Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-17
Straps and fafts.

The late riot in Cincinnati is to be in
vestigated by the grand jury, and also the
charges of bribery against the jury in the
Berner case, which led to the riot. The
Jury will be composed of the leading busi-
ness men of the city.
Liberty Hall, the residence of Alexander
H. Stephens, of Georgia, is to be sold. The
scheme of purchasing the property and es-
tablishing q memorial school has fallen
through, and has been abandoned by it's
projectors. $50.
"A bronze statue of Martin Luther, the
great German reformer, has arrived at Bal
timore. It was cast in SaXony, and cost,
exclusive of the pedestal, $4,000. 1t will be
erected in Washington, and will be unveiled
on May 2lst.
The Southern Press Association in ses-
sion at Atlanta last week, passed a resolution
approving the copyright bill now before
Congress, and another condemning the pro-
posed control of the telegraphic service of
the country by the government. On both
these points there was great unanimity.
DIR. James G.. NJ. Ramsay, distinguish
ed physician and author, died at Knoxville,
Tenn, last Thursday night, aged 81. He
was the author of history of Tennessee,and
other historical works, and was for many
years president of the Tennessee Historic
al Society.
Missouri has high license law in oper-
alton, and reports show diminished mum,
ber of drinking places under it and general
public satisfaction. The rate is fixed by the
county courts within certain limits, and
usually the lowest possible given-$550 for
spirits and $3.50 for beer and wine
Mr.. Peter Trajillo was ordained as
minister of the Associate Reformed Presby-
terian church on the 26th of February, at
Tampico, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. He
gave the satisfactory evidence of his liter
ary capacity, good moral character and
piety.
The business failures of the week ending
last Friday, throughout the country, as re-
ported to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States ITS and for Canada 80, total
nearly identical figures. The distribution
of casualties remains about the same.
The town marshal of Shreve, Ohio, few
days ago, arrested man for drunkenness in
the streets; the man refused to enter the
cell provided for him on the ground that it
was dirty, whereupon the marshal struck
him several times, producing death. The
marshal had to be hurried away to escape
lynching.
"A Shreveport, La, dispatch of Satur--
day saws: The river is steadily declining at
this point. West Baton Rouge will prOba-
bly not suffer as much as at first apprehend-
ed. The planters hope to save the greater
portion of their seed cane. They have put
in operation drainage machines for the pur-
pose of relieving the crops of water.
AT Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday OF
last week, Holmes and Brecken, the Amerl-
cans charged with having dynamite and
other dangerous explosives in their posses
sion, who were arrested in September, were
found guilty and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary. Several alleged dynam-
tiers have been recently arrested and held
for trial in Liverpool and London.
A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch of Saturday
saws: The bill repeating the local option
feature of the Scott liquor law, which gave
to the residents of the incorporated villages
the right to prohibit by vote the sale of in
toxicating liquor in their villages has be-
come law. AS the Legislature adjourns
on Monday, it is thought: this will be the
end of legislation on the liquor question.
The Republican Conventions this week
upon prospects of candidates. Alabama
and South Carolina held their conventions
on Tuesday; Pennsylvania and Illinois
held theirs yesterday; and Indiana, Ten
nessee and Delaware hold theirs to-day.
These States will be entitled to 2O2 dele
gates, or nearly one fourth OF the whole
number.
The reports of the outlook of the wheat
crop for the coming season are universally
favorable. The Pacific States are rejoicing
in the prospects of an unprecedented crop,
while the great wheat growing States OF the
Mississippi Valley are fully up to the aver
age both in point Of acreage and condition
of the crop at this season of the year. While
fhn 70 hoy
prospects of good crop, they will not be
enthusiastic over the low price which their
staple commands at present.
In the Senate gallery the other day
nice old lady asked the gentleman who sat
beside her to point out Senator Butler of
South Carolina. II want to see the man
who killed so many colored people at Ham
burg" she said. The gentleman happened
to be q Southern man, and with bitter irony
he pointed out the venerable Mr.. Hoar, OF
Massachusetts,. The old lady looked seri-
OuSly at him moment, and then remark
ed: II might have knOwe it; there's MUIR
der in every lineament of his face"
THE House committee on the judiciary
has adopted Representative Maybury's ad-
verse report on the joint resolution propos-
ing a constitutional amendment to give wo-
men the right of suffrage. Mr.. Dorsheimer
agreed to the report on the ground that it
is inexpedient to extend the right of suf-
frage now, but he was of the opinion that
it will be advisable at some future time to
give women the right to vote. Represen-
tives Reed and Brown of Indiana, and Tay-
lor. of Ohio, will submit minority report.
A novel reason for asking new trial
was recently advanced in a Washington
Court. The counsel of convicted MUIR
derer based his plea on the ground that
"W. NJ. Frank, one of the jurors, who is of
the Hebrew faith, was not sworn as jury
man with hat on and with his hand on the
five books of Moses, which is the custom of
administering oaths to Jews, and which
manner of taking an oath they regard as
most binding upon their consciences, but
was sworn as believer in the Christian re-
ligion is sworn"
The extensive cotton mills of the A.
Campbell Manufacturing Company, at Man
ayunk, Pa, which give employment to
seven hundred hands, will be shut down for
an indefinite period in two weeks. Mr..
Campbell assigns as the reason for the stop
page, the immense Overproductlon OF cotton
fabrics and the strong competition that has
grown up in the South. He claims that
cheap labor has made the Southern cotton
mills formidable contestants in the cotton
trade.
w. S. Dowda has been sent to the peni
tertiary for seven years from Decatur, Ga,
for kidnapping. Dowda is school teacher,
sixty-five wears old, and has a flowing white
beard. He taught in Lithonia two years
ago, where he paid marked attention to a
thirteen year old pupil, Miss Ragsdale.
Eloping one night with the child, he led the