Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-12-01

ne from other counties. Clay county mas
good order, peace and prosperity within her
borders. These are facts about Clay county.
They need no comment.
The Presidential widows are much more
tenacious of life than the Presidents or
Vice Presidents. The country is paving
yearly annuities of 5000 each to the wild
ow Of President Tyler, the widow of Pres
ident Polk, the widow of President Grant
and the widow of President Garfield, and
only "a few years ago ceased paying a like
annuity to the widow of Abraham Lin
coin. Mrs. Tyler was married when her
husband was President, and has survived
the Tyler reign full forty-five years, and
Mrs. Polk has survived the Polk Admins
tration full forty-one years.
- Hon. VIM. D. Kelly, Congressman from
the Fourth district of Pennsylvania, who
Is visiting Birmingham with a party OF
Northern people, accepted an invitation to
address the people of Birmingham last Sat-
urdcy afternoon on the mineral resources OF
the South and the bearing thereon of the
tariff. Touching the wages paid common
labor, Mr.. Kelly said he would 60 back
home and tell his people that the negro
laborers of Alabama and Tennessee were as
well paid as the white laborers in Pennsyls
vania. This announcement was received
with great applause. Mr.. Kelly's attention
has been called to Blaine's statement that
negro iron workers in the South were paid
as low as sixty cents.
The singular accident to Senator Hamp-
toms horse, says the New York Tribune,
recalls similar mishap which befell the
mount of his elder brother. Exit" Hamp-
ton, as he was Familiarity known, had his
summer home in Cashiers Valley, a roman.
tic spot In the mountains of Western North
Carolina. He was on horseback and was
shooting geese and quail on the TANKS OF
Hog Back Mountain. Most inopportunely
his horse, finely-bred animal, threw up
his head just as Mr.. Hampton was firing
and received the charge in his brain. The
natives assert that Mr.. Hampton used to
speak of that compulsory walk home, load
ed with saddle and bride, as one of the
great trials of his life.
Der of the Labor Committee of the present
Congress and the most active member OF
the House on the special committee to in
vestigate the labor troubles of the South
west last Spring, gives it as his opinion that
the Labor party will in 1888 place Presi-
dental candidate in the field. He thinks
it possible for the Knights of Labor and
the Farmers Alliance to form a combination
which will make very formidable party
and result in giving the other parties con-
siderable annoyance, and possibly throw
the election of President into the House of
Representatives. He estimates that the
surprise many of the leaders of the Demo
cratic and Republican parties.
- Says the Philadelphia Record: "Under
the management of Mr.. J. Milton Turner,
an attempt Is to he made to establish a COM
munity of colored families on $4,000 acres
of timbered land of good quality in Butler
county, Missouri. Arrangements have been
made to sell the land on easy terms, and
take the pay for it in logs, ties, &C., as the
work Of clearing progresses. We doubt If
Mr.. Turner's colony succeeds. Itrequires q
great deal of patience, steadiness and hard
work to bring forest land into condition for
planting. The colored citizen, as general
thing, is averse to sustained labor. He
prefers his ease even if he purchased it at
the cost of some privation. He has not the
stuff in him for colonist or frontiers
man."
The United States Express Company,
taking warning from the late robbery from
an Adams Express Company car, has plac-
ed on its cars new fire and burglar proof safes,
which are bolted to the side Of the car.
The express messengers do not carry the
"
and they cannot be opened by them or any
one else on the train. They are only open
ed at leading stations by the station agent,
who gets on the train for that purpose,
and locks them again safely before the car
leaves the station. By this arrangement
all collision between dishonest messengers
and express robbers is prevented, and the
safes cannot be forced open without consum-
ing longer time than would be necessary
to carry out the deed.
AN Atlanta dispatch says: McGee, the
member of the Legislature from Murray, is
in fair way to achieve fame. He is Op-
posed to monopolies and big cities. He was
elected as special representative of the
knights of Labor. After his election he
called meeting Of his constituents. The
meeting came to the conclusion that there
were too many rich folks, and that their
increase should be cut off. The result is
that bill has been introduced in the Geor-
gia Legislature to limit the profits on ''store
goods" It is provided that merchants shall
not charge profit of over Is per cent on the
necessaries of life, such as corn, flour, bacon,
and coffee. Penalties are provided for spec
ulating outside of these figures. The friends
of the bill aver that it will bring about a
revival of prosperity among the poor; that
the State has as much right to regulate
mercantile profits as it has railroad rates,
and that laws should be made for the bene-
fit of the poor entirely. The serious part of
the matter is that, notwithstanding the alb
surdity of the bill, it stands chance of
passing the House.
From the time Congress meets until it
adiourns on March there will be seventy
six working days. Deducting fourteen days
for the holidays there will be sixty-two
working days in which to pass the fourteen
regular appropriation bills, any three of
which consumed that number of days last
session in their consideration. But the elec-
tion is over and with it the demand for
stump speeches. This is why the same ap-
preparation bills for the next fiscal year
can be 80 rapidly disposed of during the
mittee, as Mr.. Randall's is called, has charge
of the legislative, executive and judicial,
sundry civil, fortifcations, District of Co.
lumbia, pensions and general deficiency
bills. The river and harbor appropriation
bill is prepared by the committee of that
name and so is the agricultural bill: The
consular and diplomatic is prepared by the
foreign affairs committee, the army and
Military Academy bills by the committee
on Military affairs, the naval establishment
and appropriations for its support by the
naval committee, the support of postottices
and postroads by the postoffice committee,
and the support of Indians by the committee
Oh Indian affairs. The most important bills
are still in Mr.. Randall's committee.
"A Montgomery, Alabama, dispatch says:
The prohibition wave which has swept
over South Carolina and Georgia has reach
ed Alabama, and the prospect is that there
will be lively fight before the Legislature
for local option. The Representatives from
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