Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-06-05
Straps and fatts.

the QOllar, the nnanClal cOnQlClOn OF The
United States is pretty solid.
- The Northern Methodist Church Confer
ence has adopted resolutions discountenanc-
ing divorce except for adultery. A resolu-
tion to abolish the color line in churches and
whelming majority over slight opposition
Fifty thousand dollars have been appro-
priated by the managers of the New Or,
allowing colored men to make special eX-
hibit of their progress in the arts, manu-
factures and the other forms of industry.
II Miss Maude Crowley, daughter of EX-
Congressman Crowley, of Lockport, n. Y,
died on Sunday of last week, aged 19. 1t
is said she was engaged to Allan Arthur,
President Arthur's son, who broke the en-
gagement, which resulted in melancholy
which fastened her death.
A man in Delaware stole an umbrella
and his sentence is to pay the costs of prose
cution, a fine of $6, one hour in the pillory,
twenty lashes and three years in Jail. If he
had developed a bank or sWindling broker
concern, his punishment would have been
much less. Perhaps he would not have been
punished at all.
The court of inquiry Investigating the
conduct of the Fourth Ohio Regiment dur
ing the riot at Cincinnati, has reported.
They find charges against nearly all the Of
ficers, and recommend the disbandment OF
the regiment, and that the officers against
whom there are no charges be taken as the
nucleus OF a new regiment.
- The war of the circuses has taken its
way Westward, one Snowman in Nebraska
warning the farmers of that State against a
rival as "terrible pestilence," and as the
proprietor of show composed OF the
worst and most desperate organized band of
thieves, cut-throats, plunderers and house
breakers, candy butchers, fakirs, gamblers
and three-card monte men,"
A special dispatch to the Charlotte o.
seruer says that Archie Ormes, ticket agent
of the Airline Railroad at Atlanta, went
out to Ponce De Leon Springs, three miles
from the city Saturday afternoon, and shot
himself in the head. When found he was
still breathing, but he cannot survive. The
cause for the deed is supposed to be financial
troubles and fast living. ..:
Col. J. o. P. Burnside, disbursing clerk
of the postofice department, wasarrested in
Washington last Thursday charged with
He waived preliminary examination, and
failing to give bail for his appearance before
the Criminal Court, he was locked up in jail
on Friday night. Remarkable to say, the
Government required bond in the full
amount of his defalcation.
The business failures throughout the
country reported for the week ending last
Friday to r. G.. Dun & Co., number for the
United States Isl and for Canada 26; total
III, as compared with a total of 231 the pre-
vious week-a decrease of IS failures-show-
ing lessened number of business casualties
in every section of the country except Can
ada, where there were six more failures than
the week before.
William Brown, colored, was hanged
last Friday morning at Belleville, LII. HE
murdered a peddler named Lakigne, poor,
crippled Russian exile, whom he induced
ry 26th. James Tucker, colored, was hang
ed at Paris, Arkansas, on the same day, in
the presence of 10000 persons, for the muir.
der of Aaron Parker, on the 9th of last
December.
In the meeting of the funeral directors
association at Pittsburg, Thursday, the fol-
lowing question arose: "When man and
wife are buried together on which side OF
the husband should the wife be buried" to
which R. B. Bringhurst, of Philadelphia,
replied: "The one who ruled the house in
life ought to have the best position, but as
in weddings the wife leans on the left arm
of the husband, it is advisable to follow out
the rule by placing her on the left in death" ."
Two hundred and seventy Mormon i'm
migrants, in charge of twelve missionaries,
arrived at New York Sunday on the steam
ship Awa1aia, and left for Utah Wednesday
evening. The immigrants are principally
from Germany. Most of them are in fami-
lies, there being but few single women.
Nearly all the men were farm laborers IN
u q rfI O n
in the party. A large proportion are chill
dren, who appear quite healthy. The Nor
mons seem to be all thrifty and are we'll
provided with luggage.
Another heavy frost occurred at Wash
ington last Thursday night, being the third
in successive nights, doing heavy damage
to corn, oats, potatoes, garden vegetables,
truck farms and especially tobacco. Ice a
quarter of an inch thick is reported in Can
ada, and freezing temperature is reported
throughout Western Pennsylvania, Indi-
ana, illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. AT
Albany, N. Y, ice half an inch thick form
edduring the same night Nearly all the
vegetables and small fruits were destroyed.
Some of the farmers protected their straw
berry beds by keeping fires burning near
them all night.
- The Department ofState at Washington
having been informed that the Chinese gov
ernment proposed to enter a silk loom in
operation as an exhibit at the New Orleans
Exposition, the question arose as to wheth-
er the Chinese restriction did not prohibit
the landing of operators on the ground that
they were laborers. The question was re-
ferred to the treasury department, and Sec
retary Folger informed the Secretary OF
State that the Chinese operators would be
admitted without molestation, with the un-
derstanding that they will not remain in
the country longer than necessary to display
their exhibit.
- The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, to be
erected in the harbor of New York will be
the highest in the world. The Colossus OF
Rhodes is only 130 feet high Nero, by Ze-
nodore, is only lis feet high; Arminius on
the Grotenburg, near Dermould in West
phalia, measures 80 feet, and st. BOrromeo
by Cerani, at Aroma on Lake Magglore, Is
but II feet high. The statue is now stand
ing in the court of Messrs. Gavet-Gauthier,
the founders, on view for the Parisians, who
contributed $250,000 for its purchase. The
figure measures Ill feet from the heel to the
top of the head the head is IA feet high
the eye is two feet broad, and the nose is
feet inches. The forefnger is feet long.
The statue contains SO tons of copper and
120 tons of iron, and consists of 300 separate
pieces. 1t will be ready for shipment from
France as soon as the pedestal is completed.
"A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says So large a number OF congressman
are absent at Chicago and elsewhere, or
paired with absent members, that there is
very little prospect of the presence of vot-
ing quorum to dispose of important contro-
verted measures in the House of Represen-
tatives before the end of the week. The un.
finished business in the Senate is the Utah