Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 06, 1876, Image 2
$>itraps and Jacts.
? The large Atlantic steamers are said to
be losing $20,000 by each trip.
? Twelve hundred men and boys are on a '
strike at Pottsville, Pa., against a reduction j
of wages.
? Rowell's Reporter notes the collapse of
twenty-two newspapers during the week ending
March 25.
? Major Lewis Merrill has been relieved
from duty at the Centennial. No reason is
assigned for the removal.
? Said an Irishman: "It's a mighty fine
thing to be alone; especially when your
swateheart is wid ye."
? The identical chairs and desks of Cass,
Calhoun. Webster. Clav. Douglas and Ben
toil, still remain in the senate chamber, and
are in daily use.
? The Woodworth paper mill in Norwich,
Conn., received, a few days ago, among its
rags and old paper to be ground up, 850,000,000
in cancelled United States bonds.
? The seniors of Wesleyan Female College,
at Macon, Georgia, in view of the hard times,
have resolved to graduate in calico, and so
save their parents the cost of three white
dresses usually required for such occasions.
? The Supreme court of Georgia have
unanimously decided that the head of a family
can waive, both for himself and his family, the
right to homestead, thus enabling people to
create a valid lien on the full value of their
property.
? It is reported that President Grant is anxinn?
trk sell t.bft Tinner Rranoh mansion before
the expiration of his term, and that he is looking
for a purchaser. It is also said that the
President will spend the summer at Newport
instead of the Branch, this year.
? The following sentence from George
William Cyrtis, editor of Harper's Weekly,
has a pungent flavor: "Fine professions of
reform with candidates who are themselves
constituent parts of the thing to be reformed,
will not carry the country."
? At a town meeting in New England, recently,
an old farmer spoke strongly against
making a large appropriation for the schools,
saying that education does not make a person
honest, but rather tended to dishonesty, citing
Winslow, Babcock, Belknap, Orvil Grant and
Gen. Schenck as illustrations of the evil effects
of a liberal education.
? That was an unique speech made by a
.man who was recently hanged at Hamilton,
Canada, for the brutal murder of his landlord.
Instead of expressing contrition, and
admonishing others not to follow his example,
he referred to the fate of the murdered
man, and hoped it might be a warning to
other landlords who persist in dunning impecunious
tenants. There is an originality
about this speech seldom found in the remarks
of those who are about to leap into eternity
through the instrumentality of a noose.
? Mr. O'Flaherty undertook to tell how
many were at the party : "The two Crogans
was one, myself was two, Mike Finn was three,
^ wVn-v moa ^Aliw9 T.nf YY? a onfl"
anu auu nuu nao ivui i ajov *uw ow
(counting on his finger:) "The two Crogans
was one, Mike Finn was two, myself was three,
and?bedad! there was four of us, but I
couldn't tell the name of the other. Now, it's
meself that has it. Mike Finn was one, the
two Crogans was two, and myself was three?
and?by my soul, I think there was but three
of us after all."
? If the Centennial Exposition costs 87,500,000,
the amount claimed to complete it, the
Philadelphia Ledger computes that in order
simply to realize this sum, it will be necessary
for 15.000.000 neonle to visit it once, at the
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price of admission, fifty cents; and as the time
is confined to 158 days, from May 10th to November
10th, deducting Sundays, on which it
will be closed, it will require the daily attendance,
of over 94,900 people.. From the<ja fig.
ures may be formed some idea of the crowd
and bustle in that city during the next six
months succeeding the 10th of May.
? An enterprising grocer at Santa Clara,
California, has adopted an original method of
doing business. Each side of his store is fitted
up for business on his own account In the
general arrangement, each side is a duplicate
of the other, the difference being that one side
is cash and the other credit. When a customer
comes in, the first question asked is, "Do
you wish to buy for cash or on account ?" If
it is a cash customer, the goods and prices on
the cash side are shown; but if-it is one who
wants credit, he is shown to the other side, and
for the first time in his life, perhaps, made to
realize the value of ready money.
? Mr. Howard, who lives near Parkersville,
Lyon county, Ky., shot a crow, sitting
in a tree in his yard, one day last week. In
a lot near by a young colt was standing. At
the crack of the gun the colt fell. Mr. How.
nrH\i ohildren. who witnessed the shootimr.
when they saw the colt fall, exclaimed,
"Lord ! pa, you have killed the colt." The
old man was astounded when he looked and
saw the colt in the agpnies of death. He
knew he shot at the crow?did not point the
gun in the direction of the colt. He ran to
the colt; sure enough, the colt was dead.
There was nothing to show that a shot had
struck the colt?could not have possibly
struck him, yet he died?literally frightened
to death.
? The diamonds sent by the Khedive of
Egypt to General Sherman's daughter, still
lay in the New York custom house for want
of somebody to pay the duties on them. In
June they will be in the category of unclaimed
goods, and will be sold for duties and
charges. Congress gave Lieutenant Fitch
permission to receive the gifts for his wife, but
did not remit the duties. The duties amount
to 840,000?a sum General Sherman is
uuable to pay, while he is unwilling to ask a
release from the payment of the government
claim. The revenue officials are not disposed
to grant a free permit for the diamonds, and
the Turkish ambassador, who might receive
them, will not ask for their return, because
the Khedive is only a vassal of Turkey. On
the whole, Mrs. Fitch's splendid present is not
quite so much of an object of envy as it
might be under other circumstances.
