Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-17
gtet1s vi snterest.
- The corruption which prevails in Gin

| - LILO -cOTfuptiOl WNlcl prevails LII C1ll-
cinnati juries was forcibly illustrated last
week. A case that had been on trial for
three days was brought to an abrupt close
by the discovery that one of the jury had
offered to sell out the verdict. It appeared
that the iuryman, named Henry Meyers,
went to the plaintiff, lady, and said that
for little money he could secure verdict
in her favor. He wanted money enough to
furnish the jury with beer and pay him
for his trouble. If it was given him he
would fix both the jury and the Judge.
His offer was refused and the matter re-
ported to the Court When charged with
as related to the Judge. To the surprise OF
the spectators the Jud ge, Johnston, allowed
him to 60 at liberty on the promise of a
saloon keeper that he would appear the
next morning for sentence. 1t is evident
that justice is free and easy matter in the
Cincinnati Courts.
Henry Rose, colored, was hanged on the
4th instant, at Osceola Oak, 80 miles above
Memphis, Tenn, for assassinating Dempsey
Taylor, prominent colored man living in
the country near Osceola, about a year ago.
On the same day George Jones, colored, was
hanged at Pittsburg, Pa, for killing John
Foster, also colored. The murderer was but
boy, though he met his fate unf1inchingly
tors. AT Easton, Pa, on the 9Th instant,
John Dillman was hanged for the murder OF
his wife. He marched to the scaffOld with
steady step and was unmoved almost to
the last. He began to cry after the benedic-
ton, but after the black cap was drawn over
his face he remained motionless until the
drop fell. There were only a few slight
quiverings of the body and in twelve min
utes he was dead.
- The Philadelphia Times recently adj
dressed all the chairmen of the Democratic
county committees of Pennsylvania asking
answers to the following questions: l, Who
is the favorite of the Democrats Of your
county for President? 9, Do the Democrats
of your county generally favor tariff with
incidental protection or tariff for revenue
only? Of sixty seven chairmen in the State
sixty had replied tonight, fifty of whom
unhesitatingly declared Randall to be their
choice for President and others declaring for
Tilden or Randall. Only one county men
tions any other candidate, Green county
declaring for Hancock. Most of the replies
favor tariff with incidental protection,
though many of them simply express a
choice for President without referring to the
tariff question.
-Mormonism has begun to spread so much
in Idaho, that the residents of that Terrific
nv are alarmed over it. Delegate Singiser,
Of Idaho, in letter to Senator Platt, urges
the passage of the bill to reapportion the
Legislature of the Territory, in which he
saws: "Prominent people throughout the
Territory, of all shades of political opinion
have written me urging its passage as ne.
cessity in curtailing the rapidly growing
power of the Mormon Church, which lnsti.
tuition now has much larger representation
in the Legislature than it is fairly and hon.
estly entitled to. Out of the total member.
ship of 36 in the last Legislature 10 were
Mormons."
1t is pretty sight to step into a gold
beating establishment and watch the gold
beaters at work. The ductility of gold is
wonderful. A gold dollar can be beaten in.
to 100 squares of four inches each. This
would make 400 square inches, or thirty
three and one-third square feet. Two hun
dred and fifty sheets are beaten at time.
They are placed between sheets of parch-
ment inclosed in an outer wrapper. This
bundle is placed on the beater's slab and the
whole is beaten with an iron hammer until
the required thinness is obtained.
The business failures for the week end
ing April 4th, throughout the country, as
reported by r. G. Dun & Co., number for
the United States 17S and for Canada "a, a
total of 2l2 as against 204 the preceding
week, an increase of failures. The fail
ures are exceptionally few in the West and
South. The Pacific States, however, had
failures that week above the average. Can
ada shows about the same number for the
week as the previous week, "a against 81.
The act authorizing the city of Balti-
more to lend the Richmond and Danville
Railroad Company $4,000, 900, on certain
conditions, which passed the State Senate
of MARYLAND some time ago, passed the
House last Saturday. The bill, before it
becomes effective requires the approval OF
the mayor and city council, the Corn and
Flour Exchange, the Board of Trade, Mer.
chants and Manufacturers Association and
the voters of the city.
Saws the Philadelphia Press: "About
900 murders were committed in the Unit
ed States in 1888 and only about 100 MUIR
derers were legally hanged, while more
than 100 were lynched. These three little
facts 60 a long way in explaining outbreaks
of mob violence like that which terrorlzed
Cincinnati. The moral of it all is that the
mob, in nine cases out of ten, is an uncon-
scious demand for better laws and surer
Justice"
ALI the colored military organizations at
Washington turned out to receive Repre-
sentative Smalls on his arrival in that city,
and there was quite large demonstration.
The coored people were untiring in their
effort for several days to raise funds to do
Smalls honor. Representative Smalls is an
honorary member of the Capital City Guards
of Washington, and this organization was
the prime mover in the demonstration.
49, Massachusetts has been carrying in her
statute books for tWenty-nine years series
of know-nothing resolutions passed by her
Legislature in 1856. Last session one of the
Boston amateur statesmen discovered that
they had never been rescinded, and he at
once introduced resolution for that pur-
pose. Another member then proposed a
resolution recalling Roger Williams from
Punishment.
When the German steamer Heinmann
went ashore on Sambro Reef, off the Nova
Scotia coast, on the night of the 3rd instant,
all hands were called on deck and prepared
to leave in the boats. Just as the first boat
put off, huge wave swept over the vessel
carrying away 80 passengers and 26 seamen:
Only nine survivors were left. The accident
was caused by dense fog.
= From the report of the Agricultural De-
partment of the United States it is seen that
the largest corn yield last year was in Illi-
nois, 2O3, ,7S6, 800 bushels; the next in Kansas,
172, 2,SOO,9OO bushels; the next in Iowa, 169,-
$4,000 bushels; the next in Missouri, 16l,-
655,6OO bushels, and the next in Nebraska,
101 ,27S 300 bushels.
Under the silver law two million silver
dollars are coined every month, and are
piled up in the treasury. The bill for the
redemption of the trade dollar as passed in
the House, will increase the amount of le-
gal-tender silver dollars by the whole
amount of such dollars issued in exchange