Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-28
MERE. MENTION.

Fifty members of the Texas Legisla-
ture, who were indicted some time ago
for poker playing, have about all settled
| their cases without trial by the payment
| of their fines and costs. "Caterpillars
have appeared in such masses in some
parts of Nova Scotia as to impede railroad
trains. '.''''''.A monument over the grave OF
the late Governor Williams, of Indiana, is
| to be unveiled at Vincennes on the 4th of
July. .".''''. Arkansas has strict law against
| the carrying of pistols, except on ajourney
pistols rpistol cartridges, and, what's more,
| the law is enforced. "'..:"Ohio will have
four tickets in the field next fall-Demo-
cratic, Republican, Temperance and Green
back. Out of these an Ohioan can take ac-
cording to his choice. '''''''' Mrs Scoville, the
sister of Charles Guiteau and the divorced
wife of Scoville who defended Guiteau, has
been authorized by the Court to change her
name to Howe 1.-The Pennsylvania DEM
ocratic State Convention has been called to
meet at Harrisburg on August 1st. 1.-THE
court has fixed the bail in the two addition
al Star-route indictments against Brady at
S1O. 600 in each case. .".......Yellow fever is
reported to be making fearful ravages
among Europeans and Americans in Vera
Cruz. One thousand deaths have occurred
during the last two months. .'''''"'A live
horned Texas frog, arrested in his travels
through the mails, was received at the Dead
Letter Office last Saturday. .'''''''"John De-
voy, editor of the Irish Nation, who was
convicted in New York on Monday of libel
ing August Belmont, was sentenced Tues
day to sixty days Imprisonment in the pen
itentiary. '.'"''':It is thought that the claims
for damages by the Brooklyn bridge panic
will aggregate at least s5O0,OOO. '''''..''A
ab, n fob Of
Conner, of South Carolina, is seriously ill
at the house of Mr.. Enders. He has been
sick for some time, but his symptoms have
been more alarming to-day. '''"'''' John H.
Alexander, the colored applicant for admis-
sion to West Point Military Academy, Is
said to have passed an excellent eXamina-
tion, and has been admitted .''''''''General
Crook has been ordered to Washington to
consult as to the final disposition to be
made of the captured Apaches.
A WESTERN FREsHET.-T Mississippi
river has burst it's banks and flooded the
country, spreading terrible destruction for
miles around to the growing crops. A st.
Louis dispatch of Sunday says:
Fish Lake levee, which protects about
fifteen square miles of rich farming land in
the American bottom on the Illinois side of
the river, below East Carondelet, broke at
II o'clock Friday night and 10000 acres
of fine farms are now under water. The
damage to the crops and other property is
estimated at 100000. What is known as
the Isabella Bridge, on the Missouri Pacific
Railway, spanning the creek about ten miles
this side of Jefferson City, was carried away
Friday. The Madison dyke, between st.
Louis and Alton, on the Illinois side of the
river, broke at o'clock Friday morning in
two places. One break is near Mitchell,
about twelve miles from East ST. Louis, and
the other further north, near the head Of the
dyke, not far from Alton. The crevasses
are not very large yet, but are growing
rapidly, and the water is rushsng through
them at a fearful rate. 1t is expected that
the entire bottom north of East st. Louis,
embracing fifty or sixty square miles, will
be flooded. Farmers are leaving their
homes as rapidly as possible, many of them
going to Alton and others to different points
of the bluffs, five or six miles back from the
river. The destruction of crops and the
damage to farm property will be very great
The panic among the people of Alton, when
the levee broke, was very great and univer-
sal. They fed towards the bluffs, carrying
with them whatever of live stock and house
hold goods they could save. Many head of
live stock were drowned. There is @ fast
rise coming down the river, and this will
no doubt augment the flood until the water
reaches the bluffs, seven miles from the
river. AS it is, all the country between
Mitchell and Venice is, or soon will be,
overfowed, and the destruction to the crops
will cause the loss of hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Not only are the crops ruined,
but the force of the overflow has torn the
soil to pieces, and in many places sand piles
will take the place of fertile ground.
A dispatch of Monday, from Alton, Ill.,,
says: The magnitude of the disaster from