Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-18
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along the Air Line all liked him.
The wealthiest man in the world is the
Chinese banker, Han-Qua, of Canton. He
pays taxes upon an estate of $3.50, 600, 900,
and is estimated to be worth billion taels,
which, in our money, would be about four
teen hundred million dollars.
The ravages Of the cholera are now more
fearful in Italy than during the summer in
France. From midnight of Friday last up
2,209 cases and 6S7 deaths at Naples. Since
the beginning Of the outbreak there have
been 3,297 deaths in Italy. The.epidemic is
also prevailing in several cities in Spain.
"A man giving the name of Lem Walker,
who is to all appearances white man, but
who claims to have one-eighth pure negro
blood in his veins, and says that he is a first
cousin of James G.. Blaine, Republican can
didate for President, was committed to jail
in Augusta, Ga, last week on a charge OF
forgery.
An animated discussion is going on in
the English newspapers regarding the kill
yacht Mignonette, in order to keep them
selves alive. The balance of opinion de-
cidedly favors the view that it was a case of
justifiable homicide. The prisoners were
loudly cheered on Thursday, when they
were released on bail.
The business failures throughout the
country during the week ending last Friday,
as reported to Messrs. R. G. Dun, Co.'S
mercantile agency: Number for the United
States 1872, and for Canada %, or total Of
22O, as against 213 the previous week; an
increase of Z failures. The casualties are
numerous in the Pacific and Western States,
and also in New York, but light in the 9TH
er sections of the country.
Gen. Butler, in an interview out West,
frankly said: 81 am running to beat Cleve-
land" While that is the truth it is only
part of the truth. The General should have
said: 'I am running to beat Cleveland and
to elect Blaine, on Jay Goulfs money"
The Generals present campaign will be as
successful as his campaign against Fort
Fisher. That was the noisest, the worst
smelling and most disastrous failure of
the war.
Georgia Wood, of Atlanta, Ga, broke his
neck by singular accident the other even
ing. He was anxious to finish his supper
in order to play with some companions.
While at the supper table he occupied a
high chair. He undertook to slide out
without moving it, but before his feet touch
ed the floor his chin struck the table with
great force. He threw his hands to his
chin, began screaming and dropped upon
Cuo lOOT uSdu.
The anti i-Mormon excitement is still
high in Lewis county, Tenn. The reward
of 81 900 offered for the detection of the men
who slew the elders has failed to induce any;
body to arrest them, detective who tried
it having been run out of the country on
short notice. Notices have been posted
warning all Mormons to leave within 80
days on pain of going as the elders went.
The killing of one of the anti-MOrmOns in
the last fight, in which five Mormons were
slain, has exasperated the people greatly,
and general killing will probably result if
there is any further attempt at missionary
work by the Utah emissaries.
AT the inquest, in Philadelphia, last
Thursday on the body of j. H. Barry, who
was thought to have comitted suicide by
hanging, it was shown that his death was
the result of a curious accident. He had
been engaged in argument to prove that
Bill Sykes could have been hanged in the
manner described by Dickens, and to settle
all doubts he said he would demonstrate
how Sykes was hung. Wednesday morn
ing he was found hanging to door in his
room. The rope was not tied around his
neck, neither did it look as if it had been
Intentionally tied around the knob of the
door.
The Good Templars of Georgia aim to
secure the passage of a prohibitory consti-.
tutional amendment to the constitution OF
that State. Mr.. J. G.. Thrower, one of the
Temperance apostles, told reporter for the
Atlanta Constitution the other day, that the
first Lodge of Good Templars in Georgia
was organized in Atlanta on the 18th of Oc-
tober, 1867. Since 1867 six hundred lodges
have been organized and 10000 persons
have been initiated. The good templars is
the only temperance organization in the
State that has local organizations through
out the State under its jurisdiction with a
voting membership. There was not pro-
hibition county in Georgia when the Lodge
in Atlanta was started. There are now
eighty-five.
The New York wholesale dry goods
dealers report the fall trade about two weeks
later than usual in getting under way, but
claim that it is as good as usual now. Pric-
es are generally quoted from ten to twenty
per cent. lower than they were year ago,
which offers good inducement to the coun-
try merchant to purchase full stocks. The
large crops are also another element of
hopefulness, the merchants expecting the
farmers to buy literally, even though they
low rates. If they have to sell wheat and
corn cheap, they can buy dry goods and
other necessities in proportion, and as they
have the wheat and corn to sell the assump
ton is that they will buy in liberal quan-
titles.
BENJAMIN johnson, colored, was hanged
in Cincinnati last Friday morning for COM
plicity with Allen ingalls, in the murder of
Belvery Taylor, his wife and little girl,
near Avondale, last February. The bodies
of the victims of that crime were immedi-
ately brought by Ingalls, and johnson to the
Ohio Medical College and the murderers
received $45 for the subjects. A week
afterwards the bodies were found in the COL
lege and johnson was arrested. The atroci
ity of this crime together with the action of
the jury in fixing the grade of VIM. Ber-
ner's crime as manslaughter when it was a
clear case of murder in the first degree were
the potent causes leading to the riot of last
spring. Johnson's death was almost in
Simultaneous and without peculiar features.
The execution took place in the Jail yard,
the scaffold being screened by canvass.
The annual report of the Georgia Rail-
road Commission has been made to the Gov
ernor. It is held that the improved condi
tion of the railroads, the present feeling of
the people who use them, and the improve
ments in the cities, towns and villages
along the line of roads all 60 to show that
the Georgia Railroad law is wise one and
only needs such notifications as will al
most be admitted by both sides to make it
one of the best laws on the Statute-books
of the State. Indeed the Atlanta C0nstit,t
ton is of the opinion that 'the time will
come when the railroad managers will be as
strongly in favor of the commission as the
people are" The commission makes two
complaints against the present law, which
will probably be remedied at the next ses-