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Dian.ant, from Weser Lighthouse, making 56
thuS far knnun to ha ua hean rascnad

Dianant, from Weser Lighthouse, making Sc
thus far known to have been rescued.
A survivor from the Cinlbria makes the fol-
lowing statement: The weather was clear up
to II. Is O'Clock, but fog then set in, which
continued and increased in density. The en-
gines of the Cinbria were kept at full speed
until 1.30 O'Clock, then at half speed until 2
O'Clock, after which they were kept at slow
speed until about ten minutes past O'Clock,
when the whistle of another steamer was heard
and the engines of the Cimbria were stopped
instantly. The Sultan's green light, owing to
the fog, was not observed until she was only
$50 feet from the CimJria. The latter was
struck abaft the first collision bulkhead on the
port side, and she keeled over to the starboard
and speedily sank. The Theta picked up one
of the Cin,bria's boats at 2 o'clock Saturday
afternoon and arrived at Cuxhaven about 8
o'clock. A reporter boarded the Sultan, but
both the captain and crew absolutely refused
to give him any information. The captain has
made statement before the British consul,
but this is inaccessible. The Sultan has a
large hole in her bow seven feet aboYe the wa
ter-line. Besides the 80 passengers landed at
Cuxhaven, a boat containing II was landed at
Weser Lighthouse, and another vessel picked
up eleven. 1t is estimated that fully 300 pas
sengers were lost, mostly emigrants from East
Prussia.
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The Morkrille Gnquirer.
YORKVILLE. s. G.. :
THURSDAY MORNING. JAN. 25, 1888
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.

Charleston has been in a tutter of excite
ment for the past week over the presence in
that city of the royal visitors, Princess Louise
and her husband the Marquis of Lorne, who
arrived last Friday 10y rail from st. Louis rid
Richmond and thence to Charleston ra Will
mington. The Princess Louise Caroline AL
berts is the fourth daughter and eighth child
of Queen Victoria, and was born March IS,
1S4s, and is consequently in her Both year.
Her husband, John Douglas Sutherland Camp
bell, Marquis of Lorne, is the eldest son of the
Duke of Argyle and is Governor-General ofthe
Dominion of Canada. After remaining in
Charleston for few days the princess will sail
for Bermuda and the Marquis will return to
Canada
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.

Shortly after II O'Clock last Saturday nlghC,
the overland express on the Southern Pacific
Railroad, which left San Francisco at $40
Saturday morning, stopped near Teachapl sta"
tion to cut out an extra engine taken on aI
Summer to assist to pull up the Teachapi grade.
While making the change, by some means un-
known the train got away and started back
northward down a grade of 120 feet to the
mile The train consisted of two engines, the
express, mail and baggage cars, two sleepers,
one coach and smoking Car. 1t went down
the grade at frightful speed for about four
miles, when the hindermost sleeper jumped
the track and went over an embankment about
100 feet high, carrying with it the other sleep
er and mail, baggage and express cars, which
were piled in shattered heap. They then
took fire and were consumed. The coach and
smoker kept on the down grade and were stop
ped without leaving the track about two miles
further on. All on board the latter were unin-
jured. The scene following the wreck was ter
ribe.
The wrecked cars caught on fire from the
stoves and lamps and were instantly in blaze.
Harry Conners, the news agent, who was Sleep
ing in the baggage car, was awakened by the
movement of the car, and aroused James
Woodruff, the baggage master, just as the
cars made the Jump. The roof of the car was
split open and both men were thrown out and
severely bruised. Conners, while lying on the
ground, unable to render any assistance, saw
the train enveloped in flames and heard the
shrieks of the dying victims and saw them
vainly endeavoring to struggle from the burn
ing ruins. Porter Ashe and wife, who occu-
pied the drawing room Of one Of the sleepers,
were awakened by the crash. They succeeded
in getting out without injury, but of sixteen
other occupants of the car not one is believed
to have escaped. The occupants of the coach
which kept on down the grade succeeded in
stopping it, thereby saving the lives of some
forty occupants of that and the smoking car.
They Immediately walked back to the scene OF
the accident, but found only the smouldering
remains of the train and the few who had es-
capped with their lives lying beside it bleeding
in the darkness, shivering in the piercing cold
night air, or rendering assistance to each 9TH
er. Relief soon arrived from Teachipa, four
miles distant, and as soon as possible medical
attendance was sent from Sumner and Baker
field and subsequently from Los Angeles.
Search for the dead soon showed that twenty
one persons had perished. Eleven were be-
yond recognition, only headless and charred
limbs being found.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

