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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.

COLUMBIA, January 10, 1878.
The legislature re.assembled to-day at IL
NJ, after recess continuing since the goth
of December. A quorum was present in
each house. .........
In THE SENATE, Hon. James McCutchen,
the Senator elect for Williamsburg, present.
ed his credentials, was sworn in and took his
seat. Without transacting any other bust.
ness the Senate adjourned.
In THE HOUSE, when it re-assembled. the
Speaker appeared for the first time in the new
and handsome robe of Office now required to
be worn by him while presiding over'the de-
lberations of this body, and which was pre-
pared for him during the recess. The robe,
which cost, it is said, $500, is of black silk,
trimmed with purple velvet.
The case of the Sumter election was taken
up The commissioners of election submitted
loss of the ballot boxes in that county, from
which it appeared that eight of the eighteen
boxes we're stolen, Immediately after the cleo
ton, from the room Of the managers of the
election. The result of the vote, as it had
been ascertained by an informal count before
the boxes were stolen, showed that Mr.. Geo.
B. Johnston (Rep.) had received majority
of 200 of the whole vote cast. A count of
the vote in the ten boxes yet remaining shows
a majority of 55 in favor of Mr.. Mills. In
view of the facts narrated, the commissioners
declare themselves unable to grant writ of
election to either candidate, and beg leave to
submit the whole matter to the Legislature.
Mr.. Aldrich moved that Mr. Mills be sworn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
YoRKv1LLE GRADED SCHOOL.

YORkVlLLE GhADED SCdOoLs
There are now 1O5 pupils attending the
above school, 80 of whom are in the academ-
ic department and rs in the primary depart.
ment. The academic department is divided
into six classes. Miss Sue Edwards has been
engaged as teacher, making the number Of
teachers now employed three besides the
Principal, Mr.. Jones. The school appears to
be progressing quite satisfactorily. Mr.. Jones
extends an earnest invitation to the patrons
of the school. to call at any and all times and
inspect for themselves the mode in which it
is conducted.
SUMMER VACATION ABROAD.
Thoughts and Sketches Abroad in the Summer
Of s BY James Editor 9l%o OF the
POI, price $l.50. Published by Converse q Co.,
Louisville, Ky. Sent postpaid by the publish
ers on receipt Of price.
The above is the title of a neatly printed
and handsomely hound volume. from the pen
of Rev. j. B. Converse, being sketches Of,
and thoughts suggested, on visiting Belfast
and Dublin, Edinburg and Glasgow, London,
York, Canterbury, Geneva. Paris and other
points of interest in Europe, during the past
year. The name alone of the author of these
admirable sketches should be sufficient guar
antee of the entertaining and instructive style
in which they are written, and we heartily
commend the book as choice addition to
the best literature Of the day.
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SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

- The Republicans in the Legislature are
solidly arrayed against the passage of the
Moffett whisky law.
- Messrs. H. l. Farley and T. j. TRIMMER
have purchased the Spartanburg Spartan from
F. M. TRIMMER.
- The Register mentions that the Legislature
will commence holding night sessions during
the present week. 1t is expected that the
bond commission will submit report in few
days.
- The Grand Lodge of Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of this State, was in session
at Orangeburg last week. The next meeting
will be held at Chester, on the third Wednes-
day in January, 1879.
- William S. Harley, of WATERFORD who
was mortally wounded by Robert Fishburne,
of the same place, in duel fought near Ss.
vannah, Geo., on Saturday, the 18th instant,
died from the effects of the wound on the fol.
lowing Tuesday.
- About sixty-fve colored persons arrived
in Charleston, last week, from Kershaw coun-
ty, for the purpose of taking passage on the
ship that is to take them to Liberia. There
being no such ship there, and none likely to
be, these people are in deplorable condition.
- The Abbeville Press and Banner says:
"The trainers of the new constitutional amend
ment which established the two mill tax for
educational purposes, acted wisely when they
made "the number of pupils" the standard of
distribution of the school tax. School taxes
are levied for public benefit, for the benefit
of the children, especially Of the poor, and
not for the benefit of the teachers. The school
fund is not pension fund, and should not be
30 considered or claimed. The new law
makes it the interest of the various school
districts to send as large number of pupils
as possible to the public schools. The dis
trict that sends the largest number gets the
largest share. The establishment Of mini
mum number of pupils below which no
school can be public school. will also have
healthy effect. 1t will greatly reduce the
uselessy large number of so-called public
schools, many of which we're really private
classes, in which parents we're actually paid
by the public fund for teaching their own
children. The provisions of the amendment,
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MERE.MENTION.

