Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-19
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ber of tame birds there is estimated to have
increased from eighty in 1865 to at least 10
600 in 1884, producing feathers for export
of the value of about 3O,000,O 900 per an
mum.
A young lady in Nebraska has two Ca
naries which she has named Cleveland and
Hendricks. Cleveland does not sing very
much, but Hendricks MARBLES all day, and
perches on little roost at the very top of
the cage. Cleveland sits on the floor most
of the time and looks at the cat.
The Alabama Legislature, now in session
is taking steps for the repeal of the act pass
ed at the session of 1854, which taxes for
eign capital. The repeating bill has passed
the House, has been reported favorably by
the Senate committee, and as it is known
that the Governor favors it, its friends are
confident of victory.
With one weeks work at Huntsville,
Ala, Rev. Sam Jones was instrumental in
the conversion of between two and three
hundred, all the churches reaping the bene-
fit of his services. The citizens at Hunts
vile raised seven hundred and fifty dol
larsand presented it to him. He went from
there to Charleston, S. G.
- The question is beginning to be asked,
'sIs this Congress a failure?" If the business
of Congress is to attend to and dispatch
with reasonable promptness in matters
which the public is interested it is failure,
if to kill time in heated personal discus
sions and questions of privilege it is first
class success.
1t is said that President Cleveland will
consider no applications for such appoint
ments as come within the power of the eX-
ecutive except after they have have been
considered by the members of the cabinet
in whose department they fall. This rule
will he imperative and will be enforced on
all occasions.
The boundaries of the region known as
the West have been perpetually shifting.
Within the lifetime of old folks it COM
menced along the foot hills of the Allegha-
q while on the banks of the Mississippi.
To-day the boundary lies on the bluffs of
the Missouri, in the neighborhood of Kan
sas City. Beyond that point lies the region
Oftradition, prophecy, adventure, discovery,
enterprise, heroism-the West.
The business failures throughout the
country during the week ending last Fri
day, as reported by the mercantile agency
of r. G.. Dun g. Co., number for the United
States 239, and for Canada 81. Total 270,
against 346 the previous week. This large
decrease is probably more apparent than
real. Railroad and telegraph communica-
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much Interrupted by snow that doubtless
many failures in remote localities have not
been reported.
The Colored Commissioners Education
al Conference met last Thursday night in
New Orleans to carry out objects suggested
by the original call. A number of promi-
nent colored men were present, including
NJ. w. Gibbs, of Arkansas, T. G. Barbedoes,
of Massachusetts,, w. j. Simpson, of Ken
tucky, R. H. Herbert, of New Jersey, Phil
lip Joseph, Of Alabama, P. B. S. Pinchback
and James Kennedy, of Louisiana, and
many others. Mainly the establishment of
schools for the technical education of color
ed children in the mechanical branches and
trades. After discussing the objects in
view at some length the Conference adjourn
ed till Friday afternoon.
A prominent Philadelphia publisher
says: 'Ihere is more money in Bibles than
in anything else. There is steady, re-
liable trade for the good book, and think
have made 100000 of the different grades
since l have been in business. The price
ranges from ten cents for the kind given
away by the Bible Society to $50 for one
bound in velvet and ivory. l have nearly
ceased printing other books. AS general
thing they don't pay. Unless you can get a
work bya great author or a noted politician,
the sale of any book does not reach beyond
a small edition. paid Alexander II. Ste
vens $33, 900 royalty on the war between
the States, but only about $4,000 for his
History of the United States.'"
"A very singular case of suicide occurred
recently near Reading, Pa. John Stein
man, aged siXty-three years, bachelor of
peculiar habits and the owner of two hun
dred acre farm, we'll stocked with cattle,
was found in his barn sticking in a barrel,
head downward, and with life extinct.
When discovered he was burdened down
with weights and stones tied around his
neck, showing that it was case of deliber-
ate suicide. 1t is not known how long Stein
man was dead. He was last seen alive two
days before. On investigation it was found
that five of his COWS and two horses were
dead in his barn, all having their throats
cut. The instrument by which this was
committed was found to be on Steinman's
person, still damp; also, 81 900 in green
backs were found sewed in his coat. 1t is
not known what caused the man to kill the
animals and then take his own life, but it
is supposed he was laboring under religious
excitement.
Col. Thomas Buford, the slayer of Judge
Elliott, of the Kentucky, Court of Appeals,
died last Thursday morning at the Ancho-
rage, KY, Lunatic Asylum, after long
illness from chronic disease. Buford shot
and killed Judge Elliott for rendering de-
cision against Buford's sister in case in
volving considerable property. After the
trial Buford was adjadged a lunatic and
sent to an asylum, from which place he
escaped, going across the river to Indiana,
where he lived about year, hunting and
fishing, the asylum officials being unable
under law to bring him back to Kentucky.
Without friends or money BufOrd grew
sick and was finally forced by want to re-
turn to the asylum, where he remained un-
til his death. 1t is only seven years since
he killed Judge Elliott, but in that time
Buford saw his family lose all their prop
erty and the trouble of his brother was un-
dOubtedly the cause of the suicide of the
noted turfman, General Abe Buford, who
killed himself last summer.
The proposed extradition treaty be-
tween Great Britain and the United States,
a draft of which has been submitted to the
Canadian government, will embrace the
following offences: Murder, including as
sassination, parricide, infanticide and pOis-
oning; attempt to murder, manslaughter,
counterfeiting or altering money or utter
ing the same, forgery, embezzlement or
larceny, and obtaining money or goods by
false pretenses, crimes by bankrupts against
the bankruptcy law, fraud by a bailee, BAN
ker, agent, factor. trustee or director, men,
ber of or public officer Of any company,
rape, abduction, child stealing, burglary or
housebreakihg, arson, robbery, with vio-
lence, threats by letter or otherwise with
intent to extort, piracy as defined by the
law of nations, the sinking or destruction
of vessels at sea, assaults on board ship on
the high seas, and revolt or conspiracy to
revolt by two or more persons on board
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