Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-01-14
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old.
In this bitter cold weather it seems
strange to read that Capt. Watkins, of the
Inman Line steamer chicago, which arrived
in New York on Friday last, after a re-
markably quick passage from Liverpool,
says that his passage was like summer
trip throughout.
- At Richmond, Maine, the sudden cold
has caused the ice to jam and the Kennebec
River is full of ice from five to ten feet thick
for from seven to ten miles. There are thlr-
teen ice houses there with capacity of $780,
600 tons, and thousands of laboring men de-
pendent upon the ice industries for employ
ment are waiting anXiously for the ice to be
broken.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week re-
ported to r. 6. Dun & Co.'s mercantile
agency number for the United States 3l6
and for Canada 20, total 1856, being the
largest aggregate for any week since Janua-
ry, 1885. The casualties are exceptionally
numerous in the Southern States.
On Tuesday eveing of last week, Burt
Edwards, a notorious negro of Cleveland
county, n. c., was shot and killed by Sheriff
Hamrick, of that county. The sheriff at
tempted to arrest Edwards on a warrant
charging him with burglary, and while re-
ssting arrest, Edwards fired twice upon the
officer, who in self defence then shot the
negro dead.
Governor Hoadley, of Ohio, was worth
$5OO,0OO when he went into politics. He
retires with good deal less money, but
with considerably more experience. John
Sherman, who went into politics with no
money, and who could now retire at any
time with one or two millions, is supposed
to have more or less sympathy for Hoadley.
He has had some experience, too.
- The Philadelphia Times thinks that the
industrial growth in the South is no sud-
den or accidental affair. 1t is only the BE-
ginning of the wonderful advancement the
South is about to make in adding to her
own and the nations wealth. Her surplus
of a full hundred millions this year will
fit her for more than doubling that surplus
next year, and the next decade will witness
the South closely pressing the North IN
every channel available for her industry.
Theexecutive committee of the Prohibi-
tion party of Mississippi met at Jackson on
the 5th inst, and committee was appoint
ed to draft local option bill for legislative
action, which will very much resemble that
now in force in Georgia. Hon. G. H. Meade,
of the National Temperance Association, of
New York, will be invited to make a State
canvass of the negroes in favor of prohibi-
tioD, and determined effort will be made
to pass anti-liquor laws during this session
of the Legislature.
Easter will fall this year on the very
latest day upon which it can possibly occur.
Under the rule OF the Council of Nice it
was decreed that Easter should be observed
on the Sunday after the full moon following
March 21st, and that day falls this year
upon the 25th of April. Its earliest posi-
lofo IN sc
152 years since Easter day has been this
late in the season, and will not occur again
upon the same day of the month until
April, 1913. Ash Wednesday will fall this
year on the 10th of March.
Acknowledgement Garland is giving
much attention to the Federal Courts. In
his annual report he gave plan for relief.
It is agreed that there must be some relief
afforded. In the last Congress there were
two bills looking to this end, and one of
them was drawn by Judge David Davis.
The delays are necessarily very great, and
in some cases are so affective as to amount
to a denial Of justice: Mr. Garland would
adorn the Supreme Bench as he does the
Office of Attorney General. The Star was
probably the first paper to suggest his name
for the Office he holds. It would be glad to
see him appointed to the Supreme Court
Bench.
Every effort is still being made to re-
cover the bodies of the twenty-six min
ers entombed last month in coal mine at
Nanticoke, Pa. The company is doing all
in its power to get them, though the work
is slow and hazardous. On Sunday they
struck the bed of sand, and about one hun
dred carloads were removed to the surface.
From present indications, they will not
reach the bodies Of the victims under forty
days. Extreme caution will have to be
used when the fatal chambers are approach
ed, as directly over them is the crevice in
the earth and the culm bank pressure is
likely to fill up the gangway as it did be-
fore.
says: Another large party of negroes num-
bering several hundred, passed through this
city yesterday, en- route from the Carolinas
to Arkansas. The exodus of negroes from
the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama to the
West is increasing each week. Fully one
thousand have passed through this city in
the past fortnight, and hundreds of others
are making arrangements to leave as soon
as possible. The movement is more gener-
al than ever, and is produced chiefly by bad
crops and the defective tenant system in
this section of the South. The movement
is beginning to be felt in the South and is
attracting widespread attention.
An Englisman tells how parson in his
country once made clear even to the dullest
of his flock the difficulty of treading the
straight and narrow path as contrasted with
the descent on the wide highway leading in
the other direction. Before he was we'll
started in his discourse he ran down the
pulpit stair and proceeded to suit the action
to the word. "My BRETHREN" he cried,
''the road to Heaven is like this" and ly-
ing flat on the banister he began to pull
himself up, hand over hand, as laboriously
as boy climbs creased pole. At last he
reached the top and got On his feet again,
happy in his Christian victory. Then hav-
ing taken breath, he exhorted his hearers to
look at the road to He'll, doubled one leg
under him and slid down the rail, in half
sitting posture, with rapidity and grace
that betrayed Juvenile familiarity with
this route.
"A Union soldier living at Watertown,
n. Y, who was badly wounded during the
war and who draws comfortable pension
from the Government, having lately eX
perienced change of fortune and become
independent, now proposes to give his pen
sion to some needy Confederate. The letter
making this proposition was addressed to a
we'll known Confederate officer in Virginia,
and the writer requested that the name of
some disabled Confederate soldier, who is
him in order that he might carry his
good intentions into effect at once. The in
cident has elected kindly comment in vari-
Gus quarters, and is of especial interest as
proving that the bitterness of spirit still
manifested by some few of the Northern
newspapers towards the eX-Confederate
soldiers is not felt hy the men who met them