Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-19

MISSISSIPPI, Ten Ill leAtS, elSlI III "a huH
sas and ten in Tennessee. The date IS the
same as last year in Florida and Alabama.
The average of the dates reported here are
Virginia, December 6 North Carolina, No
vember %; South Carolina, November ~;
Georgia, November 10; Florida, Novem-
Der 30; Alabama, November %; Texas,
November2S; Arkansas, December 4 ; Ten
nessee, November 30
From returns Of the product compared
with last year an aggregate crop of about
five and two thirds Of a million bales is in
dicated, or about 80 per cent. of the crop OF
last year, and but slightly differing from the
indications of the December report. The
comparison is as follows, by States: Nir-
ma 1l2, Georgia 1O1, Florida 102, Alabama
LOG, Mississippi 9S, Louisiana 81, Texas 80,
Arkansas 80, Tennessee l01. In West Missls-
sippi there appears to be reduction in the
product, notwithstanding the increase or
acreage.
RE.MENTION.
The North Carolina Legislature has in
creased the number of judicial districts in
that State from nine to twelve''''''"The
outlook is encouraging for the extension OF
the Carolina Central railway from Shelby,
n. c., to Spartanburg, the Cranberry Iron
Works and into Tennessee. '''''''' Alexander
Moulton, who was Governor Of Louisiana
in 1912, and in 1861 President of the Seces-
sion Convention held at Baton Rouge, died
at Lafayette, La, last Thursday, aged
81 years. '.'....'.A bill has passed the Arkan-
sas Legislature prohibiting baseball playing
on Sunday, under penalty of heavy
fine. .''''''''A high license liquor saloon bill
is pending in the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture. .'....'"Mahdi means Messiah. The au-
tocrat of the Soudan is religious impos-
tor '''''''''Gen. Mcclellan, like Gen. Han
cock, has declined to be chief marshal Of the
inaugural parade in Washington. .'''''''''On
Thursday, the President addressed Especial
message to Congress, recommending an ad-
ditional appropriation to relieve the New
rassment. ..:..'The Blockley almshouse near
Philadelphia, in which 6S4 lunatics were
confined, was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night, and eighteen of the inmates per-
ished. ':''.''A Sunday-school teacher asked
little girl of her class if she had been bap-
tized. "Yes." said the little GIRL "tWo
times" ''Two times! Why how could that
be ?" exclaimed the teacher. "It didn't
take the first time," said the child ''''''''' At
Mormon conference recently held in Glas-
Cow it was stated that the total number of
Mormons in Scotland at present was All, and
that elders were actively engaged in mis-
sion work in various districts of the coun-
try. y.''''''"'Supposing prayer on formal
occasion is read from printed slip and a
typographical error completely ruins the
proper sense, will Providence receive the
petition as read, or as originally written?
| The students in Western theological SEMI
| mary argued for hours about this, and the
final vote was tie. '''''''''The Associate Re-
formed Synod of the South reports the fol-
| lowing statistics: Total number of members,
6,727; total amount of salaries paid, $685.
90916; total amount of contributions, in
Guiding seminary endowment, $64, ,S5l.76;
contributions per capita 1888. ''''.''" Francis
A. DreXel, the senior of the two brothers at
the head of the DreXel banking houses in
Paris, New York and Philadelphia, died in
the latter city last Sunday afternoon. '''''''ln
Joint session of the Illinois Legislature, last
Saturday, the roll was called for vote for
the United States Senator. The speaker
voted for Morrison, which was the only
vote cast. Twenty two Republicans and nine
Democrats were absent. '''''''.'The World s
Cotton Convention adjourned last Saturday
| to hold its next annual meeting at Charles
ton, S. .'''''''"El Mahdi officially announces
the death of Gen. Gordon, while on the 9TH
er hand hopes Of his safety are yet enter
tained in England. .'''''''"Dr. Hembold, of
"Buchu" fame, who has been an inmate of
Norristown, Pa, hospital for the insane du-
ring the last three and half years, was dis
charged last Friday. .'.'.'.'"On Sunday last,
officers discovered two negroes obstructing
the track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio Railroad, near Luling, Texas,
for the evident purpose of wrecking an ap-
preaching train. In arreSting the mIscre-
ants one negro was instantly killed and the
other was mortally wounded and afterwards
died.
THE SNOW BLOCKADE.-A Chicago dis
patch of Monday SAYS: The weather here
and throughout the Northwest generally to-
day is again intensely cold. At o'clock
this morning in Chicago the mercury indi-
Gated 150 below zero. The weather is clear,
but the air is filled with particles of snow
that are being blown around by the keen
wind. Storm signals are flying and fur
ther drop of 100 in the temperature is pre-
dicted.
At Omaha the mercury is 130 below, at
St. Paul 100 below, at Des Moines 1O' below,
at Dubuque lS0 below, Fargo, Dakota, 2S'
below; at Winnipeg $40 below, Chicago
and Alton, Louisville, New Albany and
Chicago and several Of the smaller lines are
bockaded. The former road sent out one
train about noon, but expressed little hope
of being able to get through. The Grand
Trunk has refused consignments of freight
to-day. The chief trouble is South and
Southwest Trains West and North are
nearly on time.
Dispatches from st. Louis say all Chicago
| trains out of st. Louis have been abandoned
on account of the snow blockade.
Trains on the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad arrived seven hours late.
All trains East of the Mississippi River are
also late. The Wabash, Illinois Central
and Chicago and Alton roads have stopped
running their trains for the present.
THE GALLowS.-Dr. l.. NJ. Beach was
hanged at Hollidaysburg, Pa, last Thurs
day, for the murder Of his wife on April I,
last. He was perfectly cool; slept well the
preceding night, and ate hearty breakfast
and dinner. The time for the execution was
set for 1.3O P. NJ, on account of an express
wish of the culprit that he should take din
ner before being hanged. His neck was
broken by the fall. All the prisoners in the
Jail were admitted to the yard to witness the
execution.
Richard Treuke was hanged in the corri-
dor of the Philadelphia, Pa, county prison
at 1921 on Thursday morning, for the MUIR
der of Augusta Zimm, his friends wife and
his own paramour. He was in mortal ter
ror and nearly tainted before reaching the
scaffold. His neck was dislocated by the
drop and he was dead in six minutes.
On the same day, Elijah Parker, who
murdered Lewis Fox in December, and
Rust johnson, who murdered John Wall,
in August last, were hanged on one scatfod,
at Little Rock, Arkansas. johnson declar-