Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-12-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

pie orchards of Illinois. With in the past
two years eighty per cent. of the apple trees
and from eighty to ninety per cent. of the
pear trees in Central Illinois, are said to
have been killed.
The jury at Sparta, Ga, in the contest
ed will case of Dickson, the wealthy farm
er who died sometime ago leaving his es-
tate amounting to several hundred thousand
dollars to his colored concubne and her
children, and they get the property.
On Saturday last, DIR. Charles ID. Brad
ley, of Chicago, was sent to an asylum, a
physical and mental wreck from the free
use of cocaine. He had experimental with
it upon his wife and five children until their
condition is but little better than his own:
- The friends of John Sherman and John
A. Logan are endeavoring to secure the
election of either as President pro tenn. of
the Senate. These two and Mr.. Edmunds
are the only candidates mentioned with the
chances very considerably in favor of Ed
munds.
In the early part of last month, William
R. Jackson, late assistant postmaster at
Americas, Ga, defaulted and robbed the
postoffice at that place and fled. He was
followed by inspector Booth through Texas
TO California and arrested last week at Los
Angeles.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week, re-
ported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for
the United States 199, and for Canada 10,
total 2l4, against 224 the week previous.
Except that failures are increasing in the
South and on the Pacific coast, there is moth
ing special to note this week.
There are, according to Internal Reve-
uue Commissioner Miller's report, 926 to-
bacco factories in the United States and
q n latter
have been used 1,63S,57S bushels of malt,
13O,721 of wheat, 1856 of barley, 2,733,397
of rye, 13, ,O4O, ,357 of corn, SO,552 of OATS 223,
55S, of millfeed, and 2,719,416 gallons of
molasses.
The sudden death of the Vice-President
was the qualification of an often expressed
wish. A few weeks before his death he said
to an intimate friend: "If l have one de-
sire more sincere and earnest than another,
it is to die suddenly. / want to 60 quickly.
These long, painful sieges of illness, ending
in suffering death, are too terrible to
think about''
A correspondent writing from Holland
says Mormonism is gaining ground there.
A meeting was held recently at ZWolle,
which consisted of MormOns from Amster-
dam, Groningue, Leenwarden, Devente,
Olst, and Zwolle. Women and children
were present. The exercises, consisting of
speeches and religious services, lasted from
10 o'clock in the morning until late at night.
A number of converts were admitted. The
Dutch government does not interfere with
the sect.
- The wheat supply at Minneapolis is thus
stated in dispatch of Friday: "lhere are
over l 800 cars of wheat in sight of Minnea-
polls, and on Thursday there were over
1900 cars with over 5000, 900 bushels. In
the elevators there is only left 1900, 900
bushels capacity unoccupied, all Of which is
virtually under contract to private parties,
so that really there is no public storage
room. Sheds to take 100000 bushels addl-
tiona are being built, and it is thought that
all side-track lots will be sent to Duluth for
storage"
A frightful accident occurred on the
Western North Carolina Railroad on the
morning of the 25th ultimo. AS the west
bound freight train from Asheville ap-
preached Deep Water iron bridge near
Warm Springs, the engine struck rock
which had fallen on the track, and turned
over into the river in water forty feet deep.
The engineer, George Parish, of Lynch
burg, and fireman Whiteford, went down
with the wreck. Engine and cars are out
of sight under water, with the bodies OF
the dead, which have not yet been recov-
cred.
The following amusing little incident
is reported to have occurred at the depot
in Camden, S. c., few days ago. The
platform having been lowered, the compa-
ny has provided boxes upon which to step
on in entering the cars. Each OF these
boxes has small hole in the top so as to
render it easy to be handled. The boxes
have no bottoms to them. A couple of dar-
kies were intently eyeing one of them. the
other day, when one OF them ), lnauireea as req
other descendant of Ham "dem's a new
kind of votin' box; don't you see hit hain't
got no bottom to it,"
Are the offspring of short parents short,
and do the children of tall parents grow to
be unusually tall? Such aquestion Scotch
scientist recently asked himself, and set to
work to gather some statistics of nature.
His data consists of the heights of $50 adults
and of their respective parents. 2O5 OF each
sex in number, or, altogether, of 1,34O OBJ
servations. 1t was shown that difference
between the heights of the two parents
might be dsregarded, having on the whole
an inconsiderable effect on the height OF the
offspring. 1t was also shown that marriage
ness or tallness. The general result was
that where the mean height of the two par
ents was greater than mediocrity, their chill
dren tend to be shorter than they.
The farmers about Laurinburg, in
Richmond county, North Carolina, are ex-
periencing great inconvenience and trouble
at the results of the labors of the emf
grant agents in that section. Over four
hundred darkeS have been lured from the
plantations and sent out to Arkansas. This
Wholesale desertion of farm laborers is prov
ing a very serious matter to the farmers,
and the people of Laurinburg have about
concluded to try the South Carolina way of
dealing with the emigration agents, sew
eral of whom have already received warn
ing letters. One resident of Laurinburg,
who, it is alleged has been paid one dollar
per head for as many darkies as he could
secure for the agents, received, day or two
ago, sheet of paper on which was drawn
the picture of turkey bird, the inter-
pretation of which was that it was time for
him to be getting ready to join the angels.
A revolution is impending in Mexico.
The Legislature of the State of Nuevo Leon
adjourned Wednesday. One of its last acts
was to give the Governor extraordinary
powers, and to direct him to maintain the
State government at all hazards. Gov
ernor Garcia went to the City of Mexico
some weeks ago to confer with the Federal
authorities. Acting Governor Sepulyeda
left the city Thursday, and is now at Villa
Gercia, town on the Mexican National
Railway twenty miles south Of that city.
In the meantime the city is being filled with
revolutionists, and several large bands of
armed men will arrive within the next
twenty-four hours from the interior towns.
Unless the State government asserts itself
speedily and energetically it will be lost.
The Revolutionists are we'll armed and are