Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-16
Straps and fafts.

Rev. DIR. Lenard, prohibition candidate
for Governor of Ohio, is a Methodist divine
Judge Foraker, Republican candidate, is 6
prominent Methothdist. Judge Geddes
who may lead the Democratic host, is al
so leader in the Methodist church.
All the buildings and machinery of the
Crump gold mine, near Charlotte, n. G.
were burned last Saturday morning. The
fire caught in the engine room. The loss
is $4,000; no insurance. The Crump was
owned by Boston capitalists. The build
ings and machinery were new, and the
mine had just commenced work last week
Storms amounting to cyclones occurred
in various parts of Pennsylvania, New York
and New England on Thursday. Great
damage was done by the lightning and sew:
eral persons were killed in widely separated
localities At one point in Mohawk valley
New York, the storm sWepta straight track
two miles long and uniformly fifty feet wide
The Augusta Chronicle asks: Can it be
that Ferdinand Wards trial is being post
poned until after Gen. Grants death, be-
cause of some damaging evidence? How
strange that when Grant was at Appomat-
toX, a cub singing in Sunday-School was
even then preparing to prove his evil gen.
ius and destroyer. Verify, 1--WE know not
what we will be-"
Ten acres of land over an old coal mine
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, caved and sank from
three inches to o foot on Tuesday. Sever
al railroad tracks cross the land and trai
was running over it at the time. All the
miners got out safely, but several of them
were knocked down or hurled considerable
distances by the rush of air through the
passages.
= Governor st. John is making Republl-
can fur fly in Ohio, as a prohibition orator.
He spoke kindly of the South, and declared
that section to be more peaceful and sober
than East or West. The Republicans were
arraigned for hypocrisy on the liquor ques,,
tion, while the Democrats, who promised
nothing, had performed wonders Tor practl-
cal reform temperance.
One of the happiest creatures on earth is
: a Mexican peasant, whose dress is scantler
than that of a mythical Georgia Major. lie
lives lazy life in the open air, working
just enough to get the scant subsistence he
requires. One Of these days this happy,
a Yankee civilization, which engenders
wealth, love of money, artificial wants, dys-
pepsia and misery.
The New Orleans Picay,uae says: "More
is required of the young ladies in society
than of young men. A young man need
not be beautiful, need not sing, play or say
ANYTHING intelligent. He may be positive
ly idiotic, and yet get on we'll in society, as
is shown in numerous instances" This is a
severe indictment, and may account for
some degeneration in this age.
- In the United States Circuit Court at
Baltimore last week, Judge Bond affirmed
the decree of the District Court awarding
three colored women damages OF S1OO for
having been excluded from first class sleep
ing apartments on the steamer Sue, after
they had purchased first class tickets. This
settles the question so far as travelling on
the Chesapeake bay is concerned.
In North Carolina, where the Legisla-
ture recently appropriated $4,000 for the
benefit of disabled soldiers who had served
in the Confederate army, on the suppositlon
that there would be about 1000 applicants,
each of whom would receive $50, over
5000 applicants have already presented
their claims, and it is thought that the whole
number will reach 1900. If this expecta-
tion is realized, each disabled veteran will
receive the munifcent sum Of $3.50.
Two more arrests were made at Salt
Lake last week for unlawful cohabitation.
Robert Swain and Robert Morris, both poor
men and each with three wives and large
herds of children. Swaim's polygamous
wives gave evidence freely, saying they
were his wives and he the father of their
children. This frankness is something OF
a departure in such prosecutions. Morris
waived examination. Both defendants
were placed under bonds to await the &C
tion OF the grand jury.
Louis Riel, the Canadian insurgent, was
formally handed over to the military au-
thorities on the 7th instant. Stipendiary
magistrate, Richardson, read the indict-
ment consisting Of six counts to Riel who
was remanded until Monday, for trial.
Only the escort and counsel for the crown
were present. Riel looked healthy and
quite self possessed. On his arralgnment
last Monday the plea of insanity was en-
tered.
The attempt to establish an information
al camp of soldiers at Philadelphia during
the summer months proved gigantic
failure. Several companies-a few from
Southern States-went into camp; but the
State authorities of Pennsylvania did not
enter into the movement, nor did 1t seem
to enlist the sympathies of the citizens of
the State generally. Some of the soldiers
from Kentucky behaved like black-guards,
and some of them from the West insulted
their Southern associates by singing "We'll
hang Jeff. Davis on a sour apple tree :,
That incidentcame near bridging the bloody
chasm with blows.
Hon. Henry Cisco, of Xenia, Ohio, visit
ed Evansville, Tenn, last Thursday, to in
vestigate charge against Jack Evans, a
wealthy citizen Of that place, whois charged
with having prosecuted a man named Van
Buskirk, who rencently moved to that
place from Ohio, until the latter was driven
insane, and is now in a mad house in New
York. Van Buskirk was a prominent mem
ber of the knights of Honor, and that Or
der is investigating the matter. Cisco says
that he found the persecution to have been
malicious, and to have caused the mans
insanity. A sensational damage suit will
probably result.
A Vicksburg dispatch says: The Ma
tional Planters Association proposes to
raise through voluntary donations from
planting, manufacturing and commercial
interests 100000 to be offered two years
hence in various premiums for the develop
ment and improvement of farms and i'm
plements and machinery used in cultiva-
tion. The premium list will include a
model with plans and specifications of a
farm residence adapted to the cotton States,
a model gin house, barns, stables, fences,
gates, etc. Large premiums will be offered
for the best general crop, embracing cattle,
grain and stock; also for the best acreage
of cotton and other crops. The date of the
contest will not be earlier than the crop
year Of 1886.
Since the first of January, according to
the Chicago Tribune, the persons lynched in
the various parts Of the country number
ninety-nine, ofWhom ninety-siX were males
and three females, fifty-eight white and
forty-one colored. In detail the States are
represented as follows: Alabama 3, Arkan-
sas /, Florida ,, Georgia ., Iowa 5, Kansas
l, Kentucky 3, Maryland l, Mississippi 6,