Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30
SGraps and faets.

IA MISSISSIPPI court has decided In a case
against a colored congregation that the right
of freedom of worship does not imply the
right to such shouting and singing as dis
turbs the neighborhood.
Hon. VIM. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa, it is
stated has written a letter to one of his con
stituents, in which he says that the office of
the Secretary of the Treasury has been Of
ffered to him by President Cleveland, and
that he shall assume its duties Immediately
after Secretary Manning retires in October.
The decision of the U. S. Supreme
Court last week that the Cherokees are a
foreign nation, and on that ground quashing
certain indictments for fraud upon them,
caused a great deal of comment in Washing
ton. 1t is likely to have an important
effect upon future legislation touching the
Indians.
1t is estimated that the parliamentary
elections in Great Britain cost each candi-
didate on an average $4,000. The House of
Commons consists of go members. There
will probably be over 300 candidates du-
ring the coming campaign. A deal of mon
ey will soon change hands in the mother
country.
AT V%inciennes, Ind, on the 18th, there
was q single graduate of the public schools;
acolored girl named Grace Brewster. Eight
white girls who were in the same class re-
fused to graduate with her, and she appear
ed on the stage alone and read her essay
to great crowd which gave many NANTES
tations of approval. Five OF the white girls
are daughters of Republican fathers.
-Twenty-seven postal clerks on Western
railroads who led in a movement to organ
ize all the clerks to resign simultaneously so
soon as one of their number was discharged
for causes believed to be insufficient, have
been fired out by the Postmaster-general
giving twenty-seven good Democrats a
chance. It seems the ringleaders were
under charges and were working to protect
themselves.
Herman Reedle was digging a we'll at
McAllister, ]. II. He arranged a charge for
blasting, lighted the fuse and was hoisted
toward the surface forty feet above. When
half way up the rope broke and he fell to
the bottom. He tried to grasp and extin-
ploded, Herman was blown nearly to the
top of the we'll and fell back dead with
every Done in his body broken.
"A Clinton, Iowa, special says in an en-
counter between saloonists and prohibition
lists, four of the former, named Forsee, Fed
derson, Hart and Rhodes, were shot, none
of them being fatally wounded. The mar
shall, judge and Frank Hillerman were jail
ed, charged with doing the shooting. The
saloon element were threatening to lynch
the judge and Hillerman, and declare the
Jail will be blown up if necessary to get
them.
The vote taken in Nova Scotia last week
on the question of separation from the Can
adian confederation was overwhelmingly in
favor of separation. Only one of the eigh-
teen counties voted against it, and that
one-Cape Breton county-has a pledge
from the Dominion government that it will
build q railway which will be agreat benefit
to the county. Of the 3S members returned
to the Dominion parliament, 81 are in
favor of seeding.
Willow the whirligig of time changes men
land things. At the close of the war Parson
Brownlow, then Military Governor of Ten
nessee, drove his predecessor, Isham G.
Harris, out of the country by offering a re-
ward of $1,000 for his capture. A few days
Tennessee, introduced O bill for the relief
of the widow of Parson Brownlow, and
heartily supports it.
- The seventeen-year locusts have appear
ed at Ashford, in Eastern Connecticut, and
the din they make fills the country and is
heard for miles. Just seventeen years ago
they appeared in this part of the country.
The do no damage. Mysteriously they ap-
pear, their deafening cry is heard for a few
weeks, and then they suddenly disappear.
Many people have visited Ashford to see
the locusts. There is a peculiar mark on the
back Of the insect, which is interpreted to
mean either war or peace for the country.
"A Detroit, Minnesota, dispatch of Thurs
day, says: William Kelaher alias "Reddy,"
who killed officer Convey yesterday while
resisting arrest, was taken from Jail last
night by a large crowd Of disguised men,
escorted toa reighboring grove, hung to the
limb of a tree and his body riddled with
bullets. Sheriff Pinney attempted to de-
fend his prisoner but was overpowered.
Kelaher was a gambler, and was known in
Minneapolis, where he lived for a time, as
a hard character.
The ancient city of Tarsus, where the
Apostle Paul was born, has & railroad. Brit
ish capitalists are constructing a railway in
Asia Minor, the first section of which, from
Mersina to Tarsus, has just been officially
inaugurated. The opening of the road was
made the occasion of a grand jubilee, in
which the local officials heartily joined. A
dozen sheep were sacrificed, there were re-
ligious benedictions, speeches, and then a
free excursion to the notabilities. Some
Arab dignataries, however, would not trust
their lives on the train, saying they would
wait till they saw how the extraordinary
English c~ontrivance worked.
An Alexandria, La, dispatch says:
GAS reports come in the damgage by the
deluge of last week is growing more and
more serious throughout the parishes. The
people now begin to see the terrible calami-
ty which has visited them, and they shrink
at the very thought Of it. To put the mat
ter gently, they have been almost ruined
and many see starvation staring them in
the face. At this time many places in the
Parish are still under water. The corn crop
is a failure. Cotton is almost ruined and
but little will be made. The hill people
are greatest sufferers and they are too poor
to help themselves. Aid will have to be
furnished Them"
- The political pot is beginning to boil in
North Carolina. At the electionin Novem-
Der next there are to be chosen three Su-
preme Court Judges, seven Judges of the
Superior Court, nine Congressman, men,
bers of the Legislature, nine Solicitors and
County officers. There will be opposition
all around and a heated contest is looked
for among the Democrats. There is n con-
cealment among the leading Democrats of
their opposition to the civil service law, and
they intend to vent their anger upon Con-
gresham w. r. Cox. Mr.. Cox has served
his third term, and this, with his support
of the President in attempting to enforce
civil service reform, has stirred up a hor-
nets nest that threatens to sting him into
political retirement.
"A st. Louis dispatch of Saturday mar
rates the following extensive sWindle in
cotton: One of the biggest cotton sWindles
on record has Just been successfully executed
in this market. 1t was worked by a buyer
who formerly had headquarters in Hope,
Ark, but now does business from Texark-