Georgia seems to be flooded with counter
felt Mexican dollars, to which the Augusta
Chronicle asks: "Are border depredations be-
coming general Stanley, the African
explorer, has arrived at Paris. 1.-The orange
product of Florida for the year 1877 was IT,
600, 900 oranges. .'.'.''"George H. Pendleton
has been elected United States Senator by the
Legislature of Ohio. .."..An excursion train,
returning from Moody and Sankey meeting
held in Hartford, Conn.,, on Wednesday night
of last week, went into Pennington river.
Nineteen persons were killed and about
forty wounded. .'''.."'John Morrisey, the no.
ted gambler and New York Senator, is
sick in Florida. .'..''"Gen. John S. Williams
has been elected U. S. Senator by the Ken
tucky Legislature. ....'..."The heaviest snow
known for years has fallen in Utah and be-
yond. The snow sheds and telegraphic wires
along the Pacific railroad are down. ''''''''A A
resolution has been introduced in the House
of the Ohio Legislature, declaring in favor
of the reconciliation of silver, and asserting
that President Hayes and Secretary Sher.
man, 10 their opposition to the silver dollar
do not represent the views nor wishes of the
Ohio people. ......""Ex. Governor James b.
Groome has been elected United States Sena-
tor from Maryland '''''''''The Government
has commenced a suit against Macarthur,
late postmaster of Chicago, for 100000 de-
fcencies.
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together, to give what little they get to their
children. The workhouses are crowded, the
poor rates are insufficient to the demands, and
the rate-payers fear bankruptcy. Such is the
discourage picture drawn by English news
papers of home famine, small enough beside
India's, but grave illustration of what a
prolonged arrangement of trade may produce
in the most civilized and prosperous of coun-
tries
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Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.

LETTER FROM CHESTER.
CHESTER, January 81, 1878.
Some of the property that was sold BY the
Sheriff on last sale day, will be re-sold by
him on the 1st Monday in February. This
includes the residence of Joshua Walker, with
the lot attached thereto, containing nine acres
and the "Mobley tract" adjoining, containing
about 25O acres. This property was bid of
by Mr.. Walker, but he has not complied with
the conditions hence its resale. A valuable
plantation on Broad river, containing 700
acres, and belonging to William McColum,
will be sold on next sale day. The sale is
made to satisfy judgment obtained by K.
M. Cross. A house and lot in Blackstocks,
the property of James Neel, will also be sold.
In addition to the real estate, some personal
property will be disposed of by the sheriff:
Information was received here on last
Tuesday of the killing of George Ooten by
Turner Jackson, at Goochs ferry. The dread.
full deed was committed on the Sunday pre-
vious, and is said to have had its origin in a
difference of opinion respecting twenty cents
This is certainly a small amount to occasion
the loss of a mans life. When all the facts
are known in regard to the difficulty, it will
doubtless appear that whisky played very
conspicuous part. Ooten was white man,
and workman on the Cheraw and Chester
Railroad. Jackson, who is also white, has
been arrested and lodged in Jail at Lancas-
ter. Judge Mackey intends ordering a spe-
cial term of the Court in Lancaster for the
purpose of trying the case. He says MUIR
derers must be hung as fast as their cases can
be heard
On last Tuesday evening, colored woman
ATTEMPTED to cross the track of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, with her
child in her arms, while the train was ap-
proaching. When on the track she stumbled,
but managed to get off in time to save her
life. One of her hands, however, was caught
beneath the wheels of the engine, and dread
fully mangled. Her child fell on the track,
was taken up by the cow.catcher, and carried
a considerable distance without the slightest
injury. This may be regarded as miracu-
lous escape.
Rev. Mr.. Perry, moderator of the last
meeting of Bethel Presbytery, having been
requested by the requisite number of minis;
tiers and elders to call special meeting OF
the Presbytery, did so, and in accordance
with this cali this religious and honorable
body assembled at the Presbyterian Church
at this place on last Wednesday evening" 1t
was held by some of the members that the
meeting was contrary to the article of the
organic law of the church providing for spe'
cial meetings, inasmuch as there was no such
emergency existing in the Presbytery at the
present time as required a special meeting.
This view of the matter prevailed, and, con-
sequently, Bethel Presbytery remained in
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NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