? In an exchange we find the following assuring
paragraph in regard to the use of
kerosene oil as an illuminator: "On this
subject there is high scientific authority for
the assertion that coal oil will not explode on
very slight provocation. The trouble is not in
the oil itself, but in the gas which rises from it,
and the oil is dangerous or safe in proportion
to the amount of gas it gives off. There is a
"fire test" standard for determining the relative
safety of the illuminating oils offered in
the market, and everything under 110 degrees
fire test is considered unsafe. Three simple
rules, if faithfully observed, will make coal
oil as safe as gas. Buy from a merchant
whom you can depend on for having the oil
he sells properly tested, keep the oil in your
lamp above the middle of the chamber, and
be sure that the wick fills all the channel designated
for it. Then you can carry the lamp
around the house, blow down the chimney, or
do any thing you please with it; your only re
maining chance of becoming a martyr to kerosene,
is to attempt to "help" the kitchen fire
with it. That seldom fails."
? The revolting frauds in connection with
the placing of head-stones over the soldiers'
graves in the national cemeteries, is confirmed
by Franklin Warren, of Cromwell, Conn.,
who last year had a sub-contract for setting
head-stones at the graves of Union soldiers in
Louisiana. There were several thousand of I
them. He put up marble head-stones, six j
inches square and twoand a half feet in length,
setting them two feet in the ground. He
used a large auger-like instrument to make '
the holes. He was given the lines of the heads
of graves by a government engineer. But he I
found the graves were irregular, and in boring !
frequently struck coffins and bodies of bones.
They were just under the surface; not so deep j
as he was required to dig. In striking these
bones it was found necessary to cut through!
them, and in this work he found that many of j
them were the legs of mules, or parts of mule I
carcasses. The contractors, who had received
$20 per body for burying the soldiers in
regular order, had used the bones of mules, as
well as those of the soldiers, to swell their income,
and had made every mule go as far as
possible, receiving from the government, of
course, $20 for each mule leg put into a coffin
and buried.
forfevillr inquirer.
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THE LEGISLATURE.
The Charleston News and Courier of Friday
last, publishes a complete list of the captions
of the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the
General Assembly, passed and ratified up to
the date of the recess, embracing 195 acts
and 32 joint resolutions. The great majority
of the acts are of a local character, and
possess no interest except to the persons directly
interested. From the list we select the fol- 1
lowing, which are of either general or local interest.
to onr renders :
An Act to make appropriation for the payment
of the salary and mileage of the members of the
General Assembly, and the salaries of the subordinate
officers and employees, and other expenses I
incidental thereto. i
Joint Resolution authorizing and directing the
State treasurer to borrow a sufficient amount of
money for the payment of the members and employees
of the General Assembly.
An Act to raise supplies for thetiscal year, commencing
November 2,1875. i
An Act to regulate the distribution of moneys ,
recovered from officers of this State in suits 1
brought upon their official bonds, or otherwise.
An Act to incorporate the Chester and Union
Railroad Company. i
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for the
protection and preservation of useful animals."
An Ajjt to limit the charges of advertising cer- 1
tain notices.
An Act to amend Section 3, Chapter XXIV of
the Revised Statutes, relating to the bonds of probate
judges.
An Act to amend Section 1, Chapter L of the
Revised Statutes relating to fences. i
An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate
the appointment and salary of trial justices in
and for the county of Chester.
An Act to make the survivors of parties to a (
transaction impeached for fraud, competent and
compellable to testify in certain cases. j
An Act to amend an act entitled an act requiring
a bond from county commissioners before en- *
tering upon the duties of their office. <
An Act to recharter Howell's Ferry, on the
boundary line of York and Union counties, in
the name or J. S. K. Thomson. j
An Act to authorize trial justices to grant new
trials.
An Act to authorize the town council of Gaffney |
City, in Spartanburg county, to adopt, lay out, .
open, widen, extend and alter certain streels. 1
An Act concerning hawkers and peddlers. ,
An Act to incorporate the "own of Jonesville,
in Union county.
An Act to incorporate the Town of Chestnut v
Grove, in the county of Chester.
A-n A nt trt ^U?hnri79 and rpqniro the Governor
to appoint one additional trialjustice roFFalrneld
and Spartanburg counties.
An Act to provide for the filling of vacancies in |
the office of circuit solicitors.
An Act to enable purchasers of railroads to {
form corporations, and to exercise corporate pow- j
ers, and to define their rights, powers and privi- .
leges. J
An Act to amend an act entitled an act to re- (
duce all acts and parts of acts in relation to county
commissioners, their powers and duties, into J
one act, and to amend the same. <
An Act to prohibit county treasurers from
charging Commissions on school funds paid out <
by them. j
An Act to provide for the payment of rewards
offered to secure the punishment of crimes. J
An Act to require all persons authorized by .
law to disburse money for the State, to publish a
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iiiuutuij owiroiucuii
An Act to amend Section 2, of Chapter LI, of .
the Revised Statutes, relating to the storage of
cotton. '
An Act to fix the salaries of certain public of- i
ficers.
An Act to amend an act to divide the State into i
five Congressional Districts.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. J
In the Senate on the 27th, a petition was i
presented from the business men of Rich- '
raoud, Va., against the repeal of the bankrupt
law. In the House, while in committee '
of the whole on appropriations for the defi
ciency in the printing and engraving bureau,
an amendment was offered authorizing the
issue of not over fifty millions of silver coin.
Pending debate, the House adjourned without
action.
In the Senate on the 28th, the bill removing
the disabilities of J. J. Gholsou, of Mississippi,
passed. The consular and diplomatic
bill was resumed. The merchants of Atlanta,
Ga., petitioned against the repeal of the
bankrupt law. Adjourned.
