Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-08


either straightout or independent, is to be run
in every county, and the most vigorous CAM
paign ever made on the part of the Republi-
cans in this State will be that Of this year,
their leaders say.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
A Northern Mans Opinion.
- Thos. B. .Keogh, Esq, native of Wis.
consn, has been a citizen Of Greensboro,
N. c., ever since the surrender Of Gen. John
ston, he having entered that town with the
Twenty. third Army Corps. commanded by
Gen. Cox, of Ohio. Since his residence in
North Carolina, he has been prominent as
member of the Republican party, having been
until recently chairman of the State Executive
Committee of the party. and now holding the
position Of Secretary of the Republican Ma.
tional Committee He is also Register in
Bankruptcy in his district. On recent Wis.
it to his native State, he was interviewed hy
the Milwaukee Duly Ners, in the course Of
which he said:
you wonder, do you, why am such a
pronounced Grant man. Well, Ill tell you.
supported Grant because believed that i'll
a greater degree than any other man named
by the Republicans, his election would have
tended to do away with the worst features Of
sectionalism. When first went South the
opposition to Northern immigration was con.
fined almost wholly to the Democrats. Now
everything has changed, and the hostility
shown towards new comers from the North
is largely manifested by the native Republican
element Strange as it may seem, this is
fact, and l ain 10 position to know whereof |
affirm.
The Bank Bill Scandal.
- The Columbia correspondent of the
News and Courier, speaking of the recent de-
velopments in Commissioner Colts Office,
says:
The Republicans here are jubilant over the
scandal, and whatever may come Of it, they
are evidently bent upon using it at present.
The politics of the defendant have been
brought into prominence, and they charge a
general looseness and neglect in Commission
er Colts office in regard to the counting, can
collation. and certi6cation of the bills being
left alone to any one person. This view is
sustained by great many Democrats who
give Col. Colt credit for the best intentions
and the utmost honesty and integrity. New
ertheless, they think he has been imposed upon
in a.manner which could have been averted
by proper surveillance Of the transactions OF
his office. 1t is but due to Col. Colt to say
that he has devoted almost his entire time to
the discharge of the arduous duties imposed
by the Act providing for the funding of these
bills, and it was absolutely necessary for him
to have the services of an expert in not only
counting the bills, but in determining which
were genuine issues of the bank and which
were not As is generally known the bills
were issued during the war, and were easy to
counterfeit, being printed upon Indifferent pa
per. The whole matter is unreservedly spo
ken of on the streets, and it is useless to feign
any sentiment concerning the opportunities,
which, as is apparent from the evidence taken
before the Court, were allowed to be taken
advantage cf
June Reports Of the Crops.
The June reports of the Department of
Agriculture in Washington say that the acre
age sown in oats shows an increase of 2 per
cent. over 1879; the Gulf and Southern In.
land States show little or no change from
last year. The average condition Of the crop
is much better than last year, and SO against
81 in June, 1879. Texas, Of all the Gulf
States, is the only one that reports above 100.
A general complaint is of drought in all the
Middle and South Atlantic States, and rust
and too much rain in the Gulf and Southern
States. The acreage of clover shows very
material change from last year, the only
change from last year being an increase in
the cotton growing States and Pacific slopes.
The prospect of good fruit growing season
is very favorable.
A Chicago dispatch of the End instant
says that frequent and heavy showers through
out the Northwest have already greatly de-
Iayed the harvest of wheat and impeded the
cultivation ;orn and hay making. In
Central Illinois, Thursday night, there was a
heavy rain, which damaged grain already cut
and made it impossible to get into the ripen-
ing fields for some days. Unless the weather
clears and remains dry, damage equal to that
of twenty years ago may result Unfavora.
bic reports from Minnesota are received, but
are not verified as yet.
The Man Who First Named Him.
-- Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia,
who has the satisfaction of knowing that he
nominated Gen. Hancock for the Presidency,
;hus related his experience in the Convention
to reporter of the Philadelphia Times:
"I went out to Cincinnati" said he, with
out the slightest idea of nominating Hancock.
was invited by the Americus Club to &C.
them as their guest, and after
lays deliberation l decided to do so. On
Tuesday evening was at supper with the
Queen City Club, when some gentlemen pres.
ent told me they wished me to nominate
Hancock next day. l was thunderstruck,
and said that had no pens, paper or place
10 prepare speech, and had thought moth.
ing of the subject. Then they told me that
hey had house where could 90, 80 | went