Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-17
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sinuates that the weak-minded are the only
persons who ever think of marrying.
- The Delaware Legislature has passed a
resolution authorizing the State to defend,
before the United States District Court all
persons who were indicted for assaulting
United States Marshals, or for voting illegal
ly at the last State election.
- Thomas l.. James, the efficient postmas.
ter of New York, is the favorite candidate
of many of the leading Republicans of New
York for the postmaster. generalship. He is
probably as we'll qualified for the position, as
any man in the United States.
- The finance committee of the Words
Fair, to be held in New York in 1883, report
that without any organized efforts, they have,
in three weeks, raised 1892, 800, in addition
to the $25O,OOO promised conditionally by
the New York Central Railroad
- The Senate committee on privileges and
elections, propose to investigate and settle
the question whether Vice. President elect
Chester A. Arthur is native of the United
States Charges that Mr.. Arthur was born
over the Canadian line have been brought
to its attention, and it will institute q
thorough inquiry.
- Texas is about to enact a law which other
Southern States should hurry to initiate. The
acquittal of Currie prompted the following
bill, which was passed on Saturday in the
Senate by vote Of 19 to 8, and will un-
doubtedly pass the House and become law:
can act to prevent drunkenness and tempo
rary insanity, produced by intoxicating Ii
quors, from being plead in justification of
criminal offenses in any Of the courts of the
State"
An ingenious swindle on the government
has just been discovered at New York. A
gallon of shellac put in barrel of alcohol
made it varnsh and exempted it from the 81
per gallon internal revenue tax. The shellac
was extracted by chemical process, after the
mixture was brought from Canada, and the
enterprising dealers could undersell every
body else on alcohol and make enormous
profits Many honest handlers of the fluid
were ruined by the competition.
- The Supreme Court of Appeals, at Rich
mond, Va, last Thursday, rendered decision
reversing the judgment of the Corporation
Court of Danviile, in the case of James Thom-
DeJarnette, convicted in September last of
the murder of his sister, Mollie DeJarnette,
and sentenced to be hanged on the 29th of
October, but in whose case writ of error
being granted, the execution was stayed.
The case has been remanded for new trial.
1t will be remembered that DeJarnette shot
and killed his sister in a house of i'll repute
last July.
- An old fable in a new dress: A monkey,
designing to teach his sons the advantage
of unity, brought them number of sticks
and desired them to see how easily they might
be broken one at time. So each young
monkey took stick and broke it. "Now,"
said the father, "Ill teach you lesson"
And he began to gather the sticks into
bundle. But the young monkeys, thinking
he was about to beat them, set upon him all
together and disabled him. There" said
the aged sufferer, "behold the advantage of
unity. If you had assailed me one at time,
/ would have killed every mothers son Of
you"
The Washington correspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle, is told that the Republi-
cans will attempt to organize the next House
of Representatives in defiance of the clerks
list, so as to keep out those members whom
they especially dislike. Another story is that
the moment the Republicans secure domina.
shall not be, for generation at least, any
more Democratic Senators from South Caro-
lima and, perhaps, several other Southern
States. One plan is to have in each State
duplicate Legislature that will elect Repub
lican Senator who will be admitted. Anoth.
er is to reject any Democratic Senator who
shall be elected. This is lively reading, but
the country is not going to the dogs to that
extent.
= In late article on carpet baggers in the
South, "Fool' Tourgee declares that $4,000
negroes had emigrated to Kansas from the
Southern States in the past three years. The
Republicans have been telling this story over
and over again until they have finally got to
believing it. If it is so, General Francis
Walker ought to be impeached for falsifying
the census, for he declares that there are only
$4,000 negroes in Kansas to day, and that
there were 1880 ten years ago. Even if the
negro population of that State had been at
stand-still for the past decade, this would give
only $4,000 negro emigrants in ten years so
it is hard to see how $4,000 could have i'm.
migrated in twenty. four months The story
is either falsehood, or "a, 900 of the unfor-
tunate darkies who went to Kansas have died
of cold and inhuman treatment.
speaking of the revised Bible, the New
York Times Of Thursday says: ut was ex-
pected by the American committee on revis.
ion Of the New Testament, that the book
should be published and ready for delivery in
this country during the present month, but it
is announced, on authority of cable dis
patch, received by DR.. Philip Schaff, presi,
dent Of the American committee, that the
publication will not be made until May.
When asked by the Times reporter what the
cause of the delay was, DR.. Schaff said that
the convocation Of Canterbury meets to-day,
and the revised Testament will be submitted
to that body for its approval The book will
probably be referred to a committee, which |
will report at the next meeting of the convo.
cation in May, when the convocation itself
will take action. The announcement that the |
book was to be overhauled and the word
hell restored in places where 'hades' had
been used, DR.. Schaf said was utterly with.
out authority"
- The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times is responsible for the
statement that Mr.. Hayes has, during his
four years fraudulent occupancy of the
White House, been indulging in some petty
swindling in open violation Of law, by which
he has realized few hundred dollars 1t
appears that few days after his inaugura.
tion he demanded the payment of months