Tn the Spnatp on the 29th. the committee
oil the judiciary reported a uniform bankrupt
bill, amendatory to the bankrupt laws now in
force. The bill provides that no voluntary
assignment by a debtor of all his property,
heretofore or hereafter made in good faith,
for the benefit of all his creditors ratably,
and without creating any preference, and
valid according to the law of the State when
made, shall of itself, in the event of his being
subsequently adjudicated bankrupt in a
proceeding of involuntary bankruptcy, be a
bar to the discharge of such a debtor. In
the House, the bill providing for the expenses
of the admission of goods for the Centennial
passed. The bill providing for the redemption
of unused stamps passed. The bill fixing
military salaries was taken up and passed?
yeas, 141; nays, 61. The bill reduces the
aalapioc nf nffiners nf the armv half a million
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of dollars per annum. The legislative appropriation
bill was next taken up. The item .
fixing the salary of Senators at $4,500 was
passed. All amendments to the mileage system
were rejected. The item allowing the
Senate $100,000 for clerks, messengers, etc.,
was discussed to adjournment.
In the Senate on the 30th, the consideration i
of Morton's resolution to investigate affairs in j
Mississippi was resumed and occupied the entire
session. In the House, Mr. Knott, of the j
judiciary committee, presented articles of im-!
peachment against Belknap. There are five !
articles, but the specifications, though confin- j
ed exclusively to the Fort Sill transactions, :
are unknown. Mr. Campbell, of Illinois, introduced
a bill for a commission of three per- ,
sons, one of whom at least shall be practically j
identified with the laboring interests of the
country, who shall hold office for one year, \
and who shall investigate the subject of the ,
wages and hours of labor, and of the division i
of the joint profits of labor and capital between ;
the laborer and the capitalist, and the social, j i
educational and sanitary condition of the laboring
classes of the United States, and how
the same are affected by existing laws regu-!
lating" commerce, finance and currency. Re- j
ferred. Mr. Reagan's amendment to substi-'
tute silver for fractional currency, making silver
legal tender to the amount of fifty dol
lars, was adopted?yeas, 112; nays, 95. All
other amendments were voted down.
In the Senate on the 31st, the Mississippi
investigation resolutions were resumed, during
which discussion Mr. Key, of Tennessee,
who was the only one of the Democrats who
voted for the resolutions, made a conciliatory
and dispassionate speech. After further debate
Christiancy's substitute for Morton's
original bill was adopted?yeas, 27; nays, 19.
The resolution as adopted provides for a committee
of five Senators to be appointed by the
chair, to visit the State of Mississippi and investigate
the manner in which the last elec
tion was conducted, and report to the Senate
before the end of the present session. The
bill appropriating $163,000 for printing and
engraving, with amendment, substituting silver
coin for redemption of fractional currency,
passed by a vote of 122 to 100. It directs
the secretary of the treasury to issue
silver coin for the redemption of fractional
currency. Coins of a dollar in value shall
be a legal tender for fifty dollars. Smaller
silver coin shall be a legal tender for sums
less than twenty-five dollars. In the House
the committee of ways and means reported
a bill to define the tax on fermented and
malt liquors. Passed. Also, directing the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue to fix
places where Collectors and Supervisors of
Revenue shall hold their offices. Passed.
The proceedings of either House on the
1st of April were unimportant. Monday last
was the day fixed for calling up the articles
impeaching Belknap. By special request on
their part, the Confederate members of Congress
were excused from serving on the board
of managers in the impeachment case.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
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? unarieston is luxuriating on strawoernes
and sweet milk ; the former at thirty-five and
the latter at ten cents per quart.
? The blackberry crop of Mollohon, in Newberry
county, was cut off by the frost, and that
section is in mourning.
? Mayor Alexander has appointed T. M.
Wilkes, Esq., to be city attorney of Columbia,
in place of L. C. Northrop, Esq., resigned
to assume the judgeship of the Seventh Circuit.
? Mrs. Dr. Vampill, of Marion, who has
been in attendance on lectures at the woman's
medical college, of Philadelphia, has returned.
She is the first lady medical student of
South Carolina.
? Mr. C. H. Baldwin, the Deputy United
States Treasurer at Charleston, on Thursday
last, received $10,000 in silver for the purpose
of redeeming fractional currency. This is
the first installment of the $50,000 in coin allotted
to Charleston under the specie resump
tion act. Mr. Baldwin will receive $10,000
each day for five days for the purposes named.
? The steamer Planter, which in May, 1862,
was taken past the*Confederate batteries in
Charleston harbor, and run out to the blockading
fleet by her slave crew, under command
of Robert Smalls, colored, now member of
Congress from the Fifth District of this State,
was wrecked near Cape Romain light-house,
in the vicinity of Georgetown, last week.
From the time the Planter was stolen, until
the close of the war, she was used as a United
States transport, under the command of Smalls,
who was commissioned in the volunteer navy.
A.t the close of the war she was sold to her
former owner, Captain John Ferguson.
The NnnR.nrijrt (\\wri*r of Sit-.
iirday, in regard to the silver coin received
by the United States treasurer in that city,
jays: "Within the past two days the assis;ant
United States treasurer, at this point,
ias received four ten-gallon kegs of silver
join, amounting in value to $20,000, as follows:
$6,000 in dimes; $6,000 in quarters; and
58,000 in halves, all coined during the present
year, and designed for the redemption of
fractional currency. A number of persons
applied at the treasurer's office yesterday for
i share of the new coin, but were informed
ihat the redemption would not commence until
orders were received from. Washington,
which would not be issued until the passage
by Congress of the pending act to substitute
lilver for fractional currency."
? The merchants of Sumter have organized
a merchants' union for self-protection. The
association proposes to keep two books, one for
white and the other for colored customers, in
which will be entered the names af all parties
with whom any member of the association
may have had unsatisfactory transactions.
