Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-07-17


young lady in Clayton county, Ca, last week,
was taken from the guard last Friday night
and hung to tree.
EDITORIAL INKLiNGS.
Large Legacy to JefE Davis.
Mrs Sarah A. Dorsey, of Mississippi.
who died at New Orleans last week, leaves
a will bequeathing her whole estate to Jeffer-
son Davis.
In making this bequest, Mrs. Dorsey refers
to the great services and sacrifices of Mr..
Davis on behalf of the South, and reprpaches
his countrymen for their failure in gratitude
and appreciation for such services, and re-
grets the small contribution which she is able
to make for his relief.
The estate embraced in this legacy includes
two large plantations in the upperpart Of the
State, and the elegant villa at Beauvoir, on
the sea coast, where Mr.. Davis is now 80
journing, the climate and situation of which
have proved especially favorable to Mr.. Da.
Wis health and his present occupation of
study and labor in the preparation of his
book in defence Of his administration of the
office of President Of the Confederate States.
This legacy ofMrs, Dorsey will make the,cir-
cumstances of Mr.. Davis quite easy and
comfortable.
Guns and Pistols in Shelby.
- Under the above heading the Charlotte
Observer of Saturday publishes the following:
A sensation of quite threatening charac-
ter was produced in Shelby yesterday after
ternoon. It seems that Mr.. j. P. Babington,
editor of the Aurora, published in that town,
published statement concerning the conduct
of some ladies, guests at Cleveland Springs,
which was highly offensive to their friends,
and on the following day gentleman also a
guest there, went over to Shelby to see him
about it, intending, it is said to cowhide him
on sight. The editor was out Of town, and
a meeting was subsequently arranged for 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Accordingly,
the gentleman and friend Of his went to the
Office at the hour designated. When they en-.
tered the Office, Mr.. Darlington leveled shot
gun at them and forbade them to approach.
Some one standing by seized the gun and at.
tempted to wrench it from Mr.. Babington's
hand with view of preventing bloodshed.
A friend of the latter, probably one Of the
printers in the Office, drew pistol and said
he would shoot the man who attempted to
take the gun from Mr.. Bahington. The par
ty referred to above let 60 his hold on the
weapon, but by this time number of per-
sons had collected, and by combined inter-
ference the affair was brought to close, with
out bloodshed. Considerable excitement pre-
walls yet, and it is feared that the difficulty
is not over.
Chamberlain's Address.
of course the reader will understand
that the advance report" Of (hamberlain's
Fourth of July Grafton, printed on our fourth
page, from the New York Sun, is burlesque,
and cleverly done it is; but the New Haven
Conn Register notices, in. the following se-
rious manner the address which Chamber.
lain did deliver:
Ex-Governor Chamberlain's Grafton at
Springfield Yesterday fell coldly upon the
ears Of his audience. While 25,000 persons
witnessed the parade, but paltry few hum
dred were induced to listen to the distinguish:
ed fugitive from South Carolina. The fact
cannot be denied that Chamberlain is deci.
dedly below par in the estimation of the re-
spectacle portion Of the people"
Compliment to Gen. Leach.
- The Charlotte Observer, casting about
for an available Democratic candidate for
Governor of North Carolina in the next
campaign, pays graceful and merited com.
pliment to Gen. Leach. We opine the Gen.
eral would ran we'll in his own State, and we
know that if York could be permitted to
vote, his majority would be increased equal
to the entire voting strength of the county.
The Observer says, after referring to other
distinguished names:
In case it is decided that neither of these
gentlemen fills the bill entirely, the Hon.
James Madison Leach wishes it distinctly
understood that he is willing to be sacrificed
for the position. Leach will never cut in the
eye nor run down at the heel, as he never
does anything by halves, he will be hard to
leave behind in the race. Gen. Leach is GER
tainly one of the gifted men of the State, and
he will bring to the convention large and
brilliant record in which will be found few
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