Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-23
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around SIulC6du neCk Is llttlleu IlOUelG OIloAS.
He has had enough practice to make him pro-
fcient. lie says that, though Guiteau seems
brave now, he expects to see him die like cur.
Ashton Dwight Billings, aged 81, an actor
of fair reputation, a native of Charleston,
S. c., committed suicide by taking laudanum
in New York last Monday, in a fit of melan-
choly, occasioned by the death of his wife and
child.
Rev. DR.. Jno Hall, of New York, says the
sending of valentines is "a sort of correspon-
dence and it looked, perhaps, remotely forward,
to wedding This was the ultimate purpose
conveyed by valentines, when sent by honest
and manly youths"
Some people will never get through asking
foolish questions. A New York paper asks !:
"Was Grant surprised at Shiloh 20 We don't
know how it was at Shiloh, but Grant was very
much surprised at Chicago. He was more
than surprised. He was shocked.
"A terrible story comes from Rock Rap
ids, Iowa. Two daughters and their mother
conspired with the lover of one of the girls to
kill the husband and father, and on Thursday
last, one of the daughters actually shot the old
man in the head with pistol, furnished by
the lover, killing him instantly.
Lieut.. Flipper is not to leave the army, it
appears He was not found guilty on the
superior officer Gen. Grierson and other otfi-
GERS have written to the President that Flip
per is not a bad person and that he ought to
he given another chance.
A fire occurred in the business portion OF
the town of Haverhill, Mass, last Thursday
night, and spread with great rapidity, Destroy
ing nearly all the business part OF the town.
Several lives were lost, and the loss in proper
ty is estimated at S2,0O0,000. About $500
mechanics, employed mostly in the shoe busi-
ness, are thrown out of employment.
"A terrific explosion occurred at fireworks
fastory at Chester, Pa, on Thursday morning
The building was torn to fragments and nj
teen persons are known to have been Killed.
The probabilities are that ten more lives are
lost. Numbers were burned in the ruins who
were not employed in the building, and many
are seriously hurt. The cause of the explosion
is not known
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South will meet in Nash
vile, Tennessee, in May next, and there will
be four and perhaps six bishops to be elected.
Three bishops, Marvin, of Missouri, Doggett,
of Virginia, and Wightman, ofSouth Carolina,
have died since the last General Conference,
and Bishops Pierce, of Georgia, Kavanaugh,
of Kentucky, and Payne, of Mississippi, are
incapacitated for active duty by ill health.
Ella Shore, who two years ago, in Sum
merset county, Maryland, at the age OF II
married her step-father, aged 80, was divorced
from him on the 5th inst, and married a
young man named Whyte, aged II. She only
lived four days with the old man, when her
friends took her away and had the ola chap
arrested for miSdemeanor He was fined S5OO
and sent to jail, not being able to pay, but
made his escape and left for parts unknown.
The postal savings bank bill recently re-
ported in the House of Representatives, makes
all money-order offices postal savings banks,
which will receive deposits from So up to
$500, but not more than 500 in any one month.
An interest of per cent. will be allowed on
deposits, no expense being on deposits or with
drawals. The deposits are to be invested by
the Treasury Department, as they accumu-
late in government bonds.
Says the Atlanta Constitution Mrs James
X. Polk is not wealthy. On the contrary, she
has outlived all her means, but like true
lady that she is. she has never thrust her pc
cuniary troubles upon the public attention.
Since pensions are the order of the day, more
worthy beneficiary could not be found than
the honored widow of the President under
whose administration California and Texas
were added to our domain.
About O'Clock last Sunday morning two
freight trains of the Airline Railroad failed
in the oft-attempted feat of passing each other
on single track. This last attempt was near
Gainesville, Ca, OH a trestle thirty feet high,
and was disastrous to both trains and the tres
tie. Four cars were burned, and three train
men were injured, but no deaths are reported.
The south-bound train was running out OF
time.
1t it's now evident that several of the crew
of the Jeanette met with the fate of SO many
Arctic explorers that have perished amid the
eternal ice of that desolate region. The great
majority of people will be inclined to ask,
Why this sacrifice of useful lives i'll search OF
what has proven to be the unattainable? The
cause of science has already had enough victims
in this search after the open polar sea- which,
if found, can be of no practical benefit to man
kind
"A man and his wife in Scranton, PennSyl-
vania, fought the sheriff and his posse for over
an hour last week for the possession OF their
house, from which they had been legally eject
ed. Both of them were armed to the teeth and
fought desperately, retreating at last to the
cellar. Before the siege began he had already
shot the deputy through the head and his wife
had cracked constable's skull with her NAL
let A thousand persons witnessed thispitch-
ed battle.
AS an explanation of the fancy articles
frequently reported as being charged to Con-
gressmen, and which, it would appear that
they draw as so much extra, the statement IS
made that each Congressman, is allowed Sl25
for stationery, ETC., and that as the statloner
sells all sorts of fancy articles at wholesale
price, Congressman buy penknlves, Little
Buttercups'' toothpics, ETC., from him, and
get stamps at the post-offce. This explains
the peculiar items in the contingent expenses
account.
Within year, unless COngressmakes some
new provision, several hundred National banks
will be wound up. The same stockholders, or
any part of them, can reorganiZe under new
banking charters if they please. But the pro-
ceedings will be tedious and costly to the lndi-
vidualS concerned the process OF liquidation
will enable the banks to claim and profit by all
gains from loss or destruction of currency
within their twenty years OF operation, and
the necessity of making settlements Will IN
volve the calling of a great number OF loans.
The cereal estimates of the Department of
Agriculture for the crop of 1881 are completed,
showing more general reduction III yield than
for many years. During the five preceding
years no one of the grain crops met with Sc
rious disaster. In 1875 the wheat product was
reduced while the corn crop was above an aV-
erage. In 1874 the reverse was true, wheat
making an average crop and corn nearlyas bad
failure as in 1881. In 1869 corn was COM
parative failure, while wheat produced more
than an average yield. In no season since the
Inauguration of crop reporting has there been
SO general disaster involving corn, wheat,
barley, buckwheat, and rye oats alone being
exempt from loss.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal reports that a
gigantic scheme is on foot, said to have orig
mated with Mr.. Edward Atkinson, which, II