Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-08-11

Robert Lowry, of Rankin county, as candi.
date for Governor. "..'..'An Atlanta cores
pondent of the New York Herald is authority
for the statement, that one hundred millions
of dollars have been subscribed North of the
Potomac and in Europe, for the purchase and
building of railroads at the South, and the
development of her industries. ''''''''' Seventy
eight methods of adulterating beer have been
discovered. 1t it will be seen that there is
only one chance in seventy.nine Of getting gen.
uine beer into your stomach. .''''''"'An Ohio
postmaster was just on the point of printing
a few hundred postal cards from plates of his
own making, when he was arrested and con-
victed Of forging money orders. '''''''''It is
now proposed that the Yorktown celebration
programme shall include four days. October
10 to l3 in Baltimore city ; four days, Octo-
ber IA to II, at the national fair grounds,
Washington city and four days, October 18
to 81 inclusive, at Yorktown, Va 1.-Two
cases of genuine yellow fever from Cuba and
Mexico, are reported at quarantine, New
York. ."''''.'''The wheat crop of Dakota is
represented as the best ever grown, and all
crops are excellent. '''.'.."An Iowa man COM
mitted suicide because he was tired of hear
ing his wife scolding the children.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- There are now thirteen lines of railroad
in contemplation or under construction in
North Carolina. 81
The Gulf" coal mines in Chatham colh-
ty, have been purchased by northern com.
pany. The new purchasers propose to work
the mines extensively.
- A new post Office, to be known as "Har-
din," has been established in CASTOR county,
on the Chester and Lenoir Railroad, seven
miles south of Lincolnton.
- There are now between 1900 and 1900
hands working on the Paint Rock and the
Ducktown branches of the Western N. G..
Railroad.
- Maj. j. B. Yates, chief engineer of the
Virginia and North Carolina Midland Rail,
way, has resigned to accept position with
the North Carolina Construction Company,
under Mr.. w. j. Best.
- The statue erected to the memory OF
Richard Caswell, North Carolina's first Gov.
ernor after the Declaration of Independence
was unveiled at Kinston on Wednesday Of
last week. About 10000 people were pres.
ent.
A Raleigh dispatch of Saturday says
"The election returns continue very unfavora.
bic to prohibitionists. Every county thus far
heard from gives majority against prohibi-
ton. The Wilmington Star has received
specials from nearly every section of the State,
and estimates the majority against prohibition
at $4,000 to 60000."
"A dispatch from Greenboro, says that
"Attorney General MacVeagh has instructed
District Attorney Boyd to send Lewis R.
lGeuulOHOj Guo uOLollOuS HlOOuoulueI duO Out-
law, now in Jail at Asheville, to Greenville,
S. c., where the United States Court is in
session, for immediate trial. He will be sent
there at'once"
- The Raleigh Observer tells joke on an
old colored woman, who not long since went
into the penitentiary to see her son, a convict.
The old woman looked at her boy, sleek,
we'll clad and happy, saw what he had to eat,
his sleeping accommodations, etc. AS she
came out Of the gate she raised her voice and
said: II sart'inly is proud O my boy. Here
dey is gin him free ride on de ky'srs, put
him in de pen'ten'shy, cut his h'ar, made him
wash, put fine close on him, and gin 'bund'
ance to eat. Use gwine right home and git
my udder two sons in de pen n'shy, suah."