Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-10
Straps and fafts.

A terrible scandal has been caused in
Columbus, Ohio, by the discovery that a
dog has Just been buried in the most aris-
tocratic part of Green Lawn, the cemetery
where a negro's bones were not allowed tC
rest few years ago.
ALI the people now living in the world
say 1,40O, ZOO, 900, could find standing room
within the limits of a field ten miles square
and by aid of telephone could be address
ed by a single speaker. In field twenty
miles square they could all be comfortably
seated.
- Fred. Ashford, an Alabama burglar
was sentenced to hard labor for five years
He has served that term, and also five years
on his costs. He has nearly two years
more before his debt on account of his triaPs
expenses are paid. He is paying at the
rate Of five cents per day.
= Mr.. Thomas Butler, of Utah, where he
owns stock farm, is now preaching polyga'
my in Maine, where he hopes to make
Mormon converts, and though pronounced
polygamist he is bachelor, thirty-seven
years old, preaching from principle, he says
not practice.
- Maxwell, the supposed murderer OF
Preller, was arraigned for trial in st. Louis
on Wednesday, but the Courth was SO
crowded that the witnesses who were in
the building could not make their way to
the stand, and the case was continued. He
will be tried in about ten days.
The women engaged in the production
of cheap Bibles are the worst paid in Lon
don. If the people who are engaged in
folding and binding cheap Bibles to send to
the heather are half starved in order to dc
it, we are likely to make more heathens at
home than we convert abroad.
TIL ,ho
figured at the Grant funeral, was much less
figures are S14, 1915. This embraces, also,
$4,000 for five hundred carriages. He says
he did not charge more than he would
charge any body else for the same elaborate
service.
jefferson Davis incidentally mentions
as one of the results of the fully restored
Union, that he expects to get 900 bales OF
cotton from his Mississippi plantation this
year, and informs an interviewer that he
has no desire to talk about the war-prob-
ably preferring to leave that ancient his
tory to John Sherman.
Georgia has 143,471 colored voters, the
largest number Sof any of the Southern
States. Mississippi comes next, with 130,-
17S; then Virginia, 123,257; South Carroll
ma, 1883; Alabama, 11S, ,423; Louisiana,
see, 80, $50; Texas, 1859 Kentucky, SO ,643 ;
Arkansas, 26,s27, and Missouri, 33,042.
- Bribery at elections has been carried on
to such a shameful extent in the State OF
New Hampshire, that to check it the last
legislature passed an act providing that
any voter may be challenged at the polls,
and his ballot refused unless he make oath
that he has neither sold his own vote nor
purchased that of any other voter either
by himself or by his money through an
agent.
The fattest man that ever lived in Ohio
died recently at Mansfield, that State.
His name was Norris. He weighed 445
pounds at the time of his death. His coffin
was made to order, and in dimensions was
6 feet inch in length, % inches wide and
casket was 2 inches wider than the largest
hearse in the city, and his remains were
drawn to the cemetery in spring wagon.
- Fifteen years ago stage coach coming
out of Blackfoot, Idaho, was robbed of 500
pounds of gold dust. The robbers were ar
rested and sent to the Deer Lodge Peniten-
tiary, but they had succeeded in burying the
gold, and no one has since been able to find
it. Their sentences will expire in a few
weeks, and the inhabitants Of the town are
said to be watching the prison doors care
fully to follow them to the treasure when
they get out.
A Wisconsin woman accuses her huS.
band of trying to persuade her to commit
suicide in manner that would enable him
to collect for their children the amount Of
an insurance policy on her life. He argued
the propriety of the project, since she was
feeble and likely to require much doctoring
during the rest of her natural life, thus
using up money needlessly, whereas by dy-
dying at once she could leave the family in
good circumstances.
John H. Morgan, son OF Senator Nor
gan, of Alabama, went boating on the Po'
tomac river on Tuesday evening. Mrs
Della Stella, aged forty years and clerk
in the pension Office, went in the boat with
him and Miss Mccarthy, a niece of Mrs
Stella, went along in canoe which she
padded herself. Going through the rapids
under the Chain bridge MIR. Morgan's boat
struck hidden rock and capsiZed and he
and Mrs. Stella were drowned.
- Says the Lewiston, Maine, Journal
In recent Winthrop temperance meeting
a gentleman made the following significant
statement: "In neighboring town q men
banded together to oppose in every possible
way the Washingtonian movement. OF
these II filled a drunkard's grave; were
lost at sea; 4, while intoxicated, drove into
an arm of one of the lakes in this vicinity
one night and were drowned; 2 committed
suicide; were hanged in the South, and
went to sea and never was heard FROM"
Seventeen years ago the death penalty
for murder in the first degree was abolished
by Minnesota, and life Imprisonment was
substituted but the gallows has just been
reelected. Michigan tried the same exper-
iment, and not long since bill was passed
by the lower house of the legislature re-
enacting the hanging policy, although it
failed of adoption in the senate. Maine
did no hanging for six years and then went
back to capital punishment.
- The Philadelphia Record draws fear
full picture of the condition of the coal min
ers of that State, whose wages are so low,
and the expressions of the companies for
whom they work so great, that they are
compelled to live in the shabbiest tene-
ments and on the cheapest food they can
find. There is no negro on Southern plan
tation who is not better paid, and whose
condition is not immeasurably better than
that of these Pennsylvania miners, as it is
pictured by the Record.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, Democratic candi-
date for Governor of Virginia, opened his
canvass in Accomac county last week.
Blair, Republican candidate for Attorney
General, was also there and was given a
hearing. Gen. Lee, in reply, said that
while he would not accuse Blair of theft,
his taking SIT 900 from the Treasury of the
State while he was legally entitled to only
$1,000 was an evidence of gross carelessnesss,
which his Democratic competitor, if elect
ed, would not be guilty of.
- Attorney General Garland is plain,
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