Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-12-06
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gether, and refused to read it from theil
pulpits.
- Mr.. Pressly, son of the late Rev. w
B. Pressly, of ofStatesville, who had been con-
fined in the lunatic asylum at Morganton
N. c., has been completely restored to his
reason.
= Bechtler, the Cleveland, n. c., check
raiser, has been safely landed in the peni
tentiary; but his partner in crime, Sim
mons, made his escape from the guards
while en- route to the State prison.
The largest locomotive ever built is now
being made in Sacramento by the Central
Pacific Railroad. The engine and tender
will weigh los tons, and will be 65 feet
inches long.
- The John P. King Mill, at Augusta, Ga.
commenced baling goods last Friday fol
market. The mill has 26,500 spindles and
800 looms, and is very complete. The com
pany has capital of 81, 100000, and begins
Lieut.. Darlington, of Arctic fame, while
riding in the Soldiers Home Grounds neal
Washington, last Saturday afternoon, was
thrown from his horse and seriously injured
He was carried to the house of Gen. Sturgis
where he received medical attention. His
shoulder was dislocated and his knee CAP
fractured.
Chester B,Nleti: The engine house Of
Mr.. r. A. Love, together with twenty bales
of cotton, the press, thresher and other
contents, was destroyed by fire between
and 4 o'clock last Sunday morning. The
engine was run until late hour Saturday
evening, and it is conjectured that fire in
some way got out from it. The loss will
be between 81, 200 and $1,000 with no IN
surance.
= Judge Hatch, of Santa Barbara, CAL,
has received swarm of bees from Jerusa-
lem. They differ from the common honey
gatherers by being provided with a longer
tongue with which they are able to extract
the sweets from many flowers and shrubs
that other bees cannot reach. They are also
able to fly swiftly, and can remain longer on
the wing.
- In the Democratic caucus at Washington
on Saturday night to nominate candidate
for Speaker, Carlisle received LOG votes
Randall, 81; Cox, 80. The New York del
egation voted for Cox. The East for Ran
dali, and the West and South for Carlisle
South Cardinals vote was four for Carlisle
and two for Randall-MessrS. Dibble and
TiIlman.
= The annual report of Attorney General
Brewster shows that there was paid out fol
the expenses of United States Circuit and
District courts, including pay of marshals
attorneys, clerks, jurors, &C., in the past tis'
cal year s2,929,s57:so;; A considerable poIr,
ton of the report is devoted to the defects
of the jury system in the District of Colum:
bia, the evils of which, he says, demand
condemnation"
- Correspondents write from Washington
that sixty million dollars for the education
of the illiterate of the South for the next fif'
teen years, will probably lybeappropriated by
this Congress that big fight will be made
to reduce the tax on whisky and abolish
that on tobacco, and that bill will be intro
duced and vigorously supported providing
pensions of$8a month for all veterans Of the
Mexican war.
The Supreme Court of Georgia, in the
case of Cunningham against the National
Bank of Augusta, has decided that cotton
future notes are absolutely void. Cunning
ham made a note for $1,000 to Warren
Wallace & Co., in acotton future transaction
The firm negotiated the note to the bank
which sued Cunningham, who pleaded that
the note was void as it was given on gam
ing consideration. The court says that cot
ton futures are as much gaming as faro, and
that such notes are void in anybody's hands
whether they knew the notes were given
for futures or not.
Gen. Jeremy F. Gilmer, a prominent
citizen of Savannah, Ga, died last Saturday
night. He was a graduate OF West Point
and an officer in the old army, and after
wards General in the Confederate service
brother of the late Hon. John A. Gilmer,
who was a member of the United States
Congress at the commencement of the war.
and afterwards member of the Confederate
Congress. At the time of his death Gen.
Gilmer was president of the Gas Light Com
pany and director of the Georgia Central
Railroad.
- A dispatch from Waterbury, Conn,
says: The public Indignation against Tru-
man J. Smith, the WatertOwn farmer, who
assaulted his wife and broke her leg a
because their children were all girls, cul-
minated last night in visit to Smiths
house by twenty young men with tar and
feathers. Smith warned them off, and,
opening window, fred into their midst,
filling the back of Myron Hard with small
shot, producing painful but not serious
injury. Legal action against Smith, long
demanded by public opinion, is expected to
follow.
A man named Carpenter, one OF party
of three who last summer robbed stage in
Arizona, has actually died of fright. His
two comrades were lynched, he escaping
the search of the lynching party when they
attacked the prison, in which all three were
confined. A few weeks ago he was released
on bail, when he went to his ranch about
twenty miles from Benson. He spent his
time in abiect terror, refusing to eat or sleep,
expecting visit from the Vigilantes. De-
prived Of sleep and food, and his mind con-
stantly filled with phantoms of his own crea-
ton, he at last became too ill to leave his
bed, and died in frightful delirium, first
begging for mercy, and then calling down
the vengeance of heaven on his imaginary
pursuers. He was literally scared to death.
A Baltimore dispatch of Friday says
A party of gentlemen in the employ of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
went down the river duck shooting this
morning. Among them were Perry Shafer,
chief of the west bound freight department.
and James H. Houston, chief engineer OF
the Baltimore and Ohio fire department
About nine o'clock, when seven miles from
of the boat. Shafer, who was in the bow,
rose and fired at the same time Houston
who was amidship, also rose, and the con-
tents of Skaters gun struck him in the
head, carrying off the whole crown, causing
death instantly. Shafer was terribly pros.
trated by the affair. Houston was forty
wears of age, and leaves a family. Shafel
and Houston were brothers-in-laW.
Gen. Rosecrans is the reputed author o1
a scheme for the organization of the Demo.
cratic party for the next Presidential cam.
paign. He proposes to divide the Demo
cratic voters into sections OF tens, tifties
hundreds, thousands, ten thousands and
twenty thousands, each section to have 8
chief, whose duty it shall be to see that the
voters under him shall be in line for party
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