Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-15

this country-l5,0O0 barrels out OF 10000
barrels raised. The crop of last year was
worth half million dollars to the State.
One day last week lightning struck tel
egraph post near Buffalo and ran along the
wire to the depot in Shelby, striking nearly
every post along the line, and tearing some of
them into fragments.
- The Shelby Banner learns that on We'd
nesday of last week, lightning struck and
killed Miss Harriet Rippey, about mile
north of Shelby. The young lady's mother
was stunned by the same shock.
-Ex-Sheriff Tim Lee of.Wake county, was
tried last week in the Superior Court on the
charge of embezzling county funds. In one
indictment the Solicitor entered a nol pros.,
and in the other Lee was acquitted.
A white servant girl employed in the fam
lily of DIR. Pinnix, of Lexington, attempted to
poison three members of the family-a young
man and two invalid chldren-by infusing
poison into soup. Being detected, she con-
fessed the act and was allowed to depart in
peace. .. ... -.
The Lincoln Progress reports destruc-
tive storm which visited Kings Mountain, in
CASTOR county, recently. Mr.. Falls was the
greatest sufferer-his house having been blown
off the foundation, and fine field of wheat
completely destroyed.
The Cotton States Congress assembled in
the hall of the House of Representatives in
Raleigh last Tuesday. Gov Brogden deliv-
cred welcoming address, and T. II. Busbee
extended the hospitalities of the city. On
Wednesday night banquet was served in
honor Of the delegates.
-Applewhite, the last of the Robson out
laws, who was arrested in Goldsboro short
time ago, has been fully identified and return.
ed to the Columbus county Jail at Whiteville,
from which he escaped about two years ago,
while under sentence of death for murder.
His arrest was effected by two colored police
men of Goldsboro, who received for the cap.
ture reward of $4,000.
- The Raleigh Ne,us publishes the particu-
lars of horrible murder committed in Pan.
tber Branch township, Wake county, in Feb
ruary last, but which was not discovered until
last week. On the evening of the 18th of the
above month, Scott Partin, in company with
his wife and child, left their house, Partin say.
ing that they intended to 60 to Goldsboro.
Partin having been seen in the neighborhood
frequently afterward, but no satisfactory ac-
count having been given by him of his wife,
suspicion was aroused and thorough search
was made, resulting in finding the remains of
! tho rn,rdnrnd rnp, -nnnnnole in a suann
not far from Partin's house. The body OF the
woman had been cut into % pieces and put
in an empty guano bag, which the 6end had
endeavored to conceal by sinking in the
swamp Only a portion Of the child's body
has been recovered. Great Indignation exists
in Wake and Johnston counties, and every
exertion will be made to capture the murderer
and bring him to justice. ....
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Death of General Blair.
IL Gen. Frank P. Blair died at midnight,
last Thursday night, at his home in Saint
Louis, Mo-, surrounded by his family and
few intimate friends. AS the public know,
he had been in precarious state of health
for several months, but under the blood trans
fusipg treatment he had begun to grow strong
er, and was generally supposed to be steadily
improving. During a few days preceding his
death he had taken frequent rides, and on the
day of his demise, be walked down stairs.
His death came suddenly, and notwithstand-
ing his low condition, was even unexpected.
General Blair was noted for his fiery zeal
in any cause in which he was engaged, as also
for his stubborn opposition to the powers of
reasoning or conviction. He was politician
of some note, and had served in various civil
and military positions. His career in the late
war is we'll remembered by our people. He
commanded the Fifteenth Corps, which, ac-
cording to Gen. Sherman's testimony, "always
did its work we'll" The destruction Of Fay
etteville, N. G. was traced directly to orders
given by Gen. Blair, and we see no proprlety
in attempting to disguise the fact that the
corps which he ommanded--whether by his
own orders, or at the command of Gen. Sher-
man-contributed more largely than any
other corps of the Union army to the incen-
diarism and destruction Of property on the
line of march from Chattanooga to Savannah,
Charleston and Goldsboro, N. G.. ''
At the conclusion of the war, Gen. Blair
retired to his home in Missouri, and in 1868
he was a candidate for Vice.President Of the
United States on the Democratic ticket with
Ex-Governor Seymour. Shortly after his
nomination, he published his famous "Broad-
head letter." in which he denounced the re.
construction acts as unconstitutional and rev.
olutionary in their tendency, and promised
vigorous action for their overthrow, in the
event of his election. This enunciation, while
satisfactory to majority Of the white voters
of the South, was not we'll received by his own
party of the North and West, and had the
effect to greatly weaken the Democratic tick
ct in those sections. Notwithstanding the
bitter and relentless manner in which Gen.
Blair conducted his part of the war on the
South, he received heavy vote from the very
people who suffered most at his hands.
The Keely Motor, Again.
- The Scientific american having recently
published an article indulging serious doubts
of the feasibility of the new motor promised
by Mr.. Keely, that gentleman rises to explain
as follows, under date of Philadelphia, June
25th:
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