Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
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former are about already to blossom, and the
latter are several inches high.
The Silver Valley mine in Davidson cOun-
ty, n c., employs eighty hands and produces
about five tons of concentrated ore daily,
which is valued at $500 per ton.
Col. C. J. Cowles, of Charlotte, N. c., has
offered 1000 acres of land, situated in Wilkes
county, to Jewish refugees from Russia, if
they will agree to occupy it. The land is we'll
watered and timbered.
The Lincoln Progress says that track lay
ing on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad is now
being rapidly pushed forward under the eff
cient superintendent of Capt. Waddill. Iron
is laid three miles beyond Lincolnton.
- Female suffrage is being warmly demanded
in Germany just now. At a-recent election in
a Wurtemberg city, the town hall was fairly
beSieged by number of women clamoring for
permission to vote, and the police had to be
called out to disperse the crowd.
-Mason's trial is now in progress at Wash
ington for attempting the life of Guiteau.
His attorney put in the plea of not guilty and
expects to acquit him on the ground that the
intent to commit murder can not be eStab-
lished.
The annual production of oleomargarine
in New York city is 116, 600, pounds-5,O ,OOO,-
900 pounds more than the dairy made butter of
the entire State. And we have no doubt but
that lots of the stuff is sent out labelled $50
shen.''
- Altogether, 2S2 business firms were burned
out by the Haverhill confagration. Among
these were los shoe manufacturers, 26 sole
leather firms, S shoe trimming firms, three
banks and nearly 100 firms auxiliary to the
shoe manufacturing establishments and de-
pendent on them.
The Republic of Mexico, which, for years,
has been engaged in internecme broilS, seems
to have come to its senses at last. 1t is MAX
ing wonderful material progress. The new
order of things is principally due to American
influence. A few thrifty and enterprising
Yankees have leavened the whole lump of
Mexican disorder.
- The GentileS of Utah own nearly all the
500 miles of railroad in the Territory; half of
the taxable property belongs to them; they
own much mining property and have invested
$780, 600 during the past ten years in schools,
hospitals and similar institutions. This is a
good showing for the Gentiles, who number
$4,000 against 112, 900 Mormons.
- The pay of a general in the United States
army is S13, 800 year, of a retired general
two-thirds of that amount, which is the sum
which Grant will draw for life. This, with
the coo income from the fund raised for
him by his northern admirers few years ago,
and his other investments, ought to enable
him to pull through.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Mercantile Agency re-
ports the failures throughout the country for
the seven days ending last Friday, as 12S, a
slight reduction upon last week. In the Mid
die States there were 3d. in the Eastern 10, in
in the Southern 35, in the Western "a, in the
Pacific and Territories y, and New York
city,.
The case of the 4-year old boy who became
an invalid through inveterate smoking, his
parents having given him all the tobacco he
wanted, is interesting the faculty of the Sur
gical Institute in Indianapolis. They have de-
prived him wholly of the weed, and hope to
cure him of spinal trouble which his habit has
caused. He had smoked an average of ten ci-
gars day fora year.
The Flipper court-martial case is in the
hands of Judge Advocate General Swain,
who is still engaged in revising the proceed
ingS of the Court, which, it will be remember
ed, recommended Flipper'S dismissal form the
service. Gen. Swain will make his report on
the case to the secretary of war at an early
day. AS he has not yet completed his review,
all reports of his views Oh the case are mere
speculations.
Among the presents received by Alex. II.
Stephens on his SEVENTEEN birthday was an
autograph album containing the names of
many prominent men. The velvet case of the
album was ornamented with painting of
'Liberty Hall, ,''whoSe portals have been closed
recently against promiscuous hospitality for
the first time in forty years. Mr.. Stephens
has passed twenty-five of his birthdays in
Washington. @
Most of the towns and cities in the North
and West have resolved upon a reform in the
manner of treating the trampS during the COM
n fron NIL 1fyy Of
crime, will be imprisoned or put in lookup
He will be furnished with certain amount of
work, and forced to do it, and at the same
time he will be provided with food, a certain
amount of fair pay and when this amounts
to enough to defray the expense of his travel
ing forward, he will be sent off.
1t has just been discovered at Gatesvlle,
Texas, that few days ago mob in that vi
cinity took from an officers young man named
Deering, who was under arrest on suspicion
for horSe-Stealing and lynched him. On Sat
urday one hundred armed men came into town
and demanded that the parties engaged in the
lynching be arrested or they would take the
law in their own hands. The sheriff then az
rested Bob Leverett and his two sons, and are
now after several more of the lynching mob.
Reports from points throughout the West
all tell the same story of flood and disaster
The rain has been general and in many places
accompanied by wind and sleet. The tele-
graph wires Tuesday night in every direction
were down and many railroads were badly
washed out. The results, however, except
from the river floods, will not be disastrous
The most serious Inconvenience is from the
suspension of traffic. Along the Ohio and the
lower Mississippi, however, the disastrous eff
feet of the floods seem to be increasing.
a. G. Soteldo, one of the participants in
the recent higl-toned shooting affair in WASH
ington and whose pistol shot killed his own
brother, though fired at Clarence Barton, one
of the editors of the National Republican, once
served a year in the penitentiary lie was one
of three persons who robbed Horatio G. Welsh
in Third avenue near One Hundred and Sixty
eighth street. New York, Oh the morning of
August, 1Sth 1878. lie got off with one
years Imprisonment by pleading guilty to ''as-
Sault with intent to commit robbery "though
he actually took Welshs purse from his pocket
while his confederates held the victim. The
brothers are nephews of Barton Key, who was
killed by Gen. Sickles, in Washington, in 1858.
Under the new apportionment, there will
be 401 votes in the electoral college, in 1884.
The next President, therefore, must have POI
electoral votes. In 1884 the South, if solid,
will cast 153 Democratic votes. 4Smore votes
will be needed to elect the candidate. New
York will cast 36 and Indiana Is, total 81
In other words, under the present law, New
York, Indiana and the South would cast 1SS
votes when Us are necessary; under the new
law they will cast 20i when POI are essential
to success. The Atlanta Constitution looks
forward to the early admission of Nebraska as
a State but we do not, and there is sure to be
hard firht against it,