Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27
MERE.MENTION.


Cleveland leads Blaine on the popular
vote about 100, ,OOO ...''''''.Joseph +. Brown
has been reelected United States Senator
from Georgia. "Governor-elect Scales,
of North Carolina, has accepted the COM
plimentary escort rendered to him by the
Hornets Nest Riflemen, of Charlotte, ut his
Inauguration in January next. ''''''''''The
Presidential vote in Georgia was as follows:
Cleveland 9l,S67, Blaine 1864, Butler 125,
and st. John 1S4. .''.'''.''.Patrick Henry's
great-grand-son is a drunken pauper in q
workhouse. .'.''.''''A lawyer in TOcoa, Ga,
received as a fee for services rendered, five
bushels of apples and one bushel of chest
nuts. '''''''''This country uses G5O, 600 bushels
around Mt. Etna, in Sicily, yielded this
wine from which is of a very superior quail
ty.........The next President will have the
appointment of two Major-G Generals and six
Brigadier- Generals. ''''''''Mr. Wait, of Con-
necticut, will be the oldest member of the
next National House of Representatives.
He is seventy .'''''''"In the consumption
of SOAP per capita the United States leads.
Italy is last on the list. ''''''''Ihe Presidents
message and the annual reports of the heads
of departments, were the subject of discus
sion at Cabinet meetings last week. ''.''"'l If
Congressman Singleton, of Mississippi, lives
to take his seat in the next Congress, it will
be the ninth Congress of which he has been
a member. ...''""General Fremont admins
tered an oath to his men, when famine
stricken on the Great American Desert, to
die rather than commit cannibalism.' ''"''Du-
ring the year Massachusetts, has paid her
militia s73,5l7 for special duty, spring and
fall drills and camp duty. .''''''''' Missouri
raised this year very nearly 30 600, 600 bush
els of corn, the largest crop ever produced
in the State. ."..'."Well executed ten-dollar
counterfeit notes upon the Cincinnati Ma
tional Bank, of Cincinnati, o., are in circu-
lation. .'.'...'.S Since 1900 the total apprOpria-
tions for the erection and maintenance ofthe
White House to date amount to Sl,10O,-
600. ..."'"HOn. Thomas \. Hendricks, Vice
Presdent-elcct, addressed the people Of
Brooklyn last Thursday, delivering II char
acteristic address on the results to follow the
Democratic victory. From Brooklyn he
went to Albany to visit the President
elect '.'''''.A clerical error in making up
the returns from the eighth ward in Chicago
has been discovered, which gives the Sena-
torshp to Il Democrat instead of Repub-
lican, and gives the Democrats the Illinois
Legislature on joint ballot. The Legisla-
ture is to choose a United States Senator to
succeed Gen. John \. Logan. .'''''''''There is
movement in Ohio to change the time of
the State election from October to NOvem-
ber ''''''.''A meeting of Democrats took
place at Caldwell, y. j., the birth place of
Presidcnt-elect Cleveland, last Friday, and
warmly recommended Gen. Mcclellan for
the position of Secretary Of War. '''''A
severe shock Of earthquake was felt in pOr-
tions of New Hampshire last Monday.
THE L0AvES AND FIsIIES.-NIr. Thomas
II. Stall is a candidate for postmaster of
the city of Greenville.
"NIany Democrats" are urging the ap
pOintmcnt of Mrs. j. \. Law as pOstmistreSs
at Darlington.
There are said to be ten applicants for the
postmastership of Orangeburg.
The Edgetield .Nonifer charges the host of
aspirants for Federal Offices that "all who
have rendered service to the party cannot
be fed from the public crib"
The Lancaster Letiger says: Already as
prants are making known their desire for
the appointmCnt to fill the Office OF post
master at this place. Several petitions are
on the rounds. There are only ten known
candidates for the position, but the cry is
"stll they come"
There are four aspirants for the Office Of
postmastcrat Greenwood, Abbeville county.
The following is partial list of those who
are mentioned for Federal appointments in
this State: For United States district at
torney, Col. j. l.. Orr, of Greenville, Hon.
w. c. Bcnet, of Abbeville, Hon. l.. +. YOU
mans and COL J. G. Haskell, of Columbia,
Col. Robert Altrich, of ,Barnwell, w. st. j.
Jervey, Esq, of Charleston, and Major
Hart. of TOrkvlle. Capt. j. II. Brooks is