Each member of the union is bound, without
favor, to communicate to the other members,
through the secretary, the names of these delinquent
customers, and who will thereupon
be refused further credit. The merchants
claim that this movement is for the mutual
benefit of themselves and their honest paying
patrons. Heretofore business has been transacted
so loosely as, in the words of the constitution
of the association, to increase the risks
of doing a credit business and to demand a
corresponding profit 011 goods and interest on
money, which entails a burden on the honest
man and loss on the merchant."
? In his charge to the grand jury of Chester
county, at the recent term of court, Judge
Mackey made the following statement of the
action of the grand jury of Lancaster: "At
the recent term of the court for the county of
Lancaster, the presiding judge of this court
presiding, while the court was actually sitting,
a pistol shot was heard. The crowd rushed
from the court house. Great numbers, already
outside of the court house, were seen
hurrying in the direction of the place from
which the shot proceeded. The court instructed
the Sheriff to make inquiry of the cause
of all this, and it was found that a notorious
desperado, named Gardner, had shot a worthy
citizen, the ball entering the back of the head
and coming out near the left eye. An indictment
was at once laid before the grand
jury, and accompanied with a statement of
the facts I have recited. In the face of all
this, and with the dogs licking the blood of
Gardner's victim, the grand jury reported no
bill."
? On the 18th ultimo, citizens from various '
sections of Laurens county, assembled at j
Beaver Dam, in that county, to organize the !
"Anti-Cotton Shop and Labor Reform or j
Laurens County." Delegates from eight lo- j
cal associations enrolled their names. An ad- j
dress was delivered by A. M. Speights, Esq., I
of the Greenville News, after which a constitution
for the county association was adopted.
Article second declares the object of the
movement to be the abatement of illicit traf- J
fic in seed cotton and other farm products ; j
the control, productiveness and increased remuneration
of labor, and the lessening of the
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the members not to deal in seed cotton in any
manner, nor to permit others to do so, if pos-:
Bible, except under certain conditions; and
to use their influence in inducing both employers
and laborers to respect the obligations
of contracts; to protect the employer agaiust
wrong from the laborer, and the laborer from
oppression by the employer; and to report
any unjust assessment of property and any i
illegal disbursement of the public funds.
Col. D. W. Aiken then made an address,
which was well received. Dr. Williams
Wright was then elected president of the association,
and other officers were chosen. The
farmers are hopeful that this association, by
inducing concert of action, may be productive
of much good.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
? The new college building at Rutherfordton
was blown down by a storm last week.
? The Concord Register says that from the
present prospect, the wheat crop in that section
will be almost a complete failure, owing
to the recent cold weather.
? A colored man by the name of J. W. Poe,
publishes a letter in the Charlotte Observer
calling upon his people to cut loose from the
Republican party.
? Marion Barnett, colored, committed suicide
in the woods about ten miles from Charlotte,
last week, by hanging himself from the
limb of a pine tree.
? The Masonic Journal is the title of a weekly
publication in Greensboro, devoted exclusively
to topics of interest to the Masonic
craft, a prospectus of which is published in
our advertising columns.
? A Charlotte correspondent refutes the
story, widely published, to the effect that the
property of Stonewall Jackson's widow has
been recently sold for debt. The writer says
that Mrs. Jackson is now living in Charlotte,
in comfort, surrounded by her relatives and
a large circle of admiring friends.
MERE-MENTION.
Governor Ames, of Mississippi, resigned his
office on Thursday last, and the impeachment
proceedings against him have been- stopped.
Col. J. M. Stone, President pro tem. of the
Senate, is in the gubernatorial chair. The
Massachusetts House of Representatives, by a
large majority, rejected the bill taxing church
property. Federal prisoners, hereafter,
from Maryland, Virginia, and several other
States, will be sent to the West Virginia Penitentiary
instead of to Albany. When
a French array officer is convicted of a felony
his epauletts are torn off, his sword is broken,
and a private steps frora the ranks and kicks
him. After that the civil authorities take care
of him. The Emperor and Empress of
Brazil are en route to the United States on a
visit to the "Centennial." The House
military committee have agreed to offer an
amendment to the bill reducing the army,
looking to a discontinuance of the use of colored
troops in the United States army. It
is reported that General Butler has been retained
to defend Belknap before the Senate.
Harriet Beecher Stowe made over $3,000
from her orange grove in Florida last summer.
Tom Thumb is about to go into
stock raising in Texas. In a population
of less than 1,000,000, California has over
100,000 Chinese. A bill legalizing the
marriage of Jauaes Parton with his step-daughter
has passed the Massachusetts House by a
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in California will be punished by a public
whipping. Fifty-nine State conventions
are te be held within two months.
A CARD FROM JUDGE MACKEY.
Yorkville, S. C., April 3rd, 1876.
Editor Yorkville Enquirer:?Permit me to
trespass on your courtesy by requesting that
you will publish the enclosed extract from
the XJnion-Herald, of the 1st instant, entitled
"On' Record." The extract explains itself,
and illustrates the Truicr aiBregara or truth", "
that distinguishes the journalist to whom it
refers, in his recent malignant attacks upon
me. Very respectfully,
T. J. MACKEY.
A? T)?mamv\ UT aaU Uama iir?an fl\?o mn_
WW xvttuni'. JJUUa IICIC upuu LIHO J;ILture
and on this !" The Lancaster Ledger of
March 29, 1876, contains the following editorial
paragraph:
"TVte Lancaster Bar.?In justice to the members
of the Lancaster bar, we think it our duty to
state that no resolutions complimentary to Judge
Mac key have ever been passed by them. We
make the statement in view of the general charge
against the lawyers of the sixth circuit toadying
to Judge Mackey. In the future our exchanges
will please make the Lancaster bar an exception
to this charge."
