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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
PERSONAL.

Hon. A. S. Wallace, member of Congress
for the fourth Congressional District, was at
Memphis, Tenn, on Saturday last. He went
to Memphis on visit to his son, Lieut.. George
D. Wallace, who is an officer of the Seventh
Cavalry, which is now en- route for Dakota
territory.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
JOB PRINTING.

Having determined to devote more atten'
ton hereafter to job printing than we have
done in the past, we would inform the public
that our Office is now we'll supplied with new
type of the latest styles, and the best ma
chinery in use; and with choice stock Of
inks, cards, papers, &c., we are prepared to
execute as good work as can be done any
where in the United States. Orders for
Ball Tickets, Freight Billhesds,
Bank Notices, Labels,
Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks,
Bill Heads, Law Briefs,
Business Cards, Letter Circulars,
Certificates of Deposit, Letter Headings,
Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads
Checks, Note Circulars,
Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, Programmes,
Envelopes, Policies, Flre& Life lns.,
Election Tickets, Shinplasters,
Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards,
will receive prompt attention, and satisfaction
as to quality of work, guaranteed in every
instance. Particular attention given to fine
work in colors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
AN ACT
AN All
To provide for an assessment Of real property in
the year 1873.


To provide for an assessment Of real property in
the year 1873.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the State of South Carroll
ma, now met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority Of the same:
Sec. /. That an assessment of the real prop
erty in this State shall he made in the year
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three,
(1873,) at the same time that the assessment
of personal property is made, and in the
manner and according to the rules prescribed
for the assessment Of real property in chapter
XII. of title III. of the general statutes.
Sec. 2. The comptroIler-general is hereby
authorized and directed to adopt the measures
necessary to carry out the intent Of this act,
and to exercise, for the purpose Of making
and completing the assessment provided for
in this act, all the powers relating to the as
sessment of real property conferred upon him
by the chapter of the general statutes herein.
before cited.
Approved February q, A. d. 1878.
The CIRCUS BusrNEss.-Whethe the cir.
Gus business is profitable to owners and mana
gers or not, it is certainly of value to State
and local governments, and presents some
points of interest to hotel keepers, if we may
believe Mr.. John Robinson, who has grown in
the profession to be "Old John Robinson" "
This veteran manager has lately presented his
balance sheet of last years business to re.
porter at Cincinnati, and from it we learn that
last year he paid as licenses to State and mu-
nicipal governments, the trife of $121 900,
and to hotels and livery stables over s435,0
The total disbursements of Old Johns show,
in 1872, not including salaries to acrobats and
employees, foot up s1,0S3,581.
peg The Secretary of War has published an
order prohibiting officers of the army from
seeking to influence legislation in any way.
When an officer of the army now visits the
National Capital, he must register his name
with the Adjutant General, make known his
business, and the length Of time he intends to
remain in the city. Officers are not prohibi.
ted, however, from giving such information as
may be required of them upon any measures
which may be pending in Congress affecting
the army.
CIVIL R1eHrs.-A bill to prevent discrim-
nation against colored people in New York
has passed the Assembly by a large vote. Re-
pubicans and Democrats alike voted for it,
and it will undoubtedly pass the Senate. The
African is to have the full and equal enjoy
ment of the accommodations, facilities, ad-
vantages and privileges afforded by inn-keep-
ers, common carriers, licensed places ofamuse-
ment, public schools, cemeteries, &c. The
penalty of a violation of this law is fine Of
$50.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate. in
York county, have been reported to the'Audit-
or since the 18th of March:
R. H. Glenn, S. Y. c., to w. w. Gaffney.
A tract of eighty-two acres of land in Chero-
kee township, formerly belonging to the estate
of A. J. McGill, deceased. Consideration,
$177.
James M. Garrison, Executor of Daniel
Nivens deceased, to James H. Sutton. Thir-
teen acres of land in Fort Mill township.
Consideration, $500.
Matthew Elder to Rev. James Douglas.
House and lot in Yorkvile. Consideration,
5000.
I'M. Wallace to Andy Tins, Allen Brat
ton and Matthew Williams. Three acres Of
land in Bethesda township, upon which to
build church. Consideration, $50.
Michael O'Connell to Joseph P. O'Connell.
Thirty-six acres of land in Fort Mill town.
ship. Consideration, $40.
John T. Lowry, Attorney for J. R. Bratton,
to William P. Hobbs. Lot in Yorkvills Sit
uated near the old male academy building.
Consideration, 1852. .'
R.H. Glenn, S. Y. c., to Rev. VIM. Banks.
Seventy-four acres of land in Fort Mill town.
ship, formerly belonging to the estate of Hugh
NJ. White Consideration, $2250.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
DRAWING OF PETIT JURORS.

