Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-10-17
S&raps and fatts.

gigantic election frauds are cOntenpiateu,
and some startling developments are an
ticipated.
The longest through car service on any
railroad line in the world is said to be on
the Southern Pacific road between New
Orleans and San Francisco, 2,495 miles.
The fastest through train on this o IS
timed at 113 hours and twenty-five min
utes, or at the rate of twenty-five miles per
hour.
The Connecticut State prison at Wealth
ersheld contains two wife murderers. One
of them, Jake Brown, who has been in the
prison only a year, has gone crazy pr9ou,
ing over the crime. The other, thirty-tWo
wears ago held his wife under water unit!
She died. He seems to enjoy the life that
he has been leading for over thirty years,
grows fat on prison fare, and is a vigorous
man of go years.
Three months ago M. H. Wilson, OF
Marquette, Mich, was shot, the ball pass
ing clear through his neck, tearing out a
portion of the Vertebra and causing COM
plete paralysis of the body below the neck.
The doctors don't know Whatto makeO DIN.
He can't feel pins stuck anywhere IN ms
body. but retains his flesh and his appetite,
and can talk and read. His flesh below
the neck is described as "white as alabaster
and nerveless as asponge.'
The coolest day will fall between jan
uary 20 and 80, according to Gen. Greely's
prediction. According to his explanation
the coolest day does not occur at the WIN
ter s~olstice, but somewhat later, since the
greatest cold must be experienced at that
time of the year when the amount OF neat
received from the sun becomes equa! 10
thatlost by nocturnal radiation. AS mlgnt
ILL., oo1loof dow fo lie oarlIQY In
the southern part of the country than IN
the northern.
A citizen of Eatonton, Ga, smokes
about twelve pounds Of tobacco yearly IN q
pipe that he declares is over two hundred
wears old. This leads a mathematical per-
son to calculate that if that were the
average amount used in the pipe since
it's first day, 2,4O0 pounds of the weed have
been burned in its bowl and If the hrst
SIP had been put out at compound inter-
est at the rate of 10 per cent. it would now
have grown to the sum of 81, 755,443,20O.
Just how this would have benefited the
frst owner of the pipe does not appear.
- In the two hospitals at Duluth, Mimi,
there are now over eighty cases OF typhoid
fever, and in all it is estimated that there
are about 800 cases in the city,. Two prom
inent physicians, the health officer, and
many prominent merchants are ill, and
some of the best known men in the town
have died of the fever. There is apparent
ly no way to cheek the ravages of the dis
ease, and new cases develop every day.
The cause is thought to be the tearing up
of the street paving and the existence OF
numerous swampy spots along the railroad
tracks.
Settled after litigation of two centuries
and a half! The case of the town OF Mid
dleburg Or. ~ VS.. the Newport Hospital,
involving the right to take sand and gravel
from Sachusett Beach, and which has been
pending $50 years. has been decided in the
Rhode Island Supreme Court, where Chlef
Justice Durfee read an opinion sustaining
the rights of the inhabitants of Newport
in tbey valuable product of the beach. The
beach is i'm Newport, but it's owner disposed
of it's product in such a way that the New
port Hospital and Newport inhabitants
were debarred from using it.
Francis w. Williams, senior memhero of
the well-known banking house OF VIII
liams, Black & Co., of New York, COM
mitted suicide at the Grand Union Hotel
on the 9th instant. The firm was squeezed
in the recent wheat corner and suspended
on the 10Th of September, but rallied and
opened for business on the 1st. The firm
is said to have lost heavily, although
still solvent. Williams has been acting
strangely since that crisis. He was 81
wears old and leaves two sons and a wife.
He shot himself with a pistol and left a
note addressed to his wife in which he
said that business troubles had rendered
life q burden to him.
- More than half Of the liquor saloons in
New York city are not paying expenses,
and many of their keepers are constantly
going out of the business. These facts
were vouched for by Commissions Stern
at a recent meeting of the commission Tor
the revision of the excise law. The records
of bankruptcy, the records Of the board OF
excise, and the reports Of the police confirm
their truth. The losses of the saloon keep
ers from poor pay and otherwise are heav-
Ter than those in any other line of bust
ness. Almost any one of them stands
ready to tell how many customers seek to
postpone payment, and how many friends
try to get a friendly drink, and how many
beats turn up at the bar, and how much
blackmail is levied under various preteXts,
and how often it is necessary to take means
of avoiding arrests and raids.
During the eight months ending with
August there came to the United States
nearly 400, 900 immigrants, (392,937,) or
about 10000 more than in the first eight
months of last year. It is worth noting
that while England and Wales sent us
1000 less than last year and Ireland only
700 more, Scotland sent 2,1O0 more: The
Germans were slightly less, but in all other
nationalties there was an increase. OF the
total immigration for the eight months
every 100 was made up substantially as
follows: British, 81; German, 10; Bohe-
milan, Austrian, Hungarian, Polish n
Russian, IS; Scandinavian, Is; Italian, 10,
migrants 43 per cent. were Irish, AZ per cent
English and Welsh, and Is per cent Scotch.
During the eight months the most remark
able increase was in the Russian, Hunga-
rian and Polish, which reached 10000, an
advance of II 800 over last year.
OF the gambling in wheat and the grain
speculations of two weeks ago and their
probable depressing effect upon legitimate
business, Dun's review says: The great
wheat speculation has been the absorbing
feature this week, for, though the Septem-
Der corner came to an end with heavy
losses for sellers, it left the market in such
a state that much higher prices for other
options were easily obtained. With De-
cember wheat at $1.1S at Chicago, there
came heavy selling and a sharp reaction:
But the state of the market is still against
all reason. Cash wheat sells for more at
Chicago than at Liverpool, and at one
time it would have paid to ship wheat
back from Antwerp to New York. The
effects of this wild speculation will be in
furious to legitimate trade, both foreign
and domestic, and to consumers in this
country it has already brought dearer
flour and an advance in the price OF bread.
A 1 Noy,y Vorly co loo rf Nyhoat amounted fO
los, Asa, 600, bushels, more than three times
the entire visible SunnlV- and prices closed