Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-13
Straps and fafts.

The freight handlers employed by the
South Carolina Railroad at Charleston,
struck few days ago for an increase OF
wages, but were unsuccessful in their de-
mands and lost their situations besides.
The latest returns from Java say that
$4,000 people lost their lives by the recent
earthquake and volcanic disturbances. All
communication is cut off, however, by the
succession of vast banks raised in the ocean
in the approaches to the ruined district.
AT Hazelhurst, Miss, the other day,
Charles Hart, boy II years of age, shot
and mortally wounded A. w. Burnett, a
prominent lawyer of that place. 1t is report,
ed that Burnett cut Hart with a knife and
he shot him while he was attempting TO
do further injury.
The withdrawal of the Hon. j. G: s:
Blackburn, of Kentucky, from the contest
for the Speakership of the House is hailed
by Mr.. Carlisle's friends with joy as virtually
leaving that gentleman a clear field to fight
Randall in, Cox, of New York, having no
considerable strength.
Because the Georgia State bonds of 1869
were issued by a provisional. government
and repudiated by constitutional cOnven-
ton several years afterward, the holders
claim that the United States is legally re-
sponsible for their payment. This is the
statement in brief of a novel and important
question.
The Greenback State Convention of New
York, which met in Rochester last week,
nominated Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, OF
Elmira, for Secretary of State, Louis A.
Post, of New York, for Attorney General,
G. S. Holsey, of Uadilla, for Comptroller,
and Julia Winnie, Of Albany county, for
Treasurer. ...
From letter of complaint in the Gal
weston Ne,cs as to the cost of living, it ap-
pears that the residents of that city pay
$11.25 for wood delivered and sawed, 90 cents
apiece for chickens, 81 thousand for gas,
coal $12 ton, beef Is to 90 cents pound,
and equally extravagant prices for other
articles.
Reliable reports received at the office OF
the State Commissioner of Agriculture OF
Mississippi show that the corn and cotton
crops of that State are much injured by un-
favorable weather. The decrease in the
cotton crop, as compared with last year,
amounts to Is per cent, and in the corn crop
to Is per cent. With favorable picking
season this is fair estimate.
The Scott law of Ohio, promises to save
the people $2,OOO,OOO annually in taxes. In
seventy of the eighty-seven counties IN the
State l ,O19 recognized drinking saloons have
been closed, while 6,54O have paid the S2oO
license fee, and 1882 have paid the$1OO tax:
district treasures is 81, ,494 200. Every one
can get all the beer or whisky he wants, and
at the old prices.
The business failures reported through
out the United States and Canada to Dun q
Co., for the week ending last Friday, num-
Der 157, as compared with 1876 last week, a
decrease of %. In New York city the as
signments were few and generally unlmpor-
tant. The distribution of failures was: New
England States 15 Middle States %, West
ern States 4S, Southern States %, PACIFIC
States and Territories 13, New York city 4,
and Canada 25.
The experiment of sending boat of pc.
culiar construction through the Whirlpool
Rapids, at Niagara, was carried out success
fully on Thursday last. The startwas made
q few rods above the old landing at $40 p.
M, and the boat reached the whirlpool at
3.47, a distance of about mile, passing the
rapids safely. On going through the Whlrl-
pool the boat struck the Canada shore, when
it was again pushed into the river, and
passed the lower rapids, reaching Lewiston
safely. No persons were aboard. About
10000 people witnessed the experiment.
A dispatch of last Saturday from Sange.
mon county, Illinois, says: Cloudy weather
alone last night saved the corn from des.
truction by frost. The temperature is low
tonight with prospect of frost before NOR
ming. Dixon, ILL.,, reports that unless the
wind leaves the north before morning two
thirds of the crop will be totally ruined
Reports from Des Moines from - points on
the Rock Island railroad to Omaha, say
that the indications point to a heavy frost
tonight. At different points in Wisconsin,
the mercury fell to 81, but there was no frost
The General Superintendent of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company has issued
an order fixing nine hours as days work
and seven and half as nights work, allow
ing extra pay for Sunday work and increaS'
ing the pay of many operators 81 and $40 a
month. This is practically all the strikers
asked for, except the placing of women on
an equality with the men, and causes great
surprise and delight among the operators
The concessions are believed to have beer
forced by the alarming unanimity OF public
sentiment in favor of building up rival lines
and the government control Of the business
"A recent scene in the streets of Barcelo
ma, would indicate that the days of the In
quisition are not yet over in Spain. Some
1900 Protestant school books, entitled ga
Simple Method of Learning to Read and
Cipher" were, by order Of the government
burned in the public square because they
contained extracts from the Gospels as read
ing exercises. Similar outrages against the
Protestants are committed nearlys every
month, say Spanish newspapers; but it is
interesting to note that the people of BARGE
Iona gathered in a crowd and jeered at the
officers as the fire was lighted.
- Work on the Washington monument
will be resumed about October 1st, when a.
many men as can possibly be used will bt
employed. The expectation that the mon
ument would reach a height of 42O feet be-
fore the close of the season is hardly likely
to be realized, as operations have been
seriously delayed by the failure to obtain
stone from the original contractors. Under
the present contract an average of ter
blocks are received each day. Ninety
stonecutters are now employed at the mon
ument'S base, and as soon as the stOne-set'
ting commences there will be nothing tC
delay the rapid progress of construction.
The Georgia delegates to the national
colored convention, which meets in Louis
Vile on the 24th instant, have formally an
nounced their determination to demand adj
mittance to the hotels and to insist on first
class accommodations. The managers OF the
principal hotels have been interviewed on
the subject, and say that they will not ad
NIT them as guests at all. AS the rooms OF
these hotels are now full, and will continue
to be in demand during the session of the
convention, there is no probability that IN
suit for damages, under the civil rights bill
a case against any of the hotel proprietors
can be made out.
Frank Shelton, colored, was hanged at
Greensboro, Alabama, last Friday for the
murder of his wife The trap was sprung
at LAS o'clock. His neck was broken by
tho fall The BODY was cut down at 12.1