Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-13
Straps and faGts.

middle of July.
The fish commission car left Havre de
Grace last Sunday with million and a half
of shad for Broad and Saluda rivers, South
Carolina.
Mr.. Davis arrived at his home, Beau
voir, Miss, last Saturday evening, after hav-
ing visited several towns and cities in
Georgia.
- The county commissioners of Mecklen-
burg, n. c., have ordered an election on
prohibition for the city of Charlotte on the
first Monday in June.
Owing to the excitement in Chicago Mr..
Moody has suspended a series of meetings
which he had contemplated conducting in
that city.
- The ub-Congressional committee to in
vestigate the labor troubles of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad are now in st. Louis taking
the testimony of railroad officials.
Eight thousand persons attended Sam
Jones' first meeting in Baltimore on Sun
day night. The meeting will continue sew
eral weeks.
The general executive committee of the
knights of Labor a sexpelled Martin Irons,
of st. Louis, from the organization. HIS
d%isobedience of orders and his refusal to
arbitrate the Missouri Pacific strike troubles
constitute the basis of action.
"A moonlight mirage was lately witness
ed in Illinois. The moon was shining
brightly, but a dense fog hung over the flat
lands near st. Joseph, and the passengers
in a railway train saw a phantom train sus-
pended in air under the fog bank. The ap-
partition was visible for several moments.
Tennessee will vote on the local option
question next fall. In accordance with a
law requiring six. months publication of
the constitutional amendment which is then
to be adopted or rejected, Governor Bate
has issued a proclamation setting forth the
amendment itself, and the campaign is now
fairly open.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last week, re-
ported to r. G.. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 1877, Canada Is, total 1872
against POI last week and 1874 the week
previous. Business casualties appear to be
about up to the average in all sections OF
the country. In New York City they are
very light.
A serious riot occurred at the McCor-
mick Reaper works in Chicago on Monday
of last week. Six thousand men riddled
the works with all kinds of missiles. The
police force promptly gathered and fired
into the crowd, %wounding a good many OF
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dissatisfaction among the laboring men,
and something should be done to prevent
the wholesale destruction of lives and prop
erty.
Says the New York World: "Gen. Long
street, although a good republican since the
war, took part in the Atlanta ovation to
Jefferson Davis last week in full Confeder-
ate uniform. His reconciliation was COM
plete and cordial. Negro field hands salut-
ed the train bearing the ex-Confederate
Chieftain as he swept from Montgomery
to Atlanta, and white militia companies
marched behind negro bands in doing hon
or to the old gentleman. We are a long
distance from 1861 after ALL"
On Friday the Senate confirmed the
nominations of Collectors Jervey, Richard
son and Ward and District Attorney YOU
mans. There has never been any contro-
versy over the first three gentlemen, but
Senator Edmunds had a personal grudge
against Mr.. Youmans, and he did every
thing in his power to defeat his confirma-
ton. Senators Butler and Hampton ap-
peared before the judiciary committee on
several occasions and convinced a majority
of the members that there was no founda-
ton for Senator Edmunds' attack, thus
securing the favorable recommendation,
which assured his confirmation.
- Discussing the recent utterances of Mr..
Jefferson Davis at Montgomery and other
Southern cities, the Boston Journal, a Re-
publican sheet, displays more practical
sense than most of it's contemporaries. 1t
says: The attachment of the South to the
Confederacy, however ~eXtravagant Its en-
preston, is for the most part one of sentl-
ment. 1t is a sentimental cause which they
mourn; a cause lost, and which the Wisest
of them would not find if they could. If
the question were put to the Intelligent peo-
pie of the South to-day: "Would you, if
you could make the States which entered
the Rebellion a separate governmental the
answer would be, we are confident, unhesi-
tatingly negative. we believe TINS because
the most prominent men from the South
practically admitted that it is better as it is,
and because the press of the South, which
expresses the sentiment of the intelligence
of the South, have time and again declared
that the present order of things is better
than any change based upon the theory of a
division of the Republic could be.
In the Senate last Monday and Tues
day were devoted to the discussion of
the inter State bill, which was
under discussion all of last week, and it
was expected that a vote would be reached
on it before adjournment Tuesday. 1t is
the understanding that the general pen
sion bill shall next be taken up, and that
the bankruptcy bill, the open session res
olutions, the Chinese restriction bill and
the Pacific Railroad debt extension. bill
shall follow in their order. 1t is possible,
however that, not more than one or two of
these measures will be disposed of during
the week. The appropriation committee
has the agricultural, the pension and the
District of Columbia appropriation bills
under consideration, and it's sub commit
tees have made such progress that one or
more of them may he brought in speedily
if desired, but none is likely to be reported
or brought up for action this week.
The May crop report of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington indicates an
improvement in wheat during April of W
points, with a general average of the condi-
tion at s.. There is no marked change any
where, but a light change is noted in the
Ohio Valley, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee,
the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland. The
average last year was 70; the season has
been favorable, and the crop more advanced
than usual. The averages in the principal
States are New York So; Pennsylvania 95;
Ohio 81; Michigan 81; Indiana 50; Hi
nois 80; Missouri 10l Kansas 81. The con-
dition of rye averages Sc; barley 81. Cot
ton planting has been delayed by cold rains
on the Atlantic coast and by overtiows on
the Gulf coast. The proportion to be plant
ed in May averages 20 per cent. In aver
age years the proportion does not exceed II
or Is per cent. The stand is necessarily de-
fective on wet areas, but replanting is rap
idly filling gaps. The proportions already
planted are as follows: North Carolina 10;
South Carolina 80; Georgia SO; Florida 81;
Alabama 80; Mississippi 76; Louisiana II;
Texas 81; Arkansas 50; Tennessee II.