Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-27


Jesus looked down upon the city and
wept.'"
An honorary membership in the Saint
Ananias Club of Topeka, Kansas, arrived
at Ottawa for Prof. E. Stone Virgins one
day last week. Surrounding the seal are the
words: ''St. Ananias Club, Topeka" and in
the centre is the picture known as the Tyre.
It is said that the Professor has received
notice from the authorities that he must
either stop prophesying or quit the service.
The eastern portion of Stockton, Utah,
has been burned, The fire was of incendia-
ry origin and is supposed to have been
started by woman named Provost, who
had threatened few days before to burn
the town unless the saloon keepers stopped
selling liquor to her husband. The loss is
estimated at 500, 600. There is insurance
for about one-third of that amount.
- The great glacier of Alaska is moving
at the rate of quarter of a mile per an
wall of some 500 feet in thickness; its
breadth varies from three to ten miles, and
it is about $50 miles long. Almost every
quarter of an hour hundreds of tons in large
blocks fall into the sea which they agitate
in the most violent manner, the waves be-
ing such as to toss about the largest YES
sells that approach the glacier as if they
were small boats.
As returned by the census of 1880, our
population in that year was 80, ,155, ,7S3. Ac-
cording to the official estimate now publish
ed, the population on the 30th of last June
was 50, 100000, an increase in six years OF
over eight millions and a quarter, or about
II per cent. This is an annual average OF
about per cent, which is just about the
rate of increase during the decade previ-
Gus to 1880, and little more than the rate
between 1860 and 1870, when the war natu-
rally checked increase.
The volcano of Tungura, in the republic
Of Ecuador, is continuously in activity.
Lava pours from it at short intervals, while
clouds of dust and ashes envelop the sum-
nit. The villagers north and south of the
volcano have experienced a good deal of
suffering. The Ulbinas volcano, in the
south of Peru, is showing signs Of activity.
Although smoke has been been issuing from
the volcano since the days of Columbus,
still the inhabitants of the locality are
alarmed at the increase in the volume of it
now.
Late authentic advices state that Chol-
era Is still raging fercely in COrea. Noidea
can be formed of the extent of the scOurge.
It has more than descimated the capital,
where out of population of 100000 the
q thousand per day. About as many Co
reans as there are people in the State OF
California have been swept away already,
and it is hard to say when the plague will
stop. Corea is described as an appalling
pest spot. Never was there more fright
full record of the ravages Of this disease on
mankind. The story of the plague of Lon
don is beggared by what is now going on in
Corea.
= The Territory of Montana will send to
the markets this year not less than $50, 900
head of cattle and perhaps the number may
reach 275,0O0. From seventy-five to one
hundred carloads oS these are being ship
ped daily to Denver, Chicago and other
cities to the east of the Territory, and that
rate of shipment is to be maintained until
ped on the Northern Pacific Road on trains
made up for that particular purpose and
moved at the rate of twenty-five miles per
hour. This is not recorded as a reason why
Montana should be admitted to the Union,
but it wilt hardly be construed as an argu-
ment against admission, either.
- The thirty-foot python which recently
got away in City Hall Park, New York,
again escaped Thursday morning while be-
ing transferred from his box to a cage at a
museum in Boston. Crawling under the
stage, the snake broke away several boards,
entered the cellar, got into the cold air box
of the furnace and burst open its sides, the
bricks flying in all directions. Four men
seized him, and after terrible struggle
lasting an hour and half they succeeded in
caging him. During the fight the python
wound himself around two very thick
joists and snapped them as easily as if they
were only pipe-stems. He bit one man in
the wrist and squeezed the breath out Of
another by jamming him against the wall
- The Sixth Auditors office in Washing.
ton City was the scene of sensational sui.
eide last Saturday. Robert w. Aston,
clerk in that branch of the governmental
service, after coolly announcing to the chief
of the division that he was "going to put
an end to this thing" walked to his desk,
took thirty-eight calibre revolver from
mis- pocket, and in the presence of his fellow
clerks, sent ball crashing through his
brain. The unfortunate man lived but
forty-five minutes after the fatal shot was
fired. Nervous depression is said to have
led to the act. Aston, who was native o
Georgia, was about twenty-eight years o1
age, was unmarried and was we'll known in
Washington, especially among Georgians
and Southern men, He was a son of Col
Bob. Alston, of Atlanta, who was shot few
years ago by Mr.. Cox
Says the Philadelphia Times: The
Presidents visit to Richmond is noteWor'
thy on more than one account. 1t is the
first time since the civil war that Presi
dent of the United States has visited the
former capital of the Confederacy as the
recognized representative of the people ol
the whole country, without political or Sec
tional distinction, and his cordial reception
shows how completely the old spirit of hos.
f;1sfxy hoo Iiod ont opd ho,u cfropor the
new bonds that now unite the States
And especially significant is the fact that
this visit is made to an exhibition of the
great Industrial progress which marks the
new life of the South. To those who could
look back to the Richmond of twenty years
ago it must have seemed that the scene
of the fair gounds on Thursday had brought
them to different age, better and hap
pier age than they could have dreamed OF
in those old sad days, and one full of bright
hopes and promise for Virginia and all her
sister Commonwealths.
= Charlotte, n. c., has a phenomenon in
tree" which is thus described bya Raleigh
dispatch of Saturday: At O'Clock to-day
an immense crowd had assembled awaiting
the recurrence of the phenomenon. The
skies were perfectly clear, the sun shining
brightly, and the ground in the vicinity
was dry and dusty, owing to the long
drought. Two scrubby oak trees stand in
yard at the corner of Ninth and D streets.
There is nothing unusual about the appear
ance Of the trees, save that they are not
very we'll filed with leaves. At o'clock
the expectant multitude was rewarded
by the appearance of rain. 1t began to
come down between the trees in kind
of mist, which gradually increased until it
was gentle but genuine rainfall. Though