Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-06-10

John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, will be the nominee Of
the Democrats for President of the United
States. He thinks that Grant will be the
Republican nominee.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
May goth at Princeton.
- The students at Princeton College, from
the Carolinas and Tennessee, celebrated the
Goth of May in appropriate style. Those
who participated in the exercises were Messrs
J. M. Barkley, A. B. Gillespie, w. B. Nc
Koy, F. w. Hughes, R. H. McKoy and T.
H. McKoy, of North Carolina; R. A. Springs
of South Carolina L. G. Walker, W. M.
Smith, H. Stevenson, j. E. Richardson, B. R.
Lytle, N. Benedict and w. NJ. Woods, Of
Tennessee. The Mecklenburg Declaration
was read, and speeches were made by T. H.
McKoy, R. A. Springs, A. B. Gillespie and
j. NJ. Barkley, the latter being highly COM
plimented for his effort. A paper refuting
Dr. yelling was then read, and supper fol-
lowed, with toasts to Mecklenburg, the old
North State, "Southern ladies" &c.
Poetical Sentiment on the Gallows.
- The religious fervor manifested by con-
victs when about to expiate their crime on
the gallows has been often noted and the
zeal of their devotions and their faith in a
better life and brighter land, would indicate
that true repentance could be made and free
forgiveness obtained only by the commission
of the greatest crime known to our laws
This is all we'll enough, perhaps; though it
is relief to meet with occasional instances
where the poetical takes the place of the re-
ligious rhapsodies so frequently INDUCED by
hardened criminals And for this reason we
commend the conduct of a negro named
airing, who was hanged in Atlanta, Georgia,
last Friday. We are told that he "died fear
less, and had nothing to say but goodbye ,"
though on the morning of the execution he
ndited brief epistle to his father in which
he represented the situation in the following
poetical smile II expect to be dead man
in four hours I expect to be lying under the
gallows, and I hope at the time to be as sound
asleep as a dead pig in the sunshine" When
urged to modify this imaginative comparison
he refused, stating that dead pig would
know nothing and so would he. And for
aught we know, he died happy
Youdouism at the North.
- The votaries of voudouism are not all
confined to the cotton-felds of the Southern
States, as will appear by the following story,
which comes from West Hoboken, New York
"The death of Christopher Hoag, a respect
able baker of West Hoboken, who was buried
Thursday, has developed very remarkable
case of the practice of voudouism. One Genet,
negro, has been practicing as voudou doc
tor for some time past III the West Hoboken
neighborhood, and the number and respecta-
bility of his dupes, as we'll as the extraordi-
nary and brutal nature of his practice, al
most passes credence. He combines surgery,
medicine and heathenish incantations with
recklessness and confidence, and is singularly
successful in winning converts to his doctrine.
Mr.. Hoag, who has just died under the fel.
lows ministrations, was respectable and
prosperous man of business. The African
priest who duped him is as black as Erebus,
and has an oily tongue and a perfect COM
mand of texts from the Bible, with which he
interlards his discourses. His invariable Gus
tom is to scarify his patients all over the body
with the figure of Il cross, rubbing some fluid
into the skin, which produces intense pain.
The medicine given by the voudou doctor is a
kind of shell BROTH" very offensive to both
smell and taste; but his dupes, who are both
many and of high respectability, take it with
perfect faith.
What Manufacturing Does.
- Under the above heading the Raleigh
News makes the following statement, which
goes to show the benefits to be derived by a
community from the encouragement of manu-
featuring pursuits. What manufacturing es-
Establishments have done for the little town of
Durham they will do for any town or village
in the Southern States
"The little town of Durham on the North
Carolina Railroad, in the county of Orange,
is an example of what sagacious application
of capital and industry will do for people,
Ten years ago Durham was known only as
way station on the railroad and getting off
place for the University at Chapel Hill. To-
day it is literally in every mans mouth, a ia.
miliar name all over the United States, and
not unknown to the ends of the earth. What
has made this mighty change? Nothing but
the introduction of manufactures. True, it
is mainly confined to one staple. But the
manufacture of that staple moves the springs
of hundred industries. 1t stimulates the
farmer in the production of crop which he
sells at good prices almost at his very door
1t gives employment to hundreds in the con-
version of the raw material into the manufac-
tured article. 1t gives work to the carpenter
in the manufacture of packages. 1t gives &C.
tivity to thousand needles in the making of
bags. 1t draws population, and to meet their
wants, mechanics are called to construct
houses The increase Of population necessi-
tates theincrease of mercantile establishments,
and the necessities of this increased popula-
ton beget other trades, industries and manu-
features. Everybody is busy. Everybody
finds employment. There is no idling, no
lettering, no complaint of dull times"
The Stubborn Indians.
"A final interview with the chiefs of the
Sioux Indians was held in Washington last
Thursday, but resulted in failure to make
satisfactory arrangements for the relinquish-
ment of the Black Hills or any other portion
of their reservation by the Indians. Secreta-
ry Delano explained the position of the Gov
ernment in regard to the hunting privileges
in Nebraska, and as an additional inducement
to them to sign away their privilege to hunt