Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-17
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is praised by the Chicago Times in view OF
the fact that "their labors were prosecuted
amid the wild, weird accompaniment of the
newly organized brass band of the town."
Metallic burial cases will be sent to Rus
sia to receive the remains of Commander De-
Long and his unfortunate companions. Inc
frozen bodies will be wrapped in felt and
packed in cork-dust in the caskets, which Will
be permanently sealed. The caSkets Will De
wrapped in felt and packed in cork-dust, in
boxes which will also be covered with felt.
will S. Delaine, who was siezed by a mob
i'm Polk county, Iowa, some weeks since and
hung to tree until he made a confession that
he aided in the murder of the mayor of Polk
City, has brought suit against the members OF
the mob for $25, 600. Delaine was acquitted
of the charges made in accordance with his
confession.
The Southern Railway and Steamship
Freight Commission, which was in session III
New York last week, adjourned on Saturday.
without, however, preparing a schedule OF
rates. The tendency of the discussion was IN
favor of higher rates. 1t was decided that
the carrying rate on cotton was at present
much too low and higher rate was agreed
upon.
There is trouble among the Knights of
Honor in New York State, where they num-
Der 1000, some of the lodges declaring for
division of powers between the Supreme and
Grand Lodges, or in other words for States
rights, Permission has been refused for the
sending out of circulars advocating these
views to other lodges by the Grand Dictator,
and the subordinate lodges interested are pro-
testing vigorously.
- The right Of a woman past the age OF
twenty-one years to marry whom she .pleases
has lust been yindicated in Missouri. The
father of Laura Robbs, aged twenty-seven
years, attempted to hold her to continued SER
vice in the paternal home by locking her up
in a room when she had made a verbal con-
tract to become the wife of George W: Bishop.
A writ of habeas corpus unlocked the door,
and the marriage took place in spite OF the
fathers objections
Ex Gen. Sullivan had at one time 2O,OOO
acres of corn planted on his big farm IN ILL
nois, and employed 600 laborers. In 1879 he
was worth, it was computed, over So, OOO,OoO.
He died nsolvent, and 4 few days ago the II
nal payment of the last SO acres OF the
once princely estate was made by SWede,
one of the colony of Swedes and Germans that
General Sullivan brought over to work ON his
place on shares. The impOrtationS would no
sooner get their employer repaid than they
would leave him and set up for themselves.
There is not much Republican simplicity
in the freaks of President Arthur. A new
flag has been designed, which is to be used
Whenever the President is taking a jaunt on
a United States vessel. 1t bears the ''Ameri-
can coat-of-arms," whatever that may he,
and is not the 'Stars and stripes" The
peoples flag is not good enough for the accl-
dental President. Then, instead OF paying 81
out of his own pocket to go to New York by
rail, he will go in a Government steamer at a
cost of $500 to the people.
An agreement has been reached between
the United States government and that OF
Mexico by which the hostile Indians may be
pursued within certain limits across the boun-
dary of either country. This is sensible
agreement, and is an evidence of the bet
ter understanding now existing between
the two Republics There was no one profit
ed by the mutual jealousy with which the
artificial boundary line was regarded except
the savage Indians, who were enabled hy
means of it to rob and murder on both sides
and go unpunished.
Mayor John T. Harold obtained ver-
dict against New York elevated railway
company for $4,000 for damage to two of
his ribs by being struck by a switching train.
The company appealed the cease from one Court
to another, always getting beaten, but delay
ing the payment by new appeals, until the
plaintiffs lawyers have run up a bill of S26,-
600 and attached the judgment to obtain their
costs. The Major will wonder what advan-
tage he is to gain by having his ribs smashed
if the lawyers are to get all the money. Such
proceedings are liable to create prejudice
against lawyers among unreasonable people,
"A trial of considerable interest has just
been concluded in the Criminal Court of De-
troit, Michigan. \ colored man and a white
woman have been married for some time and
lived together as man and wife. Both are
entirely respectable, worthy people. They
were complained of under the statute for lewd
and lascivious cohabitation. An old State
law makes all marriages between white and
colored people unlawful. Under the charge
of the Court the jury convicted. The case
will probably be taken to the Supreme Court.
The case affects probably hundred or more
married couples in Detroit
Official reports of the reconnaissance in
Arabi's front on Saturday have been received.
The British lost four killed. including Lieut..
Vyse, and twenty wounded. The loss of
ArabiS force was estimated to be large, but no
fignres were furnished. When the withdrawal
of it's advancing column began, the advance of
the AsiaticS was checked by the English artil-
lery, which fully covered the receding lines.
The criticism that the advance was bloody
sacrifice without adequate returns, seems to
have escaped the editorial eye of Admiral Sey-
mour, whose chief function now is to revise
the cablegrams from Alexandria.
"A Galveston, Texas, dispatch of Friday
says there seems to be a panic over yellow fe
yer at Matamoris Forty deaths are reported
to have occurred on the 9th. There were
twenty new cases at Brownsville OH Friday,
all MeXicanS In regard to extending govern
ment aid to the affected districts in the Uni
ted States, Secretary Folger has decided that
the 500, 600 appropriated by Congress for use
in suppressing threatened or actual epidemic
of yellow fever shall be expended under the di-
rection of the Marine Hospital service. No
action other than that of local customs officers
and surgeons of the service will be taken, ex-
cept upon the request of the Governor of a
State.
With much show of of truth the New
York Herald remarks Congress has adjourn
ed, but according to dispatches from Wash
ington the government printing office is still
putting in type and in due time will publish
hundreds of speeches of ambitious Congress-
men which were never delivered. They will
all 90 into the Congressional Record and they
will be sent to the constituents of their au-
thors as specimens of their eloquence and ora
tory. The whole thing is Il fraud, a swindle
and an outrage on the taxpayers who have to
foot the bills. The Congressional Record as
it stands now is Congressional lie. 1t is a
Record, not of what members said, but of
what they would have their constituents be-
lieve they sail. Why impose upon the people
in this way?
An exchange has taken the trouble to eX-
anime carefully the figures of the late census
to ascertain how the 30, l55, 1S3 souls in the
United States are distributed, and how the