Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-05-11

himself as an independent candidate for Gov
ernor, and says he is going to run in any
event, whether Stephens consents to run or
not. Gartrell evidently means business.
A letter from the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry was laid before the Senate last Friday,
showing that the total amount of internal
revenue tax collected on raw cotton from the
time the tax was imposed in 1862, including
that received from all the States and Terrific
ries, was S6S,072, $3.50
A sensational story comes from San Fran
cisco, purporting to give the details of Com
munist plot which ended in the death OF the
Prince Imperial. AjFrenchman is said to
have confessed on his death bed that the Prince
was not killed by Zulus, but by French Com
munards in disguise of savages. Engllsh tes-
timony is all the other way.
"A fire occurred at Racine, Wisconsin, last
Friday night destroying seven blocks, ana
over forty-four buildings and ten million feet
of lumber was consumed. The loss figures up
about three-quarters of million dollars, on
which there was about a quarter OF million
insurance. Phe part of the city in ashes was
the oldest and least ornamental.
The Springfield Republican says: ''1n the
next three months forty-one bank charters ex,
pire and it would be more straightforward and
less troublesome for Congress to prolong the
chartered life to forty years at once but II 1t
does not choose to do so, it will simply see
the banks going on upon their own motion,
without the aid of new legislation, and yet
without the violation of law"
Senator Hill has very little hope of favora-
BILE results from the operations from the eX-
tirpation of the cancer of which he is afflicted,
from the fact that the disease is hereditary,
and has carried off brother, sister and TWO
aunts. The Senator's brother, DR.. Hill, died
of cancer in the stomach, and his sister was
attacked very much as he has been, by
cancer on the cheek, both resulting fatally.
The New York Herald of Friday and Sat-
urday publishes lengthy dispatches and cor
respondence confirming the news of the death
of Capt. DeLong and the crew of the Jeanette,
fitted out by the Herald to explore the Arctic
regions. It would seem that the entire crew
suffered death but Capt. DeLong LETT many
papers and much data which may be of service
to those who may hereafter wish to investi-
gate the problem of the North pole.
From concurrent reports from various Sec
tions of the State, should no frost or rust pre-
vail in Tennessee, the farmers will have an
unprecedented wheat crop. Commissioner
Hawkins has received large number OF re-
ports which indicate that the average acreage
will be no. while the average of the crop Will
be 125. In the Southern portions OF Ienness-
see harvesting will commence about the lOth
of May.
At a cabinet meeting held on the md, II
was decided that the President should issue
a proclamation for the Cow Boys in Arizona
to disperse, and if the order is not obeyed to
use the military to enforce it. The Cabinet
sustained the action of the President in his
message for additional legislation on the SUBJ
iect and disagreed with the action of the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee in reporting that no
further legislation was necessary.
- The Malley boys and Blanche Douglas are
being tried at New Haven, Ct, for the muir
der of Jennie Cramer 1t is thought that
Blanche will make clean breast of the affair,
as the evidence now being heard is very dam
aging. There was arsenic in large quantity
found in the stomach. The body was found
floating in the Sound, where it was evident it
had been thrown in as none OF the usual
symptoms of drowning were discernible. The
State attorney said that he would prove that
the Malley boys first outraged Jennie and then
poisoned her to conceal the crime.
Cadet Whitaker is in Chicago, looking for
employment. Speaking of him, the Times
SAYS: A careless observer might take Whita-
ker to he an Irishman, rather than negro.
He is slight in build, with face so irregular
as to be almost deformed, though the features
give hardly suggestion of his descent. His
complexion is forid and very much freckeled,
his eyes, which have the peculiar sWarthy
backness of the negro, being about the only
race characteristic visible. His ears show no
signs of having been treated with violence.
Some time ago the Indian department re.
quested the military to arrest Capt. Jack, OF
the White River Utes, who was in thevicinity,
of Fort Wachakie, Wyoming. The arrest was
made on April 29. Shorty afterwards he at
tempted to escape and fed to tepee near by,
where he secured carbine and killed Ser
geant Richard Casey, of the third Calvary.
a mountain hOWitZer was then fired into the
tepee and Jack was instantly killed. Capt.
Jack was notorious as the leader in the Thorn
burgh and Meeker massacres, and was very
dangerous and very bad Indian.
Twenty-two members of the Gate City
Guards of Atlanta, Ga, petitioned their Cap
tain, Joseph F. Burke, to resign. He refused
and threatened to put the paper IN the hands
of the Governor and to present charges OF in
subordination against them. He then proceed
ed to denOunce the author of certain state
ments against him, without mentioning his
name, and was interrupted by shower OF
spittOons from the supposed author and his
friends. One of them struck Captain Burke
on the head, inficting painful scalp wound.
A general fight seemed imminent for time,
but the good judgment of the more cool head
ed had the desired effect and quiet in the az
mory was restored.
--latest reports from the scene of the recent
Indian depredations in New Mexico are to
the effect that Capt. Tupper and his troops
had second encounter with the Indians on the
1st instant, about forty-ive miles south OF
Cloverdale, killing forty Indians and recap
turing about two hundred head of stock.
Capt. Tupper lost one killed and one wounded.
Tho toup of Gollayyi1lp falsely rpDOrtp0 last
week AS having been burned by the Indians, is
rapidly being deserted, the merchants and 9TH
ers are moving all their stock and effects to San
Simon for safety, though it is believed here
that all immediate danger is over. Every
thing is reported quiet in the Gala Valley.
The Crow Indians in the Yellowstone country
are reported to be troublesome to settlers and
ordering them to leave; though they 90 this
regularly every Spring.
AT the last session of the Virginia Legis-
lature an Act was passed authorizing the use
of penitentiary convicts to clean up and put
in order the section of Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, in which are buried ten thousand
Confederate soldiers of the Army of North
ern Virginia. The proposition to utilize this
labor for this sacred purpose has met with
such general repugnance in Virginia, and all
over the South, that it has been deemed ex-
made by the Ladies' Hollywood Memorial AS
socation calling upon the public for sum
sufficient to enable the association to put in
order the graves of these Southern heroes with
out resorting to the use Of the labor of the
inmates of the State prison. A similar step
will no doubt be adopted to avoid their use
in Oakwood Cemetery, where there IS also
buried thousands of Southern soldiers who
lost their lives in the battles in this State and