Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-04
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Centennial Meeting IN Charlotte.

EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Centennial Meeting IN Charlotte.
We learn from the Observer that at a
recent meeting of the Charlotte Chamber of
Commerce, resolutions we're adopted rendering
the rooms of the organization to the executive
committee of the Kings Mountain centen.
nial association, for its meeting to be held in
Charlotte on the Path of March also to
the representatives of North Carolina, South
Carolina and Tennessee, to be appointed by
the Governor of the respective States, for
their meeting which is to be held on the 22d
of June. ..
The Spring Trade.
- The spring trade in dry goods at New
York and other important points is excellent,
and perhaps the most encouraging feature of
it is the fact that an unusually large proper
ton of the purchases are for cash. The ad.
vance of 20 or 30 per cent. in domestic goods
in the past few months does not dampen the
eagerness of buyers, and many Of the great
stocks have been reduced very low. Mean.
while the factories in New England have
about all they can do, the quotations of their
shares have advanced rapidly, and their en-
ployees have in many cases received material
advances in their wages. The sales of prints
have thus far been double those of last spring,
and the stocks of print cloths at Fall River
and Providence are small, with strong mar.
ket The Boston wool trade, which took
such remarkable start months ago, when
almost everything else was dull, has kept up
we'll ever since, and was active last week.
The success of the special sales at London,
which represent the Australian and other dis
tant clips, has given the business further
strength, and there can be no remaining doubt
of the legitimate and wholesome character Of
the demand for this commodity.
Humors Of the Bench.
- For some time past the courthouse
building in Lancaster has been deemed un
safe in which to transact business, and as a
matter of precaution the sessions of the court
we're held in church. At the term of the
court last week, which was regularly begun in
the courthouse, in his charge to the grand
jury, Judge Mackey referred to the subject
as follows:
1t is proper for me, gentlemen, in conclu-
sion, to assure you that you need not be-
alarmed for your safety in this Court house.
have assumed the responsibility of having
the court furniture brought back from the
church to which it had been removed upon
the recommendation of former grand jury,
who reported this building as unsafe The
union jetween the Church and State has thus
been dissolued. The church was very incon.
venient to transact secular business, as it
had no Office rooms, and the grand jury were
obliged to deliberate in a neighboring kitchen,
while the petit jurors found their verdict in
poorly furnished horse stable, while the
witnesses, when required to be separated, were
left to shiver upon the green sward or under
inhospitable sheds. This style was more patri.
archical than respectable, and i'll became the
people among whom Gen. Andrew jackson
was born. This building, which we now
occupy, must be safe, for the Legislature of
South Carolina has so declared it in the past
few weeks by refusing to authorize the levy
ofa tax to repair it, which your County
C Commissioners and the Grand Jury most
earnestly petitioned for. We must have
faith in our legislative department though we
perish, being consoled by the reflection that
if the building should fall and we die amid
the ruins, our legislators will still survive.
Kings Mountain Next October.
- The Charlotte Observer publishes the
following letter from Nashville, Tennessee,
over the signature of Samuel Robinson:
Tennessee desires to commemorate that
event in manner worthy of the deeds Of the
gallant heroes who fought and won that glo-
rious victory a victory that was the turning
point in favor of the Wings of '76 in their
seven years struggle for independence, and
in order that this might be done, and made
a national affair, the Legislature of this
State, on the 24th of December last, passed
a resolution requesting the Governor to com.
municate with the Governors Of Virginia,
North and South Carolina for the appoint
ment of committees, to meet in your city on
the 22d of June next, to make arrangements
for the celebration of the centennial of the
battle of Kings Mountain. The Governors
of Virginia and South Carolina have respond
ed favorably to the proposition, and as soon as
your Governor responds, the committees will
be appointed, and will meet in Charlotte on
the day designated. Now it is hoped that
the people of your State, who have ever been
ready to respond where duty and patriotism
called. will give their hearty cooperation in
this affair, and although the tocsin ofpolitical
warfare may be resounding in other parts Of
the Union, the descendants Of the glorious
Wings of '76, of Virginia, North and South
Carolina and Tennessee, may meet where Sc
vier, Campbell, Mcdowell, Shelby, Williams
and the gallant heroes under them gave an
impetus to the waning cause of liberty that
fired the hearts of the patriots, and sank the
flag of Toryism in grave that knew no res.
direction. Will you do it? We believe you
will, and have a glorious old barbecue and
love feast, Let these States show to the rest
of the Union that we still cherish the gallant
deeds of our forefathers, and love the dear
bought rights of civil and religious liberty
for which they so manfully struggled. Any
addressed to Anson Nelson,
ESQ.,, recording secretary Of the Tennessee His.
torical Society, or myself, will receive prompt
The Next Census.
- For the information of legion of en-
1urers, Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken publishes the
following in a recent issue of the Charleston
Neus and Courier:
Members of Congress are in daily receipt