Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-21
Scraps and fafts.

- The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week num-
Der, for the United States, 307 Canada 25-
total 332, against 1856 last week. Casualties
are exceptionally numerous in the South
ern, Western and Pacific States, which
sections furnish more than two-thirds OF the
whole number.
DIR. Thomas w. Keene, member of the
Virginia House of delegates from Danville,
fell dead on the floor of the House few
minutes before o'clock last Saturday from
disease of the heart. He had Just taken his
seat after addressing the House on meas
ure before that body. He was just sixty
years old.
- The Southern Baptist convention repre-
senting about 100000 Baptists, will meet
with the First Baptist church in Montgom-
cry, Ala, on the 7th of May next. There
will be over 600 delegates present, and il
will be one of the largest conventions of the
kind that ever assembled in that city. Ex-
Gov, Watts, has been selected to deliver the
address of welcome.
A tenement house on the premises OF
Capt. w. T. R. Bell, at Kings Mountain,
NC, was burned before daylight Thurs.
day morning. Three colored persons, Ger
trude Rendleman, Julia Earle and julius,
an eighteen months old child, perished in
the flames. The fire originated accidental
ly from a fireplace and the women were
not awakened until enveloped in flames.
- Sheriff Zegman, of Colfax county, Ne.
braska, was killed on Thursday in the jail
at Schuyler by a prisoner named Lapour,
club fracturing his skull. Lapour then
attempted to escape, but was recaptured.
He had formerly been in an insane asylum,
but was discharged because he was found
to be sane. At late hour that night a
large crowd of men took Lapour from the
jail and hanged him to neighboring tree.
AT Salt Lake City on last Saturday,
Apostle Lorenzo Snow was sentenced on
each of the three convictions of unlawful
cohabitation to six months Imprisonment
and $500 fine and costs. James II: Nelson,
on one conviction was sentenced to SIX
months Imprisonment and a $500 line and
costs. Both men were defiant. James
Taylor, on promising to obey the law, was
sentenced for the same offence to pay fine
of $500 and costs, but without imprison-
ment.
The Republicans Of the Ohio House OF
Representatives secured a safe majority on
joint-ballot, by summarily unseating nine
Democrats from Hamilton county, whose
election had been declared valid by the Court.
Before this proceeding there was Republi-
can majority of five in the House and DEM
ocratic majority Of three in the Senate,
leaving the joint ballot very close. After
the Democrats were unseated the Senate
and House, in joint session, elected John
Sherman to the United States Senate. 1t
required "a votes to elect. Sherman re-
ceived "a votes and Thurman 62.
General rains prevailed throughout
many portions of Florida last Friday. The
latest reports from East and South Florida
indicate that the damage from the cold was
not 80 great as was at first feared. In some
portions of South Florida even oranges on
the trees were not spoiled, and it is no long
er apprehended that any trees, save very
small ones, were killed. The predominant
opinion among the planters of Louisiana is
that little damage has as yet been done the
sugar cane and orange trees in that State,
the rains of Thursday and Friday being re-
garded as favorable to both.
- Hettie >Maurer and her two year old
girl were found in road near New Ring
gold, Pennsylvania. on Monday of last week
Miss Klinger, ran away from her home
with hired man and married him three
years ago. She was disowned by her father
and had come to abject poverty, her hus'
band having died in the smallpox epidem.
ic in Montreal. She had gone back to the
house of her father to ask home, but was
turned away and had gone but three miles
when she fell down in the road and was
overtaken by darkness and the cold wave.
- The state of desperation into which
many of Irish laboring people have been
thrown by their long continued prlVatlOns
was illustrated last Thursday by an occur
renee at Lismore, County Waterford. The
Board of Guardians of the Lismore Poor
y-:o I,11I 70
when a crowd of laborers burst into the
room, and in menacing language demanded
assistance for themselves and their wives
and little ones dying of starvation at their
homes. They threatened that unless help
was soon forthcoming they would murder
the neighboring farmers to obtain means OF
subsistence for themselves and their faml-
lies. Ireland is threatened with famine,
and much trouble is apprehended.
"A dispatch of Thursday from Tomb
stone, Arizona, says: Frank Leslie, Gov
ernment scout, who has been with Captain
Crawford's command, has arrived here.
He reports having met near Mud Springs
too couriers of the Tenth Cavalry, who in
formed him that trouble had occurred be-
tween an Indian scout and quartermaster
at Cave Creek twenty-five miles south OF
Bowie. The scout complained of the quail
ity of the bread issued to him. After some
hard words had passed the scout went to
his camp, but soon returned with his rifle
and shot the quartermaster and the quar-
termaster's sergeant dead. The officer in
charge forbade his soldiers to fire. as he
wanted to take the murderer alive. The
scout escaped.
- The statement that President Cleveland
has determined that no answers shall be
given to requests from the Senate for infor-
nation as to the reason for removals or sus-
pensions from office is authoritatiVely de-
MED. No such request has yet been ad-
dressed to the President by the Senate.
Several communications have been sent to
the Chairmen of Senate committees from
the various executive departments in re-
spOnse to requests for information as to the
reason for suspensions or removals and ap-
pointments. In each case it was stated
that the department had no information as
to the Presidents reasons for the suspension
or removal which was the subject of in
quiry. The papers transmitted relate solely
to fitness of appointees, and say nothing
about the character or qualifications of the
officials displaced. No issue has yet been
raised with the President on this subject.
1t is further learned that the President as
yet has neither expressed nor formed any
determination as to what he will do in case
a possible issue is raised.
A Richmond dispatch says: Many Sc
rious happenings have grown out Of the ar
rest, trial and conviction of Thomas j.
Cluverius for the murder Of Fannie Lillian
Madison. The reporter who formulated
the murder theory has been discharged
from the paper to which he was attached
the commemorative attorney, who prose
cuted Cluverius, did not receive cent for
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