On Saturday last the Board of Jury Com
missioners drew tie petit jurors for the April
term of the Circuit Court, which commences
its sitting at Yorkville on the first Monday of
April Ofthose drawn, fifteen are whites and
twenty.one are blacks. The following is the
list:
Whites-W.J. Stephenson, James R. Ken
nedy, B. F. Boyd, John II. Barry, Milton P.
Crow, Givens Gallagher, J. D. F. Duncan,
William Childers, W. F. Windle, D. G. Ben
nett, L. D. Goore, William V. Wilson, Robert
Davidson, James Scoggins.
Blacks-Minor Massey, Albert Adams, Ed
ward Davidson, Joseph McCaw, Amzi Rainey,
Foster Burt, Jordan Cunning, johnson By
ers, Ephraim Smith, Primus Rivers, Pad
Barber, Dock Patton, John Alexander, Mel
son Miller, Reuben Jones, Herschell Brum.
field, Abram Grier, David Ross, Milton Wat
son, Albert Love, Charles Martin.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

Seven companies of the Seventh Regi-
ment of Cavalry, which have recently been
on duty in this State and North Carolina, are
now encamped at Memphis, Tennessee. We
are indebted to Lieutenant George D. Wal
lace, for copy of the Memphis Avalanche, of
Saturday last, which gives the subjoined in
formation in regard to the future move
ments" of the command:
General Custar, who is the Lieutenant
Colonel in command, states that the men will
remain in camp until the Sd proximo, when
detachment of two companies will take
steamer to Cairo. Another detachment will
leave on the 9th, and the third and last de.
parts on the 9TH. From Cairo they will pro-
ceed by rail to Sioux City, which is near four
hundred miles from their destined stopping
place. The troop will mount at Sioux City,
and march to Fort Randall, where they will
Join various other regiments. Two OF the
companies now here are under orders to join
the international surveyor, now engaged in
marking out the line between this country
and the British possessions. The surveyors at
present are working along the northern line of
Minnesota, going westward. The other de-
tachments will be on duty protecting the
workmen along the line of the Northern Pa
ci6c railroad"
The New Assistant Secretary.
- The nomination and confirmation Of
Hon. Frederick A. Sawyer for Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury, has been announced.
The Charleston Ne,us says: "Mr. Sawyer will
make an excellent executive officer, and from
his knowledge of the condition and wants Of
the Southern States, may be expected to give
an intelligent ear to representions which may
be made to the Department from this section
of country"
Mr.. Sawyer took up his residence at Char
lesion as principal of the Normal School To-
Gated there fourteen years ago, where he re-
mained until just before the close of the war
He returned after the war ended, and has
represented this State in the United States
Senate for the last four years. Regarding
the appointment of Mr.. Sawyer, the Wash
ington Chronicle remarks:
"Untried as Mr.. Sawyer is in the peculiar
work of the position to which he is called, he
has his reputation to make in it. The re-
commentator he received from twenty-seven
Senators indicates on their part sense Of the
fitness of the appointment, and confidence
that the new appointee will meet all just ex-
pectations. Personal and political integrity
is conceded to him by all. In the late can
vass in South Carolina, he united with Judge
Orr, who has already been complimented by
a high Presidential appointment, in resisting
the action of the regular party convention
because it was tainted, as he claimed, by
fraud. The appointment of two prominent
gentlemen from one State, regardless of the
history of the South Carolina bolt, shows that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
KU.KLUX PARDONS.

