Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-22
Straps and fatts.

= The average rate of freight charged on
railroads in the United States during the
year 1888 was less than half the average
rate charged in 1868, and in the meantime
there was an enormous increase in the vol
ume of traffic.
-Haines, the Independent who was elect
ed temporary speaker of the Illinois house
of representatives by the Democrats, now
refuses to vacate and allow them to elect a
permanent speaker. He claims that a man
once elected to that Office must remain.
There are forty women acting as cash
iers of banks in Dakota. Not one of them
has ever speculated, been short in her ac-
counts or manifested the slightest hankering
for the bracing atmosphere of Canada. All
of which argues well for giving the girls a
chance.
The annual report of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington makes the record
of corn production of the year 1884, 1885,
100000 bushels; that of wheat nearly 513,-
100000, and oats 5s4,000,00O. These aggre-
gates are the largest ever recorded. The
rate is 25.S bushels for corn, 13 for wheat
and 27.4 for oats.
Showing how cold it gets in the Sierras: !:
every cold last night, Mr.. Townsend" OBJ
so. Went home; lit candle; jumped into
bed; tried to blow candle out; couldn't do
it; blaze frozen had to break it off," re-
piled Mr.. Townsend.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday,
reported to R. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 382 and for Canada 80; total
42O, as compared with 457 the previous week,
showing decrease of 81 failures. The fig
ures are, however, still unusually heavy in
the Western, Southern and Middle States.
Gen. Grant was in the habit of smoking
from twelve to fifteen cigars day, but his
tongue and mouth becoming diseased in
consequence, with alarming indications, he
though not entirely we'll, has constantly
improved. He spends his time and finds
his chief pleasure in the literary work in
which he is engaged.
ingalls, has been reelected senator from
Kansas, Don Cameron has been reelected
from Pennsylvania and the chances are
that Evarts will be elected in New York !;
the combination in that State to elect Levi
P. Morton having been broken by the un-
popular committee appointments of Erwin,
the man elected speaker as Morton's candi-
date.
"A number of persons in Philadelphia
are uniting to prevent the removal of the
liberty bell to the New Orleans exposition
against it. Meanwhile the enforced reduc-
tion of the police force on the exposition
grounds from 1900 to 1900 has left the ex-
hibits unprotected, so that $1,000 worth of
them was stolen on Thursday, and Director
General Burke is seriously ill.
The trial of faro dealer in Washington
territory terminated in wedding. In that
territory women serve on the juries. In
the case in question six men and six ladies
were selected to try the case. James Mitch
ell and Susie Thompson met for the first
time in the jury box. There was a propos-
al and an acceptance. The only unhappy
person in the case was the accused-he was
convicted.
-Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax drop
ped dead in the Omaha depot at Mandota,
Minnesota, on the morning of the 18th in
stant. He arrived there on that morning
by the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
railroad, and walked over to the Omaha
depot. He took his overcoat and sat down
and almost Immediately fell over and ex-
pired. His death is supposed to have been
caused by heart disease. His remains were
taken charge of by the Odd Fellows, and
forwarded to South Bend, Indiana.
On Tuesday of last week the leading rail-
roads in Georgia, South Carolina and Ala
hama, formed, at Augusta, the Georgia
ger Lines Association, comprising the Geor-
gia Central, South Carolina, Augusta and
Port Royal, Georgia Railroad, Western At
lantic, Southwestern, Montgomery and Eu-
faula, Western Alabama, Augusta and
Knoxville Railroad and several shorter
lines, embracing 2,545 miles and the con-
Meeting steamship lines from Savannah,
Charleston and Port Royal to New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
In reply to request from New York
publishing firm for information as to the
strength of the Mormon church in this
country, the superintendent of the census,
through the secretary of the interior, has
prepared a statement as follows: 1850
number of church organizations, lC; sittings,
10,sOO; 1S60-24 churches, 1880 sittings;
1s70-lS9 churches, 27,S2S sittings; 1880
267 churches, 65,262 sittings. The actual
membership, according to the census of
1880, was 1886. Only by the last census
was the actual membership ascertained.
AT the Somerset, Mass. chemical works,
where nitro glycerine and all grades of high
explosives are manufactured, five men were
at work in the packing house on Wednes-
day when dynamite was ignited from red
hot poker, with which one of the men was
boring hole in the door. In a second the
entire building was in flames, and the men
with their clothing burning, started to run
and were but short distance from the build
ing when five hundred pounds of dyna-
mite, packed ready for shipment, lying out
of the side building, exploded with terrific
noise. Two Of the men were found 60 rods
away burned to crisp. The other men were
not seriously injured
A dispatch of last Saturday from Mad
rid says: Another severe shock of earth
quake was experienced at Granada at 10
o'clock last night, causing great alarm
among the inhabitants. Heavy snow storms
and frost continue. In Malaga the snow
storms are the most severe since 1861. The
sugar cane crop has been destroyed, and
orange and olive groves have been damaged.
The situation is most critical. The earth is
again trembling under the influence Of
strong seismic movements. The wind and
snow have destroyed the huts of those who
fed from the cities and towns for safety.
At Triqiliana, town twenty-seven miles
east of Malaga, the people, rendered des-
.perate by cold and hunger, attacked the
houses of land owners. Another severe
shock of earthquake has been experienced
at Canillas.
George Travis was hanged in the Jail at
Wellsboro, Pa, last Thursday, for the muir
der of Martha Sylvia, in Charleston, Tioga
county, Pa, April 3, 1883. He afterwards
burned the remains in a vacant barn to con-
ceal the evidence of the crime. He also
drove all her cattle away, claiming to have
bought them. Travis was convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence alone. On Friday,
VIM. Felix Henry, colored, was hanged at
Edwardsville, Illinois, for the murder of
Henry Ross and Henry Depugh, both color
ed and both single men. The execution
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