Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-29
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journment, and the date usually predicted for
the realization of this blessing to the country
is from the tenth to the twentieth of July.
The country will he delighted when the session
of the present Congress ends.
- At Danville, Illinois, on the 22nd instant,
Allie Mills, aged fourteen years, Mary Oglie,
aged seventeen, and Mary Jones, aged twelve,
committed suicide by taking arsenic. Allie
Mills gave as her reason that her father lived
with shameless woman, Miss Oglie's reason
was that she was an orphan, and Mary Jones
took the drug because the others did,
Lawyer Polk was fined $40 for contempt of
Court at Winterset, Iowa, the alternative De-
ing twenty days. imprisonment. He had no
money, and his fellow members of the bar
raised the amount. my gratitude is bound
less, dear friends" said he II haven't had
twenty dollars in my pocket before for twenty
years. shall keep it there, with your kind
permission" and he went joyfully to Jail.
Labor is very scarce in the Piedmont re-
gion of Virginia, and but for the substitution
of labor-saving machinery it would be lmpoS-
sible to secure the heavy crop of wheat in that
section now ready for harvesting. Many col
ored men are reported to have left for Pitts
burg, Pa, where they find work in the manu-
featuring establishments. Mahone's reform
movement does not seem to be salutary.
- The display in Baltimore, on the 2lst, on
the occasion of the Grand Army OF the kepuD-
lie gathering was a grand affair. Over 20, 600
mell were in the line of the procession and the
display of decoration on the buildings was pro-
fuse. President Arthur, Secretaries Lincoln,
Howe and Chandler, General Sherman and
host of minor officials from Washington were
present. The day was fine and nothing oc-
CURED to mar the general enjoyment.
- Michael Davitt, the Irish agitator, has ar
rived at New York, but his appearance in
America does not seem to create much enthu-
siasm He spoke in Jersey City last Friday
night, and alluding to this intended speech he
remarked on Friday II intend tonight to
answer once for all the charges brought against
me, and if after this they are again repeated l
shall resign my position in the Land League
and return at once to Ireland"
The Louisiana Legislature has passed a
general law authorizing the consolidation OF
railroad companies in that State, also the con-
solidation of railroad companies OF that State
with companies of other States 1t IS under
stood that this law was framed to enable the
lines recently purchased by r. T. Wilson u
Co., of New York running from New Orleans
to Memphis on the East side OF the MISSISSIPPI
River to consolidate, and under 1.-THE CONSOLE
dation of these lines will he at once perfected
"A sort of new departure is taking place in
the Mormon doctrines Of the survival OF the
tttest. In future all the females, spiritual and
corporal, are to be "of the elect most Deautl.
full in body and mind" a deputasion, not of
elders but of 'selectors, is new IN England
picking out the prettiest girl, given to the
fleshy school of religion, and they are many:
Some exquistely beautiful girls are enrolled
for Utah. Feeble faith is not profitable with
the Mormons in England.
The funeral took place at Alexandria, Va,
on Wednesday of last week of Col. William r.
Mclean, who had the singular fortune to own
and reside upon the fields of Bull Run and Ap-
pomattox when the two armies met at these
places at the beginning and end OF the war.
After Bull Run, anticipating continued hos
tilities in that neighborhood, he bought farm
near the AppomattOX River, to which he re-
moved his family 1t was on this farm that
General Lee completed the formal act of sur
render.
At the funeral of the four children in Chi
cago who were murdered by their mother the
crowd was immense, all anxious to get inside
Some one suggested as the father did not have
money to defray the burial expenses, to open
the door and invite the mob to fall into line
and view the bodies for ten cents. The crowd
aSsented with an eagerness that was painful,
and two men stood at the door taking the
dimes for more than an hour. The collection
amounted to $50, and one of the men who
suggested the plan remarked, "a respectable
funeral can now he gotten up for all Of them,
without applying to their rich relations. {"
Chicago is prolific in novelties.
The postal authorities have made arrange
ments with the Richmond and Danville Rail-
road Company, to have the fast mail trains,
which were discontinued last February, put
back on the road and ina few days the first trip
under the new arrangement will he made. The
ington City at one O'Clock in the day time and
arrive at Charlotte about 11.30 O'Clock that
night, running at All average speed OF 35 miles
an hour. Between Danville and Charlotte on
ly two stops will be made-at Greensboro and
Salisbury. The postal authorities have always
favored the Richmond and Danville Road AS
the best line for fast Southern mail and have
agreed to pay price that will justify the COM
pany in running these extra trains.
Two important reforms in the rates of
postage have been brought forward in Con-
gress. 1t is proposed to reduce the charge on
letters from three to two cents, and bill to
abolish the postage on second class mail mat
ter-newspapers and periodicals. been in
troduced into the House. These are advan-
tages promised to the people as result of rid
ding the service of the star route jobbers.
For years every person who used the mails was
made to pay tribute to these plunderers in the
form Of unnecessarily high rates OF postage.
A material reduction is now practicable, chief
ly in consequence of the enormous saving in
postal expenditures that has been effected
since Brady was ousted from the department
nd ho nj
Of contractors stopped.
The famine in Patrick county, Va, is dis
tressing. The number of sufferers is estima-
ted at 5000 to 5000. A dispatch from Dan
vile says GA few days since, when few
wagon loads of corn reached Patrick county,
and were being distributed, women and chill
dren when they received their portion would
thrust their hands in The bags and eat the dry
corn to relieve their hunger, not being able to
wait to have it ground and cooked. Two fam
lilies, known to be in past days well-to-do, have
been existing for weeks on wheat-bran alone.
Large families go for days without a morsel of
bread, and ride along any road in the coun-
ty will show travellers hundreds of poor people
whose wan, pinched faces show the want of
food. Deaths have occurred, possibly not
from actual starvation, but through disease
brought on by hunger"
The New York Court of Appeals has re-
Gently passed upon the question whether drunk
enness can be pleaded as defence to charge
of murder. 1t was claimed by the counsel for
Il condemned murderer that his client was the
victim of an appetite for drink which amount
ed to a disease that destroyed his wll-power
and rendered him legally irresponsible, as in
the case of insanity. A new trial was there
fore asked, because the court below had re-
fused to charge the jury that the accused was
,,of if tho rin had boan commit