Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
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into Hght on the l0Ln Instant Wnlle nunt-
ing Apaches, the Mexicans mistaking the
ford, U. S. A., and a Mexican captain and
four Mexican soldiers were killed.
- The total subscriptions to the Grant
monument fund in New York up to noon
on Tuesday amounted to S114,16 81. The
secretary, Mr.. Greener, says: "No designs
for the work have yet been accepted; the
committee in that matter are moving very
cautiously"
The Louisiana sugar crop last year was
larger by Is per cent. than the average for
previous years, and was cultivated at
greatly decreased outlay, thus enabling
planters to discharge some of their previous
ly contracted obligations. They enter upon
the business of 1886 with light hearts and
es and large share of experience in eco
nomical methods.
The committee on banking and currency
has instructed Mr.. Adams of Illinois, to
call up for action during the present week
his bill to authorize national banks to in
crease their capital stock. The general bill
applicable to the Fitz-John Porter case may
also be called up, if opportunity offers.
Private bills will monopolize the attention
of the House on Friday. Upon any day of
the week political discussion may be forced
upon the House by the reply of the secreta-
ry of the navy to the Boutelle resolution.
The Florida Conference of the NJ. +.
Church North has divided on the color line,
and now instead Of one there are two con-
ferences of the same Church, one white and
one colored, and both occupying the same
territory. Most of the white ministers
took the ground that their cause was weak
ened by mixed ministry and member
ship, and that it was apparent to all that
there must be separation of the two races
or continued hindrance to the progress
and advancement of their Church in the
North as in the South, and that division
had become a real necessity.
Secretary Lamar's decision in the Bell
telephone case was eagerly sought for, in
advance, by speculators, who could have
made fortunes if they had known of it in
time to 90 short of the stock. A lady clerk
in the interior department was offered $5,-
600, and then $4,000 by a representative of
New York firm for copy of the decision,
which she had transcribed. At the second
offer she excused herself moment and
stepped into the secretary's private office.
When she returned the secretary accompa-
MED her, gave the specuator a very plain
talk, and informed him he would just give
him ten seconds to leave the room.
Senator Butler spoke in the Senate on
Friday in opposition to the admission of
Dakota as State. Mr.. Randall, in his cor
respondence of the Augusta Chronicle, says
of his speech: Senator Buffers Dakota
speech was splendid effort, full of fire and
spirit. He made his points energetically,
and more than paid back Mr.. Harrison for
some savage thrusts. The Indiana Senator
was maliciously furnished with some COM
parative statistics of South Carolina, and
threatens to take asectional twist. He will
be met with vigor, and may be sorry later
on for threatened waving of the bloody
shirt.
- A dispatch from Chicago announces that
there are $4,000 head of cattle dead on the
plains short distance from Fort Elliott,.as
q result of the recent cold snap. 1t is doubt
less known that Fort Elliott is located in the
Panhandle of Texas. The news might be
correct. There is nothing extremely i'm
probable about it, but there is bare posi-
yards are endeavoring to get in their work.
The death of $1,000 head of cattle in beef
country is serious matter in the market.
and the Chicago market bulls, at this sea-
son of the year, would not be averse to
writing an obituary on $4,000 Texas beef
steers.
= The coroner's jury which has been in
quiring into the cause of the death of thir-
ty-nine miners killed by an explosion of
fire damp in the Orrel Coal Company's
shaft at Newburg, w. Va, on January q,
finished taking testimony last Saturday
night. The jury finds that the accident
was caused by leaving an open door in an
air passage in the mine, thereby impairing
the ventilation and allowing gas to accu-
mulate. They report that the accident was
due to the failure of the superintendent to
obey the instructions of the State mine in
spector, and pronounce the penalty affixed
by the Act of the Legislature of 1883 for
such neglect inadequate.
In the case of the State Of Kansas
against McCrystal to suppress his saloon
under the nuisance clause of the Kansas
prohibitory law, on trial at Leavenworth
verdict of not guilty. The suit was brought
by Attorney General Bradford at the last
term, and the State has made strenuous ef-
forts to convict. It was regarded as test
case under that clause of the law, and if the
State had won many saloon-keepers would
have closed their places. The evidence
showed that McCrystal kept saloon, but
the jury refused to look at it in that way,
and the liquor men were jubilant.
Col. Joseph Manley, of Augusta, Me-,
and an intimate friend of Mr.. James G.
Blaine, is in Washington. He says that
Mr.. Blaine is opposed to the present Repub-
lican programme of placing obstacles in the
way of confirming the Presidents appoint
ments. Mr.. Blaine is in splendid health
and was never feeling better than now.
He does not feel the need of any rest from
his literary tolls, and will take up the sub
ject of his new literary venture with the
pleasure which he now finds in constant
occupation. The subject of his second task
is the period of our history embraced in the
time of the war of 1912. This history will
be one volume.
- Milton Weston, Chicago millionaire,
has been tried, convicted and sentenced to
the Riverside penitentiary in Pennsylvania
as accessory to murder committed in that
State some time ago, and entered upon
his sentence on the 9th ultimo. He is per-
haps the most remarkable criminal of the
day-a man worth over a million dollars,
a luxurious home, and everything to live
for, is made to change his station and pay
the penalty Of his crime just as other men
do. 1t has been often said that money
would acquit a man Of any crime, but it has
not been done in this instance. His counsel
hope to secure pardon for him at an early
day.
A Fort Smith, Arkansas, dispatch of the
18th ultimo says: On January s, two fam
lilies of roverS, consisting of nine persons,
were caught in the blizzard in the prairie,
about twenty miles from Sans Bois, Choc-
taw Nation, and all were frozen to death,
together with their team of four horses.
They were travelling in the direction of
Muscogee. Nothing was found in their
effects to tell who they were or whence
they came. They were found on the 9th
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