Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-26
y MEREsMENTIGN.
Newwheat was sold in the St.

NeWWheat was sold in the st. Louis mar
ket last week at one 81 per bushel. .''''..'. Ed
itor Malloney, Of Richford, Vermont, is
having a lively time. He has answered
Jail Monday night because he couldn't fur
nish bail in another $4,000 suit. t..''f''"D Dan
Rice, the famous circus clown, went to Chat
tanooga, Tenn, on Friday to lecture as re-
formed drunkard He got drunk and the
lecture was postponed. AN, attempt has
been made to kiidnap the President of the
United States Of Colombia, and a revolution
is threatened wv. H. Vanderbilt has
returned to, New York from Europe. He
says he will vote for good Democrat for
President. Because of the recent de-
yelopments in the Postohice Department
defafcation, which showed that Col. Burn
side has been guilty of systematic robbery
since 1876, his bondsmen last Friday, for
mally surrendered him and he was placed
in jail. 1.-THE House branch of the Lou
.isiana Legislature has passed a bill appro-
priating 100000 to the New Orleans
Worlds Exposition. ....:'':'The saloonkeep
ers' association of Cincinnati has resolved
to refuse payment of taxes under the, pro
visions of the Scott y, liquor law, thus
compelling suits in all cases. MY
Partner" has been played by one company
in the United States 1882 times. ''''"'In
sending newspapers through the mail, it
formerly cost one cent for every two ounces,
but the rate has been changed so that
four ounces can now be mailed for one
cent. The Mindon, La, Parish Jail was
destroyed by fire last Thursday night. The
building was set on fire by six colored pris-
oners, who barely escaped being burned
alive. " Alarming reports Of the rayages
been received. ''.......J John G. Robertson, son
of ex-senator Robertson, of South Carolina,
was arrested and placed under bonds, at
Augusta, Ga, last Monday for shooting at
J. A. Loftin, who had dunned him to pay
a due bill. .'..:."..In sham battle at Pensa-
cola, Fla, last Saturday, four men were seri-
ously wounded by blank cartridges. '"::"it
is now said that Logan is good Methodist;
that he Joined the church by telegraph and
was baptized by photograph r,;..:.. C9n, On
gress has been mainly employed, during the
'past week on appropriation bills, which in
dicates an adjournment at no distant day.
When that astute body goes deliberately to
work to making appropriations, 1t slgnlt1es
that they are in hurry to despatch the
only business for which it appears they
assemble. A vote on the Mexican pension
bill was set for last Tuesday. .''''''.'Col. L. M.
r. Talcott, his daughter and two other per-
sons, were seriously injured by a drag in
which they were riding being thrown over
the embankment of road near Rlch-
mond..::'.;::'The Bath paper Mills, near Au-
gusta, Ga, were destroyed by fire last Sat-
;urday morning supposed to have been
caused by spontaneous combustion. '.'" Wes-
leyThomasson, the York county negro, who,
on the 18th Of May killed a negro at the
Crump mine, in Union county, N. c.,
and made his escape, was arrested, as we
learn from the Charlotte Observer, near
Laurinburg, last Sunday, after q severe
struggle, in which Thomasson was shot and
severely wounded. ~.""'.. ~. - .-.'' ..''''