Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-09
Straps and fatts.

The presidents of the Augusta, Georgia,
cotton mills failed to agree on a plan TOR
the restriction of production, and each mill
will run to suit itself.
- The North Carolina State Exposition
which opened at Raleigh on the 1st instant,
is grand success, beyond the expectations
of its most sanguine promoters. 1t is an
event in North CarOlina's industrial progress
AT the recent session of the Presbytery
of Mecklenburg, at Charlotte, n. c., Rev.
DIR. D. p. Robinson was found guilty on
charges of domestic neglect and unfaithful-
ness and suspended from the ministry.
- The bloody war begun on the Mormon
Elders in Kentucky is being carried out in
earnest. Notices have been posted in Will
son, Lewis and Hickman counties, warming
the polygamOus parsons to decamp or suffer
the fate of Elders Bibbs and Berry. The
boys mean business.
A Georgia woman recently gave birth
to two boys and girl and named one OF
the boys Grover Cleveland. The governor
was informed of this and wrote his congrat-
ulations and thanks, enclosing handsome
present. Both the boys died, however,
after living but few weeks.
jefferson Davis is now the last of his
line. He has been married twice and has
no male descendant who bears his name.
Gently the death of the son of Gen. Joseph
r. Davis, of Biloxi, Miss, took away the
last hope of perpetuating by male descend
ants the name of Jefferson Davis
- The election for governor, State officers
and members of the legislature took place
in Georgia on the 1st instant. The vote
was small There was no opposition and
Hon. Henry G. Mcdaniel was reelected
governor. Out of 900 votes not more than
500 were polled in Richmond county. 1t
is thought that not more than one third OF
the vote in the State was polled.
- The first years experiment with the
new rate of postage, which Postmaster
General Howe estimated might cause a de-
ficiency of S7,000,000, and which Third
Postmaster-GeneralH Hazen figured at 81 900,
900, shows an actual decrease of So, 296 900
in the stamp account, and falling off in
the total revenue of the postoffice depart
ment of 81, 2,242,0O0.
- Intelligence has been received of ter
rible and disastrous hurricane in Iceland on
the 18th of September. The accounts thus
far received show that nineteen trading
vessels and sixty fishing boats were lost,
and thirty-two vessels disabled. The most
appalling feature of the hurricane was the
loss of life. The exact number of those who
perished has not yet been ascertalned, out
.
The business failures throughout the
country occurring during the week ending
last Friday, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 194 and for
Canada %, a total Of 217 against 213 the pre-
ceding week. Nothing particular to note
in connectian in this return. Failures were
more numerous than usual in the Southern
States and lighter in New York city as COM
pared with the previous week.
"A Raleigh dispatch says: Gen. Alfred
NJ. Scales, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of North Carolina, who was bad
ly hurt week ago by being thrown over a
precipice in the western part Of the State,
is still unable to meet his appointments,
and his friends fear that he is more serious
ly hurt than was at first supposed. He can
not stand up, and internal injuries of seri-
Gus character are feared. He is at home in
Greensboro.
- An Omaha, Nebraska, dispatch of Sat
urday tells of the murder of Harry Purcival,
his wife, infant child, and young man
living on neighboring farm, about ten
miles west of Fullerton, in Nance county,
Nebraska. The mother and child were
shot in bed the father was found beside
hay stack with two bullets in his body, and
the body partially consumed by hogs, and
the young man was shot in bed. PurclVals
mouse nau DeeI iopUeu VI e'oiy 'iiS VI
value in money and jewelry except his
wife's watch. The deed is supposed to have
been committed by farm hand and his
partner, both of whom are missing.
= The international congress, in session at
Washington, to establish, if possible, a COM
mon zero of longitude, was welcomed by
secretary Frelinghuysen, and presided over
on the first day of its session by Admiral
Rodgers. The latter, in taking the chair,
as a scholar and seaman dwelt on the
great advantages to come from the civilized
world agreeing on a common standard, and
he urged the conference to lay aside "nation-
al preferences and incinations" in behalf
of the common good Of mankind. This
country, he assured the congress, had no
disposition to insist on it's own national
standard.
A health authority says: Great workers
clerks in his employ ought to know what
their sleeping habits are. The young man
who is up till three or four o'clock in the
morning and must put in his appearance at
the bank or store at nine or ten o'clock and
work all the day, cannot repeat this process
many days without a certain shakiness
coming into his system, which he will en-
deavor to steady by some delusive stimulus.
1t is in this way that many young man
begins his course to ruin. He need not
necessarily have been in bad company. He
has lost his sleep, and losing sleep is losing
strength and grace.
Judge Hays delivered a charge to the
grand jury at Muscatine, Iowa, on Wednes-
day in the matter Of indictments under the
new prohibitory liquor law. He charged
the Jury that, while selling liquor is indict-
able, buying is equally violation of the
law, that all persons testifying to having
purchased liquor are subject to Indictment,
and that, referring, as is supposed, to the
Temperance Alliance, in the case of any
persons being induced or encouraged by any
organization or body to buy liquor for the
purpose of eliminating the seller, such buy
er would be indictable, and such body will
be guilty of conceSsory, and subject to in
dictment. 1t is thought that it will be next
to impossible to enforce anti-liquor law
under this ruling.
- On Friday last, at the town of Salinas,
on the Mexican National Railway, Jose
NJ. Santos, Judge, or alcaide of the town,
becoming obnoxious to the people, by rea-
son of many arbitrary acts, the citizens
gathered in great crowd Saturday morn
ing and attacked the municipal hall, where
Santos was holding court. The police de-
Tended the alcaide and a sharp fight ensued.
The mob overpowered the authorities and
entered the municipal building, where they
seized and murdered Judge Santos and the
chief of police. 1t is reported that over
twenty persons were killed and many badly
wounded. 1t is believed that the mob was
led by the celebrated outlaw, FL Coyote, the
wolf who escaped from Jail at New Laredo
a few days since. Judge Santos caused the
arrest of FL Coyote for participation in the
puSt.mnnte train robbery a few wears ago