, who had been engaged
in fight with another boy. was reproved by
his aunt, who told him that he oug hit always
to wait till the other boy "pitched upon him. "
"Well," exclaimed the little hero, "but if wait
for the other boy to begin, I'm afraid there
won't be any fight"
A most remarkable instance of the ability
of man to survive the gravest injuries, is illus
trated in the case of Max Walters, of Buffalo
who recently was severely hurt by falling
into we'll. He was impaled upon piece Of
wood by the fall, the stick passing completely
through his body, entering at the abdomen
and coming out at the shoulder. Neverthe.
less, he is in fair way to recover.
"A dispatch of the 18th from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, says the severest storm ever ex-
perepced in that region prevailed throughout
Sunday and Sunday nig ght. The barometer
was never so low there before, and the wind
blew from sixty to seventy miles per hour.
Trains are blockaded in snow drifts ten and
twelve feet deep, and there was much de.
slruction of property and stock and damage
to shipping. though no loss of life is reported.
Texas has cash balance of nearly ST.
100000 in her State treasury, and it is given
out that Governor Roberts will advise the
next legislature to spend that and millions
more in establishing State University and
building penitentisries and a State. house at
Austin. The Governor hopes to counteract
the disposition to split the State in twain by
this means, but the measure will be opposed
by those determined to make two States out
Of Texas anyhow.
- The cotton crop, under four years of
Republican rule at the South, 1866, 1867,
1868 and 1869, amounted in value to four
hundred and sixty.two millions of dollars.
Under four years of Democratic rule, 1876,
1877. 1878 and 1879, it amounted to nine
hundred and ffiy-one millions of dollars,
being more than double what it was when the
carpet baggers held sway over the people,
and disorganized labor and ruined our pros.
perity.
Many clergymen in this country have
lately received circular from London
dealer in secondhand sermons He offers
sermons photographed in bold, round hand"
so that those who happen to see them would
suppose that they were manuscript, for twenty
five cents each, or twenty dollars a hundred.
He has line Of cheaper sermons in print,
at ten cents apiece, warranted orthodox and
others-a little more expensive have
"a pleasantness, yet an awful solemnity about
them"
- The New York Telegram says it was es.
timated that there are 5000 horses suffering
from epizooty in that city, and the impression
prevails that the distemper will continue un,
til every animal has been affected. The
horses in Brooklyn and Jersey City are also
affected. Not single death has so far oc-
Cured among the diseased animals. The dis
temper has extended as far north as ST..
Johns, New Brunswick. 1t prevails along
the Hudson River, has appeared in Philadel
phia and Baltimore, and seems to be getting
general.
- The Mormon conference, which adjourn
ed at Salt Lake on the 10th instant, was
chiefly notable for the filling Of the first
bo,
Brigham Young's death. John Taylor was
elected President, with Gen. @. Cannon as
First and Joseph N. Smith as Second Coun-
sellors. Mr.. Cannon is the delegate to Con-
gress, and was renominated on the 7th inst.
Joseph N. Smith is a nephew of the original
Joseph Smith. John Taylor was the ranking
member of the twelve apostles Mr.. Cannon
is regarded as the ruling spirit-the power
behind the throne
- Some curious animals, never before seen
in this country, were landed at New York
on Wednesday. They are "woolly elephants"
and natives of the Malay peninsula, in
habiting the cold, rugged mountains in the
northern part of the country, from whose
rigors they are protected by thick coat of
long, woolly hair. They are also very small,
as elephants 90, the older, six years of age,
being only three feet high and weighing $50
pounds, while the younger, four and one-half
years old, weighs 200 pounds less. They are
very affectionate animals and fond of atten-
ton. Although other elephants Of this spe-
ces have been caught, they have invariably
succumbed when taken from the bleak noun
tain ranges to the warmer plains. Hence
the fact that this species is generally un.
known, and mentioned by but few naturalsts.