Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-23
Straps aud fatts.

River, Idaho, weighed fourteen hundred
pounds and had claws measuring seven inch
es in length. The skin was simply immense
and was shipped to San Francisco.
Ex-Governor Tenricks, of Indiana, is so
far recoved from his recent attack as to be
considered entirely out of danger. 'Senlle
gangrene'' in one foot was the trouble with
him. 1t killed his father and brother.
- The Selma (Ala.,) Times says : ''The sick
est men in these parts are those who went
strongly into marriage insurance companies.
There is no way of getting at the exact figures,
but it is estimated that $4,000 has been
squandered in them by Selma people,
"A Covmgton (Ky.,) man, whose child died
with Group, has sued DR.. J. J. Dulaney, who
promised to call and attend him but failed to
do so, for $4,000 damages. The plaintiff al
leges that the chld's death was due to the doc
tors neglect.
Brave Bear, the Sioux Indian who was
convicted of the killing of James johnson,
white man, was hanged at Yankton, Dakota,
last Friday. There was very little excitement
at his execution, which was private. He left
Il request to his relatives not to avenge his
death and to omit the usual mourning.
One druggist of Kingston, Ontario, last
year sold enough opium to regular opium eat
ers to kill Il, 500 ordinary men. The use OF
the drug is not increasing in that city, it is
said, but it's victims are numerous, are in the
upper classes of society, and in nine cases out
of ten are ladies'
M. Saint Paul has offered the French
Academy the sum of twenty-five thousand
francs to found prize for the discovery of
cure for diphtheria. The competition is open
to the world, and is not even confined to the
medical profession Here is chance for some
American physician.
- Louisiana crops Of sugar, rice and cotton
are enormous Some of the sugar plantations
are yielding three hogsheads of sugar and six
barrels of mOlasseS to the acre. This is re-
markable. The planters are in high glee.
Net incomes of from $4,000 to S5OO,OOO are
talked of. They have little time or attention
for politics.
- The superStitious blacks of Hayti are much
worked up over the presence in the sky OF the
great comet, many believing that Nature is
about to call time on things terrestrial. The
appearance of the comet last year was followed
by smallpox, which took off 10000 Haytiens,
and that circumstance has the effect now of
causing great alarm among the ignorant peO-
pie.
- The case of Chas. F. kring, who is under
death sentence for murder which he is said
to have committed nine years ago III st.
Louis, is to be carried up to the Supreme
Court of the United States. He has been
already tried four times, and this appeal is
based on the grounds that the law regulating
trials in st. Louis is unconstitutional because
it does not allow change of venue in that
city.
- The Memphis Appeal insists that the man
ufacturing industries of the South donOt need
protection. The raw cotton is so cheap and
so near to our hands that we can spin and
ot in Great
Britain without one cents protection, and iron
is so abundant, ard so cheap, and Of such eX-
ira good quality that we can manufacture 1t
from So to S. per ton less than even the Pitts
burg manufacturers.
- William Macavoy, the Greenback Labor
politician of Erie, Pa, has been driven mad
by the result of the elections. He was con-
fined in Jail OH Monday, and being possessed
of almost superhuman strength, he began tear
ing down the bars of his cell, twisting them
like twigs. Foamng at the mouth, he cursed
Weaver and Pattison for defeating Armstrong,
the Labor candidate for Governor, and when
the warden with body of prisoners went to
secure him. he held them at bay with bar of
iron for long time. There is but little hope
Of his recovery.
- a safe in O'Brien'S store, at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, was drilled by burglars on Sunday
night of last week, for the purpose of blowing
it open with powder. 1t happened that a
number of dynamite cartridges were stored
in the safe and when the powder was lgnlted
an explosion ensued, which was made more
violent than the burglars contemplated. The
building was wrecked and the money in the
safe (SS00) was reduced to useless frangments.
A man named Burns a tramp, from Chicago,
who is bruised about the shoulders has been
arrested on suspicion Of being concerned in
the attempted burglary.
In the official inquiry now being conducted
regarding the jeanette expedition, Engineer
Melville's testimony tends to exhibit Capt
DeLong as something of petty tyrant. Dis
cipline is good thing, and never more neces-
sary than in perilouS strait like that of the
crew of the jeanette, but the conduct toward
Jerome Collins, Mr. Newcomb and Lieut.. Da-
nenhower described by Melville is rather that
of nagging martinez than of dignifed COM
mander. The testimony makes it necessary
to recall Danenhower, whose well-meant reti-
eence was in vain. 1t is a painful thing to
rake up the weaknesses of human nature i'll
such stress, but the truth is called for.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Sun says n startling report about the money
collected by the Hubbell committee is conf
dentially circulated, which, like all confiden-
tial reports, is likely to gain publicity. 1t is
that it has been ascertained that Of the vast
sum collected by far the larger part has never
found it's way out of the pockets of those to
whom it was given to be used in the campaign,
and that of large sums given to certain persons
to specially affect doubtful districts, no trace
can be found, the inference being almost con-
elusive that it was pocketed. In some III
stances this inference is supported by circum-
stances which leave scarcely any doubt on the
subject.
If William Penn had been permitted to
read the descriptions of the celebration in his
honor, he must have been astOnished beyond
the power of expression. One OF the minor
facts certain to bewilder him is the cOnsump-
tion of lager beer during the bi-centennal
festivities The books of the internal revenue
Office showed that during the week q, ,3So bar
rels, or $4,000, 600 glasses, of beer were dellv-
cred and presumably consumed in Philadel-
phia al allowance of ten glasses each to ey-
cry man, woman and child, including the
strangers within her gates The quantity de-
livered during the corresponding week III 1881
was 1S, APO barrels, so that the recent celebra-
ton is directly responsible for the consump-
ton of nearly II, ,00C barrels of beer.
- The Baltimore Journal of Commerce calls
attention to the fact that the sale of govern
ment lands in the Southern States is assuming
large proportions. OF the $3.50, ,219 acres sold
in 1879 there were 4S1, ia, or 5G per cent. of
the whole, located in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the only
Southern States in which the government still
owns lands. In 1880 the total sales amounted
to 9,166, ,91S acres, 996, ,S15 acres, or 1913 per
cent, being in the South The total sales in
1881 reached 10, ,759, 1877 acres, of which 1,5l7,-