Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-21
Straps aud fafts.

life in working for the yellow fever sufferers
along the Mississippi.
- The only proper way to manage politics
is to let the Office seek the man but Offices
have become so stupid of late years that mer
are obliged to run after them, and often 6
number of men run for the same Office, in the
goodness of their hearts, thinking the place:
would not otherwise be filled.
- The proposed amendment to the constitu
ton of Mississippi, making the payment of 6
poll tax of not less than 81 necessary quail
i6cation for voters, and providing that the
proceeds shall be devoted to educational pur
poses, was defeated at the recent election. Il
is not certain that the amendment received g
majority in single county.
- Mrs. Diana Haines was made insane in
Mount Gilead, Ohio, by false report that
she was heiress to 100000, the sudden ella
tion and disappointment unbalancing her rea
son. She tried to commit suicide and was
sent to the asylum. Lately 100000 was
really bequeathed to her, but she will not be-
lieve it.
Two parties of medical students in Yer
mont went out after the same corpse. The
&rst to arrive on the ground ambushed them
selves and let the second party exhume the
corpse, then rushed upon them with wild
shouts of "body snstchers p and 'arres'
them p and when their rivals had fled, car
ried off the corpus deficit at their leisure.
lack Chandler has been sufficiently anne
liorated to call at the White House. HI
feels especially happy over defeating the
Democrats in his own Congressional district
the only one they held in Michigan-sayE
that the Republicans can elect Grant OF
Blaine in 1880, and considers Bayard the
only candidate with whom the Democrats
can make respectable canvass.
Since the ghouls stole A. T. Stewards re-
mains, strict watch is kept over the vault in
which the body of Commodore Vanderbilt re-
poses. The vault is believed to be secure
There are two iron doors to it through which
a person must pass, and these doors are go
cured by heavy bolts, locks and chains. Will
liam II. Vanderbilt has had the coffin in which
the remains of the Commodore are inclosed
walled in with mason work.
- The Charlotte Democrat says with much
truth: "If Congress will pass law to break
up what is known as the "Cotton Exchange
in New York, it would do more to benefit
cotton raisers than anything else. As long
as set of men are allowed to assemble in
New York each day and combine to fix the
price of cotton among themselves, without re-
gard to the supply or demand, our farmers
will not often receive fair price for their
cotton"
Thomas Conroy, shoemaker at Tanners
Falls, Pa, hammers away at his last, rather
than return to Ireland to accept the fortune
of $4,000 his father left him, but which he
refuses to accept from his uncles, who falsely
accused him of being Molly Maguire, be-
cause he would not marry the rich young wo-
man they picked out for him. Conroy left
Ireland in disgust, came to America and mar
ried, and takes no notice of the annual notid'
cation from his uncles' lawyer to come and
get his money.
The will of Alexander McGill, of ALLIE
ghany City, Pa, has just been filed. 1t is
dated January l, 1878, and leaves his prop
erty, worth $4,000, to certain relatives for
life and to three aunts in Ireland, or the sur
yivors of them, when the American heirs die.
If there are no heirs surviving in the old
country. the money is to 60 to the President
of the United States, to be applied in further.
ing the interests of the national Democratic
party. If the President is not Democrat,
the money is to remain on deposit till Dem
ocratic chief Magistrate has been inaugurated.
"A case of interest to patrons of railroads,
was decided on Tuesday in the United States
Court at Cleveland. Ohio. A citizen of Ash.
tabula county sued the Ashtabula Railroad
for refusing to accept round.trip ticket
which had printed stipulation that it was
good for the round.trip only, upon which he
had "stopped.of:" The court held that the
plaintiff in accepting the ticket accepted the
stpulations printed upon it; that the ticket
had been issued at reduced rate in consider
alton of a continuous trip only, and that the
plaintiff had no case.
That law is an expensive luxury some
times, is we'll illustrated by the following case
reported by the Carthage IN. Y.,) Repubh-
can: "Great are the virtues of the jury
trial as illustrated by the case in our justice
courts last week. The amount in controversy
was ST. To adjust the matter it required
the drawing of SO jurors the administration
of nearly 100 oaths, the windage of lawyers,
the services of constables, the consumption
of whole days and portion of 8 nights, the
taking of so or 60 pages of testimony, and
all this to reach the conclusion-no cause of
action
"A Washington dispatch of the 18th says !:
Interest in the attitude of the administration
toward the South continues unabated, and
fresh arrivals of individuals from that section
with further supplies of outrage, are reported.
The President, however, insists that the deter
mination to enforce the election laws involves
no change in his position; nevertheless, the
Republican leaders continue so to view it.
The hope is expressed by this class that the
South Carolina cases may be tried before
Judge Bond, as they are satisfied in that event
there will be no tempering of justice with
mercy.
- In late interview, Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, recently elected to Congress from the
Richmond, Va, district, expressed his views
as unalterably in favor Of hard money, and
held the opinion that long before 1880 the
"Solid South" and "Solid North" will be for
gotten. He is reported to also have said :
"The South is now as close part OF the
Union as is New England. Virginia has the
same interest in the general prosperity of the
country as Massachusetts, and her representa-
tives and the representatives of the whole
South will be found as active in the support
of all measures tending to the general good
of all sections, as the gentlemen from Maine
or Vermont"
- The New York Sun publishes a table,
embracing the cash subscribed publicly and
through the authorities of the various cities
and the committees appointed by them, in aid
c.I all.u e..o- snGarora The total 40.