Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-01
Scraps aud fafts.

the State, and it has not yet received the
signature of the Governor!
Custer county, Montana, is the largest
county in the United States. Its area is
$4,000 square miles. 1t is larger than the
States Of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode
Island combined. ...
The new five cent nickles have been al
ready called in by the Mint, and no more
are to be issued. Some one was sharp
enough to notice that they were just the size
of five dollar gold piece, and that there
was no difficulty in passing them for flve
dollars, gliding them with gold.
Illinois boasts of being first in rank as
an agricultural State. She has the largest
number of farmers of any State in the I'm
ion, aggregating upwards of 236,0OO. Ana
not only has she the largest number, but
ranks first as having the largest number OF
farms containing one thousand acres or
more. ..
- Beyond the Mississippi river there are
1,2O0, 900 square miles not settled by White
men. Two hundred and forty thousand
square miles of this area are within Indian
reservations, while the rest, for the most
part consists ofmountainous tracts, lnacces-
sible or sterile landsand arid regions which
cannot be irrigated.
Assertion of Mclean Avenue 70 feet long,
slipped into the water at Court street, Gin
cinnati, on Thursday morning, letting. down
the Southern Railroad track, and cutting otf
freight depots. 1t happened shortly before
the arrival of an incoming train. The river
continues to fall an inch per hour. Steam
boats can now use regular landings.
The business failures reported to K. q.
Dun & Co.'S mercantile agency for the week
ending last Friday, number 23O, against %!
for the previous week. Of these 6S occurred
in the Western States, "a in the Southern, 30
in the Middle, 32 in New England, Is on
the Pacific coast and the Territories. IN
New York city, and % in Canada and the
provinces.
In the action for libel brought by James
Francis Malloy, of Edgeield, S. c., against
James Gorden Bennett, editor Of the New
York Herald, in which the former recover
ed a verdict of $40, 900 from the latter. for
alleged libel, in publishing that Malloy had
burnt his property in order to receive the
insurance upon 1t, a new trlai mas Deeh
granted, on motion of defendants counsel
"A mutiny broke out in one of the work
shops of the Missouri penitentiary, at JEFF
ferson CITY, Friday, when one ofthe cOnvicts
set fire to the building, and the flames were
not subdued until half dozen shops, with
the contents were burned, involving loss
of over 100000. Over one hundred con-
victs of Sing Sing prison, n. Y, are in re-
volt against work and have been locked up:
They were employed in the foundry and
claim that the work is too hard.
- Frank James appeared in court in Kan
sas CITY, Mo-, on the 21st instant, and was
arraigned upon three indictments-one for
the murder of Mcmillan in the Winston
train robbery, second as accessory to the
murder of Conductor Westfall and third Tor
the murder of Cashier Sheets in the Gala
tin bank robbery. He pleaded not guilty
The trial is fixed for the third Monday in
June, the next term of the Circuit Court.
The prisoner was remanded.
At Atlanta on Friday last, while the
closet in an old building was being cleaned
out, an electrotype plate, six inches by eight,
was found. An impression was taken, ana
it was found to be die for Confederate lO
cent stamps, having vignette of jeff Davis.
A large number were printed and distribu-
ted as relics. The closet had not been touch
ed for eighteen years, at which time 1t was
in the possession of Thomas Grady, now
dead; SO there is no means of knowing how
it came there. One gentleman offered 81, ,NO
for the relic.
The st. Louis Republican says that the
publication of estimates of white pine stand,
ING in locations available for the market OF
the United States has already had the ef-
feet to greatly advance the prices of pine
lands in many sections. 1t is stated that no
forests of pine wood in American territory
remain unexplored, and the entire supply
does not exceed eighty billion feet. The
annual production of white pine lumber is
not far from ten billion feet, and the de-
mand is growing more rapidly than forests
grow. At this rate the year 1890 will bring
positive scarcity, and few years more a
complete cessation in the supply OF the
most generally used lumber.
- The census reports show that there are
1O6,924 males above the age of twenty-one
in South Carolina who cannot write, dlVld-
ed as follows: White 1924 colored 5000.
The total population who cannot read, ten
years of age or over, numbers 81 7oO, and
ten wears or over who cannot write is $685.
S4S. Total white population, ten years OF
age or over, who cannot write 29,7T7; total
cOlOred, ten years of age or over, who can
not write 310,O71. The percentage of the
blacks who cannot write is 51.30. If Con-
gress should pass the bill appropriating ten
million dollars annually for the education OF
the people, South Carolina would receive as
her Share upon the basis of illiteracy, $592,
700.
The Athens (Ga.) Banner says that a
Young married man of that city was travel
ing through the country the other day when
he saw an envelope lying in the road and
picked it up. 1t was found to contain the
photograph of colored damsel, and the
gentleman placed it in his pocket and
thought nothing of his find until Sunday
morning, when his wife changing his cloth
es, discovered it. She lit upon him like a
double pointed hornet, and while the out
ragged lady was taking the scalp of the vic
tim to circumstantial evidence he tried to
explain how the picture came into his pos
session, but the wife did not swallow the
story worth cent. Yesterday she consult
ed lawer about divorce.
"A gentleman who visited Polk, the de-
faulting treasurer of Tennessee, last Thurs
day, saws that he can scarcely speak above a
whisper that he has not eaten anything since
last Tuesday, and that If confined IN jail ne
would not live more than month. 1t is
thought that he cannot live more than SIX
months even if taken out of Jail and afford
ed all the necessary comforts, SO completely
had his system been depleted. 1t was also
stated that the stencil arising from the river
Mfo his cell was insufferable, and that this
alone was enough to keep one sick. Con-
gressman Caldwell, of this city, says ne
will die in twenty days. 1t is understood
that Col. Polk's bondsmen have agreed to
settle Col. Polk's liabilities by the payment
of s2OO, 900 in "new ISSUE"
On Saturday last five patients in the In
sane Asylum at Staunton, Va, died from
mysterious poison that had evidently
been placed in their medicine. They drop
ned dead in ten minutes after taking the
medicine. One other patient is likely to
die. Three others are ill, but will recover