Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-07-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Curly Head Jack, prominent warrior of
the Cottonwood faction, who was under arrest
with the Modoc Indians, committed suicide
by shooting himself few days ago.
Crop reports from Arkansas and north
Mississippi are encouraging. Reports from
Alabama are conflicting. The appearance
of the caterpillar is reported in several Sec
tions.
- Stokes, Simmons and King, the New
York murderers, will, it is supposed, escape
the death penalty through the new law re-
quiring proof of deliberate intent to kill for
conviction of murder in the first degree.
- Half a mile of the Missouri Pacific rail
road track, near Kickapoo, Kansas, dropped
into the Missouri river on the 9th, and sank
out of sight. The water where the track was
situated is now forty feet deep.
- Memphis dates to the 18th report that
the health of the city was never better than
now. There are few cases of sporadic chol.
era, which excite no apprehension, and many
of the citizens who left during the prevalence
of the cholera have returned.
- Our travelling correspondent gives truth
full yet fearful account of the ravages Of the
cholera in Tennessee towns and cities. From
his letter, however, as we'll as telegraphic
sources, we are hopeful that the scourge has
spent its fury and is abating.
A Hebrew conference, comprising fifteen
congregations from the West and South, con-
vened in Cincinnati last week, for the purpose
of taking steps toward establishing Hebrew
theological institution. Over two hundred
delegates were in attendance, and resolutions
endorsing the project were unanimously passed.
Reports from all points in Illinois and
Iowa show that while the recent severe rain
storms have considerably damaged the wheat
crop, particularly in localities where it was
Just ready to harvest, there will be fully an
average crop. Corn is also promising for a
full average crop.
- The women of Remington, Indiana, made
raid on the liquor shops Of that place last
week. They emptied all the intoxicating
liquors contained in one, and proceeded to
destroy the stock of the other, when the pro.
prietor compromised by consenting to sell no
more liquor, and to leave the place within
thirty days.
- The proprietor of an opera house in Al
bany, N. Y, was placed on trial last Friday
for violation of the civil rights bill, he having
refused admission of family of mulattoes to
the dress circle, and ordering them to take
seats in the gallery, where there was place
provided for them. The jury being unable
to agree, were discharged. They stood ten
for acquittal and two for conviction.
- DR.. Cullen, one of the surgeons in the
Mordecai- Carly duel, refused to testify be-
fore the grand jury at Richmond last week,
on the ground that he might criminate him.
self. The Judge decided that he must answer
the questions propounded by the jury or be
held for contempt. A suspension Of sentence
was obtained in order to appeal to the Su-
preme Court. The grand jury, with the evi'
dence before them, found true bills OF indict'
ment against the four seconds for the wlltul
and malicious murder of Mordecai.
WHY THE SOUTH REMAINS PooR.-The
great problem of political economy for US OF
the South is to combine the producing and the
manufacturing interests. Sectionallsm has
almost been our ruin-we do not cherish it.
We wish to see the people North and South
prospering, but we can see no prosperity for
the South until we learn to produce our food
manufacture our staples and give employment
to our mechanics. We want factories of eve
ry kind, but these factories must have patro'
mage, and, like charity, this patronage must
begin at home. We remain poor, because we
must have everything from the North. We
plough our crops with Northern'made plows
hitch our teams with Northern-made harness
cut our wood with Northern-made axes, dress
our lumber with Northern made planes, drive
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