Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-10


1t is estimated that the matter elected
in the recent volcanic eruption in New Zea
land amounts to five billion cubic yards
weighing six billion tons-not quite cubic
mile, but it would take more than the ma
tional debt of England to excavate it. Il
would take good workingman one million
years to shovel it into carts, but it was al
done in four hours.
-sOf the 225 members of the Forty-nintt
Congress, 228 were renOminated. Thirty
Democrats failed of denomination, and SC
did twenty-five Northern and four South
ern Republicans. The present House il
composed of 1876 Democrats and 14O Repub
licans. The Congressional elections through
out the country last week will probably re-
duce the Democratic majority in the House
~, Marshal Ney's grandson, who took part
in the Bartholdi statue dedication, deniesth
story that the Marshal escaped to this coun
try, and after spending many years in
South Carolina as school teacher, died in
Charleston in 1876. He says that when his
grandfather's remains were finally trans
ferred to Pere-la-C Chaise Cemetery, the coffin
was opened and the remains were found
there with bullet tholes in the forehead dis
tinctly visible.
Ohio Is about to undertake an expert
ment in the reformation of convicts, which
will be watched with interest. An inter.
mediate penitentiary is being constructed,
in which will be incarcerated "irst terms
and Eight sentence" convicts for whose
reformation there is hope. The evil hud-
ding together in one common prison all
classes of convicts is generally admitted.
A short term of Imprisonment among hard
ened criminals often results in the complete
wreck of a man whose first step in crime
If the election of President in 1888
should be thrown into the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Democrats could not elect
their man. They have elected majority
in the delegations from only sixteen States.
In the election of President by the House
the Constitution provides that each State
shall cast q single vote for the candidate
who shall be the choice of majority of the
representatives from a State. Twenty
States, majority of the thirty-eight, are
required to elect President. A third party
movement in 1888 might defeat the Demo
cratic party.
= Francis Bacon, of New Haven, and Prof.
A. B. Morrill,, of New Britain, are writing
text book on hygiene, which by law
must be studied in all the high schools of
Connecticut. The book will be ready about
January l. The popularity Of the work
will be that it will be largely devoted to
showing the effect of alcohol on the human
system. The Legislature was impressed
with the argument that nothing would bet
ter inculcate the lessons of temperance
than to teach the young what alcohol does
to the body, and therefore at the last ses-
sion the law requiring the use of such work
in the public schools was adopted.
-Mangus, head chief of the Chiricahua
Apaches, and thirteen bucks and squaws,
passed through Kansas City under guard
last Thursday, en- route for Fort Marion,
Fla. While the party was going through
dow and ran some distance before he was
captured. Then he obtained knife and
stabbed himself in dozen places, inflicting
serious wounds. The next morning he at
tackled his interpreter, striking the man
about the head with the shackles on his
wrist. During the consequent uproar the
train started, carrying of all the party eX-
cept the interpreter, who was left behind,
but followed on the next train.
= At the recent election Miss Alice j. San
born, daughter of Luther B. Sanborn, of
Freeport, ILL.,, was chosen Superintendent
of Schools in Brule County, Dakota. Of the
1000 votes polled she received about 1000.
Miss Sanborn was the regular nominee of
the Democratic and Farmers Alliance par
ties. Leave of absence was granted her
from the Freeport schools as teacher few
weeks ago, and soon after reaching Dakota
she was nominated for the Office to which
she has now been elected. She was not a
stranger there, however, as in March, 1885,
she took up claim on the Rose Creek In
dian Reservation in that county, and lived
there for some time. She is a graduate of
the Wisconsin University in the class of
1888.
of the total vote in Philadelphia in 1854,
the Republicans polled fifty-eight per cent,
the Democrats nearly forty-one per cent.
and the Prohibitionists about one per cent.
This year the Republicans polled slight
fraction over fifty-seven per cent, losing one
per cent. (probably) to the Prohibitionists,
and the Democrats polled forty and one-half
per cent, losing nearly half of one per cent.
(probably) to the Prohibitionists, the gains
of the latter raising their share to two and
one-half per cent. The relative strength of
the Republican and Democratic parties is
almost exactly the same, but of 200 men in
1884 the Republicans had 1l6 and the Dem
ocrats 80, while in 1886, of 200 men, the Re-
publicans have ia and the Democrats 81,
the third and fourth parties having the
other 5.
"A dispatch of Thursday from Eckville,
Pa, says :: An exciting, time was had
down at Lambeth's lime kiln, near here,
Yesterday. A number of farmers knew
that there were two men, strangers in the
place, operating among the young women
Of the neighborhood, irequenting the gath
erings of day-schools and ingratiating
themselves among the single women, and
the farmers determined to drive them out
of the neighborhood. The elder of the
two-Brother Ettig, as he was called
was seen emerging from Gray's meadow
with young Lena Eckleberger, whom he
was inducing to join a Mormon colony.
Ettig was seized and dragged to the lime
sheds and rolled in bin Of white lime dust
and then cowhided and again showered
with ashes and started on run through
the woods. Basing, the other suspected
party, was also seized and ducked in a
creek and cowhided and started through
the woods in the direction Ettig had taken.
It appears that there was concerted plan,
according to which number of deluded
young women should all be ready to Start