Methodist EpiscOpal-Rev. R. P. Franks,
Pastor. The Rev. A. NJ. Chrietzberg, Presi-
ding Elder, will preach in the Methodist
Church at O'Clock tomorrow evening, and
at the close of the service the quarterly con-
ference will be held. Preaching by the pastor
in Yorkvlle at 104 A. NJ, Sunday; at Phila-
delphia, 3 P. NJ, and at Yorkville, P. M
Presbyterian-Rev I. r. English, Pastor.
Preaching at p. NJ, Saturday, and at the
regular hours Sunday. Sacrament of the
Lords Supper at the morning service.
Associate Reformed Presbyteran-Rev. r.
Latham, Pastor. The pastor will fill his regu-
lar appointment at Tirzah next Sunday.
Episcopal-Rev. A. Prentiss. Services at
10J O'Clock, A. NJ.
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his order to one Maybury. Mr.. Maybury, not
desiring a whole package, four gallons and
three quarts, let the witness have two quarts
.and delivered the balance, he supposed, to May
'bifrY. The defendant claims that the liquor
was ordered and sold outside the State, and
that it was no illegal sale, but only delivery
of goods was made in South Carolina. Trial
Justice Thomasson, however, takes different
view of the matter, and bound the defendant
over to appear at the next term of court. a
warrant has been issued for Maybury also.
This method of evading the law has been ll.1! de-
veloped, it seems into system, and the ques-
tion should be tested at once. II this IS
violation of the law, those selling whisky ought
to know it; if the law can be thus eyaded, the
law needs speedy revision.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
MERE.MENTION.

Savannah shipped her first cargo of corn in
bulk to Europe last week. '''''A poor man
would feel sadly out Of place in the California
Senate, The forty-One members of that body
are worth $40, 0,OOO, 900. 1.-The total number
of pieces of mail matter of all kinds handled
during the year at the New York postoffice,
was 797, ,4S1, 1909, daily average of 2, AGO.
000. ...''' "A national convention of the Green
back Labor party will be called to be held at
Washington on the 22nd of February. " Gen.
w. c.. Pendleton, late chief of artillery to the
army of Northern Virginia, C. s. A., and rec
tor of Grace Church, Lexington, Va, died
suddenly at that place on Tuesday night of
last week. '...' George Scheller, the owner Of
the bar in the Newhall House, which was de-
stroyed by fire in Milwaukee, as noticed in
our last issue, and by which the lives of 81
persons were lost, has been arrested on the
charge of setting fire to the same. :. :. The
Richmond, Va, Dispatch, records the death
of Duncan Ford, of Powhatan county, aged
S37, ,493, ,723 49, Twenty-six newly elected
Senators take their seats in March. The
mayor of Richmond made a ten-line speech of
welcome to the Marquis of Lorne and party,
and the Marquis made iye-lne reply. This
was model speech-making. '''''The popula.
tion of Dakota is estimated at 300 900, having
doubled in ten years. The amount of taxable
property is S50, ,00O, 600. 1.-THE Vlcksburg
Herald estimates that there are forty pistols
to every subsoil plow in the State Of Missis-
sippi.. ....P Prince Frederick Charles Alexan-
der, brother of the Emperor of Germany, died
in Berlin, last Sunday, aged 81 years. In
consequence of the continued rains, the Sa-
yannah river is unprecedentedly high, having
reached thirty feet and six inches at Augusta
last Sunday No damage of consequence to
property has been done in the city, though on
the South Carolina side, opposite and below
Augusta, the water extended over large area
of country, washing out small grain wherever
it had been planted ''''.' Heavy snow storms
and intense cold are reported throughout Iowa
and Minnesota last Saturday. Trains were
delayed, and in some cases abandoned. 1.-The
search in the Milwaukee ruins is ended. Forty
eight bodies were recovered. One hundred
and seventy-six are now accounted for, as fol-
lows Identified, IS; not identified, 46; saved,
1O2; still missing, !; making the total loss OF
life Is. ....'.Judge Quarles, of the Criminal
Court of Nashville, has fixed the appearance
bond of NJ. T. Polk, the defaulting treasurer
of Tennessee, at $40, 900. '''''' BY an explosion
of the Giant Powder Works, at Oakland, CAL,
last Monday, twenty-five Cinnamon and one
white man were killed. Eight tons of powder
exploded. ..'' Immediately after the death
of Gambetta, Prince Jerome Bonaparte issued
manifesto, for which the French Govern
ment placed him in prison. He will probably
! be banished
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NOTES FROM SMITHS TURNOUT.

