Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-22
Scraps and fafts.

ed" there. Further investigation proved that
batching meant II buys de wittles, Mrs. Rey-
nolds cook em, eat them, and dey call dat
'batching.'" Of course he was ''bachelor." :"
- Lieutenant Flipper, the colored cavalry
officer who was court martialed and dismissed
from the service on charges of embezzlement
ana conduct unbecoming an officer and gen.
tleman, has lost his last chance. The Presl-
dent has approved the sentence, and he is
dismissed from the army.
Reports from all parts of the country rep
resent business as in an unsatisfactory con-
dition. Trade has generally fallen of, and
the great strike of the iron workers is begin
ming to have it's effect. On the whole, the
crop reports are favorable, but the prospect
seems to be that business will be dull during
the Summer.
- The sub committee of the House Commit
tee on Elections, in charge of the contested
election case of Smalls VS.. Tillman from the
Fifth District of South Carolina have adopted
q resolution declaring that Smalls was duly
elected and is entitled to the seat, and re-
ported to this effect last Tuesday, despite the
fact that Tillman's majority was S,O3S.
Great Britain, in 1S4S imported 81 1000, 900
pounds of coffee, and in 1881, with ten mil
lions more of population, got along with
100000 pounds of coffee, adulteration
making up the deficit in quantity, with la
mentable falling off in quality. Not only
chicory, but t1rnips, carrots, and cabbage
stalks are known to be used as adulterants.
- The New Orleans Times is pleasant and
we trust prophetic when it says: ''lf the
weather is only warm enough during this month
and july. we can vet secure that 5000, 900 bale
crop, which, with the promised magnificent
yield of grain, cattle, fruit and vegetables,
will leave the South much better off financial
" than did our great cotton crop of 19S0-Sl." :"
-Guiteau has selected the Rev. w. Wat
kins Hicks, Washington clergyman, as his
spiritual adviser, and imposes upon him the
responsibility Of preparing him for death.
Mr.. Hicks is considerable Of a politician, for
merly residing in South Carolina and Florida,
and was chairman of the delegation from
that State in the Chicago Convention.
"A colored man of Cardington, Ohio, named
Archer, shot three persons the other night,
came very near being lynched, and while IN
Jail had his farm building and house burned
down by an excited mob. The whole difficult
because they refused to call him Mr.. Archer,
on which account he has been on bad terms
with his townsmen for many years.
Lena Sherman, reputable girl of Iowa,
had lover who proved to be horse thief,
and was sent to the penitentiary. To provide
the money necessary to procure her lover
new trial, Lena stole horse, sold it, and with
the money procured the liberation of her
lover, but was herself sent to prison for the
theft. The romantic story ends with her
pardon by the governor.
j. G. Bigelow, counsel for Sergeant Ma
son, visited the White House last Friday and
submitted for the Presidents inspection a
review of the case of his client and his reasons
fer believing that the sentence of the court
martial is void. Private Secretary Phillips
promised to lay the matter before the Presl-
dent at the earliest opportunity and assured
Mr.. Bigelow that it would receive due consi-
deration.
Affairs in Egypt are moving forward rap
idly. 1t is now estimated that 250 Europeans
were massacred in Sundays riot; the num-
ber of rioters killed is said to be insignificant,
but that is probably an error. The Euro
peans used their firearms freely, shooting from
the windows, and men in the streets who
were wounded were doubtless carried off by
friends who did not report their death. 1t
seems to us that prompt measures and show
of great force can alone secure quiet
"A fire with singular consequences occur
red at Boston Highlands last Saturday. The
burning building was cotton waste mill in
which was packed a large amount OF cotton
waste. The waste being thoroughly soaked
from water by the engines became so heavy
as to burst the walls, which fell upon several
fireman, who were considerably injured, one
of whom it is thought will not survive. = The
building was of wood, forty by eighty feet,
and three stories high.
- The longest line Of fence in the world
will be the wire fence extending from the
Indian Territory West across the Texas Pan
handle and thirty-five miles into New Mexico.
Eighty-fve miles of this fence is already under
contract. It's course will be in the line of the
Canadian River, and it's purpose is to stop
the drift of the Northern cattle. 1t is bold
and splendid enterprise and will pay large
per centage on the investment. The fence
will be over 200 miles long.
On Saturday morning sixteen business
houses were burned in Gadsden, Alabama,
involving loss of $4,000; insurance $4,000.
B. B. Kyle loses six store houses worth s., 600,
on which there is no insurance. NJ. McCarty,
j. H. Kennebrew, H. J. Douthit, w. w.
Stevenson, N. w. Whisenot, w. P. Powers
and X. W. Fulghum are the other principal
losers. Great exertions were required to pre-
vent the spread of the flames to the Baptist
and Methodist churches.
- In a New Orleans Court, last Friday,
Judge Billings rendered an important decision
against A. NJ. and j. NJ. Davidson and others,
putting an end at least to dispute which
has existed in and out of Congress for the
last seventy-five years. This decision gives
to the State of Louisiana 1913, 1000 acres of
swamp land which have been claimed by the
Slidell heirs and others for the last twenty
years 1t also put at rest the rights of about
two hundred settlers who have been Oh the
lands during the last seventy-fve years and
made valuable improvements.
The revenue derived from the liquor
traffic, for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1881,
was S87 1928, 1850, or nearly 81 ,000 600 in excess
of the previous year. The increase in the
sale of fermented liquors is enormous. In
1872 the number of gallons of beer manufac-
tured was 26S, 49,, ,237. Last year, the brew
cries of the United States turned out IA ,311,-
OPS barrels, or about 443, GAL ,S6S gallons-the
increase from the year previous was nearly
100000 gallons. The amount of capital
invested in this business is estimated at $500,
000,0 900 and the number of brewerieS, accord
ing to the latest statistics is 2,761.
German undertakers do not exhibit their
wares, as is the custom in America. Cof-
fins are made by them to order when want
ed. This custom prevails throughout the Eu-
ropean Continent; it is only in the large cities
than any stock of the commodity is kept on
hand, and then in an unobtrusive fashion. A
few years ago an enterprising undertaken in
Basic, Switzerland, started business in the
American style and put couple of small
coffins in his window. Crowds gathered
to stare at the unwonted sight, and before
the end of the week the police gave notice
to the shopkeeper 'that the unseemly exhibi-
tion'' must cease.
"A North Carolina dentist has written to
the friends of Senator Hill, of Georgia, the