Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-15
Straps and fafts.

States-most probably in Canada"
Boston COrbett, the man who killed John
Wilkes Booth, is living in Kansas, engaged
in the cattle business. He has become re-
ligious enthusiast, and in recent letter to a
friend he says that he has been directed by
God to infiict daily punishment upon him.
self as penance for having taken human
life.
"A call signed by well known anti-mOnOp-
Olists in all parts of the country has been is
sued at Chicago for delegates to conference
for the formation of new party. The con-
ference will be held on July 4th, on the
basis of four representatives from each Con-
gressional district, four from each Territory
and four from the District of Columbia.
The Spanish Council of Ministers, on
proposition of the Minister of the Colonies,
has decided to treat as freemen the 10000
slaves who were not liberated by their own
ers in Cuba in 1870. The slaves referred to
are those not included in the census taken
in 1870 under the law for gradual abolition,
because of their owners failure to enter
them in the lists.
The business failures of the week ending
last Friday, throughout the United States
and Canda, as reported by r. G. Dun e. Co. s
Merchantile Agency, number Z5, reduc-
tiOn of thirty from last week. The New
England States had q, the Southern States
73, the Western States S5, the Middle States
4S, the Pacific States and Territories 15, New
York City t, Canada "A.
A bill has been introduced in the House
of Representatives by Mr. Robertson, OF
Louisiana, for the more effectual suppression
of lotteries, proposing to prevent the trans
mission through the mails of any newspa-
pers, magazines or other publications which
contain any information as to where lottery
tickets may be bought, when drawings will
take place, or what numbers have drawn
prizes.
The Senate judiciary committee has
agreed to report for passage bill providing
for the purchase from George Washington
Parke Custis Lee, of the entire Arlington
ington city, and Including the national cem-
etery, at total cost of $l50,0O0. Accrued
taxes, some $4,000, are to be paid by Gen:
Lee, who has agreed to the terms proposed
by the committee.
- The complete immigration statistics
for the year 1882, published by the Treasury
Department quite recently, show the total
immigration for the year to have been
1852. This is magnificent showing, but
the increase over 1880 is only 5per cent. OF
the whole number of arrivals, New York
received AZ, ,93S, or considerably more than
one-half. Three times as many came from
Germany as from any other country.
A Richmond dispatch of Friday says
that John E. Cross, living at the foot OF the
Allegheny Mountains dreamed that he was
on chase and pressing stag. Just as the
imaginary animal turned at bay the sleep
ing hunter sprang out of bed, down the
stairway, lighting on the top of his head.
He received injuries from which he died
to-day. a few months ago Cross had SINH
lar dream, resulting in his springing from
the bed and injuring himself painfully.
A sweeping bill regulating the sale of
liquors has been introduced in the New Jer-
sey Legislature, with some prospect OF Its
passage. 1t requires each liquor dealer to
file bond of 81 600 as guarantee for the
maintenance of good order, and makes the
liscense for the sale of malt liquors from
500 to $3.50, and for spirituOus liquor from
$3.50 to $500, according to the location of sa-
looms. The bill also prohibits the sale OF
liquor to minors.
The United States will soon have l2O, 600
miles Ofrailroads, the ties, fences, telegraph
poles, locomotive fuel and and repairs for
which will consume hundreds of thousands
of acres of forest yearly, and if the demand
for lumber increases at the rate OF - per
cent per annum, according to calculation,
and the forests decrease at the rate OF ,OO0,-
600 acres year, one can form some idea or
the great and urgent necessity for econ0ml-
Zing as well as planting trees. Fencesal0ne
cost $9S, 100000 yearly.
Two old college chums met at Austin,
Texas, after separation of five years. II
am reporter on the Telegraph" said one.
The other replied: "Come to my hotel in
the morning and you'll get a first rate trage-
dy to write up. You will know so much
about the chief actor that you will be able
to make interesting reading of it." The
reporter kept the appointment, though re-
garding the promise of demand upon his
professional services as joke; but he found
his old acquaintance dead by suicide.
The managers of the American Colonial
tion Society say that Liberia is more pros
porous than ever. Last year was healthy
one among the settlements, and the crops of
rice and coffee were good. King lbrahami-
Sissi of the Medina country wants to open
communications with the Government and
prepare the way of traffic. The Colonial
tion Society has exported q 600 persons to
Africa. This has involved 176 voyages
there. 1t is remarkable fact that not one of
the vessels carryiny emigrants to Liberia
has been wrecked.
Over year ago VIM. d. Murphy, of
New York, sued the Hon. VIM. H. Eng
lish, of Indiana, for 81, ,lS0 for speeches made
in that State in the campaign of 1880.
English claimed that the speeches were
volunteer speeches and that they were not
worth anything, and that such a contract
as Murphy pretended to have made would
be against public policy and void. 10 this
the plaintiff demurred, and Judge Larre-
more Wednesday sustained the demurrer,
@bf lafa fn amend
answer.
- Mrs. Margaret Johnson, widow, liv-
ing in Atlanta, has started out to test Geor-
gia law on point that seldom figures in
the Courts She has filed suits against sew
eral saloon keepers for damages, each in
the sum of $4,000. Mrs. Johnson has a son
named James, who is eighteen years of age,
and whom she alleges has been made con-
firmed drunkard. Prior to the commence
ment of his career of intemperance he was a
mechanic and earned Sl2 per week. She
seeks to get damages from those who are
supposed to have worked her sons ruin.
Although nearly eight years have slip
ped away since the summer morning on
which little Charlie Ross was abducted from
his Germantown home, his father, Christian
X. Ross, still hopes that he will some day see
his lOng-lost boy. In recently written let
ter to friend Mr.. Ross said: 81 am still
diligently making every effort to unravel
the mystery connected with his continued
absence. In our family the subject is often
the theme OfcOnverSatiOn. Charlie is often
spoken of as living, and shall be until we
know the contrary"
John c. Parker, while in the Criminal
Court room, at ST. Louis, awaiting trial for
killing man, shot and killed his wife, and
boldin0 tho ,Uoo non close tn his tp1nDlp fred