"A negro preacher is under indictment in
Rowan county for solemnizing the rites Of
matrimony between negro and white wo
man.
- The will of the late Chief Justice Pearson
devisiug some $4,000 worth of property, is
written with q lead pencil and is a model Of
simplicity.
"A well-known North Carolina colporteul
named Brewer, was drowned last week while
attempting to cross Roanoke river, while the
stream was swollen.
- One night last week, in Brunswick coun'
ty, shanty in which four lumber choppers
we're sleeping, fell in, and catching on fire
was burned, together with the sleeping in
mates.
According to a statement in the Raleigh
Observer, the whole number of persons un
dergoing sentence of the law in North Caro-
lima is about 1000, about 900 of whom are
in the penitentiary, and the remainder in
work houses and county jails.
- The bill, introduced by Mr.. Waddell
abolishing the Western District Of the Fed
eral Court in North Carolina, has received the
endorsement of the committe, and will be re-
ported back to the House of Representatives
with recommendation that it do pass.
Says the Greensboro Patriot of the 18th
Yesterday party of hunters returning from
days cunning south of town, came upon
dead body in small clump of bushes
The remains were those of A. Parker, raised
in the southern portion of this county, and
somewhat oferratic habits, wandering around
much at night, and frequently sleeping out Of
doors.
- The whole country adjacent to the Roam
oke river is laid waste by the recent floods
and presents startling scene of devastation
Those who have been up and down the river
say that the farms along its course for one and
two miles back are nearly destroyed. Farm
houses, barns and stables have been swept
away, fences destroyed, and all things por
tray the general ruin caused by the waters
The complaints of the farmers are heart-rend
ing and real. The floods have ruined them
and left them destitute of the means to re
commence life on their barren and wasted
lands. The picture is described as piteou'
one, and must be seen to be realized.
-Hoke Secrest has been committed to the
Jail of Union county on suspicion of murder
ing woman and child near Hickory, about
a year ago. The murdered woman was g
Mrs. Stephenson, and the child her daughter
The woman and Secrest left Union county
clandestinely, and soon after their departure
he returned alone, failing to give satisfacto
ry account of the woman and child. A few
days ago party of hunters discovered the
remains of the woman and child, which were
identified as those above mentioned, who, il
was remembered, had Lived 10 that neighbor
hood with Secrest. The discovery led to the
arrest of Secrest, who maintains dogged 81
lence on the subject
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the storms, etc., and it is believed that the
estimate is rather under than over.
Washington special to the New York
Journal of Commerce "The movement in fa-
vor of unseating Senator Butler, Of South
Carolina, does not appear to pan out well. 1t
is reported that Cameron's report is distaste-
full to Christiancy; that the latter says it is
too partisan, that it is not judicial, and that
he refuses to sign it unless it is modified.
Most of this report is said to have been writ
ten BY the notorious James Redpath. Came
ron, Chrstiancy and Merrimon are the sub
committee who investigated South Carolina
affairs last year. The report has not been
sumitted to Merrimon, and even if had been
it cannot be made to the present Senate with
out special action, as the investigation took
place during a former Congress. If the COM
mittee on privileges and elections ask leave to
make the report, the Senate will doubtless
grant it, but that committee has not yet de-
termined upon a programme concerning the
matter.
49, Two large English iron companies have
been forced to suspend work, and the distress
in the mining regions of South Wales is
represented as verging on famine. The iron
furnaces are stopped ever since 1872; there
are but few collieries in operation, and those
at an actual loss to the employers on every
ton of coal. The modification Of the sliding
scale asked for by some Of these companies
recently was simply to enable them to con-
tinue to give two or three days work week
to men whose present wages do not suffice to
buy them bread. These, the most fortunate
of all Welsh miners, live and work day after
day on slice of bread. or even fragment OF
raw cabbage, apiece. The furniture has gone
out of their houses for bread, and the grocers
are nearly ruined by their unpaid scores. In
places utterly without work, families have
lived for days on brewery grain sent to feed
pigs. Women 60 without food for two days
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADyERrIsEMENTs.

