Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-01
Scraps and fatts.

sembled in the Exposition Building in Mil
waukee to witness the funeral services over
the bodies of victims of the Newhall House dis
aster, and during the services gas pipe
bursted, causing a stampede which came very
near resulting in another terrible calamity.
Among the other reforms" recently agi-
tated was the proposition to abolish the whip
ping-post in Delaware, but the Legislature
stood to the rack, and declined to crafty
those who urged the measure. So that we
may regard the whiping-post as one of the
most firmly planted muniments of Delaware
civilization.
Not far from Athens, Ga, is a couple,
the wife being under the impression that she
had married the brother of her husband. 1t
seems that she wrote to a relative inquring
into the character of her atfianced, and he,
thinking she referred to the brother, recon-
mended him very highly. A few days after
wards they were married, and it was not until
she visited her husbands house that the mis-
take was discovered A suit for divorce was
the consequence.
The business failures of the seven days
ended last Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun
& Co.'s Mercantile Agency, number 217 as
compared with PA last week. The Southern
States had 73; the Western 70; the Middle
States 54 the New England States 25; the
Pacific States and Territories 12; Canada 80,
and New York City +. The only failure in
New York City of Importance is that of NJ.
Armstrong & Sons, leather dealers, who have
assigned with liabilities of about $4,000
At the meeting of the Maine Temperance
Society, in Augusta, last Friday, Gen. Neal
Dow was elected President, B. G. Tarsey, of
Winthrop, Secretary, and Elisha Perkins OF
Augusta Treasurer. Resolutions were pre-
sented representing that drunkenness was on
the increase in several parts of the State, and
asking the Legislature to pass prOhlbltory
amendment bill. Minority resolutions to the
effect that Prohibition party was necessary
in Maine were also presented.
The Southern District, including Virginia,
will make in 1888, of coke iron, 59S, 600 tons !;
charcoal iron, 200, 600 net tons; total, 79S, 600
net tons. This iron at an average of SIS per
ton at the furnaces, will bring into the States
of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Virgin
ia Sl4, 1854 900. The capacity of one coke fur
mace in Alabama in 1878 was %, 900 net tons.
The capacity of the total coke plant OF the
State this year is 216,000 net tons, or a gain
of more than 900 per cent. in four years.
- In the process of refining cotton seed OIL
the residue of the crude oil is distilled, and
with care, produces a hard grease or stearine,
which commands, when of good color, nearly
the price of tallow. This by-product is used
for making artificial butter. Even the tarry
IcSluuc lS uoC1ul dS q poiiio ASiSuASao' Wv
ton-seed oil is now largely mixed with olive
oil. Its presence may be recognized by treat
ing oil with nitric acid; on shaking it, a
coffee. brown color will he seen if cotton
seed oil is present
The New Orleans Picdyune, in an editorial
on the large cotton crop of 1882 says: "When
it is considered that the present crop was
raised at enormous cost for food products OF
every description for man and beast, there can
be put little profit in it for the South. Corn
meal at ST per barrel and bacon at twenty
cents per pound, do not leave much out OF
cotton crop sold at nine cents at the nearest
depot. The seasons experience will doutless
convince many more planters to remove their
corn cribs nearer home"
The section of the Revised Statutes which
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of the United States last week, is the
section of an Act passed in 1871, which at
tempted to give the United States jurisdiction
over crimes properly punishable by the States.
The remaining cases referred to as FORM
ing portions of what are known as the Civ
il rights cases are all brought under the civ
il rights bill proper, passed in 1875. They
are cases involving the infringement of the
rights Of colored people to equality with the
whites as citizens.
ALL accounts from Washington agree in
affirming that the lobby which represents the
leading interest in the pending tariff bill dis
cussion, exceeds any scene at the Capital for
many years. The whisky lobby, the railroad
lobby, the navy lobby, and other lobbies chat
have been extensively active since the meet
ing of Congress, are thrown in the shade by
this powerful and rich combination. The cry
is echoed along the corridors from the Senate
to the House of Representatives that the ''bus.
mess of the cOuntry' demands the paternal
cora. of Coporesc jc nroba6lp that tha rp-
suit of the discussion in Congress on the
subject will be bill concocted by commits
sioners of conference, consisting of two Re-
publicans, and two Democrats on the part of
the Senate and two Republicans and one DEM
ocrat on the part of the House.
The New York Graphic has been figuring
up the places foreigners occupy in the coun-
cils of the nation. The Irish born members
of the next House Of Representatives are 20
in number, while the German born are Z, al
though the German born population of the
United States considerably exceeds the Irish
born. OF the 20 Irish members are from
Missouri; New Jersey and Pennsylvania have
3 each New York and Indiana 2 each, and
Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Neva-
da and California l each. Out of the 20 only
3 are Republicans. The Germans are cred
tied l each to New York, New Jersey and
Massachusetts, and each to Michigan and
w lScOnSln. Two or Jne { are RepuOllcallS
The only State the majority of whose delega-
ton of the next House is foreign born is New
Jersey.
- The Government paper of the State of Chi
apas, Mexico, published in it's issue of the 18th
long articles on the cholera, which has Scourged
the southern portion of the State and which
has not yet disappeared. The General Gov
ernment is implored to render assistance, as
the number of victims is immense, and misery
and want reign supreme wherever the epi-
demic has ragged fercely. Sanitary cordons
were established round TERRA Caliente, the
hot region where this sporadic outbreak of
cholera ragged with the ferceSt intensity. The
cold and temperate regions were not affected
Whole families died in a single night. On
some of the plantations there are only three or
four people left alive. Many bodies have been
devoured by dogs, because those who were
stricken were at once abandoned. The town
of Tuxtla had eight thousand inhabitants, six
hundred of whom are dead. Of the six thou
sand people of Tonala upward of one thousand
are dead. The town of Chiapas suffered most
severely, twenty to thirty persons dying daily.
- The caucus of Democratic United States
Senators, held on Friday, that agreed to favor
the passage of any bill which has for it's object
the reduction of the tariff, did al eminently
wise and prudent thing, says the Philadelphia
Record. Equally wise was it's determination
to require thorough investigation of all
amendments which appear to be in the inter
est of monopoles. This is the true attitude
Of craftsmanship in seeking after the best at
tainable good. 1t is patent to the country
that the Republican Congress is determined to