Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-03-23
Seraps aud fatts.

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boarding house recovered part of the debt by
selling the body to dissecting room for $685.
Returns from the New Hampshire elec-
ton, which took place on Tuesday of last
week, give, for Governor Cheney, Repubi-
can, 3,347 majority. The House stands-Re-
publicans, 2O7; Democrats, 17S.
= Incident of Judge Blacks interview with
Belknap, who wished to retain him as coun-
sci After listening to what was said, the
Judge addressed himself to Gen. Belknap,
and said: "You are the patient, I am the ply
sician the patient is dying and I can do
nothing"
-ANew York letter says: "Southern veg
etables and fruit are beginning to crowd the
city markets. Green peas from Florida are
selling at from $3.50 to SIS per crate, and Gu
cumbers at from $5 to $6 per dozen; lettuce
so to IS cents per dozen; strawberries 81 to
S5 per quart. Bermuda potatoes are also be-
ginning to make their appearance"
james Parton's petition for special act
to.legalize his marriage in Massachusetts,, was
unfavorably considered by the legislative COM
mittee, which has reported in favor ofpermit-
ting him to withdraw the petition. This
leaves him liable to Indictment for violating
the marriage law, if he continues to live in
Massachusetts.
The Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in his
annual message, directs attention to the fact
that the colored population Of that city die at
the rate 1886 to every 1000, whereas the
whites die only at the rate of 1897 to every
1000; and recommends the adoption of more
stringent sanitary ordinances for the protec-
tion of the poorer classes Of society.
Judge Taft, the New Secretary Of War,
visited the Chamber of Commerce before leav-
ing Cincinnati, and was forced against his will
to make speech. 1t was brief and sensible,
and was as follows: 81 have no business to
make speech to day. / made a mistake IN
coming in. look forward to the duties which
have been imposed on me, and which am
about to undertake, with that uncertainty
which hangs over one when he enters on that
in which he has no experience l have no
business to talk, except to say that you are
nv friends, and therefore | could not resist
your urging me to rise before you. know
he>aerchants of Cincinnati, their enterprise,
their ibera1ry, their honesty, more than 9th
ers. All can say TOR tho future, is that l
will do the best can."
A Washington telegram to the New York
Herald says: "a member of the military COM
mittee of the House is authority for the state
ment that the House will pass resolution call
ing upon the President for information as to
: the reasons which make it necessary, in times
of profound peace, to keep troops stationed
throughout certain States of the South; and, in
the event of the Presidents reply not contain
ing any satisfactory reason further than is now
publicly known, the House will add an amend
ment to the appropriation bill providing that
no portion of the money appropriated for the
support of the army shall be paid for main
tanning troops in any of the Southern States,
except such as may be necessary to garrison a
portion Of the seacoast forts The Texas men,
bers claim that more troops are absolutely de-
manded to protect their constituents on the
Mexican border, and that the troops now
maintained in idleness in Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and other States, should be moved to
points where their services are required"
For some time past the clerks at the sta
ton on Fourteenth and Main streets, Louis
vile, have been annoyed by goats that infest
that immediate locality. Not satisfied with
the other devilment the sly rascals are guilty
of, they chew all the tags off the cotton bales
sent for Shipment thereby causing a great
deal of trouble in shipping the cotton. The
other day the clerks surrounded about dozen
of the goats and succeeded in driving them in
to box-car alongside the platform and fast.
ening the door. That night there was car
load of goats going north, hitched to freight
train. The car was left at Indianapolis, and
the next day the door was thrown open and
the goats pushed out and made raid
through the town, .upsetting and buttlng
clerks, hands, boxes, bales, &C., as they es-
capped. Not being apprised of the shipment
by way-bill, the Indianapolis clerks chased
them all over town, endeavoring to capture
them, of course believing the company would
have to pay for them as "lost freight if they
were not captured. By night all were caught
and put back in the car. A dispatch was sent
to the station man in Louisville: "Send on
your way bill. Got all the goats" A
dispatch went back in reply: "Don't want
any. Let 'em CO." The race in Indianapo'
lis was said to be very exciting.
"A Washington letter says: "The devel-
opments of the last week have produced more
effect upon the President probably than
anything which has ever happened during his
term of Office. 1t is plain now to perceive
that beneath his imperturbability there is an
uneasiness and disquiet which has never
before troubled him. Since the fall of Belk-
nap he has seen but very few visitors out
side of senators and members, and the busi-
ness he has with them he dispatches as
soon as possible. He has refused, since last
Thursday, to see several distinguished persons,
and an air of gloom and dependency seems
to hang around the White House. When the
President goes out, he keeps his eyes down.
cast, and does not seem to care to recognize
any one. With the very few persons with
whom he talks confdentially, he admits that
he is not in happy frame OF mind. he
seems to realize what was said by one Of his
friends on the day of Belknap's resignation,
that the bottom has been knocked clean out
of the third term. Whether he sees in Belk-
nap any signs of impending disaster to him
SELF is known only to himself; but it is begin
ming to be whispered around that the very
offence of which Belknap stands convicted
in the eyes of the world will be brought d.
rectly home to the President. 1t was said by
a person supposed to be we'll informed, that
within three months Gen. Grant would be
convicted and removed from Office by the vote
ola Republican Senate 1t is understood that
Col. Fred Grant has been anxious for some
time to resign from the army, and that he has
reluctantly been persuaded to forego his in
tention by his mother and his wife"
The evil effects upon the colored race of
association with the white carpet-baggers,