Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-04-12
Straps and fafts.

tile agency of r. G. Dun & Co. number 1877
against 1872 last week. New England States,
II, Western 5S, Middle 26, Southern 46, Pa
cific States and Territories II, New York
City 13 and Canada %.
On the 10Th of April just one hundred
years will have elapsed since Gerorge Wash
ington announced to the Continental army
that treaty Of peace had been concluded
between Great Britain and her American
colonies, whose independence was by the
same instrument IRE vocably acknowledged.
In the Nottaway, Va, Circuit Court last
Saturday, s4,750 damages was awarded the
plaintiffs in suit against the Richmond &
Danville Railroad Company for $4,000.
The suit had it's origin in the killing of JAS
E. Rudd, colored boy who went asleep on
the track while minding cows and was run
over by the train.
On Thursday last the Legislature of Ohio
adopted a resolution submitting to vote of
the people temperance amendment to the
Constitution. Two propositions will be sub
mitted-one providing for regulating the
tariff by law, and the other for the total
prohibition of the manufacture and sale OF
liquor.
up in Vermont some very primitive
and peculiar medical theories prevail, judg-
ing from the case, reported by telegraph, of
a young man named Osier who killed HIM
self by swallowing San overdose of gunshot
to cure boils." Anybody who wants to eX-
pertinent further with this sort of remedy
will avoid good deal of suffering by taking
the dose from musket at short range:
Elias Craft, in Jail at Lexington, KY,
in connection with Neal for the alleged muir
der of Emma Thomas and Gibbons chill
dren, is in receipt of letter from from his
brother stating that negro njail at Charles
ton, w. Va, has confessed that he and an
other negro committed the crimes of which
Neal and Craft are charged. A full history
of this remarkable case will be. found on the
first page of this issue of the ENQUIRER.
The post Office department has issued an
order amending postal regulations, so as to
provide that all letters upon which one full
rate of postage has been prepaid and all pos
tai cards shall be forwarded from the office
to which they are addressed to any other
ed or of the party whose card may be upon
the envelope, or whose name may be signed
to the postal card, without additional charge
of postage. Such forwarding may be con-
tinued until the party addressed is reached.
The Democratic State convention, to
nominate candidate for Governor, met in
Atlanta Ga, on Tuesday. The contest be
tween the friends of some Ofthe most promi-
nent candidates has waXed warm, and the in
dications at this writing are that there will
be pretty lively times in the convention, and
it is not improbable that in the scramble a
dark horse may come in and walk off with
the prize. The friends of acting Governor
Boynton, claim, however, that he will have
a majority in the Convention.
President Arthur and party arrived at
Jacksonville, Florida, at 7, 80 Saturday even
ing. They were met at Callahan by COM
mittee of citizens who escorted them in car
riages from the depotto the steamboat land
ing amid salute of artillery and the cheers
of 10000 citizens assembled along the route.
He left at once for Sanford, where he will
remain for several days, resting quietly.
The President says he has no definite plans,
but if the weather continues favorable will
remain ten days or two weeks, part OF
which will be spent in fishing and hunting.
"A Washington dispatch says: While
Samuel Lee was unsuccessful in his attempt
to oust Mr.. Richardson from his seat in
Congress, he has, after much persistent
begging at the departments, finally succeed
ed in obtaining berth at five dollars day
and expenses under the general land office.
He is appointed special land agent for the
detection of fraudulent entries of public
lands and assigned to the State of Alabama.
Congress gave one hundred thousand dol
lars to be expended for this purpose, at the
discretion of the department, and number
of agents have been Sent out. Leo loft for
his new field of labor last Monday.
- Incident to the ceremony of decorating
the graves of the Confederate dead in New
Orleans last Saturday, and laying the corner
stone Of a monument to be surmounted by
an equestrian statue of Albert Sydney
johnson, an Grafton was delivered by JEFF
ferson Davis, in which he eulogised the
characteristics of the dead leader. In john
son, he said, he recognized strong pillar to
the Confederacy, and when he fell on the
field of Shiloh the mightiest column which
sustained the cause had fallen. He died in
the moment of victory and had he lived
half hour longer he would have made Gen
eral Granta prisoner or fugitive. The Con-
federacy had three great leaders, Lee, Jack
son and Johnson, who would compare with
the leaders of antiquity, or those of mod
ern times. AT banquet in the evening the
speaker reiterated these sentiments.
The star route trials, though important,
have become permanent bore. The daily
reports from the Washington court are wea-
risome reading, except when enliVened by
the sparring of the counsel and an OCCASION
al bon mot from Ingersoll. The first trial
lasted Is weeks, and the 18th week Of the
second trial began Monday morning, with
a prospect oflong continuance. Mr.. Dorsey
is undergoing the third week Of his exam
ination and is still troubled with defective
memory. He now proposes to stand upon
his technical rights and accept the conse-
quences, rather than bring his letter books
into court. But it is stated that some doc
umentary evidence will be presented this
week, which will be more convincing than
any other evidence yet offered regarding
the guilt of the parties on trial. Thus an
element of sensation will be introduced
which will make the star route reports
more interesting reading than they have
been in the past.
If the Nihilists had not already commit
ted long series of outrages and deprived
Russia of one OF its Cars, the manifestoes
they are issuing daily would be tolerably
certain to convince people that these reVO-
lutiOnists are blatant frauds of the most
transparent description. A recent procla-
nation announces that preparations for the
assassination of the Gar are going active
ly forward, and warns persons who value
their personal safety to keep at a distance
from the Car during the coronation cere-
mOny. 1t is hardly the usual custom of as
sassins to give the intended victim a long
warning, and advise bystanders to getout of
the way while the assassination ceremonies
are going on. Either these repeated man.
ifestOes are hoax, or, if genuine, the Nihil-
lists have reached degree Of confidence in
the complete success of their operations
which emboldens them to throw off the
usual precaution of secrecy. 1t might, at
any rate, be we'll for the Car to reflect that
an uncrowned head is better than none.
"A Washington dispatch of Friday says
new and serious complication is threaten
ed i'm the Star-rOute trial, and as before the