Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-02-15
MERE.MENTION.

The tribunal has quashed the indictment
against Prince Jerome Napoleon, and he
was liberated last Friday afternoon. ''"'"On
account of failing health, Judah p. Benja-
min, the Queens Counsel, has finally retired
from the practice of his profession. .'''''''''rhe
Knights of Honor of Louisville, KY, have
determined to erect lodge building, to cost
5000, 900. There is proposition tolocate a
central lodge of the Orderat Louisville. In
ST. Louis, last week, Oby E. Owens, arraign-
ed on the charge of embezzling $2O0,0OO,
while teller of the Third National Bank of
that city, pleaded guilty. .'''",,.When Nine
Home," all the colored people in the gallery
cried. .':.'''."The Southern telegraph Compa-
nv is erecting line of wire from Lynch
burg to DanVille. .'''''''.An English cOmpa-
ny recently bought s., 100000 worth of cat
tie in Utah. .'.'''''''Senator Ferry, of Michi-
gan, has failed with liabilities amounting to
several hundred thousand dollars. '''.'''It
is officially reported that the number ofmen
available for military duty in the United
States is 6, 6,797 ,OOG. '''''..The police of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, make more arrests for
drunkenness and other crimes on Sunday
than any other day in the week. ''''''''A pc
titiOn has been presented in Congress pray
ing that all Union soldiers and sailors who
were confined in Confederate prisons be pen
stoned. .'''''"''Last Thursday night John Day
Farlen shot a young man named Freeman,
who was eloping with his daughter, at Rox-
ana, Michigan. The girls father pursued
the lovers on horseback, armed with a
rifle, and fired as soon as he overlook
them. ...'''.'.The Maine Legislature is about
to pass constitutional prOhibitory amend
ment. 1t goes so far as to exclude ci-
der. ''''''"'The bill to place Smalls, of South
Carolina, on the retired list of the United
States navy has been pigeon-holed. Strong
opposition to the bill comes from the Re-
publican Secretary of the navy, who says
its adoption would be legalizing social mis-
regeneration, to which he could never give
his consent. .......'The trial, in Dublin, of the
men charged with the assassination of Lord
Cavendish is progressing; but on Saturday
the court adjourned until to-day. The testi-
mony against the accused seems to be con-
elusive. "...""At BaXley, Ga, astSaturday,
A. N. Currey was shot and killed by George
Wilcox, his father-in- law. ''''.''' A negro who
was about to be lynched at Paola, Kansas,
on Saturday, for an outrage on a girl of his
own race, killed himself by cutting his
throat with pen-knite. '''.'''T The swords OF
honor presented to Lords Wolseley and AL
cester, by the Egyptians, cost $3.50 each.
THE COTTON MovEMENT.-The monthly
report of the National Cotton Exchange, as
made up at New Orleans last Friday, show
ing cotton movement in the United States
from September to the close of January,
gives the overland movement direct from
PRODUCERS as 721 ,322 bales against 65S, $40 last
wear; to the mills direct39O, ,243 bales against
;335, At. The January shipments to the mills
were 1880 bales against 26,399 last year,
and 76, ,SS7 the year before. The total spin
ners' takings was LOCI ,045 bales against L.
III, ,242 last year, and /, JOG, ,591 the year be-
fore. The spinners took in January 220,771
bales against 1924 bales last year. The
total shipments to Canada were 26, 1888 bales
against u ,23S bales last year. The cotton
in transit overland at the close Of January
was Is, POP bales against 5, l64 last year at
sea between ports 81, $40 bales against 12,935
bales last year, the port receipts 4,2SO, l3
bales against 3,717, 1877 bales last year. The
following are the corrections for the month
in the port receipts as telegraphed TO IN
changes: 10,9O4 bales; to be added to Baltl-
more G,1S7 bales; to Newport News ,3S3
bales; to Wilmington 1858; to Boston 6OO
bales; to Philadelphia BOG bales.
THE POLITICAL LPERSECUTIONS.-Lete eV-
ery white manin South Carolina understand
that the Federal Administration is deter
mined to have some Democrats convicted of
political offences at the approaching term or
the United States Circuit Court at Charles
ton, if it can be done by any hocus-pocus
whatever. 1t has been announced by the
so-called Department of Justiceat Washing
ton, that the existence OF the Republican
party in South Carolina depends upon the
conviction of the Democratic defendants in
the cases that are to be tried! Northern
counsel has been engaged to assist the min
ions of Radicalism in this State in the UNI
holy work. Think of it! Right or wrong,
somebody must be convicted.-Anderson
Journal.
The Governor of Missouri has declined
to deliver Frank James upon a requisltlon
from the Governor of Minnesota to answer
the charge of murder in connection with the
NorthtieId robbery. Governor Crittenden
states that he cannot deliver the prisoner to
any other State until after the disposal of
the indictments pending against him in Mis-
souri,.