Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-09-20
Straps and fafts.

New Orleans NatlOnal Dank 1Or SuDStlCutlng
it's name in advertisementsfor for that of lot
terry company.
"A fire broke out in Asheville, n. c., on
Thursday night last, burning three stores
apd destroying twenty-five thousand dol
lars worth of property.
The North Carolina Press Association
will meet in Norfolk, on the 3rd of October,
and proceed in body to the Boston Me-
chanic and Industrial Fair, which is now in
progress.
Cleveland county, N. c., voted by ma
jority of 297, last week, against a proposed
county subscription to the capital stock OF
the Rutherford Railroad Construction Com
pany.
The President has issued a proclamation
declaring that the Worlds Industrial and
Cotton Centennial Exposition will open on
the first Monday of December, 1884, at New
Orleans, continuing until the 3rd day OF
May, 1885.
- The widow of eX-President Polk COM
pleted her eightieth year last Tuesday, and
was pleasantly surprised on that day by
visit from many of the prominent citizens
of Nashville, Tenn, where she lives, who
brought some fine floral tokens of the event.
From four o'clock Friday afternoon till
six O'Clock Saturday morning the greatest
storm ever known on Lake Michigan pre-
vailed. Many vessels were sunk, and along
the Wisconsin and Illinois shores houses,
piers and railroad tracks were washed away.
- The net revenues of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, for the three months
ending September 3Oth, are over million
and half, being an increase of over S11, 900
over the profit Of the preceding quarter
A II per cent quarterly dividend IS de-
clared.
Some of the French papers think the
effort to make favorable adjustment with
China will be a failure. The foreign minis
ter is in favor of an adjustment with China,
but the ministers of war and the marine
insist that France must resist the encr0ach-
ments of China on Tonquin.
AT Erwin, ILL.,, a few days days ago an
attempt was made to kill the Kew. Y. "A.
Obershair, the organizer, of a polygamous
sect know as the "Pilgrims." The Pilgrims
completed new church on Friday, which
was wrecked with giant power. Ober-
shaire generally slept in the building, but
at the time of the explosion was away.
The recommendation of the naval court
martial that naval cadets Benjamin Trap
nell, Archibald Campbell, Ellsworth P.
Bertholf and Franklin Moeller be dismissed
from the service for haZing has been approv-
ed by the superintendent of the naval acad-
envy, and orders dismissing them were is
sued last Friday from the navy depart
ment.
All three-cent stamps which have been
issued will always be good for postage. NO
more of them, however, will be issued
They can be made available in preparing
packages or newspapers that 60 by weight.
Or, together with a tWO-cent stamp, the
three-cent stamp is useful for making up
the sum which pays for single letter-five
cents-to foreign countries.
The Detroit Free Press thinks that an
Ohio woman has done more to justify mat
rimonial cynics than any other person. she
is the wife of a candidate for office and is
cutting out and pasting in scrap-book all
the notices of her husband that have appear
ed since his nomination. She is thus armed
with weapons Of ofense in domestic con-
troversy that are absolutely appalling.
The War Department has just issued
Volume 9of the "Ofdcial Records Of the Re-
bellion." This volume covers the opera
tions in Southeastern Virginia, North Caro-
lima, New Mexico and Arizona, during the
early part of 1862. The work of printing
the war records would seem to have only
fairly begun, as it is estimated that at least
onehundred volumes will berequired to con-
tain all the material which will be printed.
The mystery of the outrage and MUIR
der of Mrs Rose Amber, at StratfOrd, Conn.,,
an interesting account of which is published
on the first page of this paper, is deeper than
ever. Curtis, the wealthy man of pleasure,
accused of the crime, has demonstrated
plainly that no case can be made against
him, although he caused much suspicion by
departing suddenly to Philadelphia. The
detectives are now absolutely at sea, with no
clues leading anywhere.
Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, addressed
several thousand people in Council Bluffs,
Indiana, Tuesday, in the interest OF the
Democracy of the State. He spoke at length
on the tariff question, on national affairs
generally, and on the political issuesin Iowa.
He denounced prohibition as a move to con-
fiscate the property of brewers and liquor
dealers, and argued that it would never
prove operative He said Mr.. Tilden is not
a candidate for President, and he Governor
Hendricks) did not think he would be.
A lady entered ticket office in Toledo,
and bought ticket for Milwaukee. She
told the ticket seller that she never travelled
alone, and that her husband had always
told her that she could not without trouble.
She desired to disprove it by making this
trip alone. Accordingly she asked for and
got all the information as to the departure OF
her train, the change of cars in Chicago,
checking baggage, &C., and went from the
ticket Office Smiling at the manner in which
she would surprise her husband. A few
hours later the ticket seller found on the
counter the ticket he had sold her with the
change.
An Atlanta Ga, dispatch Of Friday
says: w. Montross, of the New York
Police Gazette, was to-day convicted Of dis
tributing an obscene pictorial newspaper,
and sentenced to pay fine OF Sl,OO0 or
twelve months in the chain gang. Several
weeks ago Montross came here by order
of Richard X. Fox, the proprietor of the
paper named, to make test case under the
law passed in 1878. Mr.. Fox is here and
the trial eXcites much interest. The Pre-
siding Judge stated that he would impose
the full penalty of the law because the de-
fendant was seeking to get a fOothold Tor
a paper which has been suppressed for five
wears. The case will be carried to the Su-
preme Court.
A tabulated statement of the receipts
and expenses of the average cost OF collect
ing one dollar of revenue in all of the custom
districts of the United States for the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1888, has been pre-
pared at the treasury department. From
this statement it appears that S2l6, Isl, ,S69
was collected at cost of Sc, ,442,l27 The
cost of collecting one dollar ranges in the
different districts from one cent and eight
mills in New York to fifty and eighty-four
cents in Atlanta, the average cost in all OF
the districts beig two cents, nine mills and
a fraction. In twenty nine of the one hum
dred and thirty districts thecost of collecting
one dollar was more than dollar and IN
thirty of them it was less than ten cents.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, whose name is
mentioned in connection with the Demo-
cratic nomination for the Presidency, adj