Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-09-12
SGraps aud faGts.

- flllldul DE- ~ AOl3 q WA
astonished a Brooklyn police justice the
other morning by speaking a rich Irish
brogue. O'Dell says he was born of negro
parents, at Ballyslo, Wexford county, Ire
land, and, not having been naturaliZed
since his arrival in America, was still an
Irishman.
William Paul Dillingham;, who was
elected Governor of Vermont, is the son of
the Paul Dillingham; who was Governor
of the same State from 1865 to 1867 and is
still living at the advanced age of SO years.
Young Dillingham; was born in Waterbury
in 1S43. He read law with the late Sena-
tor Matt Carpenter.
"A Cutter, Indiana, dispatch of Friday
saws: For the fourth time this place was
the scene of q terrific explosion last night.
DYNAMITE wa placed under the post office
and that structure literally blown to atoms:
A large quantity of dynamite was found
yesterday morning under the hotel, with
matches half burned. A strong gale un-
doubtedly extinguished the matches.
Alfred C. Hobbs, of Hartford, Conn,
is now seventy-six years of age. He IS
the man who succeeded in picking every
lock placed before him at the Crystal
Palace, London, in 1851, and won $1,000
offered by an English firm to any one who
could pick the lock they manufactured.
Mr.. Hobbs became a lion, and was pre-
sented to the Duke of Wellington by
Queen Victoria.
- Says the Charleston World: If Cleve-
land and Thurman are elected n should
both die before the assembling OF me
electoral college, the electors would not
have the power of selecting persons for
the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, as is
popularity supposed, but the Democratic
national convention would have to be call
ed together, and whom they selected
would legally become the President and
the Vice-President of the country.
= Inquiry having been made by DIR.
Mitchell, of Jacksonville, Fla, whether re-
fupees from the fever districts would be
allowed to enter Western North Carolina,
without quarantine, Gov. Scales and his
council have answered that they have no
authority to act, such authority being vest
ed in the county and town boards. Muir
phy and Hendersonville have offered to
receive refugees, and they are already ar
riving.s
A Bill to suppress trusts, introduced
in the Senate by Senator Collum a few days
ago., proposes the seizure and forfeiture
of all shares of stock and all property
used in furtherance of the purposes OF a
trust. Another new feature is a provision
of the last section that in the United States
Courts the fact that any person interested
in the prosecution of a case is a member or
agent Of q trust, or that the case OF actlon
grows out of some transaction OF a trust,
may be pleaded in bar or in abatement.
-"Brethren," said 8 Tennessee preacher,
ssdon't put Pontius Plate down as a bad
man. He wasn't a bad man he was only
q weak one. He himself would much
rather have released our Saviour, but ne
couldn't resist the pressure of the Scribes
and Pharisees and the howlings of the
rabble. He didn't have any backbone.
He wasn't bad, but he was a poor crea-
ture-iu fact, there was nothing in him:
Brethren, if Gen. Andrew Jackson had
been in Pontius Pilates place that trial
would have had a different ending"
The "ghost" which inhabited Dead
River Swamp, in Memphis, and caused a
commotion among the residents there
abouts, has at last been captured. Dick
Dennis, a local character, on a wager, set
about to catch the ghost, which ne did,
after dangerously wounding the disturDer,
who turned out to be one Swinton, who,
it is said several months ago murdered his
wife and escaped: Leading a M lie
impaired his health and affected his mind,
duu llc pun vi q " AooO uao JAN
swamp for a retreat.
= In his official report to the Governor
of his investigation of "White Cap" out
laws in Southern Indiana, the Attorney
General has given out some important in
formation showing that the organization
is deep-rooted and that such is the power
of many members of the band that if can
not be eradicated by ordinary means. The
employment of detectives to be sent into
the White Cap region is suggested, and it
is understood that the Governor has acted
in accordance with the advice. Unless
something heroic is done very soon, the
Attorney.G General thinks, there will be a
general insurrection, which can only be
suppressed by military power.
"A gigantic wheat-trust, backed by I'M
limited millions, is being formed in the
Northwest, the field of its separations being
Minnesota and Dakota, and only the high
er grades of the grain are taken. The plan
of this combination is to purchase as near
as possible all the wheat delivered for
storage at any elevator on a railroad. The
organization comprises some of the lead
ing moneyed men of st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis, Brainerd, Duluth, Fargo, and Grand
Forks. Altogether over thirty capitalists
are in the pool, in Individual amounts
ranging from $4,000 to 81 800 600. Prices
are paid at a slight advance on the market
quotations for present and future delivery.
IN. H. r. Dawson, United States COM
missioner of education, in his report just
submitted to the secretary Of the interior,
says that more than twelve millions of
children attended the public schools dur
ing some parts of the last fiscal year, and
of these nearly eight Millions were in av-
erage daily attendance. In both respects
the Southern States, once so backward,
has made greater progress than other parts
of the country. Private and incorporated
schools, colleges and universities show, in
general, marked advance in prosperity.
There has been some Improvement in the
character and extent of the instruction
given, especially in the direction of ndus-
Alaska have been fairly prosperous.
An Ottawa, Ontario, dispatch says:
The Geological Survey has received a letter
from A. P. Low, who is conducting the
exploratory expedition tothe eastern coast
Of Hudson's Bay. 1t is dated Moose Fac
tory, James Bay, June 20. Mr.. Low says
cling from Lake Winnipeg to the shores
of James Bay, the streams being swollen
to such an extent as to make padding ex-
ceedingly dangerous. At the time the
party arrived at James Bay, the weather
was bitterly cold and the bay was filled
with large ice foes. Since then the party
has gone up the bay along the west coast,
making an exploration of the rivers run
ming from the interior of Labrador.
The Texas State capitol board, consist
ing of the governor, secretary of state,
treasurer, land commissioner and comp
t%roller, have held their final meeting and
unanimously passed a resolution refusing
to receive the hnildino claiming that il is