Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-16
Straps and fatts.

Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the past week reported
b r. G. Dun & Co., number for the United
States 18l, Canada 29-total 209; against 1877
last week and 1877 the week previous.
Justice Woods, in the United States Court
at Atlanta has rendered decision which in
effect is o warning to the Georgia Railroad
Commission that regulating freight rates
beyond State limits would be interfering
with Interstate commerce.
The House Judiciary Committee has
reported in favor ofthe annullment and dis
solution of the corporation of the Mormon
trustees for the management of the church,
State St NV
"A professional beggar died recently in
Rio Janeiro and left a fortune of 100000.
A Rio journal remarks that the discovery
should occasion no surprise, as it is we'll
known that many of the beggars in that
city are worth more than those who bestoW
aims on them.
j. r. Bodwell has been nominated by
the Maine Republican Convention. Bod
we'll is a rich man and was Blaine and
Manley's candidate. 1t is said that there
will be a very decided bolt, as the old SOL
diers consider themselves treated badly by
the discarding of DR.. Hamlin's claims.
The latest advices from Auckland, New
Zealand, state that the volcanic eruption
at Farawera, destroyed entire villages in
the district, by swiftly burying them in
ashes. The surface of the earth for many
miles around the active volcano was dis
turbed by an earthquake which accompa-
MED the eruption.
DIR. Sunderland received a fee of 500 for
performing the Presidents marriage cere-
mony. It was a brand new bill which had
never apparently been in circulation. 1t
was handed to the doctor by Col. Lamont
Immediately after the Presidents departure.
DR.. Sunderland made his wife a present of
the bill, and she will keep it as a memento
of the occasion.
On last Wednesday the Supreme Court
of North Carolina affirmed the Judgment
of Wake Superior Court in the case of Gooch
and Smith, white men, charged with the
murder of John A. Cheatham, a merchant
of Raleigh, a year ago. Both of the men
were convicted and sentenced to be hanged,
but appealed. They will be resentenced at
the August term Of the Superior Court.
"A negro who borrowed money enough
of a Raleigh merchant to get a marriage
license, explained his action by saying that
he had a pretty good sized cotton crop,
and had heard that the farm hands talked
of demanding more wages. He had there
fore looked about, and having founda heal
thy widow with three able-bodied children,
would marry her next Sunday and put the
children to work on the farm on Monday.
In Oregon the Democrats have elected
the Governor, the Treasurer and a Supreme
Court Judge. The Republicans elect the
Secretary Of State, the State Superintend-
ent of Education and the State Printer: AS
the Governor, Secretary of State and the
Treasurer constitute the board for the man.
agement of all the State institutions, the
Democrats will have control of the States
affairs for the next four years.
The first public reception given by Pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland wa ON yesterday
evening, to which the Cabinet, diplomatic
corps, Judiciary, Congress, officers of the
army and navy, and heads OF certain bu-
reaus and ladies of their families were in
vited. A general reception, to which the
given next Friday from 8 to IL o'clock
A. M.
The night express on the Georgia Cen
trail railroad was wrecked at Rogers, eighty
five miles west of Savannah, Tuesday morn
wedged between the rails at the switch
threw the engine and three cars from the
track. Fireman Charles Maddox was kill
ed and Engineer VIM. p. Prendergast was
severely injured. 1t was a deliberately
laid plan to wreck the train.
Congress has entered upon the seventh
month of its session, and its proceedings
have presented to the country a Wretched
spectacle. The Republican Senate and the
Democratic House, though divided by par
ty spirit, are united in their joint incapaci-
ty to solve any important questions of
legislation. In all the weary months since
the last of December not a measure of pub
lie interest has been passed, except the bill
for settling the Presidential succession.
At Terrell, Texas, last Monday night,
Orange Terrell called on a young lady and
found there Miles Henderson, another Wis
itor. He Immediately drew a pistol and
shot the young man in the breast and the
young lady through the leg. He laid down
on a bed in the front room saying he was
going to kill himself, but shortly afterwards
City Marshal Kellar walked into the room
and ordered him to throw up his hands.
He did So, shooting at kellar at the same
time, whereupon the latter riddled Terrell
with bullets.
The dissolution of Parliament, upon
which Mr.. Gladstone has all along been
determined, turns over the entire question
upOl IlS lldhSu lSSuC vi OillC lolC W liS
voters of Great Britain, 5,707 ,000in number.
Scotland includes but 574,O 600 of these, and
Ireland TAI, 600 more, 50 that the battle will
really be fought out between the 1891 900
in England. Of their decision he would be
q rash man who who ventured on a predic-
ton. Nothing in past English politics
sheds much light upon it, and the divisions
of the past three months render the prob
lem still more complicated.
A private letter published in the Kansas
City Times tells of a party of hunters and
biologists who were camped in Southwest
ern Kansas one night when a meteor fell near
them. In the morning they found a huge
mass buried in the ground, and still quite
warm. They managed to break off a chunk
of a pound and a half weight, carried it to
Denver and had it assayed. 1t PANIED out
about 20 per cent. of gold, 81 per cent. of iron
and IL per cent. of nickel, with copper and
other metals. The party are going back
with dynamite and tools to get the rest of
the meteor, which they calculate weighs
five tons. If the assay holds out they will
get a ton of gold.
"A dispatch of Friday from Cheyenne,
Wyoming, says: A family named Arm
strong, consisting of husband, wife, two
sons and one daughter, went up in Little
Mountain Valley last fall and settled. They
mysteriously disappeared in the last part of
May and not until now has any trace of
them been found. A party of cowboys pass
ing below the location of the rancho on
Tuesday found the body of Mrs. Armstrong
in the canon. The remains of Mr.. Arm
strong and his daughter were found some
other in high rocks. The boys have not
honn 1iSpovQrpH IF ic ctJrniSpl that the