Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-08
Straps and fafts.

45sUUO acres from Cne previous SeeulnS.
The condition of the growing crop is fair
The admission is at last publicly made
that the New Orleans Exposition is in ev-
erything but favorable condition. 1t is
now 5000, 900 in debt, and is about calling
for another half million appropriation from
Congress. New Orleans is waking to the
fact that it takes money to run a show.
Petitions asking the Legislature of Penn
sylvania to submit to the voters an amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting the
manufacture and sale within that common
wealth of alcoholic liquors to be used as a
beverage, have been sent out by the Consti-
tutional Amendment Association of Penn
sylvania.
= The movement of raising 100000 to
relieve the personal effects of Gen. Grant
from mortgage liability has taken practical
shape in New York. Several subscriptions
have already been made for the object.
The conclusion of Grants physiciansi is that
he is completely broken down in health.
.-According to the official returns from
of votes given for President on the. four
electoral tickets was 10,036,057, of which
Grover Cleveland received 4,S42, ,292 James
G. Blaine, 4,sl0,2l9; Benjamin F. Butler,
234, ,S4S; and John p. St. John, 248, ,59S. To
this aggregate there is to be added 1882
scattering and defective votes.
1t is said that new process for drying
timber has just been discovered. 1t consists
in surrounding the wood with common salt.
I'm ordinary kiln drying the albumen is
killed or destroyed, and the surface dries
cape eventually through cracks caused by
the uneven expansion of the wood. The
new process is vastly better.
"A queer case has come up for decision
in Utah. One Edward Senior, Mormon,
had two wives. The first, or legal, wife
died. Now Senior is dead. The question
is whether wife No. is his legal widow,
and entitled to share in his estate. Judge
Zane, in the United States Circuit Court,
has decided that she is not. The case goes
up on appeal to the Supreme Court of the
Territory.
= Bradstreets report of the failures of 1854
forms rather gloomy record. The number
has been greater than any year since 1878,
and is little larger than even in that year,
while the amount of liabilities is about the
same as it then was. Nearly II 900 failures,
QO,965,) with liabilities of 1924 ,Ss3,132, have
marked the year. But relatively the most
important of these occurred in the second
quarter, which covered the ''panic' of May.
= Bristol Tunnel, on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was set on fire by strikers
last Friday morning and cannot be used
for the passage of trains. The tunnel,
which is about 1000 feet long, has solid
walls of coal on either side and these are
still burning. Three or four hundred feet of
tunnel have caved in. None of the incen-
diaries have been apprehended, as they did
their work in disguise, and cannot be iden-
titled.
The Rev. G. S. Smith, the colored ora
tor, who, before his removal to Illinois,
was prominent Republican politician and
member of the Alabama Legislature, now
seems to be confident that he is to get his
reward tor leaving the old party and work
ing like beaver for the election Of Grover
Cleveland. Smith is q very brilliant man,
and his race look upon him as the coming
leader of the colored people, man likely
to fill the shoes of Frederick Douglass. His
friends in Illinois and the East will present
Liberia.
Gov. Begole, of Michigan, has written
to a Detroit paper defending his course in
granting pardons by the wholesale: He
SAYS: From my experience in our prisons,
where have devoted much time, I earnest
ly believe that there are 2G0 men in our
prisons to-day in whose cases the ends of
Justice would he better served by their
release. There are many young men serv-
ing out sentences for no other crime than
being poor. There are rings in all the
large towns of our State that arrest, convict
and send to prison persons for no other
reason than to make business for constables,
sheriffs and justices, that small sum OF
money would release.
The increase in crimes of violence du-
ring the year 1884, just closed, is very mark
ed. Fairly complete returns have been
compiled showing 3,377 murders in the
United States in 1884, against !, ,494 in 1888.
pared with 910 the previous year. The
number of executions was Ill, against 105
the year before, very small increase when
the number of capital crimes has been so
large. But this is accounted for in some
degree when it is known that 2l9 culprits
met mob violence during the year, against
81 in 1888. Hanging was the general
form assumed by these violent acts, only
25 of the number being shot. l57 of the
victims were white, 81 negroes and Japa-
nese while 2wOmen were hung to telegraph
poles out in Colorado.
The year 1884 will become memorable in
the annals of earthquakes. The earthquake
last summer on the Atlantic coast was less
noteworthy than the latest earthquake in
Europe, of which we cannot be sure that the
force is even yet spent. It's extent, from
Austria to Wales, is less noteworthy than
its persistency. Unless the estimate of the
number of victims at 1000 be an eXaggera-
ton, this earthquake has been more de-
structive than any that has visited Europe
since the Ischian earthquake in 1881. At
all events it will be remembered as one of
the most destructive even in Spain, the
piety of which was ascribed by the inge-
nious Mr.. Buckle to the imminent danger
of being shaken up in which the inhabitants
passed their lives.
1t has been determined to send the
Liberty bell from Philadelphia to New
Orleans, January %, and the Mayor and
several other gentlemen interested in the
matter have made the necessary arrange
ments with General Agent Latta, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t will 60 in a
special train over the Pennsylvania Rail-
road. The bell itself is to 60 in special
car, open at the sides, so that it can be seen
along the route. In one end of this car is a
small compartment, which will be occupied
by the three policemen who will 60 to pro-
tect it and remain by it by turns night and
day until it is returned. Attached to the
train will be other cars for the special
junketing committee that is to accompany
the bell. A pilot engine will run ahead of
the train to insure its safety. The trip will
be by way of Louisville. This will be
the second time the bell has left Philadel-
phia. The other time was when, in lit,
the British expected to occupy the city, and
it was removed to Bethlehem, Pa, for
safety.
Every fresh detail received from the
Spanish districts in which the earthquake
shock was severest, adds new horror to a
great calamity. At Neirga, a town of 1000