Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-08
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eight miles of gold lace.
"A curious coincidence has been dug out of
American history, showing that October 80,
1881, the Continental Congress elected the
first Secretary of War, whose name was
Benjamin Lincoln. In 1881, just a century
later, the present Secretary of War, Rob-
ert T. Lincoln, was appointed.
= Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has returned to
her home in Charlotte, n. c., after making
all extended visit to friends in the West.
Her daughter, Miss Julia, is visiting friends
son and her daughter have been travelling
through Europe for several months past is
entirely unfounded.
Twenty thousand people-men and wo-
men, boys and girls-are engaged in the
manufacture of cigars in the city of New
York. It is estimated that tho hands in
single large factory consume 5000, 600 cigars
year, saving the tobacco out of their al
lotment and rolling and filling the cigars
for themselves, labor being the main ele-
ment Of cost.
The business failures of the week end
ing last Friday throughout the country, as
reported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for
the United States 149 and for Canada 80, a
total of 179 against 1S9 the previous week,
a decrease Of 10. A lessened number of
casualties are occurring in the New Eng
land, Middle and Western States, but there
is an increase in the Southern and Pacific
States and in Canada, as compared with
previous weeks.
"A Galveston dispatch of Saturday says:
Later reports from Northeastern Texas in
dicate considerable damage by floods. Many
small streams are higher than ever known
before, and in some instances every bridge
has been swept away. The rainfall at Hous-
ton for twenty-four hours was over five
inches. Heavy rains extended far west OF
Eel Paso. In large portion of the flooded
district the cotton growth has been retard-
ed from three to four weeks.
The statement is made that on Sunday
next, new lightning schedule is to 60 into
effect on the Richmond and DanVilie rail-
road, by which the time between Atlanta
and New York will be lessened by five
hours. The trains will arrive at and leave
Charlotte at about the same time they do
now, coming in from the North about half
an hour earlier and arriving from the South
half an hour later. By the new schedule
person can take dinner in New York one
day and arrive in Charlotte at dinner time
the next day-distance 600 miles. The
schedule run over the Richmond and Dan
Vile line will be about 35 miles an hour.
-Enoch Brown, negro was hanged at
Halifax, n. c., last Friday, for wife murder.
On the same day, VIM. McHugh was hang
ed in Cincinnati for wife murder. During
his imprisonment McHugh supported his
poor old mother by writing doggerel verses
and selling them to the curious people visit
ing the Jail. Some of his verses are as good
as those published in the daily newspapers
to accommodate sentimental women. Nc
Hugh carved his wife to death with
butcher-knife and the women sent him bo-
l1e 1>,,f 70 nc nd
seems pity that she should have hanged
the only one that had achieved any dis
tinction of late years. On the same day,
Wm Brooks, colored, was hanged at Alex
andria, La, for the murder of his wife.
An industrious reporter in Atlanta has
unearthed another sensation. Eighteen
years ago Thomas S. King, of that place
was married to widow. Recently it was
discovered that Mrs. Kings first husband
was still living. Mr.. King and his wife sep
arated as soon as this discovery was made,
and legal proceedings were begun to have
their marriage annulled. The Superior
Court in Atlanta has set aside the marriage
and now Mrs. King has begun a suit
for divorce from her first husband upon
the ground of willful and continued de-
sertion. It is not expected that any de-
fence will be made to this suit and that the
decree of divorce will be granted in the fall.
Then Mr.. and Mrs. King will be married
again, and the status of their children will
be established by law.
Mr.. Randall, it is said, will make an eff
fort to secure the adjournment of Congress
by July l. Of the twelve appropriation
bills one alone has passed. The Senate has
already restored the items in the postal ap-
preparation that the House struck out, and
the discussion over concurrence in these
sc1 rnlx TO
In former years the legislative, executive
and judicial bill alone has occupied several
weeks in its passage, and how Mr.. Randall
hopes to get through with this and the 9th
er ten untouched bills in the short time he
has allowed, is not easily conceived. But
Mr.. Randall is man of resources, and if
he goes about the work with his wonted
vigor, perhaps the people will see his prom
ises fulfilled. If he accOmplishes his pur-
pose the Pennsylvania statesman will GER
tainly deserves the commendation of all
parties.
The Southern Baptist Convention met
in Baltimore Yesterday. The Convention is
a delegated body and comprises about 400
delegates, representing all the churches and
missions in the Southern States. There are
two Conventions of the Baptist Church-one
,YNerth and one South-but they are not sep
afateon account Of differences in doctrine,
politics or church government, but simply
from eXpediency. DR.. P. Fl. Nell, of Mer-
Ger University, is the presiding officer, and
three sessions day will be held until the
Convention adiourns. The principal work
before the body will be the reports on for
eign missions and on home missions, includ-
ing the work among the Indians and colored
people. The educational and theological
work of the Church will also come before
the Convention. An election of officers will
also take place.
The widow of the once famous Mexican
General, Santa Anna, is living quietly in
one of the States of Northern Mexico, and
seldom intrudes into the outer world. She
is only forty-eight years old, Santa Anna
having been President Of Mexico three
years before she was born. She was plight
ed to him in her cradle, and married to him
when only thirteen years old. He was
then military dictator, and in six months
he had lost his leg and got into Texas
prison. For twenty years her life was spent
fare. Her husband was five times Presi-
dent of Mexico, four times military dicta-
tor, in absolute power. He was banished,
recalled, banished again, and finally died
when with his wife in exile as traitor.
She has seen much "glory," and has receiv-
ed unlimited adulation, but she hardly ev-
er enjoyed one thoroughly peaceful month
in her life.
-Rev. C. A., Harrison of Belmont Allie
ghany county, n. Y, who delivered SER
mon against the doctrine Of immediate
sanctifcation, and was expelled from his
charge and deposed from the ministry by
the Methodist Conference of that district,
at once became raving maniac. He was