On Wednesday of last week, the President
pardoned Sherrod Childers and VIM. Mont
gomery of this county, sentenced to the AL.
bany penitentisry as ku.klux. Miles Nc.
Culloch, Miles Carroll and Henry Warlick,
of this county, and James A. Sanders, of
Chester, previously pardoned, reached their
homes on Friday evening last.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27

damage the characters ofsome men, high in
Office, for truth and veracity; but the object
of the committee to see if Oakes Ames bribed
any member was admitted not proven; but
that committee made the wonderful discovery
that was guilty of selling stock for less than
it was worth, but the parties taking the stock
and keeping it were very innocent, and that
I had the extraordinary ability to give men
bribe without their knowing it, and to do they
did not know what"
This blunt paper being read in the most
matter-of:fact, business-like way, the band
struck up "Home Sweet Home" compliment
tary speeches followed, in which Mr.. Ames
was complimented as an honest man and the
Credit Mobilier investigation bewailed as a
cruel thing. Although this mawkishness can
only be effective at the homes of the illustrious
gentlemen for whose special benefit it was in
dulged, yet as we said at the outset, it is a sad
comentary on the evil days upon which we
have fallen and reflects less credit upon the
gullible constituency of Messrs. Colfax and
Ames than upon the real transgressors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27

CHESTER AND LENo1R RA1LRoAD.-We
notice an interesting article in the Chester
Reporter on the subject of this road. There
can be but one opinion in regard to it, and
that is, it should be built at once. The whole
country along the line of this road, and the
villages through which it passes, are deeply
interested in this enterprise.
The road runs by Yorkville to the State
line, thence by Dallas, Lincolnton, Newton
and Hickory to Lenoir in Caldwell county,
North Carolina.
The Reporter estimates that it can be built
and equipped at a cost not exceeding $4,000
per mile, and as the charter provides that
subscriptions may be made in land or labor,
great difficulty in raising the means of build
ing the road is removed.
Subscriptions of land will at once give f.
nancial credit to the road, enable the direc.
tors to borrow the money necessary for its
construction, and the road in turn will so in
crease the value of the lands along its route
that the subscriber of stock in land will in a
few years find that his remaining possessions
are worth more than his whole is now.
The two features in this enterprise of mar.
row gauge and subscriptions in land will, in
our opinion, make it success.-Rock Hill
Lantern.
CHESTER AND CHERAw RA1LRoAD.-The
Chesterfield Democrat says: ave learn from
our exchanges that meeting Of the corpora
tors of this road will be held at Lancaster
G. H. on the 18th of April, and that it is
probable a consolidation with the Little River
and Cheraw Road will be effected, under the
name and style of the Little River, Cheraw
and Chester Railroad. If this arrangement
is completed, it will be the first step taken
which promises any certainty of securing the
necessary capital for building either of the
roads, and will doubtless lead to the speedy
completion of road from Little River to
Chester, thus affording convenient transporta-
ton to a large section of country that has
hitherto enjoyed scarcely any railroad facili-
ties" The Lancaster Ledger says: "This
road would be an important link in the pro-
posed seaboard route, connecting with the
Little River and Cheraw road, thence on the
Chester and Lenoir route up through York
county, striking the Western North Carolina,
near Hickory Tavern, thence on to East Ten
nessee; ultimately striking the Knoxville
and East Tennessee Road, and thereby open.
ing to the seaboard some of the richest and
most productive portions of the country in the
United States"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27
THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.

THE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD.
By reference to advertisement in another
column, it will be seen that q meeting of the
stockholders of the Chester and Lenoir Mar.
row Gauge Railroad Company, will be held
at Chester on Saturday next. The purpose
of the meeting is to organize the company by
the election of a president and directors, and
to take necessary steps for consolidating with
the Carolina Narrow Guage Railroad Com.
pany, chartered by the Legislature of North
Carolina. The people of Chester are wide
awake on the subject of building the road, and
are ready to do their whole duty toward ef-
fecting its early completion. DR.. Davega,
the President ofthe Carolina Narrow Guage
Railroad, is enthusiastic in support of the
scheme, and is pushing the enterprise with his
well.known energy. He fully expects to have
engineers in the field, engaged in preliminary
surveys, by the middle of May. If the peo-
pie of York will come up to the work in an
energetic manner, willing to do their whole
duty, one year viii! give US connection with
the Air Line Railroad, and furnish our people
with facilities for communication with other
sections, that will be of incalculable benefit.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-03-27