We cheerfully note the correction, having
been misled heretofore, by the following published
in the said Lancaster Ledger, of Thursday,
May 1, 1873:
"Oomplimentan/ Resolutions.?At the close of
the recent term of the court of sessions, the following
preamble and resolutions were unanimously
adopted by the Lancaster bar:
"Whereas we have just had a term of the court
of general sessions for the county, involving business
which called for high judicial capacity; and,
whereas, it is thought proper to give some expression
of the manner in which the presiding
judge has discharged those arduous duties,
"Resolved, That we recognize in the Hon. T. J.
Mackey, presiding judge, signal ability, clear perception,
ready decision and patient investigationcharacteristics
which must of necessity enter into
the composition of the eminent jurist.
"Resolved, That his zealous and fearless administration
of justice, during the term, will most favorably
impress the friends of law and order, and
at the same time administer an unspairing, but
proper rebuke to all evil doers.
"Resolved, That these resolutions be published
in the Lancaster Ledger, and that a copy be forwarded
to the presiding judge."
THE ENFORCEMENT LAW.
Had the decision of the Supreme Court,
declaring the enforcement law unconstitutional,
been rendered at an earlier period, before
the Republican party lost control of the House
of Representatives, Congress would forthwith
have passed a new bill avoiding the objections
made against that which is uow adjudged
void. The Court fully admits that Congress
may pass a law for ensuring the civil and
political equality of the negroes. If the Republican
party had sooner known that by attempting
too much they had accomplished
nothing, it would have been in their power to
substitute appropriate legislation for the unconstitutional
law which they enacted. But
this decision of the Supreme Court, comiog
when it does, not only annuls the Enforce
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merit act, Dut puts tnat provisiuu ui uie uuustitution
in abeyance which authorizes Congress
to pass laws for the protection of negro
equality. After the unscrupulous abuses of
legislation practiced by the Republican party
under color of that authority, and which the
Supreme Court has condemned, the Democrats
are not likely to consent to any further
legislation on the subject. ' The negroes, for
the ensuing two years at least, will have to
depend for protection on the State governments.
There will be no further interposition
of Federal authority supported by Federal
bayonets to support their rights or redress
their wrongs. This important decision marks
the beginning of a new era in the political
relations of the negro race in our Southern
States.
If the Southern governments should he just,
humane aud considerate, they can easily detach
their colored citizens from the Republican
party and virtually annihilate that party
throughout the South. The negroes will be
likely to class this bogus Enforcement law
with the broken Freedman's Saving's Bank.
They will feel with keen resentment that
their rights have been no safer than their
money in the custody of the Republican party.
Finding their hopes disappointed, their confidence
abused, and that they must, after all,
depend for protection and prosperity on the
communities with which their lot is cast, they
will be disposed to co-operate more eordially
with their immediate fellow-citizens thau they
have ever been since their emancipation. They '
have nothing to depend on now but their
own industry and sobriety and the justice;
and good will of their neighbors. If the!
whites act with sense and moderation, the:
undeceived negroes will hereafter give them <
no trouble.?New York Herald.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
E. A. Wilson, Greeusboro, N. C.?The Masonic
Journal.
John C. Kuykendal?Monthly Settlements?Cod
Liver Oil?Lactopeptine?Make a Note of
This?A Curious Story?Spot Cash?Drugs.
M. 8trauss?New Goods, New Goods.
Hunter <fe Oates?John J. Hunter just returned
from New York City.
T. M. Carothers and others?Caution to Trespassers.
Henry D. Fraser, Recording Secretary?S. Carolina
Medical Association.
R. C. Thomson?Caution to Trespassers.
R. H. Gleun.S. Y. C.?Sheriff's Sale.
Jefferys <k Metts?Over 3000 Bags Guano.
CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS.
We return thanks to Hon. A. S. Wallace,
representative in Congress from this district,
for Congressional documents, and also for a
package containing a fine assortment of
bulbs of exotic plants and flowers.
CORRECTION.
In our account, last week, of the attempt to
burn Mr. Carroll's bar-room, we stated that
three soldiers?privates Murphy, Monohan
and Meaher, suspected of the act?were ab
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aeul wiuiuut leave, v/11 hub p;ini> wc iiau
been misinformed as relates to Monohan and
Meaher, who were absent on "pass."
YORKVILLE FEMALE INSTITUTE.
"We are requested to say that Mr. Jones
will be glad to see any of the patrons or friends
of the Female Institute, at any time, at the
school. We hope this invitation will be accepted,
and that our people will give encouragement
to the school by their frequent presence.
BROKE HIS LEG.
On Tuesday afternoon, while Julius C.
King, a colored youth, son of C. A. King,
was riding horse-back, when near the cemetery,
his horse fell, coming down on the boy's
leg, and breaking it midway between the
knee and aukle. Dr. H. G. Jackson was
called, who set the broken limb.
SALES-DAY.
On Monday last?sales-day for April?the
following property was sold :
By the sheriff?J. M. Lowry's interest in a
tract of land in Ebenezer township. Bought
by Miss S. F. Lowry for $5.25.
Bv J. H. Clawson, Assignee?Homestead
were instructed, however, that it is their duty,
in acting upon bills placed before them by
the Solicitor, to examine the case for the State
only, and not to determine as to the guilt or
innocence of the party named in the indictment.
If the charge is sufficiently sustained
to warrant it, the duty of the grand jury is
to find a true bill; but if the testimony before
them does not sustain the charge, then it
is their duty to communicate with the Solicitor
or the Court, so that further testimony may
be laid before them if it can be produced.
