Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-27
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out the country during the last week, as
reported to r. G.. Dun & Co., number tor
the United States 147 Canada 20; total l67,
against 176 last week, and 1872 the week
previous. The business casualties seem to
be steadily declining in number throughout
the country.
- The eruption of Mt. -Etna is Increasing
in proportions, and there is serious danger
to the town of Monte Rosso from the flow of
lava. Measures are being taken for the
rescue Of the inhabitants. Vast olumns OF
flames are issuing from the crater of the
volcano and present a most imposing spec
tacle.
- Says the Washington Post of the 10Th in
slant: DR.. John l.. Neagle, of South Caro-,
lima, a second-class clerk in the public land
missed to day. He was comptroller of the
State during the Reconstruction period, a
member of the Legislature, and since his
residence here was the secretary OF the State
Association.
The special newspaper train that left
New York On Sunday morning, on the New
York Central Railroad, made the unprece-
dented run of eighty-one miles in eighty
seven minutes. The run was made with
out a single stop, and water was scooped up
from troughs along the track. The fireman
had to turn around and ride backward in
order to breathe.
There are now published in the United
States IL, 160 newspapers and periodicals OF
all classes. The net gain of the year has
been 666. The daily newspapers number l.,
ZIG, a gain of 33. There are about 200 Pc
riodicals of all sorts, which enjoy a circula-
ton of more than 5000 copies each. There
is one Gaelic publication, one Hebrew, one
Chinese, and one in the Cherokee language.
Mrs. Alice Pendleton, 81 years old, wife
of Ex-Governor Pendleton, of Ohio, and
present minister to Berlin, was thrown
from her carriage while driving in Central
Park, New York, last Thursday afternoon.
The result was a compound fracture OF the
skull and conclusion of the brain, from
which she died ten minutes after the acct
dent.
The United States Supreme Court has
rendered a decision in three Utah cases OF
polygamy of Lorenzo Snow VS.. United
States. Snow was convicted under the Ed
munds act for unlawful cohabitatiOn, and
sent to prison, where he now is. He ap-
pealed from the decree of the supreme court
of Utah, which sustained the Judgment OF
the lower court in which he was convicted.
The Court holds that it has no jurisdiction
in the cases, and therefore dismisses them.
- The trial of the suit of Jas. H. Goodsell
to recover s250,000 damages from the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, which has
occupied the jury in Judge O'Gorman's
Court during the two weeks past, was on
Thursday closed by a verdict for Goodsell
amount of $3.50 600, to which was added
81 ,75O for counsel fees. The damages were
claimed by Goodsell for breach Of contract,
the Western Union having failed to make
good q. contract which GoOdsell held with
the Atlantic and Pacific Company, which
the Western Union absorbed.
"A rival to the Rev. Mr.. Jasper, the
Richmond negro who maintained, in spite
of all argument to the contrary, that 1.-THE
sun do move" has been found in Kentucky,
where Bishop Turner, of the African Metho-
dist Church has just been preaching that
the terrible tornadoes that have devastated
Western States of late are caused by the
white mans impious uses of electricity. He
predicts that, if the same rate of progress is
maintained for the next five years, whole
cities will be blown away, and floods will
cover the land as it never has been covered
since the Noachian period.
The investigations of the agents of the
land Office show some startling results. The
prevention laws have been most shameful
~ abused. By making his employees his
tools a single man obtained 80, 1000 acres in
stead of the 16O allowed a settler by law.
Nearly all of the vast tracts in the posses
sion of foreign companies have been acqulr-
ed by irregular and unlawful methods.
The land Office is having Investigations
made with the purpose of enforcing the
laws and retaining the land werever prac-
ticable. These investigations show that
twenty-nine alien companies own 90, 747, 600
acres of land.
Twenty thousand people visited the
scene of the tornado and flood disaster in
Miami City,, Ohio, a few days ago, where
fifty acres of dwellings were wrecked. The
Legislature has taken measures for the re-
lief of the sufferers, and the churches
throughout the State have taken up sub
scriptions. Miss Edith E. Longstrith, who
is in charge of the meteorological station in
Montgomery county, reported that l2.lOO
inches of rain fell last week, 4? inches of
which fell within two hours, beginning at 8
O'Clock on Wednesday evening, which is
just twice as much as the heaviest rainfall
measured there within the past eight years.
This ~ inches of rain makes $40 tons of
water to the acre, the terrible power that
crushed all before it.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer writes: "One feature
ofthe work of the Congressional Committee
will he a liberal distribution of the recent
speeches made by jeff Davis. Mr.. Nc
Pherson will soon have verbatim copies of
these speeches, and they are to be carefully
edited, so as to Gull from them the breathings
of what the Republicans call treason and
~disloyalty. These will be circulated by
thousands in States which sent large quotas
of troops to the war. In Tennessee the
plan is to discuss the tariff question, send
inr RI tho Stotn Como Of hpSt cnQaEprS nm
this subject. The tariff will also be the fea-
publican detection in Iowa is to be soliditied,
if it can be, by the literature Jeff Davis has
gratuitously furnished"
An Indian Territory special says that
within the next ten days all the intruders
be removed. Captain Price, with a compa-
ny of the Fifth United States cavalry, has
commenced the work of expulsion, and it
will be sweeping and complete. Numbers of
persons have squatted on different portions
of the strip, erected houses and made other
Improvements. They will all be driven off
at the point of the bayonet and their i'm
provements destroyed. 1t is not believed
that violent measures will be needed, but
the soldiers will do their duty at all hazards.
The intruders number several hundred and
were daily augmented by new arrivals until
the presence of troops rendered further in
vasion impossible. Much alarm and indig-
nation is felt, as the boomers" claim that
had no idea of being forcibly expelled from
the strip.
Senator Evarts has introduced in the
Senate q bill to regulate the effect of judy
ments and DEGREES of the courts of the United
Stofoc in tho coyara1 SfataS IF prOyi0pS