Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-26
Straps and fafts.

''I.illie Sorrel,'' is twenty-sx years of age, and
still kindly cared for by Gen. JackSOn's IA
ther.in-aw DR.. Morrison, of Lincoln county,
n. G. 1t is the horse on which Gen. Jackson
received his death wound.
Several men, who were concerned in an
attempt to murder Deputy Collector Stewart,
of the internal revenue service, were convicted
at the present term of the U. S. Court at At
k.nta, Ga After the verdict, one of the pris-
oners drew revolver, rushed out through the
crowd and made his escape.
- Eighty Frenchmen, assisted by 400 Afrl-
can laborers, are about to commence the con-
struction of a railway between the Niger and
Senegal rivers. Their operations will be pro-
tected by military column, which will plant
the French flag and erect two forts on the Nj
gel.
- There is one honest and self-respecting
man amongst the able-bodied pensioners of the
government. Corporal Ayers, of New Jersey
gives up his pension because, he says, he is
able to make his own living without govern
nent aid. If about 100,0DO more would do
the same thing they would both unburden
their conscience and the public treasury of a
very heavy load ...
On the Both of June last there were on the
pensions rolls 2S5,695, persons, of whom 7S, 4Ol
were widows or minor children of soldiers or
=
There are now pending, in addition to the
above, 290, ,966 cases, the larger portion OF
which will be passed upon favOrably, from
which we may gather some idea of what the
pension expenses of the government will be III
the future.
The twenty-second annual fair of the
North Carolina Agricultural Society WAS held
ut Raleigh last week. An opening address
was delivered by Governor Jarvis. The eXhi-
bition was the best ever made in the State,
particularly as to live stock, machinery and
farm products. All the departments were
complete. An unusually large attendance OF
people was present from all portions of the
State.
Says the Gastonia IN. c. Gazette Mr..
Wm. Mclean, lives in the extreme of South
Point, in CASTOR county, n. c., and from his
door step one can see two States, two rivers,
three counties, three branches, two springs
and three points within a point. He is II
wears old and has 14children. His 14th grand
son, 8 years old, can pick 100 pounds of cotton
per day and weighs As pounds. The old gentle
man plows on land cleared in 1776.
- There are but few places in the United
States where water is more valuable than pc
troleum. Garfield, the new Pennsylvania oil
town, is perhaps the only such locality There
is no water, and the supply for human exis-
tence has to be brought from a spring some
distance from the town. 1t costs sixty cents
barrel, while oil is only worth ffty-siX, and
the water venders will not give barrel OF
water for barrel of oil.
A Philadelphia jury was called upon to de-
eide in a customs case whether a jewsharp is
. Il toy or a musical instrument. The question
put to the expert witnesses was, us the jews
harp capable of producing a succession OF
harmonious sounds? p One Witness played
to the jury ''The heart bowed down" and
THE Skids are out to-day" and the reporter
says that the jury seemed restless and depress-
ed Their verdict was that the jewsharp is
musical instrument
Birmingham, Ala, is a conspicuous exam
pie of the rapid industrial development now
going forward in the South. Ten years ago
the site of Birmingham was cotton field,
surrounded by virgin forest. Five years ago
the population of the place was only $500,
whilst the present population is estimated at
ll,0OO. The amount invested in the manufac-
ture of pig iron alone in the district Of Bir-
mingham will aggregate the handsome sum of
$3.50, 900. Other manufacturing industries
are also fourishing there.
- In Charlotte, n. c., last Thursday, w. II.
Bailey, Democratic candidate for the House,
from Mecklenburg county was assaulted by
\. B. Gillespie, Revenue Agent, and badly
wounded. Gillespie struck him with brass
knuckles, cutting him to the bone on the fore
head over the eye and on the lip. The at
tack was made because Bailey stated that he
was informed that Gillespie was one of the
men who was using money to carry the elec-
tion in Mecklenburg for the Republicans On
Saturday, a son of Mr.. Bailey's attacked Gil
lespie, but the c0mbatants were separated be-
fore either inflicted a serious injury.
- The inquiry into the alleged insanity of
Mrs. Scoville, the wife of George ScOville and
sister of Guiteau, was begun in the county
court at Chicago Thursday on complaint of
her husband, who appeared on behalf OF the
prosecution. Scovile in his statment gave
history of the Guiteau family, claiming that
eleven children of Mrs. Scoville's father, FIVE
died of insanity, and two of diseases closely
allied to it. Mr.. Blanchard, Mrs. Scoville's
attorney, in his statement charged Scoville
with inhuman treatment of his wife, and
stated that he, instead of her should be in a
lunatic asylum.
At one O'Clock last Friday, Reddick Pow
ell, Simon O'Gwin, Joseph King, Robert Don
alison and Ella Moore, negroes, were hanged
in the Jail yard at Easton, Ga, for completely
in a riot which occurred at that place on Au-
gust 9th during a camp meeting, in which an
innocent young white man, named James Har
ward, was set upon by an lnfurlated mob, and,
after being shot by one of them, was beaten
almost to jelly by the others. The woman
raised the first howl which excited the mob to
the desperate work. Seven negroes were con-
Victed and sentenced for the offence, but the
Governor respited two of them. The eXecu-
tion was conducted quietly.
- Great excitement was caused at Reading,
in England, the other day, by the grand open
air demonstrations of the Salvation Army.
The procession was headed by eleven girls
dressed in the style of Italian peasants, carry
ing tamborines, with which they accompanied
the singing. One of them, who had been
lately turned out of doors because she joined
the Army" caused great deal of notice by
wearing a large white pinafore, upon which
was written text of Scripture. The feeling
shown throughout the service was intense.
The singing was accompanied by piano,
harp, cornets, trombones, drums and flies, the
madens occasionally executing war dance.
Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the Marine
Hospital service, furnishes the following sum-
mary of the progress of yellow fever at Browns
vile and Pensacola during the past week
During the week Is cases of yellow fever and
deaths have been reported from Brownsville,
making total during the prevalence of the
epidemic of 1851 cases and ia deaths. From
Pensacola, Fla, official reports by mail have
been received as follows: October 18th, 33
cases, 6 deaths 18th, 46 cases, deaths 14th,
5S cases, deaths :; 10Th, 70 cases, 3 deaths
18th, 80 cases, 3 deaths 18th, 81 cases, 3
deaths total, 377 cases, "a deaths previously
reported, 1889 cases and 125 deaths. Fifty
two new cases of yellOw-fever were reported at
Pensacola last Saturday hut ONLY one DEATH