Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-04-19
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BY a resolution of the city council of
Mobile, all cotton factories erected within the
corporate limits will be relieved from city
taxation for ten years.
A list of clergymen who have fallen from
grace within year, in the United States, is
published in the jewish Times. The number
ofconvictions for crimes is given at forty.
- Hereafter there is to be no South none,
that is, in distinctively political sense. The
negro will disappear from the field of nation
al politics. Henceforth the nation, as ma
ton, will have nothing more to do with him.
New York Nation.
Half the fools in the United States think
they can beat the doctors at curing the sick;
two-thirds of them are sure they can beat the
ministers preaching the Gospel, and all of
them know they can beat the editors running
the papers.
The Cincinnati Enquirer likens the Presi-
dents policy to blanket. "If he pulls the
blanket off from the South the North gets cold,
and if he pulls it off from the North the South
gets cold" The blanket, however, is begin
ing to stretch to comfortable dimensions
The New York World, in view of the re-
moval of the Federal troops from South Car
olina, takes occasion to refer to the excellent
conduct of the citizens of the State under the
most exasperating provocations, and welcomes
them back again from their thraldom.
On the principle that the "early bird
catches the worm," the Martinsburg (West
Virginia) Statesman has thrown its presiden-
tial banner to the breeze for 1880, bearing the
names of "Blue Jeans" Williams for Presi-
dent and Wade Hampton for Vice-President.
According to q Washington telegram,
Senator Patterson has said that he does not
intend to return to South Carolina to live at
ter the expiration of his two years in the
United States Senate. This will be sad news
to Pennsylvania, which will probably have
to take him back.
Fisk University at Nashville, is to have
an important addition. The foundation Is
commenced for q building to be called "Liv-
ingston Hail." after the great African explo-
rer. It is to cost $4,000, and is to be used
to educate colored missionaries for service in
Africa.
General Fitz Lee says he was three years
at West Point with Gov. Nichols He says
Nichols "was popular, strong.willed, amiable
and audacious If Packard and his friends
think they can bull doze' Gen. Nichols out
of the rights conferred upon him by majori-
ty of some ten thousand votes, they will lose
time, and, if they shoot, life"
"A bill has been passed by the Legisla-
ture of Tennessee to reduce the salary of the
Governor from $4,000 to $4,000, Supreme
Court Judges from $4,000 to $4,000, judges
of the inferior courts and all special judges
from $4,000 to $4,000. The bill, after it re-
ceives the promised signature of the Cover
nor, goes into effect after the next general
county elections.
Vice.President Wheeler's home organ
lets out the interesting fact that he was the
most surprised man in the country when he
found the Electoral Commission had counted
Louisiana for Hayes and him, as he had ex.
pected and predicted that its vote would be
thrown out entirely. The organ further de-
clares that Mr.. Wheeler intends to keep en-
tirely clear of responsibility in the settlement
of the Louisiana case.
-Despatches state that President Hayes
policy toward the South, is in great measure,
the result of an excursion taken through the
Southern States soon after the war. On
this tour, he saw and conversed with all class
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interference was dispensed with, the South
ern people would soon become as loyal to the
Union as any other citizens, and that peace,
tranquility and prosperity would be restored.
- The Gretna Green of California is ma
rine league outside the Golden Gate. At a
late runaway wedding, youth of 19 and
girl of IA chartered steam scow, took on
board the necessary clergyman, steamed away
outside the jurisdiction of the State on to the
open sea, and there, amid the foaming break
ers of the bar and the bowling nor 'wester
which prevailed at the time, the marriage GER
emony was performed.
All Moon, San Francisco Chinaman,
being on trial for murder, was told by his law
prisoner said that he could arrange readily
for witnesses, and he did. Three of his coun-
trymen swore that, at the time of the murder,
be was at work in wash-house; two swore
that he was asleep at home, and others would
have sworn that he was in other places had
not the lawyer interposed.
Wade Hampton hits the nail right on the
head so plainly that the most illiterate black
man in South Carolina can understand him
when he appeals to the colored people to give
his administration fair trial, and if it fails
to fulfill its pledges to all races, "throw out
all the men in office at the next election and
put in anybody you please" As Hayes is on
Hampton's bond, with the army as back bail
for the President, the security to the colored
people of the Palmetto State may be consid-
cred better than the average of security in
business transactions these days-Phsladel-
phia Times.
s., who was travelling in Kansas, re-
ceived the following telegram: "Return i'm.
mediately. You are a father" On the eve
of his return, his lady friends, determined to
play joke on him, procured from the neigh
borhood three other babies, placed all four in
row on bed in an adjoining apartment,
and covered them up. S. arrived, embraced
his wife in great dslight, and was then led
forth to behold his 6rst.born. When the
cover was raised, an indescribable look of
surprise overspread his countenance as he ex-
claimed, "Great God! Did any of them get
away?"
The records of the police departments of
New York and Brooklyn, show that the num-
ber of people who have mystsriously disap-
peared, during the past three months. is much
greater than during any previous period of
twelve months. During the months of Jan
uary, February and March, sixty.four persons
were reported missing in New York, and
forty-one in Brooklyn, making total in the
two cities of one hundred and FIVE. Of this
number tbirty.four were found through the
agency of officers and detectives thirty re-
turned to their homes and gave explanations
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