Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-08
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- Under the five per cent. land Dill, LOUISE
ana would be entitled to about S72, 600; Ar
kansas Sill, 600 and Florida $4,000. No
other Southern States are included. The bill,
if it should become a law, would take from
the treasury at least five million dollars. 1t
has passed the Senate, but there is some doubt
of its passing the House.
- The use of labor saving machinery is in
creasing annually in the South and proper
tionately will the capacity for production in
crease When she is supplied with the ma
chinery, as she will be in due course of time,
she will produce, with the same or less labor
than she now employs, twice the amount she
now does. There is no limit to her capacity.
All she needs is the means.
A New Orleans dispatch Of Friday says
the Mississippi River is very full, but declining
slowly at Vicksburg. The decline at New
Orleans since the highest point, March 9th.
is only twenty-six inches. The water is still
running through very bad crevasses in this
State, and very extensive areas of the planta-
tions are still inundated. Alarm is OCCASION
ed by the reports of a rise in tributary rivers
between St. Louis and New Orleans.
- In consequence of the sickness of one Of
the jurors the trial Of the Malley boys and
Blanche Douglass for the murder of Jennie
Cramer has been postponed until the 18th in
slant. The trial has occupied seven or eight
weeks, anu as yet the prosecution has failed
to connect the defendants with the death of
Jennie Cramer, though it is very evident that
their abOminable course toward the poor girl
was the leading cause of her death by suicide.
Hon. A H. Stevens ankle is fast recover
ing from the wrench given it in his recent ac-
cident. Curiously enough, the similar fall
which he had two years ago brought COM
pensation with it. A tumor had been forming
for some time on one of his knees. 1t had
grown serious enough to demand surgical at
tention, and an operation for it had been de-
termined on. The fall, however, gave nature
chance to remove it. 1t burst and went
completely away.
Answers to one hundred letters addressed
to prominent men of the Southern States by
the New York Times satisfy it that the Dem
ocratic party of the South is unit on nation
al questions that the independent movements
fostered by Arthur are failures, and that gen.
orally throughout the South is found indiffer-
ence to or denunciation of the administration.
All of which indicate that Malone stock,
whether the original Virginia preferred or the
Mississippi or Georgia common, is an unprOtit-
able political investment.
Tuesday of last week was observed through
out the North as memorial day. The memo
rial observances were in keeping with those
of former years. President Arthur who was
in New York, participated in the exercises
there, as did also ex-PIesident Grant. An
elaborate programme was carried out at Get
tysburg. The weather was uniformly favor
able One of the incidents of the day at Bal
timore was the decoration of the graves OF
the Confederate dead by Wilson Post, Grand
Army of the Republic.
"A bachelor named TAFT, residing near
Wabash, Indiana, has for many years declined
to dispose of any of the wheat produced on
his farm. The idea has taken firm lodgment
in his mind that he is to be married and the
father of large family, and he is just as
ambitious to raise large crops and store them
up as the average American citizen is to &C
cumulate mountains Of gold and silver. MIR.
TAFT is further possessed Of the idea that
great famine will visit the land in the far-off
future, and that he will then need every pound
of his wheat to supply the wants OF his family.
In ths New York Court of General Ses-
sons last Friday, Charles B. Ransom pleaded
guilty of keeping gambling house, and was
fined $3.50. Albert F. Smith, George Middle
ton, George Morgan and Luther D. Eaton,
also indicted on the same charge put in a
similar plea, and were each fined $3.50. These
are the gamblers who won monev amounting
to 10000 from George W. Thompkins, CASH
ier of the banking house of Hatch & Peters,
Is Pine street. The money was the property
of the firm who brought suits against the
gamblers for it's recovery, but the suits have
been settled, the money having been repaid.
This fact operated in mitigating their SEN
tences.
The lot-owners and trustees of the Glen
wood Cemetery, Washington City, have re-
ceiyed communication from Mrs. Weikle-
ham, granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson,
stating that if suitable and sufficient lot in
the cemetery be conveyed to the United States
for the burial of her grandfather, and such Of
his family rs may hereafter be removed there,
or buried there, she would procure the removal
of the remains of Jefferson to that place at as
early day as may be practicable and conve-
nient. Immediately action was taken and the
trustees ordered deed to be executed, con-
veying the ground selected in fee simple to
the United States for the purpose expressed.
The New York Herald takes a sensible
view of Southern manufacturing in the fol-
lowing paragraph: In the seven states of Geor-
gia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Lou
isiana and the two Carolinas there has been
an increase of three hundred and sixty-One
thousand in the number of cotton spindles
during the past year. This addition to the
manufacturing industries Of the South repre-
sents, it is estimated, capital of nearly ten
million dollars, which is certainly most en-
couraging condition of affairs. There is no
reason why the South should not be able
to manufacture cotton goods as cheaply as
New England. It has greater advantages in
the way Of climate and labor, and it also saves
the heavy cost of transportation on the raw
article. If the South is wise there can be
little doubt that the great cotton factories of
the country will in less than quarter of a
canturv he on the other side of Mason and
Dixon's line.
AT l O'Clock on the 31st of May, Reuben
Lucas, Choctaw Indian, paid the death pen
atty near McCurtan's store, San Bois county,
Choctaw Nation, for the brutal murder of
Thompson Mckinney. The execution was
according to Indian laws, the condemned man
being shot. Lucas showed little feeling: He
said he was glad the time for his death had
arrived, and that if his wishes had been con-
suited he would have been executed thirty
days earlier. He freely admitted having
killed Mckinney and expressed no remorse
for the deed. He was taken from prison
a few minutes after twelve o'clock and es-
corted to plot of ground three hundred yards
away. He showed no signs of fear, looking
about him indifferently. The preliminaries
were hurriedly completed and the signal given.
The first discharge was fatal, Lucas dying
in a few minutes. About two hundred spec
tators were present, including many friends
and relatives of Lucas and his victim. The
execution was the most notable that ever
occurred in the Choctaw Nation.
-Garibaldi died at Caprera, Italy, last Fri
day evening, of bronchitis. He was born in
1907, and condemned to death for conspiracy
against the King of Sardinia in 1884. Es-
GAPING to France he offered his services to
tho Row of T1,nis and in 1895 he offered his