Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-11-27
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.

NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Hales Weekly says that the condition Of
Gen. Johnstone Jones is not improved. He
is still confined to his bed in the University
Hospital in Philadelphia.
- Major J. P. H. Russ, of Raleigh, died on
Wednesday of last week. He was promi-
nent citizen and man of great force Of char
acter. He was at one time Secretary of
State
In Weldon, last Saturday morning, E.
M. Hicks was killed by j. D. Merritt with
shot gun. The trouble arose out of dis
puted title to the lot on which Hicks was
living.
"A fire occurred in Wilmington last Satur-
day morning, destroying steam saw mill,
a sash and blind factory, large lot of lum'
ber and naval stores, besides large front of
wharfage. Loss, $4,000.
of tile address of R. B. Elliott, of South
Carolina, at the colored peoples fair in Raj,
eigh, last week, the Observer, of that city,
after an intelligent synopsis, says: He spoke
above his audience almost the entire time,
and lacked judgment in needlessly lashing
up storm of feeling in order to quell it. 1t
was the trick of an orator, but it was not
the part of one whose sole purpose was to do
good. 1t does 10 good to open old sores, and
he lost appreciation of the purposes and situa-
tons of the occasion when he dropped into
bitterness for oratorical effect. 1t lends col
or, but it burns the cloth.
A special telegram from Lumberton to
the Wilmington Star conveys the intelligence
that 'in the trial of Miss Amelia Linkhaw
for the murder of j. E. Hartman, at hotel
in Lumberton, little over year ago, the
State raised some objection to the jury in
consequence of their being separated while
out of court causing mistrial. A new jury
was summoned and the case was taken up
again last Monday.
POLITICAL NEWS.
-"Honest" John Patterson has declared
himself for Grant.
- Iowa, New York and Pennsylvania show
falling off in the Greenback vote of this
year over last of 126,000.
- The Philadelphia Times says nothing
but Democratic blunders can make Grant
third term President.
- Horatio Seymour. Jr., the only candi-
i, 4o -, +Lo Don,oo.ot;o Ctoto 1;ol,at of Nau,
York elected, is nephew of the Ex-Governor
of the same name; not his son.
- The St. Paul Globe, staunch Democrat
c journal, says the Democrats must 60 West
for Presidential candidate, and Senator
David Davis, of Illinois, is a man who "can
beat Grant"
- Ex-senator Willard Warner, Republi-
can, who has lived in Alabama ever since
the war, thinks that the South will be solid
for the Democrats in 1880, but predicts a
breaking up of the Democratic party after
wards in that section ifa Republican Presi-
dent is elected. Warmer is Sherman man.
- Judge Sandford E.. Church, leading
New York Democrat, says with candidate
for Governor on whom the Democratic party
could have united, he believed the Democrats
would have carried the State by at least 3O,-
900 majority. The result, he thinks, dis
posed of Mr.. Tilden, and it is not probable
that candidate for the presidency would be
presented by New York.
- The New York Star says: "Wade
Hampton has shown admirable discretion in
urging the people of the South to avoid say
ing and doing what can be distorted and
used by Northern demagogues to the injury
of that section and the Democratic party.
Of course, it is quite impossible that in a
dozen great States with nearly ten millions
of people, more than one third of whom were
formerly slaves, no sentiment should be utter
ed and no act performed which malicious
Northern demagogues cannot magnify and
twist into an offense. The inventors and
operators of the outrage mill are still alive
and in business. But the advice of Senator
Hampton is wise and timely, and ought to
be acted upon.
Dr. FELTON,, who represents the Seventh
Georgia District in Congress, and was elected
as an independent, has written a letter in
which he cuts loose from the Democratic
party. He says that nine-tenths Of the intel
ligent people of Georgia will sustain him in
this course He reviews scathingly the domi.
nant element of the party, and lays particu-
lar stress upon the course of the Northern
and Western Democrats in unloading every
thing upon the South, and blaming that Sec
ton for everything He also refers to the
attempted political legislation of The last ses.
sion, and says that it was not the attempt Of
the South, but of the Northern and Western
Democrats. The Southern members reluc.
tanty agree to support the repeal of the elec-
tion laws and of the law authorizing the
presence of troops at the polls. This, he
says, is a good instance Of the course that has
been pursued; for, although the South did
not lead in the attempted repeal, it has to
bear all the blame. The Washington Star
saws that DR.. FELTON, is one of the "Independ-
ent" Southern members of the House. He
has, however, always acted heretofore with
the Democratic party. What gives it more
significance is the fact that both he and Mr..
Stephens have always been on the most init
mate terms, and generally hold the same
views in political matters.