Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-07
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States 81, Middle States 16, Western 42,
Southern 26, Pacific States and Territories
l3, New York City s, and Canada and Prov
inces 25.
Cincinnati is to be the stamping ground
of no less than five State conventions during
this month. The Republicans lead off on
the 5th; the Woman Suffragists, Green
hackers and Prohibitionists will air their
isms from the 18th to the 18th, and the
Democrats will assemble on the 21st. Next
November the procession is expected to ar
rive in materially different order.
Wednesday of last week was Federal
memorial day, and was elaborately celebra-
ted at the North and in Beaufort, South Car
olina. In Richmond, the First Virginia
Regiment decorated the graves of Federal
dead in recognition of the action OF Phil
Kearney Post, Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, which decorated General Pickett's grave
on Confederate memorial day.
The Postofice Department is preparing
for the issuing of the postal notes which
were authorized by the last Congress. Bids
are solicited for furnishing $500 ticket
punches, to be used by the postmasters in
indicating the value Of the notes. These
postal notes will be issued for any amount
up to $4.99 at a cost of 8 cents when pur-
chased in ordinary form, or 5 cents if made
non-negotiable. The date of issue is Octo-
Der l, at which time letter postage is to be
reduced to 2 cents for each half ounce.
Prof. Greener, in recent speech, said
he hazarded the statement that the colored
people of the South to-day are better fed and
better housed than any peasantry in Europe.
In conclusion, the professor urged the col
ored people to cease being the sport of pol
iticians. They could better afford to lose
the ballot than to lose the esteem and re-
spect of the religious, industrious, temper
fearing class, which has made liberty and
enfranchisement possible.
james R. Grant, who died in Goochland
county, Va, last week, belonged to family
of high social standing in Richmond. In
1869 he became notorious for having killed
H. Rives Pollard, editor of the Southern
Opiai0n, who had printed an article assall-
ing the character of Grants sister. Grant
was tried for murder, but was ably defend
ed by the late Henry A. Wise, and was &C
quilted. Soon afterward, young Grant left
Richmond and went to New York, where
he Joined the minstrels and became noted
as baritone singer of superior merit, un-
der the name of James Russell.
General Beaureguard speaking of the
condition of the negro, some time since,
said: $50 far as my observation goes there
has been gradual decrease in the race.
We have only to look at the neglect of the
old and the young which prevails among
the negroes to find out reason why we be-
lieve there has been decrease" When
asked whether crime has increased among
them since the war, said: eyes, at the pres
ent time-in fact for years back-there has
been steady flow Of the negro populations
to the cities. Here they indulge in all sorts
of crime; and as result our jails are filled
with negro criminals"
There is great excitement among the
students of the Methodist College in Della
ware, Ohio, over the arrival of Detective
Morris from Columbus, who proposes to ar
rest number of students and prosecute
them to the fullest extent of the law. Some
days ago party of students led cow,
blindfolded, into the private room of Pres
ident Payne in the college building and
locked it in. When the president returned
he found his room scene of confusion and
ruin. His bookcase, pictures, statues and
chandeliers and carpets were damaged or
destroyed. The faculty held meeting and
determined to arrest and prosecute the Of
tenders. About forty students have been
summoned to appear before the faculty and
answer for drunkenness and billiard play
ing. It is said full twenty students will be
expelled and half dozen arrested for the
COW outrage.
The first comptroller of the U. S. Treas
ury has rendered decision in a case invOl-
wing the right of the United States to apply
money appropriated by Congress to the State
of Georgia by set off against the quota OF
direct taxes apportioned to that state
by the direct Tax Act of August ., 1861.
He holds that the Act of March 3, 1888, to
refund to the State of Georgia certain mon
ey expended by the said State for common
defence in TIT does not in any respect affect
or suspend the law requiring accounting
officers of the treasury department to make
set off, and is not mandatory in the sense OF
repeating or suspending any prior existing
statute. The same rule now applied to the
State of Georgia has been applied to- the
States of Kansas, West Virginia and Mis-
souri,. The balance certified by the first
comptroller May 90, 1868, as due to the Uni
ted states from the State of Georgia for its
quota Of direct tax has not been IN any form
set aside or rendered imperative.
The arrangements for the fnneral GER
emonies which will accompany the re-inter-
ment of the remains of John Howard Payne
at Oak Hill Cemetery on Georgetown
Heights on the 9th of June, have recently
been perfected. The body of the poet will
be taken from the temporary resting place
to the Corcoran Art Gallery and will be es-
cOrted thence to the cemetery by a funeral
procession, consisting Of the militia, the
President, members of the Cabinet and of
the Diplomatic Corps, Judges of the United
States Courts, Senators and Representatives,
the poet and orator of the occasion, and the
relatives and friends of the lamented Payne
and of Mr.. COrcoran. At the ceremonies q
poem will be read by Robert S. Chiffon, and
an oration by Leigh Robinson, of Washing
ton. The selection of music for the occasion
last verse of which the audience will unite
in singing. The ceremonies, Judging from
the programme, will be solemn and i'm
pressive.
A terrible accident happened on the new
Brooklyn bridge at half past 4 o'clock on
Wednesday of last week. The bridge was
crowded to it's utmost capacity. On the
platform at the New York tower the jam
became so great that many tainted. A cry
of distress was raised and dreadful strug-
gle began between the panic stricken crowds
coming east and west. A number were, it
is reported, crushed to death. In the end,
the crowd coming from the Brooklyn side
prevailed and rushed toward the New York
the way. Men, women and children were
buried under a mass Of struggling human
ity many feet high. AS soon as the news
of the disaster was conveyed to the New
York station by the onset of the panic
stricken crowd the police were called and
the bridge closed. The work of removing
the crushed and wounded then began. A
number were taken to the City Hall police
station and others to the Chambers street
hospital. The police report that at least
ten or fifteen were killed.
Chalmers, the Mississippi renegade, who