Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-04
Straps aud fafts.

When Gen. TOmbs died it was thought
his estate would be worth about one quarter
of a million. A recent appraisement shows
that it is only worth about $50, 900, and that
the estate is liable for $685., 900 of Kimball
House notes.
Samuel Davidson, of Corydon, Ind,
failed to supply his family with enough
wood to keep them warm. A lot Of his
neighbors sezed him the other evening,
haul wood all night. When he Jagged he
was we'll whipped with timber switches.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week, re-
ported to R. G.. Dun & Co., number for the
United States PA, Canada 34-total AS-
against 2S6 last week, and 275 the week
previous. The South and West still con-
tinue to furnish more than half the weekly
business casualties of the country.
AT Brownwood, Texas, on Friday night,
three masked men entered Cameron & Co.. s
Office, made the clerks hold up their hands
and then secured 1900. The robbers left
as suddenly as they had come. AS they
departed they were fired on by one of the
clerks, and one of the robbers was killed.
He proved to be painter who was we'll
known about the town.
William Clifford, aged twenty-six years,
committed suicide last Saturday morning,
in Charlotte, N. c., by shooting himself in
the head with a pistol. He left a note
thanking his employers for their kind treat
ment, and stating that if some money
which had been promised him had been
It is believed that he was suffering from
mental alteration, as there was nothing
wrong with his business affairs.
Dpr;por Tho proconf cocciop of tho Con.
are 1871 bills and 81 joint resolutions have
been introduced, the great majority of only
local interest. The most prolific Senator is
Plumb, of Kansas, who has introduced 90
bills and joint resolutions, Call being
next with IS bills and resolutions. Fair,
Jones, of Florida, and Miller, of California,
are the only Senators who have offered no
legislation. Senator Hampton introduced
16 bills and Senator Butler 13.
-Wilburn Waters, murderer, was hanged
at Rensselaer,, Indiana, last Friday. There
was large crowd gathered to witness the
execution, estimated at 5000 people. Pre-
vious to the execution number of those
assembled were allowed to see the condemn
ed, who received them, lying on his bunk:
The murderer was escorted to the scaffold
at 11.4O, and when on the top delivered a
wild harangue, partly in broken English
and partly in Dutch. He declared his in
fnocence.
1-John Sterdevant, the boy preacher, near
Raleigh, n. c., who was recently stricken
blind for few days, during which period
he preached with great eloquence, has again
come to the front. According to his father
he has had another divine revelation. He
is to be stricken blind, deaf and dumb, and
his left arm is to be paralyzed. In fact, one
report states that the affiiction actually took
place at the time appointed in the presence
of $50 persons. Two expert physicians have
examined the boy. They pronounce the
case wonderful one.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, is seriously i'll
with neuralgia at the base of the brain, and
his physicians have insisted upon his leav-
ing Washington at once for more temper.
ate climate. He will 60 to Georgia and
Florida, and has promised his friends that
he will not return until his health is fully
restored. He has been suffering for several
weeks, and left his bed to come to the Sen
ate when the Dakota bill was under debate
against the protests of his physicians. He
is now paying the penalty for disobeying
their injunctions.
The Russian papers announce the eman-
cipation of the last Russian serfs. 1t ap-
pears that the peasants on the estates of the
foreign convention Transcaucasia were un-
til quite recently the serfs Of the dioceses of
jerusalem and Constantinople. This alb
normal situation has attracted the atten-
tion of the authorities, and since last sum-
mer the enfranchisement of these serfs has
been in progress in the Governments of
Tiflis and Kutais. The Brotherhood of the
Holy Sepulchre possesses more than 5000
serfs, and the Patriarch of Constantinople,
as representing the convent of Iversky, on
Mount Athos, has about 500 more.
AtWinchester, Ky, the other day, an
explosion of gunpowder took place with dis
astrous effect. The explosion occurred at
Mary WHIPS place, grocery and restau,
rant combined. While the clerk, Will
man threw a lighted match into the scoop.
The powder ignited and blew out the front
and side of the house. About twenty
persons were in the building, all of whom
were injured, four of them fatally. James
Newkirk, James Hopper, Will Murray and
Bud White will die. Nine others were
very badly injured. The drunken man
escaped injury. The fire which followed
was soon eXtinguished.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, spoke recently
in favor of the pension bill now before
Congress, taking occasion to abuse Southern
members on account of their failure to sup
port the bill. TO this speech Congressman
Tillman of South Carolina replied, and in
his remarks he said: Considering that the
Confederate States pay about one-third of
the taxes to the Federal government for
pensions and do not get back three cents
of it; considering, also, that from the foun-
dation of the government to the present
time eight dollars q month was considered
a sufficient pension for widows, can the gen.
tleman complain that the Southern men,
bers are trying to restrain necessarily the
large expenditure for pensions within the
rules that prevailed heretofore?
- Mr.. Randall writes from Washington to
the Augusta Chronicle: The woman suffra-
gist are to invade the South. They are
mostly prohibitionists. Atthe meeting yes
terday Mrs. Martha A. Field, of the New
Orleans Picay,nle, said that in the South
women were allowed more privileges than
were extended to the women of the North.
In Mississippi, she said, women get almost
anything they want for-they had an indus
trial college and other institutions under
their control. In her address, Mrs. Field
used the expression "niggers," and a color
ed man and woman sitting at the back
of the church rose Immediately and left,
the man walking hurriedly and making
some noise in going out of the door. These
women have determined to boycott all
preachers who deny the equality of the
sexes, and Miss Anthony, after kicking the
supreme court, declared that she wanted a
Bible translated by women with all offen-
sive passages obliterated.
- The adoption by the State Temperance
Convention on Wednesday night of a reso-
luton declaring that the Prohibitionists
will vote for no legislative candidate who
does not unequivOcally announce his will
lingness to vote for the submission to the