Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-14
Straps and fafts.

lIleIu ny uOOu.
The Ohio Legislature has enacted law
prohibiting all dealings in margins" or
Futures" and persons so concerned in such
ling, and subjected to heavy fines and inn
prisonment as gamblers.
The Syracuse Courier is authority for
the statement that the friends of ex-Presi-
dent Arthur will work for his nomination
as Governor of New York this fall. They
intend, if successful, to make it stepping
stone to the Presidential nomination in 1888.
The railroad commission of Alabama
rendered a decision some days ago in which
they hold they cannot regulate freight charg-
es from points outside of the State. Some
complaint was made to them that charges
were greater from New York to one point
in the State than another.
- The frauds in the pension system re-
Gently unearthed in Philadelphia were OF
the most glaring nature. Pensions were
regularly drawn for l02 men long dead and
by widows who had married years ago.
The agent is to be sued for the recovery OF
the money thus wrongfully paid.
- The Massachusetts, Legislature has kill
ed the woman suffrage bill by vote of 13O
to 61. Last year the vote stood IA to so.
The women suffragists are making slow
progress in that State, for such bill has
been up in every legislature since 1865, and
the vote for it this year is smaller than any
year except last year.
An immense crowd gathered in front
of the court house in Richmond, KY, last
Thursday to witness a public sale of ne
groes They were sold into slavery to the
highest and best bidder. One man brought
$38 for II months service, one $14 for three
months, and woman % cents for II
months. The sales were made under the
vagrant laws of the State.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending last Friday, as
reported to r. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile
agency, number for the United Stases 225
and Canada %, making total of 24S against
2O8 the previous week. The failures in the
Southern and Pacific States are unusually
heavy. In other sections, particularly in
the Western States, they are below the
average.
= The secretaries of the Young Mems
Christian Associations of the United States
and Canada met at Chattanooga, Tenn,
last Thursday, in their annual Conference.
This is their first meeting south of Baltimore.
About $50 delegates were present, repre-
senting every State in the Union, and lead
ing Associations of the United States, and
Secretaries from England and Germany
were also present.
Governor Bate, of Tennessee, visited Mr..
Jefferson Davis, at the latter's home, Beau
voir, Miss, on Monday. Mr.. Davis told
Governor Bate that the recent reports of his
illness were prematurely exaggerated, and
that he was enjoying exceeding good health,
with the exception of slight attack of
rheumatism in his ankle. Mr.. Davis walk
ed erect and looked his former SELF with the
exception of his white hair and whiskers.
The Philadelphia Press, Republican
paper, says: "Fred Douglass declares that
If he is relieved of the fat Office he holds
in Washington he will 60 abroad. This
attempt to intimidate the Executive by
desperate threats will hardly succeed. AS
a matter Of fact this Administration seems
possessed of the madly heretical idea that
it can run the Government without Doug
lass. We advise the latter to secure his
passage before the rush of summer travel
begins. He must CO."
The Russian, German and English royal
families are closely allied by blood and
marriage. 1t is said that the women Of the
families have exerted powerful and efec-
tual influence to preserve peace, bringing
in their relative the King of Denmark as
arbitrator. The women are right-God bless
them land they represent beautifully what
IL
sentiment of the world that war, unless it
be fought for freedom, is disgraceful, and
that war like this for petty valley in
Asia would be crowning disgrace"
At meeting the other day of promi-
nent citizens of New Orleans to consider
the feasibility of continuing the exposition
for another year, there was much debate,
and it was finally determined to send
committee to Washington to ascertain if the
government will permit the exhibits to re-
main another season and to ask the War
Department to garrison the grounds with
troops to save the expense of a police force.
On the report of this committee will rest
the question of reopening or not. There
appears to be no trouble in raising the ne
cessary funds to meet the expense.
The members of the Utah Commission
recently declared in Washington that the
effect of the late Mormon declaration and
protest" would do the Mormon cause more
harm than good. First, because it is bold,
unqualified declaration in favor of the dog
ma of polygamy. Secondly, the leaders
who formulated the document have induced
the whole Mormon people apparently to in
dorse the declaration. While there are, no
doubt, many dissentions, yet all have allow
ed themselves to be placed by the leaders
in an attitude unanimously indorsing poly
gamy. This, of course, will be used by
outsiders as an argument for stringent leg
islation."
The way they lynch negroes in Kansas
is thus described in a recent dispatch from
Great Bend, in that State: "The lynching
of George Mack, the negro who killed his
employer, was more terrible than at first
supposed, the crowd having thrown rope
around his neck and dragged him half a
- &Ln toll of hofo hn
strung up. The Sheriff had stopped the
train on which he was bringing his prisoner
from Kansas City, and had alighted half
mile outside this place, but a mob from
Ellenwood was on board and they got off
too and seized the negro. After dragging
him short distance behind the horse it
was found that he was dead, but the yelling
crowd, wild with excitement, went on to
the billiard hall in Great Bend, where
Mack had committed his crime, and there
another crowd was met and the negro
hanged to the awning and bullets fired into
him"
The ordinance board of the United
States army has recommended the cOnstruc-
tion of a monster war balloon for the use
of the government, and Gen. Russell Thay-
er, of Philadelphia, the inventor, has re-
ceived instructions to begin the work. The
tons ascending force be constructed and
that trials be made with it. 1t will cost
nearly $4,000. 1t will be the largest balloon
ever constructed, with diameter OF 60 feet
and a length of 1S5 feet. The "dirigible
war balloon" asst is called, is cigar shaped
machine pointed at both ends, and unlike
ordinary balloons, will sail through the air
longitudinally. 1t is about three times as
long as it is wide. General Thayer claims
that he can lay city in ashes with it in