Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-02

terS in Atlanta. ;. The bl-centennlal Oh Cne
landing of VIM. Penn in Pennsylvania was
celebrated in Philadelphia on the 24th utimo.
Exercises connected with the celebration were
continued during the week. -. The survi-
vors of Gen. John H. Morgan's famous caval-
ry command are to have reunion at Lexing-
ton, KY, on November 13. A number live in
and around Atlanta and have invitations to
he present. The lamented Col. Bob. Aston
was Morgan's adjutant. A recent Geor-
gia statute makes pointinga pistol at anybody a
misdemeanor. An arrest under this Act was
made in Augusta on Wednesday. GOV
ernor Colquitt has commuted the sentenced OF
the sixth negro sentenced to be hanged at
Eastman to life imprisonment. Nine
teen Indian boys are being educated at Trini-
ty College, n. c.. President Arthur has
issued his proclamation appointing Thursday
the 3Oth instant, as a day of thanksgiv-
ing. Vigilance committees have been
organized in Des Moines, Iowa, to rid the
city of the rough native and imported ele-
ment. ..On Saturday last a Chicago jury
declared Mrs Scoville insane 'Victimlzed
policy holders in Texas propose to prosecute
agents of marriage insurance companies for oD-
tanning money under false pretences. brlt
Osborne, convicted of robbery, escaped from
Jail at Gainesville, Ga, on Sunday morning,
in the apparel of his wife, who had been al
lowed to spend Saturday night with him IN
his cell. The Park Theatre, New York,
in which Mrs. Langtry was to have made her
first appearance Tuesday night, was destroy
ed by an, accidental fire on Monday after
noon. 80. .Ex- Governor Hendricks is dam
gerously ill at his home in Indianapolis.
Gov. PERRY ON New COUNTIEs.-Ex-
Governor B. F. Perry has written letter to
the Greenville Enterprise and Mountaineer in
which he discusses the Constitutional Amend
ment as to counties. He says:
The amendment which proposes to give the
Legislature the power of making great many
new counties in the State is decidedly objec-
tionable. The expense Of building new Court
Houses, and jails, having an additional num-
Der of clerks and sheriffs, an additional number
of juries, solicitors, constables, judges and
other public officers, will amount to thousands
and hundreds of thousands of dollars and in
crease the taxes enormously. But tins Is not
ALL Each new county will have Senator.
This will give the lower country and the ne
groes entire control of the Senate, which no
Democrat or upper county voter should sane
tion. / know it is said that. a Democratic
Legislature will not do this. But what GER
tainty have we that the Legislature will al
ways be Democratic =? Local influence may
be brought to bear on Democratic Legisla-
ture, to divide some of the large counties in
the lower part of the State. We should let
well enough alone. The counties, now, are
not too large for public convenience. II the
Constitutional Amendment should be adopted,
there will be applications for new counties by
the dozen, every depot and cross-road store
will wish Court House. BY all means, vote
against this Amendment, which will prove
dangerous and most expensive experiment.
Our taxes are already sufficiently Onerous, and
we can not well bear any addition to them.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Our citizens will soon be called upon to de-
posit their ballots on the three proposed Con-
stitutional Amendments. The Amendments
as to the counties, we are firmly convinced,
should be voted down. There was no public
necessity for agitating that question now.
AS matter Of fact few distinguished poll
ticians of the State seem to have fathered that
movement in quiet way. If we are correct
ly informed the movement commenced, not
with the people, but with few persons VINO
met in Columbia, planned the move, secured
the concurrence of the Governor in that he
would recommend the matter to the Leglsla-
ture at it's extra session. The leaders III this
same move induced the Democratic members
to hold caucus. A portion of that number
favored the Amendment, another portion
opposed it, and quite a number thought there
vote on it. AN this appeared fair enough.
But to the sequel. When it comes to voting,
the Executive Committee do not feel author
lied to print and send the necessary tickets:
All their official power, as well as their art OF
transferring responsibility to County Chair
men, is employed to champion the affirmative
side of the question. This we believe to be
the true state of affairs, and our people are
to Judge whether it is a case of Bossism.-Ab-
berille Press and Banner.
The political situation in Tennessee is un-
precedented in our history, so far as we re-
member In re-districting the State the Leg
islature omitted the three counties of Cumber-
lahd Meigs and Rhea, which are therefore not
included in either of the Congressional Dis
tricts of the State. The Attorney-General OF
the State has advised the Governor that this
omission nullifes the whole act. 1t is too
late, of course to reconvene the Legislature,
and the result will probably be that the Gov
ernor will refuse to certify to the election of
anybody for Congress and that, therefore, Ten
nessee will he unrepresented at the beginning
of the next Congress, unless the Legislature
can be convened between now and that time,
and how this is we do not know. If it cannot
no dona tho DamocratS will lose eight Con-