SMITHS T. O., S. c., January 19.-I had
the pleasure of reading in your columns OF
the successful farming of a colored man in
York township. These reports, coming as
they do, through our county paper, are highly
appreciated by every family in this section
Certainly it isa stimulus to the farmers. The
reports are read and the enterprising and am
bilious farmer says to himself, 81 will try to
make as much crop as my cotemporary."
l will now state to you for publication what
two colored men did down in this flat country.
One made, with one horse, eight bales of cotton
averaging $50 pounds six hundred bushels
of red oats; sixty odd bushels of wheat and
plenty of corn to do him until corn comes.
He sold two hundred and fifty dollars worth of
oats and has retained plenty to SOW. The
other made, with one mule, over eleven hun
dred bushels of wheat and oats, $50 bushels of
which was wheat. l am Informed that
in addition to his small grain crop, he has
made an abundance of corn and good crop OF
cotton.
do not think that the farmers have sown
more than half as many oats as they soWed
last fall. This was in consequence of the large
crop of cotton that was to gather. am satis-
fed that more wheat has been soWn than
usual.
I can't but give the newspapers credit for
the large crop of oats raised last year. In
every issue the people were urged to sow oats,
and now, since plenty has been restored to the
land, the papers have found something else to
write about and left the farmer to think and
plan for himself. January has been 80 wet
that no oats could be sown, and February IS
close at hand, and if the farmers are reminded
that it is not too late, they may SOW good
many oats yet, although the spring sowing
does not pay so well as the crop sown in Au-
gust and September. Last spring l sowed
some red oats which produced from ID to 20
bushels per acre, though the grain is about
four pounds lighter to the bushel than the fall
oats.
The farmers have let the hogs get out OF
the country, and those who had few pigs
last summer, now have some meat on hand.
In February, 1882, Mr.. Fudge, farmer in this
section, had seven pigs. He sold one to W. d.
Blanks and one to e. F. Adams. Mr.. Fudge
put one of the remaining five in pen and
let the other four run out. Then they all de-
termined to see who would have the largest
hog at killing time. The hogs were all killed
few weeks ago and weighed. Adams hog
weighed 357 net, Fudge's 326, and Blanks 3l2,
and the four that were turned out when killed
weighed from 130 to 14O pounds net. This
shows what feed and attention will do. Mr..
Fudge has no pigs to sell at this time.
A SUBSCRIBER
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WHO Is SHE?

