Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-17


settlement.
The board communicated with DIR. Girar-
deau through committee with view of
obtaining a withdrawal of his resignation.
DR.. Giradeau, however, declined to with
draw his letter, and at their final meeting
yesterday morning his resignation was ac-
cepted.
Resolutions were offered to 60 into an
election to fill the existing vacancies, but
they were not adopted.-Cohadia Register.
THE DEAD MISUNDERSTANDING
BODY was deposited in the old Vanderbilt
vault, close by the old Moravian church, in
New Dorp, until the new mausoleum can be
fully prepared. A tall white shaft, bearing
the word "Vanderbilt," marks the location
of the vault, in which lie the bodies of Com
modore Vanderbilt, his two wives and his
sister Phoebe. The vault has several va
cant arches. The coffin containing w. H.
Vanderbilt's body is very plain, of cedar,
with elliptic ends, draped in black English
broadcloth, and lined with white satin, up
holstered. 1t is six feet eight inches long
and nineteen inches across the shoulders at
the bottom. The top is in three panels, the
upper one of glass. The inclosing box is OF
oak lined with copper.
His will was made public on Saturday.
It bequeaths to his wife his dwelling house,
lots, stables, ETC., and 100000 a year, and
ten million dollars to each of his eight chill
dren. Nearly one million dollars in stocks
and bonds is given to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.:
The remainder of his fortune is divided
equally between Cornelius and William *.
Vanderbilt. He directs that all OF the rail.
road stock bequeathed to his children shall
be held in bulk and administered for the
s,,fo Of oil them
shall be disposed of without the consent OF
all concerned. He also provides annuities
of from two to three thousand dollars to a
number of distant relatives. Mr.. Chauncey
NJ. Depew and Mr.. Henry NJ. Anderson are
administrators for his wife.
TO the Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt
University, of Nashville, Tennessee, $500,
600 of second mortgage bonds of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad
Company to the uses and purposes of said
university.
The following named societies were be-
queathed the sums herein after speclhed,
viz. 10 the Domestic and Foreign Mission
ary Society of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the United States of America,
100000; to st. Luke's hospital, 100000 ;
to the Young Mems Christian Association OF
the city of New York, 100000; to the Gen
eral Theological Seminary of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the city of New York,
$50, 900; to the New York Bible and Com
mon Prayer Book Society, $4,000; to the
Home for Incurables, $4,000; to the Prot
estant Episcopal Church Missionary Society
for seamen, in the city of New York, $780,
600; to the New York Home for !ntemper-
ant Episcopal Mission Society of the city OF
New York, 100000; to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, $780, 900; to the American
Museum of Natural History in the city OF
New York, s5O,OOO; to the Moravian Church
at New Dorp Lane, Staten Island, 100000.
A KENTUCKY AFFRAY.-A fatal affray
occurred in the United States marshaPs Of
fee at Covington, KY, on Thursday. A
number of prisoners were taken from jail
to that office, which adjoins the Courtroom.
All were ushered into the Courtroom ex-
cept Edward O'Neal, who was left in the
office with Bailiff Day. The prisoner was
seated near the table in the centre of the
room. In the drawer next to him was a
t4-calibre pistol. AS Day turned, after
showing the other prisoners out, he was
met by O'Neal, who had in the meantime
taken the pistol from the drawer. Days
first intimation of danger was feeling a
ldHuluI vi pePpei tiio"h INV hio ~ CO.
AS they closed with pain he caught a
glimpse of a pistol-barrel levelled at his
head. Instinctively he caught it with his
right hand and clutched O'Neal's throat
with his left. He bore down on the pistol
IS it was discharged. The bullet just grazed
MS hip. Still holding his grasp, though in
IN agony of pain, he bore O'Neal back
ward, simultaneously wrenching the pistol
rom his hand, and pointing it toward his
whom he could no longer see, he
ired, shooting O'Neal through his body.
The bullet entered the lower part of both
ungs, bringing him to the floor. The
whole thing was done in less time than it
axes to tell it, Instantly all was confu-
sion in the Courtroom. Doctors were call
I'd, who dressed O'Neal's wounds, which
hey pronounced necessarily fatal. The
man is % years Of age; was origl-
lally from Detroit; was said latterly to
nave been member of a counterfeiting
gang, and was under indictment for passing
money.
THE HOUSE CHAPLAIN.-Mr. Milburn,
he "blind man eloquent" was elected chap
ain of the House, and his selection in cau-
.us came about in this way: "The nomina-
ion of chaplain was the last business of the
.aucus, and in the meantime Mr.. Robert
on, of kentucky, who supported MIR. Mil
)urn, was making an active canvass among
members and bagged many a vote. When
he time came Mr.. Carlisle made his nomi-
latiOn and Mr. Randall seconded, both max
ng ornate and graceful addresses. Then
Mr.. Carlisle said smilinglyto Mr.. Robertson
hat the best thing for him to do was to
move to make Mr.. Lindsey's nomination
but Mr. Robertson simply re-
,lied, "Wait awhile" Then Mr.. Morrison,
Who was to put Mr.. Nilburn in nomination,
rose and stood for 4 minute in his usual
lttitude, with his hands in his pockets.
Then he said az have no eloquent figures
With which to address you, but only few
,lain words. l nominate a man for chap
ain who loves God, hates the devil and
llways votes the straight Democratic ticket.
Knowing the Northern Methodists of 1lli-
lois as do, ask that if minister of that
hurch who has voted the Democratic ticket
r Illinois for twenty-five years does not
deserve we'll of Democratic House, who
loes?" This speech, following the efforts
If Mr. Robertson, was a clincher, and as a
member afterward said who had anticipated
different result, ''it settled the business"
Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Randall waited long
enough to see the drift, and then meekly
rot up and left.
FOUR COLoRED PEOPLE DROWNED
Four colored people, two men and two
were drowned in Broad river at
point several miles below the Air Line
bridge, night before last. 1t appears that
IN the night in question, the neighborhood
larkies had a frolic on the plantation of
Mr.. D. j. Smith, in York county, S. g.,
md some of them on their return to their
homes, had to cross the river. An ordinary
lug out canoe furnished the means of trans
across the water. The boats last
oad consisted of five colored people, two of
whom were women, and almost immedi