Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-10-06
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depends on the Will OF the majority. Ills
salary is ten thousand dollars per annum.
- Bismarck knows how to deal with Nor
monism. He sends all the Mormon mission
aries out of the country under police escort
If other foreign countries would do likewise,
fewer people would be deluded by the false
representations of these emissaries from Utah.
Saws the Boston Herald: The tone of the
Southern press toward President Arthur is
remarkably generous and cordial, considering
the turn attempted to be given to the Presi-
Dental canvass by the bloody. shirt speeches of
his chief patron, Mr.. Conkling.
- Gen. Hancock has given notice to the
War Department that he will, at an early
day, detail court-martial to try Sergeant
Mason for shooting at Guiteau. Army Of
6cers regard Mason's conduct with disgust
and condemnation.
The fact that during his long illness
President Garfield was never visited by
minister of the Gospel and that no religious
services, so far as is known, were held at his
bedside, has excited curious remarks in view
of eulogies pronounced on his Christian char
acter.
There is a strong probability that the
White House will witness wedding during
the present administration President
himself being one of the high contracting
parties, and the widow of weliknow and
very wealthy new Yorker the other Gen.
Arthur has been widower for some time.
- The latest estimate places the number OF
Michigan sufferers by the forest fires at 10000,
and their losses at s7,500,0CO. The state
ment is made that the burned district is the
home of the Eleventh Regiment of FEEDER
al volunteers who were conspicuous in burn
ing southern property during the war;
"A correspondent of the New York Her.
aid asserts that the alteration between Gul.
teau and prison guard Magill, publication of
which was made some time ago, now turns
out to be an attempt to assassinate Gulteau by
the guard. Facts to corrobate the assertion
are given by an eye witness to the tussle be-
tween the men, and who separated them.
Says the Wilmington Star: "Mr. John
Sneeden had both hands torn off by the pre-
mature discharge of gun which he was load
ing during the salute to the memory OF Presl-
dent Garfield, Monday. The left hand was
blown clear away from the wrist into the riv-
er, near which the gun was planted, and the
right so terribly mangled that all but finger
or two had to be cut away. The young man
is the only support of his mother. A SUBJ
scription is being taken up for his benefit"
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, will prob
ably have walk over for reelection to the
United States Senate So far every legisla-
tive county convention has Instructed In favor
of Mr.. Lamar, and his progress through the
State amounts to an ovation. Mr.. Lamar 8
conservative course in the Senate seems to
have made him more popular than ever with
the masses of his constituents.
In several corps of the Russian army,
dogs have been introduced in the place OF
men as sentries. The wolf dog of the Ural
Mountains has been found most servlceable
for this purpose, for the reason that it is wont
to signify its dispproval of intruders by low
growls instead Of vociferous barking, which
would incite all the other dogs in the camp
to similar vocal exercises.
DR.. Bahnson, of Salem, n. c., who is now
in Philadelphia, writes friend that the
speech which President Garfield had prepared
to deliver at Williams College commence
ment, would have electrified the country, as
in it he avowed his intention to wipe out Sec
tionalism, stalwartism and corruption. So
attorney General MacVeagh told friend
from whom the Doctor got his information.
"A tornado arising at one o'clock last
Friday morning, nearly demolished Madison,
a town of about 1000 inhabitants in Nebras.
ka. Railway buildings were wrecked and
most of the private residences laid level, and
two persons are known to have been killed.
Telegraph wires are down and the Union
Pacific railway has sent out train to the
homeless people and for the use of its officers.
Pennsylvania is in a political ferment.
State Senator Wolf, Republican, the leader
of the anti Cameron wing of the party has an.
nounced himself as an Independent Republi-
can candidate for treasurer. He is deter.
mined to destroy the Cameron influence at
the risk of giving temporary advantage to
the Democrats. In consequence OF this there
is quite scramble for the Democratic nomi.
nation.
The New Orleans journals represent that
city as exhibiting much greater life and activi-
ty, commercially and socially, than has been
the case so early in the season for years past.
They attribute this in part to the improved
sanitary condition of the city. The board of
health announces that there has not been
a solitary case of yellow fever all summer,
and that all danger from epidemic is now
passed.
When Hayes at his inaugural kissed the
Bible, his lips rested upon the words: "They
have compassed me about; yea, they have
compassed me about, but in the name of the
Lord will l destroy them" When Arthur
did the same thing, the leaf was open at these
words "In thee, o Lord, do put my trust
let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Thy
Righteousness. Bow down Thine ear to me;
deliver me speedily; be Thou my strong
rock, for an house Of defense to save me-"
- Captain George Mason, who,> has been
appointed one of the delegates to the York
town centennial by the French War Depart
ment, is an officer in the French army and
son of the late John Y. Mason, of Virginia.
After serving with the Confederate army, he
went to France at the close Of the war, enter.
ed the army, and has served with distinction
in the Franco Russian war; He has abJured
his allegiance to the United States and be-
come citizen of France.
Senator NJ. G.. Butler says: "The South
has only to keep cool, preserve order, and
she will be an important and indispensable
factor in bringing the Government unim-
paired through what may become trying
ordeal. | have no reason to conclude that
Mr.. Arthur will not administer the Govern
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