Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-18
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for Congress. We recognize the fitness of the
gentleman whom "CaX' and "Young Man"
nominate and will take pleasure in publishing
the communications at the rate of twenty
five cents per line. The Chronicle and ConSti-
nationalist will publish no articles recommend
ing men for office unless paid for.''
Orlando Jackson has brought suit in the
Supreme Court of New York against the
Louisiana Lottery Company, alleging that ne
had expended within the past four years So9,-
900 in the purchase of lottery tickets, and in
which the plaintiff sues to recover S17S, 600, OF
double the amount invested under the provs-
ion of the statute against lotteries. A motion
was made a.few days ago to set aside the sum-
mons and complaint, on the ground OF lrregu-
larity, and to-day decision was given deny
ing the motion upon the plaintiff amending
the summons.
The excitement caused by the assassination
of Lord Cavendish is by no means subsidlng.
Throughout all Ireland, and from branches OF
the Land League in America, come fiercest de-
nunciations of this stupid, cowardly act. The
asSassinS have not yet been discovered, al
though large rewards have been offered tor
them. The last official act of Lord Cavendish
was an order releasing almost all the Irish
suspects from Jail. 1t was an ancestor OF
Lord Cavendish who slew the famous English
ship hundreds of years ago.
A new machine has been invented which
will manufacture ice from water in twenty
minutes at little expense. In the older process
great pressure was required to liquify the gass-
es used The new method employs 4 solution
of ammonia in glycerine The latter absorbs
several hundred times it's volume without
pressure. BY passing into vacuum the am
monia is set free and produces intense cold.
Reversing the process, the ammonia is easily
reabsorbed The day is not distant when ev-
ery small town can manufacture it's own ice at
minimum cost.
In the argument on the Guiteau bill of ex-
ceptions at the opening proceedings, Mr. Reed
desired to call attention to one authority on
point that it is the duty of Courts to sustain
technicalities when they appear in law. lie
then quoted Lord Mansfield's observations up
on the subject, pending decision OF case
where popular clamor demanded contrary de-
cison. Judge Cartter-"You mean to say he
held that the mob should not try the case ~
COL d-"Precisely, your honor" Judge
Cartter-"Well, that is sound law, we accept
it."
"A New York letter in the Cincinnati Com
mercial says: Injecting business acquain-
tance of Gen. Grant on my return to New
York. asked him if Grants financial condi-
tion was improving 81 think not, he re-
piled. 'I think Grant and all his sons have
been losers by their speculatiOns. From
what 1 hear, doubt if Buck Grant (other-
wise Ulysses, Jr.) now possesses any other
money than what her father gave his wife.
For time things were booming with him,
but Grant and his sons and all their associates
were terribly hurt in Louisville and Nashville
Railroad stock"
- The May report of the agricultural bu-
reau, issued at Washington last Friday, con-
tains the following Cotton reports show 81
per cent. of the proposed area planted on the
lst of May, against IS per cent. in average
wears. Planting is more advanced than usual,
from Virginia to Florida, and more backward
in all other States, especially in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee. In con-
sequence of the overflow the proportion plant
ed in Mississippi is Is per cent. instead OF 80
in an average year. II in Louisiana instead OF
80, IS in Arkansas instead of SO, and u IN
Tennessee instead of 80 per cent. The def
cheney on the 1st of May approximates half a
million acres, with planting in progress.
A dispatch of Saturday from Jacksonport,
Arkansas, says that the water in White River
stands thrty-one feet and eight inches above
low water mark There is not a foot OF dry
ground in town except jefferson street. The
whole country for miles around is one sea of
water, and the damage to the crops is heavy.
A Batesville, Ark, special says the rain COM
menced at s O'Clock Monday evening and
poured in torrents twenty-four hours without
cessation, swelling the rivers and creeks,
sweeping everything before it. Mills, houses,
bridges and fencing, all were hurled from
their foundations and washed out, utterly
obliterating the entire crops on bottom lands.
1t is est mated that the loss is half million
dollars.
On last Friday, while the engineer and
conductor of train on the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad were in the telegraph Of
flee at Oswego, Kansas, for orders their ell
gine and cabOose started off without them
bound north. A train bearing several hun
dred persons, members of the Missouri Press
Association with their families and friends on
an excursion to Galveston, was on the road.
The engineer of the latter train saw the wild
train in time to stop his own and leap from
the engine The wild train was going over
forty miles an hour. Both engines were to-
tally wrecked. A postal clerk on the passen-
ger train is the only person injured, and ne not
seriously. The passengers all escaped un-
harmed, and after the track was cleared and
new engine procured proceeded on their jour
ney.
- The Washington correspondent OF the
Ne,cs and Courier tells the following story OF
a hat : San orthodox champion hat'' of the
'76 style has been gallivanting around Ohio,
in lively way, and this is how it happened to
get there. The Hon. John McSweeny, of
Worcester, Ohio, a prominent Democratic
politician-the man who nominated Thurman
for President at the Cincinnati Convention
recently employed in defending the Star Route
people, went one day last week into the Senate
chamber to see a Senatorial friend, leaving
his soft hat in the cloak room. On his exit ne
carried off another soft hat which was in day
or two discovered to be Senator Hampton's
AS the Senator who was then out of the city,
attempts to effect an exchange were futile,
so Mr. McSweeny went off to Ohio with his
historic hat, afterwards sending it, $50 learn
from Republican source) to it's owner, with
note expressing the wish that he could as
readily exchange heads with the Senator as
head gear.
Mrs. Scoville the sister of Guiteau having
taken the lecture stand, with the view as was
supposed of aiding her brother, there were ru-
mors that the step would lead to the separation
of her and her husband but from the follow
ing it would seem that they have had pleas
ant and friendly meeting in Chicago, and at
ter some private talk, Mrs. Scoville gave up
her room and they went to lunch together.
Mrs. Scoville, when interviewed after her
talk with her husband, said that she had
dreaded it very much on account of the
temper shown by him. He had been writing
her very threatening and abusive letters.
Among other things, he wrote her that if she
did not stop lecturing and working in behalf
of her brother he would make it so hot for
the three Guiteaus that the two who were not
hung would wish they We're" She told Mr..
Scoville that his attempts at coercion must
cease that she proposed to rent home for