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


es from Memphis report complete revival of
business since the abatement Of the plague.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Outrage Mill in Louisiana.
- District Attorney Leonard, Of Louisi-
ana, left Washington last Friday, for home.
He was summoned to Washington for con-
sultation with the Attorney. General concern
ing the prosecution of political offenders in
Louisiana and to receive Instructions He
left after having had long consultations with
Mr.. Devens. He also saw the President. He
took bis instructions with him.. They are, it
is understood, not specific. but very rigid gen.
eral instructions. He is to 60 ahead and
prosecute all who have violated the United
States election laws, against whom he can
procure evidence. He is. to prosecute vigor-
ously.g.a reporter recently asked Senator
Kellogg for an approximation of the number
of cases which can be found against election
law breakers in Louisiana. The Senator re-
piled, THE Lord only knows how many there
are. There are any numbers Of them"
Polygamic Marriages. ,....., .-.,.t., lam
- The first of series of cases involving
the right of the Mormons to contract polygs.
mic marriages, came up for argument last
Thursday in the United States Supreme
Court, in the shape Of an appeal from the
Supreme Court of Utah. The case is Of gen.
eral interest because it presents to this Court
for the first time the question of the constitu-
tional right of Congress to prohibit polyga-
my when it assumed the guise of religious du-
ty and is held as an article of faith. Coun.
sci for the prisoner contend that Congress is
restrained from such prohibition by the first
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, which provides for religious freedom.
Counsel for the United States argue that this
rigid Interpretation of the Constitution would
prevent Congress from furnishing any crime in
the territories which would justify itself by
an appeal to religious conviction and so lead
to remedies disorder. The decision is await
ed with interest. "7'" .'" ~. .'1
Yellow Fever Items.
- Refugees are returning daily to New
Orleans, though the medical fraternity have
not yet declared the city safe. a.. ...
The Board of Health of Mobile invites all
absentees to return, and states that the city is
now as safe as any in the land.
Speaking of the nurses on duty at Men,
phis, a correspondent says: "Tbe colored
nurses made up in faithful attention all they
lacked in intelligence, and their record is one
to be justly proud of. The best nurses are
said to have come from Savannah, Ca, and
Port Royal, S. c."
The Louisville Courier journal puts the
number of deaths from yellow fever through
out the country during the late epidemic at
1921. A. B. Farquhar, proprietor of the
Pennsylvania Agricultural Works at York,
Pa, writes to Surgeon General Woodwork
that the yellow fever epidemic of this year
has cost the country about Sl75,000,0O0, esti-
mating from the best data he can gather, and
that in common with large number of
prominent gentlemen and business men of the
country, he feels great interest in the inves-
tigation undertaken by the yellow fever com.
mission.
Democratic Address.
- The Democratic State Executive Com
mittee has issued the following address to the
party in South Carolina: ..a. a 'o
The State Executive Committee extend to
the Democracy South Carolina their warm.
est congratulations upon the magnificent vic.
tory achieved in the recent election, which
has been as peaceful as it is triumphant.
1t is especially gratifying that so many thou.
sands Of the colored people Of the State have
united with us in perpetuating home rule and
good government. We extend to them our
most cordial appreciation of their good sense
and patriotic action, and we would impress
upon our people the necessity of continued
unity and harmony. We have achieved grand
results, and every true Carolnian's heart re.
spends with gratitude, hut much remains to
be done. We must keep our armor bright
and girded on, and our ranks closed up, to
meet any exigency the future may develop.
And now that the campaign is over, and its
work done, we feel that we cannot lay aside
our active duties without expressing profound
regret at the distressing accident which has
befallen our beloved Chief Magistrate. This
alone mars the completeness of our triumph.
In his suffering he has the sympathy of q
grateful people to cheer him, and their fer
vent prayers that kind Providence may
soon restore him to his wonted vigor and USE
fulness. ".
Senator Conkling and the President. " ".t
- Senator Conkling is reported to believe
implicitly with President. Hayes that the
South has not returned in kind, the generous
treatment it has received" The Senator is
said to hold that, 80 far as the southern poll
cy of the President is concerned, he can not
now undo what he has done, if he even so
desires; that his southern policy exhausted
itself, so far as it could be called policy,
when the President gave South Carolina and
Louisiana the benefit of home rule, but that
the President is now beginning to realize
what leaders in the party, from the very be-
ginning apprehended, that the south, in con-
sideraton of the boon of home rule, will not
administer the 18th and 18th amendments to
the constitution iu the spirit,in which the
trainers of those articles intended they should
be administered; that all the harm that the
republican party sustained in its divisions
over The wisdom Of the Presidents policy has
been felt to the uttermost, and that the very
fact that the President is not satisfied with
the result Of his dealing with the south, is the