Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-06-04
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Elections are to be held this year in the
States of Connecticut, Democratic in 1884 (;
Iowa, Republican Kentucky, Democratic
Massachusetts,, Republican; Pennsylvania,
Republican, Rhode Island, Republican and
Virginia, Democratic.
There are about seventy-five postoffices
in the Indian Territory, and some of them
have been and are in charge of Indian post
masters. The question of the eligibility of
an Indian to hold such an Office having aris-
en-, Postmaster-general Villas referred it to
the Attorney-General,w who has given an
opinion that an Indian is not eligible.
In its reports of Southern progress, the
Baltimore Manuactarer's Record gives a
list of enterprises started within the past
two weeks to the aggregate amount of over
s2,5OO,O0O, not including number of small
enterprises and additions to those already
in operation. The South is moving right
along, though she is not making much noise
The law of Kansas sentences O. murderer
to death, but the sentence does not take ef'
feet unless at the expiration of one year the
Governor signs the death warrant when, il
that is not done, the prisoner is confined
under life sentence. No Governor has
ever been elected who would sign death
warrant, and for this reason there are now
about thirty death-sentenced prisoners in
the Leavenworth prison.
"A Boston dispatch of last Friday says
Franklin J. Moses, Republican Governor Of
South Carolina under Reconstruction, was
brought from the Cambridge House Of Cor.
rection to day on writ of habeas corpus and
arraigned before Judge Aldrich, of the Su'
perior Court, on an indictment charging
him with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses from Fred L. Ames, Hon. Samuel G.
Cobb onl ofhar wall lypou,r nifi1anc Mo.
ses pleaded not guilty, and was held in the
sum of 81 900 for trial.
- Archie Gibson, colored, was hanged at
Richmond, Texas, last Friday, in the pres
ence of three thousand people, mostly ne
groes, for the murder of his wife, Clara
Gibson, last September. In fit of jealousy
he attacked her while picking cotton, with
knife, almost severing her head from hel
body. He acknowledged the crime. His
coffin was brought into the cell at his re-
quest. He brushed it out with his hand
kerchief and remarked it would be nice
place to rest in.
- A dispatch of Saturday says: DR.. Cross
of Kingston, who has made thorough ex'
animation of the epidemic at Plymouth
Pa, is of the opinion that the danger Of
secondary infection is becoming greater
every day by contamination of wells. He
claims that the use of hydrant water is un.
questionably safe, and that the use of well
water by many of the inhabitants is to be
sdeplored, as the surface drainage has found
its way to the wells, and the using of such
contaminated water is dangerous and should
be avoided. There has been one death
since last night, and many patients are
dangerously i'll and beyond recovery.
IN. B. Harwood, who failed in business
in the West some years ago and afterward
went to Florida to recuperate his fortune,
died suddenly last week. His death is said
to have thrown life insurance circles into
commotion, as he carried an insurance OF
about 100000 on his life, of which 100000
is in the Equitable. Mr.. Harwood, it is
stated, was thrown from fractions horse,
and few hours later was found in a dying
condition. A post mortem was held and
the physician pronounced death the result
of conclusion of the brain. The matter will
be further investigated by the insurance
companies. Mr.. Harwood left property in
Florida estimated at from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900.
A late Washington dispatch says: The
Democrats throughout this city are very
much gratifed over the report given by
Senator Dan VOORHEES, of an interview that
he had with the President. Senator Voor-
hees says that Mr.. Cleveland told him
that he intended to remove every Re-
the very earliest possible moment. ''The
President" said the Senator, "assured me
that none of them would be left. The only
delay now would be that which was abso-
lutely necessary to secure good men to put
in their places" There is to be gener-
al change, and the bulk of these changes
will come very soon after the beginning of
the fiscal year.
Judge John T. Clark, of the Superior
Court of Randolph county, Ca, has decided
that game of billiards played, where the
one who is beaten pays for the game, is
gambling, and the party is liable to indict-
decided that billiards being a game of
chance, and therefore a gambling game,
persons keeping tables at private dwellings
are liable to prosecution when minors are
allowed to play, no matter whether said
minors be their own sons. The Savannah
Times regards this as "getting gambling
down to a fine point" and declares that if all
offenders under this ruling were arrested
and indicted "there would be lively times
in Georgia"
Ex-Governor St. John addressed small
audience in the Court House at Springfield,
Illinois, on Tuesday night of last week.
He severely castigated the Republicans of
the House of Representatives for refusing
said he understood it was done principally
by the Republicans and that the Democrats
were willing he should use the hall. He
charged that the refusal was the outgroWth
of spite. He berated the Republican party
generally and lauded the South, claiming
that in all qualities of morality and good
government the South is in advance Of the
North. This was especially the case in re-
gard to temperance, since there is a larger
area of territory where absolute prohibition
prevails by the operation of the local option
law.
- Mr.. R. w. Jennings, of Nashville,
Tenn, recently had before his school, for
spelling, pronouncing and defining group
of words of kindred meaning such as hom-
icide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, patri-
eide, tyrannicide, infanticide and uXori-
eide, but having no word for the killing OF
husband, he addressed communications to
several gentlemen asking if they could
supply him with the same. DR.. Young
answered with the word maricide. In
this he was sustained by DIR. Harrison and
Prof. Woolwine, the latter gentleman, how
ever, adds: "Ladies are so willing to take
husbands and so unwilling to give them up
that the offense Of husband murder has not
occurred often enough to give name to the
offense." Mr.. White, of Lebanon, said an
dricide and Prof. Wharton favored mari
eide.
In the United States Court at Hartford,
Conn.,. last Friday, James D. Cook, the for
mer postmaster at Unionville, who pleaded
guilty of embezzlement, was sentenced by
Judge Shipman to a year and halfs i'm
prisonment in the county Jail and pay a
fine of $4,000, which is little above the
amount of his stealings. Upon the expira-