Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-02-07
Straps and fafts.

The cOlOred mail agent, Gordon, who
fora long time has been a mail agent on the
road between Charlotte and Statesville, has
been removed, and is succeeded by w. c.
Smith, colored.
Capt. f. NJ. Hayes, the recruiting officer
at Charlotte, states that Gen. Drum con-
templates establishing a colony of retired
army officers somewhere in North Car
olina, probably near Asheville, and with this
view purposes an early visit to the State.
The North Carolina State Exposition
was organized at Raleigh last Thursday
with capital stock of $4,000. William l.
Primrose, of Raleigh, was elected President,
and Henry. F. Fries of Salem, Secretary.
The Exposition will be held during the en-
tire month of October.
The Hon. J. B. Grinnell, for whom the
town of Grinnell, Iowa, was named recent
ly said: "In Grinnell there are no saloons,
and no one has been sent to jail, to the poor
house or to the penitentiary for twenty-five
ly if you will keep whisky from u.s."
The State Grange of Maryland, at its
meeting in Baltimore, in December last,
passed resolution endorsing the Temper
ance alliance of that State and expressing a
determination to cooperate with the friends
of temperance in the move to suppress the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors in that State.
j. w. Perkins was killed on the Grand
Trunk Railroad within the limits of Maine
in 1882. An indictment was found against
the Railroad company. The case has just
been concluded at Lewiston, by verdict of
guilty, and fine of one thousand dollars
was imposed upon the railroad corporation.
A California sheriff, despairing of sue
cess in his fight for reelection by conduct
ing his canvass in the usual way, has spread
broadcast a card from the prisoners under
his care, eXtolling his skill in capturing
them. calling attention to his official vir-
tues, and assuring the voters Of the county
that he can certainly ''run WE'LL"
An Amusing controversy is in progress
in Washington as to the possibilities to
which Fred Douglass has subjected himself
by his marriage with a white woman. An
old statute has been discovered, in which a
fine of five thousand pounds of tobacco fig
ures as the punishment for such marriages.
The statute alluded to is one hundred and
sixty years old.
The committee of the colored mems
State central committee CT Illinois has call
ed a conference of colored men, to be held
at Pittsburg, Pa, April 29th, to discuss the
course to be pursued by the colored voters
in the next Presidential campaig gn, and the
"shot gun policy in the South" Another
move to solidify the colored vote for the
Republicans.
Surprise was caused at Reading, Pa,
last Friday, by the arrest of eight we'll
known citizens on charge of horse racing
with sleighs on the public road. They
were held for court. The charges are
brought under the blue laws of 1894, which
prohibit racing and provide that upon the
conviction Of the accused the horses be sold
and the proceeds placed in the county treas
ury.
Seven members of the U. S. House of
Representatives, who were elected to the
Forty-eighth Congress, have died since their
election. They are Herndon, Alabama;
Cults, Iowa; Haskell, Kansas; Poole, North
isiana, and Mackey, South Carolina. Mr..
Mackey was the only one of the seven who
lived long enough to occupy his seat.
The Governor of Rhode Island calls the
special attention of the Legislature to the
Increase of the number of divorces in the
State. Over 1000 have been granted in ten
years. Many of the divorces are collusive.
The Governor thinks it unnecessary to en-
large upon the danger to society of ''con-
tinued weakening ofthe marriage contract"
1t all comes from permitting divorce for
any reason. Divorce cannot be taken in
moderation. 1t is sure to be abused.
-lne DuSlLeSS lalluTeS VI tllc "cSh eHo-
ing last Friday, as reported to the Mercan-
tile Agency of R. G. Dun & Co., number for
the United States 329, and for Canada IA
total of 373 Compared with the preceding
week, an increase of 56. More failures are
reported in the Middle and New England
States than usual, with the increase on the
Pacific Coast is quite marked. Failures are
also more numerous in Canada and the
Provinces.
- Yonkers editors are proverbial for their
gallantry to the fair sex, but one of them
got discouraged on New Years day and
swore off. He found one of the 100 pound
fairies of his city trying to pick her way
across a muddy street. What else could he
her high and dry shod on the other side,
when she smilingly exclaimed: "Oh, that's
too nice for anything. Let's go back"
That editor has gone into winter quarters.
A Washington special dispatch of Sun
day to the Ners and Courier says that the
Springer investigating committee will soon
take up the South Carolina marshal cases.
It has started out to probe these abuses to
the bottom. The particular case of Mar
shall Blythe and the frauds and impositions
practiced on the government and the peo-
pie of South Carolina, will form the most
interesting chapter in these investigations.
The case will come up this week, it is
thought, as the reports of the examiners
and all the papers have been referred to the
committee by the department of justice.
Simon Bonnor, colored, was hanged at
Port Gibson, Miss, last Friday, for the MUIR
der of James r. Light, white, in November
last. BonnOr who had made full confess
sion of the crime last week, showed con-
siderable firmness on the scaffold. The fall
was eight feet, and Bonnor died without a
struggle. John G.. Collins, who robbed a
mail coach in Colorado, in 1879, and killed
w. F. Cummings, a banker. while rObbing
him of of two gold bars worth $1,000, was
hanged at Nevada City, Colorado, last Fri
day morning. The execution, which took
place during violent rain-stOrm, was wit
messed by large crowd.
- The Senate committee on the judiciary
has ordered the Lowell bankruptcy bill to
be favOrably reported to the Senate with
amendments. 1t preserves State eNemp-
tions and authorizes involuntary proceed
ings only against persons whose debts
amount to more than $1,000, and only
against traders. 1t diminishes the num-
ber of commissioners in bankruptcy by one
half. Many of the amendments suggested
by the bankruptcy convention, which met
here few days since, were incorporated
in the bill. Senator Hoar will report it on
Monday. Some of the features above noted
among are those contended for by Western
Senators in the last Congress, and their
adoption greatly increases the chances for
the passage of the bill.
Probably for want of something else to
write about, the Philadelphia papers are re-
viving the Keely Motor excitement. 1t is
now nearly nine years since the story of the