Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-15
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clause allowing the President to strike OBJ.
jectionable items from an appropriation bill,
without killing the bill itself.
"A Delaware woman, hard worker all
her life, being about to die last week, called
her husband and children about her and told
them where she had buried $4,000 of her
earnings in the cellar. They dug it up be-
fore the funeral.
The subscriptions to the Benner bale of
cotton in Augusta, Ga, amounted to nearly
three hundred dollars. 1t will be sent from
that city to Charleston, where it will be rat:
fed or sold for the benefit of the Benner
fund, and redonated. .a
- The Senate judiciary committee, at a
recent meeting, considered the nomination of
D. T. Corbiu, of South Carolina, for the po-
sition of Chief Justice of Utah Territory, and
decided to report adversely thereupon, unless
the President should withdraw the same,
which he will have an opportunity of doing.
= The Woman's Suffrage Association was
in session at St. Louis last week. Lengthy
reports from Indiana and Louisiana, detail
ing the progress of women's work in those
States, was read. Both showed fine progress
in the development of the cause. Speeches
we're made by Rev. Olympia Brown, Miss
Collins, of Louisiana, and Mrs. Spencer, of
Washington.
- The National Colored Conference, in
session at Nashville, Tenn, adopted report
recommending compulsory education, oppos-
ing separate schools for white and colored,
and asking Congress for 100000 unclaimed
bounty of colored soldiers and sailors for an
industrial and technical school. Among 9th
er business transacted, a resolution was adopt
ed accepting the tender by Gen. B. F. Butler
of 10000 acres of land, and by Hon. Zach.
Chandler of homes for 100 families.
- The Memphis appeal takes strong ground
editorially against the denomination Of Mr..
Tilden for the presidency. 1t says: "We
cannot say, as. many Southern Democrats
have already said, that we would not support
him if nominated; but we do say that there
arc hundreds of Democrats in our midst who,
under no circumstances, will again support
as leader man whose timidity lost us the
presidency, when it could have been secured
by nerve and pluck"
= At the meeting Of the American Medical
Association held in Atlanta, Geo., last week,
the following officers were elected for the
current year: President, Lewis Sayre, New
York; Vice Presidents, r. B. Cole, Califor-
MIA (; E. M. Hunt, New Orleans 0. Marcy,
Massachusetts F. P. Porcher, South Carroll
ma; Permanent Secretary, W. B. Atkinson,
Philadelphia; Assistant, Walter Gillette,
New York. Several valuable papers were
read and referred for publication. The next
annual meeting will be held in New York.
Governor Garcelon, of Maine, who is q
physician, was in Atlanta last week, attend
ing the meeting of the American Medical As.
sociation. In conversation on the political
situation, he said that Grant is one Of the ca.
siest possible candidates to beat that he can
not carry several New England States, and
has no chance of New York. Republicans
have several more available men, but, as .
Democrat, he hopes Grant will be nominated,
and then fall an easy victim. He is certain
of Democratic triumph.
An extraordinary fish story comes from
Memphis. A gentleman in that city, who
has small pond stocked with fish, has re-
Gently noticed mysterious disappearance 81
some of his finest specimens. At last and
several friends sat Up one night to watch.
About 10 o'clock they saw the house cat
steal to the edge of the pond and scratch in
the ground until she caught worm. She
then came to the waters edge, and holding
the worm in one paw dabbled in the water
with it. The fish were soon attracted to the
spot, and rising to secure the bait they were
dexterously caught by the other claw Of cum
ming puss, drawn ashore and devoured.
"A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald, says that during last week, Congress
man King, of the Fifth Louisians District,
received letters giving information of the dis
satisfaction existing among the colored emf
grants to Kansas, and of the determination of
large number to return to Mississippi and
Louisiana. Home.sickness has broken the
charm, he says, for location in Kansas, and
this, in connection with the imposition which
the migratory blacks find has deluded them
into leaving their Southern homes, makes it
certain that very large number will seek the
speediest way of getting back to the deserted
localities along the Mississippi. Appointment
steamboat firm in St. Louis (Sells & Co., has
made arrangements to provide all the colored
people with free transportation from that city
to Southern points, and to supply them with
subsistence until they reach their former
homes. Mr.. King says that the effect of the
returning emigrants will be to check migrate
ry hands from seeking homes, at least, in
Kansas. In this connection he also says that
many of the families which left Mississippi
and Louisiana, were among the thousands
who came from Florida, Georgia and Ala
bama, ten years ago, and that the lesson now
learned by privation and suffering will
strengthen their attachment to the Southern
States.
Foreman Began, of the jury which con.
victed Capt. Ed Cox, at Atlanta, Ga, of the
murder of Col. Robert A. Aston, has fur
nished the following as the status of the jury {:
"When we first went into the room we took q
vote just to see how things stood. The vote
was eight for murder, two for voluntary man
slaughter and two for acquittal. The two
who voted for acquittal, though, just voted
"No" because they had not made up their
minds as to what grade the offence should
have. On the next vote, taken shortly after,
we stood ten for murder and two for volunta'
ry manslaughter. At this point we stuck
until 10 o'clock Tuesday night, when we re-
ported to the Judge that we could not agree.
We slept on it all night, though some of the
jurors kept talking all the night through.
The next morning we, of the ten who voted
for murder, asked the two manslaughter men
if they would vote for murder, if We would
recommend to mercy, which would save the
prisoners neck. After short discussion they
agreed. It then took nearly all day to get
the ten men who voted for murder to agree to
recommend to mercy. At last this was done,
bowavar the comnromise was effacted- and