Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The amount of counterfeit paper money
now in circulation is said to be less than at
any time in the last twenty years.
- The war between the steamship and
railway companies has brought steerage
passage between Europe and America down
to SO, and railroad fare between New York
and Chicago to 81.
The Senatorial contest in New York re-
vived the fact that Mr. Evarts once took
railroad men for a short opinion, which was
at the rate of $566 word.
The New Jersey State prison report says
it will not do for 900 convicts to be unem-
ployed, as it would drive most of them
crazy. The Legislature abolished convict
labor last year.
- The total of the undisputed State debt
of Arkansas, principal and interest, amounts
to 81, $685. more than one half Of which
is interest, no interest having been paid on
it since 1872. The retiring Governor Berry
in his farewell message to the legislature
urges that steps be taken to settle this debt
The longest bridge in the world crosses
Lake Ponchartrain, at New Orleans, and
is twenty-five miles in length. 1t is trestle-
work on piles, and is made of cypress wood,
which was first saturated with creOsote oil,
which renders it impervious to moisture
The Hon. William Parsons, of Dublin,
that until the marriage of the present Queen,
no English nobleman travelled on a railway
in England. He sent his baggage by mail,
but travelled by coach, so that he might not
meet.tradesmen on the same level.
Left-handed penmanship is now taught
in number of American schools. The
method of instruction is to make the pupil
write his name in pencil and then 60 over
it with pen held in his left hand. After
doing this for some time the writer is able
to write his signature without the aid Of the
pencied copy. This is kept up until sutfi-
cient degree of proficiency is obtained.
Near the village of Richmond, Mo-,
lives David Whitner, one of the three men
who testified on oath that they beheld the
angel of the Lord bring the plates from
which the book of Mormon was written,
and deliver them in the hands of Joseph
Smith, the Mormon prophet, and it was in
Whitners keeping that this original manu-
script remained for many years.
The agitation against landlordism has
ally more serious there than in Ireland. At
a meeting held in London recently, Henry
George addressed 10000 workmen. Pam
phlets were circulated among the crowd
headed "Blood, Bullets and Bayonets," and
resolutions passed demanding "the equal
rights of man in the elements which the
Creator has provided"
- An illustration Of the way in which
town may be completely blOtted out by q
change in the tide of traffic, says an eX-
change, is shown in the fate which has over
taken Lisbon, Ga, which few years ago
was at the head of navigation on the Savan-
nah River. 1t had thirty stores, and did a
f1ourishing business. Now there is not a
single house left to mark the spot where
the old town stood.
"A. B. Wilson, the inventor of the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, has
been sent to the insane asylum hopeless
wreck in mind and body. The cause of
this sad ending of a career that might have
been glorious is drink. Unable to stand the
prosperity that has come from his inven-
tion and raised him from a poor mechanic
to rich man, he contracted the habit that
has ruined him.
- Statistics show that Ohio heads the MUIR
der list for 1884 with 1S9. Texas is good
second with 1S4. Texas we may account
for, but Ohio is one of the unaccountable
in any way and everything, from politics to
pig killing. Illinois makes the best show
ing in proportion to population, having only
G3 murders last year, Notwithstanding she
makes more whisky than any State in the
Union. This seeming inconsistency is eX-
planned away by the logical conclusion that,
knowing ali about how whisky is made,
her people know better than to drink it.
A sensation was produced at Rock ford,
Illinois, last Thursday, by the arrest of
Gibson Cooper, of Rockford, and William
Larson, of Shirland, on the charge of COM
plicity in the murder of Marshal Pritchard,
collector of taxes of Cherry Valley, in jan
uary, 1879. The arrests were made on in
formation furnished by Jas. Bana, forger
in the State penitentiary, who confessed to
the Judge of the circuit court at Rockford,
and claims to have been an eyewitness to
the murder. His testimony duplicates two
other persons and is very explicit. The
murder was for money, and heretofore there
has been no clue to the perpetrators.
Postmaster General Hatton has sent to
the chairman of the House committee on
post Offices and postroads the draft of bill
providing for a reduction Of postage on
second class matter, as newspapers mailed
by the publishers from two cents per pound
to one cent per pound. 1t is provided on
the draft that this rate shall not apply to
the circulation Of sample copies general
ly, although the publisher may twice a year
circulate sample copies, not to exceed in
number full circulation of the paper at
the date of mailing. The measure proposed
is substitute for the bill introduced in
Congress by Senator Brown, which did not
embody the restrictions upon the circula-
tion Of sample copies.
1t is somewhat remarkable, says the De-
troit Free Press, that the religious papers
and the theatre managers are, for once, IN
accord. They both agree that roller skating
rnks are demoralizing to the community.
The managers, especially in the cities, COM
plain because they keep people away, from
the theatres; the religious papers and cler-
gy because in the country they keep people
away from the prayer meetings. The New
York Christian Adyocdte says that ''the
craze is a direct antagonist Of all religious
efforts, foe to genuine social life and litera-
ry pursuits" In one congregation twelve
young ladies have lost all interest in relig-
ion, and formed associations very grievous
to their parents. 1t wants young people
who mean to be Christians to keep away
or 60 very little.
The following shocking story of human
depravity comes from Utica, n. Y, under
date of the 18th instant: "District Attorney
A. b. Steele and Coroner j. 0. Neilis, are
making legal investigations into the death
of William Druse. Frank Gates, his neph-
c", "uOSc aye 10 II, lltlo q luli SoliiCo-
sion, showing that the crime was committed
on December 18th, and that Mrs. Druse COM
PEELED him to shoot her husband a second
time after she had killed him, and to help
dispose of the body. They boiled itand fed
the flesh to the hogs, and burned the bones,
the ashes being buried in a swamp. The
boy says that the woman cut her husbands
head off and put it in the stove. The neigh
bors, who noticed an unusual odor and
smoke, were refused admittance to the