Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-10

- Inc Fatner hyan, whose Qeatn al CnaI-
tanooga, of yellow fever, was announced last
week, is not Father A. J. Ryan, the poet
priest, whose home is in Mobile, Alabama
but Father P. Ryan of the Nashville Diocese.
Texas crops, whether of cotton, grain or
hogs, have all turned out we'll, and, with ex-
emption from yellow fever, planters and
farmers, as we'll as merchants, are in buoyant
spirits.
"A London firm advertised recently for
collector, work hard and wages low, and
received over eighteen hundred replies, near
ly all from men Of apparently good education
and many Of them from gentlemen.
Kansas and California stand side by side
in grain crops the present year. From the
eighth place as wheat state in 1876, Kansas
jumps to the first place. Her crop of wheat
will be over 30,000,000 bushels, and of corn
1OO,OOO,OO0 bushels.
- The Greenback movement is an uncer-
tain but growing political power in Pennsyl-
vania, and correspondent of the New York
Times who has looked the field over, is con-
vinced that it will cost the Republicans a
number of their seventeen Congressional dis.
tricts.
Speaker Randall is reported as saying
that he regards the political situation at the
present time as exceedingly uncertain, not to
say critical He regards both the old parties
as trembling in the balance, though he has no
doubt the Democrats will win majority of
the States in the coming elections.
- The Lerant Herald says that the word
Pasha means "the feet of the Shah," and that
the application of it to officials, is as old as
the time of Cyrus. He called his judges his
tongues" his police agents his "ears," his
tax-gatherers his "hands," his officers charged
with the administration of internal affairs his
"eyes," and his warrior chiefs his "feet."
- Among the heroes who have sacrificed
their lives to save the sick and suffering
in the South, should be classed Dr. Robert II.
Tate, of Cincinnati He was born slave in
North Carolina-served through the war as
servant in the Confederate army and studied
medicine after the surrender. He volunteer
ed to 60 to Memphis and died while doing
his duty nobly in that death.beleagured city.
"A St. Louis dispatch of the 3rd instant
. says that Lieutenants Benner, of the Eigh-
teenth Infantry, and Hall. of the Thirteenth
Infantry, who have charge of the expedition
for the relief of the fever sufferers along
the Mississippi river, between Memphis and
Vicksburg, arrived in that city on the pre-
ceding night. Both are Northern men and
never had the fever; but have been stationed
in the South and do not fear the scourge.
- Soma important elections take place this
month and in November. On Tuesday last,
Ohio, Iowa and Indiana, elected State officers
and Congressman, and in November, New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachu-
setts, Connecticut and other States, hold elec-
tons. The contest and parties in all the
States named are considerably mixed. COL
orado voted on Tuesday of last week and
elected an entire Republican ticket.
The Washington Star of Saturday says
give convicts have escaped from the new
state prison of Massachusetts, Their trunks
are checked for South Carolina. Recent
events have doubtless given them the belief
that in the Palmetto state they will be safe from
the minions of Massachusetts law. There is
no positive assurance, however, that the south
ern State would not heap Goals of fire on
the head of her northern sister by delivering
up the prisoners"
- The case of Rev. DR.. E. T. Baird, ex-
secretary of the Presbyterian board of publ
cation, charged with appropriating funds of
the church to private uses, and using the
name and credit of the committee of publica.
tion in borrowing and raising money for pri-
vate purposes, by giving notes signed by him
as secretary, has been disposed of by the
East Hanover Presbytery, at Richmond, Va,
by his being reinstated in the communion of
the church, but suspended from the minis.
try.
Under date of the End instant, the con-
tractor for carrying the mails between Fort
Worth, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, reports
to the Post Office Department that his coaches
have been attacked and robbed twenty y.seven
times in the past six weeks by Mexican ban
dts. In one instance, where the coach con-
tained 700 pounds of silver, the robbers over
powered the passengers and driver, seized the
vehicle and horses, and drove away with the
plunder. He has secured from the War De-
partment an order for troops to accompany
the mail coach, so as to prevent such lawless-
ness
The Civil Rights bill does not work any
better in the public schools of New York, than
in the hotels and bar-roms of that city. For
years the colored children have been kept out
of the white schools by the stereotyped state
ment that the classes were "full." A few
days ago, however, arti6ce was met with ar
titce, and two colored girls gained admission
to one of the best female schools in the city.
White parents are Withdrawing their children,
and the trustees are in great stew over the
matter. In the meantime, the man and broth
er asks them in the language of the great
Tweed, "What are you going to do about it ?"
The Memphis avalanche complains bit
terly of the conduct of the blacks who persist
in remaining in the city, daily crowding the
rooms of the relief committee, and thus con-
tinuing burden to the already almost crush
ed community, when opportunities for work
are awaiting them in abundance in the coun.
try. 1t says: Gall over the Southland the
fields are whitening with cotton ready for
the picker, and yet these able-bodied, heal
thy men and woman stand here in Mem
phis and draw free rations. That is not
all. Brave white men are standing here to-
day at the peril of their lives, to keep these
people from starvation. There does not seem
to be any remedy. The blacks will not leave
the city and work in the fields as long as they
can obtain free rations, and the whites have
not the heart to drive them out"
The Tallahassee F2oridan says the Indi-
ans who were taken from Florida last spring
to Hampton Institute, at Hampton Roads,
Va, are said to be doing we'll. All the young
men in school are expected to work on the
farm connected with the institution, and are
paid for their labor. One of the Indians,
true to his early training refused, saying,