Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-11

ruin is not stayed the end of the Alaska Indian
is not far off.
- A. local election at Cleveland, Tenn, last
Saturday, was closed in summary and effect
sas1 manner. A disagreement about the man
-ner Of holding the election resulted in the city
marshal, after the election had proceeded for
an hour, taking the ballot boxes by force and
hurting them and their contents into the fire.
The sheriff was holding the election and the
marshal disputed his right to do so. The elec-
tion will have to be held again.
= A Western furniture firm has sent an
agent to the Piedmont country Of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, with instructions
not to return until he has secured 100, ,00C
acres of suitable woodland. There is no tell
ing the vast amount of wealth that the South
is sure to realize in the near future by the
sale of it's timSered lands. The Northwest
will be practically exhausted in the next de.
cade.
= Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, has
published a long letter in which he seeks to
show that it is absurd to say that there were
any constitutional objections to the acceptance
of his "donation' OF S50, 900 to the Georgia
University with the restrictions he imposed.
He says that he adheres to his plan, and in
tends to appropriate that sum, either in or out
Of the State, to the object contemplated in his
proposition to the University and the Legisla-
ture.
A Ballot-Box on the automatic principle
of the passenger railway alarm punch is the
latest scheme devised by Philadelphia's re-
form committee of one hundred for prevent
ing fraud at the polls. The intended mis-
sion of the box is to prevent the election Off
Ger from receiving or depositing the ballot,
and it will be provided with an alarm register
which, it is claimed, will defy any attempts at
alteration. Until the committee of one hun
dred put in it's effective work the voters of
Philadelphia, and not the ballot-boxes, were
somewhat on the automatic principle.
The adjourned session of the sixty-ffth
lumbus on the End, and Governor Fosters
message was submitted. 1t recommended the
adoption of a joint resolution to submit a
single constitutional amendment giving full
control of the Legislature over the liquor
traffic and thereby annulling the anti-license
clause the adoption of simple tax law for
the liquor traffic, the repeal of the Pond law
forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors on
the premises, and the passage of more strin-
gent law for the punishment of sale of liquors
to minors and drunkards It favors local self
government and stringent Sunday law.
Since the great outburst of sun spots N
November and the accompanying magnetic
storms and auroras, the sun has shown very
little disturbance, and on the day of the tran
sit of Venus Old SOl'S face shone free from
any blemish, except few slight specks, al
though it was near the height of the spot
period. Soon after the transit some distur-
bance Of the solar surface was again visible,
but the spots were very few until New Years
day. Then several groups appeared, and now
the sun is evidently storm-driven once more.
In one place the solar surface over an area
of hundreds of thousands of square miles is
pitted with chaSmS and ridged with fiery ele-
vatiOns. More auroral displays are likely to
follow.
- It is estimated that at least 10000 looms
and 100000 spindles are now idle in the
cotton and woolen mills of Philadelphia and
vicinity in consequence of the continued de-
preston of trade. At the usual rate of run
ming these machines, this means total loss of
work of from 5000 to 5000 operatives, while
probably ten times as many are working at
reduced wages or on shortened time. The
depression is felt most severely in the busi-
ness Of producing cheaper grades of cotton
and woolen goods. Among the principal
mills are Porter & Dickey's 1926 looms; John
Scanlon & Son, 120 looms VIM. Beatty, SO
looms Campbell & Elliott's 900 looms; G. S.
& j. P. Jones, 400, and James Smythe & Co.,
900 hands.
- Mr.. Vennor, in note to the Boston Post,
says II do not wish to interfere with Wig
gins predicted storm in any shape or manner,
but while he is terrifying the people with what
is coming in March, may just give notice
that on the 9th and 2Sth days of January a
severe period of stormy weather is likely to be
experienced at and around New York and
Boston, and generally throughout New York,
nh1,cof 70 ols fo{o
This storm is likely to be repeated about the
same dates in February, but probably with
less severity. The storm period of the Sth to
18th of March is likely to be cold and win
try blast, but, in my opinion, nothing very
much out of the way. This is not prophecy,
but probability based upon very probable
recurrence"
- The United States Supreme Court assem-
bled last Wednesday after their holiday recess.
Some very important cases have been argued,
and the decisions upon these will soon be rem
dered. Prominent among the cases are what
are commonly called the estate cases." in
volving the action of the State of Louisiana in
respect to her State debt. The cases known
as 'sCiyl rights cases'' will also shortly be
decided These cases are the United States,
plaintiff, VS.. Murray Stanley, coming up from
Kansas, in which it is alleged that Stanly de-
MED to negro the privileges of his inn on
the ground of his color; the United States VS..
Michael Ryan, coming up from California,
where negro was denied access to the dress
circle of theatre; the United States VS..
Samuel Nichols, coming up from Missouri,
where negro named Agee is alleged to have
been denied the privileges of an inn, and the
United States VS.. r. G. Harris et al, coming
up from Tennessee, in which it is alleged that
certain negroes were denied, while in the
custody of the law, the equal protection of
the laws, and were maltreated by certain
parties.
On Thursday of last week man fell dead
ON one of the streets of Brooklyn, and the
body was about to be sent to the Potter's field
for burial when it was identified as that of
Gen. John J. Martin, an ex-Confederate Off
GER, who has been in the dry goods jobbing
business for several years at 14O West Broad
way. Before the war Gen. Martin was a
wealthy planter, and it is said that he owned
over 800 slaves and was a millionaire. He
raised the regiment known as the Charleston
Blues, and became it's colonel. Subsequently
he was made general. AT the battle of Seces-
sionville he was wounded, but he was soon IN
the field again, and remained there until the
close of the war. He had but few thousand
dollars left of his fortune, which he put into
the dry goods firm of a Charleston house.