Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-11
Scraps aud fatts.

Union for the protection of birds. The re-
port shows that unless Immediate measures
be taken to prevent the present rate of des-
truction our woods and fields will shortly
be without birds.
- The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week, as re-
ported to Dun & Co., number for the United
States, 2O7, and for Canada 39-total 246,
against 24S last week, and 2S6 the week be-
fore. The business troubles appear to be
increasing in Canada, while through the
United States the casualties are about up
to the average.
The New York Star, in answer to some
complaints that the Democratic administra-
tion was not making removals fast enough,
has figured it out, allowing ten hours for each
work day, that removal and appointment
have been made for every nine minutes of
time since President Cleveland came into
Office. This shows that he has been MAX
ing pretty rapid progress.
On the 4th of July last w. E. Hermance
started from Livington, Montana, in
brother, II. P. Hermance, Joined him at
Kansas City, and on Washington's birthday
the two young men reached New Orleans
in safety They had travelled down the
Yellowstone, the Missouri and the Missis-
sippi rivers, distance of 4, 500 miles in
canoe.
- In the city of Philadelphia there are
eight women physicians who havean annu-
al practice of about s20, 900 each. There are
twelve whose income averages above SlO,-
600 each. There are twenty-five who admit
that their annual resources from their pro-
fession is above $1,000. Yet in no city in
the country have women who sought to en-
ter the medical profession met with more
strenuous opposition than in the city of
Philadelphia.
The Civil Service Commission gives
notice that it will hold an examination for
book-keepers, stenographers and type-wri-
ters in the postoffice at Charleston, S. c., on
Monday the 22nd instant. Persons wishing
to attend the examination should at once re-
quest the Commission to send them appllca-
tion blanks. Blanks must be filled out in
due form and be presented at the place of
examination, as no person not presenting
\ such applications can be examined.
IA curious characteristic Of the Washing
ton monument was related by Col. Casey at
recent meeting of the society. On every
bright day the apex of the monument
morning, when the suns rays first fall upon
it, and eastward again in the afternoon,
when the sun reaches the western side.
The heat of the sun has an expansive effect
upon the masonry, and the plummet that is
suspended in the interior of the monument
registers this movement from day to day.
- George Merritt, a revenue officer, was
shot and killed last Saturday night at about
8 O'Clock at Lula Station, Ga, on the Air
Line railroad. He was waiting there to
take the train for his home in Gainesville,
and was called from an eating saloon where
he was by man named Coffee, who opened
fire on him with a revolver as soon as ne
got outside. Merritt was shot twice through
the heart and died instantly. The assassin
fled and had not been caught at last ac-
counts.
The President on Thursday nominated
James G.. Matthews, of New York, to be
recorder of deeds in the District of Colum-
bia, vice Frederick Douglass resigned. Mat
thews is a we'll known colored lawyer, q
graduate of Albany law school. He has
been admitted to the bar of the United
States supreme court. It is said that he has
been successful in the practice of his pro-
fession and labored zealously and effective
ly for the democratic cause in State and ma
tional campaigns since 1872.
- A Fort Smith, Arkansas, dispatch of
Saturday says: Samuel Newton, the Choc-
taW wife-murderer, was executed yesterday
in Gains county, ChoctaW Nation. The
condemned man was led forth to the scat
fold about 10 O'Clock in the morning and was
seated upon blanket, after which he was
blindfolled and a white paper pinned di-
rectly over his heart. Two attendants, one
on either side, held his hands. The exc
cutioner knelt before him, aimed carefully
at the slip of paper and fired, killing the
condemned man instantly.
- Onontiyoh, full-blooded Indian, grad
uated No. Is in class of forty-eight at the
Buffalo Medical College last week. He is
the first of his race to take honors in a
course of medicine in this country. His
uncle, Oronyetekha Burning Sky), was
successful practitioner at London, Ont.
Onontiyoh is of pure Mohawk blood and his
name signifies beautiful Mountain" Be-
tween the Beautiful Mountain and the
Burning Sky the red men should certainly
find health and happiness.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: Agents
who have been thoroughly canvassing North
and South Carolina for colored emigrants
say that the colored exodus from the South
ern States to the extreme West has only
fairly begun. At least 5000 are reported
to be now making arrangements to leave
during the present season. Fully as many
going because they are offered regular wages
as farm hands and are becoming impover-
ished in the South by high rents and small
bargains.
-Rossanna Flynn, whose scalp was torn
off in a Colingsville, Conn.,, factory, last
August, is still under treatment at the Hart
ford City Hospital. The physicians are
now engrafting bits of rabbit skin, instead
of the human cuticle, on her head, and with
fair success. The skin is built up around
the edges, and there squite an island, so to
sneak. of mingled human and rabbit skin
on the top of the head. The aim Of the
doctors is to unite this with the edges below,
and while they anticipate success they
don't look for it under year at least.
- The prohibition election in Baldwin
county, Ga, occurs on the 18th instant and
the campaign is becoming heated. Recent
ly Sam Jones, the evangelist, made pro-
fiibition speech in Milledgeville, which in
tensified the feeling between the supporters
of the two tickets. On Saturday Sam En-
mis-, ,anti-prohibitionista and brother Of the
sheriff of the county, shot and killed Depu-
ty Marshal G. n. Haygood, a prohibition
ist The difficulty grew out of Haygood's
criticising an anti-prohibition speech made
by another brother of Ennis. Fears are en-
tertained that Ennis will be rescued by his
friends.
Mine miles from Milledgeville, Ga, on
Thursday evening last Miss Carrie Raines
and her niece, Miss Ella Humphreys,
were murdered, both being shot in the
neck. They were going to the house OF
Frank Humphreys, ELIAS brother-in-law,
and were accompanied by him. Friday
morning he reported that the party were at
tackled by four masked men, himself beaten