Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-28
Straps aud fatts.

r. D. Jeffries, of Clarksville, Va, reiterates
what has heretofore been stated in other
forms that there was no demand for the
surrender of General Lees sword at Apo
mattox, and that no tender of it was offered
One of the curiosities of the Laredo
Texas, money markets, is the introduction
ofMeXican bank notes. The notes are of all
denominations and pass at the same rate
as Mexican silver coin. The first paper
money ever issued by Mexico was in the
present year.
Last Thursday a lady made declaration
at the Clerks Office of Waterloo, Iowa, tC
become citizen of the United States. She
claimed that she was widow, and that she
could not transact the business devoiVed up.
on her by the death of her husband unless
she was naturalized. The required papers
were made out.
- Gen. Crook advises that it "costs less to
feed Indians than to fight them," and he
adds that ''we must fight all the Indians we
swindle. If they cannot get corn, they will
get cartridges" Which would seem to i'm
ply that millions of money and thousands
of lives must be sacrificed for contractors
and Indian Rings.
= The business failures of the week ending
last Friday, throughout the country, as re-
ported to r. G. Dunn & Co., number 1Sl-a
decrease of 5 as compared with last week
The New England States had Ii, the Middle
States %, the Western States 4S, the South.
ern States 4S, the Pacific States and Terrific
ries 81, Canada 26 and New York city,.
The unveiling of the Jefferson monu-
ment, for which elaborate preparations have
been made at Monticello, Va, has been
postponed from July until next Autumn
The monument is to be erected over the
orE EIn Gro Rpmp-
tery, which is portion of the old Jefferson
estate and part of the lands which surround
the mansion where the founder of the De-
mocracy spent a great portion of his life.
The st. Paul Pioneer-Press says it is not
aquestion of candidates in Ohio. Republi-
can success depends upon the extent to
which the people are stirred up on the Ii
quor question, and the degree of disgust
with which President Arthur has inspired
the rural Ohio mind. That it depends up
on how many Republicans stay at home or
bolt-not at all upon whom the Democrats
nominate.
The Old Testament Company of Revis.
ers have now finished the last revision OF
the Old Testament and are making up the
appendix, which contains the unadjusted
differences between the American and En-
glish revisers. The committee will meet
again in July for several days, and resume
work in September next. 1t is expected
that the revision will be completed before
the end of this year, and published by the
University presses of Oxford and Cambridge
next spring.
Will the Queen 90 crazy ? is the allah
sorbing question now in England, and a
London paper prints the following state
mentin regard to the condition of her ma
jesty "The Queen has for two months been
in state of mild melancholia, which in
course of time, if not relieved, would proba-
bly, become very difficult to treat. Her con-
dition has naturally caused great anxiety
because of the tendencies of her family
Her Majesty and the Princess Beatrice will
this autumn 60 to the vicinity of Florence
Italy, where theywill remain two months y
OFF with the old love and on with the
new is the song of the lawyers engaged IN
the farce of trying to convict the star route
thieves. They had one man, Rerdell, tC
plead guilty-and yet the jury found against
this plea-and Rerdell is discharged. And
vet they 60 on making the pretence Of hunt
ing down the rascals just to delude the peo.
pie and to draw their pay. 1t is suggested
that as the government officers were in com.
plicity with the thieves in the stealing, they
are in completely with them now in the
sham fight in the courts.
VIM. II. Barnum, of Connecticut, Chair
man of the National Democratic Executive
Committee, in recent interview with
Il newspaper reporter on General Buffers
candidacy for the Presidency, said: "Per'
sOnally, / am not very strong Butler man.
still the fact cannot be disguised that he is
very strong candidate. Down in the New
England States it is foregone conclusion
that Ben. Butler will be the next President
of the United States. His State admins
tration is popular among the people. lie
would carry all the New England States,
except Vermont and Rhode Island"
The United States and England are the
only countries in which the unanimity of a
Jury is requisite to a. verdict. In France
and Germany the agreement feight jurors
is sufficient, and if the decision is seven to
five the side prevails which receives the en-
dOrsement of the judge or Judges on the
bench. A similar rule is in use in Italy
and in Scotland, where murderers are tried
by an assiZe, or jury of fifteen, a majority
verdict convicts or acquits. The abandon
ment of the requirement of unanlmlty
would free the jury system of the United
States of many evils. The agreement OF
eleven jurors ought to be sufficient for a
verdict, and in the opinion of many ten jul
rors ought to be able to convict or acqult.
- The judicial conference of the North
ern) Methodist Episcopal Church met in
Chattanooga Tenn, on the 10th instant,
Bishop Wiley presiding, toconsidert the cases
of the Rev. J: G. johnson Of the Mississippi
Conference, the Rev. William Rawlings OF
North Carolina, charged with embezzle-
ment, and the Rev. Richard Bingham of
Savannah, charged with adultery, the three
having been expelled. The former two did
not respond and the expulsion remains.
The case of the latter was considered and
finally remanded to his conference. After
the meeting an educational conference was
held and committee appointed to appoint
a General Educational Conference for the
entire South, to meet in the Fall
Secretary Chandler announces the ap-
pointment from the recent Annapolis grad
yates, of three assistant naval constructors,
seven engineers of junior grade, three assis-
tant engineers and ten second lieutenants.
Total 90 out of merit roll of 80. The rest
will be honorably discharged July l, 1888,
with one years pay, as provided blythe Act
of August, 1882. For the three positions
of assistant naval constructors, Secretary
Chandler has selected Jno. l.. Shock, Joseph
II. Linnard and Joseph I. Woodward, the
first three Of the class in the order of merit.
Among the fortunate tWenty-three are only
two from the South, Robert B. Dashiell and
Geo. P. Blow, of Virginia. There are some
questions of physical disability, defective
eyesight, &C., which may render ineligible
five OF tine twenty. In case these questions
create five vacancies, Franklin j. Moses, of
South Carolina, and G. NJ. Perkins, of Geor-
gia, will receive commissions.
- 1t seems that the Rev. Mr.. Jenkins
acted rashly and prematurely in shooting
the Rev. Mr.. Borden at Mansfield, La, the
other day, an account of which we publish