Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-26
Straps and fafts.

A new act OF the Alabama legislature
makes it misdemeanor, punishable with
500 fine, for person to get drunk and ap-
pear in any place except his own house, in
the presence of one or more persons.
Several members of the Canadian Gov
ernment claim to possess alarming informa-
tion in regard to plots to blow up the public
buildings at Ottawa, in consequence of which
guards have been placed about the Senate
and admission is denied to strangers.
1t is positively stated that Mormons will
build church in Rutherford county, n. &.
Two of their elders will conduct it while
three others work as missionaries in North
Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina and East
Tennessee.
Mac Barbour, of Raleigh, n. c., aged 81
years, while attempting to board train at
the Central depot there, fell under the
wheels. His left leg was cut off at the hip
and his skull fractured. He died of the in
juries in thirty minutes.
Considerable CONSERVATION has been Gre
ated in Philadelphia by the discovery that
a Russian butcher domiciled there has been
using canine flesh as sausage compound.
The indignation was greatly enhanced
when it was learned that he had passed fat
Newfoundland dogs off as veal.
- It takes $3S0000 per annum to pay the
salaries Of United States Senators, and over
S2,OOOO0O for salaries of Representatives,
exclusive of mileage for both, amounting
to $150,0O0, and salaries for clerks, messen-
gers and others connected with the Nation
al Legislature -s617 900 more.
- Skimmings coffee is the latest deception
in articles of drink that has been exposed.
Skimming coffee is an article that has sweat
ed aboard ship, and it has rich, brown
color, but it is wholly decayed. 1t sells for
olo a,,l l.
ers take it and mix it with sound coffee,
after drying it.
Says the Shelby, n. c., A,rOra: The
irrepressible Amos Owens, aged 67, returned
last week from his third sojourn in Albany
penitentiary, having served eighteen months
each time. He said it was not very cold at
Albany last week-ice only four feet thick.
He is rare bird, and Rutherford has not
many like him.
A Pittsburg man who spoke disrespect-
fully of General Grant on Monday evening,
was dragged into stable by the crowd, a
rope put round his neck, the end drawn
over beam and the man lifted off his feet
twice. He was soon out of breath and blue
sent home in carriage.
- The Rev. Mr.. Marshall, of Georgia, has
named his daughter "Euaula," and she
has been christened. Now, all too late, he
has found that "Eufaula' means "Wet
Dog" and he has no more faith in melodi-
Gus Indian names. Both he and his poor
daughter, who must travel through life thus
handicapped, unless the Legislature should
interfere, have our profoundest sympathy.
The Lincolnton, n. c., Press tells. the
following: Last week gentleman called
on the Clerk of the Superior Court. He had
travelled all the way from Tennessee to look
after his interest in an estate in this county.
On investigation the Clerk found that, after
a final settlement with the administrator
of that estate, there was a balance in his
hands, belonging to the heirs, of one cent.
A writerin the St. Louis Medical Journal
says it won't do all the time to sneer at
what are called old women's remedies. "In
1920" he says, ''while practicing in Madison
county, Illinois, was induced by the rep
reservations of an old woman to make the
trial, in dysentery and diarrhoea, of table
spoonful doses of pure cider vinegar, with
the addition of sufficient salt to be notice
able, and it acted so charmingly that have
never used anything else."
- It is estimated that CTS ZOO, 900 bushels
of corn remain in farmers hands. The
New York Tribune says "This ought to
insure an abundant supply of cheap animal
food for the country during the coming
year. But unhappily the influence of the
speculative markets is such that it is by no
will be commensurate with the supply OF
food for animals.
The business failures throughout the
country during the week ending last Friday,
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.'s mercan-
tile agency, number for the United States
231, and for Canada q, total 25S, against
2S2 the week previous. More than two
thirds of the whole number in this country
are furnished by Southern, Western and
Pacific States. In New York city the fail
ures are very light and in Canada, they are
decreasing.
Joseph S. Miller, the new Commissioner
of Internal revenue, has been twice State
Auditor of W. Va, and has just completed
his second term. His nomination is heartily
endorsed in his State, regardless of party.
He is thirty-seven years of age, but has
been active in political life since attaining
his majority, and is conceded to be man
of excellent executive ability. Miller's
competitor for the appointment was Phil
Thompson, of Kentucky.
Judge Speer, of Georgia, has removed
one of the deputy marshals in his court and
sentenced him to ten days in jail for non
performance of duty. He was severely lee
tured for not performing his duty as mar
shal in summoning some jurymen. Not
withstanding the censure of the press gener-
ally in the appointment of Emory Speer
as District Judge, he has been highly COM
plimented for his department on the bench
during his first court.
- A special from Marshall, Mo-, says
"Immense damage has been done by an
ice gorge overflow at Waverly, Mo. A
party which left here in skiffs with provis-
ions to relieve the distress, found Mrs.
Judge Thomas on hill, where she had
been two days and nights without shelter.
They also rescued the Van Meter family
from the second story Of their house, where
they had been for two days without food.
A dozen persons and many cattle have
been drowned.
Since life insurance companies were in
troduced into this country in 1872, the COM
panies have handled nearly S15,000,00O ,00O
of the money of the policy holders, while
the net losses by the failed companies have
been S25 5000, 900, or one-siXth of l per cent.
Up to date policy holders have paid to the
companies in the aggregate s., 49,, $50, 600.
The companies have paid in death losses,
endowments and dividends $4,000, ,OOO, 900.
Their present assets are nearly $500, ,0O0, 900.
What the companies have paid out, with
their present assets, exceeds the amount
received from policy holders by $l3S S,0S4, ,l64.
The descendants of the Huguenots all
over the world are preparing to celebrate, on
the 22d of October, the two hundredth ami
versary of the revocation Of the edict of
Nantes. The Huguenot society of America
is moving in the matter and has issued a
circular inviting all perons of Huguenot
lineage to join in the coming cOmmemora-
ton. The South Carolina HuguenGts met in
Charleston on the 10Th to take action. Orig