W. H. & J. P. Herndon-New Bakery.
]. P. Herndon-Renstated.
Joseph A. Mclean, Judge of Probate-Ctation-.
Mrs. Narcissa Wylie, Applicant--Hugh
Hartness, deceased.
B. T. Wheeler-Now is the Time.
T. 8. Jetferys, Agent-Navassa Guano.
James f. Smith, Agent-Metalic Cases and WOOD
8. x. Marks, Chester, 8. c.-wholesale and Re-
tail Dealer in General Furniture.
r. G. Whitesides-$l0 Reward. .
G. L. Riddle, Chairman Board of County Com
missioners-Road Notice.
R. B. Lowry Agent-TO the Farmers ard Plant
ers Of York and Chester.
E. M. Brayton, Collector-United States Internal
Revenue.
j. A. Mclean, Judge of Probate-Ctation-J. F.
Wallace, Applicant-John Blair Stockton,
deceased.
SUCCESSFULLY AMPUTATED.
Mr.. D. H. Hart, of Fort Mill, who has
been suffering for several years with some
thing like white swelling on one of his legs,
had the diseased limb amputated recently.
The operation was successfully performed BY
Drs. Kell, Massey and King.
COUNTY INVESTIGATION.
The report of the Commissioners appointed
to investigate the Indebtedness of York coun.
ty, has been published in the Rock Hill Her.
aid. In our next issue We will copy the re.
port, or so much of it as relates to the bonds
of York county. issued in aid Of the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad.
NEW BAKERY.
Messrs. w. H. Il J. P. Herndon announce
that they have just opened bakery in the
Zurcher building, nearly opposite their groce.
ry store, and will have on hand at all times
fresh bread, cakes, &c. They will also man.
ufacture candies of superior quality, and
are prepared to gil orders, in either large or
small quantities.
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and the establishment of minimum, will
mutually cooperate to fix the necessary num-
Der of public schools and to place them in
the proper relative positions, and will do 80
much better and more satisfactorily, because
more naturally, than any arbitrary system of
80 many schools to eight square miles can do.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
ALLEGED BLOCKADER.

A man named D. s. Smith, hailing from
near Cherryville, N. c., was arrested on Fri
day last, about Eve miles from town, by Dep
uty Marshal Snider, charged with dealing in
illicit whisky. Smith, with bis wagon and
team, was brought to town and he was lodg-
ed in Jail. He had in his possession, when ar
rested, about fifty gallons of whisky, said to
be of the genuine Xxx Moonshine brand.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-24
MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.

Governor Hampton has recently made the
following, among other military appoint
ments:
Colonel A. Coward, of Yorkville, Brigadier
General, to command the Eighth Brigade,
Infantry.
Major General John D. Kennedy com.
manding the Second Division Volunteer State
Troops, has appointed Captain Iredell Jones,
of Rock Hill, aide-de-camp, with the rank Of
major. e.@ t.yas
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-29
GreenbackerS.

