Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-08
Murkrille Guqnirer,
YORKVILLE, s. &. :
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY s, 1888.


President and Mrs. Cleveland have con-
Guided to pay a flying visit to the Subtrop-
ical Exposition in Jacksonville, Fla, dur
ing the latter part of this month.
Senate has confirmed the nomination of
Beckford Mackey to be consul at Paso del
Norte. He is a son of eX-Judge Mackey,
and is credited to South Carolina
Republican State Convention of Mississip-
pi has been called to meet in Jackson to-
morrow for the purpose of electing dele
gates to the national convention. Mr..
and Mrs. Drummer, of Aurora, Mo-, who
recently inherited $4,000 from a relative,
have mysteriously disappeared. 1t is sup
posed that they were murdered for their
money, which was kept in their house at
that place.'J. w. Miller, a painter
who left Union, S. c., recently, was found
frozen to death in Decatur, Ala. His wife
is living at Union. "."."Woman suffrage
has been defeated in Wisconsin.""The
City Council of Santa Rosa, California, has
passed an ordinance making it a criminal
offence to sell cigarettes to boys under six
teen years of age. 1t has also prohibited
boys from smoking cigarettes upon the
streets or in public places. Greene
Henderson, a colored man, has been arrest
ed in Atlanta for selling the body Of his
dead wife to the medical college"Flor-
ida strawberries are selling in New York
at 50. 80 quart..".John Greenwood was
arrested at Livingston, Tenn, Friday
morning, on q charge of murder. He is
accused of killing Andrew Wilson seven
teen years ago.lt is estimated that
the Chinese merchants of New York pay
the United States government over $780,
900 per year for duties on imported
goods. "The ten cents special deliv-
cry stamp has proved a financial fail
ure .'There is a proposition before the
people of Rhode Island to so amend the
constitution of the State as to abolish all
property qualifications for voters in its
elections .'"The Catholic convent prop
erty in Hickory, n. c., has been sold to
the Ohio Lutheran Synod. 1t will be con
Yerted into a school under the auspices of
the Lutheran church. National
Democratic Executive Committee will
meet in Washington on the 22nd instant to
decide upon a place of meeting for the
nominating convention. women
living in the southeastern par of St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, are circulating a petition to
have Hoonick and Buelling, two men in
Jail charged with wife murder, lynch
ed.'Lent comes earlier this season
than for many years past. 1t begins on
February 18th. Easter Sunday is on
April 1.'The Governor of Georgia
has committed the sentence of Eliza Ran
dali, who was to have been hanged in Clay
county last Friday, to imprisonment for
life. Eliza is a young white girl, who de-
liberately murdered her father a few
months ago because he wanted her to at
tend church. Public sentiment against
the infliction of capital punishment on a
woman was what saved her from the gal
lows. a legal decision in the
Iowa Courts that permits to sell liquor for
legal purposes can be used only by the per-
sons to whom issued, the stock of every
seized last Wednesday. Each firm does
business under the company title, and the
Judges ruling forbids such latitude
tistics of life insurance show that there are
now $40, 900 policies in this country, repre-
senting an aggregate insurance of 50, l0O,-
900, 000. ''"Governor McEnery, of Lou
isiana, has called a convention to meet in
New Orleans on March 5 to encourage i'm
migration into the State"The Missis-
sippi House Of Representatives has adopt
ed a memorial to Congress, protesting
against the passage of the Senate bill hav-
ing for its object the prevention of the use
of cotton seed oil as a substitute for hogs
lard. spectators propose to
buy the old Libby Confederate prison
in Richmond and remove it to Chica-
go.''According to statistics gathered
by the Railroad Gazette, there were in
December last ninety-tWo railroad coils
ions, eighty-three derailmentS and seven
other accidents, making 1872 in all ; in
which seventy-One persons were killed
and 2l1 injured. '"At Newcastle, CAL,
there is a famous fig tree. One foot from
the ground it measures eight feet four
inches in circumference, and its branches
cover $500 feet of surface.
officers in Alabama captured several stills,
5000 gallons of whisky and moon
sinners last Friday. "Yhere are twen-
ty-one iron furnaces idle in Pennsylvania
I'M consequence of strikes.'""'.A band of
strolling gypsies, arrested at Providence,
r. l., a day or two ago, were found to
have $4,000 in gold tied up in rags with
Observation-Disclosures have been felt re-
Gently in Vermont, New Hampshire and
Maine.""":""At Birmingham, Ala, last
Saturday evening, Tom Ellis, editor of the
by a detective named Sullivan. Ellis pub
lished a statement in his paper concerning
Sullivan which the latter regarded as libel
us.'Wm. Showers, of Lebanon, Pa,
who murdered his two grandchildren, has
been sentenced to be hanged. ""."Business
failures occurring throughout the country
during last week number for the United
States 2l7, Canada 80; total go, against
217 the preceding week.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
NOTES FROM WESTERN YORK.