Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-05
Straps and fafts.

of the one hundred and forty members
retired from the last Congress, one hundred
are applicants for a Federal appointment.
One Of the members in eloquently pleading
for place, said, 'I must have q place l
cannot earn my living without one."
- The business failures of the seven days
ending last Friday, reported to R. G. Dun
l. Co.'s Mercantile Agency number 1872
against 195 last week, distributed as fol-
lows: Western States SO, New England IA,
Southern 80, Middle %, Pacific States and
Territories Is, New York City 9, Canada 80.
= Conductor E. L. Hosley, of the New
Haven and Northampton Railroad was
found guilty of fmanslaughter in the Superior
Court at Greenfield, Mass, last Friday for
disobeying orders and causing collision on
the State road last September in which
three persons " ere killed and others wound
ed. Exception was taken and sentence was
deferred.
A young fellow in Texas married his
landlady's daughter. At the end of a week
the old lady presented her bill for twice the
amount of his previous board. He thought
he was going to get board free and refused
with his bride he found the door locked and
their joint wardrobe piled on the sidewalk.
Business.
John Brown, so long known as the per-
sonal attendant of Queen Victoria, is dead.
BY the way, we have neglected sooner to
mention that her majesty slipped down the
stairs the other day and sprained her knee
circumstance which set two continents
agog. She was not seriously hurt, and is
now nearly well, but more than ever real
ICES that un-kneezy lies the head that wears
a crown.
- In Kentucky and Indiana the growing
into hos
aged. Predictions of full crop are receiV-
ed from most of the Western States. The
Kansas Millers' Association predicts that
with good weather the yield will be from
thirty to forty million bushels in that State.
The Hessian fly and cold weather have in
jured the wheat crop Of Illinois about % per
cent.
Rhode Island has about fifty thousand
voters, but nearly two fifths of them are
disqualified from voting at the State elec-
tion this week on account of failure to pay
their registration tax. The number now on
the poll lists is 81, ,O7O, and of these 900 are
supposed to be Democrats. If the Demo
cratic vote were cast solid for Sprague he
would still need about $500 votes to elect
him. The election took place yesterday.
The progress of railroads in Mexico is
alarming the people ofthat behind-the-times
country. One of the Mexican journals COM
plains that railroads take away WOrkmen
from field labor, and that the locomotives
burn too much wood. In the early days of
railroads in the West the farmers of some
sections objected to them because the whis-
tie of the locomotive frightened the cattle
and prevented them from grazing comfort
ably.
Col. James Corly, of Norfolk, Va, a
prominent insurance agent, committed sui
eide on Wednesday of last week by cutting
his throat. He was graduate of West
Point, held commission in the United
States army before the war and was General
Lees quartermaster general in the army of
Northern Virginia. He was prominent
citizen of Norfolk and president of local
civil service reform association. No cause
ascertained.
In the criminal court of Washington last
week the grand jury found indictments
against Thomas J. Brady for corrupt official
action in connection with two Of Prices
mail routes and one against ex-senator
VIM. Pitt Kellogg for unlawwfully receiv-
ing money from Price in consideration of
corruptly influencing the action of Brady in
regard to his mail routes, and two against
Thomas j. Brady and VIM. Pitt Kellogg for
conspiracy in connection with the same
routes.
The friends of Messrs BoyntOn and Ba-
con, candidates for Governor in Georgia, are
beginning to make things lively in their
zeal for their respective favorites. Mr..
Boynton is acting Governor by virtue of his
office as Speaker of the State Senate, and at
first it was thought he stood fair chance of
receiving the nomination; but they are pull
ling out some old epistles now written by
him in 1868, congratulating Bullock on his
election as governor, and they are DANA
ging his prospects Very much.
- In the murder case of Charles F. Kring,
plaintiff in error against the State of Mis-
souri,, the United States Supreme Court last
Monday, by ma jority of one, reversed the
Judgment of the Supreme Court OF Missouri
and remanded the case for further proceed
ings. Kring has been tried seven times for
the same murder, and is by this decision
which has been three times imposed.
Kripg's alleged offence is shooting woman,
four or five years ago. to whom he was en-
gagged.
"A romantic story of crime comes from
Brool,neal, Campbell county, Va. Mrs.
Jonathan Monroe and her son Warren were
poisoned at that place several nights ago.
The poison was administered in coffee and
both mother and son died from the effects
short time after drinking the coffee. Sus-
piciOn attaches to niece of the poisoned
WOuldll, WIN was NlSlllliS dG lliC lOuoC az
the time of the occurrence. 1t is rumOred
that the girl meant only to poison the moth
er in the absence of the son in order to re-
move an obstacle to marriage with the lat
ter. Warren returned unexpectedly and
was also poisoned.
The duty-if duty it is-of detailing a
guard from the military service to patrol
Garfelds tomb every night, is becoming
serious to those who are required to per-
form the duty. One young soldier who was
always a light-hearted, healthy young man
until he went on duty in the cemetery has
become insane and has been taken to the
asylum, and the whole detail have such a
dread of it that several of them actually
commit offences in order to get punish
ed and thus escape it, One old soldier said
that he could stand it, although he dread
ed it, but that it was very severe strain on
the younger men. There has never been a
guard placed at any other Presidents grave
and kept there. Is this to be a perpetual
arrangement, and if not, when does it stop?
The Irish situation does not seem to be
improving. If we may believe European
reports, the whole fabric of the British Gov
ernment is on the brink of dynamite vol
cano liable to explosion any day. The Lon
don police are in receipt of letter pur-
porting to emanate from Fenian sources,
threatening that unless the men charged
with the Phoenix Park murders and now
confined in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, await
ing trial, are at once released, the central
telegraph office in London will be blown up.
The Liverpool police are in possession of
information which indicates that the arrests
there and at st. Helen's on Thursday OF