Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-05-29
Sfraps and fafts.

defalcation, was ended at Atlanta last Satur-
day morning. The jury was out twenty-four
hours and returned verdict for $92, 1875.
Jones was State Treasurer in 1872-73.
Radical emissaries at the South experience
this difficulty: When one of them asks a
negro how he is going to vote in 1880, the in
telligent contraband answers: First tell me
what has become of the funds of the Freed
mems Savings Bank.
During 1878, in the United States and
Canada, 1877 horses started in 1868 running
races, winning total of $461, 1896 in money
and plate. The Duke of Magenta won the
largest amount, s35,925; Bramble next,
$12,2S5; Gray Alice least, $40; Dauk won
the largest number of races, fourteen.
At recent examination of ladies' class
in Scotland the following dialogue occurred L:
Observation-Disclosures does Condillac say about
= brutes in the scale of beingY Student-"He
says brute is an imperfect animal" In
structor-"And what is man?" Student
"Man is perfect brute"
The Democratic party of this country has
some little strength outside of the solid South.
Of the thirty-eight States twenty-three have
Democratic governors to fifteen which are
governed by Republicans, and even in some
of the fifteen the Republican party is in a
minority.
Says the Augusta Chronicle: The Demo
Gratis in Congress have injured instead of
strengthened their party, and we fear that
Republican victories this Fall will be the
fruit of their blundering. Let us hope that
before the great contest Of 1880 begins, more
wisdom will be displayed by those who have
undertaken to lead the forces and shape the
plan of battle.
Judge John F. Dillon, of the United
States Circuit Court for the eighth district,
which includes Iowa and Missouri, has resign.
ed, and Hon. Geo w. McCreary, Secretary Of
War, will be appointed to fill the vacancy.
Mr.. McCreary, will not leave the cabinet un'
til the 1st of September next. Judge Dillon
is to accept the law Professorship at the Co
lumbia University of New York.
-Beecher expresses himself as having been
so pleased by his reception in the Southern
cities which he has recently visited that he has
arranged with the lecture bureau under whose
auspices he makes his tours to plan series of
lectures in the South the next season, which
he will deliver with the design of devoting all
of the profits of the same to the various South
ern charities.
The strong minded females are trife Sc
we're upon the court of last resort. They
were at the capitol, Tuesday, it is stated, ur-
ging their peculiar notions upon the congress
men, and presenting to them set of resolu-
tions, one of which is this "We demand an
amendment to the constitution defining the
rights of citizenship and suffrage so clearly
that even the Supreme Court Of the United
States can understand them"
Speaker Randall tells his friends that
Congress will sit until the 1st of July, and the
Speakers friends say that he encourages a
prolonged session, and holds that the Army
Appropriation bill ought not to be passed
and the struggle with the President ought to
be made as pronounced and bitter as possible.
The speaker has good deal of influence in
the House, which gives his opinions and wish
es Importance.
The May returns to the Department of
Agriculture show that the average wages Of
labor, without board, in yearly employments,
have declined from $21.29 per month to
S2O.26 or 4-S per cent during the past year.
The general tone of correspondence is hope
full of revival of industry and the supplies
of unemployed labor is growing less. Good
labor can generally find employment at fair
prices. Many are idle because they will not
accept the reduced wages offered.
1t is now stated that the Republicans want
an early adjournment because they do not
want Proctor Knott to get before Congress his
t!o ind fho
Presidents last message He can only make
this report when the judiciary committee is
called in its proper turn, and the sooner Con-
gress adjourns the fewer the chances of this
report being made. Mr.. Knott is forcible
writer, and his paper is not only strong
one, but will make an efficient campaign
document.
- The Indiana authorities, particularly
those in Terre Haute, have begun vigorous
war on miscegenation. Last week the grand
Jury indicted four colored men and their wives
for violating the State law prohibiting the in
termarriage of whites and blacks, and also
the Reverends Robert Jefries and William
Anderson, two of the most famous colored
preachers in the West, for marrying these
couples. These indictments have created in
tense excitement among the negro population
of Indiana, as might be expected.
In an interview with Washington re-
porter, last week, Judge Mackey spoke of D.
t. Corbin as follows: HE is immensely rich
and he is bigamist so notorious that I once
suggested, in a speech, that another Office
with fat salary should be provided for him,
that of superintendent of domestic. relations
He will never be confirmed by the Senate for
the place of Chief Justice of Utah, much as
he is fitted for that locality in one respect. l
understand he threatens to open law Office
in Charleston, but trust protecting Provi-
dence will induce him to change his mind"
Hon. F. E. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the
United States, has written letter to the edit.
or of The National Vie,u, the new Greenback
paper, which has just been established at
Washington, giving the reasons why he re-
signed his Office when he did. He says this
was not because he was not in accord with the
government, "but because the then Secretary
of the Treasury undertook to interfere with
the employees of the Office, and because he
suppressed that part Of my annual report in
which recommended the issue of currency
convertible, at the will of the holder, into a
bond bearing low rate of interest, which in
like manner to be recoverable into currency.
The Legislature of the State of New York
has agreed to reduce the legal rate of inter-
est to six per cent. 1t has been at seven per
cent. since the adoption of the Constitution of
1854. This is very significant as a sign of
the times, and as evidence that in the leading
commercial State of the Union, the impress