Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-03
Straps aud fatts.

-Parnelrs recent declaration of the pur-
pose of his party to effect the dissolution of
the union between Ireland and England has
excited the British politicians of both par
ties and they are unanimous in declaring
that they will fight any such proposition
to the bitter end.
A naval cadet when at sea receives a
salary of $3.50 year. On shore duty he
receives $500. Senior Lieutenants, at sea,
receive $2,400 annually for the first five
years and $1,000 afterward. Junior grade
Lieutenants receive S1,S00 and $4,000, ac-
cording to length of service, in the same
way.
AT Chautauqua, the other day, Rev. DR..
Edward Everett Hale said that "the leader
of the choir should be as pious man as
the pastor, and should contribute as largely
to the work. Neither should be jealous and
both should cooperate" When choir
leader can be found who is pious and not
Jealous, there will be no need for churches.
The Mississippi State Democratic Con-
vention, recently in session, endorsed the
Blair educational bill, and recommended
its passage by Congress. They also recon-
mended pension for disabled and INDECENT
Confederate soldiers by the State. 1t is to
be hoped that our disabled soldiers may yet
receive the justice to which they are so
nearClly enClCleu
- The record in the Cluverius case which
has just, been completed will make, accord,
ing to the Richmond Dispatch, four or five
hundred pages in print. 1t includes all the
evidence deemed relevant. There is no
doubt that an appeal will be allowed, but
argument on it will hardly be heard this
side of Christmas. Cluverius still processes
to believe that he will get new trial.
"A New York telegram says that there
are indisputable evidences of the increase
of trade. Leading business men say that
their correspondents from all over the South
and Southwest write in the most hopeful
view of the splendid crop prospect and in
crease in trade of ali kinds. This is due
not alone to the present good crop, but to
general improvement and advancing pros
perity in those sections.
= General Benjamin F. Butler denies that
he has written letter endorsing President
Cleveland's administration, and adds that
he will not attend any Democratic conven-
tion this year unless somebody says he
shan't, in which event he might 60 to show
that he can't be bullied. He also asserts
that he would be very unhappy to have the
impression get abroad that he has any in
fiuence with the administration, because he
would be s'overwhelmed with requests for
recommendations for this place or that"
from which his mail is now almost free.
- Among the things which thirty-five
years ago went to make up the crime of high
treason in Italy was the possession OF BIZ
BILE, which was in the list of revolutionary
and forbidden books, and for man to own
it was to subject him to prison, the galleys
and even to death. Now Bible depots are
established in every italian city, and itin-
Grant venders circulate the book freely.
In a conspicuous store in the COrso, Rome,
a whole window is filled with copies of the
Italian version of the Scriptures. The New
Testament can be purchased for hVe cents,
and q separate gospel for two.
Great excitement prevailed in Sturgis,
Dakota, the scene of the lynching of Ross
H. Hollis, the colored soldier, the assassin
of DR.. Lynch, on Thursday. A number of
colored soldiers of Fort Mead, members of
the 18th U. S. infantry, armed themselves
and proceeded to the town of Sturgis threat
ening to burn the place. Trouble seemed
imminent, but Gen. Sturgis, commanding at
Fort Mead, on being informed of the trou-
BILE, detailed a patrol from the Seventh
Cavalry, which secured the town, capturing
and returning the disaffected to the post.
Spain is about to give up one hundred
thousand of her citizens to the cholera, and
France may make a similar sacrifice. In
with which the doctors are unable to cope.
The victims die suddenly, without the oc-
currence ofdiarrhea or vomiting. The pa
tient feels coldness, which cannot be coun-
teracted by the use of reactives, or even
by the most violent friction. Two hours
after death the body becomes black. AL
though the epidemic is not contagious, it is
feared that one hundred deaths daily will
soon be recorded.
- Says the Philadelphia Erening Star:
The croakers can't get around it, try as
they will. 1t is a fact, as definitely deter
mined as that two and two make four, that
business has commenced to improve, and is
likely to keep on in that line for long time
to come. Now let every one accept the
comfortable tiding and pitch in with de-
termination to hasten still more the good
time coming. Confidence in the future of
business will greatly expedite the develop
ment of this boom, and of which this dou-
BILE sheet issue of the Star, thus early in the
fall season, is but one of the premonitory
indications.
Charles Townsend, negro who murder
ed an old man named Freeman, at Mad
ison, nine miles from Huntsville, Ala, was
hanged in the county Jail yard at Hunts
Vile last Friday morning at $50. Town
send entered the store of Freeman on the
evening of December 9, 1884, and asked for
a nickel's worth of peanuts. The old man
stopped down to get them out of barrel,
and while in this position Townsend pro-
cured an ak, which he had in a convenient
place, and cruelty struck him on the head.
Not satisfied with this he struck him anoth-
er blow, cut his thraot from ear to ear with
q dull knife and then robbed him, getting
only $23. Townsend's neck was broken
by the drop.
If there are any vestiges of sectional
spirit remaining in the country, says the
New York Times, they do not appear to be
at the South. Some of the planks of the
platform of the Mississippi Democrats have
a close resemblance to those of Republican
platforms Of twenty years ago. They de-
clare first of all "fdelity to the constitution
of the United States," and demand the
"protection Of equal rights for all classes"
and "no discrimination on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude or
birthplace" There is scarcely anything in
the platform suggestive even of party differ
ences, and the Cooperation of all citizens is
invited without regard to past differences.
The spirit of progress is indicated in the
pledge for the maintenance of free schools,
the encouragement of immigration, and the
demand for prompt, vigorous, and i'm
partial administration of the criminal laws"
Mr.. Anthony NJ. Kelly, of Virginia,
was appointed by President Cleveland
United States minister to Italy, but that
government objected to receiving him on ac-
count of some structures he once passed in
the Virginia Legislature upon King Eman-
uel. He then declined that appointment
in favor of the mission to Austria; but the
Austrian government would not receive
his credentials because his wife is a Jewess.