Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-14

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the bar rooms in Lumbertown on Friday last
in accordance with the act passed by the last
Legislature, prohibiting the sale of liquor in
a certain distance of the church in that town.
The same act prohibits the sale of liquor in a
certain distance of Shoe Heel. We also un.
derstand that the liquor dealers of both places
will test the constitutionalty of the act be.
fore the Supreme Court.
"A dispatch of the 9Th from Fayetteville
says: At conference of the directors of the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway and
Fayetteville and Florence Railroad, held
here to day, the two roads were consolidated,
the Fayetteville and Florence transferring
all rights to the other company, subject to
the approval of the stockholders of both COM
panies, which will undoubtedly be given.
Mortgage bonds to the amount of'S1S0,000
will be issued, and in thirty days work will be-
gin on the extension of the Florence road to
Florence, where it will connect with the road
to Columbia, Charleston, and the whole
Southern country. 1t is also hoped that
eventually the present Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley road will find Northern connection,
which will make it a great through freight
and passenger route. The completion of the
Florence road will open up new and desira.
Bile trade for Fayetteville, making it a great
trade centre for the Yadkin Valley, Cape
Fear, and Pee Dee sections.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Deadlock in the Senate.
Since the 4th of March, the United States
Senate has been at deadlock on the question
of electing officers for that body. Both sides
are holding out with great persistency. The
Democrats claim that he Republicans are
responsible for the condition of things, and
seem determined to stand until the Republi
cans yield: What will be the outcome it is
difficult to foretell, though the assertion is
made that there are Republican Senators
who privately express themselves fearful that
the party is going too far in the effort to carry
out the Malone bargain. On this subject the
Washington correspondent of the Ne'us and
Courier says:
Here they are in the fifth week of the spe.
cial session. They were called together to
act upon the Presidential nominations. Over
a month has been frittered away in use-
less wrangle. The President has sent in
29O nominations. Twenty-Five have been
confirmed, and of the remaining 265 only 55
have been referred to committees There
are also three treaties awaiting executive con.
sideration. The Democrats, since March "a,
have made thirty.seven motions to proceed to
executive business, and the yea and nay re-
cord shows that each motion has been defeat
ed by solid Republican vote and Malone.
The Supreme Court vacancy has on several
occasions necessitated an adjournment Of that
body for want Of quorum. and no Circuit
Court can be held in the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict, for there is no judge. The business of
that court is large, and much important liti.
CATION, involving great interests is checked
because of the Republican obstruction. There
is no marshal for the District of Columbia
and court business is thereby at a standstill.
Important consulships, district attorneyships,
no end of postmasterships, some of them in
large cities, and other Offices are vacant, and
the public business is blocked and denied con-
sideration in obedience to Mahone's demand
that Gorham and Riddlebarger shall be in
stalled in office as payment for his vote.
South Carolina Appointments.
- Within the last week the President has
nominated for United States officials in South
Carolina, W. N. Taft for postmaster of
Charleston; Samuel w. Melton for District
Attorney and Absalcm Blythe for United
States Marshal.
Of Taft, the Ne,os and Courier says:
He came to Charleston, in command of a
negro company of Federal troops, in 1865.
Shortly after his coming. he retired from the
army and opened bar-room on East Bay.
His prejudice, at this time, was so great
against the negroes, that he refused to allow
them to drink in his saloon, and was threat
ened with prosecution for discrimination
on account of race, color and previous condi-
ton. In 1868 he was elected a lieutenant
on the Charleston police force by the Pills
bury administration, and served in that ca
pacity until 1870, when he was elected coro.
ner of Charleston county, to 6ll the unexplred
term of Timothy Hurley. In 1874 he was
appointed county auditor by Governor Cham
berlain, and held that Office until 1876, when
he was elected State Senator from Charleston
on the Bowen ticket. Since the expiration
of his term as Senator, he has held no political
Office He is an attorney at law and has
practiced little in all the courts of the
State.
Samuel w. Melton, who was nominated for
District Attorney of South Carolina, is a
native of YorkviIle. He graduated from the
South Carolina College about the year 1862,
in the class with Attorney. General Youmans,
and studied law in the office of his brother,
the late C. D. Melton. He was admitted to
practice after the regular course of study,
and practiced for some time in the Courts
of what is now known as the Sixth Circuit.
He has always been distinguished for his skill
and ability in criminal causes.
During the war he did not see much active
service, and after the battles around Rich.
mond was attached to the adjutant'gerierals
office of the Confederate war department at
Richmond, with the rank of colonel. He is
supposed to have had a potent voice in the
appointments of the Confederate army from
South Carolina, and in this way welded a
good deal of influence
After the war he removed to Columbia,
where he practiced law with much success.
In 1860 he voted for Seymour for President,
but, as he afterwards told his Republican
opponents, "bet his money on Grant" Soon