Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-10
Scraps and fafts.


commencement of the present year is stated
by Poor's manual as 20, 116, an increase of
;, 1877 over the number reported one year pre-
viOus.
A severe drought prevails in Jamaica, and
the coffee and pimento crops are suffering very
much. The water commissioners for King
ston shut off the supply Of water daily from
10 a. m. to 3 p. m The sugar crop is the
largest that has been known for many years.
Guy Smith, twelve year-old boy, was
tried at St. Louis last week for the murder of
his father, and convicted. Hequarrelled with
his brother on the 7th of July for which his
father punished him, and then in a rage he
got shot gun and shot his father, inflicting a
wound which caused death in short while.
- The telegraph reports four executions last
Friday-Merrick Johnson, colored, at Fernan-
dina, Florida Harrison Jackson, colored, at
Jacksonville, Florida Armand Coleman, col
ored, at Mobile, Alabama and Walter II.
Yeates, at Chatham, Virginia. They were all
hanged for murder.
- Horace Shields, colored, was convicted at
Chattanooga, last week, of borrowing an um-
brella from another colored gentleman, and
failing to return it, for which he was sentenced
to the penitentiary for one year. Somebody
must have been borrowing umbrellas from that
judge. A- =. .s-
- Last year, according to the statistics,
Michigan marketed 2, $780, 900 tons of iron ore,
Is, 100000 bushels of SALT 1000 600, 600 feet Of
lumber, and more charcoal and copper than
any other State in the Union. She has more
water front than any other State, her minerals
are inexhaustible, and her timber exceeds that
of any State in proportion to territory.
= The New York Posts commercial article
of July 31st says applications were receiv-
ed in New York to-day from North Carolina,
to sell oats from. that State in this market
This is another unprecedented feature in the
grain trade. Everything goes to show that
the South will have the largest crops OF all
kinds of grain ever raised there"
Ford, the young man who killed Jesse
James, Is, having a royal time in Chicago with
the $4,000 he received as reward for mur-
dering the outlaw At the rate he is living
his money is not likely to last long but poss-
bly, he thinks he can replenish by hunting up
another outlaw to shoot. There are still sew
eraileft in Missouri, though the State does not
value them at $4,000 apiece. b.. -.
"A Philadelphia physician named Tiede-
mann was recently called on to prescribe for a
woman who had taken a dose ofpoison. He
promptly wrote out a prescription and de-
manded $2 before handing it over, which the
woman wps unable to raise, wnereupon the
doctor deliberately tore the prescription to
pieces, turned on his heel and walked off,
leaving the woman to die.
A boy ran away from his home in Balti-
more some weeks ago, and several days after
wards boy answering his description was run
over and killed by a train in Pennsylvania
town. The remains were fully identified as
those of the missing boy, and were exhumed,
taken to Baltimore and buried by the heart
broken parents. A few days ago the supposed
dead boy rushed home and into his mothers
arms, having tired of wandering and returned.
"A dispatch from New Lexington, Ohio,
says the unprecedented rainfall of last Friday
night produced sudden and mighty flood in
the narrow valley between Rendvile and Corn
ing The water literally swept everything be-
fore it, the railroad track, cars, houses, barns,
fences and live stock being borne along togeth-
er. The wires are Frustrated and the railroad
track so damaged as to preclude all commune
cations. The loss of property is variOusly es-
timated at Sl00,0 to $1,000
Since serfdom was abolished in Russia the
gold mines Of Siberia have lost much of the
value formerly set upon them, for the cost of
working them has been thereby increased.
Between 1926 and 1850 was the period Of their
greatest prosperity, in spite of the fact that in
more recent years the number of mines has
been largely augmented. The official estimate
of the average value of the yearly production
is now $50, 600, 900, but it is believed that this
sum is too high by one-fourth.
In Augusta, on Wednesday of last week, a
colored workman named Walker, while pitch
ing brick on the Scaffolding around the top of
the King Mill, slipped and fell to the ground,a
distance of about fifty feet. While falling he
caught hold of piece of the scaffolding, jerk
ing it out, and cansing some of the brick on
the scaffold to tumble about his head. He
struck on the top Of lime barrel when he
reached the ground, and smashed it to pieces.
No bones were broken, but it is thought that
the man is injured internally.
- Leon Bernard embezzeled a large sum of
money in Belgium and absconded, winding up
in Canada. He employed lawyer to work
up his case and try to get a pardon, OH condi-
tion that he would return portion of the
plunder. The lawyer started for Belgium,
had an interview with the King, made known
his object, and very much to his surprise was
thrown into prison as an accomplice to the
rogue. This was rough on the legal gentle
man, but goes to show how conniving with
thieves, for a fee, is regarded in that country.
- A Grenada, Miss, dispatch of Saturday
says Six miles north of Grenada, on the
Kirkman plantation, Capt. Thos. Kirkman on
Thursday night went to the quarters of col
Ored woman, with whom he has lived for sew
eral years, and killed her and her four chill
dren. Each was killed by single blow from
an axe. Kirkman, after the murder, took an
eighth of an ounce of morphine, coolly un-
dressed and went to bed in the same room with
the dead. When discovered he was still alive.
though no hopes are entertained of his recov-
cry.
High Point, on the line of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad will this fall be the
rendezvous of sporting club, and on Novem-
ber 18th the Eastern Field Trials Club trials
on quals will come off near that place. En-
tries to Derby closed July l, to all-age and
members stake, November l. Fred n. Hall,
Of New York, is secretary of the club. This
field trial is to be large affair and is already
the attention from sportsmen in
all parts of the country. The railroads are
giving special rates for spOrtsmen and will
carry dogs free.
One of the curious industries of the cOun-
try has it's principal home at Newberne, n. G.
This is the manufacture of wooden platters,
plates and trays, The timber used for this
purpose is suppliedby the neighboring swamps.
A huge log is rounded by circular plane
and then put into a machine which, with great
accuracy and swiftness, cuts off thin strips
of wood. When these strips have been cut
into square pieces and thoroughly dried they
ARE made pliable by steam. In that condi-
ton they are moulded in the shapes desired.
The factory is now making 100000 plates a
day, according to report, which it is hard to
believe.
"A wonderful evidence of the skill and in
genuity of modern science is exhibited in the