Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-22

| 1CuG vi IN 49,
| al fund of 50, 1000, 900 is to be allotted in The
| first year for school houses, either for con-
struction or renting in sparsely populateq
districts not more than $3.50 for each buildA
ing.
MERE. MENTION.
In Louisville, Kentucky, Mrs. Lucretia
Munday, on trial as accessory to the mur-
der of her husband for the purpose of o.
tanning the amount of insurance on his
life, was acquitted last Friday. The case
was one of the most celebrated in the his
tory of that State. Her son-in-laW, DIR.
Davis, is now serving a life sentence toF the
crime. Allare highly connected. 1The
Senate has confirmed Second Lieutenant
Albert Buhner, of South Carolina, as first
lieutenant of the revenue service, and
Glennie Tarbose, Of the same State. to be
ensign. Both are graduates of the Naval
Academy."."During the past seven
have gone out of cultivation. 1t means q
loss of G3O0, 600, 900 to the land owners and
| farmers."".."Within the next two years
the North Carolina State board of educa-
ton contemplates doing a good deal IN
the way of drainage and opening of the
vast bodies of lands it holds, aggregat-
ing very. nearly 100000 acres. ":Bus-
mess failures occurring throughout the
country during the last week number Tor
the United States 236. Canada 81. Total
273, against 2S9 the previous week. """A
severe shock of earthquake was felt at
Akron, Ohio, on Thursday. Revenue
officers in the past few days have captured
several illicit stills in Clay and Randolph
counties, Ala, and destroyed them with
about 100000 gallons of beer and mash.
| Six of the distillers were taken to Mont
gomery and are now in Jail awaiting
trial ."""'"On the 14th instant, A. L. Stipe,
chairman of the Republican executive
committee of Forsyth county, n. o., was
sentenced by Judge Clark, at Winston, to
imprisonment in the county Jail for thirty
days, and to be hired out by thec county
commissioners to work on the public ROAD
for non PAYMENT of fines and cost."".TCol.
A. H. Brooks asserts that there IS more
illicit whisky made within a radius OF
twenty miles of the city hall IN New YORK,
than in all the much alked-of"moonshine"
districts in the South. Col. Brooks is chief
of the internal revenue agents in New
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hemphill has in
troduced a bill in the house prohibiting
the giving or furnishing of tobacco IN
any form to boys under sixteen years OF
age."".".At Chicago, last Friday, the jury
in the case of August Hetzke, charged
with beating to death with a strap his
little stepson, Max Gilman, returned q
verdict finding the prisoner guilty and
fixing the penalty at death. 'A COM
mittee from the Veterans Union made an
argument before the Congressional pen
sion committee, last Friday, in favor OF
the bill proposing to pension all Federal
soldiers of the late war at the rate one
cent per month for each month served by
the person so pensioned. ''"%.A Mormon
elder named Greene, who has been seek
ing to obtain converts in and around At
lanta, has been notified to leave that secs
ton. His idea was to obtain 100 convert.
and take them direct to Salt Lake CITY,
lie had twenty-five on the road to con-
version when the unwelcome notice was
received. "."'TWo brothers named Smith
were killed at Bentonville, Arkansas, last
Saturday. in an attempt to arrest an l9..
dian.""On Saturday the Mississippi
Senate passed the House bill providing tor
a pension of $50 per annum to soldiers n
sailors and their servants disabled in the
late war."."..'Thirteen prisoners escaped
last Friday night from the jail at Newark,
Ohio, by digging through the floor. Two
had been Sentenced to the peniten-
tiary...""""The election held in Winston
township, N. c., last Saturday for a sub,
scription of 500, 900 to the Roanoke and
Southern railroad, resulted in favor of the
subscription by over four hundred MAORI
ty over the registered vote. There were
only three votes cast in the township
against northumberland settlers at
Oklahoma, Kansas, ereejected last week
with great severity by tcolored Federal
troops at that place."'*7t"The Indians in
the far northwestern territories are re-
ported to be in a d%eplorable condition.
The Indians at Lac La Biche and Stony
Plain are dying Of hunger. Judge
Gustin, at Macon, issued an order last
Saturday deferring the hearing of the ar
gument on the motion for a new trial IN
the Voolfolk murder case, until February
%, and suspended sentence OF death until
the motion could be heard and deter
mined ."..".There are said to be more
than 10000 Northern visitors in Florida
this winter."."..Th Charlotte Chronicle
devotes an item to Billy Whitley, of Stan
ley county, n. c., who sis saidto be really
liz years old. ''..":""'The ceremonies of I'M
yelling the Jasper monument at Savannah,
Ga, commencing to-day and ending Fri
day, will be one of the grandest celebra-
tions that has ever taken place In the
South, and the presence of President and
Mrs. Cleveland will give additional inter-
est and importance to the occasion. Of
the South Carolina Representatives in
Congress, Mr.. Dargan is the only one yet
to have declared hostility to the Blal ed
ucational bill .""..""Yesterday was the day
appointed for the National Executive
Committee to meet in Washington to fix
upon the time and place of holding the
National Democratic Convention."The
Railroad Commission have decided upon
the Georgia "Jim Crow" car case that
went up before them on the complaint of a
Charleston colored preacher. They hold
that accommodations must be the same
for all who pay the same fare-though
separate cars may be provided for differ
ent passengers.
SUGAR FROM SORGHUM.-The practical