Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-23
Straps and fatts.

Moody, the revivalist, was asked in the
recent convention in Milwaukee whether
he had grace enough to die at the stake.
He replied: "No, don't need it; all
want is grace enough to hold this conven.
tion for three days in Milwaukee,"
The returns of the census taken in 1885,
give the population of Russia in Europe as
numbering 1885, ,52l, of which 3s,651 ,977
were male and 9,227 ,544 females. making
with the grand duchy of Finland and other
parts of the empire, total of over 100000
600.
1t may help to understand why wheat
rose when the report of war between Rus
sia and England came, to know that the
United Kingdom annually imports from
Russia about $50, ,000, 900 worth Of grain and
-four, which is one-fifth of the grain and
flour that England buys abroad.
Starr Stanley died at Ithica, n. Y, on
the 18th, aged 100 years and 3 months. He
was born in Dutchess county, December 25
1854. For four days previous to his death
he refused food, saying he had lived as long
as he wanted to. He had never been sick
before during his life.
The business failures occurring during
the week ending last Friday throughout the
country, as reported to r. G. Dun & Co.'S
mercantile agency, number for the United
of 222 against 212 the previous week. The
distribution is about the same as in recent
weeks, and there is nothing important to
note in regard to them.
The Baltimore bazaar for the Confeder.
ate relief fund closed on Wednesday night.
It yielded over $4,000. The money is to
be invested by the treasurer and the inter
est devoted to the relief of needy ex-Con-
federate soldiers. The principal is to be
added to from time to time by various
means until a sufficient sum is raised to en-
dow an institution which will be a refuge
for destitute men who ''wore the grey"
Andrew Jackson, of Buncombe county, n.
c., who served in the Mexican war, has made
application to the pension department at
Washington to be placed on the invalid
pension roll. He was Jefferson Davis or
derly while the latter was colonel of the
famous Mississippi Rifles, being then mem
ber of the Fourth artillery. He was several
times wounded and became blind after long
illness of yellow fever.
Many business houses of Wheeling, West
Virginia, found themselves short of help
Wednesday, owing to the sudden absence
of their book keepers and clerks. The grand
jury is investigating the gambling business
and hundreds of witnesses have been sum.
moned, including many of the leading men
of the city. There is general CONSERVATION
among saloonists and society young men
who have been playing. Crowds of young
men have fled the State.
The Prince of Wales saw trouble on his
arrival at Cork last Thursday. Crowds Of
Nationalists turned out and stoned the 10y,
alist procession, and somebody threw an on
ion at the prince which struck one of his
footmen. The act was loudly cheered
There were groans and boots, and the sound
of'"GOd save Ireland" drowned the music
of "God save the Queen" and "God save
the Prince of Wales" At night there was
terrible rioting in which many of the Ma
tionalists and police were badly hurt.
An Atlanta, Ca, man claims to have
discovered new principle in hydraulics
that will revolutionize pumping. Hither.
to it has been an established belief that
water will not rise in vacuum to height
of more than thirty-three feet. For that
reason pumps are generally set within 2f
feet of the water. By the new discovery the
pumping machinery can be put on the sur.
face of the earth and as far from the water
as is necessary. The inventor claims tC
have pumped water out of an artesian well
in Texas 600 feet deep.
Judge Pardee, in the United States court
hassentenced the richest man in Polk county
Georgia, to three months imprisonment fol
contempt of court. When the firm of Hunt.
ingdon & Wright failed for over $780,.
600, in CedartoWn, Mr.. E. Wood was ap.
pointed receiver. Huntingdon, who owned
4 large amount of real estate, continually
hindered the work of the receiver by putting
up his wife as claimant to every piece Of
property attempted to be attached. Finally
the matter was brought before Judge Par.
dee, on its merits, when he gave Hunting
don ninety days in Jail.
of Richard Grant White, the litterateur
whose death occurred last week in New
York, it is said that "while literature was his
profession, music was his soace and delight,
and he was far prouder of his knowledge OF
violins than of his reputation as Shak.
spearean scholar" Of his violin connoiseur-
ship wonderful stories are told, and there
seems no doubt that he possessed a rare and
peculiar faculty of discrimination in regard
to these instruments. His own istrument
was the 'cello, upon which he played in a
quartette that met at his house weekly.
In the Circuit Court at Salt Lake City
on the 14th instant, Orson P. Arnold, a
prominent Mormon, pleaded guilty to an in.
dictment charging unlawful cohabitation.
He declared in open court his intention
to abandon polygamy, obey the laws and
live with his lawful wife only, not neglect
ing to support his second family. Judge
Seane said these declarations had great
weight with the Court, and therefore he
imposed only fine of $500, without i'm
prisonment. The Court then began impan.
cling the grand jury for the April term
Polygamists and upholders of polygamy are
excluded as heretofore.
Eight five-story houses on 62nd street
New York, near 10th avenue, fell on the 18th
instant, burying the men employed there
Up to 4.30, p. m. ten persons had been taken
from the ruins; one killed, and the Others
seriously but not fatally injured. The
buildings were erected last winter and re.
ported by the building department as un'
safe. No mortar was used in the construc.
tion of the walls, the bricks being held in
place by sand. On Friday the grand jury
found indictments for manslaughter in the
second degree against. contractor Budden.
sick and his assistant, Charles Frank, who
built the houses.
Among those to be dismissed from the
inspection bureau of the postoffice depart.
the so-called detective, J. G. Hester, who
about 1S69-70 made himself quite infamous
in North Carolina by reason of his connec-
tion with the Holden dynasty. He is 8
native of Granville county, n. c., and has
had quite career. During the war he was
red hot Confederate; after the war blaZ
ing Democrat; and lastly cantankerouS
and unscrupulous radical, bounding dowr
the people of his own and other States. He
has been cared for by the government fol
the last sixteen years, and now he must gel
out and earn an honest living.
A good story is told of farmer in Geor
gia, who rented some land last year to 6
colored man for third of the crop. When
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