Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-07
MERE.MENTION.

On Friday an insane woman in Cumber-
land county, Pa, cut the throats of her three
children and then killed herself. .'''''''''John
Anderson, an inmate of the Joliet, ILL.,, State
prison, was murdered by his cell mate,
Michael Mooney, last Thursday, who had
secretly made a knife from a tile to accom-
plish his purpose ''''''''' Kansas farmers hold
over 100000 bushels of old wheat and over
37,OoOOOo bushels ofold corn. THE South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louis
Vile, ky., is hunting other quarters, its
lase of the Waverly Hotel expiring two
wears hence. .'..''''"It rained in torrents in
Mobile for five hours on Sunday of last
week. The water was waist deep in some
of the streets, and there were some narrow
escapes from drowning. Total rain fall in
five hours five and half inches. .'''''Three
factories in the United States consume near
ly two million eggs year in making the pc
known as albumen paper. '''"'rhe negroes in
Illinois propose to hold convention to Sc
cure their political rights. Illinois has been
Republican State eyer since the 5dtinno 5tin OF
Convention of Fertilizer Manufacturers was
in session in Baltimore last week. "A dis
astrous fire occurred in Lynchburg, Va, on
the morning of the 3Oth ultimo. Five men
were killed by the falling of a wall. .'."Gen.
&. p. Buel, U. S. A., died near Nashville,
Tenn, last Thursday from the effects of an
operation performed on his jaw some three
weeks before, complicated with heart dis
ease. '''''''''Three cyclones swept. across In
diana on Monday of last week. The loss OF
property and life was fearful. ''''A war
cloud not larger than mans hand, has ris-
en- in the eastern horizon. For two days
J,,.,t ,rool- tho 1Srapn hon, har r1a1 two norris
on the northwest coast of Madagascar, caus-
ing great destruction of British and other
merchandise. This demonstration may give
rise to serious complications. ''''''''' Mormon
missionaries have appeared in Charlotte.
Seventeen of them have been at work in
the counties west of Mecklenburg, and have
made 81 converts, 15 Of whom have gone to
Utah. .'''''''''The annual pony penning at
Morehead City, n. c., takes place June 18th.
Hundreds of people always attend these
pennings; from the novelty of the thing,
to buy ponies etc. This time Between 800
and 900 wild ponies will be penned; lar,
Richardson, of Mississippi, who has been
elected President of the Worlds Industrial
and Cotton Centennial Exposition, is ma
tive Of North Carolina. He is one of the
most extensive cotton planters in the South,
and has large capital invested in manufac-
turing. '."' 4 tornado ostruck Greenville, Tex
as on Sunday afternoon, and $50 houses were
either blown down or moved from their
foundation. One life was lost, that of a col
ored child. On the same day cyclone
swept through Butler county, Alabama,
demolishing several houses and killing one
negro and wounding several other per-
sons. ......."'Mr. Merrick concluded his argu-
ment in the Star Route trial on Tuesday,
5th instant .........COl Buckner H. Pavne
the author of "Ariel," died last week in
of which he had been an inmate since 1879.
He was 81 years of age and died a blind
man and a pauper.