Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-19
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wonder of our day."
Three italian murderers, Gilardo, AS
sero and Sylvester, were hanged at Chica-
90 last Friday. The crime for which they
suffered the extreme penalty is known as
the trunk murder. The body of the vic
tim was packed in trunk and shipped to
Pittsburg, where its contents were discov-
cred.
The Free Trade Convention at Chicago,
elected David A. Wells, President, and eight
Vice-Presidents, among them Capt. F. w.
Dawson, of South Carolina, and Henry
Watterson, Of Kentucky. Col. J. J. Dar-
gan, of South Carolina, was elected on the
National Committee.
A recent law suit in New Orleans may
throw some light upon the Louisiana lot
that the winning ticket for $150,000, last
December, was not sold. If the big prizes
are seldom sold, no wonder the lottery
makes money.
H. o. Flipper, once celebrated as the
colored cadet at West Point, who has been
engaged in engineering pursits in Chihua-
hua for the last two years, has gone to Sono-
ra as one of the engineers of the Sonora
Land Company, a Chicago company which
has the contract for surveying the north
western portion of that State.
- There are predictions that the Demo
Gratis will introduce into the House of Rep
resentatives bill to repeal the Civil Ser
vice Act, and that the Senate and the Presi-
dent will resist it, thus bringing on a fine
sauabble. The New York Sun scouts the
idea, saying that it would be folly for the
Democratic leaders to take such course.
"A Washington jury in the case of Rev.
Hicks, spiritual adviser of the assassin Gui-
teau, against the Ereaing Star Company for
$36,0O0 damages in publishing the state
ment that Hicks had negotiated for the
transfer of Guiteau's bones to the Medical
Museum for $4,000, rendered a verdict for
the plaintiff of one cent damages.
- In the elections which have been held
in various States the Democratic gain over
the vote given for Mr.. Cleveland was 49,
600. This shows whether the Democratic
Administration is making large gains or
not. In New York alone the gain was
1900, in Pennsylvania 3, 400 and in Vir-
ginia 10000.
A Salt Lake dispatch of the 11th says:
The action of ten of the apostles. of the
Mormon Church in communicating AL
bert Darlington, another apostle, for adul-
terry excited as much surprise here as in
the East and is as inexplicable to the Gen
tiles here. Nothing has been given out by
the church or can be learned further than
the bare fact of the accommodation. Car
rington is now in England.
There is, it appears, deficit of about
5000 tons, or about per cent. of the coffee
crop in Java this year. The finances of
the Netherlands Indies, which are already
in an involved state owing to the heavy
expenses connected with the useless Acheen
war for a succession Of years past, will feel
this sorely, although it is not more than
should be expected in the usual fluctuations
of harvests.
A terrible mistake was made last week
by a physician in Warsaw, Ohio. A young
woman was suffering with an eye affection.
An operation was decided upon, and the
patient put under the influence of chloro-
form, when one of the eyes was successfully
removed. When the patient recovered
consciousness it was found that the good
eye had been removed. The physician was
so overcome that he fed. Suit will be en-
tered at once for malpractice.
The terrors of smallpox continue almost
unabated in Montreal. From the beginning
of the outbreak to the end of Saturday, the
18th instant, 2,946 persons had died, of
whom only about $40 were over ten years
old, and only ninety-seven were Protestants.
Almost the entire mortality has been among
the French Roman Catholics, who have re-
sisted vaccination. The horrible sanitary
condition of the city has now given rise to
two other Scourges scarcely less fatality
phoid fever and diphtheria.
The Louisville Evening Times of last
Thursday contains the following editorial
proposition: "Seeing that the people for
whom he fought have virtually refused
to erect a monument to Grant, suppose
the South against whom he fought only
to be friend and protect them in the
hour of defeat, put her hand in her purse
and contribute the money to build pile
to the memory Of the hero, whose bosom
contained a heart that felt for her woes.
The Times will contribute to such fund.
Let's hear from the boys who wore the
step to set it properly on foot. What say
you, Johnny rebs?"
A New York letter says: General Phil
Sheridan thought that General Mcclellan
should have had military funeral. He
said that the absence of either sword or flag
from the coffin made him feel that "Little
Mac" was not getting soldiers deserts.
I understand that the funeral was in accor
dance with General McClellan's wishes. A
reminiscence of 1864 was recalled to me by
a remark of Sheridan. He said: II fought
in the valley to whip Mcclellan and to elect
Lincoln, which is the nearest / ever came
to participating in politics." 1t was Sheri-
dams victory over Early that turned the
tide in the Presidential election of that year,
which had been setting in favor of McClel-
Ian up to that time.
- Mrs. Martha Wilkerson, a widow about
40 years old, lived miles west Of Green's
boro, n. c., with her only child young
man of Is. The widow became infatuated
with a young bird man named Alsoph, who
worked for a neighbor, and was about to
marry him, but her son bitterly opposed
the match. He declared he would leave
home forever if the match took place. On
Saturday the mother and son had bitter
quarrel. On Sunday morning the neigh
bors found both mother and son dead on the
floor, each with bullet hole through the
head. 1t is not known who shot the other,
but it is supposed they agreed mutually to
end their existence.
A Portland, Me-, newspaper publishes
what it alleges to be true story about the
resurrection of man named Snyder in that
town. He was hurt by being thrown from
wagon fifteen months ago, was picked up
apparently dead and was buried by his
family. Since then anonymous communi-
cations have been received by members of
the family saying that Snyder was alive and
we'll. In consequence of these the grave
was opened and found to contain an empty
coffin. A few days ago he walked into his
house. He is reticent about his adventures
but says his injury was Of such nature as
to paralyze him physically and mentally
and that corps of medical students, anX-
ious to obtain the body because 1T was free
of disease, dug him up, discovered symp-
toms of life and restored him after long
and painful course, of treatment. 1t is sup,
posed Snyder was kept out of the way until
Tho oloec rocnoncihla for his Snatchinp had