Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-30

The jury rendered verdict of guilty.
The grist and Touring mill of Crow, d.
Wis & Norwood, known as the old Wilson
mill, situated in Union county, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday night of last week. The
fire was 6rst seen, about o'clock, emerging
from the roof, and it is believed to have orig
mated from the friction of the gudgeons.
Three hundred bushels of corn were destroy
ed with the mill, and the total loss is not less
than $4,000.
- The Winston Sentinel says that exSherif
John Martin, of Stokes, was shot and killed
by Jas. Smith, noted desperate of that eoun.
ty. Mr.. Martin was one Of the magistrates
of Stokes and had issued warrant for the
arrest of one of Smiths brothers, who it seems
was talking of resisting, and Mr.. Martin was
trying to persuade him to submit quietly,
when James Smith walked up behind him
and shot him in the back. He made his es-
cape.
- The celebration of the Twentieth of May
in Charlotte, was participated in by larger
number of people than for many years past,
excepting the Centennial celebration in 1875.
The address of Col. j. P. Thomas is spoken
of as an elegant and eloquent production, and
was highly complimented by all who heard
it. The display of the military and fire COM
panies-seven Of the former and three of the
atter-was grand and imposing, and every
thing passed off pleasantly.
speaking of the Twentieth of May cele-
bration in Charlotte, the Observer pays the
following neat compliment to a Columbia
military company "The feature of the af
ternoon was the drill of the Governors
Guards in front of the Central Hotel. 1t was
witnessed by large crowd, and was conce-
ded to have been the best ever seen in Char
lotte This company won the prize offered
last fall at the Columbia Fair for the best
drilled military company, and it fully sustain
its splendid reputation Monday afternoon"
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Democratic Prospects.
- Under the above caption the Columbia
correspondent of the Neus and Courier tele.
graphed that paper, last Friday night, as
follows:
COL j. H. Rion, member of the National
Democratic executive committee from this
State, arrived in Columbia tonight from
Washington. The meeting of the committee
there was we'll attended, thirty.fve States be-
ing represented. New York and some South
ern States did not appear. No doubts were
expressed in regard to a Democrs::c major
ity for the next Congress, both Senste and
House.
The committee think that Grant will be
run by the Republicans in 1880, as capital
lists, communists and fanatics can unite on
him. No Democratic candidate has been def.
intely indicated. Thurman, Hancock, Hen
dirk and Mcclellan we're named. Governor
Hampton was mentioned as the favorite for
| Vice President. The committee endorse the
Potter resolutions, but discounteDance any
attempt to unseat President Hayes. They
only desire to expose fraud and prevent q
repetition of the same in the future. The
committee will publish no address.
A Sudden Change Of Sentiment.
- 1t seems that since the passage of Mr..
Potter's resolution authorizing an investiga-
ton of the Florida election, some doubt has
arisen as to the policy of the programme as at
first contemplated. Indeed, there has been
such change of sentiment in Washington
on this subject, that good many long head
ed Democrats boldly declare that the party
has an elephant on its hands. This change
of sentiment is attributable to the fact that
members are hearing from their constituents.
The large majority who write on the subject
say that they deprecate the agitation Of the
Presidential question; that no matter what
is or may be its ultimate end it is calcula-
ted to distract the country, to destory that
confidence to which the people were fast re-
turning, and worse than all, in political view,
to firmly unite the Republican party, which
had fast been going to pieces for the want of
some live issue upon which it could once more
rally.
A sample of the feeling expressed by the
people is contained in letter received by
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, who reluctantly
voted for the resolution. He was elected to
Congress as Democrat by light majority.
He has always had the support of an organi-
cation numbering 200, known as the Congre-
gational Society. The President of the So
cety has advised him that, in consequence of
his vote for the Potter resolution, he would
not henceforward receive its support. The
Southern members generally have received
letters from home which undisguisedly assert
that the re.opening of the Presidential sore
is political mistake and that the Potter res
olution does not meet the approval of their
people. What they want is rest, wholesome
financial legislation, and laws passed calcu-
lated to restore confidence between the Sec
tions and one another.
The Truth about Bald Mountain.
- The enterprise Of the Charleston Ne,os
and Courier-not content with sending a
commissioner to explore the wilds of Libe.
ria-has developed itself in another, though
less hazardous channel, that of investigating
North Caroina's object of periodical excite
ment, Bald Mountain. Mr.. Mckinley, of
the staff of that paper, was detailed to visit
the mountain, and the following is the report
he makes, dated at Spartanburg, last Sunday,
and may be relied upon as a truthful state
ment:
l left Spartanburg last Thursday morning,
and after fatiguing ride of forty miles
through the mountains, reached Bald Noun
tain next day. Finding it impossible to recon-