Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-10-18
Straps aud fafts.

- In Boston, on Saturday, Edward G..
Walker, colored lawyer, entered a libel
suit against the Boston Post Publishing
Company for defamation of character, con-
tanned in an article published in that paper
that morning. The papers have been served
upon the Post Publishing Company and a
keeper has been placed in that establish
ment.
= The Methodist Church in Canada has
stricken the word 'sobey" from the marri-
age service 1t is asking enough of wo-
man to make her promise to love and honor
her husband, reasonable obedience follow
ing thereupon. It is assumed that the
Church only desires her to love and honor
him and do as she pleases when he pleases
she shall do right.
- On the 9Th instant, policeman Street,
of Huntsville, Alabama, was murdered by
a negro, who split his head open with an
axe. The murderer was committed to Jail,
but on the following night he was taken
from the Jail by band of fifty or more
masked men and hanged. The negro was
a stranger at Huntsville, and up to the last
refused to give his name.
- remarkable phenomenon has been OBJ
served lately at several places IN the Mad
rad and Bombay presidencies and has
caused much interest mingled with not
some days the sun presented a distinctly
green color. Several explanations have
been put forward, of which the most plausi-
BILE appears to be that offered by the govern
ment astronomer, that it is due to the pas
sage across Southern India of clouds of sui
phurous vapor from the Java volcanoes.
The Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line
Railroad company has attached additional
restrictions to the use of the thousand mile
tickets. The new issue of the tickets, in ad-
dition to the old agreements that must be
accepted by the holder, contains this new
item: "Parties purchasing this ticket agree
MOTTO drum for any hotel or boarding house
while on the trains of this company" Pas
sengers had been complaining that they
were annOyed by hotel drummerS, hence
this new wrinkle of the ticket issuers.
- The visit, last Monday, of the veterans
who, took part in the Bull Run battles OF
1861 and 1862 to that historic battle ground,
was complete success, the party number
ing about one hundred and fifty veterans
of the rank and file of the federal army
from many different States, some of whom
had fought in both battles. They were
Joined on the battlefield by large number
of distinguished Confederate officers and
soldiers, among them Gen. Longstreet, of
Georgia.
- John A. Ferguson, who shot policeman
Parks, in Danville, Va, on the 9Th of last
month, while the latter was trying to ar
rest him, from the effects of which wound
Parks died the following day, was tried last
week in the Hastings Court of DanVllle.
The Jury returned verdict of not guilty.
The Jury acted on the ground that there
was no legal warrant for the arrest of Fer
guson, and under instructions of the court,
that man has right to defend himself
even to killing an officer who endeavors to
arrest him without warrant.
Four suits were begun in the Supreme
court of New York city last Monday by Mr..
Frank R. Lawrence, as attorney for Henry
Belden, Jr., and others, against VIM. T.
Clyde, of New York city, and Thomas NJ.
Logan and Joseph Bryan, Of Richmond,
Va, to recover in the aggregate about $780,
600 damages. Mr.. Belden is well-knoWn
stock broker, and the defendants have been
interested in the railroad and other COM
panies composing what is known as the
Richmond and Danville system. Mr.. Beld-
en- and his co-litigants allege that they have
lost 100000.
AT a meeting of bank presidents at Bos-
ton last Friday, a resolution was adopted
'sthat it is the opinion of the Bank Presi-
dents Association Of Boston that speedy
enactment by Congress of a national bank
rupt law, equitable in its provisions for the
debtor and creditor, in all sections of the
country, is indispensable to the maintenance
of confidence between banks and their con-
stituents, and we endorse and approve the
Lowell bill, so called, with possibly some
needed amendments, as the most eXpedl-
ent and best adapted to the wants OF the
people," 1t was also voted to send dele
gates to the convention to be held IN Wash
ington in aid of the bill.
cannot be said that the statistics of business
failures occurring in the United States du
ring the first nine months of the current
year are of an encouraging character. They
show that the number of failures has large
ly increased, and that there has been an
even greater proportiOnate increase in the
amount which these failures represent.
This is not exactly cheerful state of things.
Yet the situation leaves room for the con-
soling reflection that the main body Of busi-
ness must be established on pretty sub
stantial basis to have been so little affected
by the commercial miSfOrtunes to which so
many have succumbed. At the present
time trade is both active and profitable, and
the wrecks of the year may be taken to
represent so many weak houses Weeded
out There has been no general crisis, nor
anything like one threatened"
A singular disease is reported to have
stricken several persons at BreWtOn, Ala
bama, last week. A number of deaths oc-
Cured, and in the first days Of its prevalence
it was supposed to be yellow fever, and
afterwards black vomit; but according to
one of the attending physicians, DR.. Ford,
it was neither. Under date of Saturday he
telegraphed from Brewton that during the
past four days there has not been sufficient
help to bury the dead. Regarding the ma
ture Of the disease he says, 1 state as a fact
that there have been no deaths from black
vomit here. The matter elected by some
of the sick bears about the same relation
to the black vomit of yellow fever as sher-
ry wine does to ink. The constituent parts
are bile and gastric mucous, which contain
trace of coagulated blood and charcoal
water. The disease is to be investigated by
Surgeon Stone, of the Marine hospital SER
vice.
An official order relieving Gen. Sher
man of the command of the Army on the
1st of November and installing Gen. Sheri-
dan in his place and also changing the
status of the other General officers of the
suit of further deiberation on the subject,
and in accordance with the preferences of
General Hancock and the other officers
named, it has been decided that General
Hancock shall remain in command of the
Division of the Atlantic, with headquar-
ters at New York; that General Schotield
shall take command of the Division of the
Missouri with headquarters at Chicago;
and that General Pope will succeed the
last named in command of the Pacific Di-
vision at San Francisco. The Department
of the South has been consolidated with
the Department of the East, with Major