Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

present session of Congress. Of these 3,1O3
bills have been considered by the commit
tees and reported to the House. Three men,
bers did not introduce a single bill during
the session. These are the Speaker, Mr..
Aiken, of South Carolina, and Mr.. Wallace,
of Louisiana. The late Representative
Rankin, of Wisconsin, has one bill charged
to his account. Delegate Joseph, of New
Mexico, has the biggest record, having JOG
bills and resolutions credited to him. Hal
sell, of kentucky, comes next, with 90, and
Houck, of Tennessee, shows up with 81.
Two-thirds of all bills introduced are new
err heard of after their introduction in fact
a great majority of them are presented for
buncombe.
About $50, 600, 900 have, in the last six
months, been invested in enterprises in the
South. ~During the first six months of 1886
there have been added to the number Of
manufacturing and mining enterprises in
the South thirty new ice factories, forty
foundries and machine shops, n Bessem-
er steel mill, eight miscellaneous iron works,
three stove. foundries, fifteen gas works,
seventeen electric light companies, seven
agricultural implement factories, seventy
mining and quarrying enterprises, eleven
carriage and wagon factories, eight cotton
mills, eighteen furniture factories, fifteen
water works, twenty-nine tobacco factories,
forty-eight flour mills, two hundred and
forty-eight lumber mills, including plan
ing mills, sash and door factories, &C., in
addition to which there was a large num-
Der of miscellaneous enterprises.
Nevada is a very poor State, but a few
rich men, who live in California, make
politics lively by Doodle when a Senator is
to be chosen in that rotten borough. Just
now the bonanza kings, Mackey and Fair,
are pitted against each other. Fair is quot
ed as saying that he will spend 100000 if
necessary, to effect his return. Mackey is
quoted as saying that he will, if necessary,
spend as much more to defeat him. Mack
ey's candidate is ex-senator Stewart, of
Nevada. And such is the farce of Ameri-
can politics.
The house of Edward Barry, a widower,
living near Cambridge, Massachusetts, with
his five children, caught fire on Tuesday
llSut, VI lQoG "CCh, "illC liz HOo oDoSio
drinking, and when the children were
asleep. Nellie, the eldest, only ten years
of age, who acts as housekeeper, wasawak-
ened by the sound of falling timbers, and
succeeded in carrying out her four little
brothers in safety. Then the tipsy father
came home. Several wealthy people have
made arrangements to give the little hero
inc an education.
Some time since Governor Lee, of Vir-
ginia, appointed a colored lawyer of Dan
vile, James w. Pope, a member of the
board of visitors of the Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute, at Petersburg. At
the session of the board in the latter city
last Wednesday, the propriety of this selec-
ton of the Democratic Executive was en-
dorsed by the election of Pope to the treas
urership of that institution. The negro is
not only safe, but advancing in a State
where the Democrats are in power.
A Chicago dispatch says: The contin-
ued drought and failure of the wheat crop,
which has occurred in Central Illinois for
several years in succession and the unpre-
cedented ravages of the chinch bug have
induced many of the farmers to form them
selves into a colony for the purpose of re-
moving in a body to Oregon. Forty fam
lilies have an organization at Walnut Hills,
with president and secretary, and are cor
responding with railroads for cheap rates.
In the Superior court of Wake county,
N. c., on the 10Th instant, Judge Phillips
sentenced James Smith and VIM. Gooch,
both young white men, to be hanged in
Raleigh on September 18th. They were
sentenced to death, but appealed to the Su-
preme Court, which confirmed the decision
of the lower court. A petition will be pre-
sented to Governor Scales for a commuta-
ton of sentence. This will be signed by
many hundreds of persons.
- Col. George. B. Corkhill, eX-District
Attorney of the District of Columbia, died
at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, on the 9Th instant.
He became widely known as the prosecutor
of the assassin Guiteau. The death of Col.
Corkhill has provoked a sensational story to
the effect that he was in possession of infor-
nation eliminating several prominent men
in the death of Garfield, though little Gre
dence is attached to the story.
-Copiah county, Mississippi, which a few
years ago had a bad reputation for disorder
and bloodshed, about a year ago voted
against license to sell liquor. Anothere lec-
ton was held recently and Copiah went
"dry' by about 1000 majority 1t is claim
ed tina Copiah has become the most order
ly and enlightened county in all Mississip-
nj under o strict enforcement of her prohi-
bition laws.
Southern iron appears to be working its
way into Northern markets. Several large
mills at Pittsburg are now using pig lron
from Alabama and Tennessee, which sells
for fifty cents per ton less than the Pennsyl-
vania iron. The result is that the great
iron plants of the State are beginning to
move South. Within a fey weekstwo large
concerns have moved to Alabama, and 1t IS
said that others will follow.
Jack Lambert, a painter by trade, was
hanged at Charleston, North Carolina, on
the 9th instant, in the presence OF several
thousand people for the murder OF DICK
Wilson, twenty months ago, in jackson
county. Lambert had been drinking heay-
lily on the day ofthe killing and hadagrudge
against Wilson. Lambert left a statement
protesting his innocence and charging an
other person with the murder.
&C. +. Mcdonald, Superintendent of the
money order system of the Postoffice De-
partment, has issued a circular notifying
postmasters at money order offices that the
Act of Congress, approved June 90, 1886,
reducing the fee from 8 to 8 cents on domes-
tic orders not exceeding So will 60 into eff
feet on the 26th instant.