Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

Gen. Grant was present at the St. James
Hotel, New York, Tuesday evening with
the committee which is getting up a fund
to build a Confederate soldiers home at
Richmond. He said that ne is heartily in
sympathy with the movement.
1t has been decided to call no more wit
nesses in the Mississippi and Danville "out'
rage" Investigations, and to lay before the
Senate the testimony already taken. The
reports of the subcommittee are not yet
prepared.
- The Treasury Department has issued
since March 19 warrants for the payment o1
about 16,0 900 claims for rebate of tobacco tax
iaggregating about 81 900. These claims
are being passed at the rate of 800 day.
and it is expected to have them all disposed
Of in about forty days.
"A dispatch from Truckee, California, on
the Central Pacific Road, says that three
hundred feet of snow shed fell last Saturday
working train and number of Chinese
laborers. Six Cinnamon have been taken
out dead and five others seriously wounded
"A portion Of Rome, Ga, was overflow;
ed on Wednesday of last week. The flood
lasted only one day, and very little damage
was done in the city. No lives were lost
and no houses or stock destroyed. The
damage to new planted crops on rich river
bottoms must be considerable. The rivers
are now every where within their banks.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, has issued
a proclamation restoring in the border coun.
ties the law against carrying concealed
weapons, which on account OF the hostile
incursions Of Indians, was suspended by
proclamation in June, 1881. The Governor
declares the law to be in full force and ef-
feet all over the State on and after May lst.
- San Antonio, Texas, was visited last
Saturday evening with terrible rain and
wind storm. Residences were badly dam
aged fences blown down and trees uprooted.
Reports received in San Antonio from the
surrounding country stated that the DAM
age from the storm had been very extern
storm occurred at Dallas on the same day.
The vessels for the next Arctic expedi-
are now being fitted up in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, and the Bear, to be command
ed by Capt. Emery, was to have sailed to-
day. Captain Emery will proceed to St.
Johns, and after taking in coal will proceed
north, hoping to reach Disca Island by the
middle Of May. The second vessel of the
expedition will sail about the 9th of May.
The business failures throughout the
country occurring during the past seven
days ending last Friday, as reported by tel
egraph to r. 6. Dun G. Co., number for the
United States 100 and for Canada Is, or a
total of 176, as compared with 2l4 the pre-
vious week-a reduction of 3S failures.
The decrease is apparent in every section OF
the country, and particularly in Canada,
where the failures are less than in any week
for many months.
Theodore Hoffman was hanged at White
Crsl fO,. hn o.
of Zife Parks, a Jew peddler. On the same
day, at Eastman, Ga, Willis Hodges, color
ed, was hanged for the murder Of Lizzie
Jones, colored, on the 29th of December
last. AT Greenville Ga, Tobe Turner, col
ored, condemned murderer, escaped the
gallows by choking himself to death with a
pocket handkerchief early on Friday morn
ing, the day appointed for the execution.
: On Wednesday night of last week fifty
masked men went to Jackson, Breathitt
county, Kentucky, and took Henry Kill
burn, white, and Ben Strong, colored, who
were confined in Jail there, and hanged
them. Kilburn was charged with the muir
der of William Thorp last January. Strong
was suspected of being concerned in the
same murder. Notice was pinned on one OF
the victims, stating that all perpetrators OF
such crimes would receive like punishment.
Surely the war is over. A Louisiana
bazaar Of the Continental Guards, of New
Orleans, was awarded to Joseph A. Mower
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, by a
large majority of the ballots, and on Satur-
day evening last the Guards visited the
post in full uniform and delivered the flag.
Friendly speeches were exchanged and a
supper was served, after which various
toasts, expressive of the good will existing
between the citizens generally and the
post, were offered and responded to.
Twenty bodies were taken out of the
Pocahontas mine last Saturday, nine of
which were identified, Notwithstanding
their decomposed condition. This makes
one hundred and nine bodies taken out.
Some half dozen or more are supposed to be
buried in the debris. These will not be re-
covered until the mine is cleared out,
and it is thought there are some who will
never be found. All but three of the bodies
have been buried near the scene Of the eX-
plosion in burying ground selected and
allotted as their last resting place by the
owners of the mine.
- The Southern Railroad Time Conven-
ton held meeting in New York on We'd
nesday of last week. Representatives of
the principal Southern roads attended. The
primary object of the convention was to
determine the schedule of through trains
between New York and Jacksonville, New
Orleans and other Southern points. 1t was
decided that there should be no change of
time between New York and Washington,
and that when local changes were made
South of Washington they should take ef-
feet May 18th.
Frank James, the bandit, appeared be-
fore the United States Court at Huntsville,
Alabama, last Friday. He sat near his
wife and child. The morning session was
occupied in getting witnesses together and
empanelling jury. The charge against
James is conspiracy to rob A. J. Smith, a
Government official, of s. 900 on March llth,
1881. Jesse James, Bill Ryan, James Hill
and Dick Liddell are also included in the
Indictment. Three witnesses for the Gov
ernment believed they could identify James,
but neither of them could swear positively
On the 25th of February, in New Hope
township, Chatham county, N. c., there
resembling blood. It covered space of
from fifty to seventy feet, the drops ranging
in size from the ordinary rain drop to the
size of the end of mans finger, on an aver
age Of about one drop to a square foot. 1t
had the appearance and smell of fresh
blood. A quantity Of it was collected by
DR.. Aston, who gave it to Prof E. b.
Venable, of the State University, who has
had it analyzed and pronounces it real
blood. The question now is where did it
come from, and how did it get into the
clouds. J.
- Heavy rains in Arkansas last week
caused much damage to railroad and other
property. Nearly all the small streams are