Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-29
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the bloody shirt is good for another decade" !"
Wisconsin and Alabama have the same
density of population, yet the value of
land averages $23.30 in Wisconsin and
$4.19 in Alabama. Commenting on this
discrepancy, Professor Dodge says: "It is
not merely population, but harmonious
development of industry, that makes the
difference"
Ex-First Assistant Postmaster General
Malcom Hay, appointed under President
Cleveland, died at his residence in Allegha-
ny City, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. His
tenure of Office was comparatively short,
owing to ill health, but he managed to vii
the good will Of all who knew him in
Washington, Democrats and Republicans
alike.
- The Democratic majority in the next
House of Representatives will be forty
three. The majority in the last Congress
was seventy five. Forty-three is sufficient
ly large for all practical purposes, and will
result, perhaps in more careful and thought
full legislation than a larger marjOrity
would. Big majorities in legislative bodies
are not always good things.
i From six to twenty bridal couples visit
the White House daily. The President has
resolved to revive a custom once prevalent
there, and to present a few choice flowers
to each bride that calls upon him. The
necessary orders have been given at the
conservatory, but it is not known how the
custom will be carried out. In former times
the brides had to inform the President that
they were brides.
that Malone is making the biggest effort
of his life in this campaign to carry the
legislature and secure his reelection to the
Senate, and warn the Democrats that if
they would beat him they must work and
poll big vote on election day. Billy is
small in stature, but there is a good deal
of him when it comes to work and push
and devilment on general principles.
About 1000 immigrants entered the
State of California during the month of
September. The number Of those who
came to purchase land was nearly equal to
those who settled on Government land. 1t
is a singular and somewhat unexpected Oc-
currence that the present depressed condi-
tion of business and agriculture in New
Zealand has induced many people from that
majority want small farms and have means
for a start op moderate scale.
Dan May, the 12-year-old son of the
Rev. D. May, of the North Carolina Con-
ference, and Herbert Clark, the 11-year-old
son Of Robert Clark, of Laurenburg, n. c.,
went hunting near that town last Friday.
On their return home Clark, in playful
mood, pointed his gun at May and threat
ened to shoot. The gun went off accident
ally and the contents lodged in Mays face,
inficting terrible wounds. One eye was
shot out and part Of his cheek-bone was
torn off. May is in critical condition, but
may recover.
A lovely Creole girl, only sixteen years
old, is on trial at Emporia, Kansas, for
numbering her husband, man much older
than herself, who had been married twice
before. She is believed to be innocent and
is thus described: "Tall, of slender, but
well developed build, and graceful carriage.
Her hair is black, long and wavy, cluster
ing around the temples in knots and rings.
Her eyes large, black and expressive, with
long, sweeping lashes, delicate nose and
rather pouting lips of perfect cut. Her
complexion is phenomenal, of waxen white
ness, and perfect rose-blush on her cheeks"
She will be acquitted. Jurors are but men.
j. Herbert Blake died at San Antonio,
Texas last Sunday afternoon. The deceased
had been living there since September last,
having left Ireland on account of threats
made against his life. He was barrister
of high standing in Dublin and member
of the Irish land commission. 1t was on
account of his action while one of the COM
mission that his life was endangered, he
having called down upon himself the wrath
of the Irish dynamiters. He was first
mated, together with Lord Cavendish, in
Phoenix Park by the Irish Invincibles.
A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch of Sat-
urday says Reports reached here last night
from Clarendon, Donely county, and other
points in the upper Pan Handle, of the
most devastating prairie fires ever known
in this State. It is believed that the num-
Der of acres burned over will approach 5O0,-
600. The country in which the fires are
raging extends from the Canadian River
100 miles south. It is impossible as yet to
give an idea of individual losses. In some
places cowboys were obliged to ride into
the lakes to save themselves. Judge Brown,
of Clarendon, was severely burned while
millet, which was destroyed. Fully one
fourth of his range was also DESTROYED.
The problem of steering a balloon has
at length been solved. Two French ero-
nauts NM. Renaud and Krebs, assembled
from Paris recently in the presence of the
minister of war and large concourse of
people. They guided a balloon toward in
dicated landmarks, made head against the
wind, and, after these evolutions, returned
to the place whence they started. We are
not told whether any special conditions of
air attended the trial f; but if aerial travel
can be organized and the balloon guided,
it ushers in great probabilities. New coun-
tries can be explored from above, many
now impossible tracts surveyed, and posi-
bly, even the north pole itself investigated.
- An Ottawa dispatch of Friday says: At
Cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon it
fn RiaPS
till November 11th. The French Canadians
still express confidence that Riel will not
be hanged. They base their hopes on the
recommendation to mercy of the Regina
jury. Referring to the decision of the
Privy Council in the Riel appeal case, the
Toronto Mail says: "The only plea now
left to Riel's friends is one of insanity, but
as the jury, which is the sole judge of such
questions, could not be convinced that Riel
did not know that he was doing wrong,
it follows that the verdict cannot now be
charged on the ground of prisoners insani-
ty, unless new evidence has in the mean
time come to light. Such thing it is not
pretended has happened, and we presume
ried out, and Riel will be executed for his
crime"
The skies of southeastern Europe again
look ominous and war seems not far distant.
Information from the seat of the trouble is
indefinite, but the best authorities declare
that the Servian troops are massing at
Nissa, city near the Bulgarian frontier,
and that the Turks are advancing to meet
them. Servia can hardly be opposed to the
union of Bulgaria and Roumelia, but is
probably ready to assist the Bulgarians
against the opposition of the Turks to the
union. In this event, she will, of course,