Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-15
Sfraps and fafts.

- The Senate committee on the exodus of
negroes from the South, organized for business
last Friday, and will begin taking testimony
the present week. Witnesses will be sum-
moned from Indiana and North Carolina, and
later, from other States. The committee do
not at present, contemplate going out of Wash
ington for purposes of inquiry.
The Governor of Alabama has appointed
Luke Pryor, of Athens, Ala, as United
States Senator to supply the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of Senator Houston. He
has never been an ofice-holder, always de-
clining, but is an able man and lawyer of
fine ability. He was the law partner of Sen
ator Houston.
A large cottou-growing area is developing
in Southern California and Arizona. 1t IS
said that the cotton, experiments in Arizona
have produced quality equal to the Sea
Island cotton from seed introduced from Chi
ma. One man in Merced county, CAL, has
300 acres in cotton, and the total product OF
the State this year is 500 bales of $50 pounds
each.
- Russia is now moving troops to her wes-
tern border in way that starts rumors Of
war with Austria, or with Germany, or with
both combined. But no foreign war or ru-
NOR of war can heal the internal disorders of
Russia. The struggle with Turkey has al
ready proved that device to be costly, desper-
ate, and useless.
- The Greenback. labor party conference
met in Washington last Friday with one hun
dred and twenty. five delegates from twenty
eight States in attendance. The Hon. T. II.
Murch, Greenback Congressman from Maine,
was elected permanent chairman, and com.
mittee was appointed to report upon the time
and place for the national convention to nom
mate candidate for President.
The Washington Post says it is authori-
tatively stated that ex-senator Sprague, who
has been for some weeks engaged in taking
private depositions for use in divorce suit
which he shortly contemplated bringing
against his wife, has become satisfied that ne
could adduce no substantial proof with which
to sustain his former allegations against Mrs.
Sprague, and instructed his lawyers to pro.
ceed no further in the matter. A reconcilia.
ton between the husband and wife is looked
for as the eventual result of this.
- Gen. Walker, superintendent of the cen
sus, predicts that this years census will show
population of forty-eight millions in this
country. The largest increase is expected in
Kansas, Iowa, Texas, Missouri. Tennessee and
Northern Alabama. Gen. Walker is Of the
opinion that not single State in the Union
will show decline in population from 1860.
According to his estimates, three Western
and four Southern States will have an increased
representation in Congress under the new ap-
portionment.
A dispatch of the 9TH, from Greenville,
Miss, says: City Marshal Mcclure, of Lake
- Providence, while attempting to arrest num-
Der of fiat boatmen, was shot and killed.
Five men were arrested on suspicion and
placed under guard. A number of McGuire's s
relatives broke into the room, opened fire, and
mortally wounded two. The other three were
crippled. A jury of inquest discovered that
the man who killed the Marshal was James
Brown, who escaped in skif, and the five
who were shot were innocent.
As this is leap year, it is we'll to know
what the law of leap year is. The law, it is
said, takes no notice of parts of days, and as
to the 29th of February it takes no notice of
the whole day. The 2Sthsand 29th are com.
puted as one day. For example: Suppose
note is dated on the 2Sth of February, 1880,
payable one month from date. Ordinarily it
would be payable on the 4th of March, and
so it is in leap year, and not on the Sd. This
embraces statutes, deeds, verbal or written
contracts, and all public or private instru-
ments.
- The Supreme Court of the United States
has refused to advance on the docket, the
case of Jaillard VS.. Greenman, commonly
known as the legal tender case, which now
stands upon the Calendar, No. 779. The re.
fusal of the Court to advance it does not,
however, necessarily postpone its considera.
tion. Under Rule 20 of the Court, if coun.
sci on both sides agree to forego the privileges
of oral argument and submit their case upon
printed briefs, they. may bring it before the
Court at any time within the first ninety days
of the term, without reference to its place on
the docket.
- The cotton seed oil factories in New Or
leans are reaping this fall golden harvest.
Their products-oil and oil-cake-have risen
largely in value, while manufacturers have
been paying only the old price for the raw
material. Every $50 pound bale of cotton,
when g;nned, yields about half ton q 100
pounds) of seed, which are sold to the facto-
ries at S15 per ton. Here the oil is expressed
and the refuse is sold as oil cake-chieAy ex-
ported to Europe for stock food and used by
the sugar planters as fertilizer. Before ex-
pressing the seed, they are first Tinted and
hulled. The lint extracted is sold to the
white paper factories and the hulls are used
for fuel and as fertilizers-thus is every part
of the cotton fruit utilized.
A Battle Creek, Mich, special tells new
story of the death of Theodosia Burr Aston,
only daughter of Aaron Burr, who sailed
from Charleston, S. c., December 80, 1872, on
voyage to New York, the vessel, the Patriot,
never being heard from afterwards. An old
sailor, Benjamin F. Burdick, lately deceased,
in the poorhouse at Cassopolis, Mich, con-
fessed on his deathbed to having been one of
a piratical crew who overlook the Patriot
January 3, 1913. The captain, crew and pas
sengers were made to walk plank overheard.
Mrs. Aston was among them. She arrang-
ed herself in white and made the fatal walk
with Bible in her hand, without tremor
1t was the dying sailors lot to pull the plank
beneath her. Her face haunted him ever
afterwards.
"A New York correspondent writes as
follows: We are in the midst Of a week Of
prayer which seems to be kind of mild an
nual revival. As preacher said last night,
three or four of the fashionable uptown church
es Join together on the occasion (churches Of
different denominations, and, the service be-
ing conducted first in one and then the other,
Presbyterian seal skin rubs against Metho-