Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-23
MERE.MENTION.

The receipts of cotton at all interior towns
to last Saturday were 32,926 bales receipts
from plantations, 1854 crop in sight, 1922
O12 The total visible supply of cotton for the
week was 2,9SS,7S2, of which 2,263,657 was
American, against 3, 3,0S0,S58 and 2,591, 294, re-
spectively last year. Albert NJ. Steven
son, convicted in Gwinnet, Ga, Superior
Court, of the murder of Mrs. Salina G. Steven
son, was sentenced last Friday to be hanged
on the 18th of May. Another destructive
fire. supposed to be the work of an incendi-
ary in Winston, North Carolina, last Friday
night. '':... Small pox is said to be raging
alarmingly in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The worst infected localities are where the
people refused to be vacclnated. The
auditor of the city of Newark, n. j., has been
sent to the penitentiary twenty years for for
gerry. ..'..." Congressman Black, of Georgia, is
living very i'll. ...'..The recent losses by Gen.
Grant, in stock speculations are put down at
not less than $50, 900. 1t is shrewdly suspect
ed that Jay Gould manipulated Grants un-
lucky deals, and if this be true the willy broker
has recouped himself twice over for the amount
he subscribed to the Grant charity fund. EV-
erybody supposed that it would have to be
very cold day when Gen. Grant got left but
this March weather has been too chilly Tor
him. Scoville has written book about
the Garfield trial, in which he says there IS
some startling information A Conteder-
ate half dollar silver coin sold at auction in
New Orleans for $S70.. While all Eng
land insists that the man who shot at the
Queen is lunatic, America goes to work to
prove the wretch who killed her President,
sane and responsible. ''''' 'Ex-President X.
b. Hayes is president of the Fremont Savings
Bank Company, just organized at Fremont,
Ohio, with capital of S5O, 600. Another
prominent Republican has gone wrong. This
time it is J. w. Johnson, of Sheldon, Illinois.
He was an applicant for Swedish Consulship.
He is charged with forging commercial paper
to a considerable amount ..'...O. NJ. Stone
& Co., cotton merchants, cotton gin manutac-
turers and guano dealers Of Augusta made an
assignment on Friday for the benefit of their
creditors. Their liabilities are about $40, 600,
nominal assets SS0,000. '''.''The widow OF
President Lincoln drew from the pension Of
flee at Chicago Thursday $4,000, being the
amount due her under the recent act OF Con-
gress passed for her relief. "A resolution
offered in the New York Assembly last Satur-
day, asking the President of the United States
to reduce the punishment of Sergeant Mason
to dismissal from the army was lald on the
table. ''...J Judge Samuel Blatchford, OF New
York, has accepted the appointment of Asso-
ciate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, declined first by COnkling and then by
Senator Edmunds. ...'..'A member OF the
New Jersey Legislature has introduced bill
proposing to lease that State to the PennsylVa.
mia Railroad. The present Legislature OF
Kentucky costs the State over four thousand
dollars day. Chicago asks for the par
don of Sergt Mason on a petition 2,4OO feet in
length and containing II 900 names. The
submerged lands in Mississippi embrace re-
gion larger in extent than the State of South
Carolina. '.'.'.Dr. Strother, Kentucky. lee
turer, holds that the garden OF Eden was tne
Mississippi valley. and that Noah's ak start
ed from Manhattan Island. 1t would seem
now that so far as the sailing of the ark is con-
cerned the positions could be we'll reversed