Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-19


yield of spring wheat at al 100000 bushels
and that of winter wheat at 375, ,000, 900 BUSH
els for this season. South Carolina is put
down for $500, 900 bushels of winter.
-"How did you vote?" asked q reporter
of Southern delegate, after the Chicago
Republican Convention. 81 voted accord
ing to my convictions" "What were your
convictions?" ''That I could never get
another chance to make 800 as easily"
-JaDez Graul eloped with Mrs. Wilig
at Pine Valley, Pa, on Thursday, the wo-
man taking 5000 of her husbands money.
Her son followed the couple and shot Graul
dead. Mrs. Wilig's husband, who is an
invalid, is dying from the shock.
The Boston Herald, praising the manu-
featuring and agricultural industries of the
manufacturers who have dealings with both
sections of the country consider that the
South is just now better field for trade
than the West"
1t is stated on good authority that in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas
marvellous progress has been made in mate
rial development, and that the increase in
values in those States during the past four
years amounts to the immense sum of $780,
100000.
A Lynchburg, Va, dispatch says: In
Russell county, several miles away from
young negro on June 5th shot and killed
little white boy out of pure vicious caprice.
The negro was arrested and placed in Jail,
but last Friday masked men took him from
Jail and hanged him beside the public road.
- The International Sunday-school Con-
vention of the United States and the prov
inces began it's session in Louisville, KY,
on the morning of the 18th instant, with
over ], 200 delegates present. Hon. P. S.
Blake, Of Toronto, was made temporary
chairman, and an address of welcome was
and responses followed by n. S. Blake, DR..
Wharton, of Georgia, and Hon. H. M. Beck
er, Of California.
- The break of the Middletons' bank at
Washington was worse than Grant & Wards,
the examiner reporting that creditors can
not be paid mill on the dollar unless S40O,-
600 which has entirely disappeared, can be
traced and squeezed out of the Middletons.
Most of the accounts were kept in the heads
of the partners. Some of the money lost
was merely given them for investment or
transmission. The heaviest loss fell on
firm which had $4,000 deposited.
- The record of the Court of Inquiry in
the case of Judge Advocate General Swain
quiry is that the President has ordered a
court martial to try Swain. The court
gives its opinion that while it is not pre-
pared to say that any specific act developed
by the evidence is fraudulent, yet the evil
dence does show series of transactions dis
creditable to any officer in the army, and
which especially demands the severest con-
demhation when engaged in by an officer
holding the high position and peculiar rela-
70 &hn DIM OF Of in
army held by Brigadier-GeneralS Swain.
Justice Of the United States Supreme Court,
whose death occurred last week in New
York, was native of Culpeper county, Va,
of Quaker descent, born in 1904. He re-
moved to Ohio in 1929, where he became
prominent in the profession of law and in
public affairs, having been several times
elected to the Legislature and occupied 9TH
er public positions. In 1861 he was appoint
ed Associate Justice Of the U. S. Supreme
Court by President Lincoln, which position
he held till January, 1881, when he resign
ed on account of advancing years and fail
ing strength.
General Grants recent difficulties have
encouraged newspaper correspondent to
inquire into the lives of the various Presi-
dents after their retirement from office.
Washington, he finds went to Mount Yer
non and raised tobacco, and Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe followed his example at
their homes; John Adams returned to
Quincy and raised corn and cabbages;
John Quincy Adams followed his fathers
example; Jackson returned to the Hermit
age Van Buren went to his Kinderhook
farm Polk died few months after return
ing to Tennessee; Fillmore re-entered his
old law office at Buffalo; Buchanan pursued
agriculture at Wheatlands; Hayes lives on
his Ohio farm.
A desperate political fight was caused
by the announcement of Blaine'S nOmina-
tion at Liverpool, Pa. Three farmers who
were stalwart Republicans nsdenounced blaine
while drinking with a party in saloon.
Four Blaine men who were present resent
ed the language used, and words soon led to
blows. Others rushed in to stop the fight
and became involved in it, and pistols and
knives were introduced to enliven the oc-
casion. A shot extinguished the only light
in the place and thirty-fve maddened men
fought at random in the dark, shooting,
cutting and smashing chairs on each other.
When the cOmbatantS were at last elected
three men were found in dying condition
on the floor, two of the StalWarts and one
Blaine man. One of them had received
seven deep stabs.
The next President must get POI electoral
votes. The ''solid South" gives 153 votes
and New York 36. The candidate who can
carry the South and New York, there
fore, has a vote which, with the aid of Mas
sachusetts or Indiana, gives him majority.
New Jersey and Connecticut with New
York and the South would also make
majority. Hence it requires some of that
faith which can remove mountains and re-
set fractured arms to claim that Blaine can
be elected without the help of New York.
He can be, indeed, but he probably won't
be. If he were to carry New York, hoWev-
er he could disregard almost all of the doubt
full States, as in that case Massachusetts,,
Indiana, California and New Jersey could
vote with the South against him without
turning the scales.
Isaac A. Stanley, paying teller of the
National Bank of Commerce, at Cleveland,
Ohio, was arrested last Thursday evening
for embezzling 100000 from the bank. The
shortage was discovered Tuesday afternoon,
when Cashier Garretson counted the reserve
fund kept in a special apartment of the
vault, the combination of which was known
only to Garretson and Stanley. When ask
ed to explain the shrinkage, Stanley con-
feSsed that year ago he was troubled about
debt of $500 on his house and thought he
could take that sum from the reserve fund
without harm to any one, invest it in grain,
realize profit, pay off the mortgage on his
place and return the money. The invest
ment was unfortunate, and to cover his loss
he took more, and so on, until he had taken
100000. The directors ordered his arrest.
Stanley has assigned his property and his
speculative deals to the bank. The bank