Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
Straps and fafts.

w. Longfellow, the poet, died at his home
in Cambridge, Mass, last Friday.
- On Monday last the subcommittee on
elections in the case of Mackey VS.. Dibble, for
the Second district of South Carolina, agreed
to report to full committee in favor Of seating
Mackey.
= The death of Maj. W. T. Thomson, widely
known as the author of ''MajOr Jones' Court
ship" and other popular works of humorous
character, occurred in Savannah, Ga, on FIJI
day last For the past quarter of century
he had been the editor of the Savannah Neaus
The Atlanta Constitution mentions the case
of A. M. Camp, who starting with capital
of S25 about ten years ago, is now manufac-
turer doing business amounting to $3.50, 600
ayear. This illustrates the possibilities OF the
manufacturing interest in the South when pur-
sued with energy and industry.
Judge Advocate General Swain has made
his report to the secretary of war on the find
ings of the court-martial in the case OF Ser
geant Mason. He holds that the sentence OF
the court-martial is invalid by reason OF GER
tain Irregularities and informalities in the
proceedings of the court.
- They have queer ideas Of justice on Long
Island One Thompson recently attempted to
kiss lady, who slapped his face and cut him
under the eye with ring. This would seem
to be sufficient punishment for his audaclty,
but a Long Island court has decreed that ne
must pay the lady the sum OF $25.
- The failures in business reported to q. Il.
Dun & Co., for the week ending oath instant,
number 115, distributed as follows: Eastern
States II, Western 80, Middle 81, Southern
80, Pacific and New York city 4. This is
very considerable diminution as compared
with recent weeks. There were no failures OF
the slightest consequence in New York city.
- Senator Jonas says, from rough calcula-
tion made by him, the land submerged along
the Lower Mississippi produced in 1880 total
Of 75O, ,O63 bales of cotton which at the ordi-
nary price S45 per bale, amounts to S33, 49,
233, over double the sum asked by friends foI
the construction of a permanent system OF
levees.
Gen. Clay Green, who was once minister
to Spain and who now is planter at Bolivar,
Miss, tells St. Louis reporter that the floods
will cause thousands of persons to emlgrate
permanently from the Mississippi bottom
lands. He adds that no one ever will know
the exact number of human victims OF the
flood, because whole communities have been
dispersed, never to reunite.
The New York Legislature has had under
consideration the subject of insanity in all Of
it's aspects, and the conclusion is arrived at
that the increase of insanity is more rapid
than that of population. In New York, in
population of 5,OO0,0 900, there are $4,000 luna
tics, or one to every 3S4 of the population
Besides, it is held that insanity is becoming
more and more incurable.
The operations of j. M. Worth, Treasurer
of North Carolina, in reference to funding the
debt of that State, were made public last Fri.
day. He has funded IS, ,S19, 745 OF old NORTH
Carolina bonds into new 4 per cent. bonds, and
given in exchange 50, sos, $50 of new bonds.
Of old bonds there remain outstanding un.
funded So, ,907 300. The period within which
the exchange could be made has expired under
the Act of the Legislature.
- James B. Christmas, indicted for the
murder of VIM. G. Whitney in June last,
was put on trial in the Criminal Court IN
Washington City on the 22nd instant. Both
sides were ready, a jury was promptly procur.
ed. and after hearing the testimony and short
addresses from the counsel the Court directed
the Jury to return a verdict OF not guilty on
the ground of self-defence. This was done,
and Christmas was released. Whitney was
son of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, and Christ,
mas is her son-in-law. Mrs. Gaines was IN
court as witness for Christmas.
Edward Won Eicheman, the son of an Aus
trian baron, died in a New York police sta
tion on Wednesday morning. He was arres-
ed at a German ball Tuesday night by two
patrolmen. charged with disorderly conduct,
and was locked up in cell at the station
house. Half an hour later he was found sick
in a cell, and died as an ambulance from a
hospital arrived at the Stationhouse. 1t is
asserted by the friends of the deceased man
that he had been clubbed to death by the
policemen who arrested him, but the autopsy
showed that in all probability death was due
to some irritant poison.
- A letter was read before the joint commit
tee for ascertaining and auditing the expen-
ses of the Garfield obsequies, &C., from Mrs.
DR.. Edison, who completely exhonerates her.
self from the the statement recently published,
that while she was in attendance on the late
President she furnished news to the operators
in stocks She proved conclusively that she
had nothing personally to do with anything of
that kind, but intimated that there was some
other one on the medical staff who did furnish
information for such purposes, but who 1t was
she was unprepared to say. The committee
will investigate this phase of the question
further.
"A Philadelphia dispatch of Saturday says :
Senator Hill, of Georgia, who had an operation
performed on his tongue at Jefferson Hospital
in that city, has again returned for treatment.
The physicians at the hospital state that a
wound caused by the former operation had
been allowed to heal when it should have been
kept open. A collection of pus had formed III
the throat, which was relieved upon his arrl-
val here by the opening of the healed wound.
There was a free discharge and the physicians
saw there is no apprehension of serious results
that there will be no necessity for another op-
Grafton. The present condition of the Senator
would permit his leaving, but the desires to re-
main until satisfied that the relief is perma-
nent.
- Gen. Grant and his friends are managing
his pension bill in manner which promises to
pan out favorably, provided the trick is not
exposed The rumor some days since was
flashed over the country that Gen. Grant had
failed that he had gone into stock Specula-
tions and got bitten to an extent that protests
and assignment were inevitable. AS a matter
of course there was not a word Of truth IN the
rumor, and it was evidently started to help
the bill through Congress to give Grant pen
sion of $4,000 a year. Gen. Grant is rich.
He draws from S12, 900 to $15, 600 year inter
est on trust fund of S25, 600 raised by private
subscription. He has a residence in Galena,
a summer mansion at Long Branch, hand
some Philadelphia residence worth, with its
contents, $l5O,0OO, besides an interest in rail-
road. mining and other schemes that promise
fabulous fortunes.
- The St. Louis Democrat thus speculates on
the future of cotton "Time will tell that the
Southern man was right about the crop, and
that he was also correct in his anticipatlons OF
high price. Unfortunately for the South it
was not question of supply and demand, it
was one of money, and when their margins
were exhausted they had to let 60. There is
now good demand from spinners, and cotton
has now reached strong hands, and they can
bring the price up OF down as they see fit. It