Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-01-03
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
enator PatterSOn,y Health.

- Senator Patterson recently had an at
tack of virtigo, in his room in Washington
and at one time his condition was thought Ia
be critical. His illness is the result of nerv.
GUS prostration induced by the mental ex.
citement attending the recent contest 10 the
Senate over the admission of Senator Butler,
of South Carolina, and the civil prosecution
against him, commenced in the courts of this
State. Later accounts represent him as re.
covering, and having gone to Senator Cam.
eron's home in Lancaster county, Pennsylva-
mia, to recuperate. A statement is generally
credited to the effect that Patterson will re-
sign his seat in the Senate at an early day /;
or that if he does not formally resign, will
ask for leave of absence, in which event, in
consideration of the cold comfort he has re-
Gently received from his Republican brethren,
he will decline to pair off with Democratic
Senator, and thereby diminish the Republican
strength in the Senate QUE vote.
The Silver Question.
"A good many people are asking the
meaning of the terms, decentralization" and
reconciliation" so frequently used in Con-
gressional debates on currency, and especi.
ally in the discussion of the silver bill now
before Congress. In 1873 an act was passed
by Congress regulating the coinage. By that
act silver was deprived Of its quality of le.
gal tender (except for small change up to
Eve dollars) and the coinage of the silver dol
lar was stopped. In fact no silver had been
coined since 1853, and silver had not been
used to any extent as currency, except as
small change, since 1884 but the law recog-
nized the silver dollar of 4123 grains as full
legal tender. By the rem monitization of silver
is meant the restoration of the legal tender
quality to the silver dollar, and its unlimited
coinage, compelling all men to take it in pay
ments of debts. At the time it was demoni
tized, the silver dollar was worth l03 cents /;
it is now worth about ninety cents. The act
was passed because of the inequality of value
between gold and silver dollars at least, this
was the ostensibie reason. 1t is claimed, and
is not very vigorously denied, that the bill
became law through trick employed by
the gold men, and that large majority of
the members of the House did not know
what they were voting for when the measure
passed. 1t is even asserted that the Presi.
dent was ignorant of the character of the leg
islation when it received Executive sanction.
It is probable, on the re assembling of Con.
gress, that the Senate will pass the remoni.
tizing bill, and that the President will inter-
pose the veto power.
The N. E. Conference.
THE South Carolina Conference of the
M. E. Church closed q harmonious session of
six days in Columbia, on the 18th ultimo
The following are the appointments for the
Columbia district:
Presiding Elder-E. J. Meynardie Co.
lumbia- Washington street, j. T. Wightman; !;
Marion street, w. S. Wightman; Columbia
circuit L. M Little; Ridgeway circuit, j. A.
Watson; Winnsboro. w. A. Rogers; Fair
field circuit, John A. Porter; Chester, John
E. Carlisle; Chester circuit, NJ. H. Pooser
East Chester, T. j. Clyde; Rock Hill circuit,
j. M. Boyd; Fort Mill circuit, j. L. Stokes; !;
Yorkville. T. E. Gilbert; York circuit, L. A.
johnson; Blacks Station circuit, B. M.
Boozer; Lexington circuit, c. D. Rowell;
Edge6eld circuit, s. Leard; Batesburg cir
cult, j. W. Kelly; Professor Columbia Fe-
male College, j. W. Dickson.
The ministers named below are stationed
as follows: P. F. Kistler-St. Georges cir.
cult, Charleston district M. A. Mckibben-
Willistou circuit. Orsngeburg district; S. B.
circuit, A. W. Walker
Pickens circuit, Greenvile district; d. D.
d Dantzler-Spring Hill circuit, W. W. Viii.
station, R. L. Duffie-
Lancaster circuit, Sumter district; A. H.
Lester-Florence station, j. B. Massebeau-
Lower Darlington circuit, W. S. Martin
circuit, ]. G. Russell-Gourdin
circuit, G. w. Gatlin-Johnsonville circuit,
Florence district; R. L. Harper-Marion,
L. Wood, Conwayboro. Marion district; W.
A. Clarke, Cokesbury, R. P. Franks-Lown.