Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-02-03

country Shippers aauu SpecuIatOrS .uDO L1dt
their anticipations are not being realized, and
from the present outlook it is not unlikely
that they will lose money. One prominent
mule shipper, who hasover thousand head
corralled up in an interior county in Missou
ri, remarked to the reporter, II have large
bunch, and if anybody will pay me first cost
and the feed, will let him have the mules
and take Off $4,000 besides, and know 9th
ers who will take off a percentage if theyscan
get hack their money only -, Mr.. w illiam;
p. Croswhile, we'll known feeder, was also
interviewed by the reporter and asked why
had the receipts fallen off here The total
receipts of horses and mules from Janu
ary to.the 18th, inclusive, were only 2,5l2
head, while for the corresponding nineteen
days in 1880 the receipts were 6,6lS head, or
nearly three times HIS many as in 1881. "Well,
you see," snid Mr.. Croswhite "the demand
for mules is small and prices Auctuating and
not very high at that, and thus keep back
the supply. Were the demand as large as
last January, the receipts would be as liberal" !"
The Irish State Trials.
- In the Court of Queens Bench at
Dublin, on the 25th, in the case of the Grown
vs. the traversers, Judge Fitzgerald conclu.
ded his charge to the jury at 1920, p. m.
He asked them to perform their duty with
courage, sprung from the desire to act con-
scientiously, without fear or favor. The jury
having asked for the necessary documents, re-
tired to deliberate upon their verdict. Judge
Fitzgerald, replying to Mr.. McDonough of
the counsel for the traversers, admitted that
if his directions to the jury were wrong in
point of law, he could be put right by an ap.
peal tn the Supreme Court. Mr.. McDonough
began an argument quoting authorities, when
Mr.. Parnell entered the Court and was loudly
cheered by the audience in the gallery.
There was great excitement in Court.
Judge Fitzgerald, in his summing up, was
specially severe on the violence of the lead
ing members and paid agents of the Land
League. If the jury, he said, found all the
charges not made out, it would be their duty
to acquit the traversers. If, on the other
hand, they found the charges brought home
to one of the traversers, all. according to law,
were equally guilty. In connection with this
point he told the jury that it was for the
Court to lay down the law, which, if wrong,
could be amended elsewhere. Mr.. Nc
Donough contended that the Judge should
not have mentioned his power of appeal to
the jury. a. #
At745 o'clock the jury were discharged,
the foreman stating that it was utterly impos.
sible that they could agree. A juror had
previously stated that they were ten to tso,
but the Judge said he could only receive an
unanimous verdict Great excitement pre-.
vailed, and i, was heightened when the Judge,
after the exhibition of the day in Court, said
he could not exp, ct free and unanimous
verdict. Immense crowds were cheering out.
side the court house. AS soon as the result
of the trial was known in Dungarvan, the
town was brilliantly illuminated. The bands
paraded the streets. The mention of the
traversers' names was cheered and the sur.
rounding hills were ablaze for twenty miles.
A Republican Structure Of Elliott.
- Commenting upon the recent visit Of
colored Republicans to Gen. Garfield, the
New York Times, stalwart Republican pa.
per, pays r. B. Elliott the following we'll l,de
served rebuke: .....
1t is pity that the Southern Republicans
who called upon the President elect few
days since, should have accepted as leader
and spokesman that notorious negro, r. B.
Elliott, now of South Carolina. The delega.
ton in question visited Gen. Garfield with
the ostensible purpose of learning to what
extent he was disposed to support the Repub
lican organization in the South, and whether
or not he would do all in his power to right
the wrongs which have SO long been suffered
by the colored people there. In this connec.
tion it might as we'll be understood, first as
last, that if men of the Elliott class are to be
regarded as the leaders of Southern Republi.
canism, it would he better if the party were
in the future neglected, as it has been in the
past. 1t is high time that the Republican
party in the South rid itself of such men as
this same Robert B. Elliott. He has done
more to bring disgrace upon it than even the
profigate Moses or the weakling Ames. 1t is
true that he is black man of the deepest
hue, but he is not Southern negro, and has
absolutely nothing in common with the pep
pie whom he claims to represent. He was
born in Boston, Mass, and was educated in
England, remaining for many years in that
country. He was never heard Of in the
South until after the war, and then the chief
prominence which he gained was in connec'
ton with corrupt politics and disreputable
transactions in the Legislature. BY his great
ability and superior education, he might have
been an ornament, not only to his race, but
to the country. He chose rather to be a
selfish and slippery trckster. He has re-
ceived Congressional and other high honors
from the colored people of South Carolina.
In return, he has never lost an opportunity
of disappearing them. He was appointed
special agent of the treasury some time
before the Chicago Convention, and earned
his pay by appearing in that meeting for his
paymaster and against the clearly expressed
wishes of his constituents. He now seeks
prominence to the end that he may have the
lions share in controlling the Federal pa.
tronage in South Carolina. For the sake of
the party in the South and elsewhere, it is to
be hoped that he and men like him, who are
always heard more of after an election than
during the thick of contest, may be sent to
the rear aud kept there.
MERE.MENTION.
A coal company in Colorado struck oil a few
days ago at a depth of 1,l45 feet. .'''''''''The