Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-03-15

q, New York City and Brooklyn 10.
1t is said that Senator Edmunds will re-
sign the Presidency of the Senate next De-
cember in favor Of Senator Anthony of
Rhode Island, he having accepted the po-
sition with that understanding. The Yer
mont Senator prefers to remain on the floor
where he can be of more benefit to his party.
"A bill which has been introduced in the
New York Assembly to preserve the puri-
ty of elections makes it actual felony to re,
ceive or pay money for votes; it fines and
imprisons offenders and deprives them of
the right to vote or hold office for term Of
years.
New Orleans is fast becoming the great
grain depot of the country. AS an evidence
of this, a steamer recently left ST. Louis for
that city with six barges in tow, loaded with
$4,000 bushels of grain-53,0O wheat and
226,0O0 corn. Since the opening of naviga-
ton 900 bushels of grain have been ship
ped from St. Louis in barges alone.
Col. Harry Gilmor, the noted Confeder-
ate scout and guerrilla, who during the war
was conspicuous for his pluck and bravery
in various cavalry expeditions under Mos
by's command, died in Baltimore, on the
evening of the 4th instant, from cancerous
affection with which he had been suffering
for several weeks, in the forty-sixth year OF
his age.
The first snake story of the season comes
from Salisbury, N. Y, and is to the follow
ing purport: A colored girl of that locality
who had been Tilted by her lover, killed a
snake, ground it up and made a cake of it,
which she gave her lover to eat. The snake
eggs in his stomach hatched, and in severe
fit of coughing few days ago he threw up
snake twelve inches long.
Twenty years ago an old man named
Kerce and his son were lynched in Worth
County, Ca, for cattle stealing. There has
mover been trial of his murderers, because
as each term of the Court rolled around for
an investigation of the case the court house
of that county with all its records have
been burnt. AT this term OF the superior
Court of that county seventeen men of good
standing are to be tried for the lynching.
The total discharge of the Mississippi
during the flood of 1882, was 1900, 900 cubic
feet per second, and it was then estimated
that the Atchafalaya carried off one-siXth OF
the volume Of the river. This year the At
chafalaya is discharging at the rate Of 100000
cubic feet per second, equivalent to ~ per
cent, or nearly third of the volume Of
the Mississippi, having more than doubled
it's overflow since last year. Here is dam
ger that is threatening and immediate.
- Miss Kate Kane, of Milwaukee, appear
ed as attorney for the defendant in recent
murder trial in that city, and conducted her
case very creditably. Her client was COL
ored man, and had fatally wounded another
colored man in an alteration, which leads
the Boston Traveller, no doubt woman suf-
fragist organ, to remark: "The spectacle OF
disfranchised white woman conducting the
legal defense Of an enfranchised colored
man, is curious phase in American clVlll-
Zation."
About this season Of the year many peo-
pie are asking what it is that determines the
date of Easter. The answer is the moon OF
March, which Tennyson calls "the roaring
moon of daffodills." The old rule is that
Easter shall fall on the Sunday after the full
moon which comes after the vernal equinox.
That brings Easter this year on the 10Th OF
March. In 1918 it fell on the 22nd of March,
the earliest date possible. 1t will not fall
upon that day again in this or the following
century.
There is universal expression of salts
faction in the press Of the country, North
and South, at the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the cases OF
New York and New Hampshire against
Louisiana, to the effect that the Xlth
Amendment to the Constitution, which for
bids a suit by a citizen of one State against
another State, applies also to suit brought
by State as assignee of one of its citizens
against another State. The Court declares
such a proceeding to be clear evasion OF
the Constitution.
- The swindle planned by Cincinnati
Snowman consisted in advertising for a
treasurer for minstrel show, and getting
$500 from candidate as pretended security.
A country grocer was caught by the pros
pect of making tour of the country on a
Salary of $25 week, with all expenses paid,
and he supposed that he was safe against
fraud, because company was ready to ac-
tually start out. But the performers were
the manager, who fled with all the money
after the first performance. The grocer
committed suicide.
At 3 o'clock last Thursday morning, an
eastern train on the Little Rock and Fort
Smith Railroad was boarded by four men
miles west of Mulberry station in Crawford
county, and 40 miles from Little Rock.
The robbers ordered the passengers to throw
up their hands and began firing their pls-
tolls. Conductor John Cain, who was in a
rear car, was shot, from the effects of which
he died that day, and train-man was ia
tally wounded. The robbers then rushed
for the engine, but before they could reach
it engineer Rogers started the train and pre-
vented the robbery. The hiighwaymen
jumped off while the cars were in motion.
- The new revenue act lessons the amount
of internal taxes to an estimated amount OF
forty million dollars, but it does not dimin-
ish to the extent of dollar the cost of COL
-fectinp the II remainder: was question
with the majority in Congress how to reduce
the revenues while retaining the army TOR
collecting them, and they have succeeded
in solving the problem very neatly. Statis-
tics from New England collection districts
show that the cost of collecting each $l0o
was as follows last year at the places named !:
Castine, Me-, $19S; Kennebunk, Me-, $445
Saco, Me-, $3.50 York, Me-, 1923; Barnsta-
Bile, Mass, s14S Edgartown, Mass, S243 !;
Nantucket, Mass, S671 Bristol, X. l., Sl52.
Atlanta, Ca, seems to have protited
greatly by her cotton exposition for 1881.
The aggregate capital invested in that city
since then is about 81 500 900, employing no
fewer than 1900 operatives and d paying aSy1 an an,
these additions have been varied. A grain
elevator and cotton compress have been
built; spinning company has completed
and nearly filed it's capacious building with
machinery, and is preparing to double It's
capacity; the great fair building has been
nnrchaSed by company with capital OF
1850 600, and is half filled with machinery ;
COMPANIES have been formed for building
apparatus to prepare cotton for the spinner
fertilizer and other manufactures; nave
been established in and near the city, and
a concern has been organized for the man.
ufacture of foleomargarlne.
- The negro still has commercial value
in certain emergencies, five may credlt the
following Washington dispatch showing the
true inwardness of the game OF the WHISKY
hoc Qlra11V hpan