Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-13
Straps aud fafts.

dent Garfield, and fears that her son, the Sec
retary of War, will be assassinated.
Ham White, a noted highwayman of
Texas, recently arrested in New Mexico, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety
nine years.
In the Connecticut municipal elections,
some towns return Democratic officers and
some Republicans-but all unite and vote
soldly for whisky license.
1t is now estimated that the total re.
ceipts in money by the Southern planters tor
this years crop, will exceed those OF last year.
The increase in price will make up for the
decrease in production.
- The penal code of China DEGREES the de-
capitation of any foreigner who imports opl'
um into that empire, and the strangulatlon
of his assistants. The opium traffic contln-
ues, however, in spite of such severe penal
ties.
The latest charge against Guiteau is to
the effect that he was member of Brother
Beecher's church. 1t is painful to dwell
upon these things, but when man once gets
down, everybody seems to take pride IN
pelting him.
- The statisticians are now willing to con-
cede that there will be wheat surplus OF at
least 100,000000 bushels in this country at
the service of the needy elsewhere. 1t will
be required, and it will bring to this country
at least Sl50,0O0,0OO in foreign gold.
- An engine to run machinery for genera
ting electricity has been placed on the West
ern N. G. Railroad. This electric light is to
furnish light in tunnels, so that day and
night force can be kept at work. This is an
indication of the determination of the Rich
mond & Danville Company to push the work.
South Carolina is probably the only State
in the Union that can point with pride to two
ex.Governors simultaneously in the clutches
of the law. r. K. Scott is in trouble tor
murder; Franklin J. Moses is in Jail for
swindling a citizen in the paltry sum of twen'
ty.6ve dollars.
The twentyseven distinguished French
men and Frenchwomen who will represent
the French government, army, navy, For.
eign Office and fine arts at Yorktown, arrived
at New York on Wednesday of last week,
and were received with great honors by
deputation.
"A New York man has purchased, near
Atlanta, Georgia, an estate whereon he pro-
poses to establish dog farm and training
yard. He is professional dog trainer
and has brought with him seven or eight
fine CANNES of the pointer species One Of
these he values at $780,
According to the Washington correspon.
dent of the Portland (Me.) Argus, Mr. Blaine
is to run for Governor Of Maine, next year, and
at the following session of the Legislature be
transferred to the United States Senate as
successor of Senator Frye, who is to be set
aside to make room for him.
"A man who died in Nashville Tenn,
left direction to send his body to the LeMoyne
furnace at Washington, Pa, for cremation.
His wife refused to have it done, and has
placed guard over his grave but his two
sons are determined to carry out the wish,
and have begun lawsuit to get possession
Of the remains.
The sole survivor of eleven hundred men
is living at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York. Gen. Daniel Tyler was first lieuten-
ant of the first artillery, consisting Of 100
men, in 1924, when the regiment received
Lafayette at Yorktown. Every member Of
the regiment is said to be dead except Gen.
Tyler.
Cox, Stephens and Delany, the Iron
mountain train robbers, pleaded guilty in the
Hampstead, Arkansas, Circuit Court last
Friday, and were sentenced to the penitenti-
ary for term of 10 years each. The rob.
berry occurred on the 22nd of September, and
the men were captured on the 2Sth. A spe-
cial term of the court was held to try them.
- The Washington Star says that it can
now be authoritatively stated that the section
of vertebra and the broken rib of President
Garfield, now at the Medical Museum, will
not be placed on exhibition at the Museum.
This will be satisfactory information to the
public, who were shocked by the published
statements that an exhibition was to be made
of them.
- 1t is rumored in Washington that Gov.
ernor Dingley, who was elected to fill the
vacancy in the Second Maine Congressional
district, caused by the election of W. P.
Frye to the United States Senate, will de-
cline the election, and that Mr.. James G.
Blaine will then be nominated with the GER
tainty of election and the hope of being
elected the next Speaker of the House Of
Representatives.
Mrs. Mary Craig, once known as the
largest woman in the United States, died at
her home in Danvlle, Indiana, on Monday
of last week, of dropsy of the heart. The dis.
patch gave her weight as eight hundred
pounds and her height six feet, and says that
she was the wife of the largest man in the
United States. 1t required the efforts of six
men to move the body, and a casket was
especially made to receive the remains.
The tide Of immigration continues to flow
with increasing force. Since January l, 1885,
$50 men, women and children hvae been
landed at Castle Garden, 5000 more than du-
ring the same period in 1880, and 1000 more
than arrived during the first half of Septem-
Der of last year. The commissioners contin-
ue to report that the immigrants are of a bet
ter class, as a rule, than ever before, and that
nearly every one brings little capital, the
result of economy practiced in the old coun-
try.
A kind-hearted gentleman in Michigan
has had printed in beautiful style = thousand
copies of Mr.. James r. Randalls editorial in
the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
on the death of the President, which was
printed in the ENQUIRER several weeks ago.
These he has distributed over that State as
evidence of the deep grief of the Southern
people for the sad tragedy, and their genuine
sympathy with the Northern masses in all
tbot ooponrne tho narnetuitv of tho oovarn.