Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-04
Smaps and fafts,


ing last Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun
& Co., number one hundred and eighty, as
compared with one hundred and eighty
eight last week, the feature being the very
important disasters in the New York cloth
ing trade.
Kentucky farmers raided and broke up
a moonshine distillery in Grayson, county,
Ky, on the 22nd ultimo, after a desperate
fight in which several men were shot. The
distillers were violating the local option
law by selling whisky and the authorities
had failed to act.
- The Blue Book containing the names of
all the Federal employees is in course of
preparation. There are borne on the rolls
about 100, 900 patriots who draw thelr, per
diem with conscientious regularity; these
are enough themselves to turn the Pres
idential election. 1t is indeed an army OF
oficeholders that the people have to sup
port. "Few die-and none resign"
On Saturday last, the Secretary of War
announced that no one will be appointed
to succeed Gen. Hunt in command of the
Department of the South at present, as there
is no other officer of suitable rank now
available for that duty. The business OF the
department will be conducted for some time
under the direction of Major-General Han
cock.
Ino reCeut diitA iiSfVA tNeto
Sau was most disastrous in its effects. One
hundred vessels were wrecked and at least
SO lives were lost. The greatest disaster
was the loss of the ship Carleton, which left
Nassau with the mails and IA passengers,
besides the crew, for Juaqua and interme-
diate ports on September 4. She went to
pieces on reef, drowning is persons.
- In Albany, last Friday, Judge Hand
referee in the tax suit brought by the State
of New York against the Western Union
Telegraph Company, rendered decision IN
favor of the State for $17S,397.26. This sum
is for taxes for only one year, but deter
mines the remaining tax In favor OF Ghe
State, making the total amount recoverable
under the decision from the company about
1926, 900.
Officials of the post office department. say
that postmaster-general Gresham will in
his forthcomingre take stronger grounds
in favor of the adoption of the postal tele-
graph system than any of his predecessors
Mr.. Gresham will also urge the establish
ment of postal savings bank system SIM
liar to that now in operation in England,
which has been found to work very sue
cessfully.
While witness was discussing ques-
ton of education before the United States
Senate subcommittee on educatlOn ana
labor, in New York, last Friday, Senator
Blair, of New Hampshire, said that IN MS
opinion the schools of twenty-five years
ago were much better conducted than now.
He predicted that unless the North woke
up Southern schools would far exceed them
in educational progress.
Two Mormon elders, engaged in preach
ing near Laurel, Indiana, abducted the
yOine daughter of man who had enter
fained them. and baptized her into their
church. She could hardly be persuaded to
return to her family. Over one hundred
citizens took the elders to the woods at
midnight and coated them with tar ana
feathers, threatening more serious work II
they did not leave at once.
Several New York papers of last Satur-
day published interviews with Lieut.. Gar
lingtOn and other members OF the Greeiy
relief party, who have just arrived from st.
Johns. They say the supplemental II IN
been published as having been calculated
to contribute to the safety of Greely's party
as we'll as that on board the Pr0te'ts, were
never received by Lieut.. Darlington, ana
he was sailing under his original orders re-
ceived before he left Washington.
The fence and no fence parties in Texas
are growing in strength, tierceness and bit
terness every day. Cattle dealers say they
can no longer find short routes to Western.
markets, in consequence of the fencing OF
large tracts of land embracing their Old
trails, and much Of the water they once
relied upon in their long marches IN
many instances they have cut the wire
fences put up by the fencers, in order to
avail themselves of their old privileges, and
the result is lawsuits without number and
threats that it is feared may lead to blood
shed.
Several days ago, Gen. Hancock suffered
some slight bruises and was somewhat
shaken up by a fall on small steamer
which lurched in a heavy wind and sea.
Out of this circumstance have grown vari-
Gus alarming reports concerning the Gener-
als condition. His attending physician
says, however, that there has been no IN
Jury to the knee joint, as was reported. An
abscess is forming above the knee, but no
might be said, in fact, to be already conVa-
lescent.
On last Friday, at Blue Lick Springs,
XIV, while three brothers-Samuel g., Will
liam O. and Thomas Rogers were taking
depOsitions in case of contest over their
fathers will, Samuel G., thinking that his
brothers were about to draw weapons, drew
his revolver and shot Thomas through the
head and William in the abdomen. Both
men were reported dying. Samuel Rogers
is President of the Farmers Bank, of Car
Isle, KY, William is lawyer OF st. Louis
and Thomas isa farmer.
A Chicago dispatch of last Friday says:
The ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull into
the Catholic Church, which it was antici-
pated would take place this week at Fort
Yates, has been Indefinitely postponed,
because Sitting Bull cannot make up his
mind which of his two wives he will let 60
The forms of the church forbid the cOmmu-
meant having more than one. Bishop
Morty has had the chief under his care for
several months, and his instructions We're
being rapidly absorbed by Sitting Bull, but
separation from his wives proved too much,
and he will probably return to heathenlsm.
Special reports, on last Saturday, to the
Houston Post, from eleven points in Texas,
indicate that the top crop of cotton, with few
exceptions, will be a total failure. Where
recent rains have benefited the second crop
worms are appearing in large numbers, and
in the northern portion of the State early
frosts are apprehended. The yield this sea-
son, although the prospects are more en-
couraging than one month ago, will fall
considerably short of that of last year;
Thirty DAYS of fair weather will leave but
little cotton in the fields, as labor is abun-
dant and picking is far advanced.
- Kittie, the seven months old orangou-
tang of the Dime Museum, Philadelphia,
died last week. A post mortem examina-
ton by Professor Chapman, of Jefferson
Medical College, disclosed quite deep alb
scess on the sides and under the surface of
the tongue, which had caused death. The
heart and lungs were perfectly healthy,
resembling those of a child as did the brain,