Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22
Scraps and fatts.

QeQC OleVeldQu'S ) SAuIlllulSITdtlOll.
From the reports received at Washing
ton, it appears that nearly all the postmas-
tiers speak we'll of the feature of the special
delivery system, and the business is sincreas-
ing. The local matter exceeds outside mat
ter in volume. The reports show that the
letters have been delivered with surprising
promptness.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the Week-ending last
Friday, as reported to the mercantile agen-
cy of R. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 139 and for Canada GA to-
tai of 166 against POI the preceding week.
Failures are below the average in all Sec
tions of the country, and fewer are report
ed from the Southern States than for any
previous week this year.
The docket of the October term of the
United States Supreme Court, now in ses-
sion, contains l, 400 cases, and others are
coming in daily. The court, by reason of
its energetic work during the last four or
five years, has ceased falling further be-
hindhand. Four hundred and sixty cases
were disposed of last year, at which rate,
if continued, the last case on the present
docket will be adjudicated within three
years.
In the New York Criminal Court, on
Monday afternoon, Ferdinand Ward was
arraigned before Judge Barrett, on an indict-
ment charging him with having fraudulent
ly obtained 81 800 by means of an over GER
titled check on the Marine Bank. Ward
deposited check for that amount drawn
on the First National Bank where he had
little or no money. He then drew against
this worthless check, having received GER
tilted document from the Marine Bank.
His lawyer pleaded not guilty, and the case
went over until to-day.
- The President carries his idea ofnon-in-
reference in the affairs of the States so far
that he will not 60 the Virginia State Fair,
lest his trip be misconstrued into cam
paign expedition in the Old Dominion. The
fair is held at date when the whole State
will be in political ferment, and were he
to 90 into the State under such circumstan-
ces the visit could not be made simply a
social event. AS the President is anxious
to separate his office from political machin-
cry, he feels it would be out of place to
make the journey.
The only Republican candidate for the
Legislature positively known to be defeat
ed in Hamilton county, Ohio, is Rob-
ert Harlan, venerable mulatto whose
chief occupation is wagering money on
horse-races. Harlan is native OF Ken sc
lucky, and at one time held small office
in the postal department through President
Grants personal liking for him. 1t is not
known whether the Republicans scratched
him because of his negro blood or his i'm
moral practice of buying pools on equine
contests.
- The October election has already been
abolished in Indiana. 1t happily disappears
in Ohio. Now the only remaining October
States will be Georgia and West Virginia,
which are of no political Significance or
Importance. With the change in Ohio, all
but eleven States of the thirty-eight in the
Union will vote for State officers on the
day fixed for the general election, Tuesday
the exceptions Maine, Vermont and Arkan-
sas vote in September, Alabama and Ten
nessee in August and the rest in the spring.
- Dakota is not yet admitted into the
Union as State. 1t is not likely to be for
quite long while to come. Still there is
fierce contention going on there for the
United States Senatorship all the same as
if Dakota was admitted. That tells the
story of the one big motive behind the des-
perate agitation for the State of Dakota. 1t
is Federal office-tWo United States Senators
in addition to member of Congress. I'm
der the circumstances the contest out there
between Judge Edgerton and Judge Moody
for an Office not yet in existence is some
thing like the engagement of a widoWer
while attending his wife's funeral.
1t is reported from New Mexico that
various counties in that territory have offer
ed, or are about to offer, rewards of from
$3.50 to $500 each for the scalps of "buck"
Indians, and that the ranchmen and cow
boys are organizing armed bodies to 90
on an old fashioned Indian hunt. The
simplicity of this scheme, which assum-
es that all Indians are alike and none
good except the dead, is only equalled ny
its shocking brutality. The same reports
state that the popular sentiment in favor of
the removal of General Cook is very gener-
al on the ground that he is not up to the
local standard as an Indian fighter.
C. w. Butler, of st. Louis, is the old
est living graduate of West Point Academy.
He is in his eighty-sixth year, graduated
in 1920, eighth in his class, and was then
commissioned in the Engineer Corps. He
married grandniece of George Washing
the army from civil life as colonel of the
Third Dragons, serving in Mexico during
the war. He was in Louisiana during the
civil war, but did not serve the Confedera
cy. He had two sons in the service. His
daughter is the wife of Col. Williamson,
during Grants first administration Minister
to the Central American States.
The trial of William Gooch and James
A. Smith, young white men, for the muir
der of John A. Cheatham, a merchant of
Raleigh, n. c., ended last Saturday, after
continuance of two weeks. A verdict of
murder was rendered as to both by the
jury. Judge Walter Clark sentenced them
to be hanged November 18th. An appeal
to the Supreme court was granted. The
murder was committed last June in Cheath-
ANS store, and James Cheatham, a brother
Of the murdered man, was terribly stabbed.
Fhe trial excited the most intense interest.
GoecHs wife and three small children were
in theS&ourt room and heard the sentence
passed.
The Illinois Central road is chiefly own
ed in England. The capital of Great Britain
has an enormous grip upon many other cor
porations in this country. Millions of acres
of American soil are in English hands, and
so are the best gold and silver mines. The
New York Telegraph says: "British intiu-
ence, British money, British policy, seek to
America The Golden Club sends emissa-
ries to preach British free trade, there are
Americans that can be bought to work for
the interests of foreign nation, to break
down the wages of labor, to blast and mil
dew the young but vigorous enterprises that
give employment to our people and stand
in the way of the greed of foreign commrce
and foreign industry"
John w. Coffee was hanged at Craw-
fordsville, Indiana, last Friday. The drop
fell at 1882 o'clock. He was hanged for
the murder of an old man named Nc
Mullen and his wife in January last, the
house being burned afterwards to hide the
crime. During his Imprisonment he made