His Honor said that the opinion prevails in
some quarters that a grand jury can exercise
their own discretion in finding a true bill or
in not finding a true bill on an indictment
given to them. This opinion, his Honor stated,
is erroneous. As soon as facts are reached
by proof before the jury, it is their duty to
find a bill; and when a jury returns an indictment
without a true bill, the inference is
that insufficient testimony was offered to sustain
the charges. The grand jury were instructed,
as heretofore, to examine into the
administration of the public officers of the
county; to examine the jail, and report upon
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the treatment 01 tne prisuuers uummcu mugin;
to report the condition of the public
roads; and to examine into the condition of
the public schools and ascertain whether or
not the public school funds have been properly
applied.
A rule having been issued, at the last term,
against J. M. Ivy, who failed to appear and
serve as a grand juror, on motion of W. B.
Wilson, Esq., counsel for Mr. Ivy, the rule
was dismissed, it being made to appear that
Mr. Ivy was unavoidably detained on business
in Baltimore during the term of the
Court.
Charles Bessier, colored, was appointed foreman
of jury No. 1, and Col. Andrew Jackson
of jury No. 2. The following cases on the
sessions docket were then disposed of:
State vs. John Kirkpatrick, colored ; assault
and battery. Verdict, not guilty.
State vs. Charles H. Kane, white; bur- j
glary and larceny. Pleaded guilty of grand (
larceny.
State vs. Thomas Carson and Rufus Poag,
both colored; burglary and larceny. Verdict,
guilty.
State vs. Rocinda Wilson and Anthony
Jordan, both colored; house-breaking and J
larceny. Rocinda Wilson pleaded guilty, :
and on the trial of Anthony Jordan the jury
returned a verdict of guilty.
The trial of Thomas Murphy, a private
soldier of the garrison at this place, charged
with setting 6re to and attempting to burn I
of 176 acres belonging to bankrupt estate of
James A. Barnwell. Bought by J. A. Barnwell,
at S3 per acre.
SALE OF MINERAL PROPERTY.
Mr. W. A. Jackins informs us that he has
sold his mineral property, seven miles northeast
of this place, to a company of English
capitalists. This company is represented by
Mr. J. H. Jones, who is now investigating
the mineral resources in the vicinity of Charlotte,
and is expected here in a few days for
the purpose of inspecting mineral lands in
this section.
CLOSING OF THE TAX-BOOKS.
Agreeably to instructions from the office of
the Comptroller-General, the tax-books were
closed on the 1st instant. The total assessment
in this county was 891,249.00, on which
the sum of 885,841.34 has been paid. Of
this amount, 850,745.35 is for State purposes.
We learn from County Treasurer Watson
that the people have paid their taxes, the present
year, with more promptness than any year
since the war. After deducting abatements
and including bills of the tfank or the State
that were tendered for taxes, there remains
unpaid about $3,000.
We learn that on Monday last, while a
number of negro miners, employed in King's
Mountain Gold Mine, in Gaston county, were
engaged in removing a heavy stone, in the
line of their excavations, the stone prematurely
fell from its position, crashing two of
the miners to death and seriously injuring
several others. Owing to the enormous
weight of the stone it could be removed from
the dead bodies of the miners only by blasting
it in pieces?six charges beiug necessary
to accomplish this result. One of the miners
killed was Ed. Herndon, son of Albert Tate
alias Herndon, who lives near this place. The
body of the deceased was brought here for
burial on Tuesday afternoon.
CIRCUIT COURT.
The April term of the Circuit Court for
York county, his Honor Judge T. J. Mackey
presiding, convened at 11 o'clock, A. M., on
Monday last. In charging the grand jury,
his Honor presented no new points for their
consideration, the same jury having served
the last term, at which time they were fully
charged as to their duties. The grand jury
the liquor-store of J. Alfred Carroll, on the |
night of the 25th ultimo, was begun at 3
o'clock, P. M., on Tuesday, and continued until
near 3 o'clock next morning, before the taking
of testimony and arguments of counsel
were concluded. The State was represented
by Mr. Solicitor A. M. Mackey, and the accused
by T. J. Bell, Esq. A large number
of witnesses were examined for the prosecution
and the defense. The material testimony
for the prosecution were the statements of
Hal and Aiker Johnson, two colored men,
who allege that they were passing thd premises
just as the flame burst out, and that three
men in soldier's uuiform rushed by them from
the direction of the corner of the building
that had been fired. One of these witnesses
swore positively that he recognized Murphy
as the front man of the party, who rushed by
him at the moment he halted near the open
gate. The line of the defense was to establish
an alibi by a number of witnesses who
testified as to the whereabouts of Murphy at
the time of night when the fire was first discovered.
The case was given to the jury at
3 o'clock, A. M., Wednesday, and up to the
hour we went to press, had failed in agreeing
upon a verdict
TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.
The following transfers of real estate have
been recorded in the office of the County Auditor
since our last report:
Julia Aun McCollough to Matthew H.
Williams. Tract of 78 acres in Catawba
township. Consideration $225.
J. C. and A. W. Hicklin to D. T. Lessley.
Tract of 8 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$40.
Cynthia J. Lessley to D. T. Lessley. Tract
of 143 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$715.
Cynthia J. Lessley to Wm. White. Tract
of 771 acres in Catawba township. Consid
eration $700.
Rhoda Ferguson to G. W. Sturgis. Tract
of 110 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$390.
Robert Rattaree to John Rattaree. Tract
of 133 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$700.
P. R. Collins and others to M. H. Williams.
Tract of 6 7-10 acres' in Catawba
township. Consideration $94.
Enoch Blackman to James M. Williford.
Tract of 86} acres in Catawba township.
Consideration $800.
Zimri Young to F. B. Thomasson. Tract
of 12 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$90.
