Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-12
Straps and fatts.

The New York cremation society has
$4,000 subscribed to build furnace, and it
will be in operation before the end of the
year. A new argument in favor of incin-
eraton is the statement that it cost $18, 600
year to keep the grass cut on the graves in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Five children went home from circus
in Dakota deeply impressed by the feat Of
descending an incline on globe. Finding
smooth log lying at the top of steep hill,
they took their places in row and set it
over, three being killed.
-. B. Crowder, white fireman on the
Charlotte and Atlanta local freight train,
was killed on the arrival of the train in
Charlotte, last Saturday afternoon. He fell
from the platform to the track and the
wheels of the cars ran over his head and
shoulders. Crowder leaves a widow at Cen
trail, s. G.
Texas forty years ago was practically
desert, and the handful of settlers lived
pretty much on game. To day there are
more than 100000 cattle, sheep, horses
mules and swine in the State, and the cot
ton crop last year was worth more than the
cotton crop of the entire United States in
1843. u+lIgtH. gE
Mrs. Fred Grant is beautiful and heroic
woman. When informed of the failure OF
her husband and the necessity for economy
in her domestic relations, she remarked: II
have lived on the army rations once; l can
feel sympathy for such woman.
The! Charlotte Observer of the 3rd says:
Capt DeWolfe and family left Sunday night
for Portland, Oregon, their far western
home. Before going, Mrs. DeWolfe was
was presented with very handsome solid
silver cup as token of esteem by the con-
gregation of the Associate Reformed Church,
Of which she was leading member.
- The Palmetto Railroad is new line
under construction from Hamlet, N. c., to
Cheraw, S. c., distance of 17A miles. The
work is being pushed rapidly and it is
contemplated to have the grading COM
pleted by fall. When this connection is
completed, it will secure route 50 miles
shorter than either of the other two routes
South.
Monsieur Viron des Lauriers has found.
ed, in Moore county, n. c., a colony of
Frenchmen skilled in silk culture. Inabout
two months there will be thirty families
in the colony. They are pleased with their
location and at their success thus far. M.
des Lauriers has purchased 100000 young
mulberry trees, to plant. The leaves OF
these are to feed the millions of silk worms
to be grown by the colonists.
Commenting on Fred Grants exclama-
ton that he and his family were ''all FOOLS"
the Louisville Post says: "If the experience
of this verdeat young man, who began life
with every afg g:Pant external advantage In
his favor, shall serve to teach his young
countrymen that honest industry must be
the basis of all enduring fortunes, and that
all gambling operations must end IN grief,
ho will MT have SJJffnrp0 in Valn.'
The great bridge connecting New York
and Brooklyn has been open one year, hav-
ing been thrown open to the public May "a,
1888. During the year 6, 1893, 100 foot passen-
gers crossed the structure, 5S7, ,OA vehicles
and 5,151 ,220 car passengers. The receipts
were 1891 no, but from this the expenses
are to be deducted. AS the cost of the bridge
was over $15, 900, the gross revenue, it
will be observed, is little over 2 per cent.
of the outlay.
-Orme, the railroad ticket agent who en-
deavored to commit suicide by shooting
himself in the head with pistol, near At
The bullet entered his head over the left
ear, and ranging downward, lodged in his
throat. He is short 1850 with the differ
ent roads for which he sold tickets. He is
reported to have lost heavily at gambling,
which accounts for his attempt to take
his life.
-"Several queer Incidents" says Wash
ington correspondent, shave occurred lately
at the top of the Washington monument.
The other day gauntand hungry cat made
her appearance on the scaffold where the
workmen stand, having climbed the wind
ing flights of stairs from the bottom. She
looked wildly about her for few moments
and then gave leap into space. -Four hun
~ g q 6paI a.
jump, but she landed on the ground alive
making the greatest leap on record"
The Charlotte Observer says that the ef-
fort to connect Rutherfordton, n. c., with
Gaffney City, S. G., by rail will yet prove
successful. The Boston men who propose
to build the line were met by the people Of
Rutherford, and an agreement was entered
Into between them. All the necessary pa
pers were signed and delivered on the 3rd
instant, and work is to be commenced I'M
mediately upon the road. Rutherford coun-
ty has subscribed $l00, 600 toward the build
ing of the road. It is to be narrow guage.
"A. Havana letter of the 10Th ultimc,
saws: ''The mercantile and political situa-
ton continues to be desperate. Most liber-
al estimates place the sugar crop at 100000
tons, which at an average price, amounts to
SA.75O,O 900. Estimates of expenditures for
the next fiscal year will amount to about
100000, 900, consequently the sum resulting
from the sale of the entire sugar crop will
be insufficient to cover the government tax
alton on the population. During the first
six months of the fiscal year the import of
wines from Spain fell off to the extent of
sixteen thousand pipes or casks" The sale
of the island to the United States or to
Mexico is the general topic of conversation.
Jesse Carter, colored, convicted as acces-
sorry to the murder of J. w. Foster, by
Babe Jones, at Pittsburg, Pa, was hanged
in the Jail of that city on the 3rd instant.
The condemned man displayed wonderful
fortitude on the scaffold where he reiterated
his protestation of innocence, prayed and
sang the hymn "Farewell to the world"
On Friday last, at Orangeburg, S. c., VIM.
Trezevant, colored, was hanged for the MUIR
der of Frank Mitchell, colored, January 16,
1888. He made a confession, having even
pleaded guilty when arraigned for trial.
His neck was broken by the fall of the trap
and life was extinct in ten minutes. He
died without fiinching.
About $50 "assisted" immigrants arriv-
ed at Castle Garden on Monday, but on eX-
animation it was found that nearly all OF
them are able and willing to earn liveli-
hood in this country. The assistant super
intendant of the labor bureau says there
will be no difficulty in procuring employ
ment for them, as the farmers just now are
very busy and will need plenty Of help for
two or three months to come. There are
no sick among the new corners, and they
have only been "assisted" by the authorities
at home because there was nothing Tor them
to do there. Other immigrants of the same
L.. ,6nr Of Thousand NJ