Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-06
Straps and fatts.


a violent hatred of the Union and tn
North, and the flag he carried was the sub
ject of great deal of abuse and derision.
- The business failures in this country oc
curing during the week ending last Friday
rs reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number 70
the United States 1913 and for Canada AZ, to
tai 235, against 246 the preceding week,
decrease Of II failures. The decrease is al
in the United States, as Canada has tWt
more failures than last week.
The following incident will mark hov
things will be after awhile when twelve
good women get on jury: "The proprieto
of bar room was placed on trial in Wash
ington Territory, under an indictment TO
keeping disorderly resort. Seven womel
were on the jury and all were firm for con
viction, and the five men stood doggedly
for acquittal."
While Judge Wright, of the Georgia Su
preme bench, and Attorney General FL!
were discussing an old case in the rotunds
Of the Markham House at Atlanta on Wed
Ely with the dexterity of Sullivan. They
were separated and steps were at once taker
to settle the dispute according to the meth
cd in vogue among gentlemen. board O.
honor is now in charge of the case.
Last year the loss of property in the
Ohio valley was estimated at fifteen mil
lion dollars. In actual property destroy.
fSsf ii ha damages fo business Stop
ped, postponed, etc., seventy-ive million
dollars would be nearer the mark. The
floods will cause more loss at and above Gin
cinnati and less below, for precautions were
taken lower down and the water was nc
higher than year ago. Three fourths o1
the iron furnaces, foundries and mills on
the Ohio Valley have been inundated
This is true at Louisville, the lower end OF
the Ohio Valley list Of iron centres, OF
which Pittsburg is the upper end.
The committee appointed by the Sen
ate to investigate the alleged political out,
RACES in Copiah, Miss, returned to Wash.
ington last Saturday. Senator Jonas, OF
Louisiana, a member OF the colnmlttee e
says that q full investigation shows that the
killing of Matthews grew out of personal
difficulty, and there is no evidence to lndl'
cate that national politics entered into the
dispute. 1t was simply local election
trouble. There has been no session of the
courts there since the trouble occurred, and
there is every reason to believe that justice
will be administered when the Court meets
in April. He says there was not the slight
est necessity for Congressional investl
cation.
The great building at Salt Lake, which
the saints have been tWenty-elght years
in constructing is approaching completion
The main walls are done. 1t is built o.
granite, which is hauled from the noun
tains back of Salt Lake on great wagons OF
trucks, with wheels twelve feet high. me
walls are 10 feet in thickness and 50 IN
height. 1t has cost up to this time $500,
900, which has been collected by the tithine
tax. It will require six years more to tin
ish the work. Probably no other church
building in the United States has been con
structed in a way to secure such durability
as is possible to this. Some of those who
predict the early ruin of the Mormon hler
archy are wondering what use they Cal
make of this temple.
A peculiar case involving the validity O.
slave marriages was decided in the Common
Pleas Court of Toledo, Ohio, last week
A colored man named Anderson married
here in 1883 and was thereupon arrested
for bigamy, it being charged that he was
married while slave to a slave woman ir
Bedford County, Virginia, in 1861. The
case hinged on the validity of the slave mar
riage. The Judge instructed the jury, thai
slaves, being property, could not make lega
contracts, but the courts had decided that &
,in~o marriage became valid by cohabitatior
as man and wife after the emancipation
proclamation went into effect in 1864. The
case thus turned on the question of fact
whether the pair had cO-habited or not, as
shown by the evidence. The jury rendered
a verdict of not guilty.
In the Criminal Court of Louisville
KY, last Friday, Thomas Crittenden, a sor
of ex-United States Marshal Crittenden
and grandson of John j. Crittenden, the
noted Kentucky statesman, was sentenced
to three years in the penetentiary for kill
ing negro boy named Rose Mosby, at An
chorage, Kentucky. Crittenden is a wild
reckless youth, continually getting into
trouble. The negro had testified in court
against him, and when they next met
Crittenden killed him with shot gun
The sentenced man is related to the Gov.
ernor of Missouri, and on account of his
family, the best legal talent of the State
defended him. The case has attracted much
attention here. 1t was doubtful if the jury
would convict Crittenden for the murder o
the negro and the decision was watched
with intense interest.
A Greenville, Miss, dispatch of Satur'
day says: For several days past the weather
has been unfavorable for the safety of the
levees. Yesterday news reached here that
early in the morning a crevasse occurred on
the lower end of the levee in front OF
Hughes's place in Bolivar county. thirty.
five miles above Greenville. The levee is
very large one, and the break is $50 feet
wide, and is enlarging. The plantations
behind will be overfowcd. The water will
then flow through Clear and Shell Lakes
into Phalia Bayou. Last Thursday two
breaks occurred in Columbia levee in AR
kansas, twelve miles above Greenville. The
plantations in that vicinity will undouot.
edly be overflowed. The river has been al
stand still for the past three days, and is
now five inches higher than last year, and
ten inches lower than in 1882.
- The latest novelty in Paris is private
circus, which is owned and managed by NJ
Molier The arena, which is as large as
that of the public establishment of the same
kind in the Champs Elysees, presents the
appearance Of the square of some Spanish
city, the spectators occupying the places o
the windows on the balconies of the sur
rounding houses, and the effect is heighten
ed when, as on the first night, these balloon
les are crowded with the prettiest women ir
the capital, escorted to the evenings en-
tertainment by the most distinguished rep
resentatives of the Paris clubs. The troupe
is composed of amateurs, professionals be
ing excluded, and includes a number O
horsemen and horseWomen, gymnasts ant
clowns, nearly all of them NJ. Molier':
own pupils. The proprietor himself ride
the mettlesome horses that he has ha(
the patience to train.
The greatest storm this season in the
Northwest occurred on the 9th ultimt
4 St. Paul, Mimi, dispatch says: @, On the the
the snow has not drifted much, and the
main line was not obliged to run snow
plows to-day. The branches were not oper
for business and the trains on the main linz