Under the caption of "Out in the cold
world" the Charlotte Observer of Tuesday has
the following:
A white woman, whose appearance indicated
respectable parentage and breeding, carrying
one little child in her arms and holding anoth-
er by the hand came into the city footsore and
weary, day or two since, and has been taken
care of at the Home and Hospital. She says
she is from Caldwell county. Her husband
deserted her and she started out to make her
way to Yorkville, S. c., her old home, where
she has relatives and friends who will take
care of her. She has tried to get work, but no
one, it seems, can find it convenient to employ
her on account of her being encountered with
the two children. The poor woman has tray-
eled all the way from Caldwell county to this
place on foot, and what her sufferings must
have been is something that surpasses realiza-
tiOO
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CORRESPONDENCE of the YorkviIle Enquirer
NOTES FROM HOODTOWN.

HooDTowN, January 16.- Christmas and the
New Year holidays have passed without any
unusual occurrence in our midst.
On Christmas evening there was nice
Christmas tree placed in the Methodist church
building for the benefit of the children. The
tree contained many presents for the young
people, and from it one young man drew hand
some doll, which was the occasion of much
merriment, notwithstanding the embarrassing
position in which it placed one of his modesty.
On Friday night some persons surprised Rev:
A. Ervine by placing corn, corn-meal, dried
fruit, rice, picked pork, etc., IN the p0rtlco OF
his house, and turning some fowls in the yard
Mrs. Mary A. Good, of our place, has made
from the milk of one COW, since the Sth of
November, fifty-eight pounds OF butter, De- .
sides supplying family of seven persons with
an abundance of milk.
Before closing, permit me, on behalf OF our
citizens, to thank those County Commissioners
who built our bridge across Bullock's Creek.
Had the bridge not been built, our nelghbor,
hood would have been divided, las previously
by high waters for the past month.
RAGAN.
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the Northern assembly, revived the question
at some risk of reopening the breach. He says
that clearly the regret and withdrawal were
absolutely without any limitation as to ex-
pressions that were offensive. The resolution
swept from the record every offending word.
He reminds his denomination that possible
construction of this action would tarnish
their record of loyalty and their expressed
condemnation of the rebellion, making them re-
gret it and take it all back. He does not re-
gard the clause, "while receding from no
principle" as consistent He asks what that
principle is worth, the expression of which
must be regretted and then withdrawn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
THE WEATHER.

Extreme cold weather is reported all over
the Northwest, ranging from Is to 35 degrees
below zero. Here the thermometer indicated
degrees above the freezing point on Tuesday,
and ten degrees on yesterday morning, the
weather being bright and clear after near three
r:::eeks of continuous rain. AS a consequence
of the rains, water courses have been high,
and the roads are in a terribly bad condition.
At the time the rains set in there was good
deal of cotton remaining in the fields unpicked,
which has been either damaged or ruined 1t
is estimated that at least l 900 bales have thus
been lost in York county.
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LOCAL AFFAIRS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

John Daniel, Rock Hill-Horse Stolen.
r. Id. Sims, Columbia,a Sale. +.
Latta Brothers-DOn't Forget.
J. NJ. Adams-Stoves and Tin Ware.
Withers AtlickeS-New Goods.
John n. Clark-Notice. 81
Hunter & Oates-Attention All.
J. r. Lindsay Il Cove have on hand Now.
w. b. Williams, County Acknowledgements
Land Sales.
II. NJ. Dobson-Rain, Rain. Mud, Mud.
Il. Latham, Chairman Board Examiners-Schoo
Notice.
J. Lee Latta, Hickory, N. C.--Coored Pictures.
S. L. Davidson, Trial Justice-Notice.
r. II. Glenn, S. y. .C.-Sheri1's Sale.
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ter the election, instead of thirteen months
afterwards, as now-the idea being that to
Representatives fresh from the people should
be committed the duties of carrying ont re-
forms and enacting remedial legislation which
the people may indicate at the polls that they
want done.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
JJDGE OF PROBATE.

Governor Thompson has appointed Jonathan
B. Williams, Esq, Judge of Probate for York
county, vice Col. J. A. Mclean, elected to the
office, but who declined to qualify. Mr.. Will
liams will take charge of the office in the early
part of February
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
IMPORTANT DECISION.

