Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13
Straps aud fafts.

Western dispatches report series OF IOr-
nadoes on Friday, at different points, from
Kansas to Michigan, attended by some remark
able evidences of the power of the wind.
Houses were demolished in many places IN
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, and lives
were lost in all those States. Several small
towns were destroyed and in Kansas the Wa
ter was sucked from the wells by the wind.
Says the Philadelphia Times Senator Sher-
man will hardly be able to find the suggestion
of duel in Hampton'S silent stare, and conse-
uuently he will be deprived of the pleasure OF
declining to fight; but he must certainly real
ize that the weather in South Carolina will not
be subject of cheerful conversation until his
connection with the campaign SANDER is ex-
planned away.
- The failures for the seven days ending
last Friday, as reported to R. G. Dunn Co.. g
mercantile agency, number 127, as follows !:
Eastern States, 1S; Southern, 80; Middle,
20; Western, 35; Pacific, 8, and New York
city, Z. This is about the same as last week,
so far as numbers are concerned. The failures
in New York city were insignificant, no rep
resentative houses in any line OF business
having failed.
"A New Orleans dispatch of Saturday says
The river is falling, and is now / of an inch
below the flood of 1874, and inches below the
highest point this season. The water has tal-
len Is inches in the Tensas, one foot in Black
river, and Is inches at Viadalia, though the
town is still under water from one to four feet.
The waters of Lafourche and the Upper Ten
sas are falling slowly. Rations have been
shipped to all points, filling applications for 10
days.
"A Young man named Walter Rountree, a
student in the University, at Athens, Ga,
was shot on the 4th instant, in a street ell
counter with some negroes, and died the next
day. The affair created great excitement,
and at one time fears were entertained OF
serious collision between whites and blacks
but better counsels prevailed and the two
negroes who did the shooting were committed
to jail, where they will await the proper
course of the law.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who committed sui
eide in New York, on the night of the End III
slant, was wild, dissipated fellow, but he
had good streaks in him. Years ago, he Dor.
rowed from Horace Greeley large sums OF
money, which his father refused to pay. he
might have escaped payment under the statute
of limitations, but when he came in possession
of the money left him by his father, lie paid
the daughters of Mr.. Greeley every cent,
amounting to $1,000. His act of self-des-
truction is attributed to mental alteration,
brought on by years of suffering from epileptlc
fits.
- Says the Philadelphia Record The forti-
tude of the Southern people in misfortune
must command the admiration of the world.
Accounts from all sections of the inundated
regions agree that the people, white and black,
seem cheerful, notwithstanding the terrible
ordeal through which they are passing. They
look forward to better times in the future.
One of the most significant features i'll con-
nection with the widespread ruin that has
overtaken both planter and labOrerls the kind
ly assistance that planters who can command
the means are giving to the cOlored laDorelS,
and the inducements they are holding out TO
them to return to the plantations and 60 TO
work.
The charters of four hunred national banks
will expire by the 1st of next March. In con-
nection with this fact the Philadelphia Record
reads the following lecture to Democratic
congressman ''The Democrats in Congress
who vote against the extension of the charters
of the national banks will be called to rigorous
account. Until a substitute for the national
banking system can be devised which shall
give equal security to the notehloder and fieXl-
bility to the volume of paper currency, the
present system must stand. 1t is the best we
have ever had. The party that undertakes to
deprive the country of it's advantages will
have to encounter the solid opposition OF every
business interest that has an honest stake IN
the public welfare
- Coup's circus, which wintered at Augusta,
Ca, gave it's first performance last Saturday
preparatory to taking the road for western
tour On Saturday morning, as the circus
was about to start out for the street parade,
Mr. Daniel Belts, the lion tanner, prepared to
enter the cage containing the two performing
IIa 1,o1 S,,Sf
started to enter the cage when he suddenly
fell back on the ground. Some of the men
standing about went up to him at once and
found he was unconscious. n physician was
summoned, but nothing could be done. Belts
died in few minutes. He came from New
York city and had been in the business for a
number of years. He was unmarried. He
had been in bad health for some time. The
cause of his death was heart disease.
Newspaper readers are familiar with the
story of Kate Sothern, who killed Narcissa
Cowart. her rival in the affections of her hus-
band, in Pickens county, Ga, some five years
ago. She was pursued and captured in the
mountains of North Carolina taken back to
Georgia and tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged. In response to petitions from
every State in the Union the Governor COM
muted her sentence to ten years imprisonment
in the penitentiary, and last week he granted
her full pardon. Under the penitentiary
lease system III Georgia, she has been for some
time hired aS domestic in the family OF q
citizen of Atlanta 1t is understood that she
and her husband will not return to Pickens
county, but will make their home elsewhere.
Thus ends one of the most noted cases ever Ill
the courts of Georgia one that created per-
hapS..more interest and excitement than was
ever known in the State.
- The Ohio Legislature has passed al act in
reference to the license tax Oh liquor sellers,
which goes into effect on the first of May, and
provides that all dealers in Intoxicating liquors
not located in village or city, or within
a mile thereof, shall pay a license of 500 {;
when in village of less than 1000 population
or within mile of it the fee is $50 when
in city of less than 10000 population or
within mile of it, $500 within q city of TO-
600 inhabitants or more, or within two miles
of it, $3.50 and when within a city of the first
class, like Cleveland or Cincinnati, or within
two miles thereof, $500. Wholesale and re-
tail dealers, big and little, wine and beer Sa-
looms, as we'll as whisky saloons, are compre-
hended within the terms OF the acv, and taxed
alike, without reference to the amount of bus
mess done. The law is intended to wipe out
the small groggeries. 1t is thougEj that this
act will have no little influence in coming cleo
tions, and that the Republican party, which
had a majority in the Legislature by which it
was passed, will suffer by it.
An occasional word about Gui!eau is still
in order Here is the latest, taken from the
Washington correspondence of the Philadel-
phia Times: II want you to understand, ScO-
vile,' said Guiteau, THAT don It want my
sentence commuted to sentence for life. If
Arthur can't give me free, full pardon, l