Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-08
Sfraps aud fafts.

been affirmed by the Supreme Court, Of
Maryland, legal whipping has been revived
there for the first time since 1919. The first
victim received seven stripes "well laid on"
on Monday. The prejudice against this
form of punishment is disappearing fast.
A horrible case of death from destitu-
tion near Wilkesbarre, Pa, was revealed last
Thursday by the Ladies' Aid Society. A
man named Leonard and his son were found
dead in bed, his wife dying and two young
children in the last stages of starvation.
Relief was given. There is considerable
excitement over the discovery.
AS an illustration of the great value of
secrets that are sometimes carried by judg-
es, Boston paper states that if man could
have known on Tuesday what the decision
of Judge Lowell, in the Bell telephone case
was to be, he could have put out 81 900 on
margins" and have cleared $4,000 within
twenty-folr hours.
The business failures for the week end
ing last Friday, as reported to the mercan-
tile agency of r. G. Dun d Co. number 3O5,
an increase of 81 over last week. The New
England States have fl, the Middle States
80, the Western States 92, the Southern
States 70, the Pacific Coast and Territories
10, Canada g., and New York City 10.
A woman who has been in the Georgia
penitentiary Is years on life sentence is to
be released by Gov. Aleck Stephens. He
would pardon her if he knew what to par
don, but the fact is that nobody knows what
she is there for. There is no record of her
misdeeds on the prison register, and the
woman herself does not know why she is
imprisoned.
Senator Blair's bill for assisting public
education in the South does not create a
permanent school fund, but proposes to eX
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tributed on the basis of illiteracy; for the
second year, $14, 100000, and 81 100000 less
each year for ten years, when the distribu-
tiOn ceases. In ten years the expenditure
would reach $105, 100000.
Eight of the men recently arrested in
Dublin for the Phoenix Park murders were
charged on Saturday with the murder of
Cavendish and Burke. They were identi-
fed and gun and two knives which were
found in house recently vacated>by one of
the accused parties was presented as evil
dence against them. The plot is. unfolding
more clearly every day, and the asSassinsare
already under the shadow of the gallows.
- Michael S. Considine, of Philadelphia, is
fined, imprisoned and disfranchised for four
years for betting on last falls election and
then acting as inspector on election day.
He was unwise enough to sue the stake
holder, as the bet was disputed, after the
court said that under the law the money
must 60 to the poor. The committee of one
hundred picked Michael up on the criminal
charge.
Nearly II 900 tons of newspapers and pc
riodicals passed through the New York
Office last year to news agencies and regular
subscribers. The receipts from this mass
of mail matter amounted to $43S, ,SO2SS,
which is 81 per cent of the entire amount
collected on mail of a similar class received
by all the post offices in the United States.
The New York post Office receives an aver
age of 35 tons of newspaper and periodical
mail every day. ~"'
More than $4,000 English soldiers were
stationed i'm Ireland in 1881, or an army as
large as that of the United States, in terri
tory two.thirds the size of Pennsylvania.
There wasa soldier for every 200 inhabitants
in Ireland, one for every 400 in England
and Wales. The regular army of Great
Britain comprised, in 1881, 1SS, 1913 men of
service, and of the remainder more than
one-fourth were stationed in Ireland.
A French merchant in the City of Mex
leo has been authorized by the Mexican gov
ernment to organize company with cap
ital of 81 ,OOO, 900 to bring to the Mexican Re-
public twenty French colonies, aggregating
500 families each. The Government grants
land for the cost of surveying. Each fam
lily will pay the company in ten years 500
for land, implements and cattle, of which
amount $3.50 will go to the government.
The company is to deposit $4,000 as guar
antee.
On last Friday night another great snow
storm, accompanied by extreme cold, pre-
south as Kansas. In Kansas the small
streams were frozen solid to the bottom.
A Cheyenne dispatch of same date says.the
Wyoming cattle range was covered with
snow from one to three feet deep, and seri-
Gus apprehensiOns were felt that many cat
tie would be starved to death. Overland
travellers were furnished with provisions in
anticipation of a railroad blockade.
Young Cobb, who shot and mortally
wounded Sheriff Shenneman, some daysagO,
near Winfield, Kansas, was taken out of the
Jail in that town last Thursday morning by
a party of masked men and hanged to the
railroad bridge on the outskirts of town.
On the previous evening he confessed to
Mrs. Shenneman, the widow of the dead
sheriff, that he was Charles Cobb and gave
her his revolver. Subsequently he stated
to Sheriff Mcintyre that he had been in
fiuenced by the reading of the exploits of
Jesse James and other desperadoes.
The New York Tribune has the follow
ing gossip about former resident Of South
Carolina: Governor Daniel II. Chamber
lain, the well known Ex-Governor of South
Carolina and since brilliant member of
the New York Bar, who has been abroad
for some time past for his health, finds it
now practically restored. DR.. Brown-Se-
guard advises him that, so far as medicines
60, he is cured, and that all that is further
needed is rest. Governor Chamberlain is
now in Rome, and, with Mrs. Chamberlain
will sail for home on the SerUia toward the
close of April.
The gradual emancipation of slaves in
Brazil has not only permitted the country
to prepare itself for the adoption Of free la
Dor, but it's influence on immigration has
also been most marked. From 1864 to 1872
the average yearly number of immigrants
was under 5000. In 1872 a law was passed
in favor of gradual emancipation, and from
that date to 1879 the immigrants averaged
nearly %, 900 annually-almost three times
the average before the enactment. The
next two years showed nearly the same re-
suits; but then notable increase was OBJ
served, and from the 1st of January to the
3ist of December, 1881, 39,7S4 immigrants
landed in Brazil.
"A dispatch from Halifax Court House,
Va, dated January q, says: "Last night
James Guthrie, prosperous young farmer,
was married to Miss Hulda Martin. A
large company was present at the wedding,
which was sOlemniZed at the residence of
the brides father. Owing to bad weather
the guests remained at the mansion all
night. This morning, when they had as