Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-15
Strips aud fatts.

the Northern Pacific railroad increase
every winter. The road is shipping moth
ing but coal. The people there have had
a hard time and the erd is not yet, for the
breaking up of the ice and the melting of
the snow will cause much more suffering.
Clement Arthur Day was hanged last
Thursday in the Utica, N. Y, Jail, for the
Cross. The murder was brutal, and the
man retained his brutal bravado until his
end. He smiled when the death warrant
was read and yawned on the scaffold while
his legs were being pinioned. His neck
was broken.
= Thomas Voolfolk, who killed nine
members OF his family, and who was con-
victed of murder at the last term of Macon,
Ga, court, was not hanged last Friday, as
his sentence directed that he should be:
A writ of supersedeas has been granted
upon the motion for q new trial in his case,
and execution has been postponed in order
that the Supreme Court may review and
decide the questions raised.
= Eighteen deserters from the French
army in Tamaqua were drawn up in line
for execution, when the adjutant, seeing
that the lire was poor, said: cant you
fellows dress better than that? Right
dress" The unfortunates Strengthened
themselves with military promptness and
perfection, and the next moment the whole
eighteen went down before the murderous
volley.
Senator Riddleberger was on Friday
showered on all sides with congratulations
upon his successful efforts in defeating the
British extradition treaty before the Sen
ate. The great bulk of messages received
by him were from Irish sympathizers who
saw in the treaty a coming device on the
part of England, to use the United States
as q club with which to aid her in beating
the Irish into subsection and defeating
home rule in Ireland.
The Knoxville Tribune says: Within
fifty miles Of this city there is enough coal
to last the world a thousand years. The
camel coal on the property OF the Stand.
ard Coal Company can not all be dug OUT
in q hundred years. A year from now
when the Powell's Valley railroad is COM
pleted, Knoxville will be nearer to fine
coking coal than any other town in the
South.
-Saysthe Augusta Chronicle: Gen. Long
street has received an a~ffectionate letter
from a member of the old Palmetto sharp
shooters of his division. The veteran tells
his commander that he has killed three
hogs this winter and wants the Gener,
al to come and stay with him.. The call
for q pension for the Confederate chleftaln
has been discountenanced by himself, but
his old soldiers are determined to see him
through.
- The. Republican prohibitionists of
Kansas. and q considerable number OF
that party are in the prohibition move
ment, are vowing that they will make
things cold, moist and disagreeable tor
Senator Ingalls, in return for his sneers at
their work. Among other things the Sen
ator has said that while the prohibition
lists have all the law they want, the whis-
ky drinkers get all the whisky they want.
The new high license law in Philadel-
phia will reduce the number of legalized
liquor saloons in that city from more than
5000 to less than $500. When the clerks
of the Quarter Session Court closed their
books last Saturday there were {, 423 appli-
cations on file, and no others can be pre-
sented to the Courts for the ensuing year.
Of this number more than 1000 appllca-
lions will be either withdrawn or abandon
ed. principally because the bondsmen nam
ed in the applications cannot qualify under
the law.
The Presbyterian church in the United
States is approaching a centennial which
will show a remarkable growth. In 1888
when the church was organized in this
country, it had sixteen presbyteries, 1T
ministers and 4l9 churches, with about
10000 members. To-day there are in its
three branches 3S9 presbyteries, 1888 min,
listers, 1922 churches and parishes and
about $50, 900 members. In charities and
good works it has been nobly progressive.
= The suit for absolute divorce brought
by Mrs. Alice C.. Coke, of Charlotte, NC,
against her husband, franklin Coke, jr.,
which was commenced nearly a year ago
before Judge Pratt, of Brooklyn, was de-
cided or Friday by the referee. The lat,
ter in his report grants the divorce, anu
allows the plaintiff $500 per month per-
manent alimony. He also directs that as
Mr.. Coxe's property is out of the State, he
shall give security for the payment of the
money.
The February statistical report of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture gives
the number and values of farm animals.
There is reported increase in horses,
mules and cattle, and a decrease in sheep
and swine. The aggregate value Of all
farm animals is SS,0OO,000 more than
q wear ago. The total for cattle is smaller
by about $64, 000, 900; for sheep a tribe
smaller; with increase for those for horses,
mules and swine. The horses represent
$946, O00, 900, the mules S175, 900 900, the
cattle $97e, 900, 900, swine 1921 ,00O,OOO and
SS9, 900, 900. Grand aggregate $780,
100000 for these classes of domestic AMI
mails or farms and ranches.
John Punton, the second cousin to
the late Ex-Premier Walter Murray Glib
son, of Hawaii, says that Gibson died
rich; that he made a will, but nobody
knows where it is that he owned a sugar
plantation in one of the Sandwich Islands
o~J n rou,oDo-or ~ HNro1y,1J HQ co we
moreover, that if he married a daughter
of King Kalakua, which is doubted, the
issue, if a daughter, would not be old
enough to marry. Gibson wa a native of
South Carolina. His first wife died in
this State, and also his only daughter.
The question is what has become of Glib
sons property. He died at st. Mary's
Hospital, San Francisco, and his body was
shipped to Honolulu.
The secretary of war has transmitted
to Congress a tabulated statement of the
militia force of the United States, which
shows that at the last returns there were
e%ighty-two general officers, 1,l05 officers
of the general staff, 1888 officers Of the
regimental field and staff, and 1886 COM
pany officers, making a total of S,2lO COM
missioned officers. There were 1881 nom
commissioned officers, 1900 musicians and
II, 1896 privates, making in all 92,627 en-
listed men, and the grand total Officers and
men) for the militia force of 100,S3 men.
The number of men available for military
duty (~unorganized) is set down at 1920:
7C8, but in some cases the figures are based
upon estimates made in the wal depart
ment.
The trip of DIR. David Hostetter,. of
Pittsburg, Pa, who left for California this
week in a desperate effort to regain lost