Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-25
Straps aud fatts.

this is supposed to end the matter so far a:
Lewis is concerned.
The officers of the several railroad com
panies between Rutherfordton, n. c., anC
Georgetown, s. c., are endeavoring to etfec
a combination under the control of a New
England Syndicate to run a narrow gauge
railroad from Rutherfordton to Georgetown
via Gaffney City, Union and Edgefeld.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean says: "SiXty
eight new counties were organized in TeXa:
last year. Taxable property increased tt
the extent of $3.50, 100000. Immigrants are
pouring in. That State contains territory
twice as large as Georgia which is yet un
divided into counties. 1t promises to be
the real Empire State of the Union."
A Mormon settlement in Idaho is five
miles long, extending from Clifton to Ok
ford. It is called StraightOWn and the
fomesteads are so taken up that the resi-
dences are within 800 feet of each other ano
to 800 feet in width. This land was taken
up in this manner to give every settler
frontage on the public road.
- The experts sent by the Marine hos,
pital bureau to Brewton, Ala, state thai
the epidemic raging there is yellow fever
In population of between 300 and 800
there has been up to the present time IS
cases and IS deaths. The lateness Of the
season, added to the quarantine establish
ment, justifes the belief that the disease
will not spread.
-Advices from the town of Alta, CalifOr-
MIA, report that place decimated by yellow
fever. The deaths for two weeks averaged
twenty daily. On the Goth instant a hur-
ricane struck the town, killed several per-
sons and destroyed the greater part of the
town. The inhabitants sought refuge in
the mountains. The private losses reach
$4,000. The collector of the port is among
those killed.
The Presbyterian Synod of Pennsylvania
was occupied last Saturday with the report
of the committee on temperance. The re-
port recommended that the whole force OF
the Church be massed against lntemper-
ance. The report of the committee on over
lures that the synod had been made dele
gated body by vote of q out of % presby-
mittee on colleges and academies was ap-
proved and the synod adjourned.
- 1t is said twin brothers living near
Gainesville, Ga, are exactly alike and they
dress alike. They married twin sisters who
are duplicates in feature, form, size and
manners, who likewise dress alike. Each
has child of the same age, size and sex,
and they, too are Just alike. Their house
stand side by side on the same street, and
are precisely alike in every respect, and
each has a span of horses SO much alike
their drivers have to call them by name to
tell the other from which.
- The Baptists of Chicago are preparing
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the
planting of the first Baptist church in that
city. The first church in that city was built
and occupied in the fall of 1888. Its cost
was 5000, and it commenced with mem
bership of Is. At present there are 20
churches and ministers Of the denomina-
ton in the city. Besides this there are
two educational institutions, the University
of Chicago and the Baptist Theological Sem
mary at Morgan Park. The membership
over 1900 children in the fiourishing Sun
day schools.
This seems to be great year for earth
quakes. First Ischia, in the Meditterra-
mean, was shaken up with terrible loss, then
the Island of Java and the Straits OF Sqnda
were cOnvulsed, and now the region about
the Gulf of Smyrna in Asia Minor has
been devastated. Comparatively insignifi-
cant shocks have been felt also at San Fran
cisco and in one or two other places. Dis
patches from COnstantinOple state that the
destruction of villages and towns in Asia
Minor by the last visitation has been great,
and that a thousand lives have been de-
stroyed. The region around Smyrna has
been frequently visited by earthquakes.
Many persons were killed by shocks there
ON May -, 1875. Disturbances were felt
again in July 1880, but only two lives were
lost.
The latest advices from Smyrna state
that the earthquake of the 18th, which shook
the Island of ChiOs severely and extended
along the entire coast of Anatolia, and far
into the interior of the western portion OF
Asia Minor, was much more severe than
was indicated in the first advices. The first
shock was felt at Smyrna about 7.2O A. NJ.
1t lasted apparently only about the fourth
part of minute and was followed by three
lesser shocks in quick succession, which
seemed to be only about half the duration
of the first. With the first shock many
dwelling houses came down, the damage
being greatest in the Armenian quarter, on
the lower slopes of the ancient Mount Pega-
sus, where the vibrations were much more
severe than along the plane between the hill
and the shore, where the Christians reside.
In the adjoining villages of Burnabad and
Budja, number of handsome villas were
demolished.
Referring to the recent decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court on the civil rights bill,
the Atlanta Constitution says: 1t now be-
hOoves the South to show to the world that
she is capable of doing the negro fullest and
and amplest justice without the fear of any
them in the theatre and in the railroad cars
should be in every way as good as those
occupied by the whites who pay the same
money. They should be just as secure from
the intrusion of bOisterOus persons and kept
in as cleanly and neat a manner In short,
the grand opportunity is now afforded the
South to show that she is as magnanimOus
as she proved herself to be courageous.
She will demonstrate, we have no doubt,
that while she could never have been driv-
en- by duress into doing what was clearly
wrong that she will not be tempted by the
removal of all restraint into doing anything
that is less than right.
Rev. Allen Allensworth, a colored Bap-
tist minister of Bowling Green, Ky, has
issued an address to all the colored ministers
of the Gospel, of all denominations, in the
United States and Territories ofAmerica, in
which he suggests national convention tc
''to give moral force to the work begun by
the late convention of colored men in Louis
vile, to present to the world documentary
evidence and statistical data of the moral
religious and financial progress made since
emancipation, to advise the colored people
what they should do to repair the moral dis
aster which came through the existence OF
slavery, to amend family life, paternal au'
thority, and marriage integrity, broken
down by that institution, to improve theil
social standing and secure legal equality
with all men," All the ministers favorine
the call are requested to address Mr.. Aliens
worth at Bowling Green. The convention