Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-20

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900 was refused. Her last calf could not be
bought for $4,000
Cotton crop reports from nearly every
section of Texas Indicate >considerabl dam
age from drought within the past ten days.
In number of PLACES the plant is reported
as shedding freely and being otherwise in
Jured. Notwithstanding this there is no
reporS~1fom any single section which does
-4HSC estimate better cotton yield than last
year. . .. .
The recent law passed by the Legisla-
ture of Pennsylvania prohibiting the en-
ployment within the coal mines of boys
under fourteen years age, throws out OF en-
ployment 10000 boys whose places are be-
ing filled by Poles and Hungarians as rap
idly as they can be supplied. These boys
got from IS cents to 81 per day, but the for
eigners are willing to work for even less.
Col. Thomas Dodamead, prominent
citizen and we'll known railroad superin-
tendent, died in Richmond on Friday, aged
6s years. He was native of Philadelphia,
but had resided in Virginia nearly, half
almost every old railroad in Virginia, and
also of the Columbia and Greenville road.
He was distinguished Mason and highly
esteemed throughout the State.
Meade, the man who was appointed
postmaster at Copiah, Miss, by President
Cleveland and whose appointment was re-
voked by the President because of his being
implicated In the killing of Republican
last year, was recently a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the legislature.
He was defeated. This fact does not seem
to imply that the Democrats of Copiah are
anxious to rebuke the President.
"A Boston dispatch of the 11th says: Ex-
Governor Franklin J. Moses, of South Car
olina, who was released from custody in
MiddleseX county, where he was serving
out term of Imprisonment for obtaining
money under false pretenses, is again in
trouble, having been brought into the su-
perior Criminal court to-day charged with
obtaining money from Samuel c. Coble,
Fred L. Ames and others of this city on
false pretenses, in representing that he was
Col. Simms, of Charleston.
On Thursday last the North Carolina
Adventists held their State Conference at
Wilmington. The majority of theirstrength
is in the western part of the State. They
have singular belief. They accept Scrip
ture literally, and believe that after death
the outer body or "shell," as they term it,
slips off, much in the same manner as the
shell of locust, and that another body,
smaller but in other respects similar, comes
out and goes heavenward after short pro-
bation in some place.
Republican newspapers are badly mix
ed upon the question whether to deny that
the Democratic Administration is actually
engaged in the work of reforming the Civil
service, or to proclaim that the Democratic
party has been split wide open on account
of the Administration prosecuting that work
so vigorously. Not being able apparently
to choose between these two schedules, the
organs are running both at the same time
with the natural result of frequent and pain
full collisions.
IT know Jefferson Davis Intimately"
says DR.. Divine, of Atlanta, formerly a
neighbor of Mr.. Davis in Mississippi, "and
the prevalent idea that he is dyspeptic or
sour Is very unjust. He is a great student,
much given to his books, and consequently
not on the 'hurrah' order of men. But he
is as gentle as woman, as approachable as
a child, and his sympathies are readily
worked up when stories of the suffering are
poured into his ear. Davis is one of those
men whose fame will come out in bold re-
liefwhen his detractOrs are dead and for
gotten"
During the past two weeks reports of
the appearance of caterpillars have come
from various sections of the South. With
the present agricultural outlook, The best
the country has had for years, it would be
matter of serious regret should the crop be
endangered from this cause, A leading eX-
change has taken the trouble to investigate
the reports thoroughly, the result of which
shows that the appearance of the caterpillar
is too late to affect materially the present
crop, and that they have appeared in To-
calities in which the cotton crop is furthest
advanced, and therefore there is little dam
ger to be apprehended from them.
Two of the most prosperous and appa-
rently contented men in New York just
now are Messrs. Warner and Work. They
live in palaces and have one of the most
luxurious business offices in the city. These
gentlemen know something of the where
absorbed during the existence OF the tlrm
of Grant & Ward. Mr.. Warner took Sc, ,O00,-
600 out of that firm in less than eighteen
months, and to him Ward transferred his
property about the time of the big failure.
Mr.. Work, his partner, emerged from the
financial cataclySm of May, 'S4, millionaire.
It is generally believed in New York that if
Ferd. Ward, Mr.. Warner and Mr.. Work
would be a little candid they might explain
the mysterious disappearance of the Grant
& Ward cash.
Maxwell, who is charged with murder
ing G. Arthur Preller in st. Louis, some
months ago and made his escape to New Zea-
land, where he was arrested, has arrived at
ST. Louis in charge of an official. He talks
but little, though he says that in due time
he will produce Preler alive and we'll and
show where he got the body found in the
trunk. Maxwell asserts that the body in
the trunk was bought by himself and Prel-
Ter and left in the hotel for the purpose of
procuring the insurance money upon Prel
Ier's life. Since MaXwell's return to ST.
Louis, Charler BIGGER, trunk-maker re-
cognized him as the man to whom he sold
the trunk in which Preler's body was
found, and a porter at the Southern Hotel
recognized him as having been guest at
that house in April last.
Two hundred newspapers are received
daily at the White House. Three thousand
dollars is appropriated for the purpose of
paying the subscription price of these pa
pers. Besides those regularly subscribed
for, marked copies are sent in large num-
bers every day. Col. Lamont reads these
papers and cuts out anything Of interest to
the Administration. These clippings, care
fully arranged in chronological order, are
pasted in scrap-books under the heads of
tariff, finance, civil service, foreign policy,
appointments, current comment, Indians,
personal, and the like. Col. Lamont has
quick, retentive memory, and such is his
control of this faculty that he can tell the
President, with whom he is closeted every
day, the sentiment in regard to any par