Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
Yorkville, S. c., March 80, 1885
MERE.MENTION.

At the request of the President, the SEN
ate continued its executive sessions until
to-day, when it formally adjourned" .".''"..A
recent death notice says: "She was of sound
mind and excellent health, but used kero-
sene to light the fire. ''''''"'Thirty houses
were destroyed by an incendiary fire at
Oakland City, Indiana, last Thursday morn
ing'.'''."Hon. Jacob Thompson, Secretary
of the Interior under President Buchanan,
died on the 24th ultimo, at his residence in
Memphis, Tenn, in the seventy-ffth year of
his age. ...:"Mackin and Gallagher, convicted
of election frauds in Chicago, and sentenced
to the penitentiary, have been admitted to
bail in the sum of 900 each pending the
hearing of writ Of error granted by Judge
Gresham, of the United States Circuit
Court. .''..:.'..H Hon. E. d. Clark, of Vicksburg,
Mississippi, who was appointed Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, died in Wash
office. ......'..Crawford Jeter, colored, was ar
rested in Texas the other day, on the charge
of having murdered A. F. Ellington, in
Prince Edward county, Va, twenty-three
wears ago. Jeter was Ellington's slave at
the time he committed the deed........A
movement is on foot in the New Jersey
Legislature, and is meeting with mucn en-
couragement, to remove the State capital
from Trenton to Newark. .'''''''''Gen. Grant
has lighted two cigars since December last,
but they were so distasteful that he did not
smoke enough of them to produce an ash
at the end. 1T is reported that the ne
eroes near Eufaula, Ala, are looking for
body Of Yankee soldiers who are expected
to massacre the whites who voted for Cleve-
land. Mt is said that OF those who partic-
pated in the war of 1912, hardly dozen are
now living. Astoria, ILL.,, has one who is
SO years old, and saws wood for iiv-
inc. 1.-THE editor of the Kansas City,
Mo-, Evening star, tried last week for muir.
der, has been acquitted on the plea OF self
defence. At former trial ne was found
| Imprisonment .''.'."Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee
has resigned as Acknowledgement of the
Virginia militia. 1t is thought that he
will be the next Democratic candidate for
Governor of Virginia. 1.-THE appropri-
ations for the Illinois Legislature are nearly
exhausted, and no United States Senator
vet. The Legislature is provided with ITO
| ianitors who draw $4,000 per month, or
$50 each per month. .'''''''''The testimony of
Grant in the case against j. d. Fish shows
Grant was partner. He said at one time
thought Ward had genuine Government
contracts. The testimony develops no
specially new features. 1.-The latest in
| telligence as to the condition of Gen. Grant
represents that he is sinking rapidly, and
that his death may be expected any day.
A MODEL GIRL.-Robert Yergin, a one
armed ex-Confederate soldier of Dial's
township, Laurens, has daughter of whom
he can he very proud. She has for several
winters acted as engineer, running her
fathers engine to gin cotton, using her
books, even while at the engine for self i'm
provement. By her self:application, ener-
gy and industry, she made money enough
to educate herself, first teaching and then
attending school. She is now in the gradu-
ating class of Columbia female college, has
been elected to write her class's valedictory
address and holds the position of first hon
or in her class. Miss Yergin is now but II
years of age, handsome and intellectual.
She bids fair to run bright and useful ca
reer in lady's proper sphere. Miss Mary
Yergin's younger sister, Miss Lilah, IA
years of age, now runs her fathers engine
and promises to follow in her elder sisters
footsteps. GreenriAe Ne,cs.