J. F. Workman to David Steele. Tract of
32 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$97.50.
Wm. Thomasson to Rock Hill Manufacturing
and Industrial Association. Tract of
38 acres in Catawba township. Consideration
$100.
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1$; Roberts. One-fourth of undivided interest
in tract of land in Cherokee township.
Consideration $225.
R. H. Glenn, sheriff, to S. A. Glenn. Tract
of 130 acres in Bethel township. Consider- i
ation $260.
R. M. Steele to J. K. Wagoner. Lot in
Yorkville. Consideration $300.
S. A. Kell to Drakeford, Massey & Co.
Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration $125.
J. E. Massey and T. J. Haile to Henry i
Massey. Lot in Fort Mill. Consideration '
L. S. White to Mrs. M. A. Belk. Tract j
of 1H acres in Fort Mill township. Consid- :
eration $211.50.
R. H. Glenn, Sheriff, to Robert Mendenhall.
Tract of land in Bethesda township.
Consideration $174. 1
Samuel R. Moore to Francie J. Pelzer. 1
Tract of 201 acres in York township. Con
sideratioD $1,404.
Julius A. McCullough to G. W. Barnhill.
Three acres in Catawba township. Considertion
$30.
Jane Fulton to Robert G. Parker. Tract 1
of 128 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
$50.
Mary Sepaugh and others to Robert G. ,
Parker. Tract of 12& acres io Cherokee
township. Consideration $110. i
C. E. Betchler and wife to C. F. Turner.
Tract of 15 acres in Cherokee township. Consideration
$45.
L. H. Bradford to Samuel E. White. Lot ,
in Fort Mill. Consideration $500.
Francis W. Cureton to Ann White. Lot
in Rock Hill. Consideration $4,500.
J. B. Goode to J. V. <fe O. H. Sarratt.
Tract of 15 acres in Bullock's Creek township.
Consideration $17.
Francis Stewart to Thomas S. Neely. Tract
of 80 acres in Ebenezer township. Consideration
$400. i
D. W. and M. L. Thomasson to Margaret
C. Thomasson. Tract of 225 acres in York
township. Consideration $900. i
J. M. Heffly to R. L. Crook. Tract of <
108 <appMa in Par.fl.wha tmvnshin. Cousidera
tion $1,085. i
EDITORIAL INKLINGS. (
The Liability of Stockholders. f
For several years, a suit has been pend- j
ing in the courts of this State, brought by <
one Harvey Terry against the stockholders i
of the Commercial Bank. The Bank sua- 1
pended payment at the commencement of the j
war, and the suit was brought to make the "
stockholders liable for the bills issued by the '
Bauk. In regard to the matter, the Supreme j
Court has recently promulgated the following j
opinion and order: I
Per curiam : The judgments appealed from 1
were prematurely announced. The liability (
of the defendants, if any, is dependent on '
the fact of their having been stockholders at '
the time of the failure of the bauk or within I
twelve mouths preceding that day. The 1
judgment does not fix the day of the failure (
of the bank, and, therefore, does not afford 1
the requisite means of ascertaining whether j
the defendants are chargeable as stockhold- j
ere. It is therefore ordered, that the judgment '
and all subsequent proceedings be set aside. '
It is further ordered, that the case be re- ^
nianded to the Circuit Court of Common Pleas 5
for Richland county, in which it was heard, 1
to ascertain at what time did the failure of
the bank occur; who were the stockholders i
at the time of such failure, or were interested i
therein at aDy time within twelve months
previous thereto; what was the amount of j
shares held by such stockholders respective- *
ly; when did the plaintiff and others claim- J
ing as billholdere become possessed of the <
bills of said bank, claimed by them ; and to 1
ascertain what amounts, if any, are properly 1
chargeable against the defendants by reason t
of the matters alleged in the complaint, and
to apportion such sums among the several <
defendants found liable in the ratio of the t
amount of stock held by them as aforesaid. <
The Loaisiana Ku-Klux Cases.
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rne cases unaer ine eniorceweut |
from Louisiana, geuerally known as the
Grant parish ku-klux cases, taken up to the
U. S. Supreme Court from the Circuit Court
for the District of Louisiana, have at length
been decided. The caset presented an indictment
containing sixteen counts, based on sec- j
tion six of the enforcement act of May 31,
1870, which section reads as follows: I
That if two or more persons shall band or
conspire together, or go in disguise upon the
public highway, or upon the premises of another,
with intent to violate any provision of this
act, or to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate
any citizen with intent to prevent, or
hinder his free exercise and enjoyment of any
right or privilege granted or secured to him
by the Constitution or laws of the United
States, or because of his having exercised the
same, such persons shall be held guilty* of felony,
and on conviction thereof shall be fined
or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the
court, the one not to exceed five thousand
dollars and the imprisonment not to exceed
ten years, and shall moreover be thereafter ineligible
and disabled from holding any office
or place of honor, profit or trust created by
the Constitution or laws of the United States.
?^
The Supreme Court decide that the counts
in the indictment are not good and sufficient
in law, and that they are so defective that no
judgment of conviction should be pronounced
against them, and order the discharge of the
defendants. The effect of the decision is,
that while the Court do not declare the enforcement
act to be unconstitutional, they
limit its operations to cases in which acts have
been done on the ground of the "race, color
or previous condition" of the parties. As the
law is construed by the Court, no case of as
sault or murder can be tried under the en*
forcemeat act unless it be alleged and shown
that the person was assaulted or killed on
account of his race or color. And the same
construction applies to conspiracies and intimidation.
