Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-05-15
Straps and fatts.


- At the Westminster kennel show in
Madison Square Garden, New York, a "dog
dentist" has put out a sign, indicating that
dogs teeth may be filed with gold, or
that when he gets very old and his teeth
drop out he may be supplied with set of
false teeth.
AT New Laredo, Mexico last Thursday,
Mexican officials, supported by Mexican
soldiers, took from Milmo Bros bank $10,-
600 in silver claimed to be due the govern
ment, in spite of the protest of Mr.. Dave
Milmo, an American citizen, and part own
er of the bank.
- In criminal case on trial in San Jose,
CAL, Mrs. Lambert was called as witness
for the prosecution, but refused to testify,
saying that as she was denied the right of
citizenship she would assume none of its
duties. The Court sent her to Jail for con,
tempt Mrs. Lambert is physician, and
firm believer in woman's rights.
A colored woman died in a dentists
chair at Albany, Ga, from the administra-
ton of chloroform. While her body was
being carried out Mrs. Williams, of Acree,
with seven faulty teeth, came in and said :
'Give me chloroform and pull away. Only
one in thousand dies, and the rest of this
thousand is safe nOw."
Decatur, Georgia, is quaint old town,
WHICH, loiIS years eSo, ieiuoeu w st,AU" -"
railroad station to be built there, and thus
made way for Atlanta six miles further up.
The town Council passed two ordinances the
other night, one forbidding children to play
marbles on the streets and the other allow
ing hogs to run at large.
james Winter, q farmer, was stung to
death by buffalo gnats near Helena, Ark,
a few days ago. While he was at work in a
field the gnats swarmed up and enveloped
him. Their stings becoming unbearable, he
started for home at full speed. All reme-
dies failed to relieve him, and ne died In a
short time in great agony, his face and neck
having turned almost black.
WIN. Preston Johnson, son of Gen. AL
bert Sidney Johnson, is reported by the
Rev. Rev. Henry NJ. Field to have said re-
Gently, Shiloh being the subject of the con-
yersation "When my father was shot and
fell from his horse he had gained great
victory and if he had not been killed at
that critical moment, in two hours more ne
would have captured General Grant and his
whole army"
The House judiciary committee has di-
rected favorable report to be made upon
the joint resolution proposing an Amend
ment to Article IA of the Constitution. The
amendment consists of the insertion OF the
word "nativity," and makes the first Sec
ton read as follows: "The right of citizens
of the United States to vote shall not be de-
MED by the United States or by any State
on account of nativity, race, color or pre-
vious condition of serVitude."
New York is the centre of the cigar
making trade. She has nearly 400 factories,
and turns out 1,000,00O,000 cigars a year.
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois rank after
New York. There were made in this country
last year SLIT, ,860,952 cigars, about forty for
every pound of tobacco used. About 35, ,00O,-
600 were imported, thus making a total of
1922, ,952 or sixty for every man, woman
and child in the United States and 25O for
every man over 81 years of age.
- The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday as
reported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 159, and for Canada So, total
of 191 failures, as compared with total of
179 the preceding week. an increase OF II.
The condition of different sections of coun-
try, so far as failures are concerned, remains
about the same, and there is nothing of spe-
cial note outside of the important suspen-
sions which have occurred in New York
city during the last few days.
A mass convention of all industrial in
terests will be held at Chicago, commenc-
ing on the 21st instant, for the purpose of
organizing National Industrial Congress
to consider the best means Of promoting the
most harmonious and most rapid develop
ment of the latent industries Of the country.
A committee of prominent citizens of Chi
cago has undertaken the management of
local details necessary to insure the comfort
and convenience of persons in attendance at
eth Congress.
WIN. D. Hardin, eX-Sheriff of Crittenden
county, Arkansas, was shot and killed on
the 9Th instant, at Marion, near Memphis,
Tenn, by James Murray, the latter being
mortally wounded in the melee. Hardin
was desperado, having killed one man,
and has been engaged in several bloody af-
fairs. The difficulty between Hardin and
Murray grew out of a lawsuit. Murray
died after lingering six hours. The dead
bodies of both men were taken to Memphis
for interment.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
has rendered decision declaring unconsti-
tutional the law passed by the last Legisla-
ture, providing for an election of registrars
and Judges of election by boards of three
members, chosen by that body, for each city,
town and county in the State, because it is
required of members of said boards to be
free holders. This decision makes the elec-
ton of registrars and judges by these boards
takes the whole election machinery out OF
the hands of the Democrats and replaces it
where it was before the passage Of the law,
in the hands of the Coalitionists.
- The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will soon send out call TO
prayer, in view of the Presidential cam
paign, addressed to the Christian people OF
America, and fixing Tuesday, May q, as
the day. Each hour has special subject
assigned, including prayer for pastors and
editors, "that they may lead the people
away from dead issues and toward that of
national constitutional amendment pro-
hibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors
as drink" for party leaders, 'that their
platform may recognize this issue and their
candidate be one whose habits shall be an
example to young men,"
In the Southern Baptist Convention at
Baltimore last Saturday morning, J. G. G..
Black, of Georgia, reported nominations for
officers and Board of Managers of the For
eign and Home Missions. The officers of
both boards were reelected, except very
few unimportant changes. A resolution
commencing the school enterprises at Sal
tillo was adopted, after an address from
Rev. w. D. Powell, missionary at that
place. Rev. E. F. Baldwin, of North Car
olina, spoke with reference to the establish
ing of a mission at Rubillyea, province of
Algeria, where he had recently baptized a
Scotch Presbyterian missionary. The time
and place for the next convention was fixed
at Augusta, Ga, on Wednesday before the
second Sunday in May, 1885.
A Richmond dispatch of last Saturday
says: The formal opening of the Veterans
Fair for the benefit of the home proposed to
be built for x-Confederates will take place
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