Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-09

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tion, as we'll as for other reasons, 1 do not feel
at liberty to decline to perform duties that
some citizen must perform. / therefore ell
close the oaths duly subscribed, to yoor EIcet-
lency, with this request, growing out of my
great desire to keep out of political life: That
your Excellency will revoke the appointment,
and appoint some other person to the position.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
GEO. w. S. HART.
ATTEMPTED INCENDIARIsM.
On Friday night last, between 8 and 8
o'clock, Mr.. David L. Black, living miles
east of town, by the merest accident discover
ed that his barn was on fire. Abound colored
girl named Annie Briant, aged about fourteen
years, was the perpetrator of the act. Twen-
ty dollars in cash had been taken from Mr.
Blacks pocket on Thursday night, and though
he had not charged the theft to the girl, it
seems that she thought he would do so, and
on Friday night, about the time above indi-
Gated when he went to her sleeping apartment
and called her, for the purpose of interrogating
her about the stolen money, she failed to an
swer. Repeating the call several times and
receiving no answer, he chanced to turn his
eye to a window facing the barn, when he saw
flames issuing from it. fastening to the spot,
he met the girl, emerging from the barn door.
While he was busily engaged in subduing the
flames, which fortunately he succeeded in do
ing, she escaped and went to the house OF
Bob Ward, colored, who concealed her. She
was found there and arrested, on the charge
of arson, and Bob was also arrested as acces-
sorry after the fact. The girl confessed to the
deed, and also that she stole the money, and
gave SO to Lem Gardner, colored, and $1O to
Jack McKendrick, colored. They too, have
been arrested, charged with receiving stolen
property, knowing the same to have been
stolen, and all the parties are in jail.
THE LATTER DAY SAINTS.
A saint, according to the general accepta-
ton of the word, is not met with every day in
these degenerate times. The "Latter Day
Saints" is the only brand now permanently
on the market, and by this designation is un-
derstood those of recent introduction. They
cannot be reckoned altogether as good as
formerly-in the days of Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, to say nothing Of the abstemious
and querulous though these forerunners of a
true Christian gospel may have been. Yet a
saint, no matter what his origin, may be coll
sidered a rara aris-a bird worth looking for
and when message was conveyed to us last
Saturday that on the following day two verita-
BILE saints, though of ''Latter Day" persua-
sion, would hold forth at certain place in
which some mystery was involved, but that
we would be guided to the locality if we de-
sired, we determined, Sunday though it was,
to crafty curiosity, harmless, if not lauda-
BILE. Our conception of the toutensemble, the
general make up, of a saint, had been formed
from study Of pictures of the Italian school,
though we confess in our boyish days to mys-
terious reverence of the grotesque figures
which the old Flemish masters palmed off upon
an unsuspecting public. We had beheld in the
flesh the dignitaries of many branches Of the
church militant-the red-mitred cardinal,
the portly, highly-fed bishop, the surpliced
priest, the sedate clergyman in black cloth
and white cravat; but the sandaled saint,
in the ample folds of sky-blue mantle, with
staff in hand, existed only in our imagination
as conjured from the old pictures.
Hence it was with great anticipations that
we started, accompanied by young friend
no less expectant than ourself, to behold and
hear sure-enough saint-no counterfeit pre-
sentment-but one, perhaps two, duly CON-
missoned to spread the gospel, not according
to the antiquated, old fogy notions which have
been handed down from the days of Moses,
but according to the more modern style as
revealed to Joseph Smith and exempli6ed by
Brigham Young in these latter days.
A long aud circuitous ride over rough
road finally took us to the goal of our jour-
ney-not, after all, a secluded or very obscure
place, though by our route somewhat difficult
to reach-an unoccupied house, formerly used
as residence by Rev. T. ]. Taylor, near Enon
Church, and situated little off the Rutherford
road, about nine miles west of Y Yorkville. Here
we found assembled in one apartment Of the
house, and partly filling the passage, congre-
CATION of about fifty persons, including few
women and girls, all white, who were listen
ing to the words of wisdom as they fell from
the lips of w. G. Burton-a live saint
Our heart beat quickly as we approached the
portals of this improvised Mormon temple,
and as we caught the rapid enunciations of
the speaker-the exercises had already COM
menced-we began to entertain fears that the
modern or Latter Day Saint is not equal to the
ideal saint of even the Flemish school of art ;
while if he is symbolical of the saints of the
Scriptures, this one came in most questionable
shape, to say the least. To our deep chagrin,
we found the saint not in the emblematic vest
ments of apostleship, but to the contrary beheld
young man of trampish appearance, guile
less even of suavity-a characteristic indispen-
sable to itinerant saints-not over well dressed
in ordinary citizens clothes, sack coat in
lieu of mantle; brogans, in place of the typi-
cal sandal pantaloons of the modern pattern ;
nobby hat; sandy goatee and scanty side
whiskers to match, instead of the flowing
beard staff modelled after the shillelah, and
within easy reach a-carpet-bag Such was
the saint in reality as he stood in one corner
of the room, vehemently declaiming what was
evidently memorized harangue, putting all
laws Of elocution at defiance, and holding gram
mar to scorn. Our disappointment was equal
tC Sancho PanZa's when he first beheld the
maid of Toboso, and as our heart sank
within us we thought of poor Baxter, wonder
ing what he would say Of this saint, and
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