Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-12
Straps aud fatts.

is said to have been very able one.
- Col. r. A. jenkins has sent from North
Carolina to Washington well authentica-
ted Stuart portrait of George Washington,
supposed to be painted from life. 1t had
been hidden away several years in a garret,
where it was placed for safety at the out
break of the war.
Sixteen hundred white laborers along
the wharves and on the railroads at Gal
weston, Texas, and all on the Gulf, Colora-
do and Santa Fe railroad are out on strike
under orders of the knights of Labor. The
trouble grows from discrimination by the
Mallory steamship company against Knights
and the refusal of other wharf owners and
the railroad to boycott the Mallorys.
- Mahone's term of six years in the United
States Senate began March 4, 1881, and will
expire March 3, 1887. The sessions of the
Virginia Legislature are biennial, and hence
that body, which meets the first Monday
of December next, will elect Mr.. Mahone's
successor. Senator Riddleberger's term be-
gan March, 1883, and will expire March,
1889. His successor will be chosen by the
Legislature to be elected in November, 1887.
"A dispatch of Saturday from Omaha,
says heavy snow-stOrm prevailed along
the line of the Union Pacific Railroad on
that day. At Ogalata, Neb., fourteen inch
es fell and drifted, and a freight car was
blocked in cut East of Ogalata. The
snow was still falling at last accounts. At
North Platte four inches had fallen and the
storm was still in progress. The tempera-
ture north of Platte is 80 degrees.
"A section of John Robinson's circus Civ
ing tent shows along the Ohio river had
chartered the steamboat Mountain Girl. On
Friday the Mountain Girl with the circus
aboard collided with another steamer near
Aurora and sank. All the thirty or forty
horses in the circus including some valua-
BILE trick animals, seven deck hands and
two circus men were drowned and all the
tents, properties and curiosities are at the
bottom of the river.
The elections of 1885 being passed and
the Civil Service having been reorganiZed,
political editors will now be compelled to
devote themselves to guessing at the con-
tents of the Presidents message. Congress
will then furnish material until about July,
By this time the campaign for the fall cleo
tiOns will have been opened. Thus it is
that there is no escape for the non-political
reader.
The President issued proclamation
commanding all all persons at Seattle and
other places in Washington Territory who
had assembled for unlawful purposes, to
desist therefrom and disperse and retire
peaceably to their homes on or before twelve
o'clock on last Sunday. The assemblages
referred to are anti-Chinese mobs. The
proclamation and the arrival of troops had
the effect of breaking the backbone Of the
riot and no further trouble is feared.
"A dispatch of Sunday from Meridian,
Miss, says that on Saturday evening about
So'clock, a tornado struck the little village
of Brownsville, Sumter county, Alabama,
about forty miles east of there. 1t came
from the southwest and was about one.
quarter of a mile wide. 1t approached
most totally destroyed. No lives were
lost, but many persons were injured. Many
houses were blown down and others un-
rooted, and numbers of cattle were killed.
-Advices from Indian Territory say the
invasion of Oklahoma is creating apprehen-
sion. The country is full of boomers. The
United States troops are moving to expel
them, but, the intruders are scattered over
the Territory and it is impossible to reach
them at once. Couch, it is said, desires to
force fight between his followers and the
troops in the hope that Congress will inter-
fere and will open Oklahoma to settlement
The situation is grave. The Indians are
becoming restless, and mutterings of discon-
tent are heard on all sides.
- The Memphis Aualanche thus discours-
es on the negro problem: "The future of
the negro depends upon what he can do in
the industrial field. Put money in thy
purse is the Injunction to him. If he can
do that he will in that exhibit his power to
work out his own destiny. Whether that
destiny is to occupy one station or another,
its highest good for him is involved in his
power to turn patiently to intelligent and
always developing toll. 1t is not to be able
to do fairly we'll to-day, but to do better
tomorrow, to improve and to grow"
Anton Plans, of Peninsula, Ohio, was
given three to five grains of morphine in
mistake for quinine by green boy in
drug store. His life was despaired of,
and the entire populace turned out, and
about one hundred men, in an effort to save
his life, ran him up and down the streets
in the widest manner, while women and
children followed. At last Plans turned
upon his well-meaning tormentors and sew
cral desperate struggles ensued. His con-
dition was critical for several days.
"A novel public debate took place in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Saturday evening
last. For ten days newspaper controver-
sy had been in progress between Elder
Morgan, head of the Mormon church in the
South, and Mr.. G. {. Connor, an esteemed
citizen of Chattanooga, the elimination Of
which was challenge from Connor to Nor
gan for public debate. The challenge was
accepted, and the debate took place at
James hall, in the presence of large au-
dience, and lasted for three hours. Both
debaters were literally applauded, but de-
baters and audience were of the same opn-
ion still at the close of the discussion.
AT the meeting of the Synod of Ala
bama, at Huntsville, last Friday, the COM
mittee to whom was referred the protest of
DIR. Woodrow against the action of the trus-
tees of the Columbia Seminary in removing
him from the professorship because of his
peculiar views on evolution, made two re-
ports. The majority report, signed by four
Of the five members of the committee, ap-
proved the course Of the trustees in making
such removal. The minority report, signed
by DR.. VIM. Flynn, of Mobile, supports
DR.. Woodrow, alleging that the trustees
had no right to declare the chair vacant for
the cause mentioned. The reports were
taken up for discussion, and at late hour
on Saturday night the majority report was
adopted by vote of y to -.
A postOffice was established year ago
in the village of Corning, on the line of the
Perkiomen railroad, Pennsylvania, with
Mrs. Catharine Trump as postmistress. The
Office was conducted smoothly at first, but
this fall there was much complaint that
letters were being tampered with, and the
postoffice department had the matter in
vestigated by a special agent. This has just
resulted in the arrest of the pOstmstress,
who is charged with opening letters out Of
curiosity and reading them for the purpose of
keeping herself posted in regard to the bu-
siness secrets of her neighbors, and the love
affairs of the young people of the communi-
ty. She admitted her guilt on being arrest