Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

doubteuly he on that occasion. His Excel
lency will meet the troops at Kings Noun
tain because he will be on his canvass of the
State at that time, and could not designate
where he would be the day the troops started.
POLITICAL NOTES.
- Montgomery, Ala, has a colored Han
cock and English Club numbering over six
hundred memb, rs.
- There is languor in politics, on both
sides. Hot weather has great deal to do
with it. The big fun will hardly commence
before September
- Senator Bruce, having no further use
for Mississippi, and Mississippi having no
further use for him, is about to carpet-bag to
Ohio where his wife has some rich relations
- A personal friend of Gen. Grant in
Washington, says that he will never allow
his name to 90 before another Preslden'
tial Convention, and will never again take an
active part in politics.
- Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been nominal
ed by the Democrats of the Eighth Alabama
District for Congress. That District has
been represented by Greenbacker. Weaver
and De La Matyr are in Alabama now try
ing to save their man by stump speaking.
- Ausburn Birdsall, formerly Democratic
member of Congress from New York, but for
ten years acting with the Republicans, writes
to Col. Forney that he goes with him for
Hancock, as "Democrats Of the old school
find sufficient reason for their course under
existing circumstances"
- Of the Congressman known generally
and intimately throughout the country, all
have served several terms. Garfield has
been there eighteen years. So have Speaker
Randall and Fernando Wood. Cox and
Kelley are in their tenth term, and Frye and
Proctor Knott and Conger;s of Michigan,
have served ten or twelve years each.
- Private letters received at Washington
from Texas, say that the Greenback mana
gers have made proposition to the Republi'
can leaders there to support the Greenback
Presidential ticket, affirming that if they
will do 80, the State can be carried by Wea.
YER, and thus the Democrats will be deprived
of the electoral vote of Texas, and the elec'
ton of Garfield will be made more certain.
- The Maine Democrats haye "fused" with
the Greenbackers on the electoral ticket.
The Greenbackers have nominated four OF
the seven candidates, as follows: Solon Chase,
BENJAMIN Bunker, J. F. Turner and Charles
r. Whidden. The Democrats take the other
three. There is a fair chance, at least, that
the combination will carry the State, which
will then give four votes to Weaver and three
to Hancock
The New York World says: "Of the six
New England States, not more than one is
really safe for Garfield, while in second the
chances are strongly and in third slightly
in his favor As for the remaining three,
Connecticut is reasonably sure for Hancock.
New Hampshire belongs to the party which
fights hardest, and in Maine, according to
the Herald's correspondence, the situation is
decidedly unfavorable for the Republicans. ,"
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Hancock Assigned to the South.
- By direction of the President, Major
General Winfield S.. Hancock, United States
army, in addition to his present duties,
has been assigned to the command of the
Department of the South during the tempo
rary absence of Brigadier-General G. G. Au-
CUR on detached service.
The action of the President in assigning
Gen. Hancock to the command of the South
at this particular time, will excite comment.
We cannot tell what the motive is, nor how
far it is likely to affect results. One thing is
certain-it is no part Of General Hancock's
duty, as commander of the department, to do
sny anything unlawful or unconstitutional,
and if it were he would not do it. 1t might
be taken as a compliment, since it indicates
that the President has the highest confidence
that Gen. Hancock will perform his duties
conscientiously even when an election is pend
ing in which he himself is interested. We
cannot ascribe to the President desire to
annoy or to place Gen. Hancock in an IN
pleasant predicament and thus to force his
resignation.
The Fasting Man.
DR.. Tanner who claims his ability to
90 for forty days without food other than wa
ter, has been making the experiment in New
York city, and is attracting the attention of
the medical profession of the country. He
hopes to show by fasting forty days that it is