Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-29
Scraps aud fatts.

- Charles y. LaMOtte, OF the Savannah
Ne,cs editorial staff, was drowned in the
river below that city last Sunday by the
sWamping of a boat. He was a native of
Charleston, and brother of Mr.. T. j La
Motto, local editor of the Columbia Register.
- The business failures throughout the
country, for the week ending last Friday, as
reported to r. G.. Dun & Co.'s Mercantile
Agency, number 1876 against 225 last week.
The New England States had II, Middle 39,
Western 81, Southern 80, Pacific States and
Territories ~. New York city s and Cana
da a.
- The Atlanta Constitution says the Nor
mon elders continue to carry on their busi-
ness of sending women to Salt Lake City
from north Georgia. They do not muster
with brass band, but they are doing some
effective work. Hardly week passes that
some of their victims are not forwarded to
their fate in Utah.
-Emigrants are pouring into Dakota this
spring. not by tens and hundreds, but by
brigades and divisions. The astonishing
crops of wheat raised on the rich lands of
that Territory lure grangers from Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, and the older States as much
as did the golden placers of California twen-
ty-five and thirty years ago.
- The increase in net earnings on the
Richmond and Danville system of roads is
quite extraordinary. Not only are the gross
earnings much larger than in 1882, but with
this Improvement there is also large de-
crease in expenses, resulting in an increase
of the reported net earning of nearly 80 per
cent. in the two months. In 1882 the net
earnings for the two months were $30l $50,
and in 1888 they were 1867 1854.
- Mr.. Burchard, the director of the mint,
said, the other day, in speaking of the three
cent piece and the discussion which has
sprung up about it's legality, that there was
only one coin of the United States that was
in strict compliance with the law. That
coin, he said, was the twenty dollar gold
piece. All the others have something on
them which the law does not authorize, or
they lack something the law requires.
"A bill has passed one House of the Mis-
souri, Legislature, reducing the present le-
gal rates for freight on railways in that State
by 25per cent. 1t backed by what is called
the Farmers Club. The st. Louis Repub-
lican, the leading Democratic paper of Mis-
souri,, says that, through competition, freight
rates are already reduced somewhat below
the legal rates, and that, if the bill becomes
a law, it will inflict a serious blow to the
prosperity of the State.
Washington territory is becoming the
lumber centre of the country. The lumber
is cut along the streams and RATED down to
udNlSdUlOI. LII lOol tllc llOuuCG <lilioltiieSo u
to Ia, 900 cubic feet, and the amount
cut last year is estimated at SOC, ,000, 900 feet.
This is about the last field that can be work
ed before serious inrOad upon the South
ern supply of timber takes place. Every
foot of Southern timber will be needed be-
fore long, and we again warn our readers
who have timber lands to guard them and
keep them until their full value is realized.
One of the meanest and most cowardly
crimes of the age was perpetrated the otner
day at Bloomington, Ind, which Is de-
scribed in a dispatch of the 18th inst, and
for which suit for $12 900 damages has been
Some men surrounded well known far
mer's house at midnight, took possession,
and entering his daughters room (she being
in bedD cut off her hair close to her head.
She is said to be young lady of excellent
character and standing, and the only sup
posed cause of the outrage was the fact that
She had recently Tilted young man.
Jonathan G. Bigelow, counsel for Sergt.
Mason while he was on trial before the
court-martial for shooting at Guiteau in the
district jail, has filed suit against Mason,
his wife Betty and the banking house of
Riggs & Co. for s., 800 alleged to be due him
on account of that case. Bigelow alleges
that there is now $1,000 in Riggs & Co.'s
bank to the credit of Mrs. Mason, the pro-
ceeds of the Mason fund, which he was in
strumental in collecting, and he asked that
she be restrained from withdrawing any
amount sufficient to injure his cause. He
also declares that the case will soon be heard
by the United States Supreme Court, and
that he expects to secure Mason's release
because of lack of jurisdiction on the part
of the court-martial.
In a letter written by Jefferson Davis to
an autograph hunter nearly year ago, but
which has lust been published, the eX-COn-
federate chieftain says "I was born in
what was then Christian county, KY. for
when Todd county was cut off of Christian,
the dividing line ran through my fathers
house, and the room in which was born is,
ther was born in Georgia when it was col
ony of Great Britain, his father was an i'm
migrant from Wales, and his mother was a
native of Georgia. My mother was a ma
tive of South Carolina, and her father emi-
grated from Ireland. / believe this covers
the scope of your inquiry, and will, hope,
be satisfactory to YOU"
- The New York supervisors of election
are discussing the question of adopting a
ballot box, the invention of Boston man,
designed to render election frauds impossi-
BILE. In this box the ballot is placed face
down upon an apron running over pair of
a lever and turns crank as each ballot is
deposited. The ballot is carried by rollers
under clamp which, by an ingenious de-
vice, unites it firmly with the ballot preced-
ing. The ballots thus united are carried
over another roller, which may be detached
and placed on frame where the ballot can
be easily counted. AS only the face of the
ballot is visible when it is on the frame, if
two ballots are deposited, only one can be
seen and counted.
Mr.. Henry E. Bowen, of the New York
Independent, recently made an extended
Southern tour, going as far as Texas, visit
ing en- route the principal cities in Virgin
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, His
conclusion is that the future of the South
ern States is no longer prOblem-that
"new life is swelling her veins, old customs
and prejudices are dying out, and strong
influences are at work which at no distant
day will bring her to the front ranks of the
producing and manufacturing States of the
Union" Mr.. Bowen confesses that the
newspaper readers Of the North can have
no ADEQUATE idea of the vastly altered con-
dition of things in the South since the war.
A dispatch of last Friday, from Fort
Benton, Montana, says: Runners and scouts
bring information of the most daring raidby
Creek Indians, who belong properly beyond
the Canadian line, that has been made in
many years. The party is supposed to
number 200 braves. One is represented as
moving down the Masias River, killing cat
tie and other stock as they 60. At daybreak
on the 18th instant, small company of Pie
.~,,,c l,ooIoI b1, 7 ittIn DOu and two white