Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-03
Straps and fafts.

Friday, as reported 10 II. ". DuH " W. ,
Mercantile Agency number 1S2, compared
States had %, Middle 32, Western 5S, South
ern 33, Pacific States and Territories Is,
New York City II and Canada 10.
A Young Mormon couple who went to
the Endowment House in Salt Lake City
the other day, to be married, were turned
away, with the statement that thirty-tive
marriages, the full capacity Of the institu-
ton, had already been rushed through. 1t
is said that more young girls are going into
polygamy than ever before.
David Matthew, builder of the first three
American locomotives and inventor OF the
cab which shelters engineers and tiremen,
is still living and will attend the Chicago
railroad exposition this Summer. The first
two of the three locomotives went to South
Carolina, while the third was used in New
York.
An insect has appeared in the grain
fields of California, which, it is feared, will
prove disastrous to the crops. 1t first ap-
pears as small, green louise, but in few
days develops into fly with gauzy wings.
The bull element in the San Francisco Pro
duce Exchange is making capital out OF
the scare about this bug, declaring that If it
appears throughout the State the crop will
be entirely swept away.
Texas dispatches say that violent
wind storm swept over the Northwestern
portion of that State last Saturday night,
doing much damage at Bonham, Palo, Pin
to and Bolton. A number of houses were
blown down, and in Bell county several
persons are reported to have been killed.
A school house containing 20 children near
Fort Worth was demolished, but only one
child is reported to have been hurt.
A dispatch of the 9th ultimo, from Har-
rodsburg, KY, says: Congressman Phil. b.
Thompson, Jr., shot Walter Davis as hewas
stepping from smoking car this morning on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. Thomp-
son was inside the car, and the ball went
through Davis head, producing instant
death. The cause alleged for the deed was
an undue intimacy of Davis with Thomp-
sons wife. After the shooting Thompson
walked away unmolested.
In the Michigan Senate, last week, tine
prohibition amendment to the Constitution,
which had been put on its passage, was
lost by vote of 20 to II, not tWo-thirds,
but nearly a strict party vote. The mat
ter was then reconsidered. The proposition
providing for local option was laid on the
table for future consideration. This action
has settled, as certain, the impossibilllty to
carry the prohibition amendment at this
Legislature.
The following sad story comes from
Dayton, Ohio: John O'Connell and wife,
on Thursday last, missed their little daugh-
ter and started in search of her without
canal they discovered the child struggling
in drowning agonies. The father plunged
in to rescue her, but was unable to swim
and was siezed with cramps and sank. The
wife sprang in to assist her husband and
child and She also sank. The entire fam
ily were taken out dead few minutes Ia
ter by men who, attracted by the mothers
screams, witnessed part of the tragedy, but
could not reach them in time.
Mr.. Ker concluded his argument for
the prosecution in the Star Route trials last
Monday. In summing up his argument ne
said that the defendants had received for
service on the nineteen miles mentioned
in the Indictment $469, ,404 and their profit
amounted to $142,051. These routes were
originally let for $50, ,361, and were finally
increased so that the contractors received
100000 for the contract term. The total
revenue on these routes excluding the
railroad offices) aggregated Sl2.357. The
government claimed that routes had been
unnecessarily increased, and for corrupt
purpose.
In the United States Circuit Court of
Jefferson City, Mo-, last Thursday, James
w. Harrison, Presiding Justice, and j.. A.
LOckhart and j. A. Prather, Associate
Judges, of the Lafayette County Court,
were ordered to Jail for contempt of Court
in refusing to obey a mandate Of the United
States Court directing them to levy tax of
$1,000 to pay an installment of the judg-
ment obtained on suit upon County bonds.
The County offered to compromise the
bonds at 50 cents on the dollar, at which
rate 81 100000 of its bonded debt had al
ready been compromised but the holder of
the Judgment refuses to take less than 100
cents. The Court ordered the Judges to be
confined in Jail until they obey its mandate.
Hon. Jefferson Davis recently told Mr..
Morgan of the Boston Heruld that he does
not like to be interviewed because he is
constantly being maligned and villified
by the press" He further said in a recent
talk with reporter: "What is due from
me in the way of hospitality L shall only be
too happy to extend to you; but we must
let politics alone. | am not a public man,
nor am public property. l am not a seek
er for Office nor is any office seeking me.
| am plain Mr.. Jefferson Davis, a private
citizen, who in the evening of his life, de-
sires to live in quiet and peace with his
neighbors, without molestatiOn or outside
interference"
The Board of Trustees of the fund of
81 ,OOO, 900 given by the late John F. Slater
of Norwich, Conn.,, to be devoted to the
eeucation of colored children at the South,
met in New York on the 26th ultim0 and
decided on plan by which the fund should
be administered for the ensuing year. Res
olutions were adopted declaring that for
the present, schools which give instruction
in trades and other manual occupations
which will enable colored youths to make
living and become useful citizens will be
carefully sought and preferred in apprOpria
tions from the fund. Thesum of $40, 0,000was
appropriated to be expended during the
year 1883.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has given
an opinion which will interest farmers, to
this effect A merchant always warrants
that what he sells is reasonably suited to the
use for which it is bought. Therefore, in a
suit on note given for chemicals to be us
ed as a fertilizer, the plea being failure of
consideration, there was no error in charg-
ing, "that if the jury believed from the ev
idence that the fertilizer for which the note
was given was properly and skillfully ap-
piled by the defendants; that the soil was
suitable and the seasons favorable, and that
the fertilizer failed to produce any result
Zer was not reasonably suited to the pur-
find for the defendants" the converse of
the proposition being fully given.
VIM T. Dodson, of Danville, Va, wasar-
rested at Franklin Junction, in that State, on
the 24th ult., for the murder of the negro wo-
man already reported. He confesses that
he hired two negroes to bring him the body
for dissection pretending he was physician.
He says he carried it into an upper room
of the hOuse occupied by himself alone,