Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-03
Sfraps and fafts.

ton in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme
Court of Washington county, Rhode Island,
praying for divorce from his wife, Catharine
Chase Sprague, on the ground of adultery
and neglect of her duties as wife.
"A dispatch from Knoxville, Tenn, states
that an immense rock fell from Loudon
Bluff, Saturday, while freight train on the
Fast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail.
road was passing, smashing the engine and
demolishiug two cars.
- The South has more than doubled the
amount Of its cotton manufacturing capital
in the ten years just closed. The North did
not add quite eli ghteen per cent, to her capi-
tai. The South nearly doubled her product
Of cotton goods.
DR.. Oscar Jennings, physician of stand
ing in Paris, writes to the London Lancet
that in the treatment of mental disease he
has constantly used music, which calms and
soothes the mind, and is too precious an agent
to be neglected. Concerts form part of the
regular treatment in many asylums. =
Brigham Youngs grave is in the corner
of the Mormon cemetery at Salt Lake City
1t is covered by slab of granite, but there
is no name or inscription of any kind. Out
side Of Brigham's personal graveyard, the
grounds are so shabby that they might be
taken for dumping place for garbage.
- Census Agent Butter6eld, who made
the census recount in South Carolina, makes
an emphatic denial of statement attributed
to him in New York paper complaining Of
the treatment he received in South Carolina
He says he experienced nothing but courtesy
which has been fully acknowledged in his
report to the census office.
Mr.. Henry Bergh has drawn up bill
for presentation to the New York Legis
ture providing severe corporal punishment
ment for any male person who shall hereafter
wifully beat his wife or any other female
The lashes are to be administered by the
sheriff, or deputy, in as private manner as
possible, and il the presence of physician
- St. Louis gamblers propose to evade
State laws next spring by fitting out boat
on the Mississippi River, with large main
cabin for keno aud smaller rooms for faro
roulette and hazard. Each passenger is tc
pay 81 fare, and three fourths of the fares are
to constitute spots" for the game, the bank
deducting the usual commission.
- The annual report of the commissioners
of emigration for the year 1880 was complet
ed on the 25th. The total number of pas
sengers arriving at Castle Garden was 372,
$50. Of this number, 104,204 came from
Germany, 66,S99 from Ireland, 33,76S from
England, and 1O,l9O from Italy. The report
recommends that Congress make such law:
as may be required touching immigration.
- Virginia is to have civil rights case al
to public school. At Lynchburg a white
girl was dismissed from school because sht
lived with negro family and had reputa
ton somewhat doubtful. All the other schol
ars quit when she entered. So it was neces
sity to turn her off or shut up shop. Suit
has been brought against the District School,
Board at Lynchburg.
- Senator Bruce has written letter to s
friend of his in Memphis, in which he says tha
he has studied all the great questions Of pub
lie moment since he entered the Senate, and
he thinks he is prepared to perform the func
tions of a cabinet officer, if Gen. Garfield ap
points him to one. He says it would be
eminently wise to give his race such recog
milton.
-"Romeo and Juliet" has been enacted ir
real life in Stuttgart. A student in love with
very pretty girl had repeatedly written tc
her parents for their consent to a marriage
Receiving no reply, he poisoned himself al
the girls lodgings Next day came a letter
with the parents consent. At the funeral
the girl swallowed poison, and fell lifeless in.
to the arms of one of the choirsters singing
over the grave.
- Secretary Sherman, in his speech at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, Wednesday evening. said the
South was about to be developed in wealth
and population that We have been surprised
by the returns of the census from the South
but that new surprises may be expected, and
that he expected ere long to see happy
South, adding to the wealth, population and
energy of the country, and contributing all
the great staples that add to wealth and pop
ulatiOn.
Few are aware how near completion is a
new railroad across the continent. But so
miles separate the Atchison, Topeka and San.
ia Fe Railroad, going west from the Southern
Pacific, coming east. Blu. a few days more
and passengers can cross the continent on q
road which escapes the regions of snow and
ice. Not much fuss has been made about
the new semi.tropical route, but it is great
achievement, nevertheless.
John Lloyd, colored, of Atlanta, Ca,
drank half pint of whisky Friday night
for quarter. After swallowing it, he offered
to bet another quarter that he could drink a
pint more. This feat he also accomplished,
and soon after he offered to bet fifty cents
that he could swallow still another pint. The
bet was taken, and he drank the liquor but
just as it disappeared, he fell to the floor un-
conscious, and remained in that condition
until Ten o'clock at night, when he died.
Under the title statistics of the Jews of
the United States" the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations has published Mr..
VIM. B. Hackenburg's report. He has been
engaged some FIVE years in collecting and ar
ranging the Statistics" from which we OBJ.
tain the following summary: Jewish popula-
tion of the United States, about 250,OOO
number Of congregation, 27S, with a men,
bership of about 13,000 value of real estate
and other property (synagogues, hospitals.
cemeteries, &c., owned by the congregations
and bene6cent societies, about S7,000,0O0.
"A dispatch from Jacksonville, Florida,
says that contract has just been agreed up,
on between the authorities of Florida and j.
Coryel, of Jacksonville, and A. B. Linder.
ham, representing capitalists of Philadelphia
and the Pacific coast, to drain Lake Okeecho.
bee in South Florida. When carried out,
this undertaking will reclaim 100000 acres
of the best sugar land in the world The
territory reclaimed will include the celebrated
Everglades. This is the largest contract on