Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-01
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balloonist, made an ascension at West Point,
Georgia, on Christmas day to an immense
crowd. The balloon fell into the river and
McNeill was drowned. His body was re-
covered forty minutes later, but could not be
resuscitated.
The secretary of the treasury at Wash
ington has received letter from resident
of Riga, Russia, enclosing 800 note of the
Confederate States, which he says he inher-
tied from his uncle and which WI ne wants to
exchange for currency. The note has been
returned with the information that it is
worthless.
The New York Freeman (negro Organ)
saws: eff the Democratic party takes hold
of the color question in the right spirit, if it
succeeds in showing the people Of the coun-
try, especially the colored people, that they
have nothing to apprehend from the as
cendancy of the Democratic party, Mr..
Blaine will not have been defeated in vain."
-Zephaniah Phelps, man of 73, who be-
lieved he had constructed flying machine,
started on last Friday morning from the
Wadsworth tower on Talcott Mountain,
fifteen miles from Hartford, Conn. He fell
crashing through the trees, and was found
with his collar-bone and arm broken. His
life was saved by the tree branches breaking
his fall for more than fifty feet.
-SGudUOr CuIIuIluS 10 quOlSu Us
that the returns by mail of the electoral
vote of all the States has been received ex-
cept Oregon and Iowa. Returns by messen-
gers are still lacking from California, Flori~
da, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Ore
gon, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
The law requires that these messengers shall
deliver their returns by the first Wednesday
in January, and a heavy penalty isprovided
for failure to do so.
North Carolina's finances seem to be in
healthy condition. The committee of the
Legislature appointed to examine the &C:
counts of the State treasurer has completed
The balance in hand at the end of the fiscal
year ended November 80, 1883, was $780,
964; receipts during the fiscal year ended
November 80, 1884; s., ,s00, ,9Ss SO; disburse-
ments for the same period, 1851 1850. .43; bal
ance now in the treasury, $947 ,06S.56.
The Modern Language Association held
its second annual convention at Columbia
College, New York, on December % and 30
of the present year, and among the papers
read was one by Professor E. S. Joynes, OF
South Carolina College, on 'The Progress
of Modern Language Study in the Colleges
and Universities of the Late Confederate
States since the War;" also papers by Pro.
fessors A. NJ. Elliott and j. w. Bright, Of
Johns Hopkins University, on interesting
topics connected with the work of the assO-
citation.
The extremely low price OF wheat has
caused falling off in the receipts in the
northwest of fully 80 per cent. compared
with fifteen days ago. The Minneapolis
millers are securing less than 10000 BUSH
els per day, and the Millers' Association on
Monday raised prices in the county two
cents, and on Tuesday, another advance of
two cents was ordered. 1t is rumorrd on
apparently good authority that the big mil
lers have quietly got hold of nearly all the
good hard wheat in Dakota and the Red
River valley, and are holding in until
spring.
-On last Friday Jordan Parker, colored,
and his son, Daniel, were arrested at Purdy
Station, Alabama, charged with having
placed obstructiors on the Northeastern
Railroad track, wrecking q train and caus-
ing the death, by scalding, of Engineer
Turner and the fireman. A dispatch from
Mobile Monday night reported the lynch
ing of Jordan Parker by mob near High
land Station. The New Orleans Times Dem
1ocrm prints a long account of the lyncning,
showing that confession was eXtorted from
Daniel Parker, mere youth, by thrusting
his hands into the flames in a hot stove and
keeping them there until they were burned
to crisp.
The reception rendered by Gov. Cleve-
: land to his friends at Albany on Tuesday
night was brilliant affair. Invitations to
the number of 300 were sent out, and fully
nine-tenths of those invited attended. The
reception was exclusively to those who
extended similar courtesies to the president
elect during his three years sojourn as gov
ernor, and to Buffalo friends who likewise
have honored him. Numbers of ladies and
gentlemen who have been on visiting terms
at the Executive mansion were also includ-
ed among the guests, as it was purely given
for the social hOnors which the Governor
had received. No invitations to the recep-
tion were extended to anyone outside of
Albany, Buffalo and Troy.
IDuring the campaign, a Cincinnati ci-
ea1 dealer offered prizes for the customer
making the nearest guess to the number of
VOTES the successful candidate would receive.
ThA number of gueSses ran up into the
tho,bsands, and varied in figures hundreds
of TVnAsands, but the approach to exact ac-
curSV in some cases was remarkable.
Cle,, ,&l's exact vote, which is reported by
the 6Syent Secretaries of State at 4, ,872, 179,
was. S:SV Vurse, named by no one, but Mr..
A. r. .SAyne came within one of it, his
number Being 4,S72,17S. One guesser miss
I'D 1t by three, another by nine, and three
twelve. There were $50 guesses that
T. he within 100 Of being correct, and thir-
flour that were only SO Off.
The New York Tribune of Sunday pub
&shes statement to the effect that eXecu-
Iions have been issued under a Judgment
Erecently entered against Gen: Grant, in
favor of VIM. H. Vanderbilt for $780,
which the former borrowed before the fail
ure Of Grant & Ward, and used in the en-
deavor to keep that firm on its feet. The
lecutions are said to cover General Grants
houses in Washington and Philadelphia,
and his farms near ST. Louis and Chicago,
and all his relics of the war, his swords,
medals, gifts from friends at home and
foreign rulers, his pictures and his bric-a-
brac. General Sherman has, it is said, gone
to Philadelphia and Washington to consult
the friends of General Grant as to the best
1aaeans of relieving the latter from his en-
E2kpents.
~ the Exposition grounds and
IVY Orleans were thrown open
llsual. The policy of this
ly discussed, and it seems
verdict that the oppor-
ill give to thousands of
who are compelled to
ay morning to Saturday
ybare necessities of life, to
- and to enlarge and i'm
Ids by this glimpse of the
1initure, is sufficient to out
objections that may be urged
fgious point view. A religious
ii given to the occasion by having
ious worship and sacred concert in
ic Hall, while over the immense