Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-24
Straps and fa&ts.

the disease ragged violently In tnaC clCy, anu
the Medical World recalls that tobacco work.
ers were also noticed to enjoy exemption
from attack during an epidemic at Am
sterdam.
During the first quarter of the present
wear there were 3Os suicides in the United
States, an increase of 104 over the CORES
ponding quarter of last year. Of this num-
ber 21S were males and 118 men with fami-
lies. There were 62 bachelors. Farmers
furnished the largest number and merchants
came next.
Ex-senator Chaffee, Republican, of Col
orado, believes the victors should hold the
offices: "The people" he says, ''are not in
favor of a system that makes a victory an
empty one. Let Mr.. Cleveland 60 ahead
and turn out all the Republican officehold-
ers he can. I, for one, will not object. We
will do the same when we get in, and make
no fuss about it either"
Jumbo, Barnum's famous elephant, was
Killed on the Grand Trunk Air Line track
half mile east of st. Thomas, Ont, last
Wednesday night. His keeper was lead
ing him along the track, when freight
train came up behind unnoticed and ran
him down. He was injured so badly that
he died in thirty minutes. The trick ele-
phaut, Tom Thumb, was also injured, MS
leg being broken.
Willis Dyar, who has been reporting
violators of the revenue law in Gum Log
and Red Hollow Districts of Franklin coun-
ty, Ga, for the past six months, was way
laid and shot through the head by some un,
known person as he was returning from a
mill, last Thursday evening. He was rid
ing in an OK cart when shot, and the OK
carried him to his home corpse. His son
went out to meet him and thought that he
was asleep, but soon saw the blood in the
cart and the hole through his fathers head.
For some time various attempts have
been made to run yacht race between the
American boat Puritan and the English
Genesta. The race was for the American
cup and has created much interest in New
York and other cities. The Puritan has
won the best two out of three, and conse-
uuently the cup will remain in America.
There seems to be great rejoicing in New
York and Boston over the victory OF the
Yankee craft, as much even as II 1t was
success at arms.
LAta Mormon conference held in London
Ion the 18th instant, President Penrose, OF
Salt Lake city, in an address boasted that
Mormonism was spreading in England,
Scotland and Wales, but admitted that
small results were being met with IN Ire
land. He said that there were six Nor
mon meeting-houses in London and several
thousand converts, and that two years ago
last January 200 Mormon emigrants had
been sent to Iowa and Utah. He predicted
the defeat of the United States Government
in it's efforts to suppress polygamy.
A Salt Lake City dispatch Of Friday
says: ''Bishop John Sharp, Utah director
of the Union Pacific, one of the Wealthlest
and most INFLUENTIAL Mormons, appeared in
court to-day and plead guilty to unlawful
cohabitation. He claimed that the plural
marriage in question was entered into De-
fore there was any statute against it, in
good faith, according to his religion, but ne
recognized the supremacy OF his adopted
country's laws and would live within them
henceforth. He said he would not advise
any one else to break the laws. He was fin
ed $500 and discharged on payment OF that
amount.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio are making
this year the strongest canvass that they
have ever managed in that State. DR..
Leanord, their candidate for Governor, has
addressed some very large meetings. The
main point of his speeches is that prohlbl-
ton is the foremost issue in American pol
itics, that it is to destroy, one of the two
great parties by absorbing the best men
in both of them, and that the consequence
will be the breaking up of the solid South.
This is in harmony with the private conver-
sation of the leading Prohibitionists here,
who express the belief that the South IS
ripe for just such movement, and VINO
have even gone so far as to name Coiqultt,
of Georgia, as their probable next candidate
for President.
"A Monmouth, Illinois, dispatch says the
spectacle of an enormous balloon sweeping
above the city few hundred 1eet @ drew 5ne
people from the stores and houses Thursday
afternoon until the streets were crowded.
The excitement became intense when short
ly the air ship swooped down and impaled
itself on the spire of the Catholic church,
near the public square. The balloon at
once collapsed, and a hundred citizens help
ed to drag the concern to the ground. The
basket was empty, barring torn shlrt
sleeve, cuff and some branches OF oak,
indicating collision with tree tops some
where and the possible death of the eronaut.
All efforts to discover where the balloon
came from and the name and fate OF It's
occupants have been unavailing.
"A correspondent of the San Francisco
Bulletin SAYS that Brigham Young, Jr., and
his agents are busy perfecting arrangements
for Mormon colonization in Mexico, and
that, too, within the zone wherein foreign
ers are prohibited from acquiring real estate.
They lease lands for ninety-nine years, and
introduce clause by which the lands are to
be released to the assignees or their heirs at
the expiration of the lease for tritling sum-
Had they selected land in Mexico beyond
the zone they could have obtained better
land and better terms, and the inference is
that they desire to erect territory OF their
own between Mexico and the United States
whereby they may, in the event of an Amer
ican purchase of the Northern States OF
Mexico, have a location outrivaling that OF
Salt Lake.
In the Constitutional Convention of Da-
kota last Friday, while considering. the
bill of rights in committee of the whole,
Hugh H. Campbell, of Yankton, introduced
a resolution to the effect that the ''people
have the right at all times to alter, reform
or abolish their form of government as they
may think proper" Judge Edgerton, presi-
dent of the Convention, protested against
the resolution, and fiery speeches were made
both for and against it. One speaker called
it the "Secession resolution" and 1T was
carried by vote of 45 to II. Pending a
motion to report the resolution to the Con-
yention, Judge Edgerton asked that the
matter be deferred till next day, but the mo-
ton to adjourn prevailed. The greatest
excitement prevails over the matter.
The south bound freight train on the
Richmond & Danville railroad on Wednes-
day, of last week, went through bridge
over Coddle Creek, fifteen miles east of
Charlotte, n. c. Twenty-three box cars,
with their contents of merchandise, were
totally wrecked, and two unknown men,
supposed to have been tramps, were killed.
Firemen James Davenport and Will OW-
ems went down in the wreck and were Sc
verely but not fatally injured. The force
of construction were repairing the bridge