Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-04-21
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summoned to serve on jury, but refused
to either swear or affirm, citing the Bible,
which he said forbade anything beyond "yea,
yea, and nay, nay" He was sent to jail and
fined for contempt of court
- Indians get their queer names in the
following manner: When an Indian baby is
born, the medicine man. or some one of the
family. looks out of the door and casts his eye
upon some object. The FIRST thing is seen
furnishes the child's name. Hence, Sitting
Bull" "Red Cloud" etc.
- Thirty special reports to the Macon 7sle.
graph and Messenger, indicate less than half
a peach crop in Middle and Southwestern
Georgia. The fig trees are killed; plums,
half crop; pears and cherries badly dam.
aged apples and strawberries not much in.
jured.
- The Whitaker court-martial costs the
government, it is estimated, $4,000 for every
day it is in session. Witnesses are paid 81 a
day, and experts in handwriting 500 a day.
The members of the court are allowed their
expenses while in New York. Before the
case is closed, it will have cost, it is said $780,
900.
- 1t is reported that General Wickham,
the most prominent Republican in Virginia,
says if the Republican Senators continue to
fondle Repudistor Malone, he will stump
the State for the debt-paying Democrats.
This would leave Malone with the Republi-
can riff raft and the bulk of the negroes in
Virginia.
- Things are changing around bit. The
Democrats carried every municipal election
in the ironclad Republican State of Nebras.
ka. Tuesday, while the Republicans retaliated
by sweeping the cities of that Democratic
stronghold, Missouri. Not only did St. Louis
show Republican triumph, but the second
city in the State-Kansas City-as we'll,
electing full Republican city ticket for the
first time since it was organized.
- The Ohio Legislature has passed the
bill submitting to the popular vote an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting the sale
of liquor in the State. 1t is probable that
it will be carried, as the Cincinnati election
shows the temperance people to be very strong
in the State. Even if it is not, it will split
up the Republicans on the liquor question
and give the State to the Democrats Such
is the feeling in Ohio.
"A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal
says that machines invented by a Mississippian
to harvest cotton by gathering the stalks by
the roots, and subsequently, pick, clean and
gin it, has been given thorough trial, and
works perfectly. 1t is claimed that this will
revolutionize the cotton business by reducing
cost of production one.half, and stimulating
the efforts of farmers to have their crops ma
ture all at the same time
-Col VIM. Winston Fontaine, Principal
of an academy in Louisville, Kentucky, read
long paper before the Southern Historical
Society of the city at recent meeting, in
which he claimed that Robert E. Lee was sew
enteenth in direct descent from Robert Bruce,
, of Scotland, and possessed very many of his
notable characteristics. Moreover, that of the
five heroes who particularly distinguished
themselves on the glorious field of Bannock-
burn, Lee, through the same channel, was the
direct descendant of four
Assistant District Attorney Bell, in the
General Sessions Court in New York city, last
Thursday, called to the bar James O'Brien,
alias Robert Lindsay, who, during the last
political campaign, deposed that he knew H.
L. Morey, the individual to whom it was al
legged President Garfield wrote what is known
as the "Morey Chinese" letter, and who sub
sequently confessed that he had per jured
himself. He pleaded guilty of an indictment
for perjury presented against him, and Judge
Cowing sent him to the State prison for eight
years
Since the assassination of the Gar, extra
ordinary precautionary measures have been
taken to secure the safety of Queen Victoria
while travelling by railway. During re-
cent journey to London, train of empty
carriages was run about quarter of an hour
in advance of the Queens special train,
which it piloted through the trip from Wind.
sor to Paddington, while the entire dis,
tance between the Windsor terminus and the
metropolis, was guarded by platelayers sta
toned at regular invervals along the route,
within sight Of each other.
On Tuesday of last week, hurricane
prevailed at Commerce, Tunica county, Missis-
sippi, proceeding eastwardly to fernando. 1t
made path two hundred yards wide, laying
waste houses, forests, bridges and fences. A
large number of negro cabins, full of their
occupants, were blown down, without single
case of injury to the inmates. The storm is
known to have killed four persons -Four
others are missing and supposed to have been
killed or disabled by the tornado. Some of
the persons were picked up and whirled sew
eral hundred yards through the air by it,
and then sat down upon the ground unin-
iured.
There is now in the vaults of the treas
ury department., a larger amount Of gold than
was ever known to be in one place in the
history of modern times, and probably more
than could be authenticated as existing in
single treasury at any time before in the world.
There is now about $173,000000 of gold
900 in silver, while the bank of England has
only about s75,0O0,000 in gold. What is
more singular, is that it stays in the vaults,
no matter what the demand recently, for as
fast as it is paid out it returns, showing that
as long as confidence is maintained, it is not
a favorite currency.
The circular of the Mercantile Agency of
r. D. Dunn & Co. shows the number of fail
ures in the United States during the first
three months of 1881 to be 1851, with lia-
bilities amounting to s24,447,250, against
1882 failures and S12777, ,074 liabilities same
time in 1880, and 1924 failures and $4S, ,ll2,-
665 liabilities same time in 1879. The in
crease this year is attributed partly to the Sc
we're weather in the Western and Northern
States, and the unfavorable condition in the
Southern States, and the attending hindrance
to business and agricultural operations. The
same authority gives the failures in the South
ern States for the same period, included in the