Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-16

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struction of submarine cable, now in opera
tion is computed to be ten times the dis
tance from the earth to the moon. The to-
tai length of cable now used is 900 miles,
each cable containing an average of forty
strands of wire, and making over $500, 900
miles.
A dispatch of the 9Th from Phoenix, Ar
izona, says: The Mormon Bishop Stewart,
and Elder G. J. Robinson, who were in
dicted for polygamy, were permitted to
plead guilty to the lesser count in the in
dic5ment, of unlawful cohabitation, and the
Judge then sentenced them to 80 days in the
Territorial penitentiary.
1t has developed that Charles Reed, the
Southern Express agent who absconded
from Morrist0Wn, Tennessee, few days
since, carried with him 50 900 from the safe,
and package containing $4,000, which be-
longed to the Scottish lumber company,
which is carrying on extensive operations IN
western North Carolina and eastern Ten
nessee.
= Col. Mcclure has filed plea of truth
in justification in the suit of NJ. A. Dau-
phin against himself for libel, and has made
a demand sin reconvention" under the laws
of Louisiana for $4,000 for his expenses
and counsel of the case. The trial is look
ed toward to with much interest by both
the friends and enemies of the parties.
Both Houses of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture have passed over the veto of Gov. Bate
the bill repeating the Railroad Commission
law. Gov. Bate based his veto principally
on the ground that the recent general elec-
ton in Tennessee showed that the aggre-
gate vote in favor of commissioners was a
popular expression of approval of the prin-
ciple of regulation through commission.
Richard Grant White, the we'll known
writer, died at his residence, No. $50 East
Seventeenth street, New York, on Wednes-
day of last week. He has been ailing all
winter from gastritis, and this it was that
carried him off. He was one of the best
country, and in past years has provoked no
end of controversy and comment by the
stand he took on several subjects.
"A late issue of the Salt Lake Tribune is
authority for the assertion that the leading
Mormon bishop has declared that the priest
hood has concluded it would be cheaper to
buy Statehood for Utah than to endure the
annoyance polygamists are now being sub
jected to by the enforcement of laws.
Among the laity this is now considered
to be the plan of the Mormon campaign.
William Donnelly, a farmer living near
Urbana, Illinois, died last Thursday of
glanders, contracted from his horses. His
wife and daughter are both sick and it is
feared that they have been infected. The
State veterinarian has killed two of the
horses and placed the farm under quaran-
tine. The same thing has been done on
another farm west of Champaign in the
same State.
Henry Ward Beecher says great many
sensible things, and the fact that they are
Of ho
Here is one of his latest: ga Confederate
brigadier is just as good as Northern brig
adler. The South has come back into the
Union, the war is over, these men say they
want peace, and when Southern men offer
assistance and say they want to be peaceable,
they won't let them."
lightning has killed 4,6O9 persons in
France alone since 1885. An equal number
have been seriously though not fatally
wounded, and five times as many struck.
The hot years were the most fatal, and
those are remarkable as having been the
best wine seasons. There has not been
single death from lightning in Paris or the
Department of the Seine since 1864, though
there have been many violent storms there
during that time.
"A civil rights bill was passed by the
Illinois House of Delegates Thursday. 1t
diction of the State shall be entitled to the
full and equal enjoyment of the privelages
of inns, restaurants, barber shops, public
conveyances, theatres and all other places
of public convenience or amusement, SUBJ
ject only to the limitations established by
law and applicable to all citizens alike. A
violation of the law is to be punished by
fine of from S25 to $500, to be paid to the
person aggrieved, or to fine and imprison-
ment for the offence itself as a misdemeanor.
- The colliery owners in Derbyshire and
Staffordshire have resolved to join those of
Yorkshire in making a ten per cent. reduc-
tion in the wages of their miners. The
miners in Yorkshire, already on a strike
against the reduction, which went into op-
Grafton in that county on April l, number
nearly &c, 900, The Derby and Stafford min
ers will resist the reduction and 60 on strike.
The present strike is the greatest that has
occurred for many years in England. 1t
threatens to last for many months, and will
soon affect over 500,0 people who depend
upon coal mining for livelihood.
Alabama has an iron-clad liquor law.
For concealing liquor in a prohibition
county, with intent to sell or give away the
same, the fine is $3.50 or 81 900, or imprison-
ment at hard labor for II months. For
knowingly permitting anyone to conceal,
etc., on ones premises there is like penal
ty. All persons frequenting place where
prisoned. The sale of liquor annuls mans
lease and leaves the lessee without reme-
dy. Constables in search of whisky are
authorized to break open gates and doors.
Express messengers may be fined or i'm
prisoned for delivering liquor in prohibi-
tion towns. The prosecuting attorney gets
double fees for conviction in liquor cases.
The Manufacturers Record, published
at Baltimore, in its issue of last Saturday,
prints its quarterly review of the industrial
progress of the South, giving information Of
all manufacturing and mining enterprises
organized in the southern States during the
first three months of 1885. The aggregate
capital of these new enterprises, including
the amount expended in the enlargement of
factories already in existence, is S2O,59l 100
will soon be built at Admission, Alabama.
The capital is divided as follows: Ken
lucky, 81, ,72S, 900; Maryland, So, 100000; AL
ALBANIA, S2,035,O00; Virginia, 81, 100000; !;
Tennessee, 81, ,222 600; West Virginia, ST.
22l 900; Georgia, 1901 900; North Carolina,
S715, 900; Texas, $4,000; Louisiana, $780,
600; South Carolina, $685., 900 Florida, $780,
900; Arkansas, sl79,GO0, and Mississippi,
$4,000.
William Slower, who was arrested and
placed in the Butler county, n. Y. Jail a few
days ago for killing James Duncan, has con-
fessed that Duncan makes the eleventh man
he has killed. Slower was formerlya cowboy
on the plains. He gives no details of his al
legged murders, but says he is wanted in
Kansas, Colorado and Texas for the crimes.
Duncan, the man he killed in Butler coun-
ty, was an old deaf man. He was sitting
in Harper's dry goods store in North Wash
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