Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-04-23

twenty-four hours and to pay fine of forty
dollars.
Two employees of Robinsons Circus, at
Cincinnati, Ohio, while loading cages on
board barge at the foot of Fifth street, on
Sunday, fell into the river and were drowned.
/ The remains of the world-renowned and
eccentric evangelist, Lorenzo Dow, who died
in Washington about forty-two years ago,
were recently disntered for reburial in anoth-
er part of the city. There was but little left
of the body and clothing.
Accounts from Memphis represent that
the planters throughout that section are very
despondent in consequence of the excessive
rains and high water rendering planting i'm
possible As yet, but few have been able to
plow and furrow for corn or cotton, with lit.
tie prospect of improvement in the weather.
- The Mayor of New Orleans telegraphs to
the Mayor of New York, that owing to the
unexampled overflow of the Mississippi and its
lower branches, many families are ruined and
threatened with starvation, and that it is be-
yond the means Of those who have escaped the
calamity to give adequate relief to the suffer-
ers. He asks assistance for the victims of
this two-fold visitation of flood and famine.
"A dispatch from Key West, Florida, says
that Mr.. Dockery, the American arrested in
Cuba for communicating with the insurgents,
was convicted and sentenced to death. There
are no advces as yet as to the result of the
appeal to Captain General Concha for COM
mutation of the sentence. kilograms from
Havana heretofore announcing Dockery's
condemnation have evidently been suppressed
by the authorities.
An attempt was made to defraud an in
surance company in New York last week, by
burying coffin supposed to contain the
body of young woman on whose life there
was policy which would revert to one DR..
Uhling on her DEATH On the Doctors cer-
tifcate burial permit was obtained; but in
due time it was discovered that the coffin that
was buried contained only few bricks, and
not dead woman. The guilty parties, in
cluding the undertaken, have been arrested.
EDITORIAL INkLINGS.
Summers Successor.
- Wm. B. Washburn has been elected to
the United States Senate from Massachusetts
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Mr.. Sumner. He was elected on the thirty
third ballot, receiving 152 votes. Mr.. Wash
burn was born in Winchendon, Mass, Janua-
ry 81, $780, He graduated at Yale College
in 1914, and subsequently engaged in the
business of manufacturing. In 1850 he was
State Senator, and in 1854 representative
in the Legislature of Massachusetts. He was
subsequently president Of the Greenfield,
(Mass.) bank In 1862 he was elected Rep
resentative to the Thirty-eighth Congress, and
was reelected to the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
Congresses. His latest political success prior
to that which he now enjoys was his election
to the governorship of Massachusetts,, in the
nomination for which office by the republican
State convention he defeated General Butler.
iTax.Payers' Memorial.
I - Gen. Kershaw, who was mem ber of
the committee appointed to lay before Con-
gress the memorial Of the Taxpayers conven-
ton, has given the Camden Journal an inter-
esting account of his mission. That paper
adds: "In his judgment much good has been
accomplished. Though Congress may not
extend the relief for which we pray, he is con-
6dent that a committee Of investigation will
be appointed, whose duty it will be to inves-
tigate the causes of our complaints, and thus
lay open to prosecution in our courts of justice
many State and county officers who have used
their offices for the furtherance of their own
corrupt purposes. And even should Congress
not do this, nothing has been lost. On the
other hand, much has been gained. The
moral effect which the agitation Of the subject
will have upon the public mind will be seen
and felt in the coming elections, throughout
the North and West"
The Civil Rights Bib.
- The civil rights bill reported by the
judiciary committee as substitute for Sum-
ner's bill, does not differ in its features from
the original bill introduced by the Massachu-
setts senator, although the form has been
changed. 1t gives to all persons the privileges
of inns, public conveyances, theatres, and other
places of amusement, common schools and
public institutions of learning or benevoence,
supported in whole or in part by general tax
alton, and of cemeteries so supported. The
penalty for denial of any of these privileges is
the payment of $500 to the person aggrieved,
and fine of not less than $500 nor more than
$1,000, or imprisonment from thirty days to
one year. No citizen shall be disqualified
from service as grand or petit juror in any
State or United States Court on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude,
and any person excluding or failing to sum-
mon citizen for such cause shall be fined not
more than $4,000.
Congress and Finance.
- The committee appointed at recent
meeting of the leading bankers, merchants
and capitalists of New York city called on
President Grant last Friday and presented a
petition signed by $500 persons, asking him
to veto the Senate finance bill. Two of the
delegation made speeches, in which they spoke
of the bill as being disastrous to the best in'
terests of the country and as opposed to the
pledges of the President and the nation for an
early resumption of specie payments. The
President, in reply, did not indicate what his
action would be; he said all had their various
views, and he had no doubt if he lived in
New York. he would think with the commit