Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-07-08


cal pow-wows during the late State campaign
and Delany says he is very glad that it has
come to head at last, when he will have the
opportunity Of mailing the lie.'
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The potato bug has appeared in Wake
county, doing some damage to the crops.
A large bear was recently killed in an
open field, at midday, in Beaufort county.
Ex-Governor Vance declines to be can
didate for the Constitutional Convention from
Meckleuburg county.
- The Catholics of Greensboro are building
church, which it is thought will be compile
ted by the first of next month.
Mrs. C. P. Mendenhall, wife of the Mayor
of Greensboro, died suddenly last Friday
morning.
The second annual session of the Cotton
States Congress will convene in Raleigh on
Tuesday next, the 18th instant.
- The post-ofice at Kings Mountain, Cleve
land county, and Newton, Catawba county
have been made money order Offices.
All reports concur in representing the
wheat crop of the State-just harvested-as
unusually fine.
"A Miss Todd, residing near Raleigh, wa'
killed last Friday by lightning. Her neck
was broken and her shoulder dislocated.
The last Legislature made an appropria
ton for a new lunatic asylum, and the com
mittee appointed for the purpose have decided
to locate it at Morganton.
Judge Mitchell, of the Statesville circuit
having resigned, there is considerable SQUAD
bling among the aspirants to that Office. The
vacancy will be filled by appointment by the
Governor until the next regular election.
- George Applewhite, colored, the last Of
the Robson county outlaws, was arrested ir
Goldsboro last Thursday. He had been liv
ing in that town for some time under an as
sumed name. There has been standing re
ward of So, 900 for this outlaw.
At the recent meeting of the stockholders
of the Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad
Company, resolutions were adopted favorable
to affording aid to construct line of tele
graph between Charlotte and Statesville on
the line of the road.
- The prize for the best Latin essay al
Davidson Commencement, this year, was
awarded to W. S. Moore, of Rock Hill. S. c.
Among the regular graduates, B. W. Mebane
of Greensboro, took the first honor. S. L.
Wilson, of York county, S. G., member of the
Eumenean Society, delivered an Grafton on
Social Progress"
Judge McKoy, in his charge to the grand
jury, last week, pronounced the action of g
negro magistrate of Wilmington, in requiring
an accused murderer to touch the corpse o.
the slain man, under the superstition that il
he were the real murderer blood would flow
from the dead body, to be an unlawful act
and defined it as an assault and battery.
EDITORIAL INkLINGS.
The Iowa Republicans.
- The Iowa State Republican Conven
ton met in Des Moines on Wednesday O
last week, and adopted platform substan
TALLY as follows:
/. The Republic is nation, one and in
dissoluble. 2. Gold and silver, the only re
liable legal tender, and currency convert
BILE with coin should therefore be gradually
attained. 3. A revenue tariff adjusted K
encourage home industry. 4. The efforts o
the Government to collect the revenues anc
to punish frauds are approved. 5. The Gov
ernment should concede no further lands tt
railways or other corporations; such lands
should be reserved for actual settlers. 7. Th'
Patent laws must be revised to relieve indus
try from the oppression of monopolies. Z
The policy of the Administration on the set
Element of difficulties between ourselves anC
other nations by arbitration is worthy one
8. The Republican party of Iowa oppose 6
third term, and believe that Presiden
Grants letter fairly removes that issue from
our politics. 8. That we demand that al
railway and other corporations shall be helc
in fair and just subjection to the law-Inakne
power, constitutionally exercised. TO- En-
dorsing free education and the present system
of public schools. II. Approving the Ma
tional and State administrations. IL. Cor
daily inviting all opposed to the restoration
of the Democratic party to power to forget
all past political differences, and unite with
the Republican party in the cause of true re
form.
Samuel j. Kirkwood, of johnson county
was nominated for Governor, and j. G. New
bold, of Henry county, for Lieutenant Cover
nor.
California Democratic Convention.
- The Democratic State Convention Of
California met in San Francisco on Wednes
day of last week. The platform adopted EN-
braces thirteen resolutions of which the fol
lowing pertains to National affairs:
/. We are opposed to the unconstitutional
interference of the Federal Administration in
the domestic affairs of States by which one
portion of the Union is ground with taxation
to keep another portion of the Union ID bank
ruptcy and servtude 2. We condemn the
Republican party for contempt OF constltu'
tional obligations; for an extravagant, partl.
san and corrupt administration Of the Federal
Government; the perversion of the functions
of the latter to enrich great corporations at
the expense of the public; for jobbery and
frauds which have brought reproach upon
Democratic institutions; for the Sanborn and
Jayne fraud for the infamous Washington
ring for the back-pay steal the iniquitles of
the protective system the curse of inconvert,
ible paper money; the nepotism of the Presi'
dent; for the disgraceful diplomatic service
and unfit appointments; for the attempt to
pass the unconstitutional Force bill, which was
fortunately frustrated by the determined front
of the Democratic minority in both Houses
of Congress, and for the catalogue OF other