Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-11-06

who deprived the people of their rights by
fraud and violence. We intend to right that
wrong, so help US, Almighty God" Mr.
Sherman concluded by prophesying brilliant
victories for the Republican party in the
coming elections.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Hampton in Abbeville.
- Senator Hampton arrived at Abbeville
last Friday morning BY invitation Of the Alb
beville Agricultural Society. A dispatch to
the Ne,rs and Courier says:
He made brief speech, expressing his
sense of the kindness of the people and urg
ing them to abide by the pledges and be true
to the platform of the Democracy of 1876
He took strong grounds in favor Of Bayaro
for President, whose best recommendations
were the praises of his enemies. He favored
Mcdonald, of Indiana, for Vice. President
saying that the ticket would carry New York
and Indiana and the country in 1880, ever
against Grant. He says in effect that he is
not discouraged by the defeat in Ohio, the
Democracy having deserved and ensured il
by going off after strange gods. The South
did not and would not require representation
on the Presidential ticket, but the rank ano
file of the party would have the right to de
mand that men be selected as standard-bear
ers who would be true to the Constitntisf anG
the country He closed by urgi6g continued
obedience to the la~#ss-and the ful6lment o.
the promises Of the party, particularly as re
gsrded the colored man.
Death Of Zachariah Chandler.
- Senator Zachariah Chandler, of Michi
gan, was found dead in his bed at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, Chicago, last Saturday morn
ing. He had been making public speeches
in Wisconsin, and on Friday night address
ed an immense audience in Mccormick
Hall, speaking, as the telegraph informs US
with his usual earnestness." After the
meeting, when he and Senator Logan and
Hon. Jesse Spaulding we're sitting in his
room engaged in conversation, Senator Chan
dler complained of indigestion. As he had
complained of some distressing feeling while
en- route to Chicago with those gentlemen
Mr.. spaulding suggested that he remain over
in the city until Saturday night, but he said
that business affairs required his attention al
home, and an order was given to have him
called in the morning at Z o'clock. His
friends then bade him good night and left
That is the last time the Senator was seer
alive. Saturday morning, when the office boy
called him, there was no response. AS upon
a repetition of the call silence prevailed, the
clerk effected an entrance through the tran
som and found that the Senator was dead
The body was not quite cold. The physician
who was present decided that death had oc
Cured about three hours previous to the dis
covery. The face looked tranquil, showing
that death was painless.
Mechanics Liens.
-- The Keowee Courier, in an editorial
article published in its last issue, outlining
work for the next General Assembly, says:
Another matter of moment is the law in
relation to the mechanics liens. The first
case of this kind was tried at our last term o.
court between w. F. Dodd and Colonel I. G.
Clemson. We knew the stripgency of the
law as construed by the Supreme Court in
case which went up from Greenville, and sc
advised. Still, if the law be unjust or oppres
sive it should be changed, and we have tc
see the FIRST lawyer who does not agree with
US that change of the present law would be
salutary. As it now stands, if q person hires
a master mechanic to build for him, at 8
certain price, and pays him the price, and the
mechanic hires others to aid him in the work
persons so hired have lien on the building
for their labor, without any notice to the own
er, and though the owner had paid in full fol
the work, he can be made to pay again. We
favor all laws for the protection of laborers
but the present law should be so changed as
to require the sub-laborer to 60 to the owner
of the premises and notify him that he is
going to work on the building, and that he
will look to him for pay. The owner could
then assent or reject the offer, and thus save
himself from imposition. AS the law now is
a dozen or hundred men may hire to the
contractor, and after the work is finished and
the contractor paid, may Fl e their liens, lock
up the building and make the owner pay
second time, when, in fact, he had no notice
of any of the parties being engaged on the
work. A law giving the sub.mechanic a
lien, on his giving notice to the owner OF the
premises, would protect both the laborer and
the land owner, and prevent frauds on either
The law now requires the land owner to give
the laborer written notice that he will not be
responsible, while, in fact, the land owner
may not be and rarely is knowing to the fact
of the employment Of the laborer. Let us
have law fair to all, and one which requires
a person hiring to mechanic to notify the
land owner if he intends to hold him respon'
sble for his pay.
na% The New York Herold publishes COM
parative table, giving the prices of leading
commodities on the 1st of January last and
on the 18th of October, which shows an av'
erage advance in prices of about 80 per cent
Wheat has gone up from S1.O9 to 81 4S, corn
from At cents to go, cotton from 3 7.l6 to
to 1O5; sugars have advanced three-tourths
of a cent cheese 81 cents; wool % per cent
pig iron has gone from sl7.53 to 5000, or
,oro tbon 70 nor cent scraD iron SZO 5U to