A decision was rendered by the Supreme
Court of the United States, last Monday, in
the important constitutional case of the Uni
ted States VS.. R. G. Harris and others, brought
up to the Supreme Court upon certificate of
difference of opinion among the Judges of the
United States Circuit Court for the Western
District of Tennessee. The particular ques-
tion presented here is the consttutionality of
Section 551S of the Revised Statutes. The
Section is as follows:
If two or more persons in any State or Ter
ritOry conSpire, or 60 in disguise on the high
way, or on the premises of another, for the
purpose of depriving, either directly or indi-
rectly, any person, or class of persons, of the
equal protection of the law, or equal privileges
and immuntieS under the law, OF for the pur-
pnse of preventing or rhinderng constitutional
authorities of any State or Territory from
giving or securing to all persons within such
State or Territory, equal protection of law,
each of such persons shall be punished by fine
of not less than $500 nor more than IS, 600, or
by imprisonment with or without hard labor,
not less than six months nor more than six
years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The Court holds, in an elaborate opinion by
Justice Woods, that this Section is not sup
ported by authority of the Federal Constitu-
tion, and that its enactment was beyond the
powers of Congress. Judge Woods, in re-
viewing the case, discusses the 18th, 14th and
18th Amendments fully, and finally renders
his decision, which is confirmed by Chief JUS
tice Waite, that the act in question is uucon-
stitutiOnal
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
PROF. READE.

Prof. Willoughby Reade, the elocutionist
and humorist, telegraphs us that he will give
one of his popular entertainments in this
place tomorrow night, 26th instant.
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Representative John w. Shackelford, of
the Wilmington district, died in Washington
on Thursday last.
"A number of colored citizens held meet
ing in Wilmington last Thursday and resolved
to build railroad from that city to Clinton.
&C i. G.. Jones has been appointed super
intendent of the Carolina Central Railroad,
vice V. @. johnson, resigned.
-Dockery, the defeated Coalition candidate
for Congressnan-at-large, has finally deter
mined to contest the seat of his successful
Democratic competitor, Bennett. Agents
have recently visited Charlotte for the purpose
of looking up evidence to support Dockery' IS
claims.
"A conference was held in Washington on
Thursday, at the request of Col. Il. K. Bird
gers, President of the Wilmington & Weldon,
and Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Rail-
roads, between himself and some of the direc-
tors of the Midland North Carolina Railroad,
which resulted in the withdrawal of the Mid
land from any negotiations looking to the
sale of their road.
George w. Wheeler, mail agent between
Greensboro and Winston, has been arrested
and bound over for trial in the U. S. District
Court on the charge of robbing the mails. The
evidence of the robbery was found on his per-
son in the shape of counterfeit money, which
had been fixed for the purpose by government
detective Wheeler is we'll connected, and is
a brother of x-Internal-Revenue Collector
Wheeler, of Winston.
In the General Assembly of North Caroli-
ma, so far, very little legislation of general in
terest has been had. A bill has been presen-
ted in the Senate to authorize the sale of the
States interest in the Cape Fear and Yad-
kin Valley Railroad, which was referred to the
Committee on Internal Improvements. If
this or some similar bill becomes law, the
road will doubtless be built, and will be of
great advantage to the section through which
it runs A bill to protect sheep huSbandry, by
imposing a tax of - a head OF dogs, was ta-
bled in the Senate. In the vote for United
States Senator, Ransom was elected his own
successor for six years from the 4th of March,
1888. The vote was for Ransom los, and for
COL William Johnston, of Charlotte, caucus
nominee of the Republican members, A.
Is II EVASION OF THE LAW ?-The Spar
tanburg correspondent of the Charlotte Jour-
nul writes under date of last Friday as fol-
lows:
Il. J. Balue was bound over to court on
Tuesday, for selling liquor ouside an incorpo-
rated town, contrary to the act 1882. On the
investigation it transpired that Balue was the
agent of government distllery in North
Carolina, and on his last trip through this
county he took orders for whisky to be deliver
ed when he should return ; that some one,
unknown had ordered whisky that said party
did not receive the whisky, but transferred