Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-11-25

mon was tried first and acquitted, and
then Carrie was also acquitted. Next
Solomon was tried with William Wal
ker for the murder of the Negro,
, George Bellinger, and the jury return
ed verdict of not guilty. The Zeig-
lers and Walker were represented in
both cases by the Hon. Thomas E.
Watson, late candidate for vice presi-
dent on the Populist ticket. Intense
interest was manifested at the trial of
the cases, and the joy among the Pop
ulists over the verdicts is very great.
President Cleveland, last week,
asked Governor Bubb of California, to
commute the sentence of Salter D..
Worden, recently condemned to death
for wrecking train during the railroad
strike of 1894 and causing the deaths
of an engineer and three artillerymen.
As a reason for making the request,
the president said that, years ago, he
knew Worden's mother, who was a
music teacher and a great friend. AS
to whether or not the governor of Cal
ifornia will grant the request has not
vet been settled butif he is like many
other politicians of today, he will not
hesitate to set aside the operation OF
Justice for qualification of so powerful
a man as Cleveland.
The Wire Nail trust, which has
been levying tribute upon the people
of the United States and Canada since
June l, 1895, has gone to the wall.
It has overreached itself. Its last
raise in the price was just Is cents a
keg; but this was the feather that
broke the back of the camel. The
demand fell off until the output was
only $4,000 kegs, while the trust had
calculated on an output of 10000
kegs. Just before the trust went
through last Monday, the trust price
of nails was S270 keg in Chicago.
Within 12 hours afterward, agents Of
mill men were offering nailsto jobbers
at $1.7O. The price is still going
downward, and it is expected to fall
to at least $1.25 before the close of
the present week.
"A Washington dispatch of the
18th instant says that the Republican
congressional committee has deter
mined to restrict the number of con-
tests for seats in the house to the
fewest possible number. So far, not
less than 25 or 80 Republican candi-
dates who have been defeated by
Democrats, have notified the Republi-
can congressional committee of al
legged unfairness in the recent election
but in each instance these candidates
have left the matter of contest entirely
with the congressional committee.
This committee has decided, in effect,
that contests are not a good thing for
the party in power, especially when
that party has a large majority, and
does not propose to sanction contests
except in two or three instances, where
there is really good reason to believe
that there has been unfairness.
One of the laws that the new Pop
ulist legislature of Kansas proposes to
enact this winter, is bill making the
Mexican dollar a full legal tender.
This scheme is proposed by S. S. King,
one of the prominent candidates for
United States senator. Populist law
yers and few Republican lawyers be-
lieve that while such coin would not
make legal tender for the payment of
prior obligations, it possibly could be
made to apply to fuCure debts. The
argument is advanced that the con-
stitution of the United States in its
reference to that subject, says that no
state shall make anything but 'gold
and silver" legal tender, failing to
specify against foreign coins of those
metals. The Populist leaders argue
that the United States has on more
than one occasion made foreign coins
legal tender.
A great religious revival is in
progress in New York city. 1t was
commenced on Sunday of last week
at the instance of Rev. A. G. Dixon
and others who had arranged for a
series of sermons by Rev. Dwight l..
Moody. Mr.. Moody delivered his
first sermon in Carnegie Hall. Within
a night or two the attendance became
so great that he had to move to Coop
er Union, and even this vast hall was
not large enough to hold one-half Of
the people who came to the meeting.
The movement quickly spread all over
the city, and it was arranged that
every one of the 500 churches should
be opened every night. Messrs.
Moody, Dixon and others are of opin-
ion that the time is ripe for a great
revival, and they believe that from
New York the present awakening
will rapidly extend to all parts of
the United States, and perhaps all
over the world.
1t is only just now that the news
papers have been able to collect the
precise facts as to the result of the
recent general election. From the
latest returns, in few cases still un-
official, the result stands as follows
For McKinley-California 9, Con-
necticut 6, Delaware 8, Illinois "a,
Indiana Is, Iowa 13, Kentucky II,
Maine 6, Maryland s, Massachusetts
Is, Michigan IA, Minnesota 9, New
Hampshire 4, New Jersey 10, New
York Sc, North Dakota 8, Ohio %,
Oregon 4, Pennsylvania 32, Rhode
Island 4, Vermont 4, West Virginia 6,
Wisconsin IL. Total 272. For Bry-
an-Alabama II, Arkansas s, Colora-
do 4, Florida 4, Georgia Is, Idaho 8,
Kansas 10, Kentucky l, Louisiana 8,
Mississippi 8, Missouri II, Montana 8,
NohrocEo 9 Nayodo Q North roro