The party known as greenbackers" is
endeavoring to make stand in the State OF
Massachusetts,. General BUTLER Is said to
be : their choice. for Governor, General
EWING is the prominent national "green-
baeker," and is found IN company not at
Ito his liking, we suspect. There can be
no successful organization upon that single
plank. Greenbacks are good. The coun-
try.twill he faithful to greenbacks; but we
hardly think there will be a mania about the
excessive issue OF even greenbacks. One
OF the lunatics on the subject, we see, goes
for an issue of $4,000, 10000 Of that paper.
These people seem to think that it is impos-
sible to depreciats greenbacks by increasing
the quantity OF them afloat. They think
that kind OF paper money will defy the law
OF nature, and remain unaffected in value
by the immensely of its quantity. The
country will run into no such nonsense as
this. twill be curious to see how solid
and puritanical Massachusetts, will take
BUFFERS riotous excuses.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-29

There have been strange things in Massa-
chusetts Of late. An astonishing amount Of
faithlessness has been developed in savings
institutions and by men in tiduciary posi-
tious. This has led to an investigation of
the early laws; among them the act by
which the Massachusetts, Bank was incorpo-
rated in 1854, and which provided that if
any president, director, officer, or servant
embezzled or converted to his own use any
of the effects of the bank he should be set
upon the gallows with a rope about his
neck, or be set upon the pilIory for the
space Of two hours, should forfeit all his
personal estate and the issues Of all his real
estate during life. He was also to be rem
dered infamous and incapable Of sustaining
any Office, civil or military. This shows
what was thought of breaches of trust in
those honest days, 'when they were fewer
than they are now. This makes less impro-
bable the story that in China the heads Of
the officers Of a bank are considered as a
part Of the assets Of the institution.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-29
Financa and Banking.

The country is decidedly tired OF the food
OF finance and banking information that is
poured forth in the testimony ELECTED by
the Finance and! Banking COMMITTEES Of the
House of Representatives. Can't the food
be stopped? The country pays heavily for
it,,,and except small per cent. Of it there
lisa perfect waste. The committee has drawn
upon itself perfect deluge Of visionary
theory and folly. We cannot well see how
the sub-committee-M essrs. EWING, HART
zELL, and HARDESBURG-got through with
three hours, talk Of Mr.. BAIRD, OF Phila-
delphis, who, in exploiting his exsraVagant
ideas, ayowed himself in favor !ot an 5iia-
msnse Initiation OF greenbac ks-say from
81 900, o0o. 900 to $4,000, 900 ,0oo. SIS {,
Its time for thescomDitfee to utilize
whatit has gathered that's worth anything,
and to wind M the world of ramh bling nom
sense ABOUT b saql r,e
~ .aaas
3 .Slal go FA5rl, sn,tI ri i q atsos-5s ne /
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-04-29
81 !, stat a,a Liability


4. State. ike d merchants makes con-
tract. Al dishonest State, like o dishonest
merchant, wiIfully refuses to dtscharge IL.
The latter Is ar,enabIe "a coHrb:of justice.
Upon general principles 0f right shall the
former. when summoned to answer the
fair demands OF it's creditor, be permitted,
Proteus.ilke, 10 assume new appearance,
and to Insult him and Justice by declaring, I
am q. socercigs Statep Surely not.
AS for the purposes Of tho Union, there :.
fore Georgia Is not q sovereign State..
fChisho.m's administrator Us. The State OF
Georgia; 9 Dali, 1861 3t r,
This was the case In which the Supreme
Court. decided that State could be sued by
citizen Of another State. It was decided
In 1893, and in consequence OF it the
eleventh amendment to the Constitution
was adopted, which provides that the Judi
cial power of the United States shall not
extend to any suit in law OF equity brought
by citizen OF one State against another
State. This amendment prevented suits by
citizens against States; but left the decision
undisturbed that as to contracts made by
her, a State in the Union, is not sovereign.
The same doctrine Just reaflirmed in Murray
Us. The City of Charleston.
The jurisdiction Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States in suits by States against
States is given by the Constitution OF the
United States. 1t has been asserted in many
ways for different causes Of action In
controversies between States; and mas
much as a State is not sovereign in respect
to her contracts, and also that she can DE
sued in the Supreme Court by another state
It remains probably to be seen how far the
power of the Federal judiciary can be ap-
Piled in suit between States in matter Of
daht