Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-25
Straps and fatts.

The New l Ork Assembly Has lftSSeu 'oell-
ator Kernan's bill doing away with the usury
law OH call loans above five thousand dol
lars. 1t allows parties to make contracts at
whatever rates they choose on such loans.
Mrs. Mason, wife of Sergeant Mason,
called on the President last Wednesday to in
tercede for her husband. He assured her that
the petitions in his behalf would shortly be
laid before Congress. The impression at Wash
ington is that his sentence will be mitigated.
The subscriptions for Mrs. Mason's benefit
amount to over 5000.
On Monday last Judge Matthews, of the
United States Supreme Court, convened the
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern
District of Tennessee, at Knoxville, in special
session to try the case of the State OF Tennes-
see VS.. George l.. Larkins, formurder. About
ten years ago Larkins was deputy United
States marshal, and killed his cousin. The
case attracts much attention as a test case
john Menemon, farmer, living twelve
miles west of Muscatine, Iowa, aged 65, was
shot and killed by his fifteen year-old daughter
last Saturday. The father and daughter were
uuarreling, when the girls brother aged Is,
handed her revolver with which she shot her
father through the breast. 1t is supposed the
children desired to get possession OF their faith
er's property. The mother is in an insane asy-
lum.
- Stephen G. Effer, aged 25, convicted OF
wife murder in Burke county, was hanged AT
Marion, North Carolina last Friday. He
made confession admitting that he strangled
his wife when asleep in bed and broke her neck.
He rode with the sheriff guarded by sixty
armed men to the gallows, one-half OF mile
from town, followed by an immense crowd.
After prayers he made an harangue an hour
long, and expressed his willingness to die.
His neck was broken.
The New York Cotton Exchange was no
titled last Friday by the National Cotton Ex-
change of New Orleans that henceforth tie
monthly crop reports are to be discontinued.
1t is alleged that these reports, prepared by
local exchanges throughout the South upon
information from planters and traders, have
been found to be unreliable They advanced
local interests instead of indicating the real
condition of the crop, thus enabling specula-
tors to influence the market.
An attempt was made at 3 O'Clock last
Saturday morning to blow open the safe OF the
National bank of Hopkinton, at Hope Valley,
r. l. Powder had been blown in the safe
door, and the explosion blew off the outer
fastening and destroyed the lock, but the en-
trance to the safe could not be made. The
thieves escaped in a solen carriage leaving
fine lot of burglars tools. They were traced
is the fourth attempt that has been made to
rob this bank within the past eight or ten
years.
An explosion of sulphur occurred in the
Bucks Ridge colliery, near Shamokin, "a,
last Saturday, causing the immediate death OF
two men and fatally wounding two others, one
of whom has since died. 1t seems that one of
the men had entered the face of the workings
with naked lamp, while the other man re-
manned behind the battery. An unexpected
body of sulphur was met, which ignlted from
the lamp, causing terrific explosion and
hurting the men with great force against the
gangway timbers About two hundred tons
of top coal was dislodged, which fell on two
men, burning them severely.
About month ago, at Athens, Ga,
university student named Walter Rountree,
who, with some fellow students while in an
alteration with some negroes on the street,
was shot and killed. Two negroes -Echols
and JOhnson-were arrested for the murder
and committed to Jail, and only by the ut
most vigilance of the officials was their being
lvnched prevented But when the trial came
ON, it was proved conclusively that the shot
which killed young Rountree while the ne
groeS Echols and Johnson were attacking him,
was fired by Rountree's brother in Rountree's
defence. The State, therefore, dropped the
charge of murder and prosecuted Echols and
Johnson for felonious assault. They were con-
vcted and sentenced to the penitentiary for
the term of ten years each, the fullest term
prescribed by law.
- Last Saturday morning, about O'Clock,
John BOBBY, machinist, was sitting in the
window of the top story OF house on College
St., in Charlotte, n. c., when he lost his balance
and tumbled out. The window was on the
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fall of seventy feet. BOBBY struck on the
platform which runs along the first story of
the house and crashed through it to the ground,
entirely demoliShing section of the platform
about six feet long. He was picked up and
laid out in a room, dead, to all appearances,
but when the physician arrived and made an
examination, he pronounced the man TO De
living. A severe conclusion of the brain and
several fractures about the skull, was the ex-
tent of his injuries. In the course of an hour
or two the man could talk, and showed some
signs of improvement. The doctor thinks the
man will get well.
The FIVE per cent land bill passed by the
Senate last week provides that lands entered
by military scrip or bounty land warrants in
the States of California, Ohio, Indiana, 1lli-
nois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Lou
isiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Ore
gon, Nevada and Colorado, including Virginia
military and United States military land war
rants located in Ohio, shall be construed to
come within the provisions of the law for the
pavment to tile States of per centum OF the
proceeds of public lands disposed of within
their borders. The lands are to be estimated
ut the rate of Sl.25 per acre and payments
to he made in cash. 1t is also provided that
money remaining on the books of the treasury
to the credit of any Of the public lands States,
under the Act of 1886, which distributed the
treasury surplus, shall not be charged as an
offset against any part of the amount coming
to the States under the BILL The bill prohib-
it's States from paying any part OF the money
received by them to agents or attorneys for
services in procuring the passage Of the Act,
or in connection with the claims of the States,
unless such payments are authorized by State
laws passed after the date of the Act.
The Chinese of California are shrewder
people than they are accredited with being.
The company that supplies San Francisco
with water having put the cost OF furnishing
water at price that the Cinnamon considered
exorbitant, the latter have undertaken to ig
more the company and supply water for them
selves. The total cost put upon the water
supplied by the company to the inhabitants of
Chinatown has been s., 600 per month. OF this
gross sum the Chinese wash-houses paid S2,6OO
per month, the rates being S45 per month for
each wash-house Finding it impossible to
get a reduction on this rate, the Cinnamon
have gone to work and dug artesian wells in
their district, and have obtained abundance
of clear, soft water at depth OF from l2O to
200 feet, and at cost to those who require it
of one-half the rate charged by the water COM
uany They have thus made themselves in