Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-02-16
MERE.M MENTION.

Massachusetts, entire representation in Con-
gress-two Senators and eleven Representa-
tives-are in favor of woman suffrage Ben
Butler says that under an old and long-ignored
Maryland law, Guiteau must be hanged in
chains, instead of a rope, to render the execu-
tion of the sentence legal. '''''A Paris, Ken-
lucky, dealer sold 81, 900 tuekeys the past sea-
son. 1.-The fast mail on the Airline Rail-
road was discontinued last Sunday. '''''The
Senate Of the Virginia Legislature, by a vote
of 70 to 20, has abolished the whipping-post in
that State. Judge Porter is going to
Florida to recuperate from the Guiteau tri-
al. al...:..Col Kicks, of Mississippi, is the Sec
ond largest planter in the South, and employs
1000 men. ......This seasons ice crop on
the Kennebec river is estimated at 1900, ,OOO
tons. ...'.'The cotton crop of Arkansas is
claimed to have greater money value than
the wheat crop of Minnesota. AT the
close of business last Saturday the total visible
supply of cotton for the world was 3,l5l, ,7O5
bales, of which 2,536,0S3 was American,
against $780, Ala and 2,419,0OO respectively
last year. ''''.. Father Sheehy, of Limerick,
Ireland, is lecturing through the South on the
Irish troubles. "A prize fight took place in
Mississippi on the 7th instant, between two
northern champions-Paddy Ryan, of Troy,
N.Y.. and John L. Sullivan, of Boston. Ry-
an was defeated in the ninth round, and
Quilted the ring seriously injured and dlsfg-
ured. .....There were thirty-two men In the
Midlothian coal mine at the time OF the eXplo-
sion. every one of whom were killed. TWen-
ty-six of them were married and leave widows
and children. '''''' During the next two years
the charters of 3O2 National banks will ex-
pire. 1.-THE report that people in northern
Louisiana are on the verge OF starvation IS
contradicted by citizens of that section. Crops
were short and there is but little money, but
no distress prevails. John Kelly, the
great Tammany boss, left New York for Flor
ida last Saturday. He is in bad health. An
ordinary days business on 'Change, in Chicago
is the sale of about 10, 900, 600 bushels OF grain
On Saturday the sales amounted to nearly
70 600. 600 bushels. ......Gen. Hancock is WIS.,
iting his plantation in Mississippi Last Sat
urtay the Legislature of that State adopted
resolution inviting him to visit the capitol
during it's session, and appointed commlttee
of reception. .'.'Several new cases OF small
pox are reported in the vicinity of Petersburg,
Va. ....George Allen, cashier Of the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western Railway Company,
is defaulter for about SC, 900 and has disap-
peared ......The Mississippi River is above
the high water mark of 1867, and the levles
are breaking fast. In Steuben county, N.
Y, there is strong opposition to paying taxes,
in consequence of which, on Monday, Govern
or Cornell issued proclamation declaring tne
town of Greenwood, in that county, in state
of insurrection, and commanding those VINO
are resisting the laws for the collection OF tax
es, to disperse. To raise money to pay Tor
new State House, Texas has sold to private
parties a domain of land larger than the State
of Connecticut and five times larger than
Rhode Island.