Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-08-23
Sfraps aud fafts.

talnS RepuDucaQS anu % DeIuOCrdES III tIle
Senate, and II Republicans, Independents
district to be decided on account of tie
vote. The Democratic majority for Cover
nor is about $4,000.
a means of exterminatlng Mormonism, the
abolition of the plan Of governing Utah by
an elective legislature and the substitution
of q legislative council, to be appointed by
the President and confirmed by the Senate.
There is nothing in the Constitution that
prohibits this form of government for
territory.
The Mercantile Agency of R. G. Dun &
Co. reports that the business failures for the
week ending last Friday, throughout the
United States and Canada number 10, as
compared with 1872 last week. The distri-
button was as follows: New England States
%, Middle States q, Western States 81,
Southern States %, Pacific IL, New York
City 6, Canada, %.
-Dorsey's exposures, summary Of which
demonstrate one thing beyond the posi-
bility of doubt, and that is that Garfield
was elected by the use of money contributed
by Gould, Huntington and other Wall street
stock jobbers. The confession does not make
Dorsey any more respectable but it shows
up the corrupt gang he trained with.
The town of Cassamicciola on the Island
of Ischia, which was recently destroyed by
an earthquake, is rapidly being rebuilt. AL
ready 154 wooden houses have been erected
and occupied. It has been decided to name
the streets of the town after the King and
Queen of Italy. At Forio, another Of the
desolated towns, houses have been erected
for the accommodation of 50 families.
or %l,o 1f
Fulford, white, and Harry Bradley, colored
for the murder of the formers wife, at Balm
bridge, Ga, published in these columns last
week, is confirmed, and in addition, Reuben
Robinson, colored, who was also implicated
in the horrible affair, was lynched last
Thursday. A colored woman under arrest
was discharged for lack of evidence to con-
vict her.
In speaking of railroad accidents and the
earth's rotation, R. Randolph shows that
the defective force arising from the earth's
rotation is entirely too small to determine
derailments, and also that as an excess OF
right-handed derailments has been credited
solely to North and South tracks this proves
it to be wholly immaginary, for the defect
i've force at any latitude is the same for all
directions.
"A Waco, Texas, dispatch of last Satur-
here that on Thursday afternoon cyclone
struck Oglesby, demolishing the station
house and stores and scattering goods all
over the prairie. A man was blown dis
tance of two hundred feet. A young man
named Harris, at Pecan Grove, Coryell
county, on the same afternoon, was struck
by lightning and killed."
- The Iowa Republicans are in muddle.
They are splitting on the prohibition ques-
ton. TheState convention adopted strong
prohibition plank. This has aroused the ire
of number of leading Republicans who
openly assert that they will oppose the
outlook for the Republicans is not very
cheerful while the Democrats are hopeful
and hard at work.
One of the queerest sentences ever i'm
posed on criminal was that given to Will
liam Hannah, found guilty before Judge
Krehel, Of st. Louis, of selling liquor to In
dians. Hannah pleaded ignorance of the
law as an excuse, saying he could not read
or write. Judge Krehel sentenced him to
the county Jail till he could learn to write,
and sentenced another criminal to Jail till
he should have taught Hannah the art. In
three weeks both men were discharged.
At Luling, Texas, on the 18th instant,
Lawrence Denmon met the Rev. R. G. Sew
yer fred at the minister four times, inf1ict-
ing wounds which in short time caused
his death. The causes leading to the shoot
ing are of domestic nature and can only be
published on the trial of the case. No one
blames Denmon and yet Rev. Mr.. Sewell is
regarded as the victim of a conspiracy as
he asserted in his ante-mortem statement.
Both parties are highly connected. Sewell
Wasa Methodist clergyman and local agent
of the American Bible Society.
1t is seriously announced by a CORES
pondent of the New York Times that Mr..
Tilden will undoubtedly be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for President,
and that his recent purchase of team of
fast horses from Kentucky is accepted by
Democratic politicians at Saratoga as final
settlement of the question whether he in
tends to "run" for the Presidency next year.
On the other hand, the Louisville Courier
Journal soberly AYERS that Mr.. Tilden is not
a candidate, and will not be candidate
under any circumstances, and that Mr.. Nc
Donald, of Indiana, is his first choice for the
nomination.
Mrs. Ubalto, the widow of soldier of
the late war, had 500, all she possessed, on
deposit in the Beaver (Pa.) Savings Bank.
Hearing that the bank was shakys she visited
it on Friday of last week, and demanded
W
dent. He informed her that the bank had
failed and he could not pay her, Whereupon
the widow drew a revolver and leveled
it at him. The President reconsidered and
paid the money down, WhereupOn the widow
tainted from the strain on her nerves.. But
she pocketed the money and walked off with
her little son, who had accompanied her to
the bank.
"A Galveston, Texas, dispatch of Friday
SAYS: This city is on the verge of water
famine. The cisterns are drained, gardens
are dried up and the effect of the drought is
plainly to be seen in products of the vege-
table market. For weeks past many per-
sons have been depending upon the liber-
ality of their neighbors for water enough to
drink, having exhausted their supplies.
Now most of those who were well provided
at the beginning of the dry season are al
most completely without supply. An in
dication of the extreme want to which
some persons are driven is found in notice
posted in front of the best known and most
popular restaurants in the city, "closed until
it rains" A slight rain has fallen, but not
enough to change the situation.
The Philadelphia Press says: A panic is
feared in secret by great many, and dis
cussed in public by few; but in the pres
ent condition of prices and of trade it is only
possible if the banks begin wholesale con-
traction of f-loans on commercial paper, and
this is followed by like contraction in loans
on bond and stock collateral. The New
England failures which have already taken
place have led to the first step, to how great
an extent no one knows but the New York
Tribune says commercial paper is being re-
fused 'where a refusal would have been