There' is in these no offense of
which the United States laws takes cognizance,
unless the conspiracy or intimidation
be on account of race or color. An agreement
on the part of farmers or merchants that
they would not employ any person, white or
black, who voted the Republican ticket,
would not expose those persons to arrest and
prosecution under the enforcement act; but any
discrimination, hindering or obstructing, or
any injurious or offensive act founded on race
or color, and done by reason of race or color,
exposes the person doing it to the penalties of
the enforcement law.
The Court also decided in the Kentucky
election case, that the federal election law, under
which certain white parties were indicted
for interfering with the exercise of suffrage of
colored voters, is unconstitutional and' void.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHESTER.
Chester, April 3,1876.
The Court continued in session last week.
As I stated in my last correspondence, Monday
and the morning session of Tuesday were
devoted to the transaction of civil business.
On Tuesday afternoon, the case of the 8tate
vs. J. M. Brawley, County Auditor, charged
with dealing in teachers' pay certificates, came
up for trial. The State was unable to make
oat a case against tne defendant, ana tne jury
founds verdict accordingly.- 0. H. Rag?- '
dale and London Gilmore, upon whom the
State depended to prove the charge alleged in
the indictment, swore to the porchas^br Mr.
J. L. Harris of the school certificates alleged
to have been purchased by the defendant.
These witnesses also testified that Mr. Brewley
not only did not buy, but emphatically refused
to purchase the certificates, for the reason
that it would be in violation of law for
him to do so. Mr. J. L. Harris, cashier of
the National Bank of Chester, testified that
the school certificates alleged to have been
bought by defendant, were bought by himself
(Mr. Harris,) and that he (Mr. Brawley) was
in no ma ner, shape or form, connected with
the purchase, directly or indirectly. The presiding
Judge directed the jury to render a verfaileff*to'
prove the'guilt"ol'ftie defendant, Vut
that he (the defendant) had proved his ehtire
iunocence of the charge preferred against him.
Mr. Brawley has come out of the case with
Hying colors, and it gives me pleasure to report
this fact to the readers of the Enquirer.
J. J. Hemphill, Esq., defended him with
ability.
The Court met at the usual hour on Wednesday
morning, when the trial of the case of the
State w. Wade Rosborough, Robert McCrorey,
William Caldwell, colored, and David Corder,
white, charged with grand larceny, began,
and continued throughout the greater portion
of the day. The crime charged against these
defendants was stealing eight bales of cotton
from Mr. William Caldwell in the month of
-January,1875, bringing them to oar town and
selling them to one of our merchants. Solic*
tf i li? al. f
ilor A. ivi. macKey appearea iur me clbuj, assisted
by J. J. Hemphill, Esq. Messrs. Pat-'
terson & Gaston, ana Gen. W. A. Walker
were the counsel for the defendants. Willis
Caldwell, colored, made a full confession of
all the facts and circumstances attending the
stealing and sale of the cotton in question,
and thus became the prominent witness fer
the State. His story, substantially, was that
Corder, the white man, planned the stealing,
and the negroes carried out the plan. The
cotton, according to his testimony, was taken
from two houses on Mr. Calchrell'8 place?six
bales from one house and two from the other.
He stated that Corder was present at the time
of the stealing of the cotton, and gave the
necessary directions; that the cotton was conveyed
in a wagon belonging to McCrorey to
a place rented l>y McCrorey, and there kept
concealed in a house for several days; that at
the end of the time, when it was thought the
cotton could ta sold with safety, it was
brought to Chester and sold to Mr. R.' M.
Cross: that the money for the entire right
bales was paid over to McCrorey, who on the
same day, in the vicinity of the depot at this
place, gave the money to Ben. Corder, father
David Corder, and that he (Ben. Corder)
made a general divide a few days afterward
it Blackstock, with the participants in the
yrand steal. The counsel for the defendants
jet their wits at work to overcome the effect
>f this testimony, and succeeded splendidly.
They displayed their professional skill in fcon'using
and confounding Willis Caldwell, to
juch an extent that his statements, before he.
lad finished the rigid cross-examination to
vhich he was subjected, were of a conflicting
character. Moreover, another fact that tenled
to vitiate his testimony was the possession
if an infamous character, which gave the opposing
lawyers an opportunity of dwelling
jpon the injustice and folly of attaching any
credence to his story. However, though he
svas known to be a member of a gang of cot:on
thieves; and while it was evident that
iiarmony was not a marked characteristic of
lis evidence, still the general impression was
hat he told the truth in stating that the defendants,
with himself, were the parties who
itole Mr. Caldwell's cotton. The verdict of
;he jury was in favor of the defendants.
.The Court met on Thursday morning, but
emained in session only a short time, qs there
vere no cases ready for trial.
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xlie vuun i c-jwociuuicu uu ? nuajr ujviung,
but, after a brief session, adjourned until
I o'clock in the afternoon. The presiding
udge stated that at that hour the trial of the
:ase of the State vt. F. B. Lloyd, School Comnissioner,
charged with purchasing teachers'
lay certificates, would begin. He also stated
hat the cause would be heard before Col.-F.
W. McMaster, of Columbia; and that, in
:onsequence of the relationship existing beween
the Solicitor and the accused, the prosKiution
would be conducted by T. C. Gaston, .
Esq. Mr. Gaston, after this announcement,
itated that inasmuch as he had been retained
is one of the counsel for the deftnoe in the
iase of the State ?s. B. G. Yocom, and as
bis defendant would be a witness in the ease
)f the State vs. F. B. Lloyd, he preferred not
iccepting the position assigned him by the
Dourt. After a statement by the presiding
udge of his reasons for the appointment, Mr.
jraston consented io assist in prosecuting the
jase against F. B. Lloyd, at the same time revesting
that C. S. Brice, Esq., be appointed
he leading lawyer for the State in the case.