Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-21
Straps aud fafts.

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The wife of the defaulting ex-treasurer,
Vincent of Alabama, has sold all her furnl-
ture and jewelry, realizing therefor $4,000
which she has turned into the State treas
ury,. to make good q part of what her hus-
band stole.
Turkey has notified the United States
authorities that her commercial treaty with
this country will terminate March 13, 1884.
After the termination of the treaty, the i'm
portation into that country of American
meats, lard and other produce of like char
acter will be prohibited.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday,
as reported to the Mercantile Agency OF T..
G.. Dun & Co., number 1876, against 173 the
previous week. Of these the New England
States contributed "a, Middle States 2,
Western So, Southern 35, Pacific 18, New
York City II and Canada 10.
ON the 14th instant, Secretary Teller
paid to Chief Bushyhead, of the Cherokee
Indians, the $500, 900 appropriated by Con-
gress for lands ceded to the United States
to the Cherokee Nation: The money will
be distributed only among the Cherokees
and their descendants, in accordance with
the decision of the Cherokee Council.
The jury in the Star Route cases ended
the six months that cost the government
about $2OO,0O0 on Thursday by acqultttng
BRADY and Dorsey and the other defendants.
The friends of the thieves applauded wildly,
and the court room and streets rang with
cheers. The jury stood three for conviction
and nine for acquittal on the first ballot, and
the three gave way.
The court in Washington has dismissed
the bill Of Lawyer Bigelow against Bette
Mason, wife of Sergt. Mason, and discharg-
ed the order restraining Mrs. Mason's bank
account upon payment to BigeloW OF S4OO
counsel fee for his services in behalf Of
Sergt. Mason. Bigelow claimed S., 900, and
sought to attach the fund raised by popular
subscription for "Bettie and the baby"
Just before the close of the Grand Lodge
of Good Templars of the World, last Friday,
at Halifax, n. s., the report Of the commit
tee on the color question was adopted. Inc
report rejoices. in the yindlcation OF the
fundamental principles of the order by the
institution of the order in fourteen out OF
fifteen Southern States of America. The
session then closed.
The famous "Island No. 49," in the
Mississippi River, no longer exists, and the
place where it stood is only known by a
Slight ripple in the water. Before the war
it contained 460 acres, fine residence, a
splendid orchard and all the cOncomitants
Of prosperous plantation. During the
war the shores were lined with batteries
supported by 1000 men.
China is making extensive preparations
for war. A difficulty between that country
and France is brooding, and the probabilities
are that it will result in an open declara-
ton of hostilities by one side or the other:
1t does seem that Europe is never at rest
unless some one of the Continental powers
is engaged in an aggressive and destructive
war. It is pity that such spirit cannot
be curbed.
The fine rains in Virginia and North
Carolina the past week have been OF great
benefit to all crops. The putting out OF to-
bacco plants has been very general, and
the prospects are that the crop will be as
large and Of equally as good quality as last
year. Wheat has been improved very
much within the past two weeks, and
while the crop will not be as large as that
of last year, the quality will be better. Corn
is also in flourishing condition.
In the u. S. District Court of Texas, at
Austin last Thursday, an opinion was render
ed in the criminal prosecution under the CIV
il Act of Congress of March, 1875, for pen
atty of $500 for excluding Laura Exins, col
ored, from the ladies' car on the Houston
and Texas Central Railroad. Nine similar
cases were disposed of. The court held the
law as unconstitutio and that the things
alleged were coguizable by the State tri-
bunals only, also that the Act was an in
fringement on the rights of the several
States.
-Advices of last Monday from Western
Missouri and Kansas, say the heavy rains,
for the past few days, have raised nearly all
the rivers and small streams in that section,
and the indications are for unusually hlgh
water in the Missouri River. The town OF
Coming, four miles North OF st. Joseph, on
the Missouri River, is inundated and sever
al houses are entirely swept away. About
four miles of the railroad are under water.
All the railroads in Western and Central
Missouri, with the exception Of the Mlssou-
ri Pacific, are badly washed and trains are
generally abandoned.
The Car has made bad beginning and
Russia's prospects for governmental reform
under his administration are gloomy in
deed. One of his first official acts after the
coronation was to remove from ONCE the
Mayor of Moscow, for publicly expressing
the hope that the Car would institute con-
stitutiOnal government in his empire. The
Russian throne, at best, rests upon slen-
der pecariOus foundation, and such an off1-
cial beginning shall but hasten the downfall
of her Autocratic Monarchy, and from the
ashes of its gigantic: and solemn RUNS WI Wlll
of progressive Republicanism. Ninety mil
lions of oppressed people will greet the
change with shouts and acclamations of JOY!
DIR. John F. Carter, editor of the Peo-
Dle's Advocate, Dadeville, Alabama, was
shot and killed in that place by B. B. Stur-
devant, son of eX-Probate Judge Sturde-
want, on the night of the 10Th instant. Car
ter had been making some severe structures
on Judge Sturdevant in his paper, about
which young Sturdevant called to see him.
Carter ordered him off, threatening to make
mis- little son whip him, when Sturdevant
advised him to do his own fighting. Car
ter then drew pistol and commenced shoot
ing at Sturdevant, who returned the fire,
one ball taking effect just over the right eye,
from the effect of which he died about 10
O'Clock the same night. Sturdevant is un-
hurt.
John Barnett, on trial last week at
Mt. Sterling Kentucky, for the murder of
Vaughn Hetton, was permitted to withdraw
his plea of not guilty and plead guilty. The
prosecution then offered testimony to show
facts of the murder. The widow of the
murdered man told how her husband was
shot in his bed and fell dead upon sleep
ing infant at her side. The jury fixed the
punishment at imprisonment in the Peni-
fentiary for life. Five of the seven jointly
indicted with Barnett, namely, Newton
Yarlo, John Becraft, William Becraft, John
Gibbs and Elliott Watkins, also pleaded
guilty and received like sentence. In
dictments have been found against three
others called as witnesses for Barnett, name
ely, James Morrison, William Hodge and
Alonzo Becraft.
"A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch says that