Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-18
Straps and fafts.


publican white sympathizers.
On his arrival at Washington, the other
day, Senator Logan, of Illinois, paid his re-
spects to the President and they had very
pleasant chat. Logan wants it to be under
stood that he does not propose to lock horns
with the administration over such a small
matter as removals from and appointments
to Office.
President Cleveland has defied the ma
chine Democrats of Chicago, who have re-
peatedly brought disgrace on the party, and
rejected their candidate for marshal OF the
northern district of Illinois. He appointed
F. H. Marsh, an ex-sheriff from the coun-
try who was endorsed by the cleaner ele-
ment of the party.
= The people of the South may congratu-
late Hon. Henry w. Blair upon his triumph
over w. E. Chandler for the New Hamp-
shire Senatorship. Mr.. Blair is Republi-
can, but true friend to the South, according
to his light. AS Democratic Senator was
not possible, the selection of a Republican
like Mr.. Blair was commendable.
A number of Baptist pastors held
meeting in New York city the other day
for the purpose of discussing the Old Testa-
ment revision. They objected to some
scholar, said he found many passages in
correctly translated, and he believed that
the revised version was sadly in need of
revision.
j. T. Cluverius, convicted in Richmond
of the murder of Fannie Lillian Madison,
received boquet a day or two ago from
White Plains, Va, the card attached to
which was in lady's handwriting, the on
ly public expression of Sympathy shown for
him since his arrest. There is talk in Rich
mond of raising a fund to erect monu-
ment over the grave of his victim, Lillian
Madison.
Twelve miles from Zacatecas, Mexico, is
the celebrated Santa Terbucio De Laveta
Grande mine, that has produced ever since
the Spanish conquest. 1t has been newly
developed and fitted throughout with the
most costly modern machinery. Last Sat-
urday the mine was totally wrecked by an
explosion plainly heard at Zacatecas, OF
, 500 cases of giant powder. Ten persons
were killed. a.l
The business failures occurring through.
out the country for the week ending last
Friday, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.'s
mercantile agency, number for the United
States 1856, and for Canada %, making a
total of POI against 223 the previous week.
Thirty-six failures are reported on the Pa
cific coast, which is above the average. All
other sections of the country show decided
decrease.
The estate of C. T. Howard, of the Lou
isianas Lottery, who was lately killed by q
runaway accident at Dobb's Ferry, instead
of being worth only $3,0O0,0O0 as has been
estimated, is declared by an acquaintance Of
his in New York, we'll informed as to hi his
affairs, to be more nearly worth $4,000, 900.
He says that the enormous profits of the
lottery have never been known, and that
Howard tried every way to conceal them,
80 as to hide the full extent of the sWindle.
The Illinois State Senate has passed an
important bill, the intent of which is the
discontinuance of the system of contract
labor in the State penitentiaries. The Act
provides that in future the entire govern
Inent and control of the Illinois peniten-
tiaries will be vested in the penitentiary
commissioners, the Governor being an ex.
oficio member of the board. The work of
the convicts is to be confined to such labor
as may be required by the State.
On the 10th instant, special train,
bearing the remains of Alexander H.
Stevens, accompanied by an escort and
many citizens, left Atlanta for Crawford
Vile, where the body which had been re-
moved from vault in Atlanta, was laid in
its permanent resting place at Liberty
Hail." the former home of the illustrious
dead. The funeral ceremonies took place at
Crawfordville on the same afternoon, where
appropriate addresses were made by Hon.
George T, Barnes, Hon. Harry Jackson, and
Governor Mcdaniel.
AT Mt. Airy, Md, the other day, fam
lily of bees were lowering in the air, look
ing for place to swarm, when a telegraph
operator happened to pass, and they decided
to settle upon his head. Several hundred
of them descended upon him and the rest
were following, when he ran, scraping the
unwelcome intruderS from his hair and
face with his hands, but getting so badly
stung before he could clear himself that he
tainted. His face was terribly swollen and
he suffered severe pain.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, dispatch of Thurs
day says: There are 16 cases of fever at Su-
gar Notch, and two deaths have occurred
since the last report. An outbreak of the
epidemic has occurred at Warrior Run, a
short distance from Vanticoke, and eight
cases of the fever are reported there. The
situation at Plymouth is improving, and
the epidemic is disappearing from there as
rapidly as possible. New cases are rare and
no deaths have occurred since last Friday.
Acting Chief of Police Huebler, of st.
Louis, has received letter from brother
of the late G.. Arthur Preler, who was
murdered at the Southern Hotel in that
city last April, inclosing letter from
Walter S. Darlington, of Stockport, Lancas-
shire, England, who states that Maxwell's
real name is II. M. Brooks. He was arti-
cled to firm of solicitors in Stockport, and
twelve months since established law prac-
tce at Hyde, where his father is school
master. He forged his fathers name to a
check and left for America.
On Friday last, Henry Attaway, a son
of Whetten Attaway, was in a field in Co.
weta county, Ga, with a force of negro
laborers, directing them in their work.
One of the negroes, upon being ordered
about by Attaway, grew violent and rushed
The father of the infuriated negro caught
Attaway and held him while his son gave
him three stabs. With the strength of des-
peration young Attaway broke loose, and
sinking his knife in his assassin's temple,
killed him instantly. Attaway died short
ly afterwards.
-SiXty-fve white persons, a large num-
ber Of them western drummers, are in
dicted at Dallas, Texas, for playing poker,
and 25O negroes are being tried for "crap
shooting" a game played with dice and
voodoisIn. The negroes were indicted
through the testimony of deacons of the
colored churches, who belive that the short
est road to perdition is through the game of
craiZe, and have organized to break it up.
A panic, almost amounting to an exodus,
has set in among the negroes; seventeen
walters have suddenly disappeared and the
menial service is generally paralyzed.
The Southern Exposition of 1885, at
Louisville, Ky, is now fairly launched onits
its career. Applicants are coming in every
day, and every day visitors are arriving and
inSDectinp the grounds and buildings with