Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

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POLITICAL NOTES.
- Stevens stock has fallen about seventy
five per cent. in Georgia, among the ''Inde
pendents'' since he has announced that he
will accept only Democratic nomination.
- The Republicans straight, and the 1nde
pendent Republicans in Pennsylvania have
tickets in the field, ten candidates and all the
ten LAWYERS. The bar seems to be on top in
that State.
- Government clerks at Washington have
been notified that they will be assessed as
usual for Republican campaign purposes. In
view of Mr. Arthur's peculiar notions as tc
Civil Service Reform, they will probably pay
up without much delay.
- The State Republican Central Committee
of Georgia met in Macon on the 23rd and
elected John II. Devereaux, of Savannah
Chairman, over II. P. Farrow. A resolution
endorsing Alexander II. Stephens for Govern
or was tabled a Convention for the nomi
nation of State officers was called for August
Sd, in Atlanta.
- The California Democrats are determined
to make all the political capital possible out Of
the Chinese question. At a meeting of the
Central Committee last week committee was
appointed to draft resolutions on the subject
and it was voted unanimously to fire 100 guns
from the highest peak in San Francisco in
honor of the ten years's restriction BILL
- The Atlanta Republican admits that the
'new movement" in Georgia--comprehended
coalition of Independents and Republicans
has not proved a success. 1t says: zap
parently the Democrats are as solid now as
they have ever been, while the Republicans
who were to have been strengthened by the
boilers from the other party, are themselves
divided"
THE Hon. James Chestnut, who is under
stood to have been appointed one of the Tariff
Commissioners, is we'll known public man in
South Carolina, having represented the State
in the United States Senate, and having been.
also, a member of the Confederate Congress-
Gen. Chestnut is highly accomplished gen.
tleman of the old school, moderate in his opin-
ions and close student of public affairs.
- The National Committee of the Green
back Labor party was in session last week at
st. Louis Mo. Jesse Harper Of Illinois was
Chairman. Fourteen members and twenty
eight proxies were present. West Virginia
was the only State not represented. 1t was
moved and carried that committee be ap-
pointed to formulate an address to the people,
of which two million copies should he printed.
- Full returns of the municipal election at
Petersburg, Va, last Thursday were not made
up until t o'clock Friday morning. j. j. JAR
ratt, Readjuster, was elected mayor, over +.
A. Archer, Democrat by majority of 1859.
The entire Readjuster ticket for city officers
was elected. Democratic councilmen were
elected in three wards The 1st and 9th
wards elected colored justices of the peace and
two colored councilmen.
DR.. J. J. Mott, Chairman of the North
Carolina Republican Executive Committee,
says he is in favor of coalition between the
Republicans and the -prOhibitionists, who
hold a c0vention in Raleigh Oh the 1th OF
June, and he does not want to see any one
90 to the Republican convention who is not
in favor of such coalition. TO which tie
Winston Sentinel, Democratic Anti-Prohibi-
tonist) SAYS the Prohibtionist convention is
nothing more or less than Republican con-
venton, held under the direction of DIR. Mott,
under false name, and warns Democrats to
beware of being taken in by this fraud.
RE.MENTION.
Patrick county, Va, is threatened with a
corn famine '''.''A witness i'll the Malley
trial testified that 'there is good deal OF diff
ference between a Methodist and an Irish pic
mic. - ..'..An Iowa minister has adopted a
scale of prices for marrying. He charges four
cents per pound for the groom and two cents
for the bride as a wedding fee. 1.-Two noted
Texas train robbers were arrested last Satur-
day. .''''The wheat prospect i'll the North
western States is unusually promising. The
stockholders of the defunct Boston Pacific
Bank lose the S2,000,000 they had invested in
that concern. Representatives OF matrl-
monial insurance companies are peregrlnatlng
through Georgia and taking in unsopllistica-
ted young neil. The total NUMBER OF I'M
migrants arriving in this country for the fiscal
year ending June 1st, it is thought will reach
500, 900, and those that have come have all
wages. 1.-The Washington monument has
reached height of 2G0 feet. 1t is to be 500
feet high. ''''' Gen. Rosser formerly OF the
Confederate cavalry, has been arrested at
Winnepeg on the charge of retaining certain
plans and protiles of the Canada Pacific Rail-
road, with intention to defraud. He was re-
leased on bail. '..'.'The new bridge for the
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, over the
James River, taking the place OF the one de-
stroyed by fire some time ago, has been com
pleted and will be used by through trains in a
few days The Secretary Of War has re-
ceved information that Payne aud twenty
nine other colonists, while attempting recent
ly to invade Indian Territory, were captured
by troops sent out from Fort Reno and taken
back to Kansas. The authorities have not de-
cided what disposition to make of them. IA
resident of Iowa received $4,000 the other
day. That night burglars broke into his
house, bound him and blew his safe into frag-
ments, but found nothing. He had carelessy
left the money in his trousers pockets II safer
place than the safe, as it turned out. Ten
Kickapoo Indians, living OH the reservation in
Atchison, Ark, were naturalized by tile Uni
ted States Court at Topeka, last Friday,
and are now full-tledged American citizens
under recent Act of Congress. Albert
Young, who was recently arrested for writing
a letter to Gen. Sir Henry POnsonby, private
secretary to Queen Victoria, threatening the
life of her Majesty has been sentenced to ten
years. penal servitude. The Presbyterian
General Assembly at Atlanta closed up it's
routine work andadjourned last Monday night.