Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-23
Straps and fatts.

1t is reported on the authority of Gener-
al Manager Thomas, of the Richmond and
Danville railroad, that the headquarters Of
that company will be moved early next
month from Richmond to Washington.
-Forty-seven leading knights of Labor
have been arrested in st. Louis. The Mis-
souri, Pacific is prosecuting them for con-
spring to destroy railroad tracks, turn
tables, switches, &c.
April 80, 1889, will be the centennial an
niversary of the organization of the consti-
tutional government of the States, and the
first meeting of Congress and the Inaugural
ton of George Washington at New York.
Congressman Hewitt has introduced a reso-
luton providing its proper celebration.
The House committee on education met
of the session.. This action finally disposes
of the Blair educational bill so far as the
committee isconcerned. MeSsrs. O'Donnell
and Willis went on record as opposing the
adjournment.
Jacob Weller, aged siXty-two, of Lo-
Rockville, Pennsylvania, while at supper
Wednesday night, was apprised of the fact
that g letter had arrived containing Sl,70O
back pensions for him. In his hurry to
finish his meal, he was choked to death by
a piece of meat.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week, as re-
ported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States IA, Canada 1l-total l55-
against 2O9 last week, and 1877 the week
previous. The large decrease is spread
over all sections about evenly.
A dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona,
says word has been received at Fort Ana
chea from Capt. A. Lawton, who has been
rollo-:os% Tho hocfi1oc in Snnnra fhQf he yy0S
driving the band before him, and that the
Indians were making their way to their
stronghold in the Sierra Madres. The In
dams are on foot, having killed and eaten
nearly all their horses and retaining only a
few to transport the wounded.
The great body of the eastern band of
Cherokee Indians are in Western North
Carolina, where they number 1871 in all.
They occupy a territory of $4,000 acres.
The question of migrating to the Indian
Territory is now being discussed by them.
It is believed that if the Government will
defray the expenses of their removal they,
would be willing to migrate in a body. The
idea is advanced in North Carolina that the
sufficient to defray the expenses of their
removal in consideration of the surrender
of their lands to the State.
An Alexandria, Louisiana, dispatch of
Saturday says: Commencing at noon on
Monday last and continuing until We'd
nesday afternoon, this section was visited
by the most severe rainstorm ever record
ed here. All that portion of the town
extending from 3rd to 10th streets and
from Madison street to Morgan Depot was
entirely submerged to the depth of three
feet. During this heavy rainfall the river
rose very fast. The total rise being twenty
r.. Ill 1~I {l,DD ~v,n~fnN snnhno
Two colored men in the swamp were
drowned by the overflow.
"A Bourbon county, Kentucky, farmer,
a reading and thinking man, who has for
some time been investigating the Darwin
ian theory, says that he has recently devel-
oped a small link which is calculated to
put men to thinking. The blue grass coun-
try is now being infested with millions Of
cut-worms, which have been devastating
the growing crops of corn, tobacco and gar
den truck. He gathered about twenty of
the Objectionable intruders from a piece OF
sod a foot square and put them in a cigar
box half filled with dirt, covered with a
pane of glass, and set the same in the sun.
In less than two weeksit had developed a
fine drove of grasshoppers.
DIR. J. A. Richmond, who in a fit of in
sanity killed the business manager of the
st. Joseph (Mo.) Herald on Friday morning
and then shot himself, is a native of South
Carolina. He graduated at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, and finished a course in
medicine at the University of New York,
where he was the head of the largest class
aver sent out from that institution. He
then went to Paris and completed a course
in medicine there. He returned at the be-
ginning of the war and entered the Confed-
crate service, at one time being Assistant
Surgeon of General McGowan's brigade.
After the wal he lived in Abbeville, where
he built up an extensive practice.
On Friday, the Senate, by a two thirds
vote, passed the joint resolution introduced
by Senator Ingalls, providing for the sub
mission to the several States of a Consti-
t~utional amendment extending the period
of the Presidents term and the session of
the 5Oth Congress until the 30th of April,
1889, and substituting the 3Oth of April for
the 4th of March as the commencement in
future of Presidential and Congressional
terms. The measure now goes to the House
of Representatives for concurrence. This
proposed change is with the view of begin
ming the Presidential and Congressional
terms on anniversary days of the organiza-
ton of the constitutional government Of
States.
The wheat, oat and rye crops were new
err better in North Carolina than now.
There is a larger acreage than last year and
the yield will be at least a third larger.
Corn is looking we'll, and but for the ire
mendous rains in the western counties the
yield would now promise more than last
year. The truck gardens have done we'll
in the eastern part of the State. Cotton is
good and is looking we'll. The acreage is
more than last year. The tobacco prospect
is not good, because the plants have died
out and beer destroyed by the bugs. The
acreage of this crop will be a third less
than last year. Labor is scarce and wages
higher than last year. If a drought does
not intervene during July and August the
crops in the State will exceed any year
since the war ended.
The Michigan Democratic State Com
mittee met at Lansing on Thursday. The
expression of the committee was that Mich
on a Democratic reenback ticket at the
next election. The Upper Peninsula was
a Republican stronghold beyond any doubt
until lately, when the Knights of Labor
began to break into the Republican MAORI
ties at local elections. To aid this impor-
tant movement, the Democratic Committee
has decided to nominate, if possible, Il. B.
Barry, of the Knights of Labor Executive
Board, as Lieutenant Governor Of the Flu
sion ticket. 1t was also decided to hold the
Democratic State Convention at Grand Rap
ids August II, the same place and day of
the Greenback meeting.
The imports and exports of various arti-
cles entering into daily consumption are
much greater than many persons would sup
pose without giving the subject some con-
sideration. From the Paint and Drug Re
porter we Gull at random the following list
of articles and the quantity of each exported