Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-04

assigned for the act.
At the recent term of the Court of Ses
sions for Abbeville county, Judge Thomson
pronounced the following sentence on Lewis
Parker, who was tried and convicted Of burg
larry and grand larceny: "You have been
convicted of burglary and grand larceny,
taking from poor man the fruits of his
labor, who needed all he made. You have
more ability to work than he has. The
fruits of his labor are as dear to him as mon.
ey to you. The law gave him the right to
keep it, and you none to take it. You are
sentenced to the penitentiary for the crime
of burglary, at hard labor, for your whole
life, and for grand larceny for two y,ars. If
you do not understand this sentence, you will
the punishment"
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Adjutant General Johnston Jones is now
ON visit to Raleigh. He is still on crutch-
es, but hopes to be able to dispense with them
in a month at most ... ...
There are 36 lodges Knights Of Hon.
or in North Carolina, with membership of
1856, an increase of 4l6 during the past
year.
The Statesville American reports that the
wheat crop in that section was not seriously
injured by the fly. The prospect is favorable
for 81 good wheat crop in Iredell county.
- Hon. David A. Jenkins, of CASTOR coun.
ty, ex.State Treasurer of North Carolina, is a
grand sou of COL Hambright, who command.
ed at the battle of Kings Mountain. E.. .
The spoke and handle works of Greens.
boro are three months behind with orders.
One of them is now filling heavy order for
the Russian government.
On recent raid through counties west
of tha Blue Ridge, revenue officers destroyed
$4,000 gallons of beer, mash, &c., and came
near capturing the notorious Redmond. Six
of the illicit distillers were captured.
Miss Mollie Hardy recently brought suit,
in Alamance county, against man named
McWarren, for breach of promise and dam
age to character, and at the recent term of
court at Graham, was awarded $4,000 DANA.
ges. .
The Charlotte Observer gives detailed
report of the inhuman and unnatural conduct
of Mary Poteet, a decent looking white girl
between 16 and II years Of age, living in
Rowan county, who held her illegitimate
child while a negro woman cut its throat.
The two women, and the negro woman's hus-
band, who is the reputed father of the muir
dered infant, have been committed to Jail.
The Randalman Manufacturing Compa-
ny have just completed new factory on Deep
river, in Randolph county, one mile below
their extensive plaid mills, and on the 18th
ultimo it was solemnly and religiously dedi-
Gated to Almighty God, by DR.. Craven, pres.
ident of Trinity College. This is perhaps the
first dedication of the kind ever known in this
country.
--On Wednesday afternoon of last week,
Charlotte narrowly escaped serious conAa.
grafton. Several bales of cotton we're discov-
cred to be on fire on the city platform, and
before the adjoining bales could be removed,
the flames involved 56 Of them, and dis.
aster began to be imminent. Fortunately,
however, by the assistance of the chemical
fire extinguishers which are kept at the cotton
compress, and the barrels of water and buck.
cts which are kept constantly on hand, the
fire was held in check until the flaming bales
could be trucked away from the other cotton.
Prof. Comstock, the entomologist of the
Department of Agriculture at Washington,
visited Charlotte last week for the purpose Of
investigating the ravages of the wheat fly.
He pronounces the pest to be the leaf hop
per, the scientific name of which Is cicadula
eritosia. The opinion is given that it is not an
uncommon insect in this section, but the i'm
mense numbers which have appeared this sea.
son is attributable to the mild winter. Prof.
Comstock took with him to Washington, spec.
linens of the hopper in different stages of de.
velopment and injured wheat stalks, which
are to be the subject of study hereafter, and
should the hopper appear in this section next
fall, an expert will be sent out to study the
habits and instincts of the insect with view
to its determination.
POLITICAL NEWS.
The German Republicans of New York
are to have meeting at Syracuse to protest
against the third.te movement.
The Springfield Republican says Senator
Bayard is the choice of the Massachusetts,
Democracy for President.
Gen. Longstreet supports Grant for an
other term, and believes that he, and he only
of Republican candidates, can carry North
Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia.
Out of the 1900 replies received by the
New York Tribune from the 1000 Republi'
can town committeeman in Pennsylvania,
/ 200 are for Blaine
"A canvass of the Republican members of
the New York Legislature shows Grant the
Presidential choice of many but those who
are against him, with those who are non.com.
initial, make majority.
The New York World does not think
that the Republican tidal wave of 1879
amounted to much after all. Taking the six
teen States that held elections last year, it
finds that the Republicans have fallen off
1923, ,421 in, votes, and the Republican per
centage of the total vote cast is only 49 per
cent. against 81 per cent. in 1877.
- The National Democratic Committee AS
sembled in Washington on Monday of last