Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-10-03
Scraps aua fatts.

RECOMMENDS an amendment to h constl-
tuition prohibiting the practice of polyga-
my within thei boundaries of the United
States.
seems a otrffe queer to be told that
the S6uthg ships cotton to New York and
New York ships the same cotton back
South for COMPRISING and export. Yet
such Is the case, and strange as it may seem
to many, it is a fact that the metropolis
Of this great cotton! producing country Is
without q compress. Within 9 very recent
period New York City has shipped l2,0OS
bales to Liverpool via Norfolk, and 5,UtN
more bales are to be Forwarded IN tne
same way within a few days. ) ~ Il.
FLOR the next five years, says the Char-
lotte Democrat, strangers will teal 10 sleep
in beds in any town where yellow 1ever
has been, either in Florida or Nortn Saro-
lima. Agentleman in Wilmington toia US
the other day that during the yellow fever
scouree at Wilmington in 1852, a citizen
but some clothing in q goods box, named
It up. and set it in his back piazza. len
wears afterwards he opened the box 1or tne
purpose of giving some OF the, clotning
away. The result was, ne TOOK yeiio"
fever and died. sn a.H. .r.t @a
The latest trust which has come to
light in New York is the combination OF
white lead manufacturers, in which all
manufacturers Of the country, with one
exception, are represented. The trust mas
already advanced prices $l5 per ton on
large orders and $25 on small. A move
ment has already been on loot several
months, but final arrangements nave Just
been completed. The combine VIII nmlt
the output, and their agreements so ron
clad that the books of the dlherent mehl-
bers can be examined Unnecessary. .
AT the present rate of progress me
Senate committee on n VIII not "
able to report the tariff bill for a linden
nite .neriod. The reading of the bill is con-
tinued by the committee from day TO day,
hut as it is a technical amendment to the
Mills bill, it has decided to read the Mills
bill in full, line by line. The reading Is
far from completed, and of course Its on
sideration cannot begin until the readlng
is concluded. Whether it is the purpose
to ask that each paragraph, both OF the
the Mills bill and Of the Senate substitute,
shall be discussed in detail before the Dill
shall be reported to the Senate, is not stated.
The Hendersonville, n. c., board OF
trade publish the facts of the fever eplsoae
there. Two hundred and sixty-nlne re1u-
gees arrived there on the 18th of Septem-
Der. They went to the hotels and DoaTo-
ing houses prepared for them, escorted py
committee. Five were taken SICK on tne
train; Ave cases developed on the dav OF
arrival 1; two died four were alsnlsseu
well two are .cOnvalescent, ana tWo are
still sick but are progressing !aV9laoly.
basldeyeloped. All excitement and alarm
has abated and the refugees are scattering
to other places. The scare Is over.
THE famous Kansas prohibition case, in
which Stewart, the drug store clerk, plead,
ed entity of selling 2O8 glasses of beer n
was sentenced to upward of seventeen
wears in iail ard a fine of s2O,S 800, is again
brought to notice by the beginning OF a suit
at Wichita, by Assistant Attorney General
Hallowell. to- recover his fees in the case,
amounting to $500. These, under the
murray amendment, are recoverable from
the PROPERTY in which the liquor was sold,
and Colonel Halloweu now proposes TO col
lect the cost by selling the properly IN
which Stewart violated the law. Under
the Murray law, should Mr.. halloween oe-
sire to push his claims, he can estaollsn
liens on many of the finest properties IN
Wichita. ''f H't1.''
A shocking affair occurred at Ottawa,
Ontario, last "Wednesday afternoon. "A
Young butcher named Tom W1nsiey was
dashed to pieces by falling from a naliooh
at the height of over one thousand ieet.
A balloon ascension and parachut crop
were advertised as the drawing caro- OF tne
day. Among the volunteers 10 oiu Gown
the balloon was Winsley, who, with others,
grasped the stout rope running round the
base of the balloon. When the order TO
let 90 was given all released their hold
with the exception of Winsley, who, re-
timing his hold, was swiftly borne up
wards. The erotaut was unable to help
him. Attic height Of 1000 feet ne let go
and was dashed to pieces on the ground.
- Until six years ago, the Garrett family
were the. envied of all Maryland. For
tune had showered it's blessings upon them:
There was only one drawback. The thlrd
SON of John w. Garrett was a hopeless I'M
becile. In the course of a short time John
Garrett and his wife died, their son Harri-
son met with o tragic death, and now an
other son, Robert, the great railway mag
nate, is q maniac. Within a few years the
rich and powerful family has been shatter,
ed and scattered by some OF the saddest
Affections known to men. Their Prlncely
mansions will 60 into the hands OF stran-
gers, and their vast wealth will be dlstrlD-
uted, while the original owners sleep IN
their graves or linger behind the bars OF
their asylums.
When the mayor of Charlestown, w.
Va, sentenced. a white woman, the other
day, to work seventeen days on the streets,
a young farmer arose and ohered 10 axe
her place. saving that he would never per-
NIT q woman to be worked as a convict ON
the public streets. The mayor accepted his
offer, and the man was marched Oft to the
chain-pang. He declined to give his name,
and said that "John Smith" would do as
well as anything else. He said that ne was
farm labOrer from some place up the liver
and that he never saw or heard OF the WO-
man i'm his life until he saw her in the May
or's Court, but that his sense OF
and his respect for womankind would not
permit him to see, one of the sex scraplng
the public streets in company with tramps
and bummers.
There is more trouble on the Mexican
border and on the 18th ultimo Rio Grande
CITY, Texas, wa in the hands OF an armed
Mexican mob of 400 men of the lowest class
of bandits and smugglers. The county
officers, of whatever nativity, Americans
or foreigners, were barred in their homes:
The trouble arose over the shooting OF
Catrino Cara, editor of the Concrete Mex
icano. a Mexican paper published at Corpus
Christi, by the United States Inspector of
Customs Sebree. Cara was shot in the
stomach and MORALLY wounded. Sebree
mounted a horse and fed to Ringgold Bar
racks. He was pursued by mounted Mex
leans, who shot at him. Col. Clendenln,
in command of three companies Of troops,
put Sebree in the guardhOuse. A mob of
200 Mexicans demanded him. Clendenln
refused to deliver him up, and notified
them that any attempt to take him by
force, would draw the fire OF the Gatllng
guns and the entire command on them.
The soldiers in the garrison were each