Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-31
Straps and fafts.

- A r6markaDle instance OF The ingenuity
developed by necessity is afforded by
convict in a Louisiana prison, who made a
saw out of the buckle on his trowsers and
constructed key out of a splinter of wood,
with which he unlocked the chain that
Bound him to the floor.
AT the request of Gen. Hazen, Secretary
Chandler will order one of the vessels OF
the North Atlantic squadron to accompany
the vessel to be chartered at st. Johns, n. F.,
for the Greeley relief expedition. The OBJ
iect of having convoy is to prevent the
failure of the expedition in case an accident
should befall the signal service steamer.
Tennessee has adopted new plan to di-
minish drunkenness by passing law to pre-
nors without the written consent of their
parents and guardians, or to husbands who
are common drunkards unless their wives
gave their consent. The operation OF this
law will be watched with interest.
The business failures throughout the
country, as reported by the mercantile agen-
CIV of r. G. Dun & Co., during the week end
ing last Friday, number 15S against III last
week-a reduction of 13. The New Eng
land States had II, the Western Al, the
Southern 81, the Middle %, the Pacific States
and Territories 49, New York city and
Canada Is.
Says the Augusta Chronicle: Senator
Hampton has been taking a regular MINI
since adjournment. He has killed nine
bears and unnumbered smallergame. Pres
emily, he will be perched in the Virginia
mountains snaring black bass in company
with the President, who dearly loves to
drop line alongside of Hampton's fly.
= Pagan, the third of the condemned Phe-
nix Park assassins, was executed last Mon
day. A strong force of police and military
was present, but everything went off quiet
ly. A small crowd of persons collected out
side the prison, a few of whom knelt IN
prayer for the repose OF his soul. Inc con-
demned man was pale but appeared to be
resigned to his fate. Death was lnstantane-
Gus.
A mob, headed by Sheriff A. j. Rings,
went to Sterling KY, with the object OF
lynching John Barnett, who was in Jail un-
der an Indictment for assaSsinating Waugh
anHilton. An attack was made at A. NJ,
on the Jail, but three special guards repulsed
the mob, wounding Rings frightfully with
buckshot, breaking Clark's leg with bull
let, killing one of the horses and wounding
other men and horses. The fight was short
but terrific.
Col Azor Nickerson, retired army officer,
is to be court martialed and dismissed the
service. He persuaded his wife to 60 to
Europe to educate their daughter and then
applied for and obtained divorce, alleging
desertion. He kept her away by refusing
to send her money enough to get home on,
and meanwhile took Baltimore woman to
live i'm his house. The injured wife notifi-
ed the Secretary of war who began proceed
ings Immediately.
Several women are powers behind the
throne in journalism. Mr.. Pulitzer's success
in life is said to be largely due to his wife's
sympathy and pluck. The wife OF Col. NC
Clure of the Philadelphia Times is the larg-
est stakeholder in the paper. The Times
Democrat of New Orleans is mainly own
ed by Mrs. Burke, while Mrs. Nicholson is
the controlling spirit of the Picay,nle. SO
women. are very powerful even in journal
ism.
Minneapolis is reported to ship annual
ly, beyond the local consumption, l,63O,S
barrels of -four. "These," says the 7'i6W'e's
statistician, "if piled one upon the other,
end to end would reach 7SO miles. The
flour would make about 495, ,255,0 600 loaves
of bread, the ordinary size of the bakers
loaves. These piled in pyramid, would
make, roughly calculated, a square pyramid
with base nearly 3OS feet square, and with
a height of nearly 1000 feet"
Kate Kane, the female lawyer who threw
water in Judge Mallory's face in the Grim
inal court of Milwaukee, Wis, was released
on the Goth from the county Jail, where she
had been confined for thirty days for con-
tempt of Court. Lady friends took heraWay
in a hack and presented her with purse.
But to add to her perpleXities, Judge Mallo-
nv has again arraigned her for contempt, the
offence being that she cried in open court,
when being borne out by the officers at the
time she threw water in his face, that he ac-
cepted bribes.
There are twenty-five cases of small pOX
in the town of ST. Michaels, Minnesota,
and several deaths have already occurred.
There is great Indignation among the neigh
boring towns over the negligence of the
authorities in providing means to prevent
the spread of the disease. The plague also
prevails in Lancaster, Pa, the county Jail
there having thirteen prisones i'll with the
small pox and number of others afflicted
with preliminary symptoms. Among those
seriously ill is an incendiary recently SEN
fenced to fifteen years imprisonment.
As many as 100000 barrels of whisky
will be shipped, principally from Newport
News and Pensacola, to foreign ports, main
ly Bermuda, and reimported, to evade the
tax falling due. The money which will
thus be kept out of the treasury will amount
to between five and six millions. The re-
lief to the whisky spectators will be great
and timely. Congress is to be asked to re-
peal the law which allows the whisky dis
tillers to evade the payment of the tax by
this method, which is of questionable le-
gality.
With the permanent establishment of
fraternal relations between the Northern
and Southern Presbyterians, organic union
of the two Churches will soon follow.
Northern Presbyterians have already with
drawn all imputations and that is the end
of the Southern grievance. A little COM
mon sense now will put an end to the
whole business. While union will strength
en- the church it will be vastly beneficial in
smothering sectional animosities growing
out of the war. The day, we hope, is not
distant when the last vestige of sectional
ism will be wiped out.
- The agents. Herald, a Philadelphia
monthly publication, learns that Postmaster
General Gresham has about decided that
newspapers known as "patent Outsides or
insides," or "co-operative," ETC., shall be
excluded from the mails as secOnd-class pub
lications. The reason, it is said, is that the
papers being similarly printed on one side
in the large cities and then sold by the quire
or ream to thousands of country publishers,
who make up and print the other half of the
paper with home news and local ADVERTISE
ments, is sufficient evidence that such pa
pers are not self-sustaining.
The latest information from the mining
districts in st. Clair, Illinois, is to the effect
that work was to have been resumed last
Monday morning at the Rose Hill mine,
near West Belleville, but when the men
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