ElGG. I1S dllllOuuCCA thoe viz
was made irrespective of party, and he felt
that he expressed the sentiment of all when
he said that while others sought to cast a
stigma upon their Representatives fair name
and reputation, his constituents had always
looked upon him as "that noblest work Of
God, an honest man." He closed with the
sentiment: "Hon. Oakes Ames, like gold
from the crucible, he has passed through the
fiery ordeal, and come out brighter and pu-
rer."
Mr.. Ames then arose, and while the compa'
ny cheered him in the most vociferous man.
ner, drew from his pocket roll Of manuscript
from which he read his response, as follows:
"My FRIENDS AND NE1GnBoRs: l should
be less than human not to be gratifed and
happy at this great gathering of my constit-
uents to show their confidence and faith in
my honor, truth, and integrity. 1 am not in
the habit of speech-making, as you all we'll
know: I have, as you are aware, been the
principal subject of abuse for the last six
months. The press of the country has been
full of what has been called the "Credit Mo-
bilier Scandal" The whole ofense, if oAense
it can be called, is in selling $4,000 of stock
to eleven members of Congress, at the same
price paid for it, and at the same price 1
sold the same stock to others; and if the par.
ties purchasing the stock had simply told the
truth, and said they had right to purchase
it, that would have been the end of it. But,
from the fact of their denial, the public sus.
pected there must be something criminal in
the transaction, and to find out what the crime
was Congress appointed committee to in
quire if 0akes Ames had bribed any member
Of Congress. The result was the appointment
of the notorious "Poland Committee" That
committee was engaged nearly three months,
and the result of all their labors was to badly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05
ALEXANDRIA.

RIVER NEws.-The ice I'm the river was 70
softe ned by the rain of yesterday that the tugs
Governor Curtin, Potomac, Katy Wise, and
johnson Brothers that have been detained at
Quantico by the late freeze, arrived up early
this morning with tow of twelve oyster boats,
ard followed by the Philadelphia steamer Ann
Eliza. During the voyage up the Katy Wise
was cut through by the ice, and wasru aground
IN Prince street dock in a sinking condition.
Two OF the tugs, after coaling up, lowed seve-
raj schooners To Washington that had been de-
tanned here. The ice is reported as being very
heavy at Quantico. The steamer United and
seven sschooners are lying there awaiting the
breaking up of the gorge.
TERRIBLE PRosPECT.-The question is very
seriously agitating the minds Of some of our
people Just now, in view of the retrocession
agitation, whether IN case IL is accomplished.
ana decided on constitutional grounds, all acts
in reference to the city by the state OF Virginia
being then shown to have been eordn non jude
il will not have the effect OF the annulling of all
marriages which have been celebrated here un-
der state laws. Terrible possibility isn't il?
Yet some of our married couples look forward
to this awful contingency with the utmost
calmness and resignation, and express their in
tenlion, should ii arrive, TO endeavor to bear il
with Spartan fOrtitude ami christian submits
sion.
No NEW CASES OF SMALLPOX and no deaths
are reported to-day. The ambulance con-
ktructsd by Mr.. MiffetOn was put i'm use and
conveyed several patients TO the hospital
.rsa .oxI In sa.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05

FopXD DK.p.-The body Of white female
infant, was found this morning by a lad named
Jacob kelser. The body was Heating in Foun-
dry branch. Officers BRYAN and Harper went
out and brought &c to the station-house, where
il is awaiting the action of Coroner Patterson,
who has been notified Ii was apparently fine
healthy child before death.
DEATH OF A MAsoN.-Captain Henry c.
tomac Ledge, No. 3, +. A. A. NJ, died yesterday
at his residence, in 4th street. of pneumonia
He was also q member of Covenant Lodge, No
Is, /. o. Oh +. His funeral will take place to
morrow afternoon, from bis residence, at 3
O'Clock, and win be attended by the members OF
the two above named lodges.
The PROPOSED NEW SCHOOL BUILDING
The board of trustees of public schools OF
spection of the plans and Specifications, resolved
to advertise for proposals for the erection Of the
proposed splendid new school edifice between I'd
and 81 streets, bids to be opened February Is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05

