Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

On Thursday night last, about half past
IL o'clock, the city Of Raleigh, N. c., was
startled by shock which resounded like an
earthquake. The alarm of fire was sounded,
and soon great crowd was collected at the
scene of the disaster, which proved to be the
Office of the Raleigh Sentinel. It was found
that the press.room of the Office was complete
ly demolished, having been blown up with
gun powder, and the newspaper press, which
was one of Hoes machines and cost $4,000,
was rendered entirely worthless. Much dam
age was done to other rooms of the building,
and other portions of the material Of the Office
were blown to fragments. The adjoining
building, which was used as an engine house
of one Of the fire companies, was also damaged
to the extent of $1,000.
Not daunted by this act of diabolism, the
Sentinel made its regular appearance on Sat-
urday, and the editor says whatever losses he
may have sustained will not prevent his paper
from being the ally of just government, and
the unfaltering friend Of the people.
Death Of William H. Seward.
- William H. Seward, statesman close
ly identified with the history Of the United
States for the last half century, died at his
home in Auburn, N. Y, on Thursday last.
Mr.. Seward was of Welsh and Irish extrac-
tion, and was born in Orange county, N. Y,
in 1901. After graduating from college he
came to Georgia, where he engaged in teach
ing. He did not remain in that State great
while, however, until he returned to New
York and became student at law. He was
admitted to the bar in 1922, and in 1924
he commenced his career as politician by
laying the foundation for an anti-slavery
party on a new basis differing from the or
ganization of the party as it previously stood.
Soon afterwards he was elected to the State
Senate as an anti-Mason, and continued a
member of that body for several years, in the
meantime becoming very prominently con-
nected with the politics Of the State In
1884, as the Whig candidate for Governor,
he was beaten by w. L. Marcy, and in 1888
he was elected by 10000 majority over the
same competitor After serving as Governor
for two terms he entered the United States
Senate and became a confidential adviser of
President Taylor. In the Senate he was ear
ly and ever afterwards conspicuous as lead.
er of the anti-slavery agitators. In 1860 he
narrowly missed being the Republican candi-
date for President of the United States, re-
ceiving on the first ballot 173 votes to 103 for
Mr.. Lincoln-necessary to choice, 2O3. On
Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration he rendered Mr.
Seward the chief place in his Cabinet. Mr.
Seward accepted and remained in the Office
until the close of the Administration of Presi-
dent johnson, with whose reconstruction poll
cy he fully sympathized. Since his retire
ment from public life he has made tour
round the world, and at the time of his death
was supposed to be writing an account Of his
travels for the press.
The Fair Murderess.
- The New York Journal Of Commerce
does not like the acquittal Of Mrs. Fair on
the ground of emotional insanity, and relieves
its feeling in the following emphatic words:
"It is enough to make man lose all faith
in jury trials, if not in human nature, to gee
what figure insanity cuts as an excuse for
homicides. If a man kills his wife, or wo-
man her husband, from jealousy-that is in
sanity. IF a syan shoots another for tamper-
ing with the shooters wife-that is insanity.
If woman kills man for seducing her
that is insanity. The woman may have mar.
ried another man afterwards, and so condoned
the first ofence-but still it is insanity. A
simple breach of promise-no criminality in
sufficient ground for shooting the