Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-03-19
Straps and fafts.

The strike of the river and railroad coal
miners in Pennsylvania includes from 1000
to 5000 strikers. A few mines are working,
paying the three cents demanded. On the
Baltimore and Ohio but one mine is rum
ming.
At Bowling Green, KY, Charles Moore,
son of DIR. j. P: Moore, one of the wealth.
father, forced him at the point of pistol,
to sign notes for over $4,000. He was ar
rested.
In Buncombe county, n. c., over nun
dred colored babies have been burned to
death since October. The mothers lock
their little ones in the house while they 60
to work, and in this way the accidents have
come about.
The suit of G.. w. Chalk VS.. the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad Company, to
recover damages for quantity of Hour
burned in the depot in Charlotte, in 1875,
was decided in the superior court of Meek
lenburg county last week, in favor of Mr..
Chalk, the verdict being tor $S45.
Immediately after Col. Villas had taken
the oath of Office of Postmaster-G General
he turned and kissed his wife. This was
q graceful way of indicating that all the
mails in the United States could not divert
his devotion from the one female who
claims his allegiance.
Pennsylvania has furnished twenty
eight cabinet officers, Massachusetts twen-
ty-seven, New York twenty-three, Virginia
tWenty-one, and California, Florida, Rhode
Island and Texas combined, not one. Rhode
Island is the only one of the original thir-
teen that has never had any cabinet mate
rial.
BY permission of Bishop Baltes, of AL
ton, Ill.,, the old bell belonging to the Cath
olic Church at Kaskaskia, ILL.,, cast in
France in 174l, has been sent to the New
Orleans Exposition. 1t was the first bell
west of the Allegheny mountains, and has
been in use in the parish Of Kaskaskia for
the past 14O years.
A practical joke played on man in
Watseka, Ill.,, has made him insane. He
invested heavily in lottery tickets, and
some one who knew of his weakness sent
him an announcement that he had drawn
a prize and inclosed draft for 81, 100000.
The discovery that the draft was bogus has
completely unbanlanced his mind.
The Soldiers Home managers are get
ting ready to bring suit against Gen. But
ler for the 100000 deficit which the Gen.
Rosecrans committee found in his accounts
while he was treasurer of the home. They
are confident that the case is good one, as
the accounts upon which the deficit is found
are based upon sworn transcripts from the
Generals own books.
- The business failures throughout the
country occurring during the week ending
last Friday, as reported to the mercantile
agency of r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 23e and for Canada 44-a total
of 2S2 against 2S3 the previous week. The
da, but in New York and the Eastern States
they are below the average. The South
ern and Western States furnish about two
thirds of the total number in the United
States.
At 1880 o'clock last Friday, John West,
colored, was hanged in the Jail yard of
Montgomery, Alabama. Only the sheriff,
his deputies, doctors and three or four others
short @ spescS S ia% and % admitted killing the ne
gro for which crime he was to hang. His
neck was broken by the fall. Life was pro-
nounced extinct in about fifteen minutes,
but the body was not taken down until 30
minutes had elapsed.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Chicago, last Thursday, after hearing elab-
crate arguments for a new trial in the case
of Jos. c. Macken and William Gallagher,
who were found guilty in the eighteenth
denied the motion for a new trial. He then
ordered the prisoners to stand before the
bar and formally sentenced each to two
years. imprisonment in the State prison at
Joliet, and also imposed a fine of $1,000 on
each. He then ordered them into the Gus
tody of the United States Marshal and de-
ferred the date of their removal to Joliet
for ten days.
The successor of Senator Lamar is per-
in Mississippi. Gen. Walthall is a native
of Richmond, Va. He was born in 1881,
moved to Holly Springs, Miss, when
mere child where he was raised, and after
completing his education entered the pro-
fession of law. He was district attorney
of his judicial district, that being the only
civil Office ever held by him, and which he
resigned to enter the Confederate army, in
which, by his gallant bearing and superior
merits, he rose step by step from first lieu
tenant to major-general.
- According to DR.. Hyades, who has late
ly returned from Terra del Fuego, Whith-
er he was dispatched on a mission by
the French government, the Fuegians are
the lowest human beings in the scale of
existence. Their language contains no word
for any number above three; they are un-
able to distinguish one color from another;
they have no religion and no funeral rites,
and they possess neither chiefs nor slaves.
Their only weapons are bone pointed spears,
and as they grow neither fruits nor vege-
tables and their country is naturally barren,
they are obliged to live entirely on animal
food. Even these savageS possess, however,
some social virtues. They are not cani-
balls; they ill-treat neither women nor the
old, and they are homogeneous.
The treasury department has received
from the assistant treasurer at New York,
specimens of counterfeit one cent pieces
which are believed to have obtained eXten-
sive circulation in New York and vicinity.
The counterfeit is made solely Of copper,
whereas the genuine coin is alloyed with
nickel. AS nickel is more valuable than
copper it will readily be seen that the man.
ufacture of good counterfeits, consisting en-
tirely of the baser metal, would prove
lucrative business if successfully conducted
for any great length of time. 1t is estima-
ted that a profit of s. cents would be made
on every hundred of the spurious pieces put
into circulation. The matter is being in
vestigated by the officers of the secret SER
vice.
- Says the Charlotte Observer: Luther
Wallace, Mecklenburg darkey, met a
strange dog on the road, and STOPPING down
he propounded the query, "Whar's you
goin' ?" The canine not fancying such famil-
iarity, fastened, his teeth in Wallace'S lips,
pinning them together. The negro beat the
dog off, knocked it in the head, and to make
sure of him cut his tail off close to his ears.
Going to Charlotte he borrowed a celebra-
ted maidstone and applied it to his lips, but
as it failed to adhere to the wound he felt
satisfied the dog did not have rabies. The
stone the negro used has effected several
cures; it was applied to mad dog bite on