Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-21
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

- The ex-Sheriff and ex-Clerk of the
Court of New Iberia county, La, have
been arrested and committed to Jail for
refusal to surrender the records of their re-
spective offices to their duly elected success
sors in Office. T.
The Federal official at Austin, Texas,
has issued warrant for the arrest of the
Governor of that State, on charge of con-
spiracy to deprive a colored convict of his
civil rights, he having pardoned the con-
vict from the penitentiary without restor-
ing his citizenship. The affair is denOun-
,ced by all parties at Austin as an outrage.
There are now on the pension rolls 80
widows of Revolutionary soldiers, and 4S OF
these come from the Southern States. Nine
are from Tennessee, s from Georgia, IL from
Virginia, from West Virginia, and II
from North Carolina. There is only Rev
, olutionary widow from Mississippi, in
Ohio and New York, in Maine and New
Hampshire. 7 in Vermont and in Penn
sylvania.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days end
ing last Friday, as reported by r. G. Dun
& Co., number for the United States 203 and
for Canada II, or total of 22O, as against a
total of 232 the previous week, showing a
decrease of - failures. The casualties are
still heavy in the Pacific States; in other
sections of the country they are about up to
an average and light in Canada.
The Georgia State Democratic Conven-
ton met at Atlanta on Wednesday and NOM
mated the present Governor, II: u: McDan-
of State w. A. Wright for Comptroller
and r. "A. Hardeman for Treasurer. The
convention endorsed Cleveland and Hen
bricks. Clifford Anderson, of Bibb, was
nominated for Attorney General. All the
nominees except Hardeman are present in
cumbents, and were nominated unanl-
mously.
Judge Thoman, OF the Civil Service
Commission, Washington, says that owing
to the large number of appointments being
made in the departments, it will be neces-
sary to hold examinations in the Southern
States and some of the Northern States soon,
as the eligible registers are being rapidly
depleted. The States in which the eXami-
nations are to be earliest held are Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida,
Georgia, kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.
A GREENBACKER TALKs.-Mr. w. w.
Russell, the greenback leader in this section
of the State, was in town last Monday. In
a conversation with us he stated that he was
for Blaine for President, and in favor of the
protection policy of the Republican party.
He expressed satisfaction at the nomination
of Col. Aiken for Congress from this district,
and said he had written him letter of con-
graduation, in which he promised him his
support in the election. He said they would
nominate no candidate in opposition to Al
ken, nor to any Of the otner Democratic
candidates for Congress in the State, except
in the Fifth District, where a candidate
would be put in opposition to Hemphill, but
who the man would be he did not at this
time know. but he was certain it would not
be Cash. Heinformed us, however, that he
had never registered, and, consequently,
be short one vote, at least, in South Carroll
ma, on account of the registration law
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