Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-16
States. were rich and got good pay that they
oil craua hin entertainments Of which the

all gave big entertainments, at which the
representative of the United States was in.
vited !; and knowing the meagre salary which
he received he was not expected to return
any of the hospitalities. In conversation
with your correspondent tonight, Gen. Long
street said that he had turned over the post.
office at Gainesville, Ca, to his successor ten
days ago, but he was to 60 back to settle up
his accounts. His date Of departure for
Turkey has not yet been fixed, but it will
be within the next thirty days.
The Prosperity Of the South.
- The New York Herald, after reviewing
several trade issues of Southern journals, pub.
lished on the 1st of September, has been i'm
pressed with the facts which they portray,
and from the statistics OF these publications,
the Herald rightly implies that the South is
no laggard in the march of prosperity. Con-
Guiding its article on the subject, that paper
says:
Wherever we turn, in Texas, Arkansas
Georgia, and even in Virginia, we read only
of rapidly increasing prosperity and of gen.
eral we'll doing. 1t will not do for Southern
men, after such an official showing, to COM
plain of the poverty Of their region. The
Southern States are prosperous 1t would
not he too extravagant to say that their people
are on the whole more prosperous than those
of most parts of the North. Undoubtedly
the conditions of living are easier in the
South than in the North. But the change
for the better in the last four years is very re.
markable. Everywhere we read of new in
dustries starting into life; manufactures of
various kinds are rapidly increasing AMI give
employment to increasing numbers of the
poor whites, to whom factory life is distinct
advance in the scale Of prosperity: The bus
mess of market gardening for Northern con.
sumption has been found so profitable that
vegetable and small fruit gardens and or
chards are found in all the States from Vir-
ginia to Louisiana. 1t is absurd to charge
that region thus healthfully prosperous is
lawless or idle. The South produced last
year the greatest cotton crop in its history,
aud this years crop will be even greater.
But, over and above the cotton, it is produc
ing multitude Of other things which were
totally unknown in the Southern States before
the war. With more healthful political
life, such as would follow from divided
South, this prosperity would be still more
rapidly increased"
The Code Denounced In Marion.
- It seems that on the night of the re.
cent Democratic convention of Marion coun.
ty, Junius H. Evans and John NJ. Power,
of Marion Courthouse, after the rules of the
convention had been clearly and repeatedly
stated by the chairman, remained on the
floor in violation Of its rules, their defiant
attitude forcing the Convention to appoint
two sergeants-atarms for its protection, one
of whom was Capt. A. E. Gilchrist, who in
obedience to the instructions Of the Conven.
ton, requested parties not entitled to seats
under the rules of the convention to retire.
At this they became more defiant, and were
finally expelled by force. For thus discharg
ing his duty as sergeant alarms of the Conven'
tion, Gilchrist is threatened with challenge
under the code of honor from Evans, in view
which meeting Of the citizens of Reaves
township has been held, and the following
resolutions were adopted:
That we, the delegates from Reaves' town
ship to the recent County Convention, and the
Democratic voters of the said township, here
by heartily endorse the action of the said
County Convention in expelling said Junius
H. Evans and John NJ. Power from its floor
That we endorse and commend the manly
prudent and polite conduct of Capt. A. E.
Gilchrist in the discharge of the delicate du
ties assigned to him by the Convention.
That we condemn the pernicious practice Of
duelling as contrary to the laws of the State
and of God, and in conflict with the best in.
terests of the community and the welfare oi
society.
That we heartily endorse the high, moral
and Christian courage Of Capt. A. E. Gilchrist
in refusing to violate his vows to society and
to God in that he refused to meet said Junius
H. Evans in mortal combat, under the so.
called Code of Honor, the waning relic of a
barbarous mode of settling differences between
man and man.
That we hereby respectfully ask and request
the Governor of the State Of South Carolina
to remove said Junius H. Evans from the Of
fee of trial justice of Marion county, as be.
ing unworthy of the confidence and esteem Of
all law.abiding citizens.
That we hereby appoint Mitchell M. Mar.
tin, one of the delegates from Reaves town.
ship to the County Convention, to institute
legal proceedings against the said Junius H.
Evans and John M. Power
That we respectfully ask Capt. G. A. Nc.
Intyre, treasurer of Marion county, to remove
the said John M. Power from the clerkship in
the county treasurer's office.
A Relic Hunter Rewarded.
"A writer in the Charlotte Observer
makes mention of the following Revolution
ary relics which have a peculiar interest at
the present time:
Some few weeks ago made visit to some
springs near Kings Mountain, and while
there ] was kindly invited by Rev. Mr..
Boyce, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
minister, to take a seat in his buggy and
visit Mr.. Ormand, who lives three miles
from the station, and see some rare curiosities
of the Revolutionary war. He seemed to
know the object of our visit, and soon brought
out his old Bible, once owned by his great
grandfather. The book is in good state of
preservation for the treatment it had during
the war. 1t is dated 1869. 1t is said the
Tories came to his house, took the book and
opened it, and put it on horse for sad.
die and rode on it for some miles. The
horse must have had a sore-back, for the
traces of blood are plainly visible on the
leaves. Some years after the war the book
was heard of on the lower part of Crowders
creek and was returned to the family.
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