Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-18
Straps aud fafts.


now alive and we'll.
The bill to allow national banks to is
sue notes to the full amount of their gov
eminent deposit, has received the sanction
of some of the best financierS of this I'LL
try. It will add something over twenty
millions to the volume of the currency.
- Evidence is accumulated that the band
which lynched three men in Roam county,
West Virginia, last October, for the murder
of the Rev. Thos. P. Ryan, were them
selves the murderers and that they lynch
ed innocent men in order to divert suspl-
cion from themselves.
During the first three years of the
civil war the Federal navy was Increased
from seventy six to nearly 600 vessels, Of
which eighty were iron or iron-clad.
There was an increase from $500 to 5000
guns, many of them of a calibre hitherto
unknown, and from 1000 to $4,000 sailors.
There were lynched during the year
1887 in these United States no fewer than
123 persons. OF the various States ana
Territories, Texas leads the list, with III,
teen lynchings, and Mississippi is entltled
to. second place, with fourteen to her cred
it. All the victims were men, eighty OF
them being negroes.
There is q deficit in the State funds OF
Mississippi, and Governor Lowry urges
that It BE met by abolishiug the schools
Justly indignant. The agricultural far
mers' college, farmers institute and prac-
ticaltraining schoolsfor girls have reached
q perfection in Mississippi attained no.
where else in the South.
The latest proposition for tariff com
promise is to take the tax off tobacco, S3o,-
100000; reduce the tax on whiskey to
so cents. which would make another $780,
10000; lower the tax on sugar one-half
cent per pound, expected to reduce v
nue. Sis, 000, 900, and make a slight quo
ton on blankets and wooden goods. which,
it is estimated, would cause a total reduc-
ton of about $50, DOC, 900 in the receipts.
The estimates of the current crop. of
cotton are just now the most interesting
figures and reading in a cotton g
life. On Monday forty members OF the
New York Cotton Exchange were asked
for their estimates. The average estimate
was 6,62O,OOO bales, or 100000 bales more
than the Government bureaus estimate.
An increase or a deficit of 100000 bales IN
the actual crop will bring joy and sorrow
to many a cotton broker.
Litigation has commenced over the
estate of the late Capt. Voolfolk, OF Geor-
pia. who was one of the victims OF the
atrocious murders committed by his son.
The disposition of the property will de-
pend upon a settlement of the fact Wheth-
err the father or mother died first. II the
former, then the wife's heirs are entitled
to the property; and if the latter then the
three children of Capt. Woolfolk's hrst
wife have an undoubted claim.
The eclipses of 1888 will take place on
the following dates A total eclipse OF the
moon will occur on January 70, a partlal
eclipse of the sur on February IL, another
partial observation of the same body on
July 8, a total eclipse of the moon on July
%, and a partial eclipse of the sun on
August 7. The two total eclipses OF the
moon will be visible in the United States,
but the solar dissertations will not be seen
by any resident of this country unless they
chance to be in Europe, Asia or Africa at
the time these events take place.
The trial of Logan Sigmund for the
murder of William Higginbotham. in 1861,
was begun at Riding, Mt. Vernon, KY,
last week. Higginbotham was riding
along the road, it is said, h%urrahing for
JEFF Davis, when Sigmund shot him from
adoorway. Sigmund was extradited from
Missouri in 1885, and tried in 1886, the
Jury disagreeing. His defense is that he
was q Federal soldier, and had the right
to do the shooting. The Grand Army of
the Republic are helping him defend the
case.
Henry Schmidt was hanged at West
Union, Iowa, last Friday, for the murder
of Lucretia Peek, September 4, 1886. He
made a statement on the scaffold admitting
the murder, and charging that Ellison Il.
Smith instigated it and was present at the
time, and that Smith killed Abram Peek.
His last words were: "As I hope to be for
given of God, I hope to be forgiven OF
men," The drop fell at 1896, and in six
and three quarter minutes Schmidt was
dead. His neck was broken and he died
without a struggle.
"A difficulty occurred On Thursday al
ternoon in the Office ofthe Parker House,
at Admission, Ala, between w. r. Will
liams, the proprietor, and P. II. Evans, re-
sulting in the shooting and killing of both
men. A young man named Thomas Gam
BILE, who was attempting to prevent trou-
BILE, was shot in the leg below the knee,
but was not seriously hurt. A colored
man who was passing at the time, also re-
ceived a slight wound in the leg. The
trouble grew out of a statement made by
Williams to Evans in reference to the in
fidelity of his wife, which Evans refused
to believe.
UNLESS an ordinance passed by the re-
cent prohibition common council of At
lanta Is repealed, says a late dispatch, that
city will soon possess a gallery OF por-
traits rivaling in its popularity and unique
feature the "Rogues' Gallery" in New
York. The ordinance inficts a severe
penalty on every saloon or barkeeper who
sells liquor to any person twice convicted
in the police courts of drunkenness. The
liquor dealers therefore demand to be sup
piled with a picture of each man so con-
victed for selfprotection. The result is
looked forward to with much anticipation,
as, if granted, albums containing the pic
lures will rest on every bar in town.
Many offenders objectto any such attempts
to hinder their enjoyment.
1.-THE simple and plain truth" says the
independent, lis that if Utah is admitted
into the Union under the Constitution re-
Gently adopted by the Mormons, the whole
question in relation to polygamy will be
RENTED to Utah as a State, absolutely
and forever ; and the Mormons being the
majority of the people, there is no doubt
as to how it would be determined. The
constitution on the subject is palpably a
Mormon trick to get into the Union, and
out of the jurisdiction of Congress, so far
as polygamy is concerned. Congress, as we
trust, will not be deceived by this trick, or
admit Utah until polygamy is dead in
that Territory. The people of the United
States do not want to have a polygamous
State in the Union by a blunder or COM
promise On the part of Congress-"
DIR. Gustavus Hinrichs has prepared
an address charging Prof. L. w. Andrews,
Professor of Chemistry at the Iowa State
University, with gross carelessness and ig-
rnro mo yyhioh no cayS nn1anOprS tho
lives and reputation of the citizens of Iowa.
Mr. Won do Van adr1uoist of pella Iowa