Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
MERE.MENTION.

In pursuance of instructions from the War
Department, troops have been ordered to
Oklahoma and other parts Of the Indian
Territory, for the purpose Of removing un-
authorized settlers. '..:'''''LOuisiana sugar
planters are discouraged and depressed.
Owing to drought last summer the crop will
fall short, and the prospect for the coming
year is gloomy. No contracts with laborers
are being made for the new year, and much
apprehension is felt as to their future, as
they are without means of support and are
dependent upon their daily labor: Seven
or eight years ago, A. NJ. Truesdall was a
Chicago millionaire; now he is an inmate
of the aimshouse, the victim of strong
drink. .'''''''''Paymaster w. II. Smythe, sta
toned at Savannah, Ga, wound up spree
by disappearing from that city after draw
ing from the bank United States funds sub
iect to his order. He arrived in New York,
by which time he sobered up, and has made
restitution, though he will probably be court
martialed. .'.'"...:By the breaking of a mill
dam near Meaford, Ontario, last Friday, a
great body of water, which was held back,
rushed down the main street of the town,
sweeping the buildings before it, and what
was once fine avenue is now the bed OF a
river. ....'.'Frank Hurd, the defeated Ohio
Free Trade Democrat, being reported to
have recently said that Grover Cleveland is
also Free Trade Democrat, and President
of a Free Trade Club, the President-elect
says that he never has been connected in any
way with any such organization. '''''''." The
northern ice crop promises to be very large
and fine one. Cutters are now hard at
work. ..'...'"A California justice, being puz-
zled by case, put the two lawyers who ar
gued it under oath as to the correctness OF
their Interpretation of the law. One took
the oath readily, but the other declined and
lost his case. ..'.'...The st. Louis Post Dis
putch estimates that there are $1,000 skilled
laborers now out of employment in that city
and nearly 10000 day laborers. '''''"Gov-
ernor Cleveland will continue his residence
in Albany until he moves to Washington to
take possession of the White House. 1.-The
negroes who went from the South to settle
in Kansas, have had sufficient experience
in that State, and as many as can get away,
are moving to Arkansas and Texas. '''''''' In
the United States Court at Cincinnati, last
Saturday, Police-Leutenant Mullen was
sentenced to twelve months in the county
Jail for the imprisonment in Hammond
Street police station Of a number OF voters
on last election day and preventing them
Vile, Dakota, district in gold, silver, and
lead for the wear 1884 was Sl2, 49,, 400, an in
crease of S2,l34, 400 over the preceding
year. ...'."Large Quantities of corn are now
being shipped to market from the Nebraska
Valley. :':'.'Frank Hurd has given formal
notice of a contest of the election OF men,
ber of Congress from his district. The
teller and assistant cashier of the LeX!ng.-
ton, Ky, City National Bank has defaulted
for about $4,000 and fled to Canada. ""."On
Friday night last, two men boarded a train
between Perceyville and Philadelphia ana
robbed the passengers in true border rufhan
style, escaping with their booty. '''''..Gov-
ernor Cleveland sets much speculation at
rest by saving this to the correspondent OF
the Brooklyn Eagle: "No Cabinet appoint
ment has been made; none has been offer
ed; none has been determined on. Mrs:
Lucretia Garfield, the wife of the murdered
President, owns an interest in gold mine
in Stanly county, n. c., and she IS eX-
pected on visit to the locality next
month During the severe cold in Ne
braSka last week, seven men froZe TO deatn
on the road between NiObrara and Long
Pine.
The Anderson IteiigeRcer is informed by
q farmer of that county that he had maze
more money out of his rice crop the past
season than he had out of his cotton crop,
and he plants considerable cotton TOO. IIllt
paper says there are several farmers IN tnat
county who have been trying rice growing
on a small scale during the past four years,
and they have made a success OF IL. we
are glad to see this, and we hope others VIII