Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-10-16


rest and recreation" The judge thinks now,
however, that Grant has had his rest and re-
creation, that the reasons which might have
existed against the candidature no longer ex-
ist, and that the ground,swell in his behalf is
irresistible.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Gen. Johnstone Jones is reported to have
nearly recovered from his recent injuries.
The Shelby Ausora says that several wells
in that section have gone dry this season.
Cleveland county Jail has within its walls
a female bigamist.
A number of Cleveland farmers say their
guano investments did not pay them this
year.
Work on the Western N c. Railroad is
being pushed with vigor, and by next week
passenger trains will run to Cooper's, within
twelve miles of Asheville
The Charlotte Observer reports that
coal-black negro named Robert Johnston,
who has been living with Mr.. Isaac Sneel, in
Providence township, Mecklenburg county,
ran off on Monday night of last week, taking
with him little daughter of Mr.. Sneel, aged
13 years. 1t is thought that Johnston crossed
over into South Carolina.
The Wilmington Repiew strings the fol-
lowing puns anent an item which appeared
in these columns last week: The Yorkville
Is. CO. ENQUIRER gives utterance to rumor
that Republican paper is to be started soon
in Charlotte and that Republican is to be
sent up there from Wilmington to run it.
Who is he? Abbot this matter we Rice to
say that whoever thinks of Manning such an
undertaking or attempts to Foster such an
enterprise, will find himself on the Brink of a
catastrophe from which only amodern Samp-
son could rescue him. Canaday bring forth
more?
In the Federal Court at Greensboro, last
week, in the case of DR.: Emmett R. William
son, indicted for the sending of obscene liter
ature through the mails, the defendant plead
ed guilty, and judgment was suspended on
payment of the costs, the defendant making
ample apology to the young lady to whom the
postal cards were addressed. The grand jury
found true bill of Indictment for conspiracy
against the sheriff of Anson county, the clerk
of the Superior Court, and three prominent
lawyers, to-wit: Messrs. Bennett, Dargan
and Pemberton, for restoring a wagon and
team, captured by United States deputy
marshal, to its owner The counsel were in
cluded in the conspiracy by reason Of their
having advised the return of the property.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The South Carolina Cotton Crop.
- Under date of the 9th instant, the
Charleston Exchange. publishes the replies Of
SO correspondents in % counties, the average
date of the replies being the 30th of Septem-
Der. The weather during the month is re.
ported by all as being very dry and very fa-
vorable for picking, but by most as unfavora-
BILE for maturing of the top crop, the growth
having been checked by the dreuth.. The
plant was fruiting we'll, but in most cases not
retaining its squares and bolls. Many COM
plain of damage done by rust. The lower
counties report two-thirds as having been
picked, while the upper counties average
about one-third picked. The estimates Of
seed cotton yielded per acre vary from three
hundred pounds to eight hundred pounds,
the average being four hundred and fifty
pounds to the acre. The yield asscompared
with last year is estimated to be the same in
three counties and from ten to fifty per cent.
less in twenty-five counties. On the average
the estimate is about twenty per cent. less,
which deficiency, however, may be considered
to some extent counterbalanced by the in
crease in acreage. -
Civil Rights in the Supreme Court.
During the present week, the United
States Supreme Court, now in session in Wash
ington, will hear the argument in series of
political cases." which, on account of their
public Importance, have been advanced. The
first case to be argued is the petition for man.
damus in behalf of Virginia, against Hon.
Alexander Rives, Judge of the United States
Court for the Western District of Virginia,
who removed to the Federal Court the case
of two colored men indicted for MURDER on
the ground that they were prevented from
having any colored men upon the jury. At
torney. General Devens and Mr.. Wiloughly,
of Virginia, for Judge Rives, and Mr.. Field,
the Attorney General of Virginia, and Judge
Roberts, for the State.
The next argument will be heard on pc.
tition for habeas corpus in the case Of Hon. j.
D. Cole, Judge of Virginia State Court,
who had been indicted in the United States
Court for alleged violation of the Federal
Statute of March 3, 1875, in refusing to put
colored men upon a jury in a case where
colored man was indicted for murder. The
principal arguments will be made by Attor-
ney- General Devens and Mr.. Field, respect
lively, for the United States and for the peti-
toner. These two cases will bring up the
question of the constitutionality of the va
rious civil rights acts.
Immediately after these, arguments will
probably be heard in the case of Streanden
Us. the State of West Virginia, which is that
of colored man who was convicted of a
crime under a statute of West Virginia which
expressly excludes colored men from sitting
on juries, the position of the plaintiff in er-
ror being that said law of that State is un-
constitutional.
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