Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-10-30

tOmac water power sold for $50, l0O ana the
Shenandoah water power sold for $50.
Hugh Simpson, who was leading COM
mission merchant Of Atlanta seven years,
ago has bel sent to Jail for vagrancy. He
was worth $4,000 and lost his fortune and
responsibility by drinking whisky.
In Central Alabama, on the night OF
the 2lst instant, Miss Jane Ward and }. Il.
Dorsey, wealthy merchant of Chattooga
county, accused of completely in the recent
murder of Mrs. Mary H. Davis, were taken
out of Jail and lynched.
The question is often asked: "What is
the difference between pt,rattty yote ana
a naajorStu vote" A plurality is the num-
ber of votes the successful candidate OBJ
tains over his highest competitor. A ma
jority is the number he gets over all oppo-
sitiou combined.
Sir Moses Montefore, the distinguished
Hebrew philanthropist, who lives in Eng
land, celebrated his one hundredth Eirth-
day on the oath instant. Thousands OF
congratulatory kilograms were sent to him
from all parts of the world. Among the
dispatches was one from the lsraelltes OF
Columbia, s. G.
1t turns out that the man lynched by
over 1000 people, supposed to be sane, at
Lacrosse, Wis, the other day for the kill
ing of the President Of the Blaine and Lo-
gan Club, was only poor lunatic, who was
not morally or legally responsible Tor tne
act and who leaves wife and three chill
dren. This is one instance of mob justice.
A Memphis, Tennessee, dispatch Of Fri
day SAYS: There was heavy, killing frost
last night, the first of the season, throughout
this section. The damage to crops, If any,
will be very slight. Cotton in the bottom
lands only may possibly be affected by the
cutting short of the top growth, but the
lateness of the season debars serious injury
to the majority of planters.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday, as
reported to the Mercantile agency of 4. g.
Dun and Co., number for the United States
235, and for Canada %; a total of 25S, as
against 21s the previous week; an increase
of forty failures. The increase is divided
between the Western, Southern and Paclac
States and New York city.
Acting Judge Advocate General Luber,,
in his annual report to the Secretary OF
War, says that nineteen commissioned otfi-
GERS, seven West Point cadets, 2,242 enlisted
men and ten military convicts were tried by
general courts martial during the year,
making a total of $3.50. For the last five
years the number of general courts marital
has been constantly increasing. IN 5soo
there were ,543; 1881, 1872; in 1857, l,9oo; ;
and in 1888, 1885. The number OF garrison
and regimental courts martial was lo,9S5.
Between Damascus and Jerusalem is
said to be tribe of about three thousand
Israelites, who have probably been there
since the beginning of the Christian era
They have neither city nor town, but live
in tents and speak the Hebrew language
among themselves, but use the Arabian
with strangers. They have remained like
the primitive races, exclusively tlllers OF
the soil and warriors. They 60 armed from
head to foot. They earn meagre su6sis-
tence from the soil and are content with IL.
Miss Olivia Jenkins of Gwynette county,
Ga, petulently refused to speak TO her Ia
ther ten years ago. Although living IN the
same house with him ever since, she mas
table and elsewhere like one dumb. She
would not even speak to others while he was
in hearing. She was frequently remon-
strated with for this course, but she explain
ed that in his presence she was really dumb,
and could not by any effort use her tongue
until he went out of sight. She died on
Tuesday night, of last week, without hav-
ing ever opened her lips to him.
A Chicago dispatch says: The recent
agitation in this part of the country against
the Mother Hubbard dress as immodest, has
received a new impetus by an order issued
from the Harrison Street Police Station to
all females in that district not to appear in
the street. All found violating the order
will hereafter be arrested. The first victim
was fined $40 by Justice Foote for appear
ing in one of these obnoxious garments.
She was a cream-colored girl and her dress
was of white flannel, trimmed with black
lace. The effect was startling from an aes-
thetic point, at least. The stronger ladies
of Chicago are expected to rush into print.
Rev. DIR. James M. Pullman, of the
Church of Our Savior, New York, deliver
ed lecture Sunday evening on "The Get
ting and Spending of Money" He said
he wished he could inspire every young
man with horror of poverty. The disad-
vantages of not having money, he believed,
were as great in moral as in a material
sense. A man with dollar surplus could
walk with dignity impossible for man
dollar in debt. He believed he had
perfect right to advise young men, for
man who gets married on $3.50 a year must
either be financier or marry one. He
would not undertake to say which was true
in his case, but at all events he started on
$3.50 year.
Scarcely year passes in which the farm
ers of Georgia are not tilched by sharpers OF
some sort who 60 about the country, elther
as. canvassers or claim agents, who make
their money by obtaining advance fees for
services to be performed hereafter. This
year the scene of operations appears to be
in the track of Sherman's march to the sea.
Fayette, Clayton, and Henry counties have
been recently visited by 'gentlemanly
agents." protesting to represent the Govern
ment, which, they aver, is not only willing
but extremely anxious to pay TOR all the
damage done by the Federal Atilla. For
the purpose of getting their claims consid-
cred, the farmers are gulled into paying
from 81 to S25 each, as the agent sees that
he can bleed them, when the victim is told
to rest in peace and he will have his claim
allowed before Christmas.
1t is given out as a fact that the Presi-
dent is to be married in January next, to
Miss Tillie, daughter of Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen. She is the eldest child OF
the Secretary and is about thirty years old.
The President is about 81 years old and has
been widower for the past five years. His
first wife was Miss Ellen Herndon, the
daughter of Lieutenant HerndOn of the Uni
ted States Navy, who was lost at sea While
in command of the passenger steamer Cen
tral America. Since his accession to the
Presidency his sister, Mrs. McElroy, of
Albany, has taken charge of the White
House so far as her time would permit, al
though for long periods the Presidents
home lacked a mistress. His family con-
sists of two children, Allan, aged q, now
a student at Princeton, and bright-faced
Nellie, aged 13, whose name has become a
household word throughout the land.
The Sixth Auditor has prepared state
ment of the receipts and disbursements OF
the Postoffice department for the tisca! year