Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-14
Straps and fatts.

A Connecticut lawyer has sued one of
his clients for a bill Of $40 for services rem
dered. 1t appeared that the clients suit
had involved a sum of about $50, and had
been continued through twenty-one terms,
on each of which the lawyer charged a
twenty-dollar term fee.
General Grants physical condition is
such as to give his friends great uneasiness.
He has not yet recovered from his fall on
New Years day sufficiently to 60 out, and
it is said he gets little sleep, being kept
awake night and day by the pain of his
hurts.
A very lively fight is promised in Wash
ington over suit brought against Fred
in-laW, for$3, ,000Overdue wages. EX-Judge
Tom Mackey is for the plaintiff and prom
ises to make things lively; Bob 1ngersoll
will represent the defence.
Fifteen Senators employ their sons as
clerks at $6 a day. 1t is thought that at
least twenty more Senators will, under their
resolution to provide themselves with pri-
vate secretaries at public expense, appoint
their sons. Several will appoint their
daughters, and one Senator, not having q
son or daughter, will, it is said, make his
wife his private secretary.
"A servent girl in New Haven stole her
mistress false teeth. The woman told a po-
liceman that "Sheesh Gosh shwenshy shol-
larsh, ansh she swash wosh shusha wresh
ashdo shteesh fawshe sheeth-." "Wait
till find an interpreter" interrupted po-
liceman, thinking the woman was newly
arrived Hungarian; but she was an Amer
can and when her teeth were in she could
talk the head off him.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Sepor-
ted last week against the confirmation OF
Thomas B. Keogh for United States Mar
shall of the Western District of North Caro-
lima. Not long after the adjournment of
the last Congress, keogh was appointed in
place of Robert NJ. Douglas. Early in the
present session Keogh's nomination was
sent to the Senate. Charges were filed
against Keogh by Douglas, so it was said.
Sergeant Bates, the noted flag carrier,
arrived at Columbia last Saturday after
noon on his second tour of carrying the
United States flag through the South. On
the present trip he went from Chicago to
New Orleans, and thence via Savannah
headed for Washington City. In Columbia
he delivered an address or lecture, on the
subject of patriotism, after which he took
up collection. He is accompanied by his
little son.
AT Mansfield, La, in the case of Ben
and Ned Jenkins for killing the Rev. j..
Lane Borden, the jury found a verdict Of
not guilty as to Ned Jenkins and guilty as
to Ben Jenkins, without capital punish
ment. This murder will be remembered
as attracting considerable attention at the
time, the slayer of the Rev. Mr.. Borden be-
ing also licensed preacher of the same de-
nomination, who killed his victim on a
moving train of cars near Mansfield a little
over one year ago.
A convention of colored Republicans wSs
in session at Gainesville, Florida, last week.
After the organization, a movement was
made to call q State convention, some
opposing any action, looking to an inde-
pendent organization in the State. Exon
gresham Menard, of Key West, and Gen.
Walls Faror and Rev. Joseph E. Lee, Dep
uty Collector of Customs at Jacksonville,
opposed the plan. The object of the conven-
tion was to inaugurate an independent par
ty movement.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday, as
reported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 232 and for Canada and Prov
inces 46, total 27S against $40 the week pre-
vious. There is marked decrease in the
number of failures all through the country,
particularly in the Southern, Middle and
New England States; also on the Pacific
Coast. In Canada, however, there is a
slight increase over even the high figures Of
recent weeks. For the whole country the to-
tai is the smallest noted in any week since
the commencement of the year.
The parents of the white woman who
recently married the colored leader, Fred
Douglass, live in Rochester, n. Y. Mr.. O.
II. Stevens, a lawyer Of that city, says rela-
tive to the marriage, that Mr.. Pitt, father
of the bride, feels very badly about the
messdilidace of his daughter, who, though
over forty years of age and her own mis-
tress, he thinks, should have consulted the
feelings of her parents and friends before
taking such step. The father knew moth
ing about the marriage until he saw it in
newspaper and remains in his house dis
consolate and utterly refuses to speak with
any one about the event. The mother is
almost broken-hearted.
Mrs. James Stevenson died in dentists
chair at Scranton, Pa, last Saturday, after
undergoing terrible ordeal in dentistry.
She was accompanied to the Office of the
dentist, w. H. Heist, by her family physi-
clan, Dr.. A. Strang, who had administer
chloroform and ether. After the first was
given two teeth were pulled; then another
dose was given and nine teeth were extract
ed, after which third was administered and
five more teeth were taken. The frighten-
ed dentist then realized that ispatient was
dead and had been for several seconds be-
fore the last tooth had been taken out. Eff
forts were made to restore her, but they
were useless. Mrs. Stevenson was forty
years old and the mother Of seven children,
the youngest being four months old. The
treatment she received in the dentists chair
is the subject of severe comment.
"A Sioux City, Iowa, dispatch says: Re-
ports have reached here from the upper Elk
horn country in Nebraska that "Kid" Wade,
leader of the Niobrara outlaws and horse
thieves, has been hanged by vigilants.
The vigilants have their headquarters at
place called ''The Pen" They have ar
rested a large number Of men in various
parts of Northern Nebraska and have taken
them to "The Pen," where they have been
tried and disposed Of The fate of those ar
rested is not definitely known, but as they
were never seen after their arrest, it is sup
posed that they were hanged, shot, or driv-
en- from the country. The terrible earnest
ness of the vigilants and the mystery sur
rounding their ways causes men to Shudder
when their doings are mentioned. 1t is pos
itively known that they have lynched elev-
en- men, and it is believed that others have
met the same fate.
- In one of his Washington letters to the
Augusta Chronicle, Mr.. Randall, speaking
of the CamerOns, says: / sometimes think
that among the best friends the South has
had since the war were the Camerons, of
Pennsylvania, father and son. The South
would have had much harder time but
for them. l know that one Senator from
our section owed his admission originally