@ Thousands of cattle in the Neuces Valley
are dying of hunger.
~Too much popcorn killed an Ontario conn
ty woman.
- Delaware proposes an election for q con-
stitutional convention on May 20.
81 Froude is going to lecture on America to
English audiences.
~Canada papers are again agitating the
question Of . universal gold coinage.
~Rev. Mr.. Hammond, the eccentric western
Evangelist, gets 500 week for his osldity.
~Chicago II still deliberating whether less
beer would improve its M0re-ale on Sundays.
The postmen of Madrid, Spain, are on .
strike.
n%McNulty, the Peoria, H., wife murderer,
has petitioned three governors to spare his life,
and AL within three months.
~The Indiana Legislature yesterday rejected
the concurrent resolution indorsing the presi-
dents Indian policy, by vote Of n too.
~The governor Of Wisconsin runs afoul Of
church fairs on account Of their tendency to
foster spirit Of gambling.
n0Mis Severance, IN Iowa girl, late post
mistress in Grumpy county, has thrown mp her
commission and opened farm q 10 acres In
Plymouth.
NBobolink, the Indian who murdered the
Cook family In Minnesota, has shed his feathers
and ceased to sing since he was sentenced to
death, the other day.
DThe excessive cold IN England Of the past
few DAYS is abating. It cansed great distress in
London and other cities, the poor being unpro-
yided for weather 60 unnatural In England.
~The Bsltinore board Of trade atits month
" meeting yesterday adopted resolution pro-
testing against the repeal Of the present national
bankrupt law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05

SHOWING OFF MUgDERERs.-The New York
Times says: Z" In the TOmbs are now lying two
convicted murderers under sentence of death.
Ever since their conviction, that imposing
Egyptian edifice has been besieged it is said, by
a never-ceasng stream of visitors, demanding
to see these two convicts, to whom most Of
come to wound with their curiosity, or to
insult with their unasked for sympathy.
Many Of these persons, we are told, are women,
not always either, in appearance at least, Of
that degraded class to which their action
would naturally refer them. Pleasure parties,
il Is even said, are made up for the pur-
pose, and ladies and gentlemen come driving
down daily from the fashionable quarters of the
town to the new entertainment, as they might
90 to matinee, or to the skating pond, or to the
ball. Presently, no doubt, We shall have pic
mics in the condemned corridor, and, perhaps, a
little later, a select german every now and then
in the murderer's row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05

A FORGER's OPINION OF BOsTON DErEC-
TIvEs-During the trial of Spence Pettis, the
alleged forger, a statement came out which re-
fleets somewhat upon the honesty of some of the
Boston detectives. Mr.. +. e. Cooper, the gen
tleman who negotiated with Pettis for the return
Of the stolen bonds, at one interview was told
by Pettis that the Boston officers were hard to
trade with, as they always wanted the lions
share of the ''swag." To illustrate his mean
ing, Pettis told him of a case. Some seven or
eight years ago he came on to Boston and beat
a bank out of s., 400, and returned to New York.
Several Boston detectives came on after him.
when they were induced to settle, but would
not take less than 81 800, leaving him but 5000
after doing all the work. This he considered
meanness, as the New York scoops" would be
satisfied with half The BOstonians, after max
ing this rake, went home and reported that the
man was not to be found, or that Pettis was not
the one. The names were not given, but there
was a smile in the courtroom when the state
ment was made, and a general thinking" of
who was hit by the allusiOn.-Boston Herald, Jan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-02-05

Woodruff, CLAFLIN AND BLOOD HELD FOR
TRIAL.-In New York, Monday, in the United
States Court, Commissioner Davenport rem
dered his decision in the case of Colonel Blood
Tennie g. Clafin and Victoria c. Woodruff
the mails copies Of a newspaper edited by them
alleged to contain obscene illusions in regard
to Luther c. Challis. The commissioner decides
that, although he is of opinion it was not the
intention OF Cungress, i'm passing a law dealing
with obscene publications, to make il applicable
to newspapers, he would hold the defendants tC
await the action of the grand jury. so that an
opportunity may be given to a court Of law t.
pass upon the question involved.