Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-07

with a favorable prospect for the concern
running out The Freedman's Savings Bank
was chartered by Congress and has branches
in nearly all the Southern States.
- Alexander H. Stephens, while on the
way to his home in Georgia few days ago,
told correspondent that he was going home
to die. The maladies with which he is afflicted
have not, until recently, affected any vital
organs, and he says he cannot now much
longer survive.
-- The Adam and Eve apple question is
not yet settled, and as stated by recent wri-
ter opens the following mathematical problem
Adam 8 and Eve S also-16. But Adam
said "See, ate one; or G 1S1, or 100,1Sl."
Eve replied: "See, I excel. I ate two, or
CIXL 1872, or 100, ,140,1S2." Total, 100, ,240,-
1868.
-Ex-President johnson is in Nashville
1t is reported that his movements have refer
ence to the approaching political campaign in
Tennessee. While he is willing to become a
representative in the lower house of Congress,
he does not disguise the fact that under prop
er and fitting circumstances he will be can.
didate for the United States Senate.
- In Cincinnati, on Tuesday, Charles
Wagner, with the assistance of his wife, forci-
bly, elected several lady crusaders from bis
premises. An immense crowd collected in
front of his saloon, which was dispersed by the
police. who also ordered the ladies to move
on. Wagner has been arrested for assault
on the crusade leader
-- The narrow gauge railroad system is
rapidly becoming popular in this country,
and but few people are aware of the fact that
since it came in vogue, during the last three or
four years, no less than l, ,4454 miles of narrow
gauge railway have been built in this country
and in Canada, which roads, when completed,
will have mileage of 4,5623 miles, while
there are 1921 miles under construction.
- A Richmond (Va.) correspondent says
that the solid men of Virginia have taken
alarm at the administration of affairs in South
Carolina, "and having arrived at the conclu-
sion that the existing generation of blacks
will continue to cling to party in opposition
to their former masters, have determined to
let them shift for themselves and look for
support from those under whose direction
they vote.
Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, has again
given offense to portion of his constituency,
this time the mercantile community. The
general tax bill contains provisions which are
claimed to be onerous and oppressive to the
merchants, and despite numerous protests
from Richmond and other cities, the Governor
approved the bill. The merchants threaten
to appeal to the courts to test the constitu-
tionality of the act.
- 1t is stated that from the beginning of
transatlantic steam navigation in 1910 to the
present time, period of thirty-three years.
ffty-one steamers have been lost, the "Presi
dent" being the first, and "L'Amerique" the
last In the period mentioned it is estimated
that sixteen thousand voyages going and re-
turning across the Atlantic have been made by
the different steam lines. So it would appear
that there is little more risk to life in ocean
voyaging than in railroading
Joe Waltz, condemned murderer in
the Jail at Catskill, N. Y, killed his keeper
in his cell on Thursday evening last, the day
previous to that appointed for the execution
of the sentence Of the court. The deed crea-
ted intense excitement, and over two thousand
persons soon collected around the Jail for the
purpose of lynching the prisoner. Quiet was,
however, restored, and the next day be was
hanged for the murder of which he had been
previously convicted.
State Senator Alexander E. Barber and
Bradford r. Davis, both colored, have
brought suit against the Louisiana Jockey
Club, each claiming $4,000, because, as the
petitioners aver, said club refused to sell them
quarter-stretch badges during the recent races
on account of their color, they being of Afri-
can descent; and that such refusal and ex.
clusion were not only in violation of the priu-
ciples of natural justice, but also Of the rights
guaranteed them by the Constitution and
statutes of the State.
Paul Hayne recently visited the grave
of Edger Allan Poe in the Presbyterian
church-yard in Baltimore, and draws a sad
picture of its desolation. The burial ground
is quite uncared for, and the grave is only
marked by wooden foot-board. The head
stone represented in all the biographies, with
Latin epitaph, has never marked Poe's rest
ing. place. Soon after it was finished, and
awaiting removal from the stone-mason's s
yard, freight car precipitated from track
near by rushed through the yard and ground
the stone to powder. All of which would
have been obviated by cremation.
"A change in the mode of electing the
President and Vice-President has been for
some time under consideration by the Senate
Committee of Privileges and Elections. 1t is
understood the committee have agreed upon
their report, which is substantially the plan
suggested by Senator Morton. The PROPOSE
tion is to divide each State into Electoral dis
tricts, corresponding with the Congressional
districts. The people will vote direct tor
President, and the candidate in district Law
ing the highest number of popular votes will
be given one vote for that district. Each
State is to have two votes "st large" which
are to be given to the candidate having the
highest popular vote in the State. All of
these votes are to be counted at Washington,
and the candidate having majority will be
elected President. A similar course is pro-
posed for the choice of the ce-President, and
a tribunal is created for the decision of "all
questions arising out of an election for the
Office of President and Vice-President." The
reform chiefly secured by the proposed change
is the abolition Of the ELECTORAL Colleges
in the separate States.
"A young woman who rides horseback
in circus, has communicated her biography
50 a reporter of the Baltimore american, who
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