Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-13
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river on the 4th. 1t is said that many of the
officers and passengers were drunk, and by the
incapacity of the officers of the vessel, the
accident occurred. Several lives were lost.
- During the three months of last spring
the number of suicides reported were three
hundred and eighty-eight Of these, three
hundred and fourteen were men, and seventy
four were women-more than four to one.
Short narrow-gauge railroad routes are
becoming popular in Pennsylvania. Within
sixty DAYS charters have been granted at Har-
risburg for railroads Of three feet gauge with
an aggregate mileage of 169 miles, the entire
capital stock of all the roads being 81, 800
On hearing a brainless millionaire say
that he gave $40, ,0O0, every year in charity as
a religious duty, the Bishop of Peterboro said
that it was largest insurance against fire he
ever heard of. His Grace evidently thinks
charity, not honesty, is the best ''pOlicv."
The "Rev" Mr.. Hicks who las made so
much of Guiteau, is a member of the Metho-
dist Church. He once lectured at the North
on Lincoln and then travelled South with the
same lecture, with the name of Gen. Lee
in place of President Lincoln's. He made
money by his lecture.
- The fast mail train which was to have
been put on the Richmond and Danville Rail
road two weeks ago has never yet started on
its trips and it is now understood that it will
not be soon. There is some sort of hitch in
the contract, and the Postmaster-General has
ordered the whole thing to be dropped in
definitely.
- A serious accident occurred on the rail-
road between Long Branch and New York
last Thursday. The accident was more nota-
BILE from the fact that five milliOnaires were
killed, and a good many poor people wounded.
.,Io %ta md cont
down into the stream with the wreck OF the
smoking car, but was eXtricated by the eXer-
tions Of a newsboy.
- The Graphic truly says the internal reye-
nue. reduction bill, which passed the House,
ought to be emitted 'An Act to present the
sum of S2S, S,0O0, 900 or thereabouts to holders
of the national bank stock and manufacturers
of cigars, patent medicines and matches" ="
for this is just what it does; will put that
amount of money into the pocket of this very
limited class of individuals, and it will bene-
fit nobody else in this wide word.
- Governor Stone, of Mississippi, has par
doned one Thomas H. Cook, who was under a
ten-years' sentence for manslaughter, upon
his written promise to abstain from the use
of intoxicating liquors and from the carrying
of concealed deadly weapons for the term OF
ten years from the 18th day of January, 1880.
the time specified, use as a beverage intoxi-
eating drinks or carry upon his person con-
cealed deadly weapons.
- The cotton planted on the overfowed lands
along the Mississippi River, after the water
had receded, is now in full bloom and will
yield, it estimated, an average of bale to the
acre. The ground has been enriched by the
overflow, and crops planted have grown with
wonderful rapidity. The destruction of stock
however, was so great that many have not
been able to replace theirs in time to plantA
and for this reason much of the land remains
idle.
There has been great commOtiOn in Wash
ington over the star-route prosecutions. 1t
was thought that Col. Bliss and Attorney
General Brewster had played traitors, but Mr..
Merrick says he is satisfied that Bliss has been
acting honestly. Perhaps the result may show
that Merrick is in error. New developments
have taken place which may involve other dis
tinguished Republicans not yet indicted. The
grand jury has been called together to pass
upon the evidence and find true bills. The
management of the cases has been peculiar.
We shall hope, for the honor of the govern
ment, that, by no trick or subterfuge, any
guilty man may escape. The public treasury
should be protected, and public cases should
be fairly and honestly tried.
. During the great floods in Louisiana there
was seen one day moving through the aisles
of shadow among the tall gum and oak trees,
whose foliage made green roof for the voy-
ayers, a little raft some twenty feet long by
nine feet in width. In the bow sat a young
wife of twenty, holding her child. In the
centre there was heap of plain country fur
niture. Behind this were piled pots, Kettle
and pans. On her right, with sad features
and doleful faces, were four deer hounds,
and behind them, resting on the beds, All old
shot gun and rifle Pulling at the oars was
the husband. Hardly two inches out of water,
the fiat moved along and passed out of sight.
1t represented all the worldly goods of a
young planter saved from the flood. He had
some forty-eight miles to 60 to reach his
former home.
- Mrs. Garfelds home was closed to all but
immediate friends on the day Guiteau was
hanged. From an intimate acquaintance OF
the family, a correspondent learned that for
several days preceding the execution, Mrs.
Garfield refrained from reading the papers,
in order to evade recitals of the events leading
up to the concluding scenes of the national
tragedy, and in the meantime occupied her.
self with matters that would lead her mind
away from the subject. Her friends also
studiously avoided all reference to the execu-
On the day of the execution she had every
hour crowded full of little duties and diver
sions for herself and children, and in the COM
pany of few friends occupied her time with
matters as remote as possible from even
suggestion of the execution, and to all out
ward appearance was ObliviOus or Indifferent
to the final act at Washington.
A horrible crime was committed in Cincin-
natl last week. Henry Cole, a lawyer, shot
and killed his wife, his daughter and himself
According to Cincinnati newspaper, the pis-
tol which he used is the very weapon with
which Edward S. Stokes killed James Fisk, .Jr.
1t is said to have been presented to Mr.. Cole
when he resided in New York city. Under
the old common law, any personal chattel
which was the immediate occasion of the death
of reasonable creature was known as a deo-
dand, and was forfeited to the sovereign, to
be applied to pious uses. The law of deodand
was abolished many years since, but there
would be at least one element of good in its
restoration. A man of weak nature in posses
attractive in the idea of adding to it's tragic
interest. Every weapon used in the commits
sion of crime should he confiscated by the
State and placed where it cannot serve Sec
ond unlawful purpose.
- With the present year is inaugurated a
new era in the South, if we are to Judge by
the magnitude of the new manufacturing en-
terprises that are springing up all over the
land. Old mills have been revived and hum
dreds of new ones are already built, or are in
the course of building. During the month of
June, twenty-five car loads of machinery were
slipped from Boston to points in the South,
over the Richmond and Danville railroad, dis
tributed as follows: Fourteen car loads for