Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-02-13
Straps and fafts.
Roses will be the popular flower for orna-

Congress is rather an expensive luxury.
The last legislative appropriation bill re-
quires 81 $4,000 just to pay its members and
get them to and from Washington.
In Texas, with Democratic majority of
10000, there are FIVE negroes in the Legisla-
ture. In all the Northern Legislatures COM
bined there is not, nor never will he, that
number.
- Miss Jackson, the daughter of the Alex
andria hotel-keeper who killed Col. Ellsworth,
of the Zouaves, in 1862, was kept in treasu-
ry department place at Washington by Col.
Mosby until he left for Hong Kong. Since
his departure, Miss jackson has lost her place.
= Merit and Burt, Hayes nominees for
collector and naval officer of New York city,
were confirmed by the Senate by a vote of
81 to "a, the Democrats generally voting for
the confirmation. This is victory for Presl-
@ent Hayes over Conkling, one of the most
bitter partisan Republicans. ...
The Legislatures of Georgia and Ala
bama have found it necessary to protect
themselves against the farmers from Texas
coming to their States in search OF colored
labor. For some time past there has been
heavy colored emigration from these States
to Texas, to the great Inconvenience OF the
Georgia and Alabama planters and farmers.
To prevent this, license tax Of $lOO has
been placed on every one soliciting people to
emigrate.
Even Edison seems to be weakening in
his faith in the electric light. in talk with
an interviewer last week, he expressed him.
self with much less confidence than hitherto,
enlarged upon the difficulties of introducing
a new system of light, even after its discovery
shall be perfected, and claimed good deal
more time for his work Of getting the new
light ready for public inspection than he ever
claimed before. None of his good inven-
tions," he said, had been finished inside of
two years. v.- .... -.' .....,..
Senator Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is in
New York, and has been interviewed. In re-
gard to the next presidential election, he
thinks the chances Of the two parties are
about equal--"the prospect for the Republi-
cans would be much better were it not for
the strife in the party" He regards Gen.
Grant as the most prominent Republican
candidate, and thinks he might carry some
Southern States, though Mr.. Matthews con-
fesses that at present the prospects of such
thing are not very encouraging.
= The Atlanta Constitution says Mr.. W. j.
Houston of the Airline road came from New
Orleans Saturday, buoyant with his success in
securing emigrant rates from Texas to all
points in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
North and South Carolina and Virginia.
He states that he can bring full grown emf
grants from Houston, Texas, to Atlanta, for
less than half the value of 500 pound
bale of cotton, and hopes, when another crop
is made, to see the countrymen Of the north.
east returning from the southeast in large
numbers.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces Indians,
who is now in Washington, was asked the
other dav what of all the works of civiliza-
tion seen in this his first trip to the East, had
impressed him most. 1t was expected that
he would name the Capitol, but he replied,
without a moments hesitation, that the most
wonderful thing he ever seen or dreamed of,
was the bridge over the Mississippi river at
St. Louis. He could build vuntain of
stone like the Capitol, he said, but he could
not build spiders web that would stand
alone in the air. He was afraid to cross it,
but he saw the pale faces were not afraid,
so he wrapped his blanket around him and
trembled as the train went over.
General George Washington Park Custis
Lee, who is plaintiff in the Arlington case, is
about forty-fve years old, TALL handsome, and
remarkably like his father, Gen. r. E. Lee.
He is president of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, at Lexington, Va, where he lives with
his two sisters, Misses Mary and Mildred Lee,
in the house where their father, mother and
sister died. He is an old bachelor, and very
shy of the gentler sex. He was graduated
first in his class at West Point, and, like his
father, came out of the four years course
without a single demerit mark. Miss Mary
Lee was, a few days ago, entertained by Lord
and Lady Napier, at Gibraltar, and a few
weeks before was within the Russian lines in
Turkey. ....
The two lawyers who helped Financial
Agent Kimpton of South Carolina, out of
his trouble in Massachusetts last autumn, are
no longer pleased with his character. The
Springfield Republican says: considerable
expense was incurred, which they paid,
taking Kimpton's note at three months
for 5000 to reimburse them. This they
endorsed and had cashed at the First Ma.
tional Bank at Westfeld. When it fell
due in December, Kimpton wrote asking that
it be renewed, and the bank allowed an exten-
sion of forty-6ve days. The time was out
Saturday last, and the bank, refusing longer
to renew, demanded $l00 each of the two
young lawyers, which they paid to save their
credit. One of them has written to Governor
Chamberlain asking him what kind of
scoundrel his friend Kimpton is'."
A New York letter of Wednesday says:
"Agents of banks and bankers are going
round offering money, both on call and
paper, on the most tempting terms. This is
somewhat new business for the parties in
question to run about with their money for a
customer, but it shows, first, the great abun.
dance of money, and second, that business
does not begin to be lively enough to absorb
it-certainly not active enough to seek the
capital, rather than the capital seeking it.
Money, in apparently unlimited amounts, is
offered at per cent. per anDum for 90 days,
on pledge of governments and securities
equally good, while the Stock Exchange gets
all it wants at per cent Three months in
dorsed paper is down as low as 81 per cent,
while single six months has been placed at
AZ and g." . .'
The Arlington ejectment case now goes
to the United States Supreme Court. The
Judgment of the lower court restores the es.
tate to General G. w. c. Lee, the eldest son
of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee, and calls for
the eectment Of all tenants who have been
in possession since the transfer of the estate